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PSP: Why 'mod' (reflash with customer/hacked firmware) your PSP?
Tue, 15 Jul 2008

This comes up on occasion, so I thought I might put a reply here rather than in private; doubly so since I've always pushed for folks to consider ethical and legal implications of their actions and have probably ranted on it before. (ie: As software developers, I believe we must be careful to do the Right Thing, since the implications of our work could cause much aggravation or annoyance. This is why it should always default to 'No' to the question 'Do you wish to format your hard drive?' More, it comes up with increasing frequency in todays busy business world and sometimes we have to stand up for the user and consumer, right?)

Anyway, for purposes of this discussion, 'modding' refers to simply reflashing your PSP game consoles firmware.. something Sony will ask you to do all the time, as they publish updates. The trick is, you can reflash it with Sony's official firmwares, or the more questionable firmware 'mods' you can download online.

First.. why would you do it, knowing there is some risk you might do it wrong and 'brick' (kill) your device?

(Note that nowadays there is little risk; even if 'bricked', you can usually unbrick your device trivially.)

Principles: When you buy yourself a Ford Mustang, you can put in any seat covers you like, not just what Ford tells you; this seems obvious, but in electronics the vendors are increasingly locking you down. The public at large tends not to care since it is but a small thing, and they're getting used to it. But taken in the light of your car, it would be intolerable. The essence of it is .. if you've bought something and fully own it, you can do to it what you like pretty much. Its the Tinkerer's Right. You can take it apart, and if you break it, its your problem :) Where would our society be if we never fiddled, improved or fixed anything ourselves? There was a time when we changed our own oil in the car..
Practical: Sony artificilaly limits some aspects of the system, to be pricks. Consider -- video playback is low resolution and low quality, unless it is from officially purchased UMD videos. So while they advertise the device as a multimedia playback unit, and encourage you to play videos on it, they make them crappy. Thats pretty bad behaviour on their part, and borderline questionable to boot .. the old bait and switch. Anyway, using a modded firmware will ditch this little limit and enable full video playback from UMD or from your own video files. This is not the only little shaft that Sony has built into the system for their benefit, and not yours.
Practical things: You can run homebrew, which is to say .. people release free applicatons, be they games, utilities or whatever, all the time. With the official firmware, you cannot run these. Sony is anal. This is the main treat .. you can play peoples new little games, ported games, and so on. Some great stuff (and a whole lot of crap.) More, you can develop yourself with an open source SDK .. you can write your own little games and explore your handheld console. Heck, this could be your break into the gaming industry, right? (Try the open source gp2x console as well, since it just runs Linux and SDL; life is easier there, and no fighting with the company. Watch for the upcoming Pandora console as well, at www.openpandora.org!)
Practical: You can run 'disc images' (.iso and .cso files); this is not piracy. UMD disc games boot and load slow and eat a lot of battery power. Usually this is fine but some games take their sweet minutes to load, plus numerous load-times in-game which gets on your nerves; further, UMD games take up a lot of space so you can't generally care more than 1 with you. There are simple utilities to let you record the UMD disc into a .iso or file listing, and then you can boot them on your modded PSP. This is handy as hell. I've recorded a dozen of my UMD games and can keep a rotation of a half dozen on my Sony memory stick. All legal, and certainly ethical and useful. (If you go giving your .iso files to other people, you are then participating in piracy. I'm super small peanut, but I'm a developer who makes a living selling software. Please don't pirate it :)

There are more things as well, but that should cover why most people do it. I'm not going to go into how, as it can be easy or a right pain depending on your skill set, if you know someone who has done it, and so on. Ask me if you want some instruction and maybe I can sort it out for you but in general I worked out some methods for myself and do that. I don't really follow 'the scene' as it takes a lot of time, and 3/4 of the sceners are idiot kiddies :) (This is one thing I've commented on before.. when you get into some of these things for all the right reasons, you still have to be mindful that others are less kocher than yourself, like going to a seedier hotel.)

