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New PSP Firmware with Built-In Web Browser
Volksport writes "Sony has released a new major firmware update for the PSP, bringing it to v2.00 (This link points to the install file). This new version offers updates such as a built-in web browser (User agent says it is Mozilla/4.0) and Korean language support. Although it was only released in Japan so far, it installs normally on US PSP systems." This version apparently breaks all hacks so far too.
Has anyone tried out the browser yet?
I want to know how it performs, and how easy it is to use before I go ahead and cripple the modability of my system.
Thank you.
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It's not so much that this version breaks hacks... hacks haven't worked on 1.51 or 1.52. Sony probably did put new measures of security on this, though.
Hopefully this firmware gets hacked soon, as I'm sure there's a lot of people who'd like to get back to playing Chrono Trigger on their PSPs.
If we could actually buy the unit here in Europe...Have to wait until September, but hey, the firmware is at V2...
When all is said and done, nothing changes...
if you're still sitting on your 1.5 bios psp and enjoying emulators and source ports of old games, you may want to hang on for a while before the upgrade. sure you'll get a browser, but until someone comes up with a work around for 2.0 (no hints so far) you may be stuck for a while.
but hey i'm sure somebody will figure it out eventually. hopefully before new games start forcing you to upgrade to 2.0 to play.
I have to wonder how much of the new features in this release are to "compete" with the old firmwares people are keeping to run ripped games and homebrew? If so, it's certainly an interesting and bold move on Sony's part -- keep offering more and more compelling features in the "secure" firmware and eventually enough people will opt for it over their older firmware.
... and all the broken hacks are now functional again.
Just a boy doing unproffesional IT work that's way above his head.
This version apparently breaks all hacks so far too
;)
Hmmm... knowing the rapid pace of hackers versus the Slashdot editors, which will come first: the hack to get the latest firmware to work, or the dupe of this story?
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(User agent says it is Mozilla/4.0)
Of course it does, virtually every browser's user agent says it's Mozilla/4.0. All that means is that it's not Mozilla Suite/Firefox, which report Mozilla/5.0.
Sadly, I've enjoyed too much of the homebrew software to stop now (such as playing my Game Boy games - yes, I own copies of them on my PSP, or Chess, or watching the progress of the movie player that supports AVI and OGG), so while the web browser is nifty, and better playback of MPEG-4 video is nice, I'm keeping my PSP at 1.5 for as long as I can (which means I can't buy any new games, which is all right since there aren't any PSP games right now that interest me, and looking ahead none that will until early 2006, while the DS has some good ones coming out late next month).
Odds are, though, a Sony rep/fanpeople probably read the above as:
"Blah, blah, blah, I pirate software, blah, blah, blah, I'm a thief, blah, blah, blah, I have a tiny pee-pee because I like the DS".
But I'll give points to Sony for at least trying to meet people's needs. Good start - just needs better follow through.
Of course, this is just my opinion. I could be wrong.
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if you update the firmware to v2, is it possible to flash back to older versions?
I suppose you could use AIM express on it now.... mobile IMing might make it worth picking up a PSP now
I, for one, plan to get it ASAP. I think the browser is a great addition.
I am dissapointed in Sony for working so hard to disable the hacks people have come up with. What's it to them how we use the HW we bought?
I really think Sony should consider removing the barriers to homebrew software! Does anyone have any insight into why they're so uptight about it?
You got any karma man? I really neeed it. Just a little hit! Come on!
I installed it this morning. Most sites I looked at came though ok. I had trouble loading all the images from /. Overall it is very cool.
What I do want is a better way to enter text. It was never much of an issue with the PSP until now. The phone like text entry system is a little wacky. I would like a true virtual keyboard with some kind of a9 like predictive text
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Sorry SONY thats not enough to make me stop playing Sam & Max on my PSP.
If the browser is really the only new feature, why doesn't someone just port a decent browser to the PSP?
Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
... there has to be SOME compelling reason to break all the "neat" hacks for the PSP. A webbrowser and such is sufficient for some people... but I don't look for alot of people to fall for it honestly.
Shadus
This update also apparently helps enforce region encoding (e.g. DVD players), which of course is incredibly stupid on a handheld portable device.
