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Happy Birthday PSP! [A look back at the PSP]

Posted Mar 24, 2006 at 1:42PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Homebrew Games, News Tags: psp homebrew games

!!Happy Birthday!!

Yes, we are aware that the PSP was released in Japan at the end of 2004, but this is to celebrate the American release and the homebrew that followed!

Well, since it is a birthday, we would like to recap on all of the major events over the past single year. This one year span of time was not wasted at all, we all spent time developing the PSPÂ’s future, and Sony has done as well. The PSP has a promising future thanks to the homebrew developers and Sony (yes, we have to give credit to those who made it!).

The first place in the United States to sell these beautiful systems on the 24th was the Sony Metreon. The first person to buy the console in this area was Richard Roth of San Francisco who lined up at 8AM, the morning before. With the doors open and the crowd filed in, the selling began and by the end of the day, the PSPs were gone.

The release titles for the American release were outstanding, taking the PSP graphics to the max in Ridge Racers, Untold Legends, Tony Hawk, and many other titles. The PSP would never have been a hit success without the great games provided at the start, and the graphics that went with them!

The greatest news that was ever reported for the PSP was the execution Â“Hello WorldÂ” by Nem, the first homebrew Â“programÂ” ever released. This program displayed the text Â“Hello WorldÂ” on the PSPÂ’s screen and opened the doors to PSP homebrew! Nem is a name no one should forget, so write it down if you didn't know his name! Following the days after the Hello World release, the source code was released, along with some new homebrew programs. One of the largest homebrew releases seen was the Gameboy emulator. This emulator ran at normal resolution (no stretch) with no sound. This release was such a shocker, that many did not believe it. Luckily enough, PSPUpdates was right there and shortly after it made a proof video for download.

Several other emulators were released after the RIN (Gameboy Color) emulator. Only a week after the release of the Gameboy Color emulator came the SNES emulator.

When these emulators were showing up, they were only playable on firmware 1.0 (JP) PSPÂ’s and not the American versions (1.5). This was sad news to all those who found PSPUpdates (PSPHacker back then) and everyone heard these American cries, and they knew they had to do something about it! A month after homebrew first appeared, the 1.5 firmware was exploited and homebrew could be executed! This was the most exciting news at all because it was the first exploit of the PSP, making the Spanish PSP-Dev team special! The method required two memory sticks, which I was lucky to have a brother with a PSP as well at the time, and started to run RIN and SNES9x on my PSP the same day. The blood rushed through my veins a little bit too fast, almost fainting at the sight of Zelda on my Sony PSP! This method was less than ideal, but it worked, so many were happy, but others were not. Within a short period, PSPersonalize was released for the PSP that would allow users to change their backgrounds with images, this being another great breakthrough in the PSP! This program was so revolutionary that people began going crazy and did not know what to do, so we compiled a guide for them! Only a few days later, a new method came out, using the same exploit, but this time it only required one memory stick! This was such great news, a large smiley face had to accompany the news! With the announcement of homebrew on 1.5 and 1.0, we saw new homebrew tools released to aid developers and users with their PSP. Several programs were released to allow users to edit the eboot fileÂ’s images and hide corrupt icons that were annoying. With this, came even more homebrew games including Squarez. Squarez came to be the most renowned homebrew games ever due to itÂ’s drastic gameplay improvements and additions. I played Squarez for a total of 22 hours, playing it longer than any PSP game I owned at the time. I donÂ’t know how I could play the game so long, but for some reason..I did!

There are tooooo many (extra Â“OsÂ” used to show how many) homebrew games and applications released and you can enjoy the best of the best on our download site.