Anyway, all the above is just sillyness.. I really only wanted to pass a few notes to a friend, which would be:

"EBoots" are the executables in PSP land. When you build a homebrew app, you're releasing an EBOOT file which is somethign the PSP will recognize as runnable. In general you create a directory on a memstick in /PSP/GAMES/ such as /PSP/GAMES/WANKER and stick your Eboot.pbp in there. Most homebrew comes in a zip file with the needed hierarchy to make it obvious.
.iso is same as any other .iso around; a .cso is a compressed .iso, and there are stdio source files floating around for a tool to convert iso to cso and back, which can be handy; some people will 'rip' a UMD to .iso and attempt to extract the movie parts and such to reduce size, but thats work. I just rip the UMD to a .iso, and then run it through the .cso converter on my FreeBSD box, and good to go. Can reduce a file by some 10-50% depending how lucky you are. Anyway, you stick your .iso files in a top level directory .. /ISO or something I forget. Since the bay I've not had time to be ripping UMDs so have suffered carrying one around (Indiana Jones LEGO lately natch), but if you've got the time, slap your .iso's on the memstick.)
Note for PSP Fat/Slim differences; the PSP Fat (original heavier) unit had less protection in it, so applications could run in kernel or user mode, among other things. The display driver and such is also a little different and so on. In essence, in moving from Fat to Slim, Sony created a branch for people who are hitting the hardware more directly or using the open source SDK which assumed it could work a certain way. Naturally UMD official games were not impacted. Anyway, when looking for homebrew, look for more recently updated versions of an application, or ones noted as being Slim versions or Slim compatible. Some applications built before the Slim existed only work on the Fat models, but most applications of note have long since been converted to work on both, or come in two builds.
You might see references to firmware 1.50, since it was the most 'open' of the official firmware.. easily exploited. To this dat, PSP Fat owners's can have their modded firmware trick the system by keeping a copy of 1.50 on their system as _well as_ the more recent version of the firmware, and then booting up homebrew under the old firmware kernel, while booting new UMDs on a more recent version (essentially.) For PSP Slim, you _can_ do this, but its a little tricky and generally not needed since everything is updated to the newer kernel versions anyway, as mentioned above. But I thought I would clarify.

So all this verbiage above serves merely to confuse anyone reading. But there you go.

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Gaming: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
Sun, 25 Mar 2007

Normally I'd open up a review with a haiku, but I'm pretty beat right now. Permit me to be brief and provide the Pulp-free version of a blog entry.

Yes yes, I'm taking some time to write up something, and also admitting that while caring for this amazing baby, I've found a few minutes here or there to play a game. Not much, but a little :) Permit my sleep-dep to ramble, and don't mind the total lack of structure please :)

Puzzle Quest is a new game for the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS; it combines some elements of classic RPG's with a popular puzzle game in a smorgesbord of 2D fun. Interestingly, it works. There are really two or three kinds of RPGs .. the Japanese style (J-RPG) with its emphasis on story and console flavoring, and all the others where you have stats, item databases, and dungeon romping without a plot. Mixing with these formulas tends to annoy the faithful.. but this cuncoction is pretty darned slick. Peanut butter and chocolate.

RPG-wise its fairly simple -- you're a hero, you have to walk around an 'over world' doing quests. Standard issue. A dude in one city (blotch on the map) tells you to kill some monster in some other place (another blotch), so you wander on over and do your business. Theres a fair number of other things you can do to keep things interesting - shop for gear, build a castle, add a dungeon to your castle to capture folks to torture skills out of, and other such things. All is presented with a simple UI to get to the point, rather than hinder you with a lot of effort. Now, a lot of us play RPGs for all the effort but thats not what Puzzle Quest is about -- its a boiled down RPG for the sake of propelling you from encounter to encounter, and to provide a framework for spells and gear and such to make sense. Its like a boardgame version of an RPG, when you move your chit around picking up interesting abilities and gear, then go woop some ass. You don't go into any 3D-dungeons or the like.

