Many PlayStation Portable owners, at one time or another, have thought of coming up with our own homebrew games and applications. While the others have been been successfully churning out creations left and right, some others are still afraid to even begin, for various reasons.

Well fret not. Homebrew developer Zx-81 just came up with a software development kit that will allow users to do just that without spending hours on installing cygwin and compiling the toolchain. This SDK was made possible with the help of x86 hardware general-purpose full virtualizer VirtualBox.

One you've obtained the software and other files needed through a connecting link on our readlink below, you must do the following as instructed by Zx-81 himself:

• You have to unrar the rar archive in disk1.vdi (you need at least 4Gb of free space on your hard disk)
• Then create a new virtual host, Linux 2.6 with 256 Mb of memory, and use the disk1.vdi as a disk image!
• This disk image contains a full install of xubuntu 7.4, where the PSP SDK has been already compiled, and several other software added (such as the famous IDE Kdevelop, gcc, SDL etc ...).
• After virtually booting Xubuntu, the login name is psp, and the password is psp.
• I've written a small PSP project (hello world) for Kdevelop, ready to use.
• The source code of PSPWrite is also given as an example, with a linux version and a PSP version (but with makefile only, without project file for Kdevelop).