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It's simple. It's effective but it's possibly a bit dodgy...
Downgrading your PSP to firmware 1.5 is done for one of several reasons:
1.You want to play emulators and homebrew (free and legal) games.
2.You want to play pirate games (and I don't mean the Jolly Roger type)
Yes, you can do both and games are pretty easy to come by, but my interest was in the first section, especially playing the Megadrive games i still have gathering dust, but on a portable system.
Downgrading took 5 minutes with no problems. Once this was done it only took another few minutes to install the emulators and get them running.
The Snes emulator was a bit slow, disappointing actually, but the Megadrive was great.
However, I soon got bored and now my PSP is back to 'normal' at firmware 2.0. It was a good experiment though.
Sony have, of course, fought back now with firmware 2.01 which takes away the loophole used to downgrade. There will be ways around this, but if you do want to try it, don't upgrade for now...
Downgrading your PSP to firmware 1.5 is done for one of several reasons:
1.You want to play emulators and homebrew (free and legal) games.
2.You want to play pirate games (and I don't mean the Jolly Roger type)
Yes, you can do both and games are pretty easy to come by, but my interest was in the first section, especially playing the Megadrive games i still have gathering dust, but on a portable system.
Downgrading took 5 minutes with no problems. Once this was done it only took another few minutes to install the emulators and get them running.
The Snes emulator was a bit slow, disappointing actually, but the Megadrive was great.
However, I soon got bored and now my PSP is back to 'normal' at firmware 2.0. It was a good experiment though.
Sony have, of course, fought back now with firmware 2.01 which takes away the loophole used to downgrade. There will be ways around this, but if you do want to try it, don't upgrade for now...
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pb wrote:
> gr13ve wrote:
> I wanna try out the emulators. How do you go about downgrading? Will
> they work on version 1.52 or is it specifically version 1.5?
>
> The emulators will only work on 1.0 and 1.5 - to downgrade you'll
> need to find the files and follow some decent instructions, but be
> warned, there's the infamous virus out there that has the same name
> as one of the files you will need.
>
> I recommend
> [URL]http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000687060851[/URL]
>
> and yes, you can trust the links on that site to the files you will
> need. I've tested them and they work.
>
> Again, don't forget that if you do it wrong you could end up with an
> expensive useless piece of plastic instead of a PSP...
Oh God, the amount of times I screamed "I've bricked it" when doing using the proper downgrader...
T'was scary, but worked, yay.
> gr13ve wrote:
> I wanna try out the emulators. How do you go about downgrading? Will
> they work on version 1.52 or is it specifically version 1.5?
>
> The emulators will only work on 1.0 and 1.5 - to downgrade you'll
> need to find the files and follow some decent instructions, but be
> warned, there's the infamous virus out there that has the same name
> as one of the files you will need.
>
> I recommend
> [URL]http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000687060851[/URL]
>
> and yes, you can trust the links on that site to the files you will
> need. I've tested them and they work.
>
> Again, don't forget that if you do it wrong you could end up with an
> expensive useless piece of plastic instead of a PSP...
Oh God, the amount of times I screamed "I've bricked it" when doing using the proper downgrader...
T'was scary, but worked, yay.
gr13ve wrote:
> I wanna try out the emulators. How do you go about downgrading? Will
> they work on version 1.52 or is it specifically version 1.5?
The emulators will only work on 1.0 and 1.5 - to downgrade you'll need to find the files and follow some decent instructions, but be warned, there's the infamous virus out there that has the same name as one of the files you will need.
I recommend [URL]http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000687060851[/URL]
and yes, you can trust the links on that site to the files you will need. I've tested them and they work.
Again, don't forget that if you do it wrong you could end up with an expensive useless piece of plastic instead of a PSP...
> I wanna try out the emulators. How do you go about downgrading? Will
> they work on version 1.52 or is it specifically version 1.5?
The emulators will only work on 1.0 and 1.5 - to downgrade you'll need to find the files and follow some decent instructions, but be warned, there's the infamous virus out there that has the same name as one of the files you will need.
I recommend [URL]http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000687060851[/URL]
and yes, you can trust the links on that site to the files you will need. I've tested them and they work.
Again, don't forget that if you do it wrong you could end up with an expensive useless piece of plastic instead of a PSP...
I wanna try out the emulators. How do you go about downgrading? Will they work on version 1.52 or is it specifically version 1.5?
Hmmmm, can't think of any Megadrive RPG's, but mega-lo-mania so yay! :D
Hedfix wrote:
> Slow as in 'being playable' or are you being cheeky? :D
The first, but probably a bit of the last too... :D
They're not so processor intensive, graphically, is what I really meant. Still, the megadrive games are worth playing in themselves.
> Slow as in 'being playable' or are you being cheeky? :D
The first, but probably a bit of the last too... :D
They're not so processor intensive, graphically, is what I really meant. Still, the megadrive games are worth playing in themselves.
pb wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> Some nice SNES RPG's would suit me fine on a handheld.
>
> They'd be slow enough to be suitable on the PSP and don't use any
> fancy mode7 graphics...
Slow as in 'being playable' or are you being cheeky? :D
> Hedfix wrote:
> Some nice SNES RPG's would suit me fine on a handheld.
>
> They'd be slow enough to be suitable on the PSP and don't use any
> fancy mode7 graphics...
Slow as in 'being playable' or are you being cheeky? :D
Hedfix wrote:
> Some nice SNES RPG's would suit me fine on a handheld.
They'd be slow enough to be suitable on the PSP and don't use any fancy mode7 graphics...
> Some nice SNES RPG's would suit me fine on a handheld.
They'd be slow enough to be suitable on the PSP and don't use any fancy mode7 graphics...
I've barely played any SNES games.
Some nice SNES RPG's would suit me fine on a handheld.
Some nice SNES RPG's would suit me fine on a handheld.
pb wrote:
> However, I soon got bored and now my PSP is back to 'normal' at
> firmware 2.0.
As I've always said, retro games are much better in fond rememrance than when you actually go back and play them.
> However, I soon got bored and now my PSP is back to 'normal' at
> firmware 2.0.
As I've always said, retro games are much better in fond rememrance than when you actually go back and play them.
Damn, I really fancied a portable SNES.
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