Last year, Dashhacks opened a git repository, for PS3 developers, but after the site was sold, the repository died, now the admin of the PS3 Dev Wiki defyboy has opened his own repository and you can guarantee that it wont die, to visit it/contribute, go here:

http://gitorious.ps3dev.net/

For a few days, the PS3 Dev Wiki was down due to hosting problems and a lot of information seemed to be lost, but thanks to the hard work of the Wiki’s admin defyboy and a backup from a member called TMAnd, only a couple of days work was lost, you can read about it on this thread.

So thank you defyboy and TMAnd for rescuing all those precious edits

I would like to point out, that the PS3 Dev Wiki is a community effort, without the work and dedication of a lot of developers and PS3 enthusiasts, the wiki would be quite empty, so if you are doing work on the PS3, keep it documented on the Wiki

You can visit the Wiki here:
PS3 Dev Wiki

I would like to give thanks to euss, deroad, defyboy, Lady Anne Blunt, sandungas and the many other editors who keep the Wiki alive.

We never post PSP News, but this one is quite interesting, developer Sonywiz has updated his PSP Emulator for Windows, here is a quote from the source:

This version has major improvements:

 

• Module loading (this allow more games to run, including some software like PRX Decrypter or LUA Player)
• Automatical EBOOT decryption. It will decrypt EBOOTs on the fly. This will allow lots and lots of new games to start running. (But still requires some work to get most of them ingame).
• Note: with those improvements I have noticed lots of games start running, and some more starting like: Princess Crown and Ys The Ark of Napishtim.

Minor improvements:

 

• Now you can drag & drop executable files on the emulator window
• Implemented bltzal/bltzall required for some games
• Implemented DXT1
• Fixed DX3 RB
• Added lots of new APIs and fixed some of them.
• Added a new versioning system. Releases now are denoted by the date eg: 20120407, git revision: 959572e63973662303c2dfd80f6fb60eaebb4072, and now also a count revision r256. This is an incremental number that indicates the number of commits to the repository.

Source
Via Dash Hacks

Download Depositfiles
Download Mediafire

Here is a video i created messing around with the Emulator, i hope others that use it have better luck than me >.<

As we don’t post PSP news, Avanaboys software was neglected, i had a chance to test it with this Emulator, here is a video of that in action:

If you have a PSP or just want to mess around with thye Emulator, grab Avanaboys software:
Here At PS3HaX

Rtype a developer from PSX Scene has compiled Hatari for the PS3, Hatari is an Atari Emulator, here is a quote from the read me:

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A Lame hatari 1.6.1 DBG release for PS3.

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What?: A quick port of hatari 1.6.1 to ps3 using PSL1GHTV2.
Why? : Because i like old atari computer
Who? : Rtype

So far ,i ve just compil the lastest hatari src (1.6.1) with psl1ghtv2 (SDL used) and i only make few hacks to done it work (a little) .
All the credit to the HATARI TEAM ( http://hatari.tuxfamily.org ) and to the PS3DEV team .

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Know Problems:

- Works only with a keyboard & a mouse cnx to the ps3 !

- Some pb with SDL1.2 hatari code (ex: code Keysym 1.2 different from 1.3) so i make quick dirty hack , not all the keys are working
and it’s seem to break a lot keyrepeat .

- Hatari & sdlgui use partial screen update , and PS3 SDL don’t have hardware cursor code , so i make another quick & very bad hack to
show something we can call a mouse pointer (hum i know it’s a square) and force the gui redraw , this make the gui very bad and slow,
and there is a big lag between mouse action and screen update. Apologize for this.

- In fullscreen mode Gui seem not working correctly so change to desktop mode if needed.

- XMB seem to freeze PS3 when calling from home button so exit from the gui or AltGr-Q combo.

- I ve not tested all the option , just few games , so maybe other pb around …

Sorry for all this problems but i hope you enjoy anyway ( i mean Atari lovers ) somes old good games .

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Quick Install & Start:

- Create somes dir in /dev_hdd0/ :

/dev_hdd0/HOMEBREW and /dev_hdd0/HOMEBREW/ST/ and /dev_hdd0/HOMEBREW/ST/TOS/ and /dev_hdd0/HOMEBREW/ST/CONF/

- Put a valid tos named “rom” in:

/dev_hdd0/HOMEBREW/ST/TOS/

- Put some ST/MSA dsk in :

/dev_hdd0/HOMEBREW/ST/

- Install the pkg .

