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1.50 Downgrader for 2.50/2.60 PSPs Released
Cyraan writes "PSP owners rejoice! Hot on the heels of the recent exploit discovery & bricking that resulted from early test versions comes a confirmed working downgrader. The method uses a GTA eLoader that will turn any version 2.50/2.60 PSP, with the exception of those with a TA-082 motherboard (how to check without opening/voiding warranty), into a version 1.50 capable of playing all forms of homebrew. One thing that may not be mentioned specifically in the article: it is recommended you NOT use the 32mb Memory Stick that came with the PSP, as the process creates alot of log files that can fill it up, possibly causing a brick."
IT IS "A LOT". This makes me seriously fucking angry.
to play Nintendo games on Sony hardware continues...
Join us next month for the release of 2.7 with Loco Roco, and the following month for yet another crack.
The key to the enjoyment of pop music is to replace any instance of "love" with "C.H.U.D."
It just amazes me, but I have no idea wich one the most...
Stupid companies stopping customers to do what they want with legally owned hardware or
People buying a piece of drm'ed shit that will, by all means, try to prevent it's logical uses and full potential.
(ok, not exactly drm, but you know what I mean...)
What, do they thing that we only have rights to the usage of the machine now? Play with it, but don't "play" with it, the new motto...
(fuck them all)
It shouldn't. You obviously understood what he meant so the communication was successful. You might want to go see a shrink.
Backdater. Downgrade seems like you're making something worse which is actually the case with some "updates" that are provided by some makers. Examples of this includes TiVo updates that remove features like commercial skipping. It would most certainly not be an upgrade. And to go back to something with better features once removed or modified would not be a downgrade. But to go back to a previous version that is more useful in some way, I would call "backdating." (please, no gay jokes)
Obviously, given your atrocious spelling and grammar - just in this one post - you're just being humorous. But just in case you're not:
you must be able to parse incorect grammar and spelling because the majority of written english, on the internet expecially, contains atleast some errors
Then why are you bothering to use the word "incorrect?" Words mean something. Yes, language evolves. But clarity in written communication only occurs when - across the board - people allow words to mean the same thing, day to day. "Alot" is not a typo, it's a deliberate refusal to grasp that the phrase "a lot" is similar to "a bunch," "a batch," "a whole mess of," or "more than a few," etc. We don't say "alittle," "abunch," or "expecially" (woops, you use that last one).
It's the same sort of error that people make when they say "I could care less" when they mean exactly the opposite. They've stopped thinking about what the words actually mean, and are just repeating sounds... and then start typing them that way, too.
Normally I don't worry so much about it, but people who specifically flesh out the more technical part of our population not only should be better communicators, but poor skills in that area can actually result in buggy code, financial disasters, and all sorts of other real-world problems. It's about cognition, not typing. People who don't care, and that write embarassingly inadequate defenses of wretched communication skills, are contributing to the general erosion of critical thinking skills throughout our culture. And that makes for less thoughtful discourse, which leads to poorer decision making worse voting, and eventually the rise of Supreme Court justices that will say things like, "Never mind the facts, dude - how did the plaintiff's actions make you, like, feel? Were you like, alittle upset?"
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Just went to newsgoups(a.b.sony.psp) got the dutch version of the downgrader. Translated directions with bablefish and it works perfectly on my Lik-Sang Japanese import(white version was 2.6 firmware, now 1.5). Total time less than 5 minutes.
How many ways are there to "brick" this device?
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
A problem users might encounter in buying GTALCS for this exploit is the fact that the newer version of GTALCS that seems to be circulating now has had the exploit patched, preventing it from running. It would seem we now need a way of telling which version of GTALCS we've got.
on the homebrew links browser :)
The PSP OS is undergoing a transformation to a previous version, even if it wasn't originally installed, the PSP community should stick with established computing jargon. The PSP has a motherboard, video display, cpu, input devices, memory for temporary and long-term storage and an OS that is updated periodically. Smells like a computer to me.
I'm waiting for that modchip to be released. That or an exploit that doesn't involve owning GTA.
...but is it art?
Not that most people understand it as being such.... but it DOES make sense.
You can in fact dual boot an iPod to linux, I have it on my Photo Ipod:
http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page
I have a PSP, and you are correct, a PSP is way cooler... the only the the iPod has going for it at all is a harddrive at that's it, period. Otherwise, it sucks totally next to a PSP.
The PSP does have a hidden cost in the form of the memorystick you ahve to buy for it, which costs as much as a PSP itself. You will definatly want to go with the 4gb memorystick, as anything else will leave you jealous. Just shell out the bucks and expect to pay $500. But for that kind of money, you can probably get something better than a PSP. Like the Nokia 770 internet tablet, or a very slim laptop (run Mame32 on it, play the world of videos and everythign.
There are plenty of emulators, freeware games and utilities. There is also stuff for the previous-generation GP32.
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Appearing Live on Stage! (Although technically it's more of a "gazebo" than a stage, per se.)
The person who submitted this article carefully linked to the PSPUpdates/qjnet spam machine which charges it uses 3 dollars a week to view the forums with no ads, on the newsposts them selves they have not linked to the real coders sites or indeed release threads. This network have been banned from digg for these actions of spamming and well i hope slashdot do too. If your looking for better PSP News Sites that actually link properly then check out these sites: PSP News - http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/ PSP 3D - http://psp3d.com/ PSP Hacks.com - http://www.psp-hacks.com/
How on earth could they code an update process that fills up an 32 MB Flash? A Firmware itself is about 18 Megs + a Loader (3 MB), a program (~5 MB), how on earth can you write a log file that grows on 5 Megabyte?
