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There are now several months ago, VirtuousFlame and Coldbird had teamed up to develop custom firmware for HEN baptized PRO . After several updates, the two coders decided to expand the team to increase productivity. The team development now consists of four members: VirtuousFlame , Coldbird , Neur0n and NPT .

Since then, the Pro Team continues to work on his custom firmware for firmware 6.xx . Today Coldbird gives us, via his blog , details on the next update, the PRO-C . One thing is clear: users will be well spoiled ...

It's time for work VirtuousFlame to be this time in the center of attention. The developer begins, in fact, the development of a popsloader for Custom Firmware PRO .

What is a popsloader ?

A popsloader is a plugin which loads the POPS ( Playstation One Portable Station ) different firmwares . It is important to read some backups because each firmware has a POPS different, which means that compatibility is not the same with all firmwares . For example, a title may well turn on the POPS of firmware 3.52, and refuse to engage with that of 5.50, while another game will not.

The developer is currently working on support for the POPS of firmware 5.XX.

Coldbird finally announces that he is working on the other hand still on the network mode of Custom Firmware PRO-C . Despite his lack of time not making it available only during weekends , the developer continues to make improvements moultes so that it is the most stable and functional as possible.

This is something that looks very promising and confirm the skills and ambition of this team definitely did not stop surprising us and of course meet the love of the world underground.

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'PS Vita' could be the new name for Sony's Next Generation Portable (NGP), which is due out later this year. The name allegedly comes from an E3 pamphlet showing the portable with its new branding. There are also some domain names recently registered by Sony that appear to back it up, although nothing's been confirmed as yet. But is 'Vita' a good name for the device? Does the PSP brand really hold that many negative connotations that Sony would drop it entirely?

The evidence for this is some of the sketchiest I've seen, to be honest, but at least the image itself looks plausible:



Above: The pamphlet looks pretty official. We'll know for certain at E3 in one week's time. Woot!

However. Most of the comments around the net suggest most people immediately think of one thing when they hear the name. This:



Above: We jest, of course. Even though the machine is surely very low in fat, you probably shouldn't eat it

Sony shouldn't feel too upset that we've turned their gorgeous new machine into a Ryvita - we did give a similar treatment to a shedload of games. Twice. But there are some other connotations that they may have missed (if, indeed, this is the final name for the device). If you shorten the name to the traditional three-letter abbreviation, you get PSV, which I like, although it also sounds like a certain football team from Eindhoven. And finally, it's only one letter shy of being a word that's become almost synonymous with disappointing technology. Vista.

But then, if you shortened 'PSP2' in the way people did 'Black Ops' to 'Blops', you'd get 'PSPoo'. So surely anything's better than that. Thoughts?

31 May, 2011

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