Life in the Fast Lane... and Bits of Egg

This is a good news/bad news kind of update, I'm afraid. The bad news is that after seven years of entertaining game reviews, the author of VGJunk has put his blog into retirement. Evidently he had started the popular site to work through a difficult time in his life, and I can certainly relate... depression is what inspired me to work on my Game Boy Advance conversion of GORF ten years ago. It's funny how creativity can become a lifeline when all hope seems lost, huh?

Anyway, things have improved for VGJunk over the last year. Rather than the endless, thankless drudgery of home care, he's got a full-time job... which is good! But that also means he doesn't have the time or motivation for his blog, which is... not so good. I'm happy for him, though. He deserved a break. Besides, there are so many articles in the VGJunk archive that it might take seven more years to run out of things to read on the site! Seriously, look at this list. I'd recommend starting with the withering ALF review... that game really had it coming.

Okay, okay, now onto the good news. After years of frustration, hacker Davee found a way to install permanent firmware on later models of the PSP, specifically the PSP Go and its cheaply made European cousin, the PSP Street. Technically, you could install Infinity on the PSP Go, but you'd lose the pause/resume feature that lets you return to games from the moment you quit them. With Infinity 2.0, that's no longer the case, a blessing for PSP owners with ball-busters like Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? and its sequel. Permanent firmware used to brick the PSP Street outright, but Infinity 2.0 is safe to install on this late addition to Sony's line of handhelds.

Between Infinity 2.0 and HENkaku, every portable game system Sony ever made can now be jailbroken... which is good, because we might get another one in the near future. They'll never beat Nintendo in the handheld market, but heaven help 'em, Sony will just keep trying.