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PSP Hacks and the Mainstream
pasm writes "The BBC is running article about how "DIY software and hardware experts have been quick to embrace Sony's PlayStation Portable console." Today I have witnessed some colleagues playing a wireless racing game with imported ones in the office. It seems that this will be the gadget of the year for both gamers and programmers with a neat idea and time on their hands."
PSP Hacks and the Mainstream
People have been hacking Paint Shop Pro for ages! Why is this suddenly a big news item? (j/k)
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
First Hack
I added a high density spring to the PSP so my disks would shoot out 10 times as fast, instant weapon.
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Yeah, but you'd look pretty stupid (and stooped) lugging one around, with your car battery, inverter, and monitor.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
If having a $249 WIFI detector is reasonable can I have what's in your piggy bank?
Yeah, but my back gets sore carrying around my TV everywhere I go.
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"Today I have witnessed some colleagues playing a wireless racing game with imported ones in the office."
Sometimes you import your colleagues?
God spoke to me.
I think he meant l'eggos. Which, in case you did not know, are french waffles.
"Let go of my L'Eggo!"
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This is kinda off topic, but since we are talking about the BBC here, perhaps you'll all forgive it. The idea hit me the other day. Apologies to Monty Python.
A customer enters a game shop.
Mr. Praline: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
(The owner does not respond.)
Mr. Praline: 'Ello, Miss?
Owner: What do you mean "miss"?
Mr. Praline: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
Owner: We're closin' for lunch.
Mr. Praline: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this handheld what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Owner: Oh yes, the, uh, the Sony PSP...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?
Mr. Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's pixel's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
Owner: No, no, 'e's uh,...it's in sleep mode.
Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know a dead pixel when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Owner: No no it's not dead, it's, it's in sleep mode! Remarkable handheld, the Sony PSP, idn'it, ay? Beautiful screen!
Mr. Praline: The screen don't enter into it. It's pixel is stone dead.
Owner: Nononono, no, no! 'E's in sleep mode!
Mr. Praline: All right then, if it's in sleep mode', I'll wake it up! (plays with the power switch) 'Ello, Mister Sony PSP! I've got a lovely game of Lumines for you if you show...
(owner hits the case)
Owner: There, it moved!
Mr. Praline: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the case!
Owner: I never!!
Mr. Praline: Yes, you did!
Owner: I never, never did anything...
Mr. Praline: (yelling and hitting the device repeatedly) 'ELLO SONY!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call!
(Takes PSP out of the case and thumps its screen on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)
Mr. Praline: Now that's what I call a dead pixel.
Owner: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!
Mr. Praline: STUNNED?!?
Owner: Yeah! You stunned it, just as it was wakin' up! Sony PSPs stun easily, major.
Mr. Praline: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That pixel is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged blink.
Owner: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for Japan.
Mr. Praline: PININ' for JAPAN?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did it turn pitch black the moment I got 'im home?
Owner: The Sony PSP prefers keepin' it's pixels black! Remarkable device, id'nit, squire? Lovely screen!
Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that pixel when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been lit in the
first place was that it had been DRAWN there.
(pause)
Owner: Well, o'course it was drawn there! If I hadn't drawn on that pixel, it would have have been blinkin' off an' on, drainin' the battery and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!
Mr. Praline: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this pixel wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!
Owner: No no! 'E's sleeping!
Mr. Praline: 'E's not sleeping'! 'E's passed on! This pixel is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't drawn it on the screen 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is photogenic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is electronic coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PIXEL!!
(pause)
Owner: Well, I'd be
He said he wanted a good controller.