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PSP FW2.50 TA-082 SoftDown stopped |
Listed in: Homebrew Applications Tags: 0okm, GMail, motherboards, psp homebrews, TA-082
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We've got some pretty bad news for PSP owners out there who have firmware 2.50 with the cursed TA-082 motherboards. Coder 0okm, who was working on a SoftDown downgrader for TA-082s, has decided to stop working on the said project. This decision came about after somebody tried to hack into his Gmail account and discredited him with some nasty gossip.
All the people who were generous enough to donate support for 0okm's work were fully refunded - which is a good thing - but we still can't help but feel a bit down about this news item. Hopefully, either 0okm will decide to work on the project again in the near future or someone else will pick it up.
Right now, let's all show some support for 0okm in whatever his next homebrew project is.
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Noone else could possibly be that evil... could they?
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Nothing to do with gmail hack...
Never setup homebrew with donation cos it is only lead to fake.
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But this b@$t@rd makes me so d@mn angry!!!
Why hack a developer when you can't get anything but $h!t from it???
Somebody needs to get a life, or at least some common sense!!!
What of an idiot...
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Also, 0okm should have had a good password for his Gmail account.
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TO me, it looks like a scam. THe guy wanted to cover his track and blame on innocents hackers. He there goes the movie" Hackers". The guy Ookm what ever- should go to jail for scamming dumb people. Sometimes this stuff like hacking should not come at a perfect time where this people release that what so call downgrade.
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0okm is a well respected member of the scene, and wouldn't lie about this.
Cloudy
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all of you liile pricks had to whine and complain bout this that and the other, so now NO DOWNGRADER for ta-082
too bad LOL!!!!!!!
enjoy using your combersome HEN and devhooked 1.5 that fails to load half the time
I do hope that 00km releases his softdown so all of you whiny noobs brick your PSPs
if it was up to me, none of you ingrates would have any FW lower than 2.8
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you might as well update to 2.81 cos ta-082 will NEVER be downgraded. have fun with RENGOKU 2
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I was waiting to see what excuse would be used to stop doing this and now I see an extremely lame and unoriginal one.
I do not believe it for one second. He is beginning to sound like another Psdonkey. How strange that as soon as he makes a statement that he is going to go ahead with the downgrades that his Gmail account is mysteriously hacked. If you ask me, this is a classic case of ''biting of more than you can chew'' and then bottling out with some lame excuse.
Just think how much traffic this has generated on his site and how many people religiously visited his blog every single day. It was the perfect way to gain more traffic. Even though QJ.net states that all people who donated were refunded, he still gains due to the difference in currency rates. Either way, he wins. I do not trust him.
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Totally logical.
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i luv my 1.50
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so it was not scam just cut it out
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without Ookm's hard work, we might never have had legal homebrew period.
think about that before you open up your pie holes and start talkin mess about someone you know NOTHING about
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I'm gay!
Skate4LifeisaPO SER really owned me!! he knows I'm gay cos he saw me at the gay porn theater, he sat right next to me.
I can't believe he outed me!!
I must kill myself.
Skate4LifeisaPO SER is 2.8 user!!!
Skate4LifeisaPO SER is 2.8 user!!!
Skate4LifeisaPO SER is 2.8 user!!!
Skate4LifeisaPO SER is 2.8 user!!!
Skate4LifeisaPO SER is 2.8 user!!!
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People are gonna say they don't pirate games and only want to use legal homebrew which is bull*****, but we all know that 95%+ of people who do downgrade are doing it for free games which ultimately will hurt the PSP as a console.
so good riddance to ookm and i give my thanks to the hacker who screwed him.
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troll bait was clearly stated, yet YOU FELL FOR IT!!!
