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my PSP. I want to love it and squeeze it and cuddle it and..
Well, anyway. Knocked it up to firmware 3.03 on Thursday in anticipation of my copy of Liberty City Stories arriving from Gamefly the following day. Was out all day then, but when I arrived home in the early AM I found it waiting. I'd been hoping and crossing my fingers that the version of LCS they'd sent me would be the unpatched version with the 2.00 firmware updater that's needed to downgrade v3.03 firmware PSPs (and lower, but you have to update to 3.03 as the first step then). And lo and behold, it was. Well, I'm sure as hell using Keep It on this sucker.
So anyway, with bated breath I went and copied over the downgrader files onto my PSP, waited for the battery to charge sufficiently, and then ran the downgrader. Having encountered more than a few horrific tales of "bricking" the PSP by messing with the firmware, I was intensely worried. But I needn't have been. Not only did the downgrade to 1.50 go extremely smoothly, but the subsequent upgrade to DarkAlex's v3.40OE A firmware was likewise a breeze. So my PSP is now running totally up-to-date custom firmware with several handy additional options, and compatibility with: regular UMD games and movies, homebrew software including emulators (the one I'm excited about at the moment is the GBA emulator, but I daresay Genesis, SNES, and perhaps N64 emulation will all wind up on my memory stick sooner or later.), the official Sony Playstation Store PSX emulated titles (and any PS1 backup image you care to convert to mimic that format...although compatibility is not yet 100%), and backup UMDs.
This means with my 2GB memory stick I can have a dozen or more games and other entertainment options all in a single device in my pocket. It's pretty awesome. The downside is that the PSP's battery life is just not that impressive. I've been mostly running it hooked to AC current. But of course most of the things I can do with it are primarily impressive when taken on the go. Dilemmas dilemmas.
my PSP. I want to love it and squeeze it and cuddle it and..
Well, anyway. Knocked it up to firmware 3.03 on Thursday in anticipation of my copy of Liberty City Stories arriving from Gamefly the following day. Was out all day then, but when I arrived home in the early AM I found it waiting. I'd been hoping and crossing my fingers that the version of LCS they'd sent me would be the unpatched version with the 2.00 firmware updater that's needed to downgrade v3.03 firmware PSPs (and lower, but you have to update to 3.03 as the first step then). And lo and behold, it was. Well, I'm sure as hell using Keep It on this sucker.
So anyway, with bated breath I went and copied over the downgrader files onto my PSP, waited for the battery to charge sufficiently, and then ran the downgrader. Having encountered more than a few horrific tales of "bricking" the PSP by messing with the firmware, I was intensely worried. But I needn't have been. Not only did the downgrade to 1.50 go extremely smoothly, but the subsequent upgrade to DarkAlex's v3.40OE A firmware was likewise a breeze. So my PSP is now running totally up-to-date custom firmware with several handy additional options, and compatibility with: regular UMD games and movies, homebrew software including emulators (the one I'm excited about at the moment is the GBA emulator, but I daresay Genesis, SNES, and perhaps N64 emulation will all wind up on my memory stick sooner or later.), the official Sony Playstation Store PSX emulated titles (and any PS1 backup image you care to convert to mimic that format...although compatibility is not yet 100%), and backup UMDs.
This means with my 2GB memory stick I can have a dozen or more games and other entertainment options all in a single device in my pocket. It's pretty awesome. The downside is that the PSP's battery life is just not that impressive. I've been mostly running it hooked to AC current. But of course most of the things I can do with it are primarily impressive when taken on the go. Dilemmas dilemmas.
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My long-winded response here sort of says what I was thinking, but if there's anything you want to see me write about, I'd love to check it out. I prefer Science-Fiction that straddles boundries, meaning that I'm more of a JG Ballard guy than an Asimov, though I grew up on the latter.