I just bought some PSP’s for my family (I have 2 kids) … Hehehe … yes, it is old stuff, but new in my daily activities. I just realize that playing PSP is fun enough, especially if we play it with others wirelessly. Our favorite game is Pac Man World Rally. It support up to 4 players …

I won’t write that fun situation, but PSP hacking stuff :)
Fortunately, almost all PSP that sold in my area is using CFW (I bought a used PSP, not the new ones). CFW is Custom Firmware, a firmware which is hacked, and have a capability to run PSP games saved in the memory card. Using this firmware we also able to run third party software, which is called homebrew. Read this article to get more information about that.

One of my PSP has an abnormal analog pad. The stick is too sensitive, and sometimes, it move accidently in the middle of the game. Disturbing enough … :( Googling, and I found a homebrew called joysens created by raphael@fx-world.org. This application has a capability to change the sensitivity of analog pad, and if you need it, fully disable it. Very helpfull application.

Joysens is a plugin for CFW. Just copy it (joysens.prx) to your seplugins folder located in the memory card, and activate it through the recovery menu (really turn OFF your PSP by pressing OFF button for some time and then press L and R trigger together while you turn the PSP on again) - from plugin menu. If you want to modify the main key trigger, just edit the joysens.ini … or leave primarybtn parameter blank if you don’t want to assign it to any button (so you can not display or edit any parameter on-the-fly, but still possible to do it through the joysens.ini file).

From the readme, you can also disable the analog pad by setting “adjust” parameter as 0.

My also must have homebrew application is PSP Filler. It is a File Manager for PSP. I use it to re-order the game icons, and explore the memory card through the PSP itself.

Also, I use SVCapture plugin to get a snapshot directly from the PSP. Using this plugin, we can assign any button for capturing the displayed image.

Enjoy it …