Upcoming games reportedly use region locks.
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I love all the people here that are like "well i don't think i'll upgrade because i can use my gameboy emulator, etc, etc...so what if i cant play games". Why did you buy a bloody PSP if you didn't want to play PSP games on it? A PDA would have done all the "extra curricular" things you are doing, and would have been better at it and cost less. I agree these side things are neat add-on's to a video game system, and Sony is a bastard for taking that functionality away, but seriously there is no doubt i'd upgrade my PSP, because the thing is meant for playing games.
As no one seems to have pointed out yet, it's likely that someone will release a modified 2.0 that will give you all the new features AND let you run homebrew apps.. But if you upgrade to 2.0 now, you'll lock yourself out of the ability to run the upgrader for any hacked version. This is pretty typical of 'softmod' style hacks; being an early adpoter is not the wisest course of action.
Unless of course there is a vulnerability in 2.0 that will let you run homebrew... If you want to bank on that, be my guest.
The actual hardware Sony is offering is worth only so much to a consumer due to the availability of alternatives.
The real money for the company is in the IP. If they can keep the devices selling with the features the box actually offers rather than the simple presence of chips and things, then they can sustain the price of the unit.
Sony does not want anything they make to become a commodity.
I think this is a great solution, because it actually benefits the majority of people who don't hack their PSP, and people who already have a different browsers won't use it if they don't need to.
If only Sony would take this approach with their music bussiness and try and create better customer experiences than illegal download methods, rather than fighting them with lawyers. Hopefully this upgrade will be a good way to show Sony that superior features are a much better way of fighting the underworld than sueing them or DRMing them into hell.
Unfortunately I think that Sony's different divisions are too diserate and isolated from eachother to heed this advice from eachother.
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I think its all in the view of who you are. I am glad that most the people on this site are a little more educated than alot of PSP sites I have found. I read comments about things like this update and all you read about is, people who have 1.5 wanting to update to 2.0 and people with 1.51 complaining to the 1.5 about no updating.
If you want to update thats your choice. Sony isn't making you update (yet) and you really never actually HAVE to update. Even if updates are manditory by new games you shouldn't complain. The purpose of the system was to play Sony Playstation portable games. NOT HOMEBREW, its just an extra "hack". I think people have taken this to far and have began to thing that playing nintendo or snes9x was the reason PSP came out. How terribly untrue. I also highly doubt that Sega or Sony will produce thier own emulators for the system. We already saw how that went with Dreamcast when Sega produced the "Smash Volume Hits" the emulator that Sega made to run its own games was hacked, ripped and re-distro'ed as some one's personal creation. =\
Although I would personally PAY for a service that would let me play emulated games on the psp incase some one is listening 5-15$ a month for unlimited access to games would be worth it to me to keep up with firmware and have all the oldies.
It comes down to. . . Do you want to keep up with eventually the latest games, or stay with your old pac man portable?
The choice is yours and yours alone, so stop complaining about why people are stupid/not stupid for updating. its a choice just like whether you want to drink pepsi or not.
The JAP 2.0 firmware update does work on US PSP's and is translated into English upon update completion. So far I have not seen much coverage over it. I also am contenplating the update. Right now the Tenchi Browser satisfies me. . . though lacking a back button I have faith something will come about. Till better games get released I will just play Wipeout and SNES all day.
Thanks for a great system Sony.
But all of the PSP releases are - movies.
Yay. I can spend $20 on the DVD version of the movie, and another $20 on the PSP version (unless I simply encode the movie myself with Yade/FFMPEG on OS X and copy it up to the memory stick).
Seems that Sony's more excited about the portable movie player stuff. Maybe they fear a video iPod so they're trying to flood the market with PSP releases to make the studios think that the PSP is the "format of choice" or some such. Either way, as a gamer the PSP is getting more use reading killyourfm.com than it is as a game device.
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It's about time.
I think the psp has some serious potential to be an all purpose multimedia device. You can already play music, movies and watch your pictures on this thing.