Combat and research and such are all performed through variants of one puzzle game. Folks will be most familiar with it as Bejewelled, but that game certainly isn't the origin of that puzzle style. Anyway, while in those games the goal is simply to clear the board by matching alike pieces, in Puzzle Quest there is infinite depth built atop this base. Matching coloured gems removes them from the board and gives your character mana with which spells can be cast. Clear red gems to get red (fire) mana for instance. Clearing other items causes direct damage to the enemy, or gives you cash, or experience for levelling up. As you level up you get new abilities (depending on your class), and all this mana is used to fire off spells. For instance.. match 3 skulls to cause some damage directly to the enemy, or collect some (say) red and green mana and fire off an attack spell or effect.

The Warrior class for instance has abilities that turn this mana into direct attacks usually, or influence the board to effect it; ie: One ability clears a small region of the board (the squares around the target square), which can be handy so you can wait for a certain board layout and whammo it rather than working piece by piece. The Druid class is more healing oriented than direct damage, so spends its time manipulating the board, delaying the enemies moves, or healing itself. Where a Druid plods along doing slower damage to the enemy, or messing up his attacks, the Warrior is all about trying to pounce on the skull-blocks or do damage spells. Less survival in weird encounters, but everything moves along quickly. Fights are longer for the healer, but more 'under control' so gameplay feels different. Theres some depth to it .. not just the same thing over and over a la Bejewelled.. here you're working towards building sufficient mana types to fire off a spell or combo, while looking ahead to poach the pieces the enemy might need. Set yourself up with a multi-move set of combos, or work on building experience and gold for levelling up instead of going right for the enemy throat. Enemies vary in ability -- a spider can 'web' your character so you lose some turns, while a thief might steal some of your gold or do surprise attacks. All these many things occur on the game board. Cool stuff.

All in all, you're spending 90% of your time playing a Bejewelled-like game that works within the questing and adventuring framework familiar to J-RPGs. Nothing too serious, but pretty darned entertaining. Lots of cool items to buy and things to do.

And since each match is quick (5-20mins), you can play in the middle of the night between bouts of crying. Baby crying I mean. Usually, anyway ;)

I like it. I like serious RPGs usually, but I've not the time to read the back of the box of one these days. This hits the RPG and puzzle fetish in weird yet satisfyingly kinky ways.

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PSP: I just want to know -- wheres the mecha?!
Wed, 22 Nov 2006

Usually I try to have something vaguely amusing (to me ;), informative, remotely useful, or at least personal to say. But today, this time I just want to ask something. As someone who played electronic games and video games in the 80s and 90s:

Wheres the Wing Commander equivilent? I mean, don't people still want to fly a small space-faring fighter against large capital ships? Think Star Wars and running down the trench with enemy fighters on your tail, turrets lobbing heavy munitions youe way -- fun! Descent? (Well, I could finish porting it..) Those of us from the golden 80s watched "The Last Starfighter" and we want to shoot something down. Hell, make it a Starblazer's tie-in for the retro-anime crowd.

In the same grain, we played Battletech on the tabletop and watched Robotech on the tube, and endless reems of anime mecha - giant robots, beam weaponry, machine guns, stomping enemy buildings and the almighty Death From Above jumpjets.. we need the rebirth of Mechwarrior. Bring it.

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Gaming: A good time for PSP gamers
Tue, 07 Nov 2006

So much geekery to talk about of late, and yet so little time. Apologies to any non-gamers who may be reading ;) Another quick entry scrawled out on the poor phone!

With the initial launch of the PSP few classy titles were presented -- Lumines and Wipeout:Pure were excellent for day-zero releases but mostly there were lackluster titles. In the following months not many platform-making titles became available, though some good and not-so-good games strolled leisurely out to the poolside. Grand Theft Auto made a nice splash, and it was nice to have SOCOM and Katamari finger-crampers but oldie titles like Lemmings only helped to keep the flailing nostrils at the waters surface. Everyone was anticipating the big-named titles to dive in .. the titles people would line up for. Sony was busy stabbing themselves in the back, neck, cranium and lowly pereneum at every opportunity, but the PSP division struggled to show some glimmer of the companies past.. when they were respected.

