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MDave · Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 84

pspe dosn't contain psp firmware :P

Klimru · Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 34

I'd be glad to test.

*Goes back to playing Excite Bike on 1.5 NES emu...*

Thanhda · Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 331 Location: Canada

etx · Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Detroit

I'll test the downgrade if someone writes it and really thinks it will work. I have a 6 month warranty on it. ;)

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heresy0 · Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 1

Actually, warranties from places like CompUSA do conver that. For example, my xbox modchip slipped off and shorted my LAN connection, so I got a new xbox for free.

byg · Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Posts: 12 Location: You are online.

chaos · Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 135

if they don't ask why it stopped working, you don't have to tell them. not like they care anyway. ;)
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ooPo · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:21 am Post subject:

Its still wrong.

Please drop the subject.

Thanhda · Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 331 Location: Canada

[a bunch of unimportant babble that didn't resemble dropping it at all]
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EdZ · Joined: 24 Apr 2005 Posts: 28

Well, I'm glad I kept the original 32mb MS that came with the PSP! It finally has a use.

Techit · Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 13

I have not been keeping up to date on the PSP exploits and I don't get the whole swaping the sticks thing... Could some one give a little step by step thing? Also am I missing something or wtf is the password for the .pdf files for the MSwap tool?
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Thanhda · Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 331 Location: Canada

Techit · Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 13

alright thanks! I mean up to date as in... anything... reading these forums. Any ways thanks all I needed.

And it works! Cool. Now is it good for your PSP to swtich out the sticks like that?
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chaos · Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 135

i'm going out to get a second stick.. i wonder what kind of spike there will be in memory stick sales this week ;)

anyway, my plan is to dump my 1.5 and compare it to the 1.0 dump.. if the differences are trivial, i may be able to put together a patch.. or i might end up with a brick ;p
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Thanhda · Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 331 Location: Canada

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Interlude · Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 1

I think people (especially the technically uninclined) are giving those psp-dev guys far too much credit. They simply "stumbled" upon the swap trick. If you examine the PBP files you can see quite clearly that there is no special exploit code at all. Anyone playing around with PBP unpacker could have discovered this "exploit" with no coding experience. The MS1 PBP is simply stripped of the data.psp file (the actual homebrew program) and the MS2 PBP is just the data.psp file from the original PBP file.

Where is the ingenious exploit code? It is nowhere to be found because it doesn't exist. I give them credit for stumbling onto the swap trick, but they shouldn't be viewed as great hackers or programmers. It actually pisses me off that they made us wait for something so trivial.

Don't get me wrong, I believe this is a great step forward for PSP development, but I would rather think of this swap trick as a way to run utilities (i.e memory or firmware tools) on the v1.5 PSP in order to create a better way to run unsigned code.

Techit · Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 13

Cool thanks for the info. You do have to be fast at switching though. jeez
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quedijo · Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 3 Location: Earth

Imma have to agree with Interlude...

Dozens, if not hundreds of people have been trying this and that and this and that, to no avail. As he said in his interview he was going to quit that day if nothing came up... he was shooting at all angles, I was also, but I didn't get nuttin, he did.

Like Interlude, don't think i'm saying this is stupid or anything, it's great, I'm going to try the dump tonite... but I don't want to be doing it every single time I want to play EMU's.

This can logically be explained: (LOGICALLY being the word here, NOT Technically)

The PBP file we know is a package of (MAIN FILES) SFO, PNG, PSP, PSAR. Since the file you "LOAD" is ONLY the PNG and SFO it is corret to the eyes of the PSP [no DATA.PSP or DATA.PSAR to compare].

The card you replace it to, to access the EBOOT.PBP is in the exact location (directory wize, not sector) and exact name as the "LOADER" except that when it starts processing the code of the supposedly EBOOT.PBP (DATA.PSP) it knows what to do with it.

Now, an exploit would be to work on this as a foundation, figure out how to fool the OS to [insert idea here]. I will, and many more out there, keep on trying other methods *SIMILAR* to this or *WITH* this. Hope it come soon. :P
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Cogboy · Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 45

granted i've only tried 3 different apps, but but i get i good ten seconds or so to do the switch. i havn't had trouble doing it at all. launch file, remove stick while splash vid is playing, vid pauses on last frame for about ten seconds, fades black. even if i replace the second stick just after it goes black it still launches fine.
I havn't tried waiting longer yet, and i don't know if other apps would behave any differently, though i can't see why the hell it would cause there isn't anything special about the launch file. they are exactly the same except for the title.
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dsltech_dude · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4 Location: USA!!

I got all the emulators to work except generator. It freezes on the white loading screen, then my PSP shuts down. I even got the SNES emu to work. It's been setup the same as all other apps on the MS. Do the ROMs have to have separate folder? Or will the emu directory work? Help me please! I miss my SEGA!

Thanks,

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chaos · Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 135

well, you guys probably won't believe this, but i got hit by a car on my way to go get another memory stick!.. my bike got totalled. :\ she is going to pay to replace it.. but i never did get a memory stick ;\
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Thanhda · Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 331 Location: Canada

Thanhda · Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 331 Location: Canada

wow an update already. appearently it will allow snes to work. Also comes with a linux version. yah!
download at http://www.psp-hacks.com/downloads/mswaptool_02_psp-dev.rar
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Techit · Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 13

So where are the roms/games for it?
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Techit · Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 13

eh .. well... wasnt sure if they were the same as for other emulators.
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