Hacking the PSP : cool hacks, mods, and customizations for the Sony PlayStation portable

329 Pages·2006·10.931 MB·English

by  Auri Rahimzadeh

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Hacking the PSP™
Cool Hacks,Mods,and Customizations
for the Sony® PlayStation® Portable
Auri Rahimzadeh
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Hacking the PSP™ :Cool Hacks,Mods,and Customizations for the Sony® PlayStation® Portable
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About the Author
Auri Rahimzadehhas been tinkering with computers ever since he was six years old and loves
all technology.Auri collects computers and has been involved with many computer projects,
including teaching computers alongside Steve Wozniak,co-founder of Apple Computer.Auri
has written hundreds of articles on various computer technologies;has contributed to many
standards including HDTV,DVD,and interactive television;and is the author of Geek My
Ride,a book on geeking out cars,another ExtremeTech title also published by Wiley.Auri has
also contributed to computer education for students across the country and has promoted tech-
nology awareness through the Indianapolis Computer Society,where he has served as president
for three years.Currently,Auri is a software engineer and spends his free time programming,
chatting at Starbucks,and going to Pacers games.
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Credits
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Acknowledgments
T
o my family—my Mom and Dad,Karen and Fred;my stepparents,Richard and Julie;and
my awesome brothers and sister,Noah,Max,and Chloe.Without their support,this book
would never have seen the light of day.Without my Mom and Dad,neither would I.
A special thanks goes to my grandparents,Alvin and Irene Goodman and Rabbi and Devorah
Rahimzadeh.Rabbi,even though you’re gone,you’re always in my heart.I’ve been lucky to
have such caring,loving,inspiring grandparents.
Thanks to Richard Doherty,a brilliant engineer,analyst,and friend,whose insight into the
PSP’s inner workings is incredible and his willingness to help tech edit my book was very much
appreciated.Many thanks again to my good friend Steve Wozniak,not only a brilliant technol-
ogist but also the man who believed in me and put my technology career into perspective and
who continues to help anyone with a passion for technology succeed with their dreams.Steve,
you truly are an amazing human being.
To my friends Josh Louden (for being enthusiastic about programming),Dirk Cosemans
(for all his engineering assistance),Geoff Smith (for ideas),the rest of the Smith family
(Mary,Doug,Brad,and Emily,for their support),the Millers (Laurie,Phil,and Bryon,for
their support and a place to stay in California),Jerry Pournelle (for getting me ever more
excited about writing books),Andy Marken of Marken Communications (man,you know
communications),Peter Glaskowsky (man,you know graphics),and those of you I failed to
mention here,you know who you are (and I’m sure you’ll let me know,too!).
To Chris Webb,who got me hooked on writing books—thank you so very,very much.To
Howard Jones,my development editor—thanks for all of your hard work and a job well done.
And of course,to the incredibly dedicated and hardworking team at Wiley—thank you for all
your effort and help in this adventure.
To my friend William “Bill”Fulco—you will be missed.
To my friend Anthony “Tony”Rose—the best attorney,ever (and friend).Sorry I forgot to
mention you in my first book.
To the hackers and committed software developers who work so hard to make the PSP an
awesome device.
And,of course,to my teachers.To quote a phrase:“If you can read this,thank your teacher.”
For those of you looking to get into technology or write your own book,I offer you some
advice,originally by Benjamin Franklin (or so all my research on the Internet says):
“Never confuse motion with action.”
As always—GO PACERS! (Think that’ll score me some tickets?)
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Contents at a Glance
Chapter 1:Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2:Overview of the PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 3:Quickies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 4:Taking Apart Your PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 5:Getting Online:Configuring Your PSP for Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 6:The Web on Your PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 7:Online Hacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Chapter 8:Offline Hacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Chapter 9:Game Hacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Chapter 10:Video Hacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Chapter 11:Audio Hacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Chapter 12:Image and Photo Hacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Chapter 13:Getting More Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Chapter 14:Taking Your PSP on the Road. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Chapter 15:Running Linux and Windows on the PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Chapter 16:Reverting from a 2.0 PSP to a 1.5 PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Chapter 17:Programming the PSP:Setting Up the Development Environment . . . . . 237
Chapter 18:Programming the PSP:Hello World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Chapter 19:Running Homebrew Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Chapter 20:Navigating the Unofficial PSP SDK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Chapter 21:Alternative Development Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Chapter 22:Distributing Your Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Chapter 23:Synchronization and Utility Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Appendix A:Additional Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Appendix B:PSP Maintenance and Frequently Asked Questions. . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
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Chapter 1: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What Is Hacking?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What You Need for These Hacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Regarding Your Warranty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
How to Read This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
How This Book Is Organized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Networking Hacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Audio Hacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Video Hacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Image Hacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Game Hacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Homebrew Applications and Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Appendixes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Conventions Used in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2: Overview of the PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Sony’s PSP Strategy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Full Technical Specifications of the PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Video Capabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Battery Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Networking Capabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
PSP Firmware Versions and Why They Matter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
UMD,the “Universal”Media Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 3: Quickies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Using Non-Duo Memory Sticks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Step 1:Sand Down the Duo Connector So It Fits Properly in the PSP. . . . 16
Step 2:Attach the Adapter Ribbon Wire
to the Memory Stick Adapter Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Step 3:Use the Memory Stick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Viewing eBooks on Your PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Converting eBooks with PaperlessPrinter or JPEGBook. . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The PSP as a Storage Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Syncing the PSP with Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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Changing the PSP’s Background Color and Wallpaper Image . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
New Background Features in Firmware 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Changing Your Wallpaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Saving Xbox Games on Your PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Step 1:Get to the Save Game Point in an Xbox Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Step 2:Plug Your PSP into the Xbox USB Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Step 3:Put Your PSP in USB Connection Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Step 4:Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Preventing Screen Glare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 4: Taking Apart Your PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Getting Replacement Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Opening Up Your PSP and Removing Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