I think it would be interesting to set up a web page and some utilities to control your home stereo/digital music player, DVR, lights and anything else you would like, intended to be controled from your psp. The wireless router would have to be configured to only accept your psp's MAC, and some other authentication would have to take place on the web page/server end (having to enter a username/password would be a real drag to seamless integration)
I'm definately interested in getting a PSP now that they have included a built in web browser (that doesn't need some goofy hack to get around). Though, like many others, I also want to wait until someone figures out how to crack/bypass the security so homebrew apps can run again. Or for some company to release a signed emulator for the psp, I'd be willing to pay for a NES or SNES or whatever emulator if it wasn't complete garbage.
Does anyone know if the digital signed executables for the PSP is intended to stop piracy of UMD games, or if it is designed to stop any homebrew development? Both?
I hope to die peacefully in my sleep like grandpa, not screaming like his passengers.
Sony wants people to buy the device for how they can use it. They're justifiably afraid that the PSP will become simply another piece of hardware that has to compete with every other portable computer, at which point they are sure to lose their price premium.
Network Features:
* Internet Browser - Probably the biggest thing yet to come to the PSP, a web browser. The browser supports standard 4.01 HTML, but will not support Flash streaming. Although some minor bugs, you will be able to connect to any website through your wireless hotspot.
* New Network Menu - This is the new icon that will be installed on your PSP, it will act as the shortcut to the web browser.
Video Features:
* Jump Function - Jump function added (UMD Video & UMD Music)
* A-B Function - This allows you to repeat one portion of the clip.
* 4x3 size - A new size to watch videos in
* Mute - Mute function added for videos, even though a general mute function came with the original system.
* MP4 (AVC) playback - New playback format.
Music Features:
* ATRAC3plus playback - Now you can put ATRAC3plus files on your PSP.
* MP4 AAC & WAVE Support - This version will allow you to play MP4 audio (MP4's AAC format) as well as Linear PCM WAVE files.
Photo Features:
* Wallpaper Feature - Another big feature for the PSP, can you guess it? You got it, a personalized wallpaper feature.
* Photo Sharing - You can now share images with a friend using the wireless ad-hoc connection (local)
* New Formats - The PSP can now read TIFF, GIF and BMP files.
Setting Features:
* New Character SetTheme Setting
* Internet Browser Restriction Setting - Set security settings for your web browser.
* WPA Support - Don't like WEP? isn't secure enough for you? you can now access the net with WPA-PSK (TKIP.)Web Support on Keypad
Source
Sony also released a ceramic white version of the PSP.
User agent says it is Mozilla/4.0
Most versions of Internet Explorer say Mozilla/4.0 at the beginning. In fact, almost all web browsers stick a "Mozilla" in at the beginning, as can be seen here. .
I'm surprised someone hasn't programmed a homebrew web browser, for those who want the 2.00 functionality but still want to play custom software.
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There hasn't really been a noteworthy game release in the past six months on any platform. GTA: San Andreas was the last 'Killer App' and it's so expensive to just produce a par game that the development cycle has really slowed to just a handful of companies who can consistantly put out games before getting bought by EA.
PC, PS2, Xbox.. none of them have had any decent releases recently. Most everyone I know has gotten bored of and then gone back to World of Warcraft because there really isn't anything out there. The video game world is dying a slow death due to the skyrocketing costs of game development. There are maybe half a dozen big releases a year on any platform; just like hollywood most game companies are mired in a rut of endless sequels to dead franchises. Even GTA is getting old. Give us something new.
Actually, sony has basically won. Nintendo's DS is rather pathetic... It's main push seems to be to play original nes games
Huh?! have you ever even used a DS? there is no (legal) means to play NES games on it, with the exception of the GBA NES Classic line of titles (and those arent even DS spesific).
dumbass.
but then I decided against it. Without hacks it'd be useless except as a means of consuming expensive commercial content, and Sony are doing their worst, technically and legally, to keep it locked down. As far as hackable, portable devices, the Nokia 770 looks far more useful.
OTOH, I'd be tempted to buy a PSP if Katamari Damacy was out for it (I don't live in the US or Japan and thus can't get the PS2 version), but apparently they're porting the next version to the Nintendo DS as well.
