PSP Mod chips
Luckily, looks like they're not going to be needed. VERY wise of Sony to make the games region free. What looks like the main route into the hardware is the updates that are bootable from the memory sticks, if executable code is able to be run from there, first step will be something like;
for (byte *mem_pos = 0 ; *mem_pos <= Max_mem ; *mem_pos++)
{
hdr_usb.port[0] = *mem_pos;
}
flush();
(yeah, yeah, I know...). They'll get the whole of the psp memory dumped, then work out how the custom stuff is being driven (probably get a bios dump from that easy too). Working out what gets loaded where, how the memory is handled, and the custom chips means this is going to be taken apart VERY quickly I suspect. Hackers are going to be drooling to get code working on this as it'll be a doddle to update the memory stick. Keeps the distribtion of UMD's to sony, but custom apps to the hackers, getting sales/kudos. It'll never be condoned officially, but the second the usual emulators appear, I'll bet there'll be a sales spike. 6 months from now a GBA emulator appearing not sounding too farfetched? (Of course, it'll be Mame I'll be wanting).
Then again, someone could just leak the SDK, and then the floodgates will open.
posted by Robo @ 4:59 AM
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I get the jist but a bit too much star trek speak in the middle. I consider I could use it on my commute to/from work (a good 90minutes of my day at the very least). Did I hear it has an inbuilt MP3 player, or am I making that up?
It's got an inbuilt player that'll do Mp3 AND atrac (nice one Sony for once).
It's not an ipod beater, just in the fact it's going to be limited by your storage, 1gb sticks costing around 70quid atm.
Could easily be a video player too, there's a rush of video convertors so music/anime should all go well too.
The more and more I hear of this (my mate can't put his down), the more I'm going to break down and get one.
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