Homebrew

[Guest nevawlkalone]

Hi people,

I am currently trying to bribe my dad into getting me a ceramic psp of ebay with the use of this site to persuade him its a good idea and i have noticed the same word pop up frequently.

So being really dense, i have to ask the question. What is homebrew all about and why do people want to downgrade their 2.0 psp's (the hole point of the ceramic ehite psp as far as im aware) to run this homebrew. Might as well have a blck one, bar thew fact the white one looks far sexier.

Thanks in advance

M

[Guest muff]

all PSP's regardless of colour are the same hardware (though the white one alledgedly has some physical revisions tho not to the chips)

both black and white ones that have bios V2.0 or lower can be downgraded to V1.50 allowing you to run homebrew

as to what is homebrew, well it's software written by people in their own homes, i.e. hobby programmers not officially 'sanctioned' by Sony

so the homebrew software is anything that is unofficial, and atm includes emulators of various systems, freeware games and lots of other stuff

if the rom version on the PSP is greater than 2.0 then it cannot currently be downgraded to allow homebrew software to run

[Guest nevawlkalone]

So there is no difference other than the colour in the black and white PSP's?????

[Guest muff]

there is apparently a small hardware revision to the square button on the white version - tho long term I would expect any 'fixes' to the design to be rolled into all colours they use

the only other difference is that the white version will be at least V2.0, whereas black ones might be lower rom versions - though obviously as stocks sell out Sony will no doubt install later rom versions on all PSP's

if you think about it there can't be much difference or else the games wouldn't work on both the same way