Russell Beattie makes an interesting hypothetical case for the Sony PSP to be an interesting "video ipod", IF Sony were to take certain actions, in addition to upgrading the browser. In my view there are business considerations that are larger than the technical issues that need to be considered. More here: http://mp.blogs.com/mp/2005/07/on_sony_psp_tur.htm l
Also, I have two dead pixels on my PSP. Getting info from SONY as far as what I can do with this thing is like eating a bowl of teeth. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it. I realize that if any work is done I'll end up with new firmware. But the hackers will help with that issue...
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If the update included software to turn my PSP into a WiFi detector it would be worth sacraficing and/all opportunities to use homebrew apps.
paul reinheimer
According to a CNET article, the PSP sports a MIPS R4000 running at 333 MHz. The performance is probably comparable to a Pentium II running at the same speed.
In other words, the performance is good.
I've only tried the SNES emulator on 1.5, using the loader as opposed to the card swap. Currently, the performace leaves something to be desired. In order to replay an old favorite Earthbound, I need to ramp up the clock speed and skip some frames. Even then, it still slows down when you get a lot of people moving on the screen at once.
Is the performace better under firmware 1.0? I'm just wondering if dodging the anti-hacks in the firmware is causing trouble, or if it's just a function of the emulation itself.
Another observation - Maxing out the clock speed seems to speed up battery use to the point where it costs you more juice to run SNES than a game that accesses the UMD a lot.
What the hell are you talking about?
Since when does the DS only play original nes games, that's not the point of the DS at all.
Name ONE original game for PSP, because that's the point of the DS, innovative, original gaming. Granted there are some rehashes, but more and more are completely different way to play a game. It's nice being able to pick up a game for 10-20mins or hours on end. That's something DS offers but the PSP does not, legally. Notice how the only fun to be had on the PSP is illegal Nintendo games. No matter how much people put Nintendo down, it's always their systems and games people go back to.
3-They're not obligated to maintain anything for anyone else (beyound any contracts they may have). It's just like when the kernel guys change the driver interface (again!), and Nvidia has to make a change (remember the "stacks" issue in 2.6?). Did people think that the kernel guys deliberately make those changes to break Nvidia drivers?
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Boo-hoo, someone does not like my fucking japper-toy, boo-hoo.
PSP sucks. Get a good American brand like Nintendo instead.
Finally, we can stop those goddamn hackers from stealing Sony's money by running a Nintendo emulator on their $250 unit combined with the $60 memory stick they bought! Stupid kids want everything for free, god bless Sony for taking back what was theirs!
Considering it only took one day for Windows Genuine Advantage to be hacked, it certainly wont take long for them to get around whatever got put in 2.00.
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If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
Sony...with their Pr0n Station Portable. Now you can get pr0n wherever you are.
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The real fight here is between the Game Boy Advance and the PSP. Nintendo themselves didn't trust the DS to do well, thats why they worked so hard to distinguish it from their wildly succesful Game Boy
franchise.
Whether the fanboys like it or not, the Game Boy is pulling in far more money than the PSP, it has far more games, and if is in the hands of far more gamers.
Anyway, there are some fun games for the DS, which is more important to me than emulating older Nintendo games on another system...
Not so. Sony may believe that the device will become so prolific as to be a substitute for the household DVD player, rather than a portable substitute to be used by the extremely small international jet-set.
It made no sense the first time you said it since the GBA games were targetted at the cheaper GBA & SP to begin with.
When is Sony going to support WPA for the built-in wireless? I find it absurd that they haven't added support for it yet.
Wow, PSP hasn't been out on the market long, and firmware updates are coming out as fast as hacks can be made for them.
To me, that is funny. The endless waltz of people releasing useful software for them(emulators), and then Sony does an upate soon after, with an incentive like a browser, etc.
Maybe I'll get a PSP when the dust settles.
I disagree. Sony's PSP has failed already in the eyes of it's costumers to deliver what it's main function is supposed to, which is play games. Long load times, flakey controls, and quite frankly, not too compelling games(ps2 ports that everyone already owns). You can't have any of these problems, especially on a portable gaming device.
