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Web Browsing on Your PSP
yodha writes "A guy has hacked the hidden browser inside the PSP to view external webpages. His webpage has info on that, some screenshots and a video. Yes, you can get Slashdot on a PSP! The PSINext forum and engadget are covering the same news."
This reminds me of a little Slashdot article about CSS, plus the ongoing Slashdot forum about redoing Slashdot in XHTML and CSS. Now that PSP has browser functionality, I think it's imperative for web developers to examine their sites for usability. I would be interested to see how DHTML is handled on the PSP, for example, by testing the Milonic package. I seriously doubt it would work very well on PSP, but you never know.
This raises the issue of UserAgent sniffing. Right now I'm developing an Open Source CMS called Gemsites (link in sig), and I'm considering supporting cut-down templates for PocketPC, Palm and (now) PSP. I've got the code set up to sniff the UserAgent and make a decision on it, thanks to php.net's user-assist messages in the function database. But now I'm wondering if my whole CMS will stand up to the more compact screens used by PSP et al. I guess what I'm saying is that if you're a developer and you know CSS/XHTML and/or PHP, I would like to talk to you about usability.
Is interesting, but of course you know that means that if he could hack his self out other willcan hack in, so waiting for the upcoming exploits and patches ;)
Think like a hacker, act like a hacker, but never become a hacker !
With homemade software, would this type of thing be possable with the DS? Probibly not using the same meathod, but similar?
What browser though? What plug ins will be made and other such questions could do with answering.
Then can someone tell me why I'd want to use a PsP when I can use a laptop or a desktop just the same and not need to wardrive or be at home?
I like muppets.
As per the Slashdot article from yesterday, PSP Reception Lukewarm in US?
"According to IGN sales of the PSP have been lukewarm, with many outlets selling as little as 10 out of the 80 units they received."
The potential to run homebrew code and fiddle with a PSP surely increases it's desirability, especially amongst the geek market? I haven't bought a DS yet, mainly due to the fact the PSP looks a hell of a lot better, the mention of PSP hacking has certainly pushed this higher up my list.
Gadgetspy
Someone has already kindly setup a portal for all you people who want to view this without setting up a DNS server or from any access point.
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You can see his portal with your web browser (computer) here:
http://67.171.70.72/wipeout/index.html
To use this on your PSP simply set your DNS to 67.171.70.72 inside the network settings then go into Wipeout Pure and hit Download.
For more information visit this dudes website avaliable at:
http://fugimax.base2.org/
In other news the PSP firmware has been updated on the Japanese handhelds. See the following forum thread for more info:
http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=1201&sta
For those curious you can extract the files from the update by using this C program avaliable on the following site:
http://www.oopo.net/consoledev/files/unpack-pbp.c
Enjoy!
Have you metaroderated recently?
I believe that every widely distributed browser has had at least one run-arbitrary-code exploit found.
So, wagers on how long until unsigned code can run on PSPs?
It occurs to me that with both 802.11b and an awesome screen, the PSP would be an really great platform for the Minimo project.
Maybe it's time for the Minimo developers to go down to Best Buy and dip into that Mozilla Foundation money (no extended service contracts though).
~jeff
I assume that was meant as a joke, but it brings up a really good point. Put on your tinfoil hats and wax with me a moment...
What if the designers of the PSP made their APIs as open as possible in order to entice people to cook up emulators for the platform? Of course, they could never admit this publically, but what if one handheld, in this case the PSP, could emulate a competitor's product? Conventional Wisdom tells us that an emulator usually won't be able to emulate a current system's hardware effectively, but if the PSP could, say, play GBA and N64 games in addition to playing its own titles, it could be an unstoppable device.
Naturally, Sony would have to condemn anyone running competing games on their platform lest they get charged with unfair business practices, but behind closed doors this could be exactly what Sony needs to gain major market share over Nintendo in this market.
Course, I could be wrong.
Holy heck this is a pain to do....... key api is cumbersome at best.
Applications that have been produced already will really increase the marketability of the PSP in the following months, and this is just the beginning.
I think by making it exploitable, sony have increased their market demographic hugely
Business Voyeur
I usually avoid user agent detection, simply because I don't want to keep up with the different browsers. I rarely do anything that can't be supported on all of the major browsers at the time.
...then I don't think you've done much. It's not about doing something that is not supported - it's fixing bugs via CSS. Box model, some defaults must be overridden to get equal output on all browsers, and lots of various workarounds for various differing implementations. Yeah, yeah I *shouldn't* have to do that. Reality sometimes bites.
Kjella
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I was pretty sure both device use a very similar processor (R4000 modified). I think thats would be very possible to play N64 games on a PSP, you almost have to "emulate" nothing. The CPU would do it natively. Theory, but still !