THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: demi on August 22, 2007, 11:24:40 PM
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That's right. Straight off the press of Team C+D with the likes of the recently retired Dark_Alex, ALL PSPs are now downgradable from any firmware, including any firmware Sony releases in the future.
This software release that doesn't use any copyrighted code from Sony turns your battery pack into the Sony service battery pack that they use to unbrick and downgrade PSPs when you ship them off to repair.
After setting it up (you will require a friend with a homebrew enabled PSP) you can use the memory stick and battery pack to make your bricked PSP enter 'service mode', you will also be able to downgrade your PSP.
This is a HUGE announcement. It means PSPs can be unbricked and they can all be downgraded. Now the only thing remaining is to see if Sony makes a hardware revision for the PSP Slim that stops this, if not, Sony just lost the homebrew fight.
Originally Posted by Dark_Alex:
Yeah, the "Service Mode".
This has been the work of the alliance of a lot of developers externally known as "C+D": Nem, joek, Fanjita, Chris, jim, psp250, ditlew, Skylark, Dark_AleX, mathieulh, tyranid, adrahil and Booster.
The battery lets to downgrade any firmware version (including those that Sony releases in the future), and to unbrick bricked psp's (whatever bricked by software psp, not only the ones bricked by that distinguished mentally-challenged fellow of Serafin), in all current hardware. Of course, we cannot be sure about future hardware, but the Firmware Update game has finally come to the end for all current psp's.
:hyper :hyper :hyper
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I thought that dude "retired"?
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I thought that dude "retired"?
attention whoring i think
he munchausen by proxy'd the psp scene
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Buy me one.
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I thought that dude "retired"?
attention whoring i think
he munchausen by proxy'd the psp scene
Nice reference.
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Can anyone hook me up with Lumines? It doesn't even seem to be available online anymore. I saw that game everywhere in Japan/Hong Kong for $5 used. I would have picked up one too if I hadn't already played it during my 1st purchase of a PSP.
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ok so does this mean we can actually do official sony firmware upgrades and still keep the homebrew functionality? i'm a little confused on how this helps us besides being able to downgrade or hack PSPs for homebrew.
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ok so does this mean we can actually do official sony firmware upgrades and still keep the homebrew functionality? i'm a little confused on how this helps us besides being able to downgrade or hack PSPs for homebrew.
yup, I'm pretty sure that you can have both new featues and keep homebrew/pirating functions. I hope they crack another title though. Lumines is impossible to find.
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ok so does this mean we can actually do official sony firmware upgrades and still keep the homebrew functionality? i'm a little confused on how this helps us besides being able to downgrade or hack PSPs for homebrew.
No, it means you can unbrick PSPs if you fuck up, and you can downgrade ANY firmware without any Lumines or tricks.
Custom Firmwares have already allowed you the ability of official firmwares + homebrew
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ok so does this mean we can actually do official sony firmware upgrades and still keep the homebrew functionality? i'm a little confused on how this helps us besides being able to downgrade or hack PSPs for homebrew.
No, it means you can unbrick PSPs if you fuck up, and you can downgrade ANY firmware without any Lumines or tricks.
Custom Firmwares have already allowed you the ability of official firmwares + homebrew
:drool
So all you need is someone whose PSP is already hacked? But I think my friend has one of those poorly hacked PSPs though 'cause he had that brightness bug and some other quirks. Is there a way to fix those bugs after you transfer the custom firmware to a unhacked psp?