Homebrew dev ccpspita seems to be making a lot of headway into building a working PSP phone. QJ.NET reader zero-one has informed us that the dev has managed to attach a Telit GPRS module to a PSP, going one step closer to letting users send and receive calss and text messages on their PSPs. More info, pics, and a video after the jump.

 

Zero-One let us know that he and the rest of the Triple Triad team (Sakya , Peoplechamp, Nedra, Leviadragon, and Sephzero) have released an updated version of their now-famous Triple Triad card game for the PSP.

For those who haven't heard of it, Triple Triad PSP v0.4.21 is a PSP remake of the FFVIII minigame known as Triple Triad. In it, you use place cards on a board in a complex game of tic-tac-toe to have more spaces fall under your control than your opponent by using high-numbered cards to take adjacent territories.

In any case, below is the changelog. Be sure to thank the Triple Triad team for their hard work, and feel free to check our forums for more information on their release. Enjoy!

CHANGELOG:

• Ingame crashes rate lowered.
• Forget (and forgive) quitters or crashers: you can now quit in any time after a while in any screen of the matchmaking.Quitters will be logged.
• Timer to auto leave request after 60 secs. Quitters are logged.
• Lost money & all the cards? cannot play anymore? added a function to re-initialize your account (cards & money) without loosing Exp. Just enter the shop when you have less than 5 cards in the deck an less than 200 Gils.
• Problems like session timeout,validation result and that kind of stuff, have been fixed on the server itself on the go.
• A layer of security has been added, no cheating has been confirmed, a couple of awesome players are owning though
• Stats now works correctly,and has been syncronized.top 50 works fine now.
• We have been contacted by contributors to expand the infrastructure to 3 server. Btw we preferred to manage the community on a single server,located in Western USA.
• to not split people on 3 worlds.
• Added a location message if an user logout.
• Card number changed to show equipped cards also.
• Chat issues has been fixed.BTW,standard messages may not work if someone do not translate them in your own language.
• Player List has been fixed,no more crappy deformations
• Invites popup freeze rate lowered almost to 0.
• Player filters now works (press select while in a location)
• Triangle show a direct player infos popup while choosing the deck before a match.
• During match you can see rules.
• This year is the Final Fantasy 7 10th anniversary,so we managed to added the most loved summon EVER.Is a special and very rare card.

GDR PARAMETERS:

• When you register now,you will enter randomly in on of the majors world capitals,'cause Balamb's Garden where often full of people and a little too messy.
• Also,your region is saved for further developements...Regional tournaments anyone?
• One other thing has been changed is the card cost when selling.
• We saw there was a lot of difference between users levels,and gils were easy to get (with trading even easier, reselling captured cards). Now we re-calculated the selling ratio to 1/4*Card cost. Card cost depends on your alignment.

Download: Triple Triad PSP v0.4.21
Visit: PSP Development Forums

The homebrew scene has really come a long a way and we have to thank the great and unselfish coders for that. Remember our list of PSP hacks and development icons? We're pretty sure we need to update that list in the very near future as one more developer is about to get added: Zero-one.

After making the announcement a couple of days ago, Zero-one walked into the QJ.Net Forums today and unleashed the first ever MMO homebrew video game called Triple Triad PSP. The game per se is not new because it is actually the card game from Final Fantasy VIII. It was then ported as a homebrew about a year ago.

As if we still have to refresh your memories, the important development here is the MMO infrastructure. Before we go to that though, take note that Triple Triad PSP also sports a single player mode wherein you can have: random 1 vs cpu card battle, custom rules 1 vs cpu battle, and 3 card decks, 330 cards (FF8, FF10, FF7).

With that out of the way, here are the several features for the MMO mode and Zero-one mentioned that there are a lot more to come:

Create your password protected account (yeah it's free); Choose your elemental alignement; Backpack with cards collection and money earned; Online shop (you can buy and sell cards); Online exp gain e full stats; Travel in many cities and places based on the FF8 world (find your favorite!); Standard and custom invites; Win cards in matches; Private mailbox; Buddy list; Black list; In-game filters.

As if those features aren't good enough, Zero-one was also able to provide different servers for U.S. and European players. The at-the-day intercontinental infrastructure holds one server for each location. The developer then mentioned that one more server for each is needed to prevent lagging in the coming days.

Lastly, the homebrew game still has to fix certain issues with WPA encryption and with WLan Power save ON (just turn it off). Take note that 3.03 OE-A custom firmware is not compatible with Triple Triad and Zero-one is suggesting the use of 3.10 OE A2. Triple Triad PSP can run on PSP (main platform), PC-win, PC-Linux, and PS3-Linux.

The download has an accompanying Readme file and please, be sure to browse through that first before uploading this to your PSP units. Thanks spylogo3 for the heads up!

Download: Triple Triad PSP v0.4.20 (public release)
View:QJ PSP Development Forum

Remember that Triple Triad PSP homebrew from almost a year ago? Yeah, the game based on the Final Fantasy VIII card game was quite a smash hit back then and right now, development for the game has taken it to a whole new direction: MMO Infrastructure. Huwhat?! Did we just hear that right? If No Gravity was pushing the graphics-side envelope of homebrew development, Triple Triad PSP is definitely pushing its online aspect.

Part of the Triple Triad Team is Zero-One, who tipped us off, saying that they're finally ready to dish out some info about the whole hush-hush dev project they've been doing for about a year now. alexmae from our forums was kind enough to post a translation of the changelog (which is in Italian) for Triple Triad PSP Online:

• Complete graphic Restyle; Optimized code, 60 fps
• 3 decks besides the classic (FFVIII) , over 330 cards + bonus
• For the first time MMO Infrastructure; Massive Multiplayer Online
• A virtual world based on FFVIII world; Shop, buy and sell cards
• Private messages; Live chat during the game; Friends list, black list
• Possibility to view users' status, track their movements
• New FFVII and FFX decks (coming soon FFIX deck)
• Added help during online game and rules info

Zero-One has announced that they plan to roll out Triple Triad PSP next Monday, so you better be sure to keep your eyes peeled. Upon its release, we hope to get more info of how the whole online aspect works... This whole project is posing a very interesting revolution for the homebrew community. What say we release the source code for this game, 'ey, TT Team?

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