For all the Slim and Lite PSP owners in Japan, this is something to put on your shopping list. Sony have released a cute little PSP 1seg TV tuner for the Slim and Lite PSP – being 1seg, it obviously only works in Japan, and it only works with the Slim and Lite. Let’s hope Sony make TV tuners for other world markets soon!

Sony have announced V2 of the PSP, and they’re calling it “PSP Slim and Lite”. Seems like a silly name, but it sure looks nice. The new PSP Slim and Lite is available in Ceramic White, Piano Black, Ice Silver, Felicia Blue, Lavender Purple, Rose Pink, Metallic Blue, and Silver. There’s also a very nice Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII bundle available too.

Want the iPhone experience without having to shell out a ridiculous amount of cash? iPSP is a new PSP portal that installs onto your memory stick and gives you access to your games, email, photos, music, IM etc. Download it here.

It’s here! A year after the release of the popular DJ simulation game, Pentavision has released the imaginatively titled successor – DJ Max Portable 2. The DJ Max Portable games are similar to Konami’s beatmania series – hit the correct buttons on your PSP at the right time to complete the song. DJ Max Portable 2 offers a song selection of more than 60 tunes, and introduces a new gameplay mode – in Fever Mode, you fill up your Fever ability which, when activated, speeds up the notes and applies a 2x score multiplier. By filling up yet another Fever, you can activate it again for a 3x multiplier. No region protection – options for Korean, English and Japanese text.

If you’ve got the official Sony PSP GPS receiver then this is something you absolutely must have on your PSP. MapThis is an awesome GPS sat nav homebrew application, and although it’s a little fiddly to get working – it’s totally worth it. MapThis uses imagery from Google Maps so nearly every developed area on Earth is covered, it also gives you your current speed, direction, altitude, latitude and longitude. It’s worth getting a PSP GPS unit just to use it.

MapThis is here.

Play-Asia are selling the excellent PSP Cobra Stand for only $8.90 at the moment – the Cobra Stand is easily the best way to mount the PSP in your car, and works really well if you use your PSP for GPS sat nav, or for watching movies in your car. Unlike most of the other PSP stands I’ve tried, the Cobra Stand actually stays stuck to my windshield and doesn’t jiggle around too much on bumpy surfaces.

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A new version (1.0.7) of PSPAtari is now available. PSPAtari emulates the legendary Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 series. The new versions features a new graphical engine with new smoother render modes – it’s not faster, but it’s a lot smoother, and save state dates are displayed in the emulator window which makes it easier to identify and to load the right save state slot.

More info and download here.

Version R10 of Daedalus PSP, the N64 emulator for the Sony PSP has just been released for firmware 1.00 and 1.50+. Some of the more important features of R10 include adjustable stick deadzone, frameskip, framerate limiting, and the abiliaty to pause when ROM emulation hangs.

More info and download here.

If you want something a little more elegant than a normal PSP case to store your PSP in, then this is probably it. The Capdase leather PSP case comes in black, white, and pink. These cases have a magnetic flip top with an s-bracket attachment, and have a really good inner cushion to protect from bumps and drops.

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Sony have released a PSP GPS unit! The PSP GPS receiver is suprisingly small, weighs around 15 grams, and refreshes approximately every second. Currently there aren’t many games or applications that support the PSP GPS, but the list will no doubt grow. There’s at least two applications available now for the PSP GPS – Home Star Portable, which is a planetarium application that can give you information about what’s in the night sky depending on your GPS location – and Navigation Soft, which is a navigation application for plotting and displaying driving and walking routes. Hopefully once the homebrew community get their hands on the PSP GPS we’ll see some cool GPS applications for the PSP.

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