Sony, meanwhile, issued two security updates to the PSP firmware marked as: Firmware 1.51 and Firmware 1.52. These two firmwares are the only two of the current firmwares unable to run homebrew or downgrade. The newest PSPs would ship with this new firmware, and left many customers Â“homebrewless.Â” On July 17th, Sony announced that the newest firmware, 2.0 will be released in Japan very soon, and that the European release date of the PSP will ship with 2.0 firmware as well. Everyone was anxious to use their new PSP as a web browser, many loved homebrew too much to let go, but all seemed to work out in the end. Sony released firmware 2.0 on July 27th of 2005 marking the first Â“majorÂ” update for the Sony PSP. Since the update was so large, a FAQ had to be posted to aid many of our users in their new firmware.

Well, with the 2.0 firmware Â“rushÂ”, the next big event was the European release. This release succeeded as Sony hoped for, and many European owners were left with Â“homebrewlessÂ” PSPs. This prompted more developers to work on a solution, and so one was brought in the form of a tiff (a picture format) exploit by toc2rta. This caused a major need for future exploration in the 2.0 TIFF exploit, and so, a downgrader was released by MPH! A downgrader was thought of to be difficult with the PSP and its high security, but that did not stop the dedicated homebrew developers/hackers! With this exploit in hand (the tiff exploit), Fanjita made the first homebrew launcher for 2.0 firmware. With the tiff exploit and the downgrader, Sony quickly patched the firmware to version 2.01 and shortly after that released firmware 2.50. Firmware 2.50 offered a few new features to the PSP which mainly consisted of network updates and additions. These new firmwares brought forth new firmware requirements for games, forcing users to update to higher firmwares to play the games, and thus lose homebrew!

With new firmwares released by Sony, hackers found it even more difficult to exploit the PSP, but this did not stop them! Edison Carter released the first ever, in-game cheat device for a PSP game. This game was the renowned Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. This game is amazing on the PSP, and with the cheat device, even better! With this cheat device and the save game hack it used (found by Edison Carter), Fanjita and Ditlew were able to construct the first-ever 2.01, 2.50 and 2.60 eboot loader! This news was the most important news since the 2.0 firmware update and everyone started buying GTA according to some peopleÂ… We canÂ’t attribute GTA sales to this hack, but I think it would be safe for Fanjita and Ditlew to ask for a couple of bucks from Rockstar, whose headquarters are only a few blocks down from FanjitaÂ’s crib!

The PSP is getting quite exploited by now, with MPH having released the downgrader and a firmware launcher, the PSP was far from dead! MPH announced only several weeks ago, that he ran 2.0+ ISOs on his 1.5 PSP, and then released the program to show it ! Everyone was able to run their 2.0+ UMD (shortly after the ISOs) and ISOÂ’s on their 1.5 and 1.0 PSPs, and everyone seemed to be in a very good mood! ISOs are never a good thing, but they are much easier to Â“hackÂ” than UMD execution.

Well, that is the majority of PSP news over the past year, and developing it took a lot of great developers and hackers! Thanks to these dedicated people, the PSP homebrew scene has expanded, and the PSP has reached its American birthday! The PSP homebrew will not see a birthday for another month or so, but it is what made the PSP what it is! Sony has a bright future planned out for the PSP and the Â“next generation of video gamesÂ”, so be sure to stay tuned at the loyal PSP sites for constant news delivery.

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does anyone remember the firmware 2.50 overflow? i know it wasnt much but maybe if someone messed with it some more...... i dunno.

well for those who dont know about what i just said, its just a hacked up firmware which does exactly what the overflow.tiff exploit did, minus the downgrading

(it just freezes up the screen)

# Hell! — p0p5ux 2006-03-24 16:26

Dude...i remember when i bought my PSP, it was a cold night in Atlanta when...

Wait! I dont have a PSP!

Shoot! I was just a dream

just kiddin! i have a psp..

Happy b*tchday! PSP!

# european users — Guest 2006-03-24 16:29

its not really THE birthday for the psp it was relased the bginng of decemebr in japan and 1september in europe so people its the AMERICAN birthday off the psp

# ... — Guest 2006-03-24 16:41

HBD (+|PSP|::) !!! FA!!!