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL OLOLOL
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calling 00kim a scam is like saying AHMEN from irshell is a scam. they have both donated too much time to this scene to be fakes.
calling 00kim a scam is like saying AHMEN from irshell is a scam. they have both donated too much time to this scene to be fakes.
calling 00kim a scam is like saying AHMEN from irshell is a scam. they have both donated too much time to this scene to be fakes.
calling 00kim a scam is like saying AHMEN from irshell is a scam. they have both donated too much time to this scene to be fakes.
why want a ISP email account? so he can post your ***** up when you post his firmware dump he gave you
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Come on now, do you belove in Santa Claus too?
If the PSP fails its because of the way Sony handled it and the fact that the games themselves hardly carry the system.
PS2 is one of the most easily exploitable systems out there - the DS even easier - and you can easily see how big of a "failure" those two systems were.
yup
now get off the computer, gramma's trying to make a phone call
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I'll have him killed!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
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@ 36: and you know this HOW?? (so gay!)
but i do think that the softdown would brick our psps.
what it does sounds like too much to mess with, BRICKER!
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he made a downgrader for ta-082 where each person had to cantact him through emails. what did you expect? these are people who want homebrew yet bought ta-082 psps
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And to all those who say "why don't you come up with a way to downgrade a PSP" I don't need to as I have a 1.5 and will never upgrade so why should I make something that would be of no use to me? I am currently working on improving on the n64 emulator so it will run Starfox and Smash Bros pretty well for my own use since those are the only games I liked on the n64. And it isn't that hard to do I thought it would from the amount of time and problems others have had with it, oh well. So I guess those 4 years of advanced collage computer courses are good for something.
P.S. my version even HAS SOUND. interesing idea for an emulator huh?
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PS: Man, when you hide all the unregistered, there are almost no comments.
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1- Depressing
2- Pointless
3- Caused mostly by n00bs and/or leeches who just wanna look popular
4- Absolutly killing the scene here, because it seems the moment someone works on ANYTHING and announces it, people jump on the person screaming they're fakers and liers and how "Not possible" something is. Lemme say this. Nothing is totally 100% impossible, and screaming "Fake" went outta 'style' along time ago. It makes you about as cool as a kid using capslock to write a comment now
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Anyway, even though I don't have a TA-082, I think he should just try to get a new e-mail account, with a totally different password. He would have wasted his and everybody's time if he truly discontinues the downgrading.
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you know what? you dont have any solid evidence that he is scamming... this is america right? you can't just accuse of someone of something just because it seems that way... I hate people just say that without any evidence... start flaming when he does use people's personal data.. not when nothing happend... ok?
damn uneducated kids...
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I actually like using Hen on my 2.71. HEN C runs %100 of the time for me, and is the only step extra than what 1.5 users have to use:
1.5 : Better for using homebrew right when it is turned on, but you have to use devhook to play any newer game released.
2.71: Better for UMD Games, internet, flash, etc, but must load Hen (takes about an extra 5 seconds) and then devhook.
Now, because I like to play my UMD games, I prefer 2.71 (That and I have a TA-82 (originally 2.5), but even if I didn't, I still wouldn't downgrade at this point, especially if a newer version of Hen comes out that will run most homebrew without devhook) ;)
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Someone who doesn't want their source code released would ask for others' information and then threaten to release it. It's all for leverage. COMMON SENSE.
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also 67 you mite b right... if we all just ignore the 1st poster and dumbasses, they might loose interest
but also... I'm somewhat glad this downgrader aren't released... save sony some worries... we dont need more pirates in this world... already too many here, go BUY a game...
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You might be in America but 0okm and others are not. This is the internet and America is not the only country in the world. Why is it that only Americans make this assumption?
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I'm taking a guess that the ISP email was needed because he didn't want people creating heaps of different hotmail/gmail accounts.
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A) 0okm has done more than any of you can imaine if you just research him a bit.
B) There has been no huge 'OMG HE SCAMMED ME' n00bness goin' on.
so from this what can we determine? Yeah sure, there's is a chance he's trying to scam us all, but from his past contribututions , there is nothing to suggest that.
Innocent till proven guilty. Unless you're french.
