Fanjita releases Tetris for 2.50 PSP's!

[Jake]

Here it is folks, what all you 2.50 PSP owners have been waiting for. Fanjita has released the first homebrew game for 2.50 Firmware - Tetris! As we mentioned yesterday, Fanjita has been hard at work bringing homebrew to 2.50 and 2.60 PSP's, and though he hasn't quite gotten 2.60 sorted out, he does think it will soon be possible. This builds off of Edison Carter's groundbreaking Grand Theft Auto Cheat Device and makes use of it to execute homebrew on 2.50 PSP's:

This is a simple demonstration that homebrew games are possible for PSP firmwares v2.01 and v2.5 via the Grand Theft Auto savegame exploit. It is also a test of the general-purpose GTA loader that will be used as the basis for running the EBOOT loader on v2.01+.

At the moment this game will not work on firmware v2.6, but I hope to release an update very soon that will. It also will not work on the censored German version of GTA - again, I hope to release an update soon.


To install:
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Unzip the contents of this package into the /psp/savedata folder on your memory stick. Note that if you have an existing savegame that uses slot 5, then this will be overwritten by the Tetris savegame.


To use:
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Start up GTA as normal. When it has loaded, select "Load Game", select the Tetris savegame and confirm the load as normal. After a short delay, the Tetris game should start.

To quit the game, you will need to hold your power button for 10 seconds. The HOME button looks like it might work, but it doesn't, yet.

Please support Fanjita's achievement and [visit his site] - click on ads while you're there too.

From PSPUpdates and QJ.net, thanks to all those who contributed to this project and for bringing homebrew to more PSP's!

Download: [Tetris for 2.50 PSP's]

[gamer4lif3]

nice work , lets hope this will go further pretty soon

[PSPHax0r9]

I heart Malum!!

I mean...er...great job Fanjita!

[Posty]

Good job Fanjita. Once you get a working eboot loader for 2.01+, then I may consider upgrading. Once Megaman comes out in the US, I do plan on buying it; so having homebrew on 2.5 is going to be a great thing Keep up the good work. It's people like you who keep the community alive :P

[daniel psp]

y did i update from 2.01 why why!!!!!!!!!

[drew4237]

i hope that when a new game comes out that requires 2.5 that i want then there will be an iso loader or atleast a downgrader.

[Vanden]

finaly we can tell noobs we can run hombrew on 2.5

[Vanden]

Originally Posted by drew4237

i hope that when a new game comes out that requires 2.5 that i want then there will be an iso loader or atleast a downgrader.

there is smack down vs raw does i think

[NeilR]

Well he did say "I want".. I still wish we could have gone longer without someone mentioning downgraders or iso loaders, but oh well.

Back on topic... Great News for 2.50 owners everywhere and one step in the right direction. Keep up the good work Fanjita.

[ED13]

Originally Posted by NeilR

Great News for 2.50 owners everywhere and one step in the right direction. Keep up the good work Fanjita.

Hell Yeah! good work Fanjita

[stitch o_O]

Originally Posted by NeilR

Well he did say "I want".. I still wish we could have gone longer without someone mentioning downgraders or iso loaders, but oh well.

Back on topic... Great News for 2.50 owners everywhere and one step in the right direction. Keep up the good work Fanjita.

yea ok, that is the first thing on most peoples minds.

if you look at the frong page where people leave comments, iso's is one of the biggest parts of why people want this.

i don't condone his work, but if there was a way to do homebrew without the idea of iso's then i would be all for it. really i think fanjita is a smart guy and good at what he does.

i just hate the idea that most would rather see this as a basis for ripping games.

[virx216]

worked with 2.0, I let it autoload the gamesave; it's wierd to be playin tetris from within GTA, eh?

heh, I tried loading auto & manually in 2.6 and it kicked back to psp-menu!

[enterman]

Originally Posted by vanden9

there is smack down vs raw does i think

Exit does

[Who Knows]

Hmm good work, countless hours i assume.

Cheers to him.

[Fanjita]

If anyone does have problems, I added a little bit of troubleshooting info on my website. If that doesn't help you, I'd be interested to hear about it by email or PM.

