Five reasons to own a PSP

**carlitx** · January 2nd, 2007, 01:14

oooooooooooooh porn! lol

**akachan** · January 2nd, 2007, 01:44

I do have a question. If you are able to get hold of a PSP with an old firmware (lets say 1.5), and you install the homebrew, can you:

- surf the internet (with v1.5)? wirelessly?

- play the newer games, original umd versions (loco roco, vice city)? i´ve heard that the newer games (like locoroco) install the new firmware the moment you boot it up... thus upgrading it to the current firmware, THUS 'killing' its homebrew capability

these doubts have kept me from buying a psp... anyone can help?

**pt9087** · January 2nd, 2007, 02:07

Originally Posted by akachan

I do have a question. If you are able to get hold of a PSP with an old firmware (lets say 1.5), and you install the homebrew, can you:

- surf the internet (with v1.5)? wirelessly?

- play the newer games, original umd versions (loco roco, vice city)? i´ve heard that the newer games (like locoroco) install the new firmware the moment you boot it up... thus upgrading it to the current firmware, THUS 'killing' its homebrew capability

these doubts have kept me from buying a psp... anyone can help?

Surf the internet... yes devhook

Play the newer games.... yes devhook

This thing you say about loco roco... i have loco roco and the game does not update my psp when i boot it up... were did you hear that

Or you can just get yourself 3.02 OE-B and do all of that stuff and even more

**wolfpack** · January 2nd, 2007, 02:10

yup, its definitly because of the porn

**Psyberjock** · January 2nd, 2007, 02:18

Originally Posted by akachan

I do have a question. If you are able to get hold of a PSP with an old firmware (lets say 1.5), and you install the homebrew, can you:

- surf the internet (with v1.5)? wirelessly?

After you get a 1.50, upgrade to 3.02 OE and you can do everything that a PSP can and could ever do.
Notice the OE next to 3.02. That means it's a custom firmware that uses 1.50 as a base but builds the 3.02 firmware on top of it. Thus negating the need for devhook, the need to reboot your PSP all the time, and removes the lack of firmware functionality from which Devhook currently suffers. (Think PSP emulator)

Originally Posted by akachan

- play the newer games, original umd versions (loco roco, vice city)? i´ve heard that the newer games (like locoroco) install the new firmware the moment you boot it up... thus upgrading it to the current firmware, THUS 'killing' its homebrew capability

these doubts have kept me from buying a psp... anyone can help?

When your PSP thinks it's a 3.02 but is secretly a 1.50 with all of 3.02's gadgets, you can play any game you want. (until it requires 3.03)

Oh, and nothing automatically updates. 3.02 OE can even prevent any updates from running accidentally. Of course if an update accidentally got pressed instead of a game you could just always turn the PSP off all the way and reboot before you confirmed any settings.

This short explanation of the awesomeness of 3.02 OE is brought to you by Carl's Jr.

**Veskgar** · January 2nd, 2007, 03:25

Originally Posted by Psyberjock

When your PSP thinks it's a 3.02 but is secretly a 1.50 with all of 3.02's gadgets, you can play any game you want. (until it requires 3.03)

Well great news guys! Dark_AleX has been seen posting about 3.03 OE-A custom firmware set to be released in a few days.

Yup, that's right. 3.03 baby!

**robocelot** · January 2nd, 2007, 04:05

Originally Posted by g00gy

but doesnt it say here that you can plkay sega cd and dracula X.
and besides if the psp can emulate PS1 and is powerfull enough to display ps2 like graphics surely there is a way isnt there?

I suspect the PSP shares more architecture with the PS1 than what was previously believed.

The emulator runs at perfect speed and full sound yet the processor is clocked at 233 mHz. It doesn't run PS1 games faster than a real PS1 can (no frameskipping, and possibly throttled), and is so compatable that nearly all games run on it, including PAL games for the most part. It's level of PS1 compatability is on par, if not better than the PS2 which is a faster and more powerful machine.

I could be wrong and perhaps the PS1 emulator is very tightly written and optimized assembler code, but Occam's Razor suggests that the simplest answer is the PSP was designed to be totally backwards compatable to the PS1 from the get go and Sony was holding onto that nugget as a future ace in the hole.

Everyone expected that the announced PS1 ports to the PSP would be a recompilation of the original PS1 source code or at worst a 'portulation' (meaning that some parts of the code are emulated and others are fudged to make the game work better on the PSP. This is not the case considering the speed and compatability with hacked PS1 ISO's. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if a detailed disassembly of the 'emulator' finds no emulation core at all.

A good interim test would be to take a very late 3rd party PS1 game that used a lot of undocumented hardware tricks and pushed the PS1 to it's limits. An emulator might not work so well under those circumstances but if the PSP is more like a 'PS1+' underneath then it should handle it just fine.

**mr.oddball** · January 2nd, 2007, 04:18

you know whats funny, i always go on the web browser and get porn (i got wifi at my house) and then like a week later i say "im sick of this $#@!, im done with porn, i dont need this on my psp!" and i delete all of it. and then like a month later i end up doin that whole process all over. :rofl: anybody else do that?

**yoshinatsu** · January 2nd, 2007, 04:43

Originally Posted by wraggster

via destructoid

no PSP owner should be without: Daxter, Virtua Tennis: World Tour, Loco Roco, OutRun 2006: Coast to Coast, Gitaroo Man Lives!, Gradius Collection, Power Stone Collection, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth, Lumines 1 and 2, Every Extend Extra, Gunpey, Ys: Ark of Naphistim, Tales of Eternia, Metal Gear Acid 1 and 2, Wipeout Pure, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror, Tekken: Dark Resurrection, the Grand Theft Auto games -- the list goes on.

1. Many of the games you mentioned are overrated games of the PSP, and suck, in my opinion (Daxter, Virtua Tennis: World Tour, Loco Roco, Gitaroo Man Lives!, Lumines 1 and 2, Every Extend Extra, Gunpey, Metal Gear Acid 1 and 2). There TOO many good PSP games you forgot to mention. I know you couldn't write 'em all, but this list is really NOT good for me. If I didn't own a PSP, I would be discouraged from the list you mentioned... And if I had a PSP (which I have) and these were the best games of the PSP, I'd sell it... Not to mention the "no PSP owner should be without those games" thing you said...

2. I don't consider Capcom as the leading company for good games on the PSP. If one company has to be praized for its games on the PSP, it's Bandai Namco Games.

No offence to wraggster, but this article 1.is not neutral, 2.sucks for me