PSP Firmware Broken - Emulation for All

ZiakII writes "Endgadget is reporting that the PSP firmware 1.50 has been broken." From the article: "a group called PsP-Dev have apparently confirmed successful a homebrew bootstrap on 1.50 (no word on 1.51 or 1.52). What's that mean for the indie developer/emulation/warez communities? Well, pretty much the same as before--use your hardware the way you want it. For SNES emulation, that is. Obviously." Tom's Hardware has the story as well.

One would think...

[SoulMaster]

...that one of these days, a manufacturer would figure out that the best part of consoles/handhelds is that they are actually very versitile pieces of hardware. Personally, I think that the company that figures this out, and embraces it (by releasing all of the specs and shipping/supporting mods) will not only win the support of the modder community at large, but will also win the console war. Take TiVo as an example, they don't officially support mods to thier box, but they have forums for the mods built right in to the official TiVo Bulletin Board. People love TiVo, and (before cable company DVRs) won the DVR war, hands down. I could be way off on this, but it just seems to make sense.

You mean like a GBA and N-Gage?

[Jagasian]

PSP fanboys are going nuts over the fact that the PSP can emulate SNES games. Give me a break. The GBA and N-Gage have been able to do this for a while now, in addition to being able to emulate other classic consoles. But I guess the PSP still has hype. Eventually people will realize that it doesn't make for a practical portable, the hype will die down, and they will release that if they just play it around the house, then maybe they should just play their full sized console on a full sized TV.

Re:One would think...

[SScorpio]

Do you mean something like the GP32 [lik-sang.com]. Sadly you can only import it and good luck on find one. But it was a cool handheld with tons of emulators and everything.

Re:So PSP fans are theives, what else is new?

[EGSonikku]

News for ya, if you use a NES emu on the GBA or DS, your just as much of a thief. Nintendo won't care what hardware your running it on, only that you stole the ROM.