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Sony PSP 1.50 Swap Trick

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hardware-hacking-at-its-most-amusing dept.

Negroiso writes "It appears that the folks over at PSP-DEV have created a swap trick for your PSP 1.50 to play your homebrew applications. It requires two memory sticks to use. Please read the included tutorial on how to use the exploit properly." Here is the PSP 1.50 Exploit as well as website mirrors.

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  1. I wonder if... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if we will see some kind of TSR to avoid the hassle of having to swap memory sticks every time you want to run a program.

  2. Good news!... Kinda. by ChibiLZ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was really excited about this, until I read that it's a swaploit... some people are having it work no problem, but some people are having troubles getting it to load, having corrupted data on their mem sticks, etc.

    However I have to take my hat off for the guys that worked this out. Let's hope everyone in the PSP hacking scene keeps up the good work, because I'd love to play some old classics on my PSP.

    Also cheers to the poster for putting mirrors in the post. :)

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  3. Re:Come on... by rpdillon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, I have no interest in running pirated UMD images. By the time you copy the iso to a Memeory Stick that holds anywhere from 180 megs to 1.8 GB, you should've just spent the $40 for the game.

    No, I'm excited for PSP hacks so I can run emulators, home made games, and maybe internet applications.

    This is not the same as the console world where the only point in hacking the system is to pirate stuff. People weren't big on emulators for XBox, PS2 and Gamecube because you could just get an emulator on your computer or MythTV and play that way.

    The PSP makes all the difference because it's portable. There is not great way to do emulation-on-the-go right now (Game Park excluded), so the killer apps for PSP ARE the emulators and homebrew scene.

  4. It's so much worse then that... by vhold · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Given the fact that future games will most likely automatically update the firmware.. ( I wouldn't be in the least surprised if UMD movies do as well )

    I have to choose whether I want to -buy- more software for their system or just keep the flexibility of homebrew... and.. since either direction means not going back to the other.. homebrew pretty much comes out on top.