If you don't believe all of Jack Thompson's talks and believe that Grand Theft Auto is one of the best titles ever to to grace the gaming scene, here's a way to show your love of the game. Kozine from our forums shares with us this flash mod that turns your PSP GTA-style, from font to background boot sound to the XMB menu. He compares this application to Pimp My PSP by SodR, who has already tested this GTA Style PSP.

Testing on MPH Firmware Launcher, SodR encountered no brick at the end of v1.00. However, kozine still highlights the following words from the readme file: "You, yourself chose to use this program. If it bricks your PSP its your own fault for choosing to use the program. To make sure you don't brick your PSP while flashing the new files to the flash, DO NOT REMOVE THE MEMORY STICK!! If this does brick your PSP, you cannot come to me and start saying that I bricked your PSP due to the fact you chose to use this program."

Now if you're not so crazy about GTA, you can always select the 'restore' option in the main menu to reflash all the default settings of your PSP.

If you have any comments and /or suggestions, kozine welcomes your feedback.

Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]
Download: [GTA Style PSP v1.00]

Homebrew overachiever Shallan is back with another program that's meant to make life easier for people like me who is still trying to covince myself that I did the right thing when I updated my PSP's firmware. PSP Flash Auto Installer v1.0 automatically installs swf(s) in a location specified by the user and creates a bookmark in the browser for it. With this program, we 2.7 users can distribute flash content (or browser content) that will autoinstall in our units. According to Shallan, all we have to do is put the file/files into the data folder and change the setup.ini accordingly.

Below is Shallan's example of the setup.ini file using his game Xword.

Title  =  Xword (Title displayed on the installer and also in the bookmarks)
Path =  PSP/Xword/ (Path to copy data to on the PSP must terminate in a / )
Start = PSPXword.swf  (The file to run when the bookmark is clicked)

Make sure there is at least one entry bookmarked because the installer will quit. Note this will work on most versions of Windows except NT4. For you Apple People, don't fret. Shallan is releasing the Mac version in a few days.

Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]
Download: [PSP Flash Auto Installer v1.0]