Will we ever be able to mod the PSP?

[mjohn15]

i thought the psp disks were like the gamecubes huh anyways yea if i get the psp it will only be for music,movies,and if i can emulators and roms i figure it will be possible noting that u can get memory sticks and upload stuff to that and then play themu probably can back up a game to a memory stick if u get a big enough 1

[Alone2Gether]

Talking about mods and region coding. You think there'll be a region hacking patch in the future?

[lufcfan]

Well, the games are already region free. Who'd want to buy a UMD movie when they can only be viewed on a PSP and are the same cost as a regular DVD Video?

[Patricodog]

My frined's dad works for Sony and he brought him 2 import's from japan and he's been letting me play his. The UMD cases are on there for good, it can't see how you could open tit up without damagaing anything. His dad is the vice president for US home movie distribution, so I figure he'd be the exact person to ask: I asked if Sony was planning on making a UMD player for home use and he said yea. I also had a discussion about how it could possibly survive against the Blu ray for home use. With UMD you will be able to notice the low rez on a HD screen, but with Blu Ray you wouldn't. So in my opinion I think UMD will be what Hi8 was for home entertainment. With Blu ray coming and all the HD TVs everywhere, I personally don't think the UMD will make it past the PSP, but I could be wrong. If you want me to check anything out on the PSP or UMD then feel free to ask, I just can't open it up or try to crack the UMDs, but I can look for stuff.

[Alone2Gether]

Originally Posted by lufcfan

Well, the games are already region free. Who'd want to buy a UMD movie when they can only be viewed on a PSP and are the same cost as a regular DVD Video?

I don't care about the movies anyway, but after reading this report, I'm a little concerned about future PSP games.

[M2M]

Gamespot is a horrible source for any news on the PSP, they keep shooting themselves in the foot with false reports. Sony originally announced and has re-announced that Games are region free. Video (Movies) are not region free, and some games have a Movie playback section within them (ie. NFS)... usually assigned to music videos... there is no word, that I have seen, whether these Movie playback sections will work cross-region.




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[Bushwick2002]

well i think they gonna hack the psp buy using a hack firmware that allows u to play backup games from the memory stick. and i think psp games are just around 300-900MB's for now. well thats just my opinion anyways, i could be wrong.