Noobz releases PSP 3.50 downgrader!

[iorkara]

-Noobz releases 3.50 downgrader!

Here's what you'll need to complete the downgrade:

-A PSP, upgraded to the official Sony v3.50 firmware. You should also set your language settings to "English".
-A legal Lumines UMD, either the EU (ULES00043) or US (ULUS10002) version. The original, Platinum, or Greatest Hits versions are all fine. Support for the Japanese version will come soon.
-Sufficient intelligence and english language skills to be able to carefully and throroughly read the instructions.
-It would also help if you've previously run the Illuminati Hello World, so that you're familiar with how to run the Illuminati exploit.

Anyway, do a Search on it and you can download the files you need.

[cosmoh]

Well this probably comes as a big punch in the face to Sony, I bet they thought they were so smart, making all their firmwares impossibly downgradable, HA, I laugh at their efforts. But seriously, Sony must be pretty pissed right now, as more and more people are becoming aware of PSP homebrew, they are going to lose quite a few sales methinks. I wonder what they will do to counter this, maybe they will relase a quick unhackable 3.51, to patch up for any noobs who are unaware of it.

[A13x]

Only problem with these since 3.31 is that Sony have now got an inbuilt detection system that can see whether you have downgraded, if positive, then future official firmware upgrades will no longer install. This leaves you dependant on OE firmwares for games that require the most recent firmware.

Currently this is no problem, but if god forbid, a firware came out that "could not" be hacked, then players will be stuck on older hacked firmware and may not be able to play new titles with inbuilt checking.

Of course though, if it can't be hacked, it will be
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[poweroffarts]

I've been waiting for 3.50 OE, still not out. In my opinion firmware updates on the PSP coming more and more useless, there isnt much of update nowdays (3.50 now being exception) just fight piracy or homebrew.
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[ittekimasu]

hmmm i wonder how sony will be able to combat this. the only thing i could think of would making it somewhat worth while having it connect to the ps3 for gaming or maybe a usefull application which doesnt suck and then constantly asking to have the latest firmware, but as said before it'll be hard to stop people from hacking the system, especially now that they have missed a spot and let people downgrade from 3.5

if they ever do release a second version psp, i'll probably buy the new one and keep it for the ps3 to connect to.
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[sephiaya]

Dark_Alex just recently said that he was working on 3.50 OE-C and that it should be out soon.

And Sony must be cut right now LOL.

[Frozencry]

I say Sony should completely lock up the PSP if you were to downgrade or alter its Flash in any way. And with their own updates, have a unique key or something that allows an update.

I'm a homebrew user but I'm probably going back to the Normal PSP firmwares. Homebrew is starting to bore me.
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[sephiaya]

[Frozencry]

I can see the locking as justified as homebrew is majorly used for piracy, which is very bad for Sony.

Anyway homebrew bores me regardless of which version of homebrew I've been using. I only ever use my PSP for some minor gaming and music anyway, and homebrew doesn't really add anything significant enough. Plus I want full PSP to PS3 connectivity.
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[poweroffarts]

[sephiaya]

I do not see a lockup as "justified". People have the right to be allowed to run the system at whatever firmware they want. (regardless of what they are using it for)
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[Frozencry]

[poweroffarts]

You're generalising, frozencry. Homebrew is one thing, Piracy is another. But the fact you were using homebrew, were you pirating?
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[Infested Jibbs]

[Frozencry]

[poweroffarts]

[Frozencry]

Uh no, you seem to have a warped perception on what I said. Homebrew on the PSP in itself opens the world to piracy which not only harms Sony, but the gaming industry as a whole. That's why I think it shouldn't exactly be allowed. My boredom and current disdain for it is just what I feel about it.

And to be more specific for you on my uses for homebrew: I modify a lot of my s**t so I can try get the most features out of it that I would consider useful. I'm done with screwing with my PSP as the features that it comes with upon purchase is all that I need.
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[ittekimasu]

while i doubt that they can do anything on this version, this might be considered in their v2, besides wasn't the chip board on the later version's of the psp altered so that you weren't able to downgrade.

only because of this recent loop hole where they can be downgraded again has only risen the issue i thought the only other method before this was to obtain a psp with a low firmware 2.7 was my understanding.

otherwise i would work on trying to change the code on the games to make it more difficult to copy/play but i'm not too sure how difficult this can be to achieve and i'm sure it would be broken into eventually.
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[sephiaya]

If Sony was to legally be able to lock-up systems it would show that a company has special rights over individuals.

It is there responsibility as a company to write better code so that people cannot pirate games. As a lock-up systems is not justified, as like jibbs said even if it is only 0.000000001% of people who don't use it illegally; then they have the right to do whatever they want to the system.

If Sony did not want downgrades in the first place, then they should not have started working on an official downgrader. And it is my understanding that at first Sony were saying how you can use the psp like a PC (Freedom to install whatever you want)

ohh and ittekimasu prior to this downgrader you could use the exploit in the unpatched version of gta LCS to downgrade 3.03
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[sephiaya]

^Me too. (had it since the good old days of 1.5)

That seems to be the only thing i use it for (and divx)
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[Frozencry]

[bluejay]

I can agree with Frozencry - emulation is definitely killing the PSP - as far as I can remember it has been that way since launch, which is a real pity that people insist on making that kind of stuff, because it had a lot of potential for being a legal homebrew machine.