PSP Slim 3.60 Firmware Dumped, Dark Alex Makes a Mini Return

[MHB_1990]

now that's what I am talking about

[ExcruciationX]

Does anyone even read up to page 2 of the thread before posting comments? DARK_ALEX IS NOT BACK!!!

wraggster, please change the misleading title and article, or you ExcruciationX - don't bother asking, it's your article.

Cloudy

Look, sorry if anybody got their hopes up.

But, I didn't change it. It just quoted QJ.net's article (linking back to them of course). wraggster changed it as he stated in his post.

[xg917]

y did alex quit anyway? it seems kinda selfish of him to actually say that he would hack the slim for himself and not for the public..

[ICE]

y did alex quit anyway? it seems kinda selfish of him to actually say that he would hack the slim for himself and not for the public..

publicly releasing his stuff was making his life a bit ruff i imagine. we have no idea how much sony was bearing down on him.

[mavsman4457]

Why does he leave then decide to return I would like to see DA work on the PS3

I agree 100%. That would make my day for many days to come.

[gusgus]

I'm more excited about Dark_Alex being in on it, than the dump itself!

[Sterist]

66MB of NAND which is double the original.

the original model has far less than 32mb, despite the nand specs saying so.

flash0: 20.9mb
flash1: 3.5mb
flash2: 988kb
flash3: 700kb (ish)

flash mem on the psp tends to say you have about 5-10% more than you really do. if you dont believe me, try it. i've experimented with it for months, corrupted flash1 twice too

.....so, the slim is a few mb shy of tripple, but definately beyond double

hopefully there's a flash4 n flash5

[Johnny Rash]

It seems that people don't like to read these days. And I will repeats again:

DARK_ALEX IS NOT BACK.

But, if I'm not mistaken, the new PSP has 66MB of NAND flash.
This means several things if this is true.
-Sony plans on forgetting about the original PSP and leave it without firmware updates.
-Plenty new functionality for the PSP Slim.
-Crazy themes when it's finally hacked.

[Sterist]

-Sony plans on forgetting about the original PSP and leave it without firmware updates.

not true at all. here's how much known free space there is on 3.52 official fw:

flash0: 0.001%
flash1: 95%
flash2: 100%
flash3: 100%

and when they do fill up, they could...

1. impliment an upgrade barrier that says "leave out X feature"

2. install feature X on ms0

much how OE firmwares featured a compiled hybrid of firmwares in a DXAR file, sony could transfer PRX modules to a single compiled encrypted streamed file. but then there's the problems of "oops i deleted" / "my ms is corrupt" / "didnt make a back up"

3. trade X feature for Y

and in system settings, they could have a feature management utility which can re-enable / disable.

you will prolly see Location Free TV disappear first

edit:

they could also adopt a module-compression technique to store them compressed and dynamically unzip to RAM where and when needed

this could be applied to either all files or just select files. it could range in anywhere from 1-10mb saved (from flash0 alone. which contains 100% of operation modules, and 98% of current firmware by size)

[SnesR0X]

It would be great if he just did the stuff he does for himself and then gave it for someone else to release, and not say they made it but not say he made it either, just maybe give a little hint It would be nice, but probably frustrating as given no credit for your own work...