Check out the newest iteration of OpenBOR for the PSP, fresh up from SamuraiX, the serious homebrew savant who’s been masterminding this project. In case you’re just tuning in, OpenBOR is a continuation of Beats Of Rage, which was started up by the crew over http://www.senileteam.com.

Beats of Rage started as the ultimate tribute project to Streets of Rage, which was a series that originally showed up on the Sega Medadrive and Sega Genesis. Fans of the series anxiously awaited Streets of Rage 4, which never arrived, so the BoR team went ahead and did themselves. Check out these notes from…

Up fresh from the French programming paragon, poool, is a calculator application for your PlayStation Portable. It is, ostensibly, a calculator, and this time it’s got trigonometric functionality on top of its standard arithmetic suite. Not much to see in the changelog, but here it is, in all its glory:

Changelog v2:

• Basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
• Calculations of Trigonometry
• Conversion

Now, it’s always a good idea to keep a calculator application handy on your PSP. There are a number of choices available, but perhaps Calculette v2 is the one that best suits your temperament, personality, weight, astrological sign, hair style, choice of…

The underworld lab techs of TeamSuhi have just pulled another fine one out of the ebullient cauldron of global homebrew. They call it TimeTrainer v0.6, and it’s a nifty utility that speed cubists can use to track times, record results, and visualize their data. Speed cubing is the sport of solving Rubik’s Cube combinations under extreme time pressure. Check out the features release and a note from the developer:

• generate random cube mix with 25 moves, mathematically proven to generate any possible cube configuration
• easy to use cube timing buttons
• show 12 most recent times on an on screen
• show average of the 12…

The definitive PlayStation Portable homebrew application for compressing files just received another bug-fixing update from its developer, the seemingly-omniscient underworld coder, Moscas. GoblinPSP v2.3.1.1 allows PSP users to efficiently manage back-ups of data stored on memsticks. It also takes care of the loading and deleting of a back-up UMD. The new version arrives with a single element on its changelog:

• Fixed some bugs that arose into the applications menu, causing a loss of reordering of the applications

An important note to keep in mind: If you’re currently running a version of PSPGoblin lower than v2.0.0.0, please make sure to fully uninstall that…

Coming up steaming hot from the brewers’ cauldron is another nifty-looking space shooter that hearkens again to the mega-popular Geometry Wars. Technically, this is an update to the game, but this is the first time we’ve posted the title here at PSPHacks. Agenaworld v1.7 includes a cool TV-out feature that’s only PSP Slim compatible, but if you’ve got the hardware, we recommend testing it out.

Agenaworld’s developer, the erudite underground implementer, edepot, offers up a quick description of the game for us:

“Basically, you start at Earth, and look at your radar for the purple marker and go there and press triangle…

The reptilian homebrew regent, DJGameFreakTheIguana, has just released a new game for the PSP. Cosmic Damage should be fully OpenBOR compatible. Check out the detailed developer’s notes:

“Well here it is, my Cosmic Damage Demo. After much testing for any problems, It’s ready to be released.”

• 4 Players, and 4 chars(for now)
• Megaman Zero - Uses combos and freespecials
• Stealth Owl - Uses combos and freespecials
• Max - Summons, throws and Kick bombs at enimies
• Fusion Samus - Uses all projectiles
• The Zip file comes with a controls txt file called Cosmic Controls
• You start the game will a little less than half of your life, I forgot…

The dedicated homebrew deacon, SuperFury1, returns in record time with a quick update to PopStation PSP. In case you’re just tuning is, PopStation PSP is a port of an application that lets you convert games to eboot on the PlayStation Portable. In the new version, you can modify the eboot save ID, the game title, and the game ID via data stored in psx.db. Here are the developer’s official notes for this release:

“I have ported the popstation.exe application for the pc to the psp.

popstation is a pc application that converts a PSX ISO/BIN to a PSX EBOOT.

The package can be…

We’ve got some excellent news for y’all: The legendary homebrew champion, AhMan, has finally released iR Shell v5.0, which he’s been calling the “advanced multi-tasking” application. The move to version 5.0 is a big leap forward, though the 4.x versions have been plenty powerful themselves. AhMan wrote a ton of release notes for the new version, which we’ll simply post here verbatim. Check ‘em out:

Usage Notes:

• Before you can use the Advanced Multi-tasking, you’ll need to enable the option “Slim Advanced Multi-tasking” under iR Configurator.
• You can load 2 Applications to the 2 memory slots in the Slim. Slot 1 is the…

Another potential entry in the fabled homebrew competition makes its way to the deck, and this time, it’s an excellent-looking port of the popular Crazy Gravity game by Axel Meierhofer. The adept homebrew overlord, The Underminer, has, with the original author’s permission, created Crazy Gravity Portable v0.1, resplendent with smooth and colorful graphics and with a built-in level editor. Check out the official description of the game from the developer:

“You are the captain of a freight shuttle on a far away moon base. Crazy gravity rules the place. Your objective is to move cargo from their platforms to your homebase;…