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PSP-3000 Now Runs Homebrew (sort of)
May 08, 2009, 4:39 AM by ROB
Posted in HACKS, GAMING | 817 views
Since its release in October of last year, the PSP-3000 (also known as the PSP Brite) has been notoriously impossible difficult to hack. With a new PSP model possibly looming on the horizon, the Brite has finally gotten a taste of what it's like to run homebrew; the ChickHEN Homebrew Enabler allows users to run some homebrew applications. Sounds great, right? Let me tell you why you shouldn't bother.
The first challenge in running the hack (which doesn't require any specific UMD game, etc.) is to get it to work. The hack takes advantage of a weakness in TIFF image handling to reboot the device in a state that can handle homebrew apps. By its nature, this is a buggy procedure; sometimes it "hits" and injects the code needed to run the HEN, but nine times in ten it simply crashes the device. I've managed to get it to work just three times out of nearly 100 trials on my Ratchet & Clank edition unit.
Once you do manage to get the device booted into a state that will allow homebrew, you need to have valid homebrew apps. Essentially, this is limited to some (not all) emulators and a handful of genuine homebrew games. No, friends. You cannot load game backups, ISOs, CSOs, or anything of that nature, nor can you install a custom firmware on the device. Further, there are no plans to enable that functionality.
Since the patched software lives in RAM (it's not flashed to the internal storage), the homebrew function only lasts until you hard-reset or power off the device. Want to fire up your emulator afterward? Start running ChickHEN all over again.
Essentially, with this hack, you spend thirty minutes of your time enabling the device to play Metroid. If you're really looking for that sort of outlet, there are dozens of easier ways to play emulated games. While ChickHEN is a wonderful breakthrough in the sense that it "hacks" the "unhackable" motherboard.
Despite claims to the contrary, I predict that there will be an ISO/CSO loader for ChickHEN and that it will develop quickly once the ball gets rolling. Once homebrew was enabled on the Wii, devs swore there would be no backup loader for the system, but lo and behold, I can now run my backups on the device. Will my prediction come true? Let's wait and see.
  
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