Here's a nicely compiled repair guide for your PSP, organized by wanclickid, and duly tipped to us by pspx256. The PSP Ultimate Repair Guide v.1 provides you a step by step how-to on several hardware issues.


Download: The PSP Ultimate Repair Guide v.1

You've seen the ads: from hairballs to graffiti, from posters on train station walls inviting you to "Take a running jump here" to dudes in bathrooms and planes telling you to get your own, even to poseur fans blogging about desperately wanting one, it's time to really see and make the choice for yourself. QJ's How-To issue #1 gives you all the info you need for you to know your PSP models. Don't skip it, jump it!

A QJ reader who goes by the name of jojo has dropped us an email informing us that thanks to custom firmware 5.00 M33's video output update, PSP owners can now play their NES games on a regular TV. Find out how in the full article.

Over at the PlayStation Blog, Noel Silvia of the PSN team has upped a tutorial that's aimed at helping new PSP owners create their own custom themes. More details on this tutorial are available in the full article.

It's another Friday filled with Pata-tips for those budding Almighty deities in training. Today's Patapon update focuses on army management and the different ways on how to raise the quality of your troops through proper equipment and unit allocation. Check out our full article and read up on how you can make a lean, mean fighting machine out of your one-eyed tribe of warriors.

Most of you are already familiar with the concept of rhythm games, but how about rhythm games that have you hunting for magic? According to associate producer Sony Computer Entertainment America">SCEA associate producer">Chris Hinojosa-Miranda, that's exactly what Patapon will have you do and believe in. More on the "rain dance" after the jump.

Now that we've reached a sense of maturity with homebrew development on the Sony PlayStation Portable, perhaps its time to trim the edges a bit. With the specifications of the PSP line diversifying (PSP Slim & Lite, PSP Fat) and the applications stretching across so many different segments at once, don't you think it's about time we started to document the PSP's capabilities the way real software developers do? More on that at the full article.

Wondering how Sony's upcoming Digital TV service works for your PlayStation 3 console? In a short video advertisement for PlayTV, it explains how the service works as well as how its various features play out once it goes live later this year. The service shows a fusion of video gaming and home entertainment rolled into one unique package.

Check out the video after the jump!

Project4 developer Auraomega has informed us that a poster on the Darkmessiah  forums named DrBaronVonEvilSatan has found a way to launch the PSP's XMB while running Project4. Details in the full article.

The current generation of consoles on the market today are powerful machines and carry a lot of features so sometimes it's a little hard to keep track of what they can do. Here's one feature a lot of you may not have been aware of but may find useful: you can stream media (music, video, photos) from your PC to your PS3 and then using Remote Play, stream it to your PSP. In effect, you get to watch and listen to media from your PC from anywhere with a Wi-Fi hotspot. Find out how to connect these devices in the full article.