# WHERE'S 3.0? — Guest 2006-03-24 16:43

I guess that the release date for the next firmware was not today after all. Thanks for getting my hopes up liars!

# Update — TeamOverload 2006-03-24 16:46

The updates normally come out b/w 11PM and 1AM EST so it could come out today...but i doubt it

# happy birht day psp!!!!!!!!!!!! — Guest 2006-03-24 16:47

the psp had a great first year i love my psp i bought it the first day it came out i cant belive one year whent bye so fast

# Happy birthday PSP! — InflamedSpirit 2006-03-24 16:53

Ahhh... the memories. Nice article, it's sort of interesting to read about all of this again. I remember I bought mine at the exact day MPH released his downgrader.

Happy birthday PSP! Let's hope for a N64 and PS emulator for year number 2!

# :) — Guest 2006-03-24 16:58

Ahh the memories. I cant call it a 1 yaer anniversary with my PSP yet as I bought mine in May.

# happy b-day — Guest 2006-03-24 16:59

happy birthday!!!!

# HAPPY BIRTHDAY — Tom green 2006-03-24 17:02

We need a Wacky waving inflatable arm flayling tube man here, ha ha

# Thanks everyone — Guest 2006-03-24 17:15

Thank you everyone, the necessary changes have been made, sorry for some of the broken links.

# good ol times — Guest 2006-03-24 17:18

well happy b-day PSP.... i remember the day wen me and friend didnt go to skool the next day coz we waited at the store 12 at midnight!!!! just to get 1..... well i didnt really get 1 but my friend did..... i got mine a lil late, but i got the giga pack and it came with 2.5 firmwire :( so it sucks but if it wasnt for me my friend wouldnt hav known anything about homebrews

# I remember the first time i saw that green screen... — Guest 2006-03-24 17:31

It was a nice warm day here in Puerto Rico when i bought my PSP exactly 1 year ago...once i turned it on it had a green screen and i was thinking but what about that blue screen they always show in the commercials...well i was stupid back then...but now i am what u call "PSP Smart"

# Nice article... — Guest 2006-03-24 17:46

I would say that this article focused a bit too much on the homebrew scene but it was an interesting read. But then, I can not really complain because the homebrew programs pretty much kept me busy while waiting for the next must have game to be released, which kept me from returning my PSP and purchasing a Nintendo DS. Anyway, there are several other PSP-related topics that are worth mentioning, like some of the first games to utilize downloadable content (eg. Wipeout Pure) and a few of the more interesting scandals Surrounding the PSP (eg. the WAB Downgrader scam). But then, listing every significant event surrounding this handheld system would make this article far too long.

Aryn The Cat (NOT an Anonymous Coward)

# Yo! — Guest 2006-03-24 17:48

Yup... my lovely wife bought be a psp + GTA for xmas. I put the disc in and updated my PSP. .Played GTA for awhile.. got bored. The psp sat around in the house and got nearly no use. I started using it more for movies for my daughter... Then the 2.6 fanjita loader came out. Its a rush loading snes and neogeo on your PSP for the first time.

This was not enough though. I searched the city and found a location selling pre 2.0 firmware psps. After coercing the guy into finding me the right one in the warehouse according to the label code I promptly took it home and upgraded/downgraded. Its been getting ALOT more use since then. My only fear is that the buttons might breakdown due to use and ill have a forced upgrade somewhere~!!! Otherwise, happy birthday psp, we lub yew!

# my love letter for psp — Guest 2006-03-24 18:00

dear psp: i love you

so have made me so happy over the years...

sometimes when i droped you, i fell to tears

i have always saw that look on your screen and i knew it said : i love you to.

oh psp i know hombrew slows you down

but turn that frown upside down its you way of sticking it to the creator and saying: IN YOUR UGLY FACE SONY THATS FOR DELAYING THE UPDATE.

dear psp: i love you.

