Project PSPdualBoot - Preview
Placasoft from Team Emergency Exit
has been working on his project “PSPdualBoot” for a long time. Did he
just stop? The answer is NO. Yesterday, Placa gave me a chance to
actually test the current progress – very impressive.
The
original objective of this project is to automatically launch a
homebrew when turning on your PSP. But still, the users should have the
ability to choose not to load the homebrew on startup and hit the
original XMB interface. The users should be able to select which
homebrew they want to launch.
As we can imagine, the project
needs to modify our firmware to take effect. Currently Placa is working
on an installer for installing and customizing the Auto-Start service,
so I had to test it under MPH’s Firmware Launcher.
I downloaded the decrypted 1.50 firmware and installed it properly on
my memory stick, then applied Placa’s patch on it. After that, I
started the firmware launcher. When seeing the prompt of the launcher,
I turned on my WiFi switch and then pressed X button to start the
emulation.
The launcher started to load the system, as the memory
stick access light was blinking. Then the PSP startup video was played,
the background with wavy lines was shown. But I never had a chance to
see the old XMB interface before the screen went black after 2 seconds.
Then, the access light continued to blink… and blink. After several
seconds, PSP-OSS was loaded (Yay!).
The homebrew worked fine, but
I got bored very soon. I just quitted PSP-OSS and modified the settings
to load another homebrew. This time I picked PSIX, maybe the very first
one you want to load on startup. And yeah, it loaded perfectly.
Placa
told me he didn’t think there was anything that PSPdualBoot couldn’t
load. Any homebrew you have in your mind that works on 1.50 can be
started automatically with PSPdualBoot.
Placa is now working on
an installer. This installer will enable you to customize which
homebrew you want to load on startup, and then apply the patch to your
firmware. He will focus especially on safety, to make sure you won’t
brick your PSP with it (as long as you don’t cut the power of the PSP
by yourself).
I also discussed with Placa about something else,
like if this can be used to penetrate the parental control of some PSP
games. He said very likely. Maybe I was too curious, this function
sounds really redundant. :P
The release date is still unknown according to Placa. Maybe just like the famous Carmark said “It’s done, when it’s done.”
Source: PSPUpdates