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Fake PSP Memory Stick: Paypal Refund
I was lucky, the seller of the fake 8GB Memory Stick Duo for my PSP gave me a refund, as I returned the item.
I doubt this happens to many people. I think I’ve learned my lesson and will have to do more extensive research the next time I think about buying something on eBay.
More PSP Media and Firmware hacking
Posted by Matt in Uncategorized on March 7, 2008
Apparently, filing the claim with PayPal over the fake memory stick prompted the seller to at least tell me he’ll give me a refund. I put the fake stick in the mail yesterday and I’ll see how that goes.
The real stick came from Newegg today and it seems to work well.
Following this link, I was able to downgrade my 2.6 firmware to 1.5 using the Lumines exploit (I had to buy a copy of Lumines, but it’s a good game). Since I had neglected my PSP for so long, I had a relatively old firmware version that was easy to downgrade to 1.5. So now I’m running M33 3.90 custom firmware. This should allow me to experiment with homebrew applications while still being able to run the handful of games I’ve got. I tried running a universal remote control homebrew app, but didn’t have much luck with it. All of this custom stuff seems real finicky.
I found VisualHub, which allows me to encode videos in PSP format and I put on a few to see how it looks — very crisp image quality and good sound as well. VisualHub allows you to increase the volume if the sound is too low. A 45 minute TV episode takes about 250 megs, so with an 8 gig card, I’ve got space for plenty of shows to watch while I’m on the elliptical or somewhere with some down time. Of course, I also trimmed my mp3 list to about 3.5 gig, so with that on there, the available space is nearly halved, but I should be okay spacewise. SyncTunes allows me to transfer an iTunes playlist to my PSP without too much hassle. It seems there are better programs out there for Windows, but I would rather keep everything on the Mac.
Hopefully I’ll have time to screw around more with the PSP, especially with homebrew. There is a lot of interesting stuff out there for it, very little of which existed two years ago when I got my PSP and just kind of neglected it. The universal remote just sounds funny — turning off anyone’s TV with your PSP. There are all kinds of skins and themes and shells for the PSP as well and it would be interesting to write some of my own programs, if I had the time.
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