PSP 2.0 Firmware Haxored

[shmokes]

Some enterprising person hacked the PSP 2.0 firmware.  Now you get homebrew AND web browser!

[M3talhead]

It was only a matter of time....

[DYNAGOD]

until we see some screens of a 2.0 running homebrew i wouldnt go upgrading just yet.

[M3talhead]

I'm seriously considering a GP32X.

Its a Linux driven, open source handheld console that costs less than $200 and will run just about anything. Divx movies, emulators, pc apps/games, you name it, it'll run it. Its still relativly new and they're only taking preorders at the moment, but I gaurantee it'll be big.

[pmc]

until we see some screens of a 2.0 running homebrew i wouldnt go upgrading just yet.

Yup. That article just indicates that a buffer overflow was identified and proven to be exploitable. Now someone has to go to the next level and write code to do firmware or image loading or whatever (swap to 1.5 on the fly for example). Of course it won't take long to do -- maybe before the weekend is over -- but until software is released, I'm upgrading nothing.

-pmc

[shmokes]

I'm seriously considering a GP32X.

Its a Linux driven, open source handheld console that costs less than $200 and will run just about anything. Divx movies, emulators, pc apps/games, you name it, it'll run it. Its still relativly new and they're only taking preorders at the moment, but I gaurantee it'll be big.

LMAO.  If by "big" you mean that it will wallow in obscurity until it eventually disappears a la the Tapwave, then I take your gaurantee as gold.

If by "big" you mean that it will be remotely successful or that you will ever actually see one in the wild without buying one yourself you're out of your mind.

[JB]

I'm seriously considering a GP32X.

Its a Linux driven, open source handheld console that costs less than $200 and will run just about anything. Divx movies, emulators, pc apps/games, you name it, it'll run it. Its still relativly new and they're only taking preorders at the moment, but I gaurantee it'll be big.

LMAO.  If by "big" you mean that it will wallow in obscurity until it eventually disappears a la the Tapwave, then I take your gaurantee as gold.

If by "big" you mean that it will be remotely successful or that you will ever actually see one in the wild without buying one yourself you're out of your mind.

Somewhere in between, if the original GP32 was any indication. Somewhat obscure, but not dead.




Actually... I 'm a tad confused... is the GP2X or XGP the the official successor to the GP32?

[pointdablame]

The XGP is a seperate device from the GPX2.  They are both being made, and are both successors to the GP32 in ways.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000850054733/

[Trenchbroom]

LMAO.  If by "big" you mean that it will wallow in obscurity until it eventually disappears a la the Tapwave, then I take your gaurantee as gold.

If by "big" you mean that it will be remotely successful or that you will ever actually see one in the wild without buying one yourself you're out of your mind.

Tapwave stiffed because of it's DRM restrictions and high price.  It was a PDA masquerading as a game system.  Emulator authors stayed away, and so did the public.  Good riddance.

The GP2X seems to have quite a bit of momentum behind it if you are looking for a handheld emulation/movie/MP3 machine.  No commercial games at all probably, but with two 200 mhz CPU's, 64 MB RAM, SD cards, Linux and what should be near perfect SNES & Neo Geo emulation, it will be worth the $200 price point. 

And "success" is relative--if I never see it on the store shelves in the U.S. but I can easily buy the machine online and have access to a huge amount of free emulators and freeware games, I would still consider it a success.

[JB]

The XGP is a seperate device from the GPX2.  They are both being made, and are both successors to the GP32 in ways.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000850054733/

I understand they're both being made, but I'm not really clear which is the "official" sequel.
...
Ah. The XGP is the official GP32 successor. The GP2x is made by the original design team, which left because they didn't like the direction the XGP was going.

[DYNAGOD]

currently, you can only execute homebrew that is up to 64KB of size.
so clearly theres some work to be done.