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PSP dev kit on eBay? What the...

Posted Dec 5, 2006 at 3:16PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PSP Tags: eBay, Sony

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We know the homebrew scene just loves to push the PSP to the limit, to show what they and Sony's little machine can do. Still, there's pushing, and there's pushing, especially if the brewer in question has THIS sitting in his bedroom.

The two questions on our minds are (1) is this really for real, and (2) if it is real, where in creation did emceemoney get a PSP development kit to auction on eBay? Not like the guy's a prolific eBayer, even with a 100% feedback rating. We're even not going to make the comment that the current bid as of this posting is US$ 329.00.

If you were to get hold of this devkit, what would you do with it? What games out of your imagination could you conjure up in the darkness of your development lab/bedroom? (Although somehow, a pro-level UMD of Ponies and Kittens just made us... have kittens). Yeah, it's gonna be a somewhat steep learning curve to learn how this thing works, but that's the price of playing the big boys' game. That and whatever the final bid for this kit will be.

(This is, of course, presuming that this is a legit deal to begin with.)

Update: Cope2 sent us a tip that eBay has removed the PSP dev kit we featured in this post.

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http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=psp&thread.id=2686141

I'm actually the seller of this item. I came on here to try and find out some more information about the devkit. I didn't say I was the owner before because I wanted to know what everyone thought about it. IT IS NOT STOLEN! It is not a scam either. I manage a buy/sell shop in Oregon. When this first came into my store I spent 4 hours on the phone with Sony. They had no information they were willing to part with about this devkit because they don't want the general public to have them. This was purchased legally through Sony Manufacturing in Eugene Oregon from one of its former employee's after the plant shut down. He had no use for it. I tried to give it back to Sony but they wouldn't claim it. It was run through our local PD and our County PD. It is not stolen. For some reason Ebay shut the auction down. I need to sell this thing because I have no use for it either. It has been tested and works fine. If anyone is interested in please PM me. The last offer I got was for $700 but I think it may be worth more. My former employee was posting in the other thread and got it locked so I had to start a new one. Thanks

# Donate it — Guest 2006-12-05 18:35

Why don't you donate it to people like Dark Alex and maybe we'll end up seeing the true potential of a psp!!

# donate! — Guest 2006-12-05 18:56

yer it should be donated to dark alex! imagine how awsum that would be he could make like downgrade eboots for all firmwares! so wen sony comes out with a new firmware we could downgrade of he could make an eboot for like 3.02se so if u had upgraded for whatever reason then u could just run the eboot and upgrade for homebrew goodess!!!

# ..... — nanoware 2006-12-05 19:50

ill give you $2000

haha ya right..... should be interesting, this could be leathal if it falls into the worng hands, also please post pics up :-D

# well — Guest 2006-12-05 20:10

it seems pretty cool, but ill stick to just my psp for now lol. i probably couldnt do crap with it anyway. it'd just be a real expensive table top centerpiece.

# erm, questionable. — PSmonkey 2006-12-05 20:10

I dont fully believe you. I work for a game studio and sony would demand that it be returned.

Licensing contracts state that hw is not owned by the studio or company who purchases it. You purchase a license to barrow it and have no right to resale it.

If you were on the phone with sony they would have demanded the unit returned and would threaten legal action if you dont comply.

# About the sony plant in Springfield Oregon — Guest 2006-12-05 20:42

There never was a Sony plant in Eugene, it was in Springfield. And it only pressed and packaged music CDs and PS1 games. It never produced PS2 games, let alone PSP ones.

Devkits? HA! The only PS1s then eve had were the ones that were used in store displays with the TV and 2 controllers.

# testkit — Guest 2006-12-05 21:00

We have one here to used for UMD VIDEO authoring. umdvs was nice to play with. I don't think psp homebrew community can do anything usefull with it.

# lol — Guest 2006-12-05 21:06

^^^Owned^^^

# ! — Guest 2006-12-05 21:08

I gotta get me one of those!

# Sony'll buy it. — Ninkul 2006-12-05 22:42

Sony will win the bid, they'll probably spend quite a bit trying to get this away from the public at a cheap price

# Money Talks — Guest 2006-12-06 00:42

Sony has contacted Ebay and pulled this item from sale. Removed due to legal implications and possible copyright infringement.

# no blank UMDs — Guest 2006-12-06 01:18

To make UMDs, you have to send the code to $ony since they're the only ones who can make them. I'm sure you need to buy a hundred thousand or so.

# "Dev" kit — Guest 2006-12-06 02:01

That "Dev" Kit is a tool only licenced game developers can rent. Plus, that thing's a pic of the net, so....

SPAM!! SPAM!! SPAM!! SPAM!! SPAM!! SPAM!! SPAM!! SPAM!!

# ILLEGAL — Guest 2006-12-06 02:38

Everything sounds suspicious about this. Sony would never refuse the kit if it somehow fell into someone's hands, and secondly, developers (including Sony employees) do not own the kits - they license the usage of them, they have absolutely no authority to sell or re-license them (technically publishers and developers can permit the usage of them to other developers, however). It is true, however, that Sony doesn't really reclaim the kits when development generations are over. We've got handfuls of old PS kits that just collect dust. But Sony can technically can call up one day and say "give em back", and we'd have to comply.

# S0n — Guest 2006-12-06 03:55

Well i'm the head of Sony so i wouldnt mind the dev kit back pls?

