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maximumzero
I...wait, what?New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
I...wait, what?New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
Okay guys, let's keep this as legal as possible.
With the new Lumines exploit out for 3.50, is it worth my time to track down a copy of Lumines, a downloadable version of the 3.50 update, and all this custom firmware stuff?
I mean, what's really the big deal with this whole homebrew thing? Is it worthwhile possibly bricking my $200 piece of electronics?
With the new Lumines exploit out for 3.50, is it worth my time to track down a copy of Lumines, a downloadable version of the 3.50 update, and all this custom firmware stuff?
I mean, what's really the big deal with this whole homebrew thing? Is it worthwhile possibly bricking my $200 piece of electronics?
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Firmware modification is in all seriousness fairly easy and safe. Yes it is possible to brick your PSP, things can go wrong anytime you flash firmware, but there are many guides to help with the process and so long as you follow directions properly you will be virtually guaranteed success.
In return you get access to the wide plethora of homebrew applications which do all sorts of stuff, emulators if you're into that (Nearly flawless PSX emulation for nearly every title), you can launch UMD iso's from your memory stick so you don't have to carry your games around always or to improve load times, and you can still play the new games that try to enforce firmware upgrades while keeping your custom firmware.
Lumines is also like the most common game on the PSP, it shouldn't be hard to find for very cheap at all, and frankly if you wait the hacker community will probably find a way to do it sans Lumines anyway.
Oh Maximum, one thing to note: Certain TA-82 motherboards ARE safe to downgrade, but have a way of keeping you from ever updating to an official Sony firmware after downgrading until the hacker community comes up with a workaround. Still, the great thing about 3.40 OE-A and the dark_alex firmwares is the fact that if you want, you can have it behave exactly the way the official firmware does.
Also...a list of homebrew stuff that's worthwhile.
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Unbricking PSPs for the common audience is not far away. All it takes is a specially made high capacity battery that is not yet out on the market, and certain files on your memstick.
Probably around 95% of that 1% that ends up bricking their PSP are kids who have no clue what they're doing and place files in the wrong spot, skim through or ignore directions, or have a catastrophic 'failure' like moving their hand to pick their nose and flipping the power switch on the way up as the firmware updates.
If you do it right it really is pretty safe.
Could I get a list or a PM?
One thing I did do was put Silent Hill PS1 on my PSP, and I'm playing through that now, and it really does run great. Other than the PSX games, I'm not sure what to do now that I have a homebrew capable PSP.
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I know that's stupid, but my DS currently occupies so much of my on-the-go-gaming, that I really can't justify spending that much money on adding to my backlog.
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I've barely even touched homebrew, but I'm going to start tinkering around with it; there's actually a cool app called PiKey that lets you use an IR PDA keyboard to type/play games with, plus there are IM clients and such. Plus homebrew ports of freeware PC shmups, like rRootage.
From what I've heard, downgrading is virtually idiotproof so long as you take the necessary steps. It was a piece of cake for me, and now that there's a Lumines exploit it's really worth the 30 minutes of time it'll take to set up a custom firmware.
That'll be directly against the forum rules to post publicly. Ask for PMs.
The only thing I'm sad about with this new exploit is that the GTA: VCS I bought for $40 is now fairly worthless.
if only for ScummVM.
On a related note,
THis isn't to say don't talk, it just means don't talk about emulation. Homebrew is peachy.
I'd also check out some custom themes, these can be a bit more dangerous, as you're directly swapping files in flash0, but I'm pretty sure there are some homebrew programs that automate it for you.
Loco Roco theme
And the one I'm using right now, DarkStone Red Theme:
Also, I just asked this in Help/Advice but I'll ask it here...
Is there any way to transfer files to/from your PSP using only the wireless connection? I'm currently using the special 3.4 firmware...
Man, I really wish they could make a option for downgrading that didn't involve me having to buy some game.
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You should own Lumines anyway.
Depends on how you want to. I know there's an FTP server app, and there SHOULD be an FTP browser app, so all you'd have to do is run an FTP server on your computer to share the files you want to access, and then run the server on the PSP when you want to get something off of it.