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paypal, for instance REQUIRES that you use an ISP provided email address in order to register with them and link your credit card bank account (something a lot of kidz on this sire probably dont have)
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LOL yea I sem 2 hav a problm with spealling sorrie. At least you didn't call me gay or a *****ot which seems to be the standard insult in the comments section. So you are smarter than 99% of the people here. :)
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lol you are writing your response with bad sellings on purpose. That's actually many people's defense. just how human mind works. admitting that you are wrong but at the same time trying to cover it (for the first mistake) trying to show people that you ACTUALLY know how to spell ;) lol
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but to isolate working code that will either brick 100% of the psps out there, or successfully downgrade them... hmm...
If what 0okm had was true, then why was the binary download such a big secret? Why could only selected individuals have it on all these rediculous agreements that don't do anything anyways? What are you going to do? Go to court and tell the judge a guy named 0okm *****ed your PSP you were trying to hack?
Just like everything else in the world, you make instructions and pass out your ***** with the award of bragging rights and praise from the community...
...copy this file here, boot your psp, use eloader, run this code. bla bha blah.. if this happens do that.. if that happens do that...
I say he failed to pull it off... he felt bad getting everyones hopes up, so...
For all the poor souls that email him your information... if his gmail really did get hacked (pttt... yeah right) then all your personal information is out as well as your psp serial #. Have fun getting that back!
How many people actually gave him cash anyways? I'd be curious to hear from that side if they actually did get credited. There is no question in my mind 0okm is one smart dude, but face it guys... Sony won the TA-082 Downgrade war :). The softdown simply does not exist
1 for sony, and 0 for the people who didn't research before buying there psp.
#77 : did you know that 0okm also found a way to teleport? Don't stop believing everything you read in forums!! That way you'll have great stories to tell your friends in the AV Club every day!
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Because what has 0okm actually done.... oh thats right NOTHING!. Simply one less faker in the "dev" scene.
Months and months of endless "downgrader" info and when it actually happens, look how its distributed. Idiots.
your not suprised he actually left, what has he materialized ever.
Get on your high horses people, I also have done NOTHING, but I dont tell half the PSP world what they simply want to hear.
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Ookm stop giving false hopes, or anything, anyways
it's good that you gave up, whatever hoax youre trying to pull off.
thanks to Dark_AleX for unleashing glory for TA-082s
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Oh, and Karl B. fails for using the same image that's been in every single one of these "Downgrade your TA-082" articles. It doesn't take a genius to change the happy face to something more appropriate :s
I can't see it being too long before 2.71 takes over as the preferred firmware for homebrew. Once that happens, 1.5's are going to be no more than a novelty.
Your "downgrader" will not be missed, Ookm.
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Far to many of these immature brats bash you for something we should all be kissing your @ss for. Thanks for all of your hard work and I hope you stay on the scene. These people are far too privileged and like petulant children, do nothing but complain when things dont go their way. These people just sit around here with their pants around their ankles waiting for you to "save them" from whatever god awful mistake they've done.
I suggest all coders STOP WORKING ON DOWNGRADERS and DownDaters. At this point, people should F*CKING KNOW TO NOT UPGRADE THEIR SYSTEM. You guys arent teaching us how to fish, just giving us our daily fish. Let people deal with their dumbass decisions.
Thanks for everything
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It wasn't a scam. Check out the White PSPs that he advertised here:
http://0okm.blogspot.com/2006/12/ad-brand-new-fw150-psp-just-us18900.html
White PSPs there are all downgraded TA-082 to 1.50. You'll know since he mentioned this:
"It can be update to FW2.60/2.70/2.71/2.80/2.81/... via Sony PSP system update"
Non-TA-082 WhitePSPs can be updated to 1.50/1.51. But the one his sponsor selling is not. And he also mentioned that his sponsor gave him PSPs to test in return of downgrading TA-082 PSPs.
Too bad he should've seen it coming. He posted his email publicly and we all know that besides chinese people, he's the only one who can downgrade TA-082 PSP right now.
