PSP - Firmware 2.60 Hacked - First Homebrew Emerges!

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It has only been a couple of days since our in-house Hacker / Coder / Forum Moderator extraordinaire, Fanjita, released the first homebrew game for 2.50 Firmware.

Now he's taken the next step and accomplished the unthinkable, running homebrew on 2.60 Firmware! Thanks to his incredible efforts, it is now possible to play homebrew on your PSP no matter what firmware it has.

This truly is a historic moment in the PSP Community, and we here at PSPUpdates are thrilled to bring you this exclusive release that you won't find anywhere else: Tetris on 2.60 Firmware.

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This has been confirmed to work on PSP firmware version 2.01, 2.50, and 2.60 US

Fanjita just keeps on crackin' Sony's efforts to keep us from our homebrew! He started with creating one of the first ever homebrew on firmware 2.00, then moved on to create his 2.0 eboot loader which enables about 85% of PSP homebrew to work on 2.00, then brought us GTA Hello World savegame binary loader which opened the doors to 2.01+ homebrew. Now today we are proud to release the first homebrew game on firmware 2.60!

Be sure to stick with PSPupdates.qj.net for the latest and greatest PSP news. Fanjita is working hard and getting closer to getting his eboot loader to work with 2.60 firmware!
From Readme:

- v2.6 support
- Better compatibility with 2.01 and 2.5
- Improved the game slightly - now faster, with speed increase as you fill more lines.

To install:

Unzip the contents of this package into the /psp/savedata folder on your memory stick. Note that if you have an existing savegame that uses slot 5, then this will be overwritten by the Tetris savegame.

To use:

Start up GTA as normal. When it has loaded, select "Load Game", select the Tetris savegame and confirm the load as normal. After a short delay, the Tetris game should start.

To quit the game, you will need to hold your power button for 10 seconds. The HOME button looks like it might work, but it doesn't, yet.

Note that this version might be more stable than the 2.50 Tetris released on 1/9/06.
 
That’s right, the day we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived! Thanks to the fantastic work by our forum moderator Fanjita and his coding companion Ditlew, it is now possible to play vast amounts of homebrew programs and emulators on every PSP in the world, including those with 2.60 Firmware! Thanks to their monumental achievement, every PSP in the world is capable of playing homebrew!



We here at PSPUpdates and QJ.net are proud to be the first to bring you an exclusive release of eLoader BETA for GTA which now works on 2.01, 2.50, and 2.60 Firmware! With this ground breaking program, you are able to load the many of the existing homebrew games, applications, and emulators that are already available for earlier versions of PSP firmware.

You can find a complete list of working/not working homebrew [here]. But just to get you started, here are a few popular homebrew programs that are known to work so you can get started experiencing the full potential of PSP homebrew:
  • Super Nintendo Emulator
  • Sega Genesis Emulator
  • Atari Lynx Emulator
  • Vortex
  • Throttle-X
  • Squarez
  • Spider Solitaire
  • PSPRhythm
  • FileAssistant

Homebrew Games and Emulation for ALL PSP's!
 
Help...I am plng to pick up a PSP but can't find anythng but 2.6...
Since I am a PSP noob, does the bove mean that the 2.6 can play all PSP game isos off the Memory stick or are there severe limtations over the capabilities of the 1.5
 
superczar said:
Help...I am plng to pick up a PSP but can't find anythng but 2.6...
Since I am a PSP noob, does the bove mean that the 2.6 can play all PSP game isos off the Memory stick or are there severe limtations over the capabilities of the 1.5
Nope anything above 2.0 can't play your legally backed up games off memory stick :D So try finding a one with 2.0 or lower firmware.
 
2.0 can't even play ISOs. You gotta downgrade it to 1.5. So basically, you can play ISOs only on a 1.0 or 1.5 firmware PSP.

You can play homebrew on all firmwares, but the software you can use is very limited. ALL homebrews work only on 1.0 and 1.5.
 
Deathdart said:
2.0 can't even play ISOs. You gotta downgrade it to 1.5. So basically, you can play ISOs only on a 1.0 or 1.5 firmware PSP.

You can play homebrew on all firmwares, but the software you can use is very limited. ALL homebrews work only on 1.0 and 1.5.
Hehe thats what i meant actually, thanks for the correction anyways. So as it stands 1.5 and lower can play games off memory. For 2.0 you need to downgrade to 1.5.
 
And for all versions above 2.00, you need to buy (or download :P) GTA: LCS as the homebrew loads by exploiting a bug in the save system of the game. For 1.50 and 1.0 you don't need any additional s/w, while on 2.00 you need an eBoot loader image.
 
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