Ready for more features on your CFW? Of course you are! It's one of the classic homebrew apps out there used by thousands. So here you go, with love from Cpasjuste! Custom Firmware Extender v3.1 is very welcome indeed - especially since PSP Phat owners finally get to join in on the fun!

Download: Custom Firmware Extender v3.1
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It's been a while since the last version of prxutility - that homebrew  plugin known for being everything you need for system info, and then some. With roughly around four months of no updates, you can expect huge changes in this release. The biggest of which is 5.0-M33 compatibility.

Download: prxutility v5.0
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I've seen some pretty wild mods before - I'm still not over the Haier/PSP crossbreed - but this latest one from alien_x bowls me over. Basically he disassembled a PSP and arranged its innards on a sheet of plexiglas. It's beautiful in an Andy Warhol or Picasso kind of way.

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After last week's v2.64, we now find Hold + v2.71 on our laps. All previous features that made this battery-saving plugin popular is still in this version, plus a couple fixes and improvements, one of which is a little feature of flashing LEDs so that the PSP is not mistaken to be powered off.

Download: Hold+ v2.71
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Homebrew dev Torch has released a new version of his battery saver plugin, Hold+. This plugin has several functions that can help your unit save on juice, like switching off the LCD screen and the backlight, and can underclock the CPU to 61 MHz. Changelog after the link.

Download: Hold+ v2.64
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With only a couple of weeks since the release of the LuaPlayerHM8 drivers, the official release of the homebrew application has finally gone live. Developer homemister recently dropped by and informed us that we can now download the new build through the project release thread on the QJ.NET forums. Read our full article for details on all the new changes since our previous coverage of LuaPlayerHM.

Download: LuaPlayerHM8
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Developer Torch has released version 2.61 of the Hold+ homebrew plugin for the Sony PSP. This new build should address a problem some of you may have encountered with the previous release. Further details are available in the full article.

Download: Hold+ v2.61
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We all know how sucky it can get when you can't wait to get your hands on your Sony PSP to play your favorite games while, say, waiting for the bus, because your battery just ran out. Now, conservation is key, and that's where Torch can help you out. His brewed app, Hold is now on v2.0 and we're sure you'd want to check out what's new. Go on, click on "read more".

Download: Hold v2.0
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 French homebrew developer pspflasystem has updated the plugin BATalert, bumping it up to version 1.0. Aside from that, the owner of the program has also decided to change the name to prxutility.

There have been many additions since this plugin was first released. To see the new features, just click the "read more" link below to proceed to the full article.

Download: prxutility v1.0

PlayStation Portable modder Duelord came up with a very interesting modification to the handheld's backlight that should give the good ol' PSP Fat an extra hour's worth of battery juice.

According to Duelord, the backlight of the PSP works with 20v even though the battery's capacity is just 3.6v. Take note that when you do this mod, it will be quite hard to play official games on the PSP.

However, Duelord added that this still allows him to run homebrew, listen to music, and view pictures. Aside from that, he's using this modded PSP Fat to downgrade the PSP slim & Lite as well as fix bricked PSP units.

If you are interested, these materials will be needed as provided by Duelord himself: screwdriver, resistors, soldering iron, lead, smd led, aluminium, sticky stuff and at least two hours time. Once you've acquired all of those, perform the following procedures:

1. Open up your PSP Fat.
2. Wire up the leds, the wires go in two little holes near the battery.
3. Use aluminium to reflect the led, place the resistor behind the metal part.
4. LCD popped back on it.
5. I used some tape to scotch everything together and it works, apart from the analog stick.

If you want to know more about this mod, click on the Read link below.

We'd like to thank JaXeRiR for the tip!