questions from a newbie

1. what is the point for downgrading my psp?

2. if im using a v3.10 firmware can i still downgrade? and what does it exactly mean to downgrade?

3. if i do downgrade, will i still be able to play with my games on the umd disk?

4. what does is mean by "psp brick", is that like your psp is totally unusable, no matter what you do you cant bring it back?

5. what does psp emulation mean?

6. what does the ta-82 motherboard have to do with this?(i have a IC1003)

7. what does flash mean?

8. ive been reading alot about ISO(at this forum)..um if i ask what does this term mean will i get banned? if so please disregard the question.

9. what does "psx" stand for?

thank you for taking time to help me.:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

[NOTE! please explain to this to me in ways you would explain it to a kid from the 70's. :D ]

1.You will be able to use homebrew or emulators
2.No
3.If you then updgrade to 3.0x oe then yes
4.Your psp's intenal memory is broken and beyond repair unless you are on 3.0x oe
5.There are a lot of emulators for psp including sne, mega drive, ps1, nintendo 64 etc
6.It doesn't mean that much at the moment.

4. Yes
5. Specify please
6. You can't downgrade to 1.5 in a normal way
7. PSP's internal memory
8.
9. PlayStation ONE

4. In addition to what was said above- If you do brick and dont have SE/OE then you can get the modchip and restore your psp.
8. ISO is a format for CD images. It is commonly used as a way to run UMD's without the disk in. It is illegal and you can't talk about them here. Other formats that are the same as iso (except compressed) are .cso, and .dax. Theres is another 1 but i cant remember it right now....

[sorry if i seem uhhh stupid.]

so basically, i cant downgrade my psp cause i upgraded it to v3.10?????:( real sad........

um, what about if i just want to put xmb themes on my psp?
is it still not possible?

Learn a lesson.

Do not update in the FUTURE

It will be along time for a exploit to be found as there all patched.

9. PSX is also a popular nickname for the original PlayStation video games console. The "X" appears because Sony originally developed the PlayStation as a CD-ROM and SNES hybrid unit. When the project was halted by Nintendo, Sony decided to redesign the PlayStation as a stand alone console, which was known internally as the PlayStation Experimental. The media caught wind of the name and it has stuck ever since. The PSX label understandably causes much confusion, as in many contexts it is difficult to differentiate between the PSX media center and PSX video game console.

LOL. ill keep that in mind splodger15, i didnt know that there was a forum like this. someone from youtube referred me to this website so here iam asking all this silly question. haha.

wow very informative. thanks kasapnova

ok...um how about if i have a v3.03?
now can i downgrade or do i have to wait for some genius to do a downgrade for v.3.03/ v3.10?

[thanks to all those who replied. iam in thankful to all your knowledge.]

You can downgrade a 3.03 but you cannot yet downgrade a 3.10 yet

No problem, theres a lot of misconception about the PSX. :)