Sony PSP 1.50 Swap Trick

Negroiso writes "It appears that the folks over at PSP-DEV have created a swap trick for your PSP 1.50 to play your homebrew applications. It requires two memory sticks to use. Please read the included tutorial on how to use the exploit properly." Here is the PSP 1.50 Exploit as well as website mirrors.

knock knock!

[Anonymous Coward]

Who's there?

Sony and the DMCA.. HAHA HA HAHAHAHA... *blank stare*

-Sj53

Re:Better Exploit

[urdine]

Try the old "swap trick" at your EB. If you're fast enough, there you go.

Still Waiting

[Keystroker]

This is nice and all but I'm waiting for the development of blank, writeable UMD disks. Anyone with me?

I got it to play Doom III

[Anonymous Coward]

I stuck a paperclip down the slot and shorted the damn thing out. The levels are particularly dark, but the load times are now instantaneous. I just can't seem to get the PSP to do anything else which is a bit of a downside.

Homebrew?

[LightningBolt!]

It appears that the folks over at PSP-DEV have created a swap trick for your PSP 1.50 to play your homebrew applications.

You misspelled "pirated".

just make master keys...

[Anonymous Coward]

"I don't enable CAR THEFTS, I just make master keys that people with lost car keys can use, and drop them in phone booths on MLK Blvd. If you want to use them for stealing cars, how is that my fault?"

They're pretty small

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd say go to a store and shove one up your ass.

same?

[Anonymous Coward]

http://games.slashdot.org/games/05/06/14/088242.sh tml?tid=207 [slashdot.org]

Re:Good news!... Kinda.

[insert cool name]

I was really excited about this, until I read that it's a swaploit

So you got excited over the "Sony PSP 1.50" part of the title, took a short rest then got all down after you'd chugged through the last couple of words?

It's kind of worrying though that it's considered normal to have to resort to some sort of hack to run the code you choose on a programmable device that you own.
Anyone ever wonder what the world would be like if we'd all grown up with BBC Micros, ZX Spectrums, Amigas etc that only ran code someone else had approved?

Freaking *Y&(*& GREAT !@

[MajorDick]

I bought a PSP, the DAY they hit the store, for no other reason than to hack into a websurfer for the couch, and for Pseudo PDA type handheld web based dev.
I have waited PATIENTLY for an exploit and began to loose interest, other than using the Wipeout Pure trick to surf the web.
I got so discouraged I let my kids play with it, 8 and 13 and it promptly got knocked off a table by my wife screen breaking,

Last night, (YUP Last Night) I took it apart to try and figure out an alternative screen interface for it, and TODAY This exploit is announced, while mine is in about 10k pieces.....GREAT .......day late and a dollar short...

Re:What does this thing do?

[88NoSoup4U88]

It turns it into a Nintendo DS.

Re:I got it to play Doom III

[b1t r0t]

Sounds like you need to install the flashlight hack. Just tape a flashlight to the back of your PSP and you're ready to rock!

Re:Waste of effort

[Threni]

> the PSP programmers waste their time trying to hack the PSP.

Yeah, just think, instead of wasting all that time hacking they could be playing games...

In other news... New Windows Hack!!

[dnaboy]

I was able to hack my WinXP box to run linux by using a second hard drive. It was actually quite easy.

1. Pull out the hard drive with WinXP (you should probably do this with the power off, but it's more fun with the power on)

2. Plug in a fresh new hard drive

3. Put in your Fedora install CDs and follow the prompts

4. Play homebrew linux apps on your hacked box (Profit!)

The best part is that if you ever need to use WinXP again, all you need to do is turn it off and swap the hard drives.

I realize this is merely a swap hack, but it's a start. Someday, I hope to be able to make it so I don't need to be pulling hard drives, but that could take til like 1995. We'll see

Re:They're pretty small

[zulux]

I'd say go to a store and shove one up your ass.

Don't do that!

Angry, your Yoda doll will make!