Is Downgrading the Best Way To Go

[benh]

I am currently using FW 2.71 and am not bothered homebrew that muchand plus Im using flash homebrew at the moment and its great.

I think downgrading is pointless, I mean whats the point in using an old FW when you could have the latest psp FW and use your PSP to its full capibilitys.

Why would you want to be on FW 1.5 when you could have FW 2.71 and in a couple of months be ablew to use great addons such as the PSP camera and the PSP GPS system, those two addons are going to require atleast FW 2.70+ to work.

And also in a coule of months, in october time there is going to be a great FW update which will include the fantastic long awaited PSOne emulator and in november you will be able to have another FW update which will include PS3 connectivity

Then PSP games will start to require PSP FW 2.70 and above to play on the console, and also another great feature of having the latest FW is being able to play the downloadable game demos on the PSP system.

I mean why would you want to keep your psp at FW 1.5, because if you keep it at a lower FW you wont be able to use your psp to its full capibilitys.

So why would you not want to have the latest PSP FW and not be able to use your psp to its full capibilitys, it just seems silly to me, because i think sonys FW updates are really good and most of them have great features.

[gunntims0103]

yea but for most of us we want to run the psp at its full hombrew capabilitys not its own capabilitys hombrew has opened a whole new world of stuff and im not gonna update untill a real upagrade is made with a new fireware like a ps1 emu then il consider upgrading not now

[whitey75]

Hopefully we will be able to emulate the firmware that is required to run the ps1 emulator using devHook or some other device (unless of course we can hack this new firmware).

[tophead420]

exactly i totally agree why risk your psp and about waiting for kernal mode exploit i was sayn the samething in the thread thats was on here the other day just be patient ad wait all things take time lol

[nielsss]

For god sake dont come on a homebrew site if you dont like homebrew....im not trying to be rude but there is no other way to say this

[F9zDark]

I say HELL NO to downgradeing. I bricked my PSP trying to use DARK_ALEX's downgrader. So I dont think its worth it to downgrade.

You're just saying that because you didn't do your research. I am sorry for what happened, but don't blame Dark Alex for what you did. If anything blame the liar who told the scene that it worked from the start.

And even then, you should have been wary enough to wait until there was a 75% or better success rate.

Downgrading will be only option left for us. Sony can easily prevent certain features from running entirely with a few bits of code. They can easily include these ON TOP of what they have already implemented.

It isn't long before there is an unexploitable firmware or a firmware that while being exploited, simply throws more walls in the way.

[judas_coach]

You guys need to think abut everything you just said seriously are you ok? Think about the stability and amazingness of the 1.00 and 1.50 kernel mode is already user friendly, supports ALL homebrew, has the ability to launch firmwares 2.00-2.50 (2.71 soon, i have no doubts) We used to fear the friggin 1.51 update that was released on (I think it was. . .) Death JR and look where we are now. . .Devhook launches practially every game aside from the 2.60 updates obviously. Please, do go on and update to 3.00 when it comes out and get your "camera" and "psone emulator." I'll be relaxing a little while after with it emulated on my 1.50 enjoying my NES, SNES, Gamegear, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, N64!, and oh yeah the psone emulator from the 3.00 emulation on my beloved 1.50 And the commercial games out for the psp have yes, gotten better but there still weak as heck. Fight Night is brilliant and so is Lumines thats probably pretty much it. Every other game i could just buy for my ps2 and enjoy more.

I believe patience is the key here my friends We all feared the updates, sonys firmware attacks, and all that but we will overcome it all. I admit that Sony is no set of morons to no extent all but i guarantee you that if you go along with "upgrading" and playing your commerical games you will regret it.

Regards

i think this guy is off his trolley! homebrew wont be able to create a camera and they will never be able to create a stabe PSOne emulator. all you listed was 20 YEAR OLD GAMES. the 3.00 users will laugh their asses off at people like this while theyre playing NEW UMD games and 7000 games on their PSOnes emulator. people like this are fools.
And that's guaranteed.

[aries2k4]

Dude, your the fool or very jealous. There is no downside to downgrading because you can always go backup. Of course you can´t make a camera with homebrew, you also can´t Make one on your 2.7 . Both users have to buy the camera. One user can use it officially and the 1.5 user can hopefully use it with some great homebrew program. Noneone who loves homebrew can deny 1.0 or 1.5 is the way to go.

[judas_coach]

Dude, your the fool or very jealous. There is no downside to downgrading because you can always go backup. Of course you can´t make a camera with homebrew, you also can´t Make one on your 2.7 . Both users have to buy the camera. One user can use it officially and the 1.5 user can hopefully use it with some great homebrew program. Noneone who loves homebrew can deny 1.0 or 1.5 is the way to go.

Now you see that's what most homebrew users live on; HOPE. while the downgrader was being used i saw hundreds of posts on websites just saying "Oh god im worried jesus i hope this works" and that made me laugh. the uncertainty of so many faithful 'homebrew' users compared to the 100% certainty of upgraders. the upgraders will DEFINATELY be able to use the camera, the GPS, the eye toy and the PSOne emulator. its ASSURED. but these poor 1.5 users will have to rely on a team of 5 people to make the new devhook compatible with the new firmware. havent cracked 2.6 yet? what a shame, upgraders are already up to 2.71. the new firmwares will be do or die for so many PSP users, and I'll be laughing from the sidelines; cause i have 2 PSPs.

[SINIStER]

Dude, your the fool or very jealous. There is no downside to downgrading because you can always go backup. Of course you can´t make a camera with homebrew, you also can´t Make one on your 2.7 . Both users have to buy the camera. One user can use it officially and the 1.5 user can hopefully use it with some great homebrew program. Noneone who loves homebrew can deny 1.0 or 1.5 is the way to go.

Nuff said!!!