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  The Typhoon team has released the ChickHEN app that enables homebrew on older PSPs as well as the unhackable PSP-3000 and PSPs with TA-088v3 mobos. So what does this app exactly do? Well, it allows users to play classic games as well as run apps stored on the memory card of the PSP. However, [...]

  Last week was a bit unusual for some Nintendo WFC users. They were barred by Nintendo for accessing the WFC and encountered an error: 20102. According to Nintendo, this error means “some type of unauthorized activity has occured in an online feature of a Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection game.” The users were quick enough albeit [...]

  Nintendo’s cat and mouse game continues with the piraters and the homebrew developers. If the software update was not enough to curb piracy, Nintendo has updated the Wii optical drives to make the modchips non functional. Modchips are used to bypass protection so as to enable the gamer to play different region games, backed [...]

  UPDATE: The creater of this app, Waninkoko has officially abandoned the project. The homebrew scene on Wii is going at a brisk pace. A few days ago, a video floated about Wii Backup Loader which can play backed up Wii games without the need of modchips. And today someone has leaked it to open [...]

  Wii is a great console no doubt. But one of the most missed feature was the DVD playback. Nintendo had plans to release it but homebrew hackers have come out first as they achieved this breakthrough. The hack works by installing a file and simply following onscreen instructions which will give way to libdi [...]