You're Doing it Wrong: Hacker Misses the Point
The PSP homebrew hacking community has awoken from its peaceful slumber to unite and rally around a new challenge: the PSP 3000. Sony's new hardware revision is slimmer and brighter than its predecessors, but those are not the only improvements under the hood of the PSP 3000. It is also heavily protected against the efforts of hackers. Sony has remained quiet about the invisible new hardware changes, but under their breath company executives must be secretly praying that their new device is unhackable.
So far that has proven to be the case. The pandora battery exploit, which allowed unauthorized access to kernal memory and firmware, has been closed off. Hackers like Dark Alex have not been able to figure out any other way of cracking the device.
In a sign that frustration is starting to set in, some enterprising hackers have gone to extreme lengths to get homebrew software to work on a PSP 3000. Take the example of a hacker named Royginald from the Philippines, who decided to simply swap in a PSP 2000 CPU while keeping the case and screen of the PSP 3000 intact. Sounds like a reasonable plan, right? Wrong.
What Royginald didn't realize is what vocal fanboys and even Sony itself were saying last week -- the PSP 3000 screen is interlaced to reduce the "ghosting" effect in previous models. Interlaced video is completely different from the progressive-scan video used in the original PSP, so there is no way that the motherboard from the PSP 2000 would be able to output the correct signal.
Well, at least the hacker can enjoy his homebrew applications by using the TV-out feature. Wait, what's that you say? The PSP 2000 CPU doesn't support standard definition televisions? d'OH!

Filipino hacker Royginald plays with his new modded PSP 3000.
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