Sony PSP 1.50 Swap Trick 176
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.
Waste of effort (Score:4, Insightful)
This is stupid. All that creativity could be used for some cool apps.
Swap memory sticks? (Score:4, Insightful)
Nice work on finding this flaw though, but.. I'll wait until something else comes out that will let me run a homebrew app off of the same memory stick on 1.5*
Note also that Sony will probably be requiring firmware updates with future games, so unless you want to dedicate your PSP to homebrew, you're kinda outta luck until a non-'swaploit' comes out.
We got to find a way to control the firmware on the PSP before much is accomplished.. Reflashing to 1.00 on US units would make homebrew a reality, but then there is the game firmware update issue. To solve this, maybe someone could create a 'grub'/'lilo' type system that could boot firmware 1.00 or 1.5+.
Clarification (Score:4, Insightful)
THIS ONLY WORKS WITH 1.50 PSP'S ONLY!!!
NO EXCEPTIONS, no 1.51 no 1.52
Another thing, on your 2nd memory card it will be reported as "corrupted data" for this exploit to work. There is nothing wrong with the file that's on the 2nd Memory Stick. All of this is listed on the developer's site or in the "tutorial" in the archived files.
Please for the love of bob, give these guys props. I haven't seen any of you guys that are whining give anything to the psp scene besides "we want we want we want". It is being worked on and the hardware will be hacked. As everything else goes this will take a while it's not going to happen over night.
I personally would like to thank all those involved in this release. It sets the grounds for future exploits 1.5x. . ect.
Please READ before posting and saying something doesn't work or you think it sucks for whatever reason.
The point is they worked around it so mission successful.
Re:In other news.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Waste of effort (Score:3, Insightful)
A perfect use for memory stick select? (Score:4, Insightful)
This actually sounds like the one case where that might be preferable to having a regular memory stick.
Re: just make master keys... (Score:3, Insightful)
Database of games which force firmware upgrades? (Score:2, Insightful)
Which platform? (Score:4, Insightful)
Spend your time making cool apps for an open platform instead.
Which open handheld platform with decent game controls is sold at retail in the United States?