Sony’s PSP hasn’t exactly had the smoothest road with the console as a whole never really catch on as much as Nintendo’s Nintendo DS. However, Sony forged ahead and went on to release the optical drive-less PSP Go which featured a large internal hard drive for the storage of games. Prior to its release it seemed like a good buy but once on the market consumers realized that having a device that only worked with the cloud wasn’t exactly the best as there were no used game or game sales.

Luckily, for those of you willing to do a bit of hacking some modders have managed to release a “Homebrew Enabler” that will allow you to run games that were only previously released on the PSP’s proprietary UMD format. Check out above video to see it in action where Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is loaded using the Prometheus ISO Loader program.

via arstechnica

If you have been a fan of homebrew on the Nintendo DS platform, you better prepare yourself for this one. With the release of the new DSi model also comes the end of homebrew development, or so it seems.

Well, the main tool of homebrew were the flash cards, shaped like a DS game, that you could load software on from your computer and then boot it up in your DS. Well, the DSi prevents these cards from working, both auto-boot and menu-bootable. If an auto-boot card is inserted, the DSi will crash, while if a menu-bootable card is inserted the DSi will crash upon sellection.

Bummer, looks like hackers and crackers everwhere better get on this, but for now? If you really want to continue using homebrew just stick to a DS lite.