# overflow.tiff 2006-03-24 18:17

hey Aryn, why don't you just log in? is it really that bad?

and yes i downgraded many PSPs. i hated the part when i froze

# I cant believe its been a year — Guest 2006-03-24 18:25

Wow, I remember when i got this the first day it came out and it seems like last week. It was so hard for me to wait for this to come out but once it did it sure proved the nintendo ds fanboys wrong!

# It so Young ;_; — Guest 2006-03-24 18:30

I'm still waiting for my psp to say its first words

# psps — soopergooman 2006-03-24 18:45

I cant belive in the past year I've owned 6 PSPs! Happy Birthday my 2 PSPs!

# WOW — Guest 2006-03-24 19:16

i cant believe i still have my original 1.5 virgin psp

# What Are The Odds ? — ZeroBinary 2006-03-24 19:26

Wow, what are the odds hey ?! My birthday today and reading about the American Birthday of the PSP on pspupdates. ^_^

*Me looks at his original 1.5 PSP, and says, "Don't ever change. Happy Birthday !! *"

# Happy Birthday To You!!! — iNCREDiPiNOY 2006-03-24 19:35

I can't believe you turn 1 year old! I still have my original 1.50 and 2.00 PSPs, cuz they're disability to upgrade to newer version... Anyway... Happy Birthday to both of you!!! It's time to change the diaper (charge battery) LOL!!! I love you all!!!

# Woo — Dave 2006-03-24 21:30

Looking at my original 1.0 JAP psp upgraded to 1.5, putting in my 2gb memory stick, putting in my best UMD game and putting a gold chain round its anolouge stick.

Ma psp is teh ownage so it deserves this. Even though my PSP's b'day is that JAP release date. My psp is like 2yrs old.

# Nice — RedDevil_NL 2006-03-24 23:36

Great article...But im still glad that im not hacking..

I mean: When everybody hacks, they dont make any games anymore... Its too expensive.

Then new developers dont get a change, cuz the risk to fail is too big. So we will only get GTA XVII's and HALO XXII's..

Still think guys like fanjita should go work for a developer..

# Happy bday! — Guest 2006-03-24 23:51

Lol, happy bday psp.....

Hope you bring some other ***** out

# somethingth comment — Guest 2006-03-25 02:19

wat # m i?

HP PSP!

# was out in japan 1st.... on december — Guest 2006-03-25 02:49

not original bday

# Happy BDay — Guest 2006-03-25 03:56

h@pPy B!rThD4y PSP! haha im posting this on from PSP :~)

# Happy birthday, — vans1170 2006-03-25 04:09

Cheers.

# Where is HE! — Guest 2006-03-25 04:15

Weres Fanjita on this board to give us some great news lol!

# WoW — Guest 2006-03-25 04:57

This means that I haven't had a life for a yearnow

# R.I.P Media Play — Guest 2006-03-25 05:45

Man, I preordered my PSP at Media Play, and they didn't charge anything extra- just the normal $250 price.

I have 2.0 now, and enjoy the 2.0 loader a LOT. I'm also in college now, so I'm on the wireless a lot.

I LOVE MY PSP

# They grow up so fast! — Guest 2006-03-25 06:34

It was just like yesterday where i took it to school for the first time. He was almost take from me.... cry cry cry. now he's just picking up the dust.

# pspwnd — Guest 2006-03-25 06:55

pspwnage, happy bday psp!

# WTF?? — Guest 2006-03-25 08:46

Dose anyone know wtf that firstt pic is of? Is it a concept PSP? i've seen that since before the thing even was released. WTF IS IT??!!!

# Yeah — Guest 2006-03-25 09:28

its a concept pic on the PSP, think it was the first pic I saw on how the PSP was going to looks like.

Happy Birthday!

