Need another challenging homebrew game for your Sony PlayStation Portable? Check out homebrew developer's chrisp6825 Reverb, now in version 1.2, and see if you're any good with struggling against friction and gravity. Details await at the full article.

Download: Reverb v1.2
Visit: QJ.NET's PSP Homebrew Development Forum

If you like using Apple-flavored interface for your PSP, then here's another application that may be to your liking: introducing PSPflow, which is Coverflow for the PSP. Details in the full article.

Download: PSPflow RC1

masonman's here to share his LUA game pack with the whole homebrew community. All you have to do is dump the downloaded zip file's contents to the applications folder inside your luaplayer, and the cool cast of lua games is there for you to enjoy. Also, according to him, you may replace your lowser folder with his mowser folder if desired.

South Park Wars is included in the package, and since we here at QJ are lovers of the humor the said show provides, we decided to try it out first. The game's goal is to jump over your opponent to cause damage to his health pack, until eventually, he dies. And then you win. The shoulder buttons are for the jump action.

Anyway, here's what you'll find in the package:

• BHB 3.0
• with bhb chat
• analog test
• highscore share, and more
• Word processor
• with keyboard and various format options
• Fun Balls
• pong type game with good graphics
• South Park Wars
• with cool platform two-player action
• Portable Graphic Art
• with 20 tools included (copy, paste, color inversion, x, y inversion, spray
• Mowser (his lowser)
• with clock, file operations, text viewing, binary reading, photo viewing, and more
• PAD (PSP aided drafting)
• with polygon, line, box, and other tools

Download: [masonman's LUA game pack]

This is a file browser script made by fchaos and yoyomacy. Using this nice Lua App, you can browse folders, execute Lua scripts, and view .PNG images. You're going to need Lua Player for this though. Just stick the fBrowser folder into the applications folder of your Lua Folder and you're good to go. It's that simple!

If you want to make this script start automatically when you start Lua Player, go to the System folder, then open system.lua in notepad or any other text-editing program (say, Crimson Editor), then change Lowser to fBrowser. Be sure to read the readme file, as always, but we think we've already covered most of what's in it. Just be good and read the readme okay?

Nice work guys! Keep 'em coming.

Download: [fBrowserXP]

Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]

In our humble opinion, we think that people in the Graphic Design business who own PSP will find this application very useful. Say you're a graphic artist, and you make a living out of designing brochures and making custom fonts and stuff like that. If you've got a quick client meeting at a Starbucks somewhere and all you have to do is discuss with them the font you just made, no need to bring a laptop with you - all you have to do is reach for your PSP, fire up this App and show them the font you just made.

LuaFont lets you use your PSP to view TTF Files. Developer JBird says that this App of his is based off of Nevyn and Shines Code from Lowser.

Download [LuaFont: TTF browser]

  

Glynnder has unveiled his InterfaceLua version of Luaplayer v0.17 today as his entry for the Summer Coding Competition. This is a complete Lowser (Lua Player file browser) replacement which adds a great new GUI, many improvements and brand new features you wouldn't expect to find in Lua Player. Glynnder has personally admitted to losing some of the changelog, so along with all the features you can find in this post you may even find something in the actual application that isn't here! Here's the feature list:

• Full browser of files on memory stick
• High Customizability throughout
• Home page
• Lua File execution
• Image viewer (png & jpeg)- will work on adding bmp support soon
• GamePic (like icon0)*
• LibBase*
• Favorite homebrew execution
• IrFS- Not completed, will not be for a while.
• Settings screen/menu
• Ability to keep a USB Connection throughout
• Brand new GUI

This application is like a whole new shell for the PSP, comparable to iR Shell but for Lua. You use the analog stick as a mouse which is made a little more precise and easier to use because it has a circular area acting as the mouse 'clickable' area. Of course, you can also launch lua scripts using this application, as well as being able to send lua applications to other InterfaceLua users via infrared.

A skin creation kit along with photoshop PSD's and an in-depth readme are included so that you can customize your InterfaceLua, in essence making your own version of LuaPlayer. All this and many more features are on the way with updates to this program.

We will post details on how this competition will proceed once all of the entries have been posted. Stay tuned to QJ.net!

Download: [Luaplayer v0.17 with InterfaceLua]

It's been a while since Glynnder have had us take a look at his Lowser modification application, LuaMainframe2. Aside from being a GUI replacement for the Lowser included in the Lua Player, it has, according to Glynnder, "Lua script execution, USB connection, image viewer, Lua script execution, system stats and much much more." Simply put, it is a GUI replacement on acid.

Now, he shares what's been happening with the project recently through a video he posted on PSPro. If you're worried about getting nauseous while watching the video, don't worry, he assures us that this time he already bought a tripod. Let's close this article with a reminder: Mark this coming Friday on your calendars.

Thanks Alex for letting us in on this one!

Glynnder from the PSPro development team has emailed us a video of his upcoming Lowser modification application, LuaMainframe2 for all of you to look at. LuaMainframe2 is the sequel to the unreleased (which is probably why you've never heard of it) LuaMainframe. As you can see from the video, LuaMainframe2 is a GUI replacement for the Lowser included in Lua Player with many more features.

"LuaMainframe2 has a smooth cursor-less UI (although at the moment there is a cursor just to select Game/Image etc...) The browsing code is very similar to Lowser so it shouldn't have many issues there. It has favourite Lua script execution, USB connection, image viewer, Lua script execution, system stats and much much more."

Glynnder is also on his way to releasing the first closed beta for LuaMainframe2, so any coders interested can join the Development team if you wish and get in on the action! Just contact Glynnder-PSPro in our forums. Regular use of the Lowser included with Lua Player can get boring because of the standard GUI, but with this applications, Lua Player is about to get a whole lot better!

Update: To help you see exactly what is on the horizon, Glynnder has released the old beta version of the original LuaMainframe which was never offically released. Although it doesn't contain the amazing GUI that you can see in the video, it still adds some more functionality over the original Lowser.

Download: [LuaMainframe beta]