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INGAME CONTROLS :

works only with a keyboard & a mouse !
joystick:LSTICK= JOY MOVE CROSS= Button1 SQUARE= button2

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Credit:

Special thanks to PS3DEV guys , KaKaRoTo (very big thanks for your works) , Hermes ,Oopo , Deroad (for help with V2) .

Bonjour chez vous!

Source PSX SCENE

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PS3 pkg download
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Coveman has released Open PS2 Loader for Cobra USB, to quote:

* You don’t need SWAP MAGIC
* You don’t need any optical disc at all in your PS3
* Works on PS3 non-BC (tested on my SLIM) (CobraUSB required)

I created an “Open PS2 Loader” ISO file, so you can just load it from Cobra Manager or multiMAN.

Just extract the .rar and transfer it to your internal HDD to /dev_hdd0/PS2ISO

I included the cover so you can either put it in /covers_retro/psx/SLES_806.08_COV.JPG or rename it to “Open PS2 Loader.jpg” and put it along side the ISO in PS2ISO foler.

coveman

Note: This only works with CobraUSB Dongle

[Source via Tortuga Cove]

[Download Open PS2 Loader]

ScummVM has been massivley updated in celebrations of their 10 year anniversary.

To quote:

It has been over 10 years. We are here thanks to the work of 131 developers. 49,124 commits were made just to the ScummVM tree and those turned into a massive 1,085,714 lines of code (excluding comments) and of course over 7.6 million downloads from the main site alone. I would say those were a great ten years.

The outcome is ScummVM 1.4.0 which we are releasing today, 11/11/11 11:11:11.11.

More games are supported: Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos (based on the same engine as Kyrandia), the kids’ game Blue’s Birthday Adventure, and the science fiction game Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch. On top of that, practically all supported Sierra SCI games now have their Amiga versions working. Our musically inclined users will notice PC speaker support in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, CMS support in Loom, The Secret of Monkey Island and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, fixed MIDI in the DOS versions of the Elvira series, and even sound in Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood!

[Download and source]

A member by the name of yvrig has ported the PC game  Jetman Revival to the PS3, here is a quote from the developer:

Download: Jetmen Revival Remake v0.1 for PS3 Homebrew Game

Source PS3Crunch

A couple of hours ago, we posted here, that pete_uk had ported Cannon Fodder to the PS3, he also has the Lemmings Collection ported, the collection consists of;

• Lemmings

• Oh No! More Lemmings

• Holiday Lemmings 1991, 1992, 1993 & 1994

Here is a quote from the source:

Another one I never got round to releasing.
Best played with a USB mouse.

Right Stick – Cursor
Cross – Left Mouse Button
Square – Right Mouse Button

Double click on the game name on the menu to play.

Download Lemmings Collection

Source PS3Crunch

pete_uk has released a dos port of Cannon Fodder, here is a quote from his thread at the source:

I originally built this a few months ago, but never got round to releasing it.

Best played with a USB mouse, but can be played with a pad.

Left Stick – Cursor
Left Mouse Button / Cross – Move
Right Mouse Button / Square – Shoot
Both Mouse Buttons / Cross & Square – Grenade or Bazooka

Hope you all enjoy this as much as I have, Best game ever on the Amiga

Download Cannon Fodder

Source PS3Crunch

With the new “break through’s” this week, one of them being PS1 backups running on the PS3, utilizing multiMAN’s filemanager, deank decided to implement this method into the games column of his application, here is the change log, make a note, the changes are the total from 02.07.00 to 02.08.00.

