Yes, of course I am. But this particular unwillingness to be weird is a little frightening. It used to be that "modding" was the first thing I'd look into. But now I'm slow in the head and willing to wend my way to the guv'ment trough, money in hand, a scofflaw no longer.
So while other people are rocking multiple retro-system emulators with a custom PSP firmware setup, I'm sitting here with my (admittedly excellent) Patapon, Lego Star Wars, (and not so excellent) flOw and Gangs of London.
Nuts. Who wants to play Hogan's Alley again anyways? Okay, I do. But I can do that already on my Mac's NES emulator. And when I do it isn't really fun. But how cool (in an uncool nerd sense, which is the only sense I have)... how cool would it be to have every retro gaming system in the palm of one's hand, along with massive libraries of crap software to go with them?
Pretty cool. That's the answer. If you're a dork. And I am. But not enough to go homebrew on my PSP, I guess.
Put me out to pasture.
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I have no PSP of my own but...is the process of setting up to run homebrew irreversible? Is it a firmware change?
It's sort of confusing to me, hence the "slow in the head" comment in my original post.
Check out the Wikipedia article on PSP homebrew. It seems you have to downgrade your firmware to 1.5 (the current official firmware is 3.9). There is also something called a "Pandora's Battery," and I'm not sure if you have to downgrade your firmware if you use that thing.
Maybe you can make more sense out of it than I can. Everything I read seems to point to having to downgrade one's firmware, though.
Here's an installation walk-through for the Pandora's Battery. Hmm.
From what I'm reading at CAG and elsewhere, if you're on the current version firmware you have to use Pandora's Battery OR find someone who has CFW installed on their PSP to link up and swap files with. It would appear that there's a burgeoning cottage industry on the interwebs of folks who who will install CFW for you for a small fee and shipping charges.
The ingenuity of "haxx0rZ" never ceases to amaze me. If only the hardware companies and coders had the same tenacity and vision.
More potential motivation: Somebody wrote a TI-99/4 emulator for the PSP. Hunt the Wumpus, anyone?
If you're going to talk TI-99/4A, you start the conversation with "Car Wars", as everything else will be a step down.
I'm sorry that your personal "flag" flies at half mast.
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