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scat3710
October 10th, 2005, 22:38
Hello, i'm a new poster here, and I am sorry if i am posting this topic in the wrong forum.

I am a Die hard Grand Theft Auto fan and I am a Die hard old school game player on my PSP. I heard that to play GTA we must upgrade to firmware 2.0. I have two memory cards and was wondering if it's possible to upgrade to firmware 2.0 on one of my memory cards and play grand theft auto (liberty city stories). And not upgrade the 2nd memory card and continue to play roms.

Does anyone have experience with this? Is it at all possible.

Any information will be greatly apreciated.
pspthankyou
October 10th, 2005, 22:45
it has nothing to do with the memcard, as the firmware is inside the psp
NaivetyLost
October 11th, 2005, 00:04
Is there any way to play the old 2D GTA on our PSP's?
Skye
October 11th, 2005, 00:49
No, there is no playstation emulator, nor some port of the pc version.
IndianCheese
October 11th, 2005, 01:16
No, there is no playstation emulator, nor some port of the pc version.

There is a PlayStation emulator for the PSP.

http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/pspsone.shtml

Don't speak what you don't know.
Skye
October 11th, 2005, 02:13
I'm sorry, I should have said there is no viable playstation emulator.
pspthankyou
October 11th, 2005, 11:33
the only way to play gta.lcs and play roms is to use a version changer that fakes your your 1.5 into 2.01(so your actually using 1.5 but gta.lcs thinks you have 2.01)
parabolee
October 11th, 2005, 15:44
We don't even know if you will be forced to have any firmware to play GTA:LCS yet.

In fact some speculate that it would be dumb for Rockstar to agree to cutting there own market down in size by preventing a section of PSP owners from playing the game without giving up all their beloved homebrew.

But even if it does require an update, just use the version changer that fools the PSP into thinking it's a higher firmware and problem solved.
Skye
October 11th, 2005, 21:12
You know, I can't help but think why Sony doesn't have the games checking the firmware through some kind of encryption key. As far as I know, they don't. I have never used WAB's version changer. Does anyone here know the method games use to authenticate which version firmware you use?
slik da relic
October 12th, 2005, 07:24
all the answers r here... u just gotta search. :confused:

da relic
scat3710
October 19th, 2005, 07:16
thank you for all your posts everyone. this information will be most helpful. I'm praying that rockstar does not require an upgrade to version 2.0, cause theirs no way i'm losing my roms for this game ^^. I'd sooner buy a 2nd psp lol. take care all and i hope to keep in touch with all of you.
3elevenX
October 19th, 2005, 09:48
Even if the game requires 2.0 or 2.1 or 2.5 just DL the SxT version changer and viola!!! you can play any game and still play your homebrew.