PSPgo released, hacked days later |
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| BY Brian Dahlquist Oct. 5th, 2009 | More on: |
The original PSP struggled to stay ahead of hackers and homebrewers as their firmware updates were consistently bested by game save exploits and custom batteries. Unfortunately for Sony, PSPgo does not fall far from the portable gaming tree. Having just been released Oct. 1 in North America and Europe, known PSP hacker FreePlay has already shown the ability to run unauthorized code on the fresh system.
While the two day turnaround is impressive, this is not running custom firmware. Those gamers wishing to enable homebrews and hacks on their own systems will have to wait for further advances. While FreePlay is showing his ability to the world, he is keeping the secret of how it was done to himself. Due to the limited functionality, revealing to Sony how the bypass was allowed would only have it prevented by the next firmware update before anything substantial comes from it.
The PSPgo is available now in North America and Europe at the retail price of $249.99.
October 5th, 2009
at 11:46 am
You know sometimes I wonder why people don’t support homebrewing in the first place. Not piracy of course, but like, for example the Wii. I talked about this a bit over at 30ninjas.com, why the piss wouldn’t Nintendo let people play DVDs. There are plenty of homebrew apps that show that dvd playback is not only possible, but simple. Now the new 4.2 update is bricking legit wiis that haven’t even touched homebrew stuff. Now we see how easy it is to tinker with a PSPgo, and I’m sure sony is shitting their pants, but if they only thought about adding the functionality that homebrew provides (except for piracy of course) in the first place, no one would give a shit.
October 5th, 2009
at 7:17 pm
The amount of people that would support only homebrew and not pirating games is probably very small and if you open a system to homebrew preventing piracy would be that much more difficult. I had homebrew stuff and emulators on my PSP for about two weeks and while it was fun having tons of NES games at my finger tips it was too much of a hassle to worry about my system bricking and avoiding future firmware versions.