Working PSP downgrader from 2.0 to 1.50 released

[slycat]

Thanks to the lovely hacker people, using this guide I've been able to downgrade my PSP from 2.0 firmware to 1.50.  Any of the versions of the firmware higher than 1.50 can't run any of the wonderful emulators and homebrew things.  When I was on 1.51, they hacked 1.50.  They said hacking 1.51 would be impossible so I upgraded to 2.0 to get the new browser and foo.  However, now the clever buggers have figured out a workaround, so I've now got the old 1.50 on my PSP and can finally play Megadrive games and Day of the Tentacle with speech and stuff using ScummVM.  It's really neat.  The only downside to it all is that I can't play Burnout with the 1.50 firmware.  I can upgrade to play the game and downgrade again to play the emulators but it's a lot of hassle.  Maybe they will find a way to just play the emulators in the 2.0 firmware now they have passed this milestone.

I love doing this kinda thing in running hacks on things that weren't supposed to be hacked.  I did it with my Xbox so I could play videos over the network using XBMC and play import games, I did it with my MP3 player so it added features the makers couldn't impliment and now I've done it with the PSP.  Very geeky, I know, but I enjoy doing it :)

Comments

[clawz-skunk.livejournal.com]

It's not rather suprising a question when you bear in mind that many old games copyrights are now outdated and some of the companies have even gone out of business. That would normally end up in the code becoming public domain?

If you add to this that there are already many freeware versions of games listed on the ScummVM website, there may be more than I'm not aware of... Hence the question...