Sony PSP begins to show its true colours

SONY'S PSP HAS been widely hyped by the gaming media, but behind all the slick advertising and flashy graphics, there's a very diverse machine and already a strong homebrew userbase.

There's a lot more to the PSP than Lumines - first up, we have the unofficial Snes9x emulator for the PSP. Exciting news for fans of almost-but-not-quite-retro gaming, who can stick their favourite games (in rom format, of course) onto their PSPs. With the help of a memory stick and maxconsole.net's handy newbie guides, you can be playing your old SNES favourites on the move. Another guide definitely worthy of note is this one, which will tell you all you need to know about playing UMD based games off of your memory stick.

Another interesting development is PSP FTPD, a simple FTP server for your PSP. Using WiFi you can send ( legal) files around to all of your PSP-owning buddies without the need for carting cables around.

Something that may interest PC veteran gamers are these two ports for Doom and Quake. They are both works in progress, but nonetheless are working - you may get the occasional crash with the Quake mod, though, and the sounds for the port is about 50% complete.

The PSP Media Center is another useful file for your system that will let you play mp3s, .mods and .ogg files.

Maxconsole.net has a brief interview with 31 year old "AloneTrio," a member of WAB - creator of the PSP file launcher - here, which may interest those into PSP development. Something else that is sure to interest PSP boffs is the original catalyst for the PSP development, this ISO loader, which can be thanked (or blamed, depending on your opinion on PSP dev) for starting the frenzy.

To close, here is yet another maxconsole.net link to what may be the Best Game In The World, Tic Tac Toe. µ