PSP Updates reports that wily cracksmith “Fanjita” has worked out how to break through the latest PSP firmware, version 2.60, and managed to get a copy of Tetris running in spite of Sony’s added security measures. The breakthrough is likely to be followed by more thorough cracks, which could potentially unlock the system to the same kind of versatility available to cracked 1.50-firmware PSPs.
The revelation (full details and files for which can be located on the PSP Updates website) comes just days after the same chap managed to break through the previous firmware, 2.50.
Both versions were thought fairly secure, after Sony closed holes that allowed inventive crackers to run their own programs on PSP hardware with version 2.00 software and even revert it to the much more malleable 1.50, which runs virtually anything thrown at it.
Then again, 2.00 was also supposed to be secure. As was 1.50. Indeed, Sony’s been engaged in a bit of a running battle with software crackers eager to use the portable to power console emulators and homemade software applications - Sony’s argument being that the potential for software piracy is too big to allow this sort of thing to go unchecked.
Indeed, full PSP games are widely available through newsgroups and “warez” sites, and can be loaded onto sizeable Memory Stick Duos - like the 1GB versions Sony’s been promoting heavily in the UK recently. Ironically though, quite a few PSP owners have argued that all they’re doing is transferring their own, legally owned PSP games to Memory Stick to take advantage of greatly reduced load times.
As is tradition, Sony can be expected to react by releasing new firmware for the PSP in the near future.
lol I won't update, I am pleased with 2.6 cracked
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Dont new games that come out FORCE you to update your firmware or they wont play?
You can upgrade to v2.0, then downgrade to v1.5 if you don't like it.
Yeah, good job team.. Imagine being able to play tetris.
lol shawners
only if you buy them..... yet another way sony forces people who want to use their hardware however they like to resort to software piracy.....Originally Posted by WE_DELIVER
it is truely sad that nowadays you are safer installing a warezed application than the legal copy, it used to be the other way around the warez copies being dangerous with rootkits and viruses, now warez copies from a reliable source are safer than ones with DRM
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Just got myself a psp with a 2gb memory stick. Looking forward to lots of tinkering.
I was gonna get it for that, but I dont know if its worth it.
Any of you that have one, do you think its worth getting it for what you can do with it?
So far I've heard of video playback, emulation, web browsing....anything else I'm missing?
It also show pictures, play music & games. It's like a multi-media device that plays games! :)
All Sony has to do is make sure their games are made to be at least 1.6GB and then it would be pointless for people to put pirated games on a 2GB memory card.The memory cards are expensive,it would be cheaper to buy the games.
Emulators for older games aren't going to hurt their profits any.
They pulled that shit on the dreamcast, so release groups simply recoded videos, audio and cutscenes at a lower bitrate or removed them completely in order to shave 20-40% off the total size (going from 900+mb to under 700). cdrips of gta3 on the ps2 are the same way, all music stations linked to one and the audio from the others removed.
And if they made it so the game itself was huge... I could see release groups finding a way to split the game into two halves.
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True,but one huge difference is the price of media.cdr's are cheap, memory cards aren't.If they do end up splitting them it would still be expensive and/or a pain in the ass(swapping one game off the memoy card for another).
thanks to release groups though, I have a huge collection of dreamcast games.
im strongly considering getting a psp soon, and i was wondering how many of you have run the snes emulator on it? im wanting to know how well it works and how good the compatibility is. most psp games dont interest me too much, but the home-brew stuff looks to be really cool
The only thing i can think of besides buying a 100 memory sticks to hold games and movies is to have a laptop with you that has it on the hard drive and can transfer it to the memory card. If your into going town to town and business traveling and such, wont be worth it for school or any other job that you dont have some time on your hands.
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