[Buceph]

Fantastic work Fanjita, thanks for the release! And on my brithday too. xD

[Darveider]

First of all, I want to thank you Fanjita. You´re doing loads for the scene and the 2.0+ users. After this Tetris release of yours, it seems that there is light at the end of the tunnel...

This Tetris game proves that it is possible to run homebrew on a 2.0+ Firmware, so... I would like to ask you one question if I may:

Can we expect that your fantastic EBOOT Loader will be ported to the GTA Loader soon? or it will take long yet?

Thanks in advance for your time, and keep on the fantastic work. You rule.

[Vhero]

ooooh we soo close to full homebrew! I think i'm gonna go buy GTA this weekend now :P Great release Fanjita man keep up the good work!

[Fanjita]

Originally Posted by Darveider

Can we expect that your fantastic EBOOT Loader will be ported to the GTA Loader soon? or it will take long yet?

It's what I've been working on for a month or two now. The problem with the EBOOT loader is that it needs control over pretty much all of the PSP's memory, because it needs to load the EBOOTs to the location that they expect to be in.

With GTA, that's very difficult, because there's some stubborn stuff in the way that's still not completely understood, and there's been some pretty exotic stuff tried to get rid of it, with increasing but still not complete success.

I have a workaround that attempts to modify the EBOOT's code when it is loaded, to fool it into loading to an alternative location, but that's not completely reliable (and I don't think it can ever be). For the initial release of the loader, I might try to make that as good as workable as it can be, but if we end up having to use that relocation technique then the compatibility rate won't be very good.

At the moment, the EBOOT loader is able to load and run Nem's Hello World, and it can load and run its own menu, but it tends to crash most of the time.

I've tested it on a few simple games, but they're not working too well either. It shouldn't take long to get some stuff working, though.

The Tetris release is important, because it uses the same code to muscle GTA out of the way as the EBOOT loader is using, so getting it out and testing on as many different PSPs as possible is very useful.

It's impossible to predict exactly how much longer the eboot loader will take before it's ready for an initial release, but I think the end of February is a realistic target, that can probably be beaten.

[Fanjita]

BTW (and I think this deserves its own post) : I heard a rumour that some stores in the US had recalled copies of GTA from their shelves, and recently restocked.

I don't know how true that is, or why it happened if it is true. But it seems right to warn people that there's a risk that new copies of GTA might have been fixed.

[TeamOverload]

well if that is true, then it should say 2nd edition on it, like on newer copies of San Andreas, but i cant be sure. Luckily, i already have my copy, so now Ill just sit back and wait for this to hopefully work on 2.60

[Darveider]

Thanks for spending your time answering my question Fanjita, and such in a detailed way too.

As I said, keep on the good work. And thanks again.

Tetris time for me now :icon_wink

[Deekman]

Great work Fanjita that's all I can say. You're a hero to all.

[Wookiee]

can i use this in a Socom Game save or another game cause i cant have GTA

[hyproVision]

No You Noob, Read, It's A Gta Gamesave Ffs!!!!! Argggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wookiee]

Originally Posted by hyproVision

No You Noob, Read, It's A Gta Gamesave Ffs!!!!! Argggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

are you calling me a noob? notice the Expert below my name, ive been here scence the site was called PSP hacker so STFU!

[Joy]

To Fanjita:
You are great ! Congratulations ! Please keep the great work !




To Wookiee:

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[Twee]

Great news!

I downloaded and transfered all the files to my PSP (2.01) this morning and tried it, worked perfectly. Though, I have one question, you see the game autoloaded and I wonder how I stop it from doing this. Do I only have to save once more to get a later date/timestamp on my regular savefile and then that one will autoload instead?!

I'm terribly sorry if this question have been asked and answered before, if so I haven't noticed it.

[Fanjita]

Originally Posted by Twee

Though, I have one question, you see the game autoloaded and I wonder how I stop it from doing this. Do I only have to save once more to get a later date/timestamp on my regular savefile and then that one will autoload instead?!

I'm terribly sorry if this question have been asked and answered before, if so I haven't noticed it.

Exactly right.

[ingo4]

I was wondering the same thing about autoloading. Good to have it resolved. Hopefully it wont auto-load tetris once you load it once since it's not -really- a gta game. >_<


p.s. Fantastic work fanjita! :3