* Added: “Create ISO” option in SIDE menu when BD/DVD is selected in VIDEO column or PLAYSTATION/PLAYSTATION2 is selected in Game column
* Added: “Create ISO” option in File Manager’s context menu when /dev_bdvd is selected
* Added: Creating ISO files bigger than 4GB to USB HDD will result in splitting in segments .iso.0, .iso.1 … .iso.31
* Added: Advanced option in XMMB Settings: “Expand Contents of XMMB media columns”
* Added: SD/SDHC, CF and MS/MSPRO devices to Photo/Music/Video columns
* Added: Standalone Web-Browser application with FTP (BROWSER.SELF) to avoid all memory issues
* Added: Support for launching PSX games from CD-R discs (XMMB Game Column and other display modes)
* Added: Launching directly ps1_emu.self or ps1_netemu.self from file manager will make multiMAN assign your Memory Cards properly, too
* Added: Options to set preferred Video Mode for PAL and NTSC PSX titles (default/480/576/720/1080)
* Added: peeklv1 and pokelv1 commands to control console
* Added: String printout for peekl and peeklv1 control console commands
* Added: Prompt to dump Hypervisor/LV1 after creating GameOS/LV1 memory dump
* Changed: Improved the looks of the old debug font, used in some dialogs and file manager
* Changed: multiMAN starts faster now
* Fixed: Unnecessary auto-refresh/scan for content on each startup
* Fixed: Browsing for ROMS in ZIP format

All features related to PSX discs require firmware 3.55 (kmeaw/rebug).

Source

At the moment, the update is online via PS3 only, the full version will be uploaded here.

To play PS1 discs you must be on 3.55CFW and use PS1 backup burned to CD-R disc (using bin+cue as source in IMAGE BURNING mode). It doesn’t work for PS2 games. It doesn’t work for PSP games. You can’t mount an ISO from the HDD.

UPDATE 1:

Another quick update to multiMAN:

* Improved detection of PSX discs (reading one sector to verify region/type)
* Detection of possible user-errors when editing options.ini
* Removed copying options.ini/options_default.ini from connected usb drives during startup

[Download Here]

PS3Crunch member NEO117 has released some Dos ports for the PS3, they are Prince of Persia, Street Rod and Street Rod 2, he plans to create more, here is a quote from his thread:

I just compiled this PKG with the very first Prince of Persia ready to play on your PS3. Enjoy it.

Download Prince Of Persia
Download Street Rod
Download Street Rod 2
Download Graphically Updated Prince Of Persia

These games have two PKG’s, one install under the default “games” section, the other installs under the “Homebrew” section, providing you have that section on your PS3.

Source PS3Crunch (Prince Of Persia) – (Street Rod 1&2) (Prince Of Persia – Better Graphics)

One of our dedicated developers samson, has released a dos port of Tempest 2000 for the PS3, here is a quote from his thread:

A member ps3hax mappy123 requested a port of the classic Tempest 2000, i figured yeah what the hell.. started working on the dos version last night and was very pleased with how well it runs on the ps3 using dosbox, so i decided as it was a retro gem to give it some nice xmb wallpaper and music..

press r3 at start up for joystick, exit via ps button.

credit go’s to the atari game dev’s and robo hobo for porting dosbox, and gliitch for helping me with the xmb music. and last but not least mappy123 for the idea

enjoy and be kind with your comments , its my first game port and its also been made in a day.

Download Tempest 2000 3.41.pkg
Download Tempest 2000 3.55.pkg

Another project samson has been working on, which i completely forgot about(sorry samson), is “webcuts” , which is a bunch of webtools on your XMB, you can find that here.

Team Emulatemii has given us an update to their N64 emulator. They’ve recently stated that the N64 emulator is nearing completion, and after fixing a couple of minor errors, it will be released. However they do say that they’re also busy with other things, so it is progressing at a low pace.

Great news indeed. Stay tuned for more exciting updates with us @PS3hax

Source: Emulatemii

PCE Emu, now here is an emulator we haven’t heard anything about in a good while.  Well, it is now at V1.40. Here’s some info of what this emulator is about for those who may have forgot or those who haven’t heard of this great emulator yet.

Download PCEemu for 3.41
Download PCEemu for 3.55 CFW
Source

We all know deank is probably the most dedicated PS3 Developer there is on the PS3 Scene, whether it be big updates, or minor updates, he is always working on multiMAN, today he releases version 02.07.00 which is a huge update, here is a quote from the change log:

* Added: LV2 access rights to use LV1 Storage Manager (syscall 864)
* Added: LV1 patch for user access to sys_storage functions (syscalls 600 to 623)

* The above two for regular users mean:

* Thanks to graf_chokolo and the SACD-Ripper guys!