I would hazard to say that these months leading up to Christmas are what PSP gamers have been waiting for. Some great titles are on the shelves right now, and more to come.

I should make an effort to mini-review the titles I have -- without having too too many games I do have some doozies; Field Commander is still a great little time waster for the tactical wargamer, and I've already reviewed Ghosts and Goblins. Fine games. Mercury and others will have to wait.. But without getting to proper reviews let met give you a couple synopsis, on the off chance it'll help with your Christmas shopping. (Can you believe malls have their decorations up already?)

Recent releases

Killzone: Liberation -- I've only fiddled with a friends hot-off-the receiving-truck, but it looks to be excellent so I'll be picking it up the second I see one on the shelf over at EBGames. Not a first person game like the home console brand, but an isometric-perspective smooth motion run-and-shooter. Good looking artwork, some strategy elements, some puzzle solving. Winner.

Dungeon Siege -- listed as just being sent from the factories and in-store soon, I'll be keeping my eyes open. Too many titles, not enough free time to open them, or money to buy them :)

Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception -- a combat non-sim oriented flight-sim. I don't recall modern fighters carrying a payload of 40 air-to-air missiles, but thats not what this title is about. Air to air dogfights, ground missions and stealth under the radar .. classy flight-sim fun without the bother of watching the cockpit controls. Really just a distant cousin to arcade pseudo-3d shooters, but fun all the same. Sometimes I really really really love a very accurate flight-sim that includes a 3" thick manual (I'm looking at you Falcon 4.0!), but with life only giving you 10 minute chunks of time here or there, you take what you can handle, and Ace Combat is pretty darned entertaining.

Snoopy Vs The Red Baron -- yes, I was amazed as well, that I'd even look at such a title; but after checking the previews at the big game websites (IGN and Gamespot etc), I thought I'd check it out; like Ace Combat, but in a cartoony cute way and set with WW1 aircraft; chasing the baron around with Woodstock (the bird!) powered missiles and shooting at ground-targets like drilling-machines trying to knock over the rootbeer factory.. great rediculous fun!

Medal of Honor: Heroes -- first person shooters are hard to pull off with a handheld.. trust me, I mucked around when porting Quake to PDAs enough to know. Medal of Honor does pretty well here.. best so far on the PSP really. Analog stick to move, and using the right-side 'd-pad' buttons to point your head (turn, look up, etc) works pretty well, while using the triggers for firing. There are many options to play with but thats the default configuration. Anyway, after only playing the first mission I'm looking forward to tossing some grenades and sniping or blasting through the trenches. (Apologies to real veterans for using such terminology.. I'm in a hurry here :) Still, I'm a little ashamed to talk about a war themed action 3D shooter right before Remembrance Day.)

Star Trek: Tactical Assault -- I wish this was more in depth like Star Fleet Battles (the tabletop wargame), but I think it will be an arcade shooter. Still, its set in Kirks time, which warms my spirit.

Worms -- probably a so-so title but I always enjoyed the simple play of the Worms (and Snails clones on PDAs) games. Like Solitaire or Bejewelled, these are simple but very playable classics. Not tried it yet, but its on the shelf already.

There are a few others too.. X-Men, Marvel Heroes, Battlezone, Lumines II, Capcom Classics, Taito Remix, SOCOM II, Eragon, Metal Slug Anthology..

Good times.

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PSP: Review of Star Wars Lego II: The Original Trilogy
Tue, 10 Oct 2006

Getting a new car, working long hours, visiting with family etc etc has conspired to keep me from finishing a few blog entries that are nearly done - yes, sometimes I hack away at an entry over the space of a week in scraps of time; not that this imparts editorial quality, just so you understand me.) I've got a new gp2x project three-quarters done and some reviews for that little platform, but alas you shall have to bear with me for this quickly written review.

