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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."
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."
Overreacting much?
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)
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)
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?
Well, this way comes to mind...
Out of appx 500 posts on success/failure of the downgrader, only one had failed and bricked his PSP. So yeah unless YOU do something wrong, it's almost not possible.
Well, if you get four lines in tetris after running emulators on 1.5, you might brick your PSP!
There are plenty of emulators, freeware games and utilities. There is also stuff for the previous-generation GP32.
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/
could care less
- and -
I couldn't care less
mean the same thing
No! That's just not true. One means that there are things about which you care more, and the other means that there are not. People use the phrase(s) almost universally the same as "that doesn't matter to me." Meaning, it's at the bottom of the list of things they care about. Meaning, they could not care less about the matter at hand. Except, when trying to say that, they say the opposite - that they could care less. It's just lazyness, really - but it also shows what I mean about uttering things without actually understanding that "not" is a negative.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
It's probably a conspiracy. You should break out a rakish hat and start investigating like an old-timey journalist.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
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!
Note that the program was on beta 5-- the previous four test versions bricked PSPs, period. They were outputting a whole lot of debug data about each stage of the flash, it seems, since there are some complex steps to get things to the right point. It's not just writing bytes-- this downgrader apparently actually borrows chunks from the official PSP updater and does some interesting tricks to bypass various protection mechanisms.
The logs were there purely to figure out where things went wrong; nobody expected this version to work.
"I could care less" irritates me also, but I think it originally meant I could care less.
The worst thing is when people say literally when they don't mean it.
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
Who sez, bro? American ain't no legislatived lingo, ya knows? Irregardless of whats you'se ole biddys thank.
Gots ta go!