* -> Access to all types of optical discs inside multiMAN (file/folder mode):
* -> Copy/Backup of Blu-ray Movie Discs (decryption may be required on PC) (previously possible only via OtherOS)
* -> Copy/Backup of DVD-Video discs (decryption may be required on PC)
* -> Copy/Backup of PSX and Playstation 2 Discs
* -> Access to AACSMKB_RO.inf on a Blu-ray movie disc to restore lost DRL1/DRL2
* -> Direct playback of movies/music (avi, mkv, etc) from BD-R/BD-RE/DVD-R/DVD-RW via Showtime for multiMAN

That’s about it. In short it means that you can now access and copy files/folders from any optical disc (be it to rip a blu-ray movie or transfer a backup of PS3 game from DVD or BDR to your ps3, watch videos in Showtime, etc)

The download is yet not available, but will be released later today.

Source

Official multiMAN Thread

UPDATE 1:

Please update to 02.07.01 if you installed 02.07.00.

The link below will take you to the updated with links to 02.07.01 UPD/BASE/FULL.

There was an issue, which caused some games to error out with weird messages (because of the storage manager intervention). Sorry about that.

You can also update online to 02.07.01.

http://www.ps3hax.net/showthread.php?t=24701

Official multiMAN Help Forum

Those of you who enjoy multiMAN, can show deank a little support, by donating here

Deank as always, is working hard on bringing improvements to his awesome piece of Homebrew, this minor update, removes the old FTP sever and implements jjolano’s OpenPS3FTP, here is a quote from the source:

* Changed: Implemented OpenPS3FTP by jjolano and removed the old buggy FTP server (faster transfer speeds and no path/file length limitations)

This should clear most of the FTP problems multiMAN had. Transfer speed is now faster, you can use 8-16 simultaneous file transfers, and the problem with long path and file names is gone now.

The implementation of openps3ftp is based on older version from jjolano, but still is much much better than what multiMAN had until now, so big thanks to him!

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Remember to visit the multiMAN section of the forum, for MM related help and themes, you can find it here.

And of course the official multiMAN thread.

deank has just updated multiMAN, to version 02.06.00, with many cool additions, here is a quote from the Change Log:

* Added: Support for 7 connected controllers to be used simultaneously
* Added: Animation/slide effect when browsing USB/PS3HDD devices in XMMB mode
* Added: BD Remote controller buttons: YELLOW BUTTON = Restart, RED BUTTON = QUIT
* Added: Experimental motion/movie background support: If wave.divx is present in multiMAN’s USRDIR folder you can enable motion background with SELECT+TRIANGLE.
* Added: REFRESH option in SIDE menu for photo/music/video/retro columns when USB/PS3HDD entries are selected
* Added: Quit and Restart options in SIDE menu for Settings column
* Added: Quick access options in SIDE menu for XMMB Game and Favorites columns
* Added: A small touch to the SIDE menu: it will ZOOM in the current entry much like the real XMB
* Added: Increasing/Decreasing MP3 playback volume will make the pop-up box display in the lower left corner (thanks to chitalov for the reminder)
* Added: If multiMAN is started via Remote Play, TV Overscan will be automatically set to 10%
* Changed: Color labels when selecting the color for the SIDE menu
* Changed: Browsing USB devices in XMMB will behave like real XMB (i.e. will first open /VIDEO or /MUSIC or /PICTURE folders to look for content)
* Changed: If non-English GUI language is selected in conjunction with User Font, proper User Font will be restored after restart
* Fixed: Setting wallpaper after PNG file was used as wallpaper
* Fixed: Sorting order in XMMB for PS3 HDD and USB device icons.
* Fixed: MP3 playback (when sometimes audio plays in wrong frequency)
* Fixed: Freezing in coverflow when fast-browsing over 100 titles
* Performance check: multiMAN does ~122fps @ 1920x1080p 59.94Hz
* Showtime 3.1.241 available via online update and included in BASE/FULL versions

Source And Download

The Official multiMAN Help Forum

Video courtesy of manster(follow him on youtube if you want )

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