Yet Another PSP Firmware Hacking Guide--Slim!

One of the topics discussed at our roundtable with Sony at E3 (besides their dislike for paying for features and their 20/20 hindsight as to what went wrong with the PS3's development) was piracy. Piracy was half the reason SCEA's Jack Tretton gave to why the PSP is not living up to its promise as a powerhouse portable console, with the other half being the straight-shooting admission that PSP owners didn't want to pay for ports of PS2 games. So what can you loyal fans do when developers aren't putting out the type of content worth playing? Homebrew, the magical world of quasi-legal third-party PSP software including web apps, radio apps, Super Nintendo/NES emulators and ripped PS1 games. I'm going to show you how to get your PSP to do all this and more.

Well it can't really be piracy if you actually own the SNES games to begin with, right?

Without jumping into that discussion, I have a stack of PS1 games that I can't wait to play through again. I can only hope that Final Fantasy Tactics, which I now own three copies of, works better as a ROM than as the stupid--but with undeniably pretty cutscenes--PSP version. It being dumbed down and all. And "not being able to find good PS1 games" is about the weakest excuse for piracy ever. I mean, at least make something up about unnatural love between you and jewel cases. That's gross, but then people will probably condone it just to not hear any details.

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1 - Posted by Cameron on August 12, 2008 - 1:56 am

I am sooo tempted to try this out. I am on the verge of feeding my PSP to the Craigslist wolves, but I think this might breathe some life back into my (currently nonexistent) gaming life. I just spent an entire evening talking to a bud about the games of yesteryear. Night Trap? Master Blaster? (The Fantastic Music of) Sonic 2? X-Men for Genesis? I need to get me one of those batteries post haste.

2 - Posted by Kurtis on August 13, 2008 - 11:52 am

Ha. Master Blaster... I used to play that so much. That game was hard.

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