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Perhaps the transferred game binary isn't encrypted? Let's assume that the encrypted binaries that are coming from Sony via the network update and the executables on the UMD's are encrypted with Sony's carefully guarded private key, with the public key built into the flash ROM (which I'd guess is bu...

Could someone who has done investigation on the serial data on the remote try monitoring the psp update process on that port? If I were to write something like the psp updater I'd include some kind of basic debugging output, and since it's already been rumored that the dead-psp treatment involves a ...

Does it give the opportunity to reset to default firmware?

I'd like to be able to keep my options open in case a homebrew toehold is found in the first-gen firmware, but I probably won't have the patience to hold out. :)

Probably a watchdog timer. If the watchdog doesn't get touched after a few seconds (ie. the OS is deadlocked) it probably forces a hard shutdown. Inelegant, but not so much so as a reset button.

Anyone else think this could work? No. While it does appear that a UMDs surface is a the same a dual-layer DVD, that's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of trying to burn your own UMDs. Where do you think you are going to get blanks from? Where can you get "to-the-center" DVD blanks (i...