# 4 REAL MAN! — Guest 2006-12-06 04:27

YY OFCOZ I AM THE HEAD OF SONY TOO AND I WANT EM ALL BACK PLS!! +.+

# nigas in da clurb — Guest 2006-12-06 05:07

Hi would you please send me the Dev Kit To Aftrica where i am at now. If i do not receive it in the next couple of days i will sue your azz.

Yours,

Deloo Smith

# Moron — Guest 2006-12-06 05:09

You are a jacka$$. This happened to me on one of my PS3's that I sold. I ended up getting all of my money back from eBay so the seller would NOT have to pay a lot for eBay fees, it's just a hassle. People like you should not be allowed to use eBay.

# You sound real — Guest 2006-12-06 06:06

your story sounds real but that factory may only make ps1 games but that dont mean that theres not gonna be a devkit there does it also sony woud be happy to put 1 mil in other wise there will be a devkit in the hands of a homebrew then theres gonna be some sort of downgrader out to downgrade any firmware via UMD but yea writ a letter to sony before complaining about my psp being bricked and at the end i asked where to but umds (they said 100,000 min) but they said they werent willing to release any more info unless i had a game developers lisence (whats that)

but that guy is selling on the internet not ebay (i know its on the internet but you know what i mean) so if sony whants to buy it of him they cant cos he can say no (like hes gonna if they offer him 1 mil

# nigaz — Guest 2006-12-06 06:28

I ad sex with a piegon

# asd — Guest 2006-12-06 07:01

http://harleyg.linuxlabs.co.uk/docs/psp/devkit/Users%20Manual.pdf

here's what you can do with it.

# maybe.... — Guest 2006-12-06 07:38

That dev kit is for an older model PSP if they don't want it back. The PS3 had THREE DIFFERENT dev kits. They don't want it back because it's really of no use to them. I'm on the Playstation G.A.P. (blazeking2)

o yeah, off topic BTW. A 2.80 downgrader has been made but it is under extreme testing (making sure it won't brick a psp)by 0okm.

# Freakin Genious — Guest 2006-12-06 09:06

I wonder... Can this published signed eboots? If it can, Someone could make a signed eboot for 2.80-3.02 that can "Update" it with 1.50 PSAR's. Since it's signed, It'll just basically be a 1.50 update eboot renamed to 3.04 and signed to run on any psp (< 3.04 of course... not that there is one).

If the kit can't make eboots (just UMD's). D_A could probably make a UMD iso that mounts/runs in devhook on one PSP and "GameShares" a signed downgrader "Game Demo" eboot to the PSP being downgraded.

Just my thoughts.

# YOU ARE A RACIST — Guest 2006-12-06 09:51

what is wRonG WITH YOU U RAcIsT

# Frakin Genious — Guest 2006-12-06 10:13

The kit cannot publish signed eboots, nor does it make UMDs for that matter. Given what we know about the PSP hardware and the tools available publically, this kit is just about useless to non-developers.

# If DAX or BOOSTER or someone got a hold of this... — RaiderX 2006-12-06 10:32

omfg, we'd be sooo in business!

# If DAX or BOOSTER or someone got a hold of this... — Guest 2006-12-06 12:18

No, we wouldn't. It's not a holy grail.

# read all of the comments — pspizzle 2006-12-06 12:28

its not actually a dev kit but a psp that can boot from dvds apparently to save buring umds, u get the picture. (thats what the box is next to it)its not actually a dev kit. but a test kit, you cant even access anything else on the xmb other than game -> umd and savegame manager

# dvd media — Guest 2006-12-06 17:53

The dev kit can play games on umds or cds and dvds.

The devs have to send the data to sony for them to put it on umds.

# dev kit, test kit..... — Guest 2006-12-07 03:26

Lets clear this up right now.That's NOT all the pieces to a dev kit. Like I mentioned b4, PS3 had THREE dev kits. Basically a dev kit is a developer model of the console that looks NOTHING like the market version. That box in the picture not the "magic machine" that you can power on and hack a PSP. BTW you won't get ANYWHERE with it. You would need more than that kit. Second, pspizzle is right about it only accessing GAME UMD and Savegame manager and booting from DVDs. Why??? There are blank UMDs and writers on the market but do you know how much it costs???? That's why the only UMDs you see are from Sony and Movie companys and they're about to abandon the format if sony doesn't commercialize UMDs like CD-r and DVD-r. Besides, This is a PSP DEV KIT:

http://img164.exs.cx/img164/6004/pspdebug14fz.jpg

http://img164.exs.cx/img164/1097/pspdebug42hf.jpg

http://img164.exs.cx/img164/2796/pspdebug30sv.jpg

http://img164.exs.cx/img164/3673/pspdebug27mg.jpg

I'll show the PS3 dev kit later......

# ^ — Guest 2006-12-07 03:33

forgot to add something. It's the part of the dev kit called a debugger console, basically it runs PSP firmware on the inside. You CAN extract any data but it doesn't make eboots. It's the desktop computer version of the PSP.

# grrr — Guest 2006-12-07 07:08

arrrrrrrrrr omfg ebay is so *****ing gay!!! they cancled the auction!!!

They just cant handle people making money unless if they have a large chunk out of it so they cancel it!!

even *****ing ebooks are forbidden now because they are so sucessfull!!!

stupid, gay, *****ing *****s!!!!

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