1.50 Downgrader for 2.50/2.60 PSPs Released 127
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."
ALOT IS NOT A FUCKING WORD (Score:1, Funny)
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Reality cares. (Score:1, Offtopic)
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,
Re:Reality cares. (Score:1, Offtopic)
By the way, the Supreme Court doesn't examine facts. Fact finding is done in the original court that heard the case. Well, I guess in the small percentage of cases where they are the court of original jurisdiction they look at facts, but in msot of their cases they only look at the law. No wonder you believe the Supreme Court will someday be filled with justices who (should that be who or whom? oh no! fucking
Re:Reality cares. (Score:1, Offtopic)
You're completely missing the point. The person who "freaked out" was complaining about the fact that a paid editor - someone who is given actual cash money specifically to format and review written material for mass consumption - made in idiotic mistake that any literate person should have caught, but certainly which even the crutch of a spell-checker would have caught. If it was a similar bit of usage in
Re:Reality cares (Score:2)
"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.
I could *barely* care less (Score:1)
Almost. That one is short for "I could barely care less".
Re:Reality cares. (Score:3, Interesting)
The worst thing is when people say literally when they don't mean it.
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Re:Reality cares. (Score:3, Insightful)
- 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,
Re:ALOT IS NOT A FUCKING WORD (Score:1, Offtopic)
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Gots ta go!
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And the quest (Score:5, Funny)
Join us next month for the release of 2.7 with Loco Roco, and the following month for yet another crack.
Re:And the quest (Score:2, Informative)
Amazing... (Score:5, Insightful)
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)
Re:Amazing... (Score:5, Insightful)
That IS exactly DRM.
Otherwise, yes.
Re:Amazing... (Score:2)
Now you could extend DRM to mean "run unauthorized programs" but that's not really the norm. That's what "trusted computing" and all that crap is about.
Re:Amazing... (Score:2, Insightful)
The right that you're talking about doesn't exist. The copyright (one word) holder has control over publishing copies and public performance, and that's it. Any owner of a legal copy may USE his copy in any other way, with those two exceptions.
DRM is often attached to material which is also copyrighted, but the 'rights' being managed are rights that don't exist in copyright law.
Re:Amazing... (Score:2)
Re:Amazing... (Score:1)
DRM restricts the rights of the owner of something. That something may be copyrighted, or it might not be. The restriction may be imposed by the copyright holder, or it may be imposed by someone else. DRM does not enforce copyright, it imposes restrictions unconnected to copyright. Copyright deals with publication or public performance, neither of which are restricted by DRM.
When I buy a book at my local bookstore, I own that copy. It is mine
Re:Amazing... (Score:2)
However, the main difference is that I was talking about DRM from the producers pow and you are talking about it from the consumers point of view. Naturally shoplifting is independant of copyright. It has to do with material goods, copyright OTOH conserns itself with immaterial rights.
Personally I'd argue that without copyright (and the copyright/intellectual property thinking that goes with it) we wouldn't have DRM. The would be no point. You could also argue that DRM is not
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Sony's DRM limits the ability for you to use your own property. (Unless you're just renting the PSP, in which case Sony can do whatever they want. Of course, you could sue them for breach of contract if they said you could do something that you can't. If you don't like the PSP's DRM, though, why not just not buy one!? Let Sony go out of business.)
Re:Amazing... (Score:2)
ln -d (to hard link a directory) won't work on Linux even as root.
Re:Amazing... (Score:2)
Some (Stallman) call it "Restriction Management" but those people are the minority.
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I'm sure sony would love to know if people out there would be interested in deving for the PS3...
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Yes but few people care about the PSP's meager game offerings, I was talking about throwing all kinds of emulators and hundreds of ROMs on there. Sony doesn't want that since that means people don't buy PSP games and Nintendo even used a patent to fight handheld emulators because they don't want people buying their competitor's system to play illegal copies of their games.
Re:Amazing... (Score:2)
Kind of like emulators for PCs. So should Windows try and keep me from running Snes9x?
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Now that it's been made clear Sony is going to make it a bastard to have homebrew games/etc, I imagine people who want to do said thing won't buy a PSP. They'll buy a GP2X (or whatever it's called).