# Sorry, it should say; or was going to look like — Guest 2006-03-25 09:33

# A year already?! — JsgetbusyLGZ14 2006-03-25 14:50

Wow,i remember that day when it came out,i wanted one sooo bad. And about 4 months later,i got my hands on one ^^. It is by far my most favorite "gadget" ever and I couldn live w/out it. THank you Sony for making an awesome system and thank you homebrew developers for bringing us free games and software = D

# yep — Guest 2006-03-25 20:33

you've gotta love it.... cheers!

# yea — Guest 2006-03-26 02:48

psp suck

ds is where its at

# " — Idree 2006-03-26 04:53

"

happy b'day

"

# Happy Birthday — Guest 2006-03-26 09:47

This was a great year and a bigger for PSP and his Homebrews

So enjoy it and play

PSP Rocks the world yeah

# WOW — Guest 2006-03-26 11:49

Happy Birthday PSP!!!

# LOSERS.... — Guest 2006-03-28 00:55

it's an OBJECT not a person

i like the psps just as much as the next guy but it's an object.

do u guys celebrate your computer's birthday I DONT THINK SO

# LOSERS — Guest 2006-03-28 11:04

ur mums are losers which made u lot to be another bread of losers

# Hell Yeah — Guest 2006-03-28 14:15

i think i would be the last one i hope

happy hell of a mothefking btchin up ur a$$ day psp!!!

p.s HELL YEAH!!!!!!

# nope... i am last — Guest 2006-03-29 07:22

by the way3:04, you cant spell well... its breed not bread... so your the LOSER! hahahahahahahah ahaha!!!

# Happy B-day PSP-izzle — Guest 2006-03-29 14:06

PSP Hellz yeah

# The OS's too! — Guest 2006-03-30 11:27

You forgot about the guy who got Windows 95 and Certain forms of Linux to run on the PSP. You also forgot the homebrew brickers and security warnings and even making Norton add PSP.Brick to their virus definitions. But you pretty much got all of everything else.

Happy birthday PSP!

~ Soccrmastr

# Ok — Guest 2006-03-30 12:18

I didn't "forget them" I just didn't put them in there. The windows 95 was a good thing, and I don't know why I did not put it in there..should've done that along with the Mac one (Basilisk, some spelling like that). Psix should've been in there too as well as the scene controversy, but I try to show the positive only

If I have time in the future, I will add some of those that I missed earlier

# My PSP :) — Guest 2006-03-30 21:30

Hi all,

This is Visu.

I got my PSP Gigapack a couple of month's back.

Its been really entertaining, I should say.

Apart from the fact that I still havent got GTA , so no Homebrew's :(

But I still have a loz of stuff to do on my PSP.

Movie, Games, MP3, e-books, and wi-fi internet access

Good going Sony....

Keep rocking.... You can do better...

and btw Happy B'day PSP

# First Comment — Guest 2006-03-31 07:19

First Comment

# man im soo dumb!!!! — Guest 2006-03-31 12:58

i cant believe its been a year since the american release and i still only have a limited number of homebrew apps,web portals and the cheat device (which is the best thing ever). But the real problem is I have a version 2.60 PSP so im not really sure about how to put homebrew games on it,but anyways happy b-day psp!!! p.s. if anyone can help me with the emulators and stuff that would be great thnx.

# to guy above me — Guest 2006-03-31 18:01

Step 1. Go buy gta (from best buy :D!)

Step 2. Go to fanjita.org

Step 3. Download Gta 2.01 - 2.6 eloader

Step 4. Run gta

Step 5. load save file

Last Step. Run homebrew files and play for hours :D!

# thnx alot — Guest 2006-04-01 03:27

man thank you so much i have so many gbc games and now im startin on snes thnx

# psp rocks! — Guest 2006-04-01 04:38

happy birthday psp!

# #17 — Guest 2006-06-22 10:25

your forgetting nem... if it wasnt for him... there would only be edison and maybe mph on your list...

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