The PSP is basically going on the idea that it's a do it all device, the problem is it does everything poorly. An example would be paying $20-$30 for a UMD for a movie that you more than likely already own. And the hacking community? Sony will just keep releasing updates that'll break the hacks.The DS has a lot of good things going for it, that'll likely keep it holding up against the PSP hype. A superior online service, a decent amount of superior titles(Mario Kart Online, Animal Crossing Online, Metriod Prime Hunters, Kirby Canvas Curse, Meteos, New Mario Brothers, and many more third party games), and you can play most if not all of the GBA library, which is still growing. So, no, the DS isn't pathetic and Nintendo hasn't lost anything.
Have you ever played a ds? They can play gba games too. DS has metroid and then they basically gave up. I'm not looking to have a /. argument. I think we agree that DS is weak and psp pwnz0rs and that's the important bit.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I've heard rumors that v2.0 would support h.264 playback, so is this in there and if so does it work well?
I probably use my PSP as a portable video player more often than to play games, so having a better codec would really be cool.
SIGFAULT
yet nintendo is a company based in japan. either youre being stupid on purpose, which is damn funny, or you truely are an idiot.
If they port Tekken 5 (along with the other Tekken games), I will surely be updating.
this is a joke right? ...right?
correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Nintendo also from Japan?
I will attempt to encapsulate all the possible responses to this article
1. F sony I am not upgrading because it will break my hacks
2. Great! browser is awesome!
3. some crap about wireless security
4. anime wallpaper!!!!
5 whats a psp?
6. DS rulez psp suks
*blinks* ...dude.
RTJKJAS
I wonder if Nintendo DS will get a browser too. Input would probably be much better with the touch screen.
Every kid who has lost access to the family computer, or encountered parential controls on it, will want this now.
And the parents will never suspect how this goes right around them.
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There is only one thing I need to know. Does the PSP Web Browser support reading files or images off the memory stick?
So it can be used to read ebooks off the memory stick if they are in html format?
I not sure either. Well played sir.
Isn't it a good thing for Sony to be implementing security measures for their system? I think they might be trying to defend their users from possible malicious software. Haven't seen any yet, but I think it would gain much unwanted attention by malicious programmers if it was made such an open system.
If you want a truly open, easily modable, and world wide connected system, you would need anti virus software, and Sony probably isn't interested in starting up in the field of digital online security. Locking it off completely is the best way to keep their systems and users safe. Be happy, they keep the headaches away.
Based on your argument, couldn't you just pull out your ubiquitous laptop and play emulators as well?
Likely a hell of a lot speedier than on the PSP
(unless you run the clock at full speed and turn off some of the sounds and turn on some frameskip. And god only knows what that's doing to a system so fragile that people are already being forced to buy replacements due to everyday use).
So it's not Opera SSR then.
lumines? thats original isnt it?
If you have a 1.5 PSP and are thinking of updating only for the browser think twice, a hombrew browser will sonn surface.. and if you pay a visit on some bittorent sites you'll find that there is already a stand-alone, stripped browser that was taken from some japanese game...
Why did you buy a bloody PSP if you didn't want to play PSP games on it???? SIMPLE! I AM playing PSP games on it. Over 20 games that I have downloaded and put 3-4 at a time on my 1GB memory stick. Swiching to 1.51 or above would stop me from being able to do this. In fact, I held off on buying a PSP until I was certain that I could play pirated games on it.
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Looks scary tho'...
that is exactly the reason for "slowly" introducing features since they've had all along from day 1. they want people to keep updating in order to benefit from the features that should have been there since the begining. of course the reason they do this is to prevent most people from using the good firmware, the ones that help them to reclaim ownership over the physical device which they legally bought and are entitled to do with as they please.
microsoft did this just recently... they released an update to windows media player to enable DXVA (directx video acceleration) of high definition wmv9 video. but as you can guess, they are requiring that users cripple their systems by first installing a DRM update before the DXVA patch will work. i'm sure there are many other examples but this one i recall from the top of my head.
