The PSP edition of NCAA Football 10 was almost as much fun as the console versions and it’s definitely recommended for your next road trip or plane trip. Many parts of the production have had to be stripped down because of the PSP’s lack of power but it still kept me entertained for hours on end.

The Good Parts

NCAA Football 10’s new Road to Glory mode has the same outstanding super-sim feeling you fell in love with and have enjoyed for years. The included progression system in this sports game allows you to live the life of the college freshman as your fledgling star begins his college career and then rises through the ranks to become the a star player. Playing this mode was the best part and allowed me to immerse myself in a life that was actually a lot of fun to play.

The visual appeal of NCAA Football 10 for the PSP will grab your eyes with amazing colors that are bright, clear and engaging for the senses. The stadiums included all look amazingly detailed and if you know the stadiums you should be able to tell them apart using the details included. A definite step forward visually from last year, NCAA Football 10 for the PSP is the best looking sports experience for the PSP I have seen. It compares well to the look of previous PS2 versions of this video game and at times even out performs previous versions.

The Bad Parts

The developers didn’t include the fun and entertaining Team Builder and Season Showdown modes that were included with the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions of NCAA Football 10 with the PSP version. The included Road to Glory mode is also a trimmed down version of the one you’ll play in the console versions.

NCAA Football 10 includes lots of activities for a college student to take part in, many play like mini-games but are annoying rather than fun and useful.

The on field action included with the PSP version of NCAA Football 10 needs to be improved. Playing football isn’t a fluid sports experience, it’s too limited because of the lack of processing power with the PSP and the inconsistencies in the game play to be a truly interactive football experience.

Gamestop employees were probably feeling perplexed all around the country this weekend as would-be hackers descended on their stores looking for copies of an old PSP game called GripShift. The auto-racing puzzle-platformer developed exclusively for the PSP won acclaim for its creative mash-up of different genres, but never sold in large quantities. Now, a hacker by the name of MaTiAz has discovered that the game can be exploited to potentially hack the PSP 3000.

Some readers will remember that software exploits such as the one contained in Liberty City Stories helped hackers crack the original PSP 1000 before the creation of the Pandora Battery. Copies of GTA sold for ridiculously high amounts on ebay until alternative methods of hacking the console were discovered.

The way that the exploit works is by causing the game to crash through a hacked save file. By causing such a “buffer overflow”, hackers can potentially access parts of the PSP kernal memory and do things like dump copies of encrypted firmware to memory stick. This in turn opens up the possiblity of reverse-engineering the system to run unauthorized programs.

Below, you will find a video of MaTiAz demonstrating the exploit at work. Right now there isn’t much to see, but we imagine that somebody will get a “Hello World” or similar demonstration running soon.

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