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CES 2007: PSP homebrew makes presence felt at Sony booth

Posted Jan 11, 2007 at 12:34PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Homebrew Applications, News, Humor Tags: CES, psp homebrews, Sony

We would now like to take to take this opportunity to ask all of you to please check out the two images below. In fact, we encourage you to view the pictures in their original 1280x960 resolution, just so you can see what we're talking about.

Do you see it?

Anyway, these photos were sent to us by one of our readers, Geno, and he notes that these were taken at this year's CES floor. They found Sony's PSP booth, and while looking at the displays, decided that they liked their own handhelds better. And to prove it, they took these pictures.

On a lighter note though, Geno says that these pics are "Just a little 'thank you' from us to Dark_aleX and pspupdates for bringing so much information to the masses."

Thanks for the pics, Geno! We're pretty sure DAX appreciates it, too. :D

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if you look at the first picture, the one in the middle has a cord attached to it (probably the one at the booth). sadly, the version is virtually unreadable.

then the 2nd one as aDcOoL mentioned, is certainly NOT sony's (because there's no security chain).

sure, i'd be nice if sony would open up to homebrew, but why would they change now?

Mitch

# ok so where's the 1280x960 version of the pictures? — Guest 2007-01-11 15:18

I only see the low res 640x480 pictures that barely prove anything.

# yepo — Dutt 2007-01-11 15:28

I agree to the comment above me... Where are the hi'er res pics?

# Fake — Guest 2007-01-11 15:29

If you look you can see that they just took a picture of there System Information, and the showed the picture on Sony's PSPs. Just look at the PSP on the left in the 1st picture, then look at the PSP in the 2nd pic.

# .......are you sure? — Guest 2007-01-11 15:29

Are you sure that those are Sony's PSPs and not someone who brought their PSP that uses the custom firmware and then took a pic of it? Because that's what it looks like. Hence the "f u sony" as the nickname.

I mean, is there proof that these are Sony PSPs? And if they aren't, then what's so cool about someone who uses homebrew going to CES and taking a picture of their PSP?

# Sony wasn't using this firmware — Guest 2007-01-11 15:29

Hey guys, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear about those shots, but the ones WITH 3.03 OE-A or B were ours being held up against the ones that were on the show floor. They (Sony) had theirs loaded up with the official 3.02 firmware though. The joke was in the first picture as some have realized. The one with all 3 is just a side by side of the custom FW's with the official ones right next to it.

So no, Sony was NOT using custom firmware on their models at CES. They WERE, however, showing the fan made advertisement that was seen here recently on that screen you will see in the first shot. I wasn't aware that Sony had struck up a deal with the creator of it to be shown pubicly as their own advertisement.

This is embarrassing to explain and hopefully gets changed as I don't want you guys catching any heat for spreading false information.

# e — Guest 2007-01-11 15:31

thats his psp not sonys no connectors

# Thank you. — Guest 2007-01-11 15:43

Thank you for the explanation, Geno.

I definitely think the author of this article should edit the article to say that it's a joke and that those aren't really Sony's "Demo" PSPs.

# LMAO — Guest 2007-01-11 15:55

THE NICKNAME IS ***** YOU SONY!

# Oh that clears it up — Guest 2007-01-11 16:00

Thanks for clearing it up for us Geno. I didn't find it to be a very funny joke though

# Hmm... — Guest 2007-01-11 16:04

So if there got a costum firmware. What shall they do? Put Dark_AleX in jail or something? Dont think so.

# logic — Guest 2007-01-11 16:05

if you click on the picture and enlarge it, you can clearly see that the middle psp (one with cord) only has 3 digits, and with basic logic that proves that its not the custom firmware that they say it is. So the person that wrote the article should have actually looked at these pictures before just post a false claim with pictures that don't back them up

# THERE! — Zak1392 2007-01-11 16:05

I WAS RIGHT!!!!

# ... — Guest 2007-01-11 16:07

that doesnt make sense, if it wwas really Geno wouldnt he be registered?

# fake — djdan 2007-01-11 16:10

read below, its not like the description, its just people holdin up there 3.03 OEs against sony's psps

# noted — Guest 2007-01-12 13:42

Hiya. :) Thanks for clarifying. We've fixed up the article so that it doesn't sound so official anymore. Our bad, too. Hope this doesn't keep you from sending us more cool stuff, 'kay? :)

# any — Guest 2007-01-12 13:45

does anyone actually know what does CES stands for

# NO — Deus7 2007-01-12 13:48

no. if you look at the pictures, the one psp with the anti-theft cable attached (the middle psp in the first picture) has regular firmware. the 3.03 OE - A firmwares belong to the people taking the pictures.

I guess its just amusing to show off your home-brewed-up psp's around the sony booth, to show people what its CAPABLE of that sony refuses to allow people to do with it

# wow — Guest 2007-01-12 13:49

wow..thats just some guys psp that he brang with him....theres no way thay some would do that because then their pretty much supporting piracy agains downloading psp and psx games..no way...but it would be cool

wow

# THE PSP'S WITH CUSTOM FIRMWARES ARE NOT SONY'S PROPERTY PEOPLE! — Deus7 2007-01-12 13:50

if you look at the pictures, the one psp with the anti-theft cable attached (the middle psp in the first picture) has regular firmware. the 3.03 OE - A firmwares belong to the people taking the pictures.

