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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.
Could it be that his PSP browsing /. adds to the /. effect of the story about him browsing /. with his PSP?
From TFA
"Yes you can use input (we googled stuff), when you enter a textbox and press X the PSP pops up the Keyboard API (remember there's alot of API to be taken advantage of with the PSP). After that its as simple as any other input on the PSP."
I don't read your sig, why do you read mine?
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?
Now I have to buy this little Sony wonder.
His website will be back up in 3 days...
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
Weird how I enjoy both Yoshi's Touch and Go on my DS with it's pastel colors while I can enjoy a good game of Ninja Gaiden on my Xbox or Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube.
Don't buy into the age group propaganda. I'm 24 and see games only as they are, regardless of the look : games. A good game doesn't rely on the user being a certain age to enjoy it. If you let yourself be limited by that, then too bad for you.
guy: hey
guy: what's up man?
(10 minutes later)
PSP: y-o-,- -I-'-m- -t-y-p-i-n-g- -o-n- -m-y- -P-S-P- -I-R-C- -c-l-i-e-n-t
It's been done.
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Tell me. If this thing can surf the web do you think you can make it work like a computer? Could you, say, program the PSP? Wow! Just think, people could write their own programs. Hell, maybe you could even write games for it. Imagine that, games on a pocket sized device!
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
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.
Here's an example:
Zelda 1 involved controlling Link in a top-view and solving puzzles and defeating enemies in a dungeon to get the triforce pieces.
Zelda 2 involved a side-scrolling Link, and was more action-based than the previous title.
Super Metroid, arguably the greatest 2D platformer of all time, involves a side-view of Samus as you go through the planet in search of the last Metroid.
Metroid Prime brings the game into the 3D realm, a first person adventure game involving light platforming and lots of shooting and exploring.
Those examples are better examples of "ports that are original from the sequel" than your "Halo on the PC is different from Halo on the Xbox" example...
I swear, this kiddy argument is the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen...You're acting like a pre-teen, wanting to "prove" your adulthood...Guess what buddy? I'm 22, and I'm pretty comfortable with my adulthood; I don't need my videogames to tell people I'm "mature." If you need your games to do that, then that's the furthest from the definition of "being mature" that you can get.
The casual gamers like yourself have forgotten that games just need to be fun. If games stop being about fun and start being about image, then what is the point to videogaming?