Swapless PSP Exploit Released

YDKCooKiE writes "According to psphacker.com, an updated exploit for PSP 1.5 has been released, allowing PSP 1.5 users to play homebrew software without requiring the swap trick."

Nothing new...move along.

[mcho]

This was discussed in the 10th espisode of This Week in Tech [www.twit.tv].

...and you should be able to hack anything you own -- it's yours.

Exploit?

[moz25]

I'm not so sure the term "exploit" is the appropriate one. It's more often associates with programs with malicious intent or gaining higher privileges on another person's system. Surely, making full use of the hardware you own is not "exploiting" it?

Re:Exploit?

[GigsVT]

Only to people that buy crippled hardware for some stupid reason, and then want to "hack" into their own stuff.

Re:Nothing new...move along.

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you sure you *own* it ? More-and-more stuff comes with all kinds of EULA's, of which one-or-the-other could contain that you own the paper the EULA is printed on, but everything else is (some sort of) *rented*, forbidding you to even put a sticker on the casing on a device, as you than violate the companies design ...

You think you *own* the thing (let alone the software), even enough to be permitted to do *anything* with it ? Are you *sure* ? I'm not ...

Technical Details

[hansendc]

Has anyone seen any details about how these hacks work, or what they exploit? I remember reading in gritty detail about the xbox font hacks, but I haven't seen any technical details on the PSP hacking.

Re:Time

[mesach]

As much as people think that this is ONLY for pirating psp games, getting mame on the psp is the one thing that is keeping me from owning one. As soon as a good mame emulator for the psp is out, im all over it. In addition to using normal psp games.

Re:Time

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

They're usually sold in collections, either Greatest Hits or Arcade Classics. Copyright infringement is copyright infringement. If my computer doesn't have a cdrom drive, is it not piracy to download music/games/apps/movies in a format my computer can play because they don't sell it like that?
It might be more ethical to you, but that doesn't matter, the only person whos ethical views matter are those who produce the content and those who write the laws.

Re:Hehe...

[GTRacer]

Commercial games still won't play...You can't run pirated stuff

Ummm...you can't play pirated PSP UMD's (yet) but the main focus of these exploits is to allow users to run code from memory stick and not UMD.

Guess what everyone wants to run. ROMs. Lots of ROMs. Genesis, NeoGeo, SNES, Gameboy, etc. And I bet a majority of those ROMs are "unauthorised copies".

GTRacer
- Can't download PSMame at work