IR Shell Special edition coming soon

iR Shell

Parts of the homebrew scene went in mourning after the world-famous iR Shell developer Ahman released the final version of his multi-tasking Infrared capable shell which combined well…just about everything you can do on a PSP into one package. Now you guys can come out of your ‘shell’ as Ahman says that a new release is coming soon! The dev has continued to release beta versions of iR Shell exclusively to beta testers, and over time, these beta releases have built up a tally of decent features that the homebrew public would love to see, and it is for this reason that Ahman has decided to release another version of iR Shell.

Here’s a few of the features you can expect in the next version of iR Shell courtesy of Sinx from xmb-psp:

  • Allows the use of the 4th brightness setting (maximum) on the LCD. Normally, you can only set the 4th brightness when connected to a power adapter. This new version allows you to activate the 4th brightness anytime by pressing “Left Trigger + Brightness”. The setting will also carry over to DevHook firmware emulation when iR Shell is active. To return to normal brightness, press the “Brightness” button.
  • The iR Shell Restart key (L+R) under devhook will reset your PSP back to iR Shell under fw 1.5, provided you’ve installed the iR Shell custom firmware mod.
  • Allow redirection of PSP keypad to PC Keyboard or PC Joystick via USB. Devhook 2.71 fw emulation is also supported which means you can use a PC Joystick for SOCOM or Syphon Filter.
  • Updated the launch XMB function, so you can leave the game disc in the UMD drive when launching XMB. It will now detect your disc type. If you’ve a UMD Video disc, it will launch the movie automatically. If it’s a UMD Game disc, it will skip the auto-launch and just goes to XMB.
  • This version allows you to choose a bitmap image or pmf movie as splash screen. The included sample is Xbox 360. You can try to make your own splash movie. However, it seems pretty complicated.
  • Use iR Configurator to choose startup splash type.

There has been no word of a release date from Ahman, but word of a new release is good enough for us at QJ. iR Shell is undoubtedly one of the best PSP applications ever, up on the list with the wonderful DevHook, easily securing a place in our top four PSP applications and a new release of this application is like heaven for PSP ‘brewers.

Via xmb-psp

iR Shell

Parts of the homebrew scene went in mourning after the world-famous iR Shell developer Ahman released the final version of his multi-tasking Infrared capable shell which combined well…just about everything you can do on a PSP into one package. Now you guys can come out of your ‘shell’ as Ahman says that a new release is coming soon! The dev has continued to release beta versions of iR Shell exclusively to beta testers, and over time, these beta releases have built up a tally of decent features that the homebrew public would love to see, and it is for this reason that Ahman has decided to release another version of iR Shell.

Here’s a few of the features you can expect in the next version of iR Shell courtesy of Sinx from xmb-psp:

  • Allows the use of the 4th brightness setting (maximum) on the LCD. Normally, you can only set the 4th brightness when connected to a power adapter. This new version allows you to activate the 4th brightness anytime by pressing “Left Trigger + Brightness”. The setting will also carry over to DevHook firmware emulation when iR Shell is active. To return to normal brightness, press the “Brightness” button.
  • The iR Shell Restart key (L+R) under devhook will reset your PSP back to iR Shell under fw 1.5, provided you’ve installed the iR Shell custom firmware mod.
  • Allow redirection of PSP keypad to PC Keyboard or PC Joystick via USB. Devhook 2.71 fw emulation is also supported which means you can use a PC Joystick for SOCOM or Syphon Filter.
  • Updated the launch XMB function, so you can leave the game disc in the UMD drive when launching XMB. It will now detect your disc type. If you’ve a UMD Video disc, it will launch the movie automatically. If it’s a UMD Game disc, it will skip the auto-launch and just goes to XMB.
  • This version allows you to choose a bitmap image or pmf movie as splash screen. The included sample is Xbox 360. You can try to make your own splash movie. However, it seems pretty complicated.
  • Use iR Configurator to choose startup splash type.

There has been no word of a release date from Ahman, but word of a new release is good enough for us at QJ. iR Shell is undoubtedly one of the best PSP applications ever, up on the list with the wonderful DevHook, easily securing a place in our top four PSP applications and a new release of this application is like heaven for PSP ‘brewers.

Via xmb-psp

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