There's been no shortage of shell applications floating around the PlayStation Portable homebrew community lately. Ubuntu 7.10 v0.1 beta is the latest homebrew shell program from developer Jack and it runs many of the standard features found in similar applications. However, what makes this shell program more enticing than others is that it was licenced under the freeware distribution of GNU/linux. More on this in our full article after the jump.

Download: Ubuntu 7.10 v0.1 beta

Inspired by the Atari arcade classic Tempest, we reported on the homebrew game Webfest from developer Jum last year in October. Now the space/tunnel shooter game is back with more fixes and improvements. Head over the full article for more details.

Download: Webfest v1.2

Bigboss, staff member of PSP-ita.com, has come out with something Ubuntu Linux users might like to use when using the Popstation on their PSP. It's called Popstation_MD GUI, and it's essentially a GUI for the Popstation that Bigboss says "works perfectly" with Ubuntu Linux machines.

If you want to learn how to use it, feel free to check out Bigboss' instructions at the full article.

Download: Popstation_MD GUI for Ubuntu Linux
Visit: QJ.Net PSP Development Forums

Emanuel of NGine Software has a very detailed How-To on controlling your PSP using your computer keyboard, and simultaneously view the screen from your PC in real-time. Yep, all those lol-kitteh image macros should come to mind: "your in your PSPz, and yur nowhere nearz it."

Now before you head to the How To, there are a few prerequisites: First you need an PC running Linux, they used Ubuntu 7.04); a PSP running Firmware 3.40 OE, although they do note that other versions may work; and a few software packages, the SVN versions of PSPLINK and RemoteJoy.

Below is a demo video just so you folks will get an idea of what you're going to get into:

Oh, and please, no complaints about not having a windows version. As the author of the How-To, Emanuel, says: "Linux is the better OS for PSP development, no arguments. all the tool chains depend on Linux. At the moment. this hack is primarily aimed at developers, not gamers."

So don't go spamming Emanuel, okay? We'll have our internet hamster try to dig up something for you Windows users, we'll update you when we find something.

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UPDATE: We've been informed that yes indeed, this is possible on Windows, still, the point is, that there is no Windows means in Emanuel's How-To. Anyhow, on to what we promised to get you folks: how to do this on Windows. What you will need: PSP Link v2.99 (USB) Beta, Remote Joy SDL for PSP (C) TyRaNiD 2k6, and the batch files and script files and binaries created by Schrade.

Below is a download link for TyRaNiD 2k6's Remote Joy SDL for PSP, there should be a tutorial included on how to get it to run for Windows.

Download: RemoteJoy SDL 2007