Finally the rumor about “New generation PSP” now turns true. The PSN game digital magazine Qore gaming show hammers out the issue soon after the sensational news from another game website 1UP.
According to the video show, PSP Go is confirmed to use slide screen and cancel the UMD driver, therefore shrinking the console to a smaller and lighter volume. There are also more details about PSP Go introducing through the demonstration. PSP Go holds a 3.8 inch LCD screen(however, not the touch one), 43% lighter than PSP-3000 in weight. More, 16G memory and Bluetooth are built-in. Sony additional remarks that there will be more and more games on this new handhold releasing in PSN shop, indicating people can only get their favorites by downloading from official online shop.
The PSP Go would appear on the market in this Fall, or subsequently the Winter in N.A and Japan at same time.
Tomorrow is Duanwu Festival, the traditional Chinese day of commemoration for an ancient hero in Warring States Period (about 453BC to 221BC). Most Chinese people still maintain the tradition of eating a kind of special food called Zongzi on that day, which is a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice, stuffed with ham, beans, bean paste, salted egg yokes, sausages, nuts, or vegetables and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves to give it a special flavor.
Ishopvideogame will have a three-day holiday for this traditional festival, all Ishopvideogame staffs will not available from May 28 to May 30. And all your requests and questions will be replied early in the morning of May 31. Certainly if you like to visit China we are only too delighted to invite you to the dinner of Zongzi!
DSi do enrich our life through countless great games and extra multi entertainment features. However, annoying troubles may drop in on if we do something unexpected to DSi by accident. One of the most unlucky thing should be the deflection of touch screen. Every time you want to touch the middle of the screen but the system considers you are hitting the section 2 centimeters to the left, and that often stirkes down your mood. Everything always happens for a reason, let’s see why this occurs before you decide to make a replacement.
The four-wire resistive touch screen technology is used on the DSi bottom screen (also known as touch screen), which consists of one air-filled seperator and several electrically layers. When pressure is applied to the screen the layers are pressed together, causing a change in the electrical current and a touch event to be registered, thus achieving one operation in game.
The four-wire resistive touch screen technology gains lots of advantages while performing as a constituent part of handheld console, like very little response time, durable surface and can be used in a variety of environments. There are still something you should pay attention to protect it from sharp object or many a time fierce touch. What you should take care the most are the two layers on the touch screen. A screen guard in solid quality and gentle manner will be good to extend your DSi screen life.
Useful Tools and accessories
DS Clibrate: great third party screen emendation tools for your DSi touch screen. Hori Screenguard: Japanese-manufactured Hori protective filter, Nintendo official authorized. DS Stylus: 2 in 1 retractable DS pens made of plastic and aluminum, also comes with a thumb pen.
Last weekend we heard M3i finally decided to step on the market of DSi flashcard. The codename called M3i Upgrade, indicating the subtle relationship of Real M3. From our point of view, or in the GBalpha style, it’s little bit strange to believe that the formal i-card could be released in such an underground way. Soon after receiving the sample we contact the admin of GBalpha official forum, he told us there was no such a DSi card made by M3 team, and they even didn’t know what on earth the M3i Upgrade is. So here the conclusion about the card attributes in one word: Shanzhaish (In fact that’s a foreign words from Chinese which has the same mean of copycatting).
Extracts from M3i Upgrade Ofiicial site
M3i and M3L series is the full function NEW products develop by our R&D team. Specialize more powerful, more abundant functions. Excellent quality and use of humanity!
~ Multiple skins/themes, realtime changing skin without remove the SD cards.
~ With a shortcut link features, can link to your homebrew applications with ease.
~ User friendly realtime help message.
~ Sleep mode function, for power saving and longer standby time.
~ Support SDHC micro sd cards (up to 32GB).
~ Support the WiFi game, DS rumble pak, DS browser, and GBA Expansion card.
~ Intergrated latest Moonshell 2.0 Beta version.
~ DLDI auto-patch. Soft reset.
There are one flashcard and a TF reader in the package, the card itself is not as solid as expected. The shell is translucent like a frosted glass, but quite fragile. No bump IC on the card but the design of chip board looks rather simple and crude. We tested this card on both DSi (JP Ver) and DS Lite by operating some homebrew and media files. All of them worked in good condition (however, some old issued games we tested later failed, including Tales of Heart Anime Edition, Professor Layton Last Time Travelling, etc). One thing should be mentioned that there were three well-known homebrew which were already contained in the official kernel: ImageView6, DSOrganize3.2 and MSN DS (if you want to play music, you have to search for MoonShell2.0 by yourself).
An old thing, but still hits the point. We wonder why some sellers are too lazy that they dump their clone cards like driving locust away. The same kernel, the same GUI, just replacing the box by an even worse and awful one in the color of cow dung (sorry we can’t use that word as much as that well-known video game nerd did), making a parade of their innocence under the name of “R4i Gold” in public.
To distinguish itself among others, a PCB in red is used in this card, which won’t result in anything good to it. The card owns all features from R4 and other R4 family cards, nothing particular is added. Who knows what will happen if your card runs down in two days after purchasing then you find the official site shuts down and the seller disappears as well? Well, it’s another matter if you are keen on collection. For us, never.