But first, as I must do for any review:

Pulling droids apart
Force-flinging them all about
Beats Mario Kart

Star Wars Lego II: The Original Trilogy is really really good. A fusion of action-shooting, platforming and puzzling could be bad - but not here - and with a Star Wars plotline is almost too much to handle. Further, with the Lego theme thrown in you've pretty much taken even the most half-shaven Matrix-wannabee geeks brought, Spartacus-like, to their knees.

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Gaming: A couple quick Sony PSP game reviews, posed as haiku
Mon, 18 Sep 2006

Perhaps I'm onto something here - that all reviews should be preceeded by a summary haiku? After reading on, there will be a resoundingh No! I am sure..

Read on for quickie reviews of Bomberman and Ultimate Ghouls and Ghosts for the Sony PSP.

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PSP: How-to homebrew on a recent PSP (firmware 2.6 say), Or, Downdating, Downgrading, Whatever
Tue, 11 Jul 2006

When buying a car, I'm sure most people assume it can offroad if necessary - to park on the grass for a concert or party or go game hunting in the deep savannah .. at least to go where they tell it. Likewise, when you buy a Phillips VCR or DVD player you can safely expect it to play home movies, or videos published by someone other than Phillips.

Another long entry typed in on a cellphone :) This one is light on details since I'm not trying to be technical or delve into the many obscure interesting things going on over the last year or two.

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PSP: Quick review of Brando's PSP d-pad replacement, Or, Celebrating Canada Day with Gradius IV
Fri, 30 Jun 2006

As far as mobile gaming hardware goes, the PSP is pretty sexy - Bender in a pretty dress sexy. Some might dispute its software collection but to the casual wanna-be gamer like me, its good a lot of goodness that I'll never have time for. Now now, hold your horses, Sony need beatings for releasing a rootkit, making low quality audio/video components, the entire PS3 being late and seriously overpriced fiasco, and eating babies - but the PSP is itself an island of calm within an otherwise filthy ecosystem. Anyway, as with anything else when you have time for something you want it to be well spent -- we consumers should nolonger tolerate noise in the TV signal or the junk that Terry Brooks spews out onto paper, or any sequal to Highlander. The PSP is sexy, but it has its flaws - and Brando Workshop has found a way to fix one of them. (Alas no, they did not bomb Sony HQ.)

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Day by Day: A Quick Review of Field Commander for Sony PSP
Wed, 31 May 2006 Field Commander

May 22nd

Few things are better then the smell of freshly cut grass or the spring breeze in your hair; the tree and bushes have been neatly trimmed, the grass edged, the railing brushed, sanded and rust-painted. Last and most importantly, the barbecue - like the Death Star - is fully operational so I sit here smugly before you after the first burger-and-dog weekend of the season.

A week passes; no time to finish that blog post but no way I'll let a Deathstar reference slide into bit-bucket-oblivion.

May 31st

The tired mind wanders, but it is thankful that life has more or less gotten itself under control again.

As Popeye might say (were he not up on steroid charges), I yam what I yam. And whats I yam [sic] is someone who once played far too many tabletop wargames as a kid and as such must pay taxes to Sid Meiers for Civilation at every opprtunity; life being what it is, those opportunities are months or years apart so I'm always hoping something will come around and let me scratch the old itch - but sadly without the need to get together a crowd of people over a table in a dank basement, or consume 12 hours of time per game. I'll buy every new version of Civilization that shows up (and yay for Galactic Civilization II my friends) and dream about finding a group of people for Axis and Allies, but we all must settle for the table scraps we can get. So a moment of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri here, or Thief III there.

Field Commander for Sony PSP

As all know, mobile gadgets will always have a special place in my heart (I blame Batman.) and the Sony PSP is no exception; sure, while I wish my Treo 650 could simply do everything, no PDA or smartphone to date can really pull off mobile-gaming so we must always fall to carrying a Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS or PSP around should we wish to indulge on the go. (I do enjoy sticking it to the man once in awhile by cracking out Sega Genesis emulation on a Zodiac during a meeting.)

Field Commander, the latest rock-paper-scissors game, scratches the itch.