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...Read carefully. Hahahah.
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The reason 0okm asked for an ISP email is simple: an ISP email is hard-coded to your connection, you have to pay for it. It's not something you can just sign up for for free the instant you need to use email for something. What's stopping some idiot from using a gmail/hotmail/yahoo/etc account from getting a softdown for their PSP, and then sharing it, thus bricking countless PSPs belonging to the uneducated?
0okm is just trying to avoid catastrophe.
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These is no downgrader, and if there WAS, he would not be trying to monopolize it.
Hacked gmail? puh-lease...
Anyone who bought into this is a sucker.
Just hang in there a while, someone with some integrity will give you a downgrader eventually. Just like before.
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The Psp scene has been filled with fake downgraders, fake emulators, people trying to steal money and so many other fake news and stories that it is no wonder no one has trust anymore.
People have donated to emulators that did not exist and lost money to downgraders that were never released.
So what the hell do you expect if a coder that many people do not know much about asks for your ISP and Serial numbers and then threatens to release your information if you some how leaked his work.
You cannot be too careful nowadays so I do not know why so many people are getting annoyed about hearing fake screamed out so much.
There is no trust left in this scene anymore unless a Dev is well known.
By the sounds of it, Ookm is more of a behind the scenes Dev so many people are unaware of his work so of course will be screaming fake. Either way, it is better to be safe than sorry.
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Personally I do have a 1.50 PSP (thanks to Dark Alex), but if you people want to show Ookm how bad you feel due to those wankers responsible for the cancellation of the proyect and show some support to him all I can suggest is to jump this Article up in QJ.NET everyday so it is on the "Top 10 Jumped Up Posts in the last 24 hours" for the next weeks.
Hopefully Ookm will rethink about it, realize that many people here have been let down (not only him) and come across a better system to carry on helping TA-082 owners (I am sad to say that the email system was bound to fail sooner than later)
Anyway, good luck to the TA-082 owners and my best to Ookm who REALLY is a PSP hacking master.
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When u do these things u need a good password on ur gmail acc ..
i dont believe someone hacked his gmail
just a scam
peace.
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honk kong has been releasing white psp's left right and center (even pink) that are 1.5fw.
Incase you didn't know, it's very easy to change a face-plate and buttons
0okm never downgraded a TA-082, and posting links to him showing his "sponsors" tells you very little.
Look, i made a downgrader too! i can't release it!! No i can't do that! I need your full personal information and maybe i'll consider it.
In the meantime here are my sponsers:
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%2Bpsp+%2B1.5+%2Bwhite&btnG=Search
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And no I don't think this was a scam. Why would a highly admired coder do such a thing?
And yes he is a skilled coder, we have seen that before so don't start whit me.
http://0okm.blogspot.com/2006/12/0okms-blog-list.html
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You st**d ba**erd, don't blame Yoshihiro for such a act.
18 said "This has Yoshihiro all over it. I bet he was involved." common grow up! Your just some sp*ild br*t who just want all coders to give you everything for free...
Yoshihiro has given this scene alot, please tell me what you have given it?
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Seriously, I laughed my a$$ off when I saw this article...
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Like I said in the forums and this jsut confirmed it. 0okm was scamming.
It was ridiculous right since the beginning when he asked for "ISP emails" and ***** like that. I mean what the *****.
I totally saw this coming, and here it is.
0okm has lost all respect he ever had. I dont know how he got respect in the first place, his "hacks" were never really publically shown.
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How would i have seen a post written in the future anyhow?
Only 0okm and Chuck Norris can do that
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Thank you all of the c0cksmokers who jump to conclusions. This is why the PSP is going to lose steam. Pretty soon, Dark_Alex will release something that's not finished, get flamed and LEAVE the scene. That's when I laugh and buy a DS. LOL.
