June 25, 2007

Use Lumines to Downgrade your PSP 3.50 firmware

The PSP puzzle game Lumines released last June jumped 5900% in sales on Amazon.com after gamers learned they could utilize it to hack their PSP. After following directions posted on noobz.com, players can download and play homebrew games on their Playstation Portable, for all firmware versions from 1.0 to 3.5.

However, the only homebrew currentlyavailable is the boringly titled “Hello World,” which is really just the equivalent of the crackers saying, “We did it!” There are plans to release a Homebrew Enabler and a downgrader. The out-of-print video game is currently outselling everything in Amazon’s Video Games category except Mario Party 8 and the Nintendo Wii. It looks like gamers are excited about the opportunity to play what they want with whatever they want. Maybe the video game industry will someday take heed.

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June 26, 2007

Noobz brings homebrew to all PSP Firmware with Illuminati exploit!

From the PSP homebrew gods, Noobz team has finally created an exploit to bypass any PSP Firmware, with the help of a Lumines UMD! Now you can run homebrew games, applications, and emulators no matter what system firmware you’re on!

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June 30, 2007

Sony Releases Firmware Version 3.51

You’ve got to pat Sony on the back for giving it the good, old college try. After the Lumines hack debacle, Sony is trying to fight back with a 3.51 update that has been added today over at their Japanese site which would close up holes in the PSP’s security . Other than just the security fix, there isn’t much else you would need the update for. There is no added functionality included in the update and none of the currently released games will require it. But if you just love updates, and hate hacks, you’re more than welcome to go pick it up.

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September 7, 2007

Free PSP Demo Game Downloads

These demo’s are official Sony releases of some of the best PSP games available.

PSP Demo Download Instructions (using a PC):

1) DOWLOADING - simply download the PSP Demo you wish to play onto your desktop (you can download it elsewhere but it is easier to find on the desktop).

2) EXTRACTING - right click the zip file and choose ‘Extract All…’ to bring up the Extraction Wizard (built into Windows XP and Vista). Click the ‘Extract’ button and after a few seconds a new window will popup with a single folder in it and should have 4 letters followed by 5 numbers such as ‘UCJS10036′ … some demos have a suffix such as ‘-1′ or ‘-demo’, don’t delete they are important. This is the demo’s folder you need to copy onto the PSP’s memory stick. Right click this folder and select ‘Copy’.

3) TRANSFERRING - the easiest way is hooking the PSP up to the PC via USB. Once the PSP is detected you usually see a popup asking what you want to do, select “Open folder to view files” which will open a window which has your PSP’s folders listed. Open the PSP folder … then open the GAME folder. This is the location you want to copy the demo’s folder. Right click on a blank area of this window and select ‘Paste’. After a few seconds of transfering the demo folder (files are contained) you are ready to disconnect your PSP and play the demo.

KEY TO REGION CODING:

(U) - US REGION DEMO
(E) - EUROPEAN RELEASE DEMO
(J) - JAPAN RELEASE DEMO

The Games: