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Mathieulh finds PSP 3.96 firmware update in Hot Shots Golf 2

Posted Jun 5, 2008 at 8:11AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Firmware, Homebrew Development, News, Titles, Games Tags: Golf, Mathieulh, PlayStation Network, psp firmware, Sony

Mathieulh, one of the members of the M33 team, has discovered an interesting little bit of code in the Playstation Portable video game Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2. Apparently, the American UMD of the game sports a 3.96 update which isn't on any of Sony's servers.

According to the changelog, "support for PLAYSTATION Network titles has been expanded." LAN.ST forums admin SilverSpring did a comparison with the 3.95 firmware and found it to be almost identical to the PSP FW 3.95:

Seems identical to 3.95, only sysmem.prx changed (grew in size by 68-Bytes). The other prxs just had a single byte change (version bumped up to 3.96). Even pops.prx is binary identical (same SHA1 hash) so not sure how PSN support had been expanded.

The current consensus regarding this update is that it is nothing more than a compatibility update to make the game run. Still, if the update does do more than this, we're confident that more information will be made available soon as it has piqued the interest of some of the best minds in the PSP community. As Mathieulh seems to be a bit busy for the moment, he does promise to look further into it soon.

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I just pick up this game day before yesterday and never play it yet. I love golf but not a whole lot. I try it now and I can confirm that Hot Shots Golf 2 does have a 3.96 sitting by the damn UMD icon.

well guess I wait. odd I thought Sony give up a long time ago since we found the battery hack. LOL

# @Wiz — Dayo6 2008-06-05 14:32

yeah man, how could you not know that..... >.>

# @FoolMonkey + Dayo — Wizborg 2008-06-05 14:42

Duh, they used his real name "Mathieulh", when most know him as DA... So therefore I was not talking about M33, but Mathieulh...

# Hmmm — Wizborg 2008-06-05 14:44

I wonder what they'll do if they have one after 3.99 but before they release 4.00???

# They wont give up. — c74gta4smash 2008-06-05 14:54

They patch the mother boards so you all ways want to get a first release console.

They patch the batteries so you always gotta get the first series batteries.

Trust and believe they wont stop until they realize what they're up against.

# actually — Foolmonkey 2008-06-05 16:18

Dark_Alex's real name is Alejandro. spanish for Alexander, where Alex is short for Alexander. you know nothing

# what? — Bolec 2008-06-05 23:00

" Duh, they used his real name "Mathieulh", when most know him as DA..."

So you're saying that Dark Alex and Mathieulh are the same persons? Mwahaha, that's the best bull***** I ever heard

# More numbers — Armada651 2008-06-06 11:56

They'd probably add a digit, like 3.991.

BTW Typo is newspost: "the 3.95 firmware and found it to be almost identical to the PSP FW 3.95" should be: "the 3.96 firmware and found it to be almost identical to the PSP FW 3.95"

# Don't see it — SuperVegeta 2008-06-06 16:14

i have hot shots golf 2 in america and I didn't have to upgrade from 3.90 M33-3

# edit — SuperVegeta 2008-06-06 16:17

Ok, I do see it but it as an option, but it didn't force me to update my firmware. I'm still playing fine on 3.90

# Yea — Dave 2008-06-06 22:38

You didn't have to update because custom firmwares ignore the version requirements and let you boot the game.

# just make the jump — Rickey123 2008-06-07 02:38

Why dosent sony just make the jump to 4.0 now, instead of messin around with all these 3.95 and 3.96 etc. Just give us the features and we will be happy!

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