Next, you need 2 stfu about people not being able to downgrade from 2.8. You make it seem as if Sony commercializes the fact that they try to prevent piracy by announcing that 1.5 is the sacred firmware. They don't. They are a business, and then do what's best for thier asses, legally and financially. Many who don't have the time to actually look up on the PSP scene and just randomly buys it are doomed. But that's why we have devs who work on their own time to help those unfortunate souls. Dumb idiots.
Have a nut.
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hehehe chuck norris + 0okm = 2.80 downgrader?
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But when i found out that my brother updated to 2.71 when 2.6 downdater was released i was sooo pissed off.
Every 1 said there is no way that 2.71 is going to be downdated, well they did it (1.5 user now)
So I believe one day they will get a softdown for the poor TA users. Dont update anymore you will see just a week after you updated they will get a way to downgrade the version you updated from.
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But when i found out that my brother updated to 2.71 when 2.6 downdater was released i was sooo pissed off.
Every 1 said there is no way that 2.71 is going to be downdated, well they did it (1.5 user now)
So I believe one day they will get a softdown for the poor TA users. Dont update anymore you will see just a week after you updated they will get a way to downgrade the version you updated from.
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Chuck Norris can even write his own hombrew without using a computer... He does it by simply writing directly to the umd disk with his finger nails. If he wants to write a game on the memory stick.. he simply thinks of what he wants and spits in his memory stick. Presto! he has a new game.
Chuck Norris controls the rotation of the earth and oribit of the planets on his TA-082 PSP.
Chuck Norris's PSP only has 1 button on it, he doesn't need more buttons to acomplish his tasks.
Chuck Norris's PSP doesn't use batteries in his PSP, there is enough energy around him to power it along with any other nearby appliance/device.
Chuck Norris's Fist is running on firmware 1.5, and when he round house kicks you, that would be called an EBOOT.
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Or can't you?
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F-uck O-ff all the indictive bastards and leave the guy alone, if it wasnt for him alot of yous could do jack ***** with your PSP,s and still be crying for homebrew..............
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It just doesn't make sense that he'd hold out on everyone when he was able to downgrade other PSPs just fine. Yeah, there could've been some things to work out in his method and such, but if the PSPs he already downgraded were good enough to sell online, it really puzzles me that he'd refuse to help anyone else.
Now it's obvious that he's not going to be of help, but that wasn't the case before.
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"This has Yoshihiro all over it. I bet he was involved."
"let him and yoshihiro start a dev team together. they can call themselves 'lie-cheat-steal dev team if they want. life rolls on."
What's yoshihiro has to do with this ?!
Give him a break ! Are you allways trying to get any opportunities to flame him?
If you knew him as I know him you would actually think he is a great dev.
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"This has Yoshihiro all over it. I bet he was involved."
"let him and yoshihiro start a dev team together. they can call themselves 'lie-cheat-steal dev team if they want. life rolls on."
What's yoshihiro has to do with this ?!
Give him a break ! Are you allways trying to get any opportunities to flame him?
If you knew him as I know him you would actually think he is a great dev.
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Now we know the fact that $ony never released a White PSP w/ FW1.5. We thought that our TA-082 PSP were "hardware" downgraded but we wonder why the void warranty was still intact and untouched.
And the fact that 0okm can both hardware and software downgrade (he's a chinese) and some other chinese people who hardware downgrade TA-082 for a fee, we know its not a scam.
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Yes, hong kong is releasing White PSP FW1.5 left and right. But didn't you know that most of it (if not all) are TA-082? We know the fact that in Shanghai, China there's a small group of people there that hardware downgrades White PSP for a fee. And 0okm is the only one we know who can software downgrade.
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I'm not surprised by your reply. You don't have any knowledge about programming. I'm a developer myself and in my point of view, 0okm is a great PSP C/C++ developer in TA-082 area.
Every developer has their own strengths like Dark_AleX @ downgrading stuffs and 0okm @ TA-082 area + Hardware knowledge, etc...
Although I think 0okm is a bit overreacting on the hack stuff, he should've seen it coming since he posted his email publicly.
