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ToXikFB
on 2006-01-27 13:27 [#01828541]
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LAZY_YAY
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gl0tch
from www.gl0tch.com   on 2006-01-28 13:07 [#01829155]
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This stuff still makes me wary. From the look of the spreadsheet on Fanjita's site, I have no idea what is going on, or how to begin to make this homebrew work on my PSP, let alone doing it on a Mac.
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dave_g
from United Kingdom on 2006-01-29 05:34 [#01829494]
Points: 3372 Status: Lurker | Followup to gl0tch: #01829155
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yes i am wary too, but since I have the 2.6 OS it won't work for me. Also you need to buy GTA:LCS to use the hack, so I have to spend £35 too!
It looks like you replace the saved game data on the memory stick duo with some hacked code which causes the game to go wrong and allows you to execute code.
I wouldn't get involved with this yet. I would wait until there is an EBOOT loader which has some form of protection for the flash memory which holds the OS. nasty people have written homebrew to overrite the flash and this makes the psp unbootable i.e. bricked. A version of EBOOT which stops writes to flash is planned I think.
Sony should just step up and release a version of firmware which has a two tier system so that people can write homebrew but it cannot interfere with running games. Of course homebrew is bad for Sony because they make their money out of the games (the price of the PSP is less than the cost of the bits), if people make free games Sony looses money.
This also means that Sony will keep the UMD format closed. Just think of betamax and minidisk and ATRAC, Sony will keep it a closed format so only they can make money off it, which is why I like the idea of homebrew. I would trust the website linked to above, but be wary of others.
It's not like the PSP is a PC and can be completely started again with a boot disk. If the flash is corrupted it's game over. A real oversight by Sony.
It should have an inbuilt system which can look for new firmware on the memory stick and offer to use that instead of flash if it is detected and overwrite the flash.
The current system requires the flash firmware to boot so you can select memory upgrade from the options, very sloppy, but typical Sony.
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