Disaster Alert Warning From PSP Wiki/Nem

[wraggster]

A disaster alert has been posted on the PSP Wiki website and it seems to originate from Nem who youll know is the coder who released the Hello World demo, heres a link to Nems article : <a href="http://anon.ug.to/sec/pw/?DisasterAlert" target="_blank" >Disaster Alert</a>, heres the google translation : <a href="http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=ja%7Cen&u=http://anon.ug.to/sec/pw/%3FDisasterAlert&prev=/language_tools" target="_blank" >Disaster Alert English Translation.</a>

Smiths (efnet #emuholic) informed me that it seems that the firmware can be written to and extreme caution must now be took with new PSP Homebrew/Emulators if possible use the PSPE emulator to verify.

Thanks to Smiths for his interpretation and be wary of all future releases.

[leggy]

It just goes to show how much care is to be taken by people who aren't 100% sure of what they are doing otherwise they could end up with a very expensive paperweight!!

[Spark]

So to simplify, this basically means that many of the homebrew apps being used at the moment by hundreds of 1.0 users can in fact, completely screw up the firmware ?

[Clare]

So to simplify, this basically means that many of the homebrew apps being used at the moment by hundreds of 1.0 users can in fact, completely screw up the firmware ?

No, what He's saying is that you should be careful of what you run from your memory stick. If you're a bit dubious of it, then don't run it.

As with firmware on all devices, PSPs, GP32s and even your PC. You can end up with a dead system if you flash it with the wrong or bad version.

Also it's possible that some mallicious idiot who has cracked the SDK to produce something, pass it off as a game or emu, that writes rubbish like FFFs to your firmware killing your PSP.

So be sure you know what you're running before launching anything like EBOOT.PBP from your memory stick.