Hacked PSP
Well, I finally risked running the firmware downgrader (to 1.50) on my Sony PSP tonight (you have to have a 2.50 or 2.60 firmware unit with the proper PCB, and you have to have an older copy of GTA UMD). It was a bit scary, given the early signs of lots of people "bricking" their units, but they have most of that all worked out now. Once you are back to 1.50 firmware, you can run all sorts of kernel access mode homebrew games, emulators, and applications (including a universal remote for home entertainment systems!). Once this is done, you still need to be able to run 2.71 firmware to be able to play newer games, so they have a "DevHook" that you can run under 1.50, to bootstrap 2.71 firmware (which also has internet browser, RSS feeds, and PCTV).

Even though I don't condone piracy of these UMD's, there are ways to copy the UMD, compress it and store it on the memory stick, and then play them under this 1.50 firmware. This would be nicer than dragging around all the disks, and should be faster and use less battery. I need to see how big the compressed programs are.

- posted by Jeff @ 10:08 PM | 1 comments