the cpu does a lot less work with the patch installed btw. but, if anyone wants to get basically equivalent cpu usage while playing high def wmv9 9 (e.g. T2 Extreme), you can use mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu). this is quite an amazing player but it lacks a good gui on the win32 version. it even plays high def quicktime 7 videos with a lot less cpu usage as compared to the quicktime 7 player. 1080 videos that play horribly and drops 75% of the frames in qt7, play smooth and stutter free in mplayer.
anyway, we've got to stand up to these bullies. we AREN'T GOING TO TAKE THIS DRM BULLSHIT. copyright does not entitle you to have any say over what we do with an item once it is purchased. (read that carefully if you think i'm not addressing the full spectrum of the issue). requiring a DRM-crippled patch before being allowed to use a new feature which incidentally is long overdue and promised long ago, is disgusting and reprehensible. if this business model isn't working for you, don't punish your customers or you'll soon find yourself dumpster diving.
go go Gadget GPL software!
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And yet, nobody is being forced to make software for the PSP either
Which open handheld video game system is there?
...the best method of making sure an "appliance" doesn't get hacked to run Linux (or any other FOSS OS) is to provide relatively frequent updates that add new features that all users will be dying for. They'll gladly dump the hacks they've applied for cool new functionality that the hack doesn't provide. The second prong here is that before a new update is done, you analyze the code of the popular hacks and then insert code in the update to stop them from working. Very smooth...
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
If you want MAME, buy an appropriate PDA.
Which make and model of PDA has an appropriate joypad, one at least as good as the one on a GBA SP or a PSP?
I think we agree that DS is weak and psp pwnz0rs and that's the important bit.
There are specific, limited use cases where a PSP is superior. For most everybody else, a solution involving a GBA SP or a Nintendo DS is more affordable. For instance, you can buy a GBA SP and a portable DVD player for $220, which is $30 cheaper than a PSP and has a boatload more titles available. Dare to compare.
Lumines is a minor variation on Puyo Puyo, and Puyo Puyo has been around since at least the Super NES. Besides, it isn't PSP-only anymore.
And you can buy one DS game that is worthwhile (Metroid) and at least 3 that are good on psp!
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Videos that I converted from my camera etc. To the PSP no longer play!
Now I only get this message:
"This video cannot be played"
And you can buy one DS game that is worthwhile (Metroid) and at least 3 that are good on psp!
Which are those three PSP titles? For every Lumines on the PSP, there's a Meteos and a Polarium on the Nintendo DS, as well as a Tetris and a Puyo Pop on the GBA (whose games run natively on the DS). Or how do you tolerate the excessive loading times of the two major racing games? They don't seem to fit in to the typical handheld game system use case where the system is on for 10 minutes at a time.
Other browsers than Firefox/Mozilla/Gecko identify as Mozilla 5.0... At least Safari 2.0 under OS X 10.4 reports itself as Mozilla/5.0, "like Gecko":
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.2"
Is there a SCUMMVM for the PSP?
In addition to the PSP port that an AC pointed, out, somebody on forum.gbadev.org is porting ScummVM to the Nintendo DS.
Man, and I thought I was using old software. I think I was using PSP 2.0 back in the Win 3.1 days. Some people seriously need to upgrade....
The PS2 linux kit didn't to anything to encourage piracy, did it? That was effectively a homebrew dev kit... seeing something like that on psp would be nice. But for now I'll stick with my 1.0 firmware and open source sdk.
-ReK
md5sum -c reality.md5
reality: FAILED
md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match
The nintendo DS obviously does not rival the game playing capacity of the PSP
How, specifically? There are hundreds more titles that work on the Nintendo DS than on the PSP 1.51 or later because the PSP 1.51 or later cannot run any other video game system's titles. It's not like you can just walk up to someone in the video game department of a major retail chain and ask for a PSP with 1.50 firmware.
the DVD player does not rival the movie player capacity of the PSP (namely, the fact you can play them off the UMD).
Where can I get the film The Secret Garden on UMD? There are thousands more titles for DVD Video than for UMD Video.
This is, of course, in addition to the fact that following your suggestion would cost you about 400 bucks more than a psp
Not everybody needs to go for all parts of the solution. Not to mention that in Europe, the price of a PSP is higher by the price of a round-trip ticket and a tourist visa to the United States because importers are being shut down for trademark infringement.
