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What was your first homebrew memory?

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raing3

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Okay out of curiosity what was the medium you used to get to the point of having a homebrew enabled PSP? Also if you have multiple PSPs what is your favourite model/motherboard?

[FIELDSET="Example"]For me I finally got to use homebrew after I finally got up the courage to hard mod my phat battery and installed 4.01 M33-2 on my phat and slim in September of 2008. My favourite PSP is also TA-085 as it is the only PSP which has all the functions of the Slim as well as the ability to create a soft mod Pandora battery.[/FIELDSET]

Note to moderators: Sorry if this seems like a pointless topic I was just curious as to when everyone took the leap from running portals in the web browser on OFW to the wide range of homebrew which is available.
 
My first PSP was bought with official firmware 1.50 within the first week of the PSP ever being released in NA. Back then there was only homebrew available for official firmware 1.0 since there was no security measures on that firmware. PSP's shipped with 1.0 were only available in Japan though.

My first homebrew experience was with swaploit on 1.50 ofw. I believe it was DGEN running some classic Sonic the Hedgehog. Swaploit was what was used for a short amount of time before kxploit was released, and it was basically a technique which involved having 2 memorysticks with corresponding files and you had to swap the memorystick while the PSP Logo was showiong in order for the homebrew to run.

Anyways, shortly after this swaploit method was made available, kxploit was released which then worked with just 1 memorystick and it involved having 2 homebrew folders. One as the regular name, and the other as the same name except with a % at the end (this is why you may find homebrews in this format). The XMB would then read the % folder as the header and icons and the non-% folder was the actual eboot without its header.

There was no web browser to run portals back during this time :p The web browser wasn't released until firmware 2.0... which reminds me of the 2.0 tiff downgrader. I remember being so scared upgrading to 2.0 just to try out the new web browser and then using the downgrader to get back onto firmware 1.50.
 
I remember using swaploit to play some of the very first PSP homebrews. I can't even remember what the games were called, but they were simple fun games

I think I remember putting a genesis emulator and playing some moonwalker also
 
there was the time the 2.71 SA revA cfw installer bricked my psp, if that counts

a year and a half after that, I pandora'd it back to life, and the first thing I did was play chrono trigger
 
I got my PSP on release day in Germany, shipped with 1.52....
....and I kept it that way until the MPH 2.00->1.50 downgrader saw the light of day.

For a brief moment my PSP was on 2.00 then, only to run the 1.50 "Updater" :D
 
The first homebrew I played was gripshift pong on my silver 3000. Then I got a phat(used) with a ta-81, hard modded the battery and installed 4.01m33, then I found out the ad-hoc didn't work so I found another phat battery and returned the psp and got another phat with a ta-79,(it also had a 2gb memstick in it that the store didn't know about) this one had a burnt pixel and the umd door fell off about 2 days after I got it. I got my cash back, went to another store and they had a used slim(ta-85v1). My favorite psp would have to be the second phat I had, cause it came with a free memory stick!


Edit-I just realized who started this thread, psptool is my favorite app for psp. Thank you...
 
I was stuck on the dreaded 2.6, until the GTA Kernel exploit came to light :D Ive been on every FW since, including 1.00
 
FW 2.00 using Fanjitas E-loader to use the SNES emu

How awesome I thought it was being able to run Earthbound on my PSP.

Even if it ran at 10fps and half the screen suffered from graphical glitches and had no audio.

Aot of people have it made nowadays. Hell I remember before Gpsp the closest thing there was to a working GBA emu was something similar to the snes emu ie slow as hell no audio and ran a few roms.

Seriously it bugs me whenever some jackass whines that he can't pirate games and disregards all homebrew as a joke because quote "Nobody wants to play those old games they suck I mean look at the Graphics they aren't even in 3D."

I BOUGHT my psp for the Sake of Homebrew and due to the way the community has pumped out kickass emulators and games and apps I have not been disappointed with my purchase.
 
I chickened out for the 2.70 exploit for the PSP, I seriously did not want to lose that thing lol. I remeber though using Pandora, and how happy I was after it worked :D. Loaded my PSP with anything I could fit on the 128mb stick.
 
A_Nub said:
I was stuck on the dreaded 2.6, until the GTA Kernel exploit came to light :D Ive been on every FW since, including 1.00
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I remember when I decided to try out firmware 1.00, it took me ages to find the files I has to use.

Zero. said:
I chickened out for the 2.70 exploit for the PSP, I seriously did not want to lose that thing lol. I remeber though using Pandora, and how happy I was after it worked :D. Loaded my PSP with anything I could fit on the 128mb stick.
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LOL. I forgot to mention in my first post that I originally tried the 2.70 downgrader on a TA-082 within the first week I got it and BRICK, ARGH. So I returned it to the store and told them it bricked while playing a game and they bought it and gave me a new one that was enough to scare me off trying again for a couple of years after until I got my slim.

EDIT: It's nice to see so many developers posting as well, that's what I was hoping for.
 
i had a psp 1000 for a short time with fw 3.8, but only for a short time.. a friend of my borrowed me his 1k with cfw so i made a pandora set and flashed mine to 5.00m33-4.. but i selled this one and got then a psp 3000, on which i'm running ChickHEN 5.03 now
 
My first experience was the cheat device on LCS.

I got my psp as 1.50 and upgraded it the next day to play a game and didn't learn about homebrew until a week later. When the cheat device came out it was the first "homebrew" I used, followed by the eloader and all that good stuff.
 
The 2.00 downgrader. :P First homebrew I actually used was a Helicopter game on the 2.50 eLoader. I remember checking the QJ frontpage about every 10 minutes for news on the eLoader. When it was released I joined the forum and made some topics on how to run some of the games, just general noob questions. Then I started to use snes9x to play my favourite SNES games and DGEN to play Sonic.
 
Hmm, I remember getting into homebrew when Axxewraith came to my school and he told me about psp hacks and stuff, so i looked around the webz and found a 2.xx downgrader ( I really can't remember what i was on ). But yeah, i downgraded and nearly bricked myself when i got that BSOD, but it later worked and i did something either with a HEN or updated to something like 2.71 OE/SE.. i really can't remember.

The first homebrew game i ever ran though was 'Die Critters Die' Not sure who it was by, but it was so addictive :)

EDIT: Looking at A_Nub's post, i think i was on 2.60 at first and i used the LCS exploit, argh, it's hazy.
 
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