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"what was taking him so long to start helping everyone else with theirs?"
0okm is only 1 person. Besides, after he software downgraded a PSP, he have to improve/simplify his software downgrade. And developing a software isn't that easy. Just look how long developers took just to make a game. Average of 3-5 years just to make a game from scratch.
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Scam? How can you say its a scam? He returned all the donations. Its very stupid thing for a scammer to return the donations. And its even more stupid for someone to call someone a scammer who returns the donations. Use your logic and common sense sometimes.
"Art is difficult, Criticism is easy"
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I ordered my from hong kong, and it's a white psp running v1.5fw.
Absolutly no where does IC0003 exist, they just changed the chassi on it if anything...
Seriously dood... don't believe everything you read and don't assume everything you don't know. Let me guess, Ookm single handedly found some solvent to remove the markings from my motherboard too right? My white psp wouldn't exist without 0okm? The downgrader is fake... deal with it.
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Say you were in 0okm's position. Wouldn't it make more sense to you to work out all the bugs in your downgrader before letting your sponsor sell them?
If you offered the service for free to a select group of people, in order to work out the bugs, you'd be able to give them the "I won't be held responsible if this bricks your PSP, etc." warning.
Sure, the same thing could be done even if you let your sponsor start selling the PSPs you downgraded for them, but if your downgrader had a bug that had the potential of bricking, you'd not only have people angry at you for not fixing it completely, but also at your sponsor as well, for not verifying that it worked exactly as it should.
I can agree that 0okm is only one person, and as such he can only do so much at a time, but to me, things don't add up in this case :\
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You see as an adult, you are not affected by taunting and being called out.
That only works on other children (and insecure or childish adults).
An adult does not have to prove to a bunch of children that he does indeed have a program that does what he says it does. He can be satisfied just knowing that he's accomplished what he says he's accomplished, and no amount of childish taunting, or calling out can change that.
And believe me, if on the off chance he really didn't accomplish anything, then he will live with that shame also. None of the positive OR negative comments are truly relevant.
However I personally I have 2 somewhat conflicting opinions on the issue.
1)I have no reason to doubt that he did indeed create the program, and I would never try to discredit him of that accomplishment without proof that it was a hoax.
2)On the other hand, I would not brag about, or entirely believe he actually made this program without seeing proof. And that would need to be at least a good dozen or so people confirming that they have downgraded (any less than that could just be friends of his posting for him)
So basically I'm not convinced either way, but because there's no proof either way, it wouldn't be logical to either back up OR discredit the claim.
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Maybe I should sell it, using "downgraded by 0okm" as my advertising strategy. I could make a fortune.
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Sony Tech #1: Hey man we'll gonna release White PSPs with latest firmware 2.01
Sony Tech #2: Are you idiot? We'll release FW1.50 White PSPs so they can hack it easily.
The fact that you got FW1.50 White PSP means lot of White PSPs today are downgraded. For God's sake do some research atleast.
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White PSP fw 1.5 is once again very common(since 2.5/2.6 downgrader released) almost in every game store, not second hand, but brand new @ a price not far from a black 1.5 PSP.
I have not done any research whether they're TA-082 softdowned or Harddowned. But changing motherboard service to get fw1.5(from older motherboards) is also common here.
In fact, these fw1.5 psps have a one year warranty(as they're retail PSP-1006 model), suggesting that it should be not hardowned. (But fake void warranty labels exist in China)
Finally, as of today, nearly all Hong Kong PSP 1.5 owners are not TA-082 PSPs(very few claim they have, but they said they used Dark_Alex 2.71 downgrader to downgrade their "IC1003 PSP"(they call it this way in one of the popular HK forums), so should be lying).
p.s. My common sense tells me that 0okm is not a scammer because, he refunded the donations, which a scammer usually don't.
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Like my good friend Kurt Kobane said, Its Better To BurnOut Than To Fade Away!!.... Very Deep!!:(
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