PSP Hackers Go Retro

[Sourabh]

PSP Hackers Go Retro

That's the traditional phrase that programmers display when they create their first piece of software for an unfamiliar operating system. Owners of Sony's handheld PSP game system were delighted to hear May 5 that a hacker had managed to write a small program that displayed those words on a PSP. They wondered what would be next. As it turned out, it only took hackers five days to go from "Hello World" to Mario World.

On May 10, sites like PSP Hacker reported that a Japanese hacker known only by the name Mr. Mirakichi had developed a program called RIN that let the PSP play software written for the original black-and-white Nintendo Game Boy system.

Read More/Source: Wired

[tarey_g]

hmmm ...psp is currently rs 14000 in India and the UMD's are over 2700 each this is too much to appriciate the orignal softwares,so i consider it as a good news for psp owners as they will get more from it. today it is just emulation of gba imagin what will be next..

[Nemesis]

What will come in the way of pirating PSP games is the fact that we still don't have any ways of writing a UMD disk. Also, memomry sticks that will hold all the data of a UMD cost more than the PSP itself

But with what hackers have achieved so far, one can now run small spplications on the PSP OS.