Post your PSP's Autobiography. Why did you buy a PSP, how did you get interested in homebrew? How did you find PSP3d?

Mine:

I first wanted a PSP when I saw that there was going to be a GTA on it. Instantly I knew I wanted one.

On Christmas of 2005, I received my PSP with a copy of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. After taking my brand new 1.50 PSP out of the box, I saw Network Update and thought: "People must be hacking the PSP. I don't want a virus, this must protect me." Can you say Doh! Instantly my PSP was upgraded to 2.01.

On my birthday, January 8th, I had finally beaten GTA and was looking for some more games for the PSP that looked interesting. Some how I stumbled onto PSP-Hacks. They were talking about Tetris on the PSP! But it was a homebrew game. At the time, I did not know the meaning of homebrew. I downloaded PSPTris and put it in my Game folder. Went to start it up and got a "Game could not be started" error. For about a week I couldn't get the damn thing to work so I gave up. Around the middle of January I tried again and learned of the TIFF exploit. Not realizing that I have 2.01 and not 2.00 I tried it out. Nothing. After a sleepless night, I made a brilliant discovery: I HAD 2.01! A little after that I learned of eLoader. I tried it out with my first, and most favorite, homebrew: SNES9x! Success! Super Metroid and Shadowrun hogged up most of the space on my 32MB memory stick. Soon after I learned of Homers Rin. Since my Gameboy Color and my Gameboy Advanced crapped out of me, I could not plat GBC games any more. Soon Pokemon Silver and Dragon Warrior Monsters joined the greatness. At this time I was visiting PSP-Hacks and Fanjita's Palace daily.

In early January of 2006/ late December 2005 I stumbled on this site called PSP3d. I saw that they had frequent news posts so I visited them daily. I also started browsing the forums. I also discovered this amazing show called PSP Hacking 101. I March, I discovered Qj. I visited them daily also.

In May of 2006 I started getting real antsy about a 2.01 downgrader coming out. I got so desperate that I would have switched PSPs with some one with a 1.50. More and more people learned of what I could do with my PSP. Suddenly I was cooler than before. Yes, I was a cool guy in high school, but not like football player cool. I was just in class with them because I to can not read. But I was a band nerd (Masuk Snare Line '06, Masuk Jazz Ensemble '06 Trombone 2!).

In June, I was all set to graduate high school. During one of my finals I was playing the Sega Genesis emulator while wondering if I will ever be able to enjoy the "Golden Firmware." Graduation came and went and I got lot's of money for screwing around for 12 years and just barely getting by in a public school . So I bought a 512 MB stick. That very night I logged onto PSP3d and learned that the 2.5/2.6 downgrader had been released by some no name coder called Dark_AleX.

After many hours of reading and watching videos, I was ready to downgrade my PSP. I upgraded to 2.50 and I took the plunge. Unsuccessful. My PSP looked like a 1.50, but said it was a 2.01. To this day I can not explain that one. I also could not run any homebrew. I upgraded to 2.6 and tried again. SUCCESS!!! I had finally gotten a 1.50 PSP! Suddenly I was cool (along with many others ).

I posted every once and a while here at PSP3d, but I mostly posted over at Qj. I learned how bitter 13 year olds can be who enjoy flaming and hiding behind a computer screen. But I took the abuse.

In July I posted more at PSP3d and less at Qj.

In August the 2.71 downgrader was released by Dark_AleX and I realized, this wasn't fun anymore. Sure I was happy for every one who got 1.50s, but this major news didn't affect me. So I faded into the background. My PSP collected dust for a month. As I began college, I realized something: having nothing to do at school really sucks. So I started bringing my computer to school, I commute to school. Bored between classes, I began coming back here. I learned that that no name Dark_AleX had released a new kind of custom firmware. Custom firmware that ran on 2.71. I thought it was the dumbest idea I had ever heard. It couldn't do everything a 1.5 could and that's all that mattered to me. Plus I had waited so long for a 1.5 and to throw it all away like that?

Some time passed and Booster got in trouble with $ony. When the dust had settled, he released Devhook with 2.80 support. The PSP scene went wild! Booster was safe and we could emulate 2.80! I, being the n00b that I was, could not figure out how to install this new Devhook. I thought that it was because I was on 1.50, so I upgraded to 2.71 SE-B. Then it worked. I can not explain that one either. Luck I guess.

As time passed $ony released more and more firmwares and Dark_AleX cracked them all. Oh yeah and Team C+D too. And maybe Fanjita, I don't remember. Soon 3.00 came out and soon after we had 3.00 OE firmware. I was afraid of bricking so I stayed at 2.71 SE-C.

More time passed and 3.03 OE firmwares came available. 3.03 OE-C is where I am now and probably will be for a while. I am still hacking my PSP and using SNES9x . I also still post here at PSP3d (dur!) and occasionally over at Qj, but not often. I have gotten many of my friends into PSP hacking and even one of my college professors. I have not made any major contributions to the scene as a whole, but I do post here and that's all you guys need .

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