I guess its just amusing to show off your home-brewed-up psp's around the sony booth, to show people what its CAPABLE of that sony refuses to allow people to do with it

# .. — Dodo 2007-01-12 13:57

I can very well understand why many of you hate Sony so much, but geez there's gotta be a limit?! "F**k you Sony" ?

Sure they are not perfect and always try to make us update. For what? To prevent thousands of those pirating their software, depriving them of a healthy profit. No wonder PSP sales lag so much behind. SURE, if you say so you're not one of them.

C'mon guys, Sony gave us the bloody PSP! With nifty features, PS1 emulation and great games. It's a beautiful and very capable handheld. I'm all for the homebrew scene, but cut that rebel bullsh*t.

I'm no representative of Sony. I'm as frustrated at them about the PS3 as anyone, but there is a limit to absurd amount of hate thrown back at them.

You can keep the hate thoughts to yourselves, but show them appreaciation, by buying games. So they can make an even better PSP and release more great titles. That's all.

Peace!

# i dont get it....and why *****K SONY? — Guest 2007-01-12 14:21

I DONT GET IT theres two hacker showing off there psp next to a regular 3.02 psp soo what?

zoom into the middle one its noothing out of the ordinary

only the 2 on the side say OE-A

# hahaha — Guest 2007-01-12 14:23

All the old comments are still here for the old post. That's great.

# Can't you people read?! — Guest 2007-01-12 14:23

I don't understand why an entire page have to be filled with "I think it's fake"/"it's real"/"sony supports homebrew?". It clearly says in the article that some people who have custom firmwares went to the sony booth and felt that they liked their own PSPs better (because they have DAX's 3.03 OE installed, unlike the ones sony shows which have the official crap)

# to above post — Guest 2007-01-12 14:26

Dude, the original article was that the Sony booth had the custom firmware. All the posts were on topic and such.

# umm havent you guys seen? — Guest 2007-01-12 14:27

ANYWAYS SONY DOES SUPPORT THIS SITE.....go on your psp and go to PSPconnect and on the side it has a link to this site>>>>either sony thinks this site is only for updates,

or he supports your hacking.....and you guys saying *****K YOU SONY and taking a picture of it at his booth

# umm i dont sony knows you guy hack — Guest 2007-01-12 14:34

this site is made by sony ........look on the right and one of the links leads here to pspupdates.com

its kinda mean of you guys to post a pic that says *****K SONY ....especially how many visiters he gets you guys

heres the link>>>

http://psp.connect.com/

# Only in a ideal world — Guest 2007-01-12 14:50

*sigh*

# @Deus7 — GnomeTryouts 2007-01-12 15:03

Dear Dues7, tsk tsk tsk, that is the wriststrap, not some saftey cable. and you call yourself a homebrewer.

# ROFL LMFAO — GnomeTryouts 2007-01-12 15:05

you are random and a phyco..

LOL

# @GnomeTryouts — Guest 2007-01-12 15:08

Actually, that IS a SECURITY CABLE

# ?? — GnomeTryouts 2007-01-12 15:08

how can I be sure if you are you the real Geno?

# ?? — Guest 2007-01-12 15:11

why did this disappear from the front page again?

# Exactly. — Guest 2007-01-12 16:26

This is obviously what's going on here, folks... NOTHING in the article ever said those were Sony's PSPs.

# Congratulations ! — Guest 2007-01-12 16:28

You can read! ^o^

# ... — gamerz275 2007-01-12 17:17

notice the modded joystick on the right psp... its not sony's. whats the point of this post

# FFS You stupid f**ks — Guest 2007-01-12 21:22

The middle PSP on the first one is Sony's, hence the security cable, running 3.02. The other 2 belong to the guys there, which have DAX custom firmware.

In the second pic, it's one of the guys PSP's again, not Sony's.

Is it really that hard to understand you f**kheads...

# well it does mislead — xche78x 2007-01-13 02:35

of course you know that a lot lot reader dont really understand what they read, its proven on so many post ive read. the title means - homebrewers brought their psp on the CES sony floor show and took pictures of their psp (3.03oe_a) together with official sony PSP's on booth.

its bravery and flattery and downright disturbing for sony though.

# HEY PEOPLE! — isti 2007-01-13 10:51

We should really really stop with these "***** you Sony" comments..

Some people forgetting who developed the PSP..

And Sony didn't developed it for us.. but for the profit..

not even homebrew is free!

you pay nothing that's right.. but homebrew developers pay the price instead of you, by spending their own money, and most important, their own time..

so sure we can be very thankful to Sony for creating the PSP, and sure we should support the homebrew developers for extending the PSP's capabilities the smart way..

btw.. a wriststrap like that would only come off with your wrist dear GnomeTryouts..

# yeah — Guest 2007-01-15 11:38

how can i be sure this is the real geno and qj is just messing up

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