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Custom Firmware For the PSP-3000 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the always-nice-to-have-options dept.

Busshy writes "Today, owners of PSP-3000 consoles, and those on PSP-2000s with boards that were previously incompatible, have now joined all those who have been enjoying PSP homebrew for years with the release of a new custom firmware that brings emulation and much more to those systems. You will need the recent Chickhen homebrew enabler installed for it to work."

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  1. Re:Uses by marcansoft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a prior Wii homebrew developer, I have absolutely no doubt that 99% of its users are just doing it to run crappy piracy tools. It's one of the reasons why I gave up on console homebrew and Wii homebrew in particular.

    Then there's the thing where the main Wii homebrew library largely consists of code ripped straight out of the Nintendo SDK (most of the drivers and frameworks have the same API with the same code, just manually translated line by line from assembler to C - the only decent documentation for the "homebrew" graphics API is the SDK documentation itself). Nobody knew at first, since the guy responsible conveniently forgot to tell anyone. Now everyone just pretends the problem doesn't exist. No one dares to work on an alternative - even people who otherwise hate the library due to its failures. So in the end just about every homebrew binary for the Wii is a big SDK copyright violation. Kind of like the Xbox 1 situation where everyone used the SDK, except people there knew it was illegal and distributed the binaries underground, whereas here everyone just plugs their ears when the libogc issue is mentioned.

    And people wonder why console homebrew has so much trouble attracting sane good developers.