v3.50 PSP downgraded in China (with video)

[buildit92]

wait, im talking about we can acculy see it and put it on ours, and if it is, can someone send me the link.

[xcjzerox]

I will said this ones no more fw 4.00
and no more games thank you.. all of this dw
comon why don't you relise it when good game comes out

[Psyberjock]

I would have to say that he did use the official battery. Notice how he removes the battery door, puts in a memory stick, then quickly puts a battery into the PSP. Then when he starts it it begins some sort of checklist, which he is reluctant to show clearly.

Once it is all updated, he restarts the PSP and it is downgraded to 2.71. Most softdowns are to 1.50. No one really downgrades to 2.71 do they? 2.71 still requires some slightly tricky steps to get it to a custom firmware. If he was truly doing something in the realm of standard homebrew he wouldn't go to 2.71 and he wouldn't take the battery back out as soon as he booted some non-existent homebrew checklist.

These guys probably just shot themselves in the foot. Sony won't take kindly to having an official restore battery being used in such a way. If they truely had a homebrew version of the battery then they'd be safe, but considering it's China, I bet it's a stolen official one. But at the same time, it is China, I wonder what Sony can do?

[Veskgar]

The first thing that caught my eye was that they seemingly pulled out a brand new PSP (could have been staged, I know) and the PSP had 3.50 pre-installed from the SONY factory? I didn't think PSP's were even shipping with 3.40 yet, let alone 3.50. Are PSP's really starting to arrive with 3.50 firmware pre-installed?

the data has been released, and its not a meter of teh battery being released, it a mater of the battery being replicated

Yeah, I'm with you there. This comes from China lets not forget. If generic jigkick batteries are going to be replicated, it would not surprise me that they are being made in China.

I'm still hoping for a possible downgrader using the Lumines exploit, but for the right price, it would be nice to have a JigKick battery replica lying around.

[ish420ism]

I would have to say that he did use the official battery. Notice how he removes the battery door, puts in a memory stick, then quickly puts a battery into the PSP. Then when he starts it it begins some sort of checklist, which he is reluctant to show clearly.

These guys probably just shot themselves in the foot. Sony won't take kindly to having an official restore battery being used in such a way. If they truely had a homebrew version of the battery then they'd be safe, but considering it's China, I bet it's a stolen official one. But at the same time, it is China, I wonder what Sony can do?

I'm with Psyberjock on this. It seems to be an official Sony Firmware Restore Kit(SFRK). Wouldn't doubt sony in creating this, with the original designing of the psp. As for the visual deprivation of the other side of the psp screen, it is highly likely that there is a checklist process, maybe an identification of the SFRK, which would identify which factory carried it. I doubt many people coming across this thing anytime soon, if ever. So, No, sony is not loosing the war, nor are they engaged in any war, especially not with us, forum heads. It seems sony has a neat toy we all would like to have. Why not get our gears turning and figure out how to make our own. Without the original design.

P.S. BLAH BLAH BLAH:rofl:

[Buddy4point0]

awsome! i cant wait for the homebrew comunity to get ahold of that

[Thomly]

When he opens the box and gets the psp, you notice that the psp isn't new. If you start it up for the first time, he'll ask the date and language and stuff, and this psp doesn't...

[pibs]

nobody said it was a new psp.... might be refurbished or something its just a shop making money downgrading psp's sounds pretty reasonable.Knowing the huge black market over there the battery was most likely stolen.

[jonezybaby]

When he opens the box and gets the psp, you notice that the psp isn't new. If you start it up for the first time, he'll ask the date and language and stuff, and this psp doesn't...

i was going to say that but u beat me 2 it lol

[~~roach~~]

i dont care weather or not it was new, used, or hangin out his @$$. I just want to be able to downgrade from 3.50 without much trouble so i can play my nes roms as well as my psp games. is that to much to ask for