With only a day to go before release, Atlus USA is continuing to drum up more buzz for its localized release, Crimson Gem Saga. Today, they gave out a peek at two of the game's features: the Ambush system and Critical Combos.

And you thought ChickHEN updates have reached a standstill? Heck no. We haven't even reached the yoke of the matter yet! It looks like Davee and the rest of Team Typhoon are busy updating their ChickHEN exploit to a new and very much improved R3. Just as M33 would have their custom firmwares, Team Typhoon also plans to incorporate a VSH menu and plugin support (among other features) to ChickHEN R3.

Visit: QJ.NET PSP development forums

Jackpot! Once exploit fever hits, it washes over everyone completely and utterly. Following the ChickHEN 5.03 exploit from the other day, PSP homebrew developer wololo of Wagic: The Gathering fame someone has now found a Libtiff Exploit for FW 5.50!

Download: Libtiff Exploit for Firmware 5.50

*Update* Clarifications from wololo.

And there we have it, folks: your trusty GameBoy Advance emulator can now be run on the PSP-3000! With the Netfront Internet Browser getting ChickHEN compatibility support just the other day, we now have gpSP getting similar treatment!

Download: gpSP mod 5.03 HEN

So we finally got the R2 version of Team Typhoon's ChicHEN exploit, and yes, homebrew is now most definitely enabled. Wondering what Dark AleX has planned? Or not planned, rather. Well, this doesn't come from DAX himself, but here's something close enough: webmaster Alek gives us updates on the ChickHEN exploit and clues us in on Team M33's plans.

If some of you guys absolutely can't wait for a working version of the 5.03 BrokHEN ChickHEN exploit, here's an unofficial fix which finally allows you to load homebrew on FW 5.03. Meanwhile, do know that Davee's still working on an official version, just in case you guys want to pass up on this one.

Download: 5.03 ChickHEN Unofficial Fix
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Hear that? That's the sound of homebrew aficionados booting up their PSP-3000s and getting ready to finally run some homebrew on the thing. Why? Davee's finally released his HEN, that's why.


Download: 5.03 ChickHEN
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KylBlz's Sparta AppUI is a small shell that lets you run a pair of apps on any PSP -- be it 1000, 2000, or 3000 -- running on firmware 5.02 and lower. It also runs on all current M33 firmware. Due to the memory limitations in the Sparta exploit, developer KylBlz was only able to include two programs: a Notepad app using danzeff's keyboard and the dev's own PSPDraw app. Hit the full article for a changelog.


Download: SPARTA AppUI 0.9B

While the PSP homebrew scene took a backseat to the sheer amount of new software announced for the PSP this week, Davee and Team Typhoon did manage to steal back the spotlight via their video of the 5.03 Homebrew Enabler in action. Another update in the form of a pic showing gpSP running on a PSP-3000 also made it in time to be included in this week's roundup of the hottest PSP homebrew news. Read on for the PSP Homebrew Weekend Warrior!

Be patient, everyone. Davee's HEN exploit will eventually arrive given time. To tide over that wait, here's a little video demonstrating the 5.03 HEN in action. This one was posted by Granite, one of the beta testers of Davee (Team Typhoon).