It's been awhile since we last heard from homebrew coder Edward Johnson (a.k.a. Digiplay), but now he's back together with the rest of Digiplay Studios to release a new version of their excellent portal for the PSP. Digiplay Re-Loaded is the latest incarnation of the feature packed PlayStation Portable portal.

Download: Digiplay Re-Loaded
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If you've been around for quite a while in the homebrew scene, you definitely must have heard of PSP Earth from last year. Oh you remember, I'm sure - "access webcams across the globe" and all those worldly functionalities. Well, updates for Mat_Dizzy's webcam portal project have screeched to a standstill, but that's just about to change. Mat_Dizzy has announced that PSP Earth v0.6 will be released some time next month! Ha! Grab a can of whoopass; this project's still got some life juice in it yet!

cc59's got an interesting and very useful homebrew for us here today. It's his Wificam v0.4, and it's made to receive wireless frames from a webcam plugged into a PC.


Download: Wificam v0.4
Download: Gates serveur PC v0.1

What do you get if you cross a webcam portal and a Sony PSP Flash portal together? You get M(P)ortal! PSP homebrew developer Muhie shares a PSP portal of a different blend, offering an assortment of 56 Flash games, 20 videos, and 11 applications together with links to view webcams stationed in 13 nations around the world.

The developer has removed site music, though certain Flash games were admittedly not working properly as of the release of M(P)ortal v1.0. Muhie also claimed that webcam shots from the Albert Bridge in London and Buenos Aires didn't work. For some reason though, it worked for us. The webcam shots aren't live content as of this moment, but perhaps that would be remedied in the near future.

The installation should be easy picking for experienced PSP homebrew  users, but if you're a newcomer to the world of free, third-party apps on the Sony PlayStation Portable, it would be best to go through the bundled documentation first. This one's a hefty download for all its content (55 MB), so feel free to visit the release thread provided below or browse around while you wait for the download to finish.
    
Download: M(P)ortal v1.0
Visit: QJ.NET PSP Development Forum

PlayStation Portable homebrew developer califrag seems to have something good going on; after skyPSP which can turn your PSP into an actual webcam, comes an app that lets your handheld recognize a laser pointer's movements. The concept is still fresh, but just imagine what eyePSP can do in the near future.

With the help of a Chotto Shot or GoCam, eyePSP can read movements of a projected laser pointer and allow the PSP screen to display what's going on. There's only a demo as of now, but it would be pretty cool to have games controlled by the laser's movements.

You can find eyePSP in action by watching the video below, or try it out yourself by grabbing the demo. Might as well visit the thread where califrag made the release, because discussions of eyePSP's future can be found there.

Download: eyePSP demo
Visit: QJ.NET PSP Development Forums

PlayStation Portable homebrew developer califrag has informed us that the server application for the skyPSP Webcam Suite has recently been released on our PSP Development Forums.

According to califrag, the server application essentially turns users' PSPs into actual webcam servers. It uses a GoCam! or ChottoShot to upload images via FTP to a specific destination. The images can then be viewed online, just like a real webcam.

Speaking of the GoCam! and ChottoShot accessories, users don't actually need either of these to run the client application which we covered in a previous post. For the server version however, either of the two accessories are required. For more information, please click on the Visit link below.

Download: skyPSP Webcam Suite server application
Visit: QJ.NET PSP Development Forums thread

With the recent release of the PSP Slim complete with new video output feature, and the PSP Camera out on the market for some months now, it's only a matter of time before someone tinkered with the possible hardware/software tricks between the two. Lunacy8m of Gadgetmadness did exactly that and he's now showing us in his Youtube video what he dubs as the world's first PSP webcam.

Basically, what Lunacy8m did is attach a PSP Camera to the video output-equipped PSP 2000, connect it to his laptop and voila, he now has a working PSP webcam. What made the PSP to laptop connection possible is the Adaptec Gamebridge, a hardware add-on that establishes compatibility between gaming consoles and PCs (it's usually used to play games on the PC without the need of TV).

It's not that hard of a trick really, Lunacy8m just happened to have a really good common sense and the right stuff to make it work. To those wondering if this one's legit, it should be noted that Lunacy8m is the same guy who came up with the Gameboy webcam and the original EyeToy webcam.

Homebrew developer mat_dizzy is back and he's got a new version of his PSP Earth application with him. This homebrew app is essentially a Webcam Portal for your Sony PlayStation Portable, and the new version has some nice improvements over its predecessors.

The niftiest of these is a cool, new weather feature that displays times across Europe and corresponding weather information. What's more, the interface is a lot more chic than before with a black and silver theme.

This is the complete list of new features:

• Better GUI
• Live Weather Forecast
• Full Screen Live Webcam - (Like Build 0.2)
• Easier To Operate

mat_dizzy reminds everyone that the source code is right in the download, so everyone's free to look at it and modify the application. As always, don't forget to check out the readme for installation instructions and other useful stuff. Enjoy!

Download: PSP Earth v0.5

This update doesn't include a download link just yet, but those waiting for PSP Earth v0.5 will probably be quite happy to know that version 0.5 of the homebrew application will be released on August 16.

There's some bad news though: mat+dizzy says that the source code for the next PSP Earth release will be locked "due to one person simply breaking the trust rules of PSP Earth". PSP Earth's code will now be copyrighted to minimize the chances of similar issues happening.

Anyway, mat_dizzy says that version 0.5 will not include all the promised things, but it does fix quite a lot of the known bugs in the  SHR. Here are the features of the as-yet-unknown-code-name Eboot release:

• Runs Straight From The Game Menu On The XMB
• No Need To Run Internet Browser
• Weather Forecast For The Area
• Some Video Streams (Not Picture Refreshing) Although some will still be based on that!
• Information About The Area
• Map On The Area (Maybe A Joint Project With GPS ? Who knows)
• Better GUI
• More Webcam Streams

So keep checking back here until we update this post with the download.

Wondering how the world looks from your handheld? Glennio dropped by the QJ.NET Forums earlier to inform the PSP community of a web portal that PSPnoob originally released over at Dutch psp-hacks.nl, titled PSP WorldExplorer v1.0 beta.

This portal will enable the guys to use the PSP's WiFi capability to view one of 20 webcam portals located around the world. Imagine mat_dizzy's PSP Earth portal, and you'll know what we're talking about. Here are PSP WorldExplorer's currently supported webcams:

• The Netherlands:
• Sittard
• Valkenburg
• Amsterdam
• France:
• Eiffel Tower
• USA:
• New York, Broadway
• New York, Brooklyn bridge
• New York, Manhattan
• New York, Empire State Building
• New York-5th Avenue/45th Street
• United Kingdom:
• London (Big Ben is, London eye, etc.)
• Glasgow
• Japan:
• Tokyo
• Kyoto
• Others:
• Aquarium webcam
• Norway ski-cam
• cruising chip cam
• Cruiseship cam 2
• Pyramids (Egypt)
• Panda cam (China)

Planned updates for PSP WorldExplorer include an English version, and additional functions like country information and weather reports. We'd like to express our thanks to Glennio for passing on the news from PSPnoob. Also, the dev explained that he couldn't post it himself as his English isn't that good. Make sure to drop by QJ's PSP Development Forums and Glennio's site for further information on PSP WorldExplorer.

Download: PSP WorldExplorer v1.0 Beta
Visit: QJ's PSP Development Forum