http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/tech/80 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:27:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/tech/80#comment-311 Plutinosoft » Blog Archive » PSP hackers rule Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:33:00 +0000 http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/?p=80#comment-311 [...] A while back, I had blogged about how it was possible to downgrade the PSP firmware. Now why would you want to do that? Well, the v1.5 firmware is the only firmware that permits running “homebrew” applications on the PSP without restrictions. Sony soon after realizing that, started to release firmware updates with security that would block such features. To achieve wide adoption, Sony would require game publishers to force people to upgrade their firmware (with an updater on the UMD) before they could the game. So you see the dilemna. [...] [...] A while back, I had blogged about how it was possible to downgrade the PSP firmware. Now why would you want to do that? Well, the v1.5 firmware is the only firmware that permits running “homebrew” applications on the PSP without restrictions. Sony soon after realizing that, started to release firmware updates with security that would block such features. To achieve wide adoption, Sony would require game publishers to force people to upgrade their firmware (with an updater on the UMD) before they could the game. So you see the dilemna. [...]

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