PSP Development Kit Taken off ebay

**StealthCP** · January 18th, 2007, 19:16

Well, as you can see, the official Sony Dev kit would improve homebrew significantly. Compare homebrew games with retail releases. Compare the homebrew PS1 emulators with POPStation. As you can see, the source code and headers included with the dev kit are specifically designed for the PSP. The one we currently have is a beta, containing really old, inefficient code and only guesses at new syscalls that we know. With an official devkit, homebrew could be released for later firmwares (still illegal, but so what?) which could lead to downgraders. Who is to say that someone doesn't release a program that runs on 3.03, dumps the firmware to memory stick, adds in OE-B and reflashes? There you go.

**F9zDark** · January 18th, 2007, 19:24

Uh not exactly. Way I believe it works is that you make the program, send it to Sony to be burned to UMDs and then it becomes encrypted at Sony HQ.

So any homebrew made with a dev kit will be just as functional as homebrew made with our homebrew SDK; it won't be able to run on any other firmwares than homebrew enabled ones; so really having a devkit is rather useless.

**aCoL** · January 18th, 2007, 19:27

that seems like it would be making devs jump through alot of hoops for some encryption i doupt it would be that much work imho. The devkit would alow some insite to how everything works if it could be used or not i dunno but it will help further some homebrew capibilitys atlest a bit

**F9zDark** · January 18th, 2007, 19:39

Well yes but it ensures that no one has the key to leak; since Sony wouldn't leak the key itself (theoretically anyway).

I saw one of the devkits that was on ebay before it got taken off, and it has a serial connection that connects to the PSP via the remote port. I believe this allows testing of the games during the development process.

But it has long been the understanding of many around the scene that Sony keeps both UMDs and the AES keys at their burning facilities to keep the possibility of leakage to utmost minimum.

**Emeriastone** · January 18th, 2007, 20:56

were there pictures?

**BrooksyX** · January 18th, 2007, 21:04

there are pictures of the devkit. If I remember correctly its looks kinda like a ps2 with a wire going to a psp that only has a screen and buttons, no umd drive. I am not 100% sure though.

**Mark30001** · January 18th, 2007, 21:19

From this guy's eBay me page:
http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI...k-team_dot_com

**.:}<3\/!}\{:.** · January 18th, 2007, 21:42

interesting.........

**F9zDark** · January 18th, 2007, 21:47

wow, forget that jerk. A majority of his preferred payment methods are just beyond common sense for anyone shopping online.

-Western Union transfer
-Bank to bank transfer
-Cash in a registered air mail envelope.

Anyone that desperate for a PSP dev kit may as well break into EA headquarters and steal one; chances are they got plenty.