What You Need. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Step 1:Prepare the PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Step 2:Remove the Back Plane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Step 3:Remove the Metal Button Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Step 4:Remove the Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Step 5:Remove the Metal Screen Holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Step 6:Carefully Remove the Circuit Strips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Step 7:Remove the Mainboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Step 8:Remove the Wi-Fi Shielding Plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Step 9:Remove the Wi-Fi + Memory Stick Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 5: Getting Online: Configuring Your PSP for Networking . . . . 53
Configuring Wireless Internet Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Turning Wireless On and Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Set Up a Networking Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Speeding Up Wireless Internet Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Chapter 6: The Web on Your PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Sony’s Official Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Scrolling Web Pages in Sony’s Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Tabbed Browsing in Sony’s Web Browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Quick Overview of Buttons and Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Resolving Out of Memory Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Viruses and the PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Web Sites Formatted for the PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Sony’s Official PSP Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Downloading Files with Sony’s Web Browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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Importing Favorites from Internet Explorer into Your PSP’s Web Browser
Using BROWSER 2 PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Step 1:Organize Your Favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Step 2:Export Your Internet Explorer Favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Step 3:Launch BROWSER 2 PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Step 4:Copy Bookmarks Over to PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Wipeout Pure:A Cool Game with a Fantastic Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Get a Web Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Download the DNS Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Configure the DNS Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Configure the DNS Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Create the Wipeout Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Build Your Portal Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Set up a Networking Profile for Your Hack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Launch Wipeout Pure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Surf!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
What If It Doesn’t Work?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Chapter 7: Online Hacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Sites Optimized for Mobile Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
AOL Instant Messenger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Accessing Most of the Messenger Services for Free. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Viewing RSS Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Accessing E-mail and Webmail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Sony PSP Web Browser Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Chapter 8: Offline Hacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Viewing Saved Web Pages on Your PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Step 1:Find Web Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Step 2:Print Your Web Pages Using Paperless Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Step 3:Copy the Files to Your PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Step 4:Take It with You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Taking Maps with You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Step 1:Find the Map and Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Step 2:Print the Directions Using Paperless Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Step 3:Copy the Files to Your PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Step 4:View the Directions on Your PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Converting PowerPoint Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Step 1:Export the Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Step 2:Copy Images to PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Step 3:View Your Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
What If You Want the Animations?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
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Chapter 9: Game Hacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Play Multiplayer Games with Only One Game UMD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Running the Hack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Step 1:Create the Mutliplayer Game on System 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Step 2:Eject the UMD Disc from System 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Step 3:Load and Join the Game with System 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Step 4:Swap the UMD Back to System 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Step 5:Make One Last Swap to System 2,then Play. . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
The PSP’s Saved Data Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Backing Up Games. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Changing the Saved Game Background Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Step 1:Back Up the Original Background Image
and Copy the New Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Step 2:View the Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Restoring Game Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Chapter 10: Video Hacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Play Almost Anything—But There’s a Catch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Less Data Means More Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
UMD:The Not-So-Universal Universal Media Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Out-of-the-Box Limitations on Media Format Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Getting Videos on Your PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Converting and Transferring Video to Your PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Windows Step 1:Download and Configure PSP Video 9 . . . . . . . . . . 130
Mac Step 1:Download iPSP Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Step 2:Find the Video to Convert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Step 3:Convert the Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Optional:Modify Video Encoding Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Step 4:Transfer the Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Step 5:Play the Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
TivoToGo Video on the PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Step 1:Get the Latest Version of the TiVo Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Step 2:Connect the TiVo to Your Home Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Step 3:Download and Install TiVo Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Step 4:Transfer Video from Your TiVo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Step 5:Convert the Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Step 6:Transfer the Video to Your PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Step 7:Play the Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
ReplayTV Video on Your PSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Step 1:Download WinReplayPC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Step 2:Set Up your ReplayTV on the Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Step 3:Transfer Videos from your ReplayTV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Step 4:Convert the Transferred Videos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Step 5:Transfer the Videos to Your PSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Step 6:Play the Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144