Just because you run NES games on your PSP doesn't mean you're not buying PSP games. Watch Sony make it so that new games won't run on 1.5 anymore, if they haven't already. T
Re:Amazing... (Score:1)
AFAIK the Sony game division did make money in the past but Nintendo's strategy of "profit everywhere" resulted in Nintendo having twice SCE's profits. Of course I expect Nintendo is still selling stuff cheaper than they
Re:Amazing... (Score:2)
I think the main reason homebrewers are buying the PSP is because of the popularity; I hadn't even heard about the GP2X outside of a mention in Wired until recently, and then only on Slashdot or from the guy I know who bought a PSP primarily to run old system emulators on. The PSP is capable, and it's out the
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Oh and we still purchase games for it too (but no way am I buying a UMD movie
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1: Cool factor. No one else around here will have one
2: Its open and runs linux, +1 cool factor
3: The only thing I do with my ipod is plug my head phone adapter into my stereo in my car.. this will do the same
4: It will do more than my ipod with less hacking and costs less.
Re:Amazing... (Score:2)
This isn't the site I originally remember, but its the same device.
Software for the GP2X (Score:5, Informative)
There are plenty of emulators, freeware games and utilities. There is also stuff for the previous-generation GP32.
Re:Software for the GP2X (Score:1)
mp3:
"The GP32 can play many MP3s as long as they are renamed to 8.3 characters,"
"bitrate is limited to around 128/192 kbps"
"No VBR support"
divx:
2 available..
moviepark: "supports 10 frames per second"
GPDivX "no sound"
Plus a read of the emulator support reveals them to be buggy, slow and incomplete... certainly none are release quality yet.
TBH I'll look again in a couple of years when they have a product worth buying.
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Re:Software for the GP2X (Score:2)
Depending on the game, YMMV. Don't miss gpfce (NES emu) either.
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Wow?!!? (Score:2)
Downgrader? A better word! (Score:4, Insightful)
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ROLLBACK OR REVERSION... (Score:2)
Re:Downgrader? A better word! (Score:3, Informative)
1.5 Didn't have the web browser that the later versions have. There are some other things too, like I think Sony added an RSS readers.
In this case, it is a downgrade.
Re:Downgrader? A better word! (Score:3, Informative)
Going back to 1.5 doesn't mean you lose all those features anymore.
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Re:Downgrader? A better word! (Score:1)
Down grade.
Other than the lack of homebrew, Sony does introduce things into the firmware that make the thing more useful.
Downgrading is an upgrade (Score:1)
Out of curiosity . . . (Score:1)
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Personally (Score:3, Interesting)
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Also interesting to note is that recently sony/rockster have been releasing a patched version of GTA that stops the edison carter exploit, so buy second hand
Minors (Score:2)
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.
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Slashdot Duped by the QJ Network (Score:5, Informative)
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Filling up 32 MB??? (Score:2)
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 writ
Re:Filling up 32 MB??? (Score:4, Informative)
The logs were there purely to figure out where things went wrong; nobody expected this version to work.
What has digg got against qj.net? (Score:2)
Re:What has digg got against qj.net? (Score:2, Funny)
What has digg got to do with slashdot? (Score:1)
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?
This is great... (Score:1)
So glad I got rid of my PSP (Score:4, Interesting)
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 am so glad this is hurting Sony! (Score:1)
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
Re:I am so glad this is hurting Sony! (Score:2)
One could argue that they haven't turned out a decent games system since the Walkman with LCD.
The PS1 wasn't a decent games system. It was a mediocre games system with a hacked-together controller and crappy build quality that just happened to get lucky (mainly because its competitors were generally even worse - CD-i anyone?) and subsequently got a fair amount of great games.
Music Please (Score:2)
another type of slashdot effect... (Score:1, Insightful)
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 bein
Re:another type of slashdot effect... (Score:1)
Jesus man, calm down! Take a Xanax or something!
32MB of logs? (Score:2)
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But really, that seems like a lot of log for this. I mean how big is the FW even?
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