I had always been looking at practicality when it came to buying things, so I told myself when the PSP came out, that it was a waste of money and that it was a novelty. But a year later I saw my friends playing on them, and it awed me, as the graphics were so much better than the PS2 I currently owned. So I bought one the following day, along with GTA:LCS, Midnight Club 3 and Twisted Metal: Head On.

The firmware it was was 1.52. I wanted to play more games for a cheaper price, so I went to a shop that told me that you could play games on the memory-stick, but you needed firmware version 1.50. At the time I had no idea it was illegal, so I asked, how do I downgrade from 1.52. The shop keeper told me it was impossible at the time, so I went home and researched how to downgrade the psp. I finally figured it out and now I had a 1.50. So I browsed the net for almost an hour and gathered alot of what was called 'homebrew'. So I loaded all that on and it worked perfectly. I now I had the idea that Sony was denying the PSP of its true capabilities.

I used PSP-Hacks for a while to use for information, but then I stumbled across something better, it was PSP3D! So I signed up for it, but never really contributed to the community, but at near the end of 2006, I started to communicate and learn how to program small things and just feel like I was in a second family. And that is the story of how I escaped from the clutches of the 'Sony Update'.

But I became to cocky with my skills, I was editing my flash0 when I accidentally deleted it ALL! I was freaking out, but had a plan, I would go to the folder of my flash0 back-up, stored on my PC. But it was gone; my cheap-ass laptop failed me. I-was-done-for. Luckily I bought a new silver-metallic Japanese PSP and downgraded it, installed Dark-Alex custom firmware, modified the XMB and converted it to a USA buttons. Everything was alright in the end

And that is my Auto-biography!

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