PSP: 3.03OEA on its way from Dark AleX

[DarthPaul]

Well comparing the size of SONYs EBOOTs to my own EBOOTs that I converted from my games I am going to make an educated guess and say that compressing the EBOOTs will vary greatly based on game but on average it should shave off approximately 200MB. SWEEEEEET!



Excuse me, I just wet my pants in excitement. Be right back............................

Now I will go on one of my many rants about why I think SONY screwed themselves. To give a little background on where I am coming from I'll just say that I got into PSP ISOs because it was the ONLY way I could enjoy homebrew and play new commercial games. If SONY just allowed commercial UMD's to play on any firmware I could care less about ISOs and would use UMD's more.

So here we are again. I was really backing SONY on their PSX emulation endeavor. I was willing to pay $5.00 or $10.00 for PSX games with the promise of full speed & sound. Then SONY finally delivers and what do they deliver? 3 or 4 games at first? Come on..... Wait, I had to buy a PS3 also to use the 3 or 4 PSX games? Hmmm.... I thought SONY would do us better. PSP users want CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT. We are starved and no matter how much we get we want MORE MORE MORE...... MORE DAMMIT!!!! Sorry, got a little carried away in the moment.....

Anyways, the most fabulous Christmas present of all time came around on December 25th 2006 when Dark_AleX released 3.02 OE-B with the popstation converter. And with 3.03 OE-A having compressed EBOOT support, Game manual (.DAT) support, and the ability to customize my EBOOTs with animations, sounds, icons, etc. etc. etc. its actually BETTER than what SONY delivered.

Yes, that is right. Dark_AleX is better than SONY! And now because SONY was yet again too little too late, I will just convert my PSX games myself instead of paying SONY to do it for me.

Good job SONY! You spend so much time trying to best the homebrew scene and yet it comes right around and actually hurts you more than it helps.

Does everyone agree with me or am I just a little too cynical today?

Agree 100% with you,Youre the MAN!!! lol!

[Shrygue]

Likewise

[jak66]

If im still using the hot shots golf save is there anyway to edit the pbp without losing my save?

You could use one of the many GUIs (i.e. PSX2PSP) as they can change it when you create the eboot (along with letting you define custom icon0s, pic0s, pic1s, snd0s and icon1s)

[baracki96]

Nice, with all these fw upgrades, we may never have to worry about incompatible firmwares again, Nice work Dark_Alex.

[mikebeaver]

yeah its great news that talented coders such as Dark_Alex, fanjita, Ookm etc are all working so hard to help us play the older games we love so dearly
I feel sorry for Sony in a way, they have a really good hand held console, and not a sole who can do anything right in there work force.
All we asked was to be able to download are games from them directly to our PSP, simple you saybut oh no, they want to be gready and make you have a PS3 FU Sony, not everyone has a months wages to spend on your new super deluxe, toast making, ice freezing, blu ray spinning piece of hardwar, youve just priced yourself out of the game!

[jimmi]

yeah dudes i say sony have tried so hard to beat the homebrew seen rather than focus on market research of what the people want that they keep getting hurt... poor sony dudes, poor sony. long live dark alex

[jak66]

long live dark alex

all we need him to do now is add a popcorn maker in one of these releases and itll be the best firmware ever!!!11!one!

lol, yep, it is preaty amazing how 4 people (It is 4 isn't it?) can screw Sony over and use there own stuff against them....

Now imagine how good firmware updates would be if DAX, HarleyG, etc work for Sony....You'd probably actually want to update your PSP

[s075933]

Will you be able to update from 3.02 OE-?

[xg917]

i suppose, since 2.71 se can update or 3.02 oe

[mikebeaver]

I imagine so but you will probably have to go through the datadxar creation againas it is a new irmware update, not just a revision to an existing one, but im not sure yet, its been delayedfor another 24 hours so i hear