Here's a step-by-step guide I wrote to get great fun from this game without having to upgrade.

1. Burn this UMD
2. Buy GTA: Liberty City Stories
3. Enjoy your not 2.50 PSP

I hope this guide helps.

well fact is people psp games>>homebrew and if you have to upgrade to play all the lastest psp games then i'm sure you could live without homebrew its not like it was that great in first place

> its not like it was that great in first place

Yeah, so Xvid at fullscreen is crap.
I simply don't get your point.

forced upgrading = sucksville

I hope katamari doesn't require an update.

but, if there are good games to keep me occupied then i wont mind updating...

but i like having an SNES and some other homebrews... they don't suck for sure.

well its begon we will have to update to play the newest games its guest a mater of time till hombrew is gone this will be a hard desion for some people and my self

of COURSE Me and My Katamari is gonna require 2.5, i definitiely know the japanese version will require 2.5, but what about when it comes to the US, what if itll require something like...3.0, now thats something to be like, woah wtf, about

exit isnt good enough to upgrade for, but katamari, might be...

Eventually you'll have to upgrade for every game and every game will use the AVC codec so unless custom firmware comes out homebrew is pretty much dead unless you don't want to use your psp for its games

PSP games are better then homebrew. I'll keep my homebrew abilities until I see a PSP game I want that requires higher firmware.

Well hold on...
wasnt there a program that would recompile everything inside an iso to bring it from 2.00 to 1.50? this however didnt work for GTA but it did work for lots of other games.
if it dosnt work with EXIT it may probably work for a lot of others.

Homebrew will not die. There will always be something to exploit. Especially with the GTA hello world, that should eventually be able to work on every current firmware (it already works on 2.5 and later may work on 2.6 as well if they map out the 2.6 syscalls) according to the people who created it.

When you have the minds of people all over the world working for it, given enough time, they can break through.

Surpose when you put it like that there is still hope with the firmware emulator but i beleave most people will just give up and upgrade once it gets to the point of 2.5+ firmware required because they can't be bothered to do go though all of this trouble each time they want to play homebrew. I mean its went from simply loading the games up from the menu(1.5) to loading up though a photo exploit(2.0) to loading it up though a cheat device which requires you to insert a umd and go though all the menus and loading just to play the homebrew. It seems each time a firmware is hacked it gets more compilcated and it makes it feel like its not worth it in the end just to play these little apps

maybe it is just me who feels this way but i think as you need to go though more exploits and different less convenent methods to play homebrew people will get bored and just upgrade so they can play there psp games.

good guide djshrimpy ;)

EXIT is one of the best PSP games out there yet. I love it. I haven't enjoy a game so much in YEARS. It is worth the update. Simply as that.

There saying this as if EXIT will be the 1st PSP game to require 2.50

Smackdown vs RAW 2006 already requires 2.50 and so does Prince of Persia: Revelations.