PSP Firmware Exploit In Lumines Leads To 5,900% Sales Jump
The news of a PSP exploit found in the system launch title Lumines has homebrew homies reaching for their digital cauldrons: the relatively simple process allows PSPs running any and all firmware versions, including 3.50, to run homebrew, install custom firmware, and give the people what they want most: the ability to run Nintendo games on their PSP.
Ouch.
Not that we'd ever condone such a thing, but there's a message here: when demand is great, corporations should take notice - enough PSP owners want to be able to emulate older systems on their favorite black handheld that following announcement of the Lumines exploit, Amazon.com sales of the game jumped nearly 6,000%. If that isn't immediately recognizable as an obvious, unignorable outcry from their very own customer base, then Sony should go sit in the corner wearing a dunce cap.
Lumines sales up nearly 6000 percent since exploit [PSPFanboy]
[via Destructoid]
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Posted to Miscellany on 25 June 2007
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YAY! I got it to work! Soon I'll be able to downgrade my firmware to 1.0 easily and make my PSP into a TV remote, a Sega emulator, and bunches of other cool things!
Chess anyone?
I'm kinda bummed that this exploit wasn't revealed 6 months from now when a whole pile of the soon-to-be-announced "PSP lite" will hopefully have already been manufactured and it'd be too late to make them immune to this hack. It was a bummer waiting for the homebrew device market to catch up with the DS Lite, and I'm sure there'll be a similar struggle with the new PSP model.
But I'm glad it was Lumines with the exploit, because even if it didn't work for some reason, it's a great game. Not to mention extremely common.