Writing a bit for every byte going to the flash-rom? They could write them to RAM anyway.
If its turned to a brick, a log wouldnt help you with the Sony Support anyway.
"I could care less" when they mean exactly the opposite.
Yeah, right. If only there were other idioms where you say one thing and mean another.
Belief is the currency of delusion.
Features added by a downgrade...brilliant!! Brilliant!!
I noticed on the site that Digg seems to be banning QJ.net links from making it to the front page. Does anyone here know why this is?
You absolutely have to remeber that American English is a Living Language instead of dead and buried. Due to this, it evolves over time and a very solid example of this is the word AINT. This was classified as slang for 2 generations by the Merrian Webster Dictionary and yet it's now become an accepted word that's placed in the dictionary. That's right, it takes a while but "ALOT" will eventually become an accepted spelling and word in approximately 25-30 years.
As to getting upset about this spelling, I'd spend far more time being upset that our educational system has failed to properly teach many of our high school graduates how to perform a fundemental task such as reading, writing and math.
So what should minors whose parents approve of homebrew but not of car theft simulations do? And what should people who live in countries where GTA has been banned do?
Answer: Nintendo DS homebrew. It's my aunt's choice for her kids. Seriously.
Almost. That one is short for "I could barely care less".
..but unfortunately for those who own the newer revision of the PSP, the TA-082, we're left high and dry unable to run homebrew the same way 1.5 users are able to. I am one of the unlucky few, having seen at least 200 people pass through Fanjita's IRC channels successfully downdating their PSPs.
Let the commencement BEGINULATE!
I went out and bought specificially a 1.5 to enjoy the homebrew. I ended up playing the homebrew stuff more than the pricey games.
But looking at the downgrader instructions and such, AND knowing the risks of "bricking" your $250 game system, I'm glad I traded it in for a DS.
While the PSP may have a bunch of fun features, getting to the homebrew stuff with Sony's anti-blessing is just a hassle. A lot of the homebrew stuff is about as fun as recompiling a linux kernel..on a video game system. I won't try to make any Linux technobabble / PSP technobabble comparisons since I've heard nothing but good things about the GamePark.
So if you like fighting against Sony, the complications of Linux(upgrading/downgrading/copying files), the risk of malware(bricking your PSP, ie worse than any Windows malware), pricey games, and a failing media format(UMD), the PSP is for you!
I don't own a PSP nor am I going to get one but any day Sony and anyone associated with Sony gets
burned is a good day. All the same: Kudos and honest appreciation to the people that hacked the
firmware.
I hope this latest fiasco should be cause for people to pull out of Sony and make them drop out of
the console market altogether. And doesn't it suck to be one of the software vendors that actually
invested in the PSP2... Hope you're reading this, because this is going to cost you dearly and
I hope you don't even break even.
I love listening to /. geeks who insist on who this is a company stopping them from running their own software on their own hardware.
/. Linux geeks could make their own replacement firmware and homebrew away, but let's not pretend Sony is the bad guy for people choosing to break the terms of their licensing agreement.
Last time I checked all the PSP software is made using a warezed dev kit for starters
Next you own the PSP, but you license the OS.
So if you want to play Sony PSP games Sony has the right to make you use their newest and most up to date firmware. I'm sure the PSP boxes say "requires firmware X.X" somewhere on the back, so if you dont want to update your firmware don't purchase the game. If you want to run homebrew Sony has no problem with that, but they don't intend to offer their firmware up to do it.
Maybe some
Seriously, why do we care?
I don't complain about the number of idiots in the neowin forum on slashdot, or the number of people completely disconnected from reality on slashdot who think DRM is the most pressing political issue on neowin.
Why should you complain about digg on slashdot?
Waffles rock.
There should be a song: 50 Ways to Brick Your Sony.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Will DEVHOOK let you play games you purchased without upgrading your firmware, or is there any program that will? I'm at 1.5 still and would rather not upgrade to play the last game I purchased.
I just wanted to say how really weird it is to actually know quite a bit about the topic (I've been developing PSP homebrew for over a year now) of an article and then read how unnuanced and uninformed people's comments are. It makes me wonder about the quality of information and comments on all the articles I read each day.
For almost every person pointing out something that seems completely stupid and illogical, there is usually a really good reason. Like the person talking about the 32MB sticks being filled up....did you ever stop to think that maybe someone already has it filled up with mp3s and doesn't want to erase them? or the person who says it shouldn't be called a 'downgrader', but a 'backdater,' did you ever stop to think about the thousands and thousands of people out there already calling it a downgrader? you can't change any movement that big.
so by all means, make inquiries, but don't act like other people are stupid and illogical for things that surprise you.
The deal is that Sony is proactively trying to prevent pirated game ISOs from being run on the system. Sony DOES have a problem with it.
The exploit in GTA has been removed from the game and all copies manufactured in the future lack this exploit, if the exploit wasn't harmful the only reason to remove it would be to stop warezers, right?
Fixed for the truth. Yeah, it wasn't a "harmful" exploit because we all know no-one has ever bricked their PSP system using an exploit like this...
What the heck can it be doing to fill 32 MB with log files? Does it write it all down in 1s and 0s?
Late reply, but yes. I use it with Mega Man Powered Up, Maverick Hunter X, and Gradius Collection all the time.
Sweet! Thanks for the info