Do More with the PSP

HOW TO: PLAY FREE ARCADE GAMES

Since the day Sony released the PSP, hackers have been trying to make it run homebrew applications from the Memory Stick, and they´ve finally succeeded. The basic games these amateur programmers create aren´t meant to supplant the big-budget commercial titles, just to give you a free alternative. So far, only a few PSP-specific homemade games exist, but you can also run emulators that let you play games designed for other systems, such as the Game Boy or Super Nintendo. Best of all, these games are tiny (usually less than 50 kilobytes), so you can keeps dozens loaded on your PSP.

Pocket Arcade
Tetris and Pac-Man and classics such as blackjack are clones are among the first free homebrew games built for the PSP.

1)Download and unzip flashenabled. com/h20/psp/games.zip, a folder
that contains the homebrew PSP games above and a Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator with a handful of game files (also called roms).

2) Go to flashenabled.com/h20/psp/kxploit_1.5.zip to download KXploit. Once installed, choose â€Idioma†and select English.

3) Open KXploit . In the Name box, type a name for the app file you want to load-SNES, for example, for the emulator.

4) Click the †. . . †button and navigate to the folder you downloaded, then to the SNES folder, and select the EBOOT.PBP file inside. (Homebrew PSP apps are all called EBOOT.PBP.)

5) Connect your PSP to your computer and select it from the drop-down menu (it´s often drive e: or f:).

6) Click the "Generate files" button. This will create two folders-called,
in our example, SNES and SNES%-on the Memory Stick inside PSP > Game. Now put the SNES games (.smc files) in the SNES% folder.

7) Unplug your PSP and navigate to Game, then to Memory Stick, and select the Launcher app. Go to the SNES% folder to choose a game.

8) To load other games, such as PSPTetris, repeat steps 3 through 6 using a new name and the EBOOT.PBP file for that application.