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PSP: A Brief Review of GTA: Liberty City Stories
Fri, 11 Nov 2005

I never really played the previous GTA titles (though I did get in some multiplayer GTA1 and GTA2 top-down racing in the past) - Vice City seemed impenetrable to me as I just walked around not knowing what to do (and beating up cops and pimps didn't really scream "fun!" to me.) People have been raving about the series for so long that I thought I'd best take a peek with its most recent incarnation (on the PSP.) - yes, I know, the PSP is Sony and I'm boycotting them, but I did recently get the device so I might as well make some use of it.

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PSP: Armistice Day, and, PSP Specification Confusion
Fri, 11 Nov 2005

Most importantly, this is Remembrance Day and I'm trying to locate someone to give me a poppy; they seem hard to come by today for some reason (which makes me a little ashamed as I didn't go find one yesterday or earlier.) Of course, I'll find one over lunch (yes, I write this at work today which is unusual since I reserve blogging for a home activity... but this topic is important.)

Who observes Remembrance Day? Obviously the Commonwealth nations do, but what of these war-torn countries in the middle-east? I'm sure they've got plenty of days of mourning and the like. Do immigrants to Commonwealth countries pick it up, as they do Christmas? At any rate, I have always sworn that when we finally have children I will impress the importance of this day upon them.. that they will remember their forebears who fought in the Great Wars and other endeavers, and that they will know What Not To Do -- that they will put heavy thoughts into embarking into such terrible activities as war. With things like the Iraq invasion going on, there is no better time to remember what was given for our freedom, and to think on what is being done now with heavy heart.

Read on for some PSP specifications.

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Reviews: PSP's Coded Arms, Ridge Racer
Sun, 28 Aug 2005

Its been cloudy and/or rainy for each of the last 10 or 15 days, which probably helped lead me to acquiring this shiny ol' PSP. Today mind you has been exceptional.. a day that makes you glad to be alive, enjoying the simple pleasures. Talked to my mother on the phone (something we all should do more of; I really should be talking to my grandmother as she won't last much longer, being 91 or so..), went out for lunch with my wife, and sat in the killer-hot sun and breeze for nearly an hour. You know its a good day when you can't even be bothered to pick up a book or magazine or comic sitting right beside the sun lounger...

Last night I was waiting some lengthy computer work to wrap itself up, so started fiddling with the PSP. So far the device is pretty nifty, though as in my original 'preview' I noted that its likely doomed to 'familiarity' - to ports and franchises, while the Nintendo DS may get some original titles like Nintendogs. Fine by me, since I barely play anything and thus its all new to me. Anyway, some good titles so far (Untold Legends), and some bad ones.. about evenly on both sides. Hopefully as Christmas approaches, new titles will pop out.

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Gaming: Previewing the Sony PSP
Mon, 22 Aug 2005

Updated Aug 22 2005

Alright, so I said I'd never pick up a PSP as Sony are such [explative]'s .. but after all these months (since March! ;) I could handle it no more - and this is one impressive piece of kit. I've entitled this post a 'preview' since I'm still in the gushing honeymoon phase of the purchase and it wouldn't be fair to call it a review without me trashing it all to heck ;)

As I've said many times, I'm more a fan of gaming -- I've not the time to play so can't really call myself a gamer (and I tend to get bored of a title after playing it for an evening anyway, which makes it an expensive hobby.) Of course, retrogaming and collecting arcade cabinets never gets old, so what can I say? Writing a game engine is entertaining, and Halflife 2 was good.. but I just can't blow a night away with Metal Gear. Anyway, we've got a GBA but I've never much bothered with it since it just seems overly dumbed-down for me - simple games are good, but I'm a Civilization III player so if I'm going to futz around for an evening I'd like Final Fantasy: Tactics and not Tactics Advance. If I'm futzing around for 20 minutes in a line waiting at the bank, then I'm fiddling with my PDA instead - I'm not going to be carrying around a game console. (Not to say its just for kids, but I don't commute via subway or train.. I drive. And its just for kids ;) (So yes, I'm a wannabe-gamer whose really just work-obsessed :)

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