maybe 2.50 well get hacked. or maybe 3.00 comes out and it well get hacked later on

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It is very possible that this might happen. In fact, I am almost positive of it.

The 2.0 requirment was a huge blow to the Homebrew community. Homebrew users began to lose intrest in homebrew games or apps. They wanted to play GTA. It was a really big blow to the homebrew developers, who had been content with the work they had accomplished. Everyone thought that they had it good, since there was no limit to what games you could download or play on your PSP. But now that GTA is out, about half of all the homebrew users updated and began using GTA and SOCOM and not homebrew. Some users like me are waiting for a big crack for 2.0, that will allow kernal mode apps and stuff to run on 2.0.

So basically what im saying is that if Sony requires 2.01 or 2.50, then all homebrew will be destroyed. No one will be able to update and downgrade again to play the newest games. I think that the amount of homebrew users will be so small that the developers will just give up and update. Its a bad time for homebrew, and if Sony requires 2.01 or higher, it will make it worse.

lol, I'd like to point out a few interesting factors that I'll bet the company is looking at:

2.01+ requirements to play a game - Unless Sony either makes an upgrade soooo cool that we would all WISH to upgrade, they are stuck.

UNLESS - the games that come out are too cool to resist and people will upgrade, and we would have to find a hack to the newest firmware which could take a while.

THEN AGAIN - If they didnt produce a cool enough game, then alot of people wouldn't upgrade.. but whats the likeliness of that happening?

OF COURSE - people might just keep the 2.0 psp and have HB on it, and maybe buy a second psp (I mean, if you have enough money to buy one, then u def. probably have enuf for 2, lol) and sony would love this...haha more money for them, and HB is saved for all!

wow... thats alot to ponder.

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I still have 2.0 unmodded, so I can downgrade at any time

But why does the version changer not work any more? And I really hope that games won't require 2.50...

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I think its because it double checks the firmware, or the game requires some non-mp4 movie format to be played so it tests it maybe? just a guess...

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i don't know if sony would require all future games be played with certain firmware versions...i mean, what about the all-so-many average consumers that barely know the psp and only play games with it - will they really make these people go through the hassle of updating if some or most of this consumers don't know how to? maybe i'm wrong and there are more psp owners all about homebrew then average consumer psp owners all about gaming or letting it collect dust (like a friend of mine). i personally wanna make the psp do everything and anything possible. the only fuss i have with the psp is the limited amount of data i can store...then again, the 4gb hd is out, and i'm sure it'll keep gettin better as all technology does with due time =)

Unless the required update actually has more features, I don't think sony will required anything.

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someone figured out part of it earlier

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