Looking for a nice way to dress up your PSP? You might want to consider Porter's PS Pictogram x Porter Series PSP cases. These new cases seem spacious enough to carry not only your PSP, but even its accessories. The best part is that it is still small enough to wear on one's belt.

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We found new accessory items that you can use with your PlayStation Portable (PSP) over at the official PlayStation Japanese site. Nope, they are not headsets, and no, not some solar-powered charger either. But they're useful: a case and a carrier, both of which are sold separately.

The items were created by local design company PS Pictogram, the same bunch that gave us a similar porter bag back in 2005. Aside from the said company, luggage manufacturer Porter is also part of this project as well as dance group Genki Rockets. Those who play Lumines II might remember the band as the one who performed its opening theme song.

However, it seems to us that the items are rather costly. The case can be purchased for US$ 82 while the luggage bag is at around US$ 138. If you want to know more about these items, you can refer to the Read link below. It should take you to PlayStation's product page.

We're sure you guys would be really itching to know what Fanjita and Ditlew have been up to lately. There hasn't been an eLoader release for quite some time. The last one, if we recall correctly, was on the 2nd of April which bundled in WiFi support. After that, the 2.XX homebrew scene had been quiet for a while...That is, before the onslaught of downgraders! Although they might have taken a bit of shine off the eLoader with the masses moving to 1.5 firmware for kernel mode homebrew, I know a lot of people who stayed with the eLoader, anticipating great things.

And the Noobz crew isn't one to disappoint. How about I tell you that you can skip buying that GTA UMD for using homebrew on 2.00 and above! Using the recent TIFF exploit in all the higher firmwares, Fanjita and Ditlew have been able to "port" the eLoader to the TIFF exploit. Earlier, homebrew on higher firmwares was run using the savegame exploit by Edison Carter. Now, rather than wasting time by starting GTA every time you want to use homebrew, you can simply go the the Photo section and start the eLoader. Heck, it's actually faster than even 1.0/1.5 homebrew since you don't have to view that "flashing bulbs" video. And the best part is that it doesn't matter whether you have a TA-082 PSP or not, you can play homebrew regardless!

Here's the official announcement from Noobz.eu

"Noobz are proud to announce the release of the latest eLoader version, 0.9.8, otherwise known as the "Porter" release.

This version brings user-mode homebrew to v2.0-v2.6 PSPs, without the need for Grand Theft Auto. Now, almost all the software that worked with GTA can now be used without it."

This is great news for all those who couldn't find an unpatched GTA UMD anywhere and had to make do with official stuff. Apart from the major re-release, there are two minor changes:

• eMenu has been improved in various small ways.
• The default menu is now eMenu, the old menu has been retired.

A few people might be curious as to whether you could run the downdater from the eLoader itself, and possibly mess up your PSP. Well, Fanjita has taken care of that too. The downdater won't run; it'll simply fail gracefully without touching your flash. In case you're wondering what homebrew the eLoader runs successfully, you can check out the list of known working homebrew in the PSP Homebrew database. Click the corresponding firmware version below to check out the status of homebrew for that version.

• 2.00
• 2.01
• 2.50
• 2.60

The few things which seem to be missing right now are kernel mode homebrew loading and the ability to use it on FW 2.71 and above.

A few people are wondering what's the difference between kernel mode and user mode. Well, in pure technical terms, the PSP's processor (or other similar processors for that matter) can run in two modes, either user mode or kernel mode. The mode in which the processor is running determines the different functions which you can use. For example, access to the PSP's flash requires kernel mode. That's the main reason why there wasn't a downgrader for 2.01 and above PSPs all this while. Nonetheless, most of the homebrew runs well enough in user mode itself. It's only a few applications like File Assistant and ISO loaders which require kernel mode. You can always check if your favorite homebrew is running well with eLoader using the above links.

You shouldn't be worrying though, the Noobz crew is hard at work getting all the great features into the new eLoader. Here's what they had to say:

"By now you're probably wondering, "What on earth is Porter?". Or maybe, what's next? Well, here's a rough roadmap for what we're currently working on:

• A user-mode loader for v2.70 and v2.71.
• A user-mode loader for v2.80.
• A loader to support kernel-mode homebrew on those platforms where it is possible.
• A way to do away with eLoader altogether, and load homebrew directly from the XMB.

We will not predict when these will be ready (so please don't ask!), but we're working as fast as we can on them"

I personally can't wait for the possibilities in the future. Kernel mode loading for homebrew looks really really enticing. The upcoming versions of the eLoader might just attract all the homebrew crowd and dethrone the "golden" 1.5 firmware.

Download Link: [eLoader 0.98 "Porter" - Windows Installer]
Download Link: [eLoader 0.98 "Porter" - Standard]
View: [eLoader Official Forum]
View: [eLoader Help Forum]

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