By the way, from the flashcard vote we find Ak2i, R4i and R4i SDHC are the top-three cards people always talk about and mostly want. So here thanks for your vote and Ishopvideogame will offers all handheld gamers more Nintendo DS and PSP accessories of superior quality, we are growing up by minute since your support.
Various of applications are for the Nintendo DS accompanying with the appearance of DS flashcard. As the hardware limit of Nintendo DS, the official developer do not suppose to make more softwares except games. However, more and more people are involving themselves in creating useful tools on DS, which we call “homebrew” in general. No doubt we should show our genuine respect and appreciate those authors by reason of the convenience and practicality their work bring to us. Here we list the most representative ones classified under three topics, hope this helps.
1. Applications
DSOrganize: a homebrew organizer application offers PDA, file browser, web browser, IRC client, text editor, WAV Recorder and so on. MoonShell: a media player which widely used on majority of flashcards, support DPG and various of audio format files. DSLinux: a port of the Linux operating system to DS. DSwiki: an offline Wiki reader, support Ands-PDF: a PDF reader for DS. Supports the basic features like zooming, panning, and flipping through pages. TxtViewer: a text viewer for the DS. Makes use of a full touchscreen interface. Colors: a drawing app for DS. More powerful and more features than Windows Painting Tool. Project JDS: a basic Japanese learning software. NitroTracker: a FastTracker II style tracker for DS.
Andrew Mclennan, CEO of U.K.-based Metaforic, had an interview with gamasutra, announcing that now he and his company are studing on a new method to prevent R4 from running DS games. Since several years ago, the battle between Nintendo and flashcard started. Last year Nintendo and its third party alliance succeeded in lawsuit in Tokyo District Court, resulting the ban of R4 family in Japan. And Metaforic set their aim at all legal grey areas in the world outside Japan.
According to Andrew Mclennan, Metaforic planed to block R4 by implanting a security scheme into the game itself. “It turns each game into its own security system. Every time we apply it to a different game, it’s a different security system.” He also emphasized that the main purpose of their practice can’t promise 100 percent effective. “What we’re really trying to do is make hackers take on a long, slow, manual job.” he said.
You might say this text comes too late since there’s already been some review pointing out its pro and con. Now we try another way to give you more useful infos to catch up with the latest feedback from card users, so we hope both of us wouldn’t miss the last bus.
The Real Significance
The original DSTT users should cheer for the revival of DSTT team, despiting there was rarely any official announcement at DSTT team’s site when its first release last year. Booting up with the same DSTT old kernel, the same GUI laid down into our view. No more mass but clean graphic design left except clean. All above is what DSTTi c0mes in for as the sequel of DSTT, ranging from external feature to practical performance, but the most important influence of this card is that it does great impact against its competitors.
The Durability
The principle of DSi flashcard has been unveiled for some time, but that does a little effect to keep DSTTi from being a great DSi must have. It takes just a second on the loading scene and jumps to GUI, cost quite long time when booting up a game for the first time (later on the loading time is sharply shortened). DSTTi is designed in an extremely easy way even 3-year-old kid can get along with it within 1 minute. There are more and more alternative and unique features creating by other flashcard teams continually while DSTT’s designers hold their concept to serve the most simple way to have fun. Due to the powerful combinaton of stable firmware and TTMenu Kernel, DSTTi does nearly perfect compatibility with most games, various of homebrews and wifi.
Avoid the Fake
Some requests are received while we are writing this review, the fake DSTTi now is creeping into the market. This time a TTiChecker is needed to check out whether your card is genuine or not. Find it at the official site. At last, if you are an enthusiastic DS gamer and take a little notice of extra features, DSTTi will be the recommended card as always, especially for novice homebrewers.
SuperCard team have announced their latest DSi flashcard, code name SuperCard DSONEi, which will avoid from Nintendo’s firmware update block by a USB based firmware updater. The new born one will also inherite the unique features as realtime save, realtime cheats and multi document management form its predecessor. It will be few day till next week to its arrival into the market. Ishopvideogame will share you the goods as fast as the world can.
~ Plug ‘n’ Play – NO extra software needed.
~ 100% game compatibility, supports clean Rom’s and works on any OS .
~ Uses MicroSD card, both FAT16 and FAT32 supported.
~ Supports the SDHC specification,allowing for high capacity memory cards.
~ Compatible with ALL speed flash memory card.
~ Hardware save,multi-save support.
~ Save directly to MicroSD rather than onboard flash.
~ Support RESET, RealTime Cheat Code and RealTime Game Guide.
~ Micro firmwaredesigned.Upgradable Operati on System with powerful function and friendly GUI.
~ Support MP3,Movie,TXT and view PIC directly.
Everyone is speculating on when the next Sony’s portable console comes out but no one wouldn’t be excited hearing about somewhat PSP2 news from the big deal’s announcement in the following E3. No matter what you like to call it, “rumor” or “canard”. We are close, so we just move ahead by imagination. Let’s unveil the truth this Fall.
~ UMD Cancellation
~ Metallic or solid rubber shell
~ New screen which is one time brighter than PSP
~ Two analog sticks
~ Internal flash 8GB
~ Support Wifi a/b/g and bluetooth 2.0
~ Power light at the front
