help!!....any dangers of upgrading the firware

[watts]

hi all,

I'm sure if I do a little digging around the forum I can find all the answers....but that'd cut into my PSPing time...and I'm lazy.

I picked up a japanese PSP in Thailand. with firmware 1.50. Everything is working fine...but I'm thinking of upgrading to 2.0. just a couple of questions:

- apart from the web browsing..what are the meaningfull benifits/improvements?

- Is the web browsing any good...or is it a pain in the a$$.

- Will I have any problems running copied games (which work OK with 1.50) if I upgrade to 2.0.


any help would be appreciated.
cheers
chris

[AlCapone]

Alright well beside from the webrowser there is pretty much alot of technical stuff that was done. The main thing was different media support for movies and music. You can also have a personalized backround of any picture you want. You can view movies in 4:3. And a huge list of stuff was fixed/added it is on one of the sticked threads either here or in PSP Discussion.
As for web browsing, yeah it kind of is anoying because you have to use the psp letter/number typing pad, But other than that it is bearable if you are just sitting at a hot spot with nothing to do.
In answer to your third question, if you are talking about ISO's then those are illegal and we can't talk about them on this forum. But if you are talking about homebrew games, then no. Nothing homebrew works on v2.0 accept for 1 or to apps I think.

-Hope that helped, (btw you posted this in the wrong forum)

[watts]

cheers...

yeah I jsut realised this is in the wrong forum when I went looking for it.

thanks for the help.

what's an ISO anyway?......

[nobla]

An ISO is an image file.

What? No. An ISO is an illegal copy of a PSP game that's already been released.

[Pagnell]

An ISO is an image file of any media content. It can be a DVD, CD or in this case a UMD. It is the entire contents of the media but in one file and is an agreed standard.

The homebrew loaders take this UMD iso image off the memorystick and make the PSP think the disk is in the drive. It has numerous advantages which is morally wrong but often the way. Load times are considerably better and as a result of the UMD drive being idle during the whole process of gameplay, the battery life of the PSP is increased by up to 40% from what I have read.

It is however, completely illegal and as a result no links to these software loaders or iso image links can be posted or I will ban the individual with no questions asked.