Guess who just bought a new fishing rod...
I'd say it would be pretty difficult for Sony not to break all the hacks.. Usually hacks rely on bytecode being in a certain location in memory, so for a release that is such a big upgrade, I'd say Sony didn't deliberately break the hacks... they just don't work any more.
Someone could set up a bounty to get an insider to leak the key. It might be difficult—you would have to have the source anonymous enough for Sony not to trace, but traceable enough to verify and deliver payment. Perhaps going through some unregulated third party in a country where such transactions are not tracked? The details would probably take a while to iron out, but not as long as brute forcing the key, methinks.
Of course, I'm not actually condoning that because it would be illegal and unethical...
The PSP only likes WEP open keys or Auto/Both "Means the same depending on Wireless Router". So, If you are having connection problems, check your router. Hope this helps, spent an hour learning the hard way.
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Does the browser support Java? If so, how hard would re-implementing the emulators as some kind of browser hack / page be? You know, you go to a site, it asks for you to select a rom from your memory stick and you're good to go? Possible, idiotic? You tell me.
I don't think writing an emulator in Java is a good idea...
I agree with you on many points that you mentioned. I think that Sony definitely needs to release a developer kit for homebrewed software. This thing would sell like hotcakes then. The current game offerings are pretty lackluster but I don't mind Dynasty Warriors or Fifa Soccer. Even Mercury is good for some quality entertainment.
However, I'll also point out that buying a $300 portable so you can play your Game Boy games is kind of back asswards. Just get a Game Boy Advanced and go nuts.
I'll be psyched for the movies once places like Blockbuster start renting them. I'm also looking forward to games like GTA and Lemmings. I like the MP3 playback that I don't get with a DS and I think I think an actual excellent idea would be to sell UMD's with music videos on them (like those NOW! CD's you see in Walmart).
I'm updating mine as soon as the network update is available. The ability to browse the web without popping open a laptop anywhere just to check the news or Slashdot is too irresistible.
Of course, potential is only so powerful.
Internet Explorer says it's Mozilla/4.0 too, what's your point?
Damn. You got modded up for the same post twice. You're my temporary hero.
GOOD JOB, HERO!
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What are you a moron?
Nintendo is more Japanese in their target market than Sony (their video game empire at least).
Nintendo at one point barely cared if they sold a unit in north america.
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Where do I save the PBP file in order to boot it on the psp? I've tried the /psp/game folder, and the /psp/savefiles folder, even the /psp folder, and the file just doesn't show up on the psp! help!
Ridge Racer? It's on the Nintendo DS, and so is Asphalt Urban GT. You trade off visuals for better battery life, more money in your pocket to buy other games, and more titles to buy.
Wipeout Pure? There are lots of fantasy racing games on the GBA, including at least F-Zero (for GBA) and Mario Kart (for GBA; coming soon to DS). Or you can wipe out with Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer.
Lumines? If you like block puzzles, try Luminesweeper (homebrew for GBA), Tetanus On Drugs (homebrew for GBA), Puyo Pop (for GBA; coming soon for DS), Meteos (for DS), or Polarium (for DS). They're all better than Smart Bomb.
Hot Shots Golf? Try Mario Golf Advance Tour (for GBA).
Do I want yet another device with a web browser (sans keyboard), or do I want to keep playing Soul Blazer (which I legally own and dumped myself on my SWC) on my PSP?
Perhaps this wouldn't be an issue if we were talking about Square-Enix and not SQUARE-enix (forget Soul Blazer/Gaia/Terranigma, where are the DQ rehashes for GBA? You know, like the FF rehashses?), but as it stands, if the PSP is to replace a device I would have sitting near my TV, I'd rather have it replace my SNES instead of my DVD player or my laptop. The less space I have consumed by older hardware, the more I can devote to newer toys.
so i've downloaded the new firmware, and transferred it to my PSP. How do I install it?
Since the Sony PSP keyboard is so ("Cell Phone Like") try this one out. http://testing.onlytherightanswers.com/modules.php ?name=News&file=article&sid=27
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