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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
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PSP - Image 1Mathieulh, 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.

Visit: QJ.NET PSP Firmware Discussion Thread

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# I knew itTriompf 2008-06-05 10:06
I Knew it there would be 3.96 and maybe there will be 3.97 etc.

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# Sony does this all the timec74gta4smash 2008-06-05 12:08
Whenever $ONY releases a new firmware with the last digit changed, it's only just a security patch. Not really worth it in the end.

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# ????Wizborg 2008-06-05 13:11
"Mathieulh, one of the members of the M33 team."



So have they stopped calling him Dark_Alex now???? lol

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# NOTES TO SONYsicksider 2008-06-05 14:00
Sony c'mon please release OFW 4.00.When sony wanna release? Sony keeping changing the last digit of the OFW.

Maybe Sony don't have any ideas what to put in the 4.00 or maybe Sony have the FW but still testing it.

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# dudeFoolmonkey 2008-06-05 14:02
M33 is the name of the group, Dark_AleX is just the lead coder.

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# Yeah...J2Jack 2008-06-05 14:15
Sony release it when their release schedule says to +P stop complaining about this sh­ite!

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# hmmBinary 2008-06-05 14:24
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

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# @WizDayo6 2008-06-05 14:32
yeah man, how could you not know that..... >.>

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# @FoolMonkey + DayoWizborg 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... :P

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# HmmmWizborg 2008-06-05 14:44
I wonder what they'll do if they have one after 3.99 but before they release 4.00???

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# 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.

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# actuallyFoolmonkey 2008-06-05 16:18
Dark_Alex's real name is Alejandro. spanish for Alexander, where Alex is short for Alexander. you know nothing

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# 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 :D

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# More numbersArmada651 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"

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# Don't see itSuperVegeta 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

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# editSuperVegeta 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

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# YeaDave 2008-06-06 22:38
You didn't have to update because custom firmwares ignore the version requirements and let you boot the game.

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# just make the jumpRickey123 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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