From Stone age- BBC-B to PSP in Laymens Terms

You start to realise just how old you are and how fast the pace of change actually is when you try to "delve" into new technology these days.
In my earlier carrear, we were at the forefront of hi tech electronics.
I remeber when I was about 20, my mother and father bought me a BBC B microcomputer, it cost an arm and a leg those days, 16K memory and a fucking tape recorder for a "hard drive".
Then as I entered a pretty advanced electronics industry at the start of my "real carrer" (rather than washing pans in German hotels) I discovered the real sophisticated shit. H P (I think 6233 or similar) they had a whopping 20Mb Hard drive...640K RAM and ran a special plug in card, in a slot bigger than my arm, pre - anything we have now, they were horrible and ran an "advanced" language of HP BASIC.

Now to my current dilema, I bought my son a PSP 3000, it now seems to have been "cracked" and he is now running "emulated" games, whatever they are.

The games are in an ISO format, does this mean I can run PSP 2 games on this thing? or PS1?... I tried looking on the internet, but to be honest, the kind of people that post on PSP forums seem not really able to adapt to real life!

It's like geeks gone mad!

I am afraid to turn his machine off in case I cannot get it booted up from the "CHICKEN HEN" thing!!

Anyone out there understand the principals behind this and can point me in a direction of a NODDY guide that will leade me through the "geekspeek" and provide some info as to how this is actually working and how to operate it?

Your advice will be greatly appreciated, but will not be rewarded financially!

Anyone also know what these "games" and their format are that run in this mode??

I need re education! Do you think Thailand provides this as a social policy to help induct foreign immigrants? Probably not eh!

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Originally Posted by Missismiggins

The games are in an ISO format, does this mean I can run PSP 2 games on this thing? or PS1?... I tried looking on the internet, but to be honest, the kind of people that post on PSP forums seem not really able to adapt to real life!

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If they are .iso or .cso they are most likely native PSP games. An emulator is a piece of software that funnily enough emulates something else, so you can have a GameBoy emulator and run GameBoy games on the PSP. You can get a PS1 emulator so you can run Playstation 1 games on a PSP, no Playstation 2 though.

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Originally Posted by Missismiggins

I am afraid to turn his machine off in case I cannot get it booted up from the "CHICKEN HEN" thing!!

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Ive no idea about ChickenHen as I have custom firmware on my PSP as its one of the 1st generation ones that can run custom firmware. It seems like some sort of workaround/hack/firmware to get homebrew and copied games working on a PSP 3000
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Originally Posted by melvbot

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Originally Posted by Missismiggins

The games are in an ISO format, does this mean I can run PSP 2 games on this thing? or PS1?... I tried looking on the internet, but to be honest, the kind of people that post on PSP forums seem not really able to adapt to real life!

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If they are .iso or .cso they are most likely native PSP games. An emulator is a piece of software that funnily enough emulates something else, so you can have a GameBoy emulator and run GameBoy games on the PSP. You can get a PS1 emulator so you can run Playstation 1 games on a PSP, no Playstation 2 though.

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Originally Posted by Missismiggins

I am afraid to turn his machine off in case I cannot get it booted up from the "CHICKEN HEN" thing!!

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Ive no idea about ChickenHen as I have custom firmware on my PSP as its one of the 1st generation ones that can run custom firmware. It seems like some sort of workaround/hack/firmware to get homebrew and copied games working on a PSP 3000
PSP Hacks, tutorials, mods, cracks, utilities, homebrew

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Thanks for the link, I will have a look, but you are correct they run in ISO format, and are some kind of "homebrew"...you know, that used to be beer where I came from!

The problem I have, is these "new fangled geek forums" don't even speak English, its all a kind of SMS shorthand like UR = You are....TX = Thanks...you can't even understand what the fuckers are saying...and there methods... Jesus, it jumps from step one to 6 with nothing in between, I even downloaded a supposed guide from youtube, the fucker that made it must have been on CRACK, he couldn't even get the damn camera on the PSP, it was harder to follow that a flight simulator!!

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The cost for 128 kilobytes of memory will fall below U$100 in the near future.
Creative Computing magazine
December 1981, page 6

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At $100 for 128 kilobytes, the price of 256 megabytes comes to $200,000.

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RAM (random-access memory) is now at record low prices, with many vendors offering 256-megabyte modules for U$50 or less.
San Francisco Chronicle, 27 September 2001

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Not a 'games ' person but this thread reminded me of when I got my son a computer .
He had a games programme - some sort of flight simulator- where you could choose your landing place /airport and the aircraft .
Spectacular crashes when you got it wrong .

A 747 on an aircraft carrier was absolutely the best !

:rofl::rofl:

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Originally Posted by Happyman

Not a 'games ' person but this thread reminded me of when I got my son a computer .
He had a games programme - some sort of flight simulator- where you could choose your landing place /airport and the aircraft .
Spectacular crashes when you got it wrong .

A 747 on an aircraft carrier was absolutely the best !

:rofl::rofl:

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Thet should produce a new one...Twin Towers Revenge!

iso is an disc image( copy ) file
don't PSP games come on some proprietary disk ?
I would guess the bloke loaded up the memory stick with images.
so you would probably download the iso's from a bittorrent site and copy them to the memory stick

at 50 baht for 6 games , why would you want to fcuk around yourself. ?

just go to PSP - PSP - Cheats, Cheat Codes, Videos, Reviews - GameSpy read some reviews , work out which games you want and go and get the bloke to put them on

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Originally Posted by baldrick

iso is an disc image( copy ) file
don't PSP games come on some proprietary disk ?
I would guess the bloke loaded up the memory stick with images.
so you would probably download the iso's from a bittorrent site and copy them to the memory stick

at 50 baht for 6 games , why would you want to fcuk around yourself. ?

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Baldrick,
If I knew the answers mate, I wouldn't be asking the questions!
IE...Yes the game copies are on an ISO format...the question is..can any ISO format be played on a psp??..I can make ISO files from DVD's????
It is this whole "FORMAT" business that has me stumped! I need to go an read aprevious thread first, but I am in total confusion!

What do you want to know Miggins? How to put games on it etc?

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Originally Posted by melvbot

What do you want to know Miggins? How to put games on it etc?

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Yes mate,
What I want to know is, can you copy PS2 games to a comuter, then load them up to PsP?

If nor..where do these people get the games?

And..the slightly embarrising thing is...any idea how you boot it up in the Chicken Hen mode..it seems to be something to do with a strange abnormality with a TIFF file???

but this has lost me completely...

If you have any "IDIOT" guides, I would appreciate it if you dropped me a PM...fuck...PM I am getting likle these damn geeks I despise...Have you seen the movie "UP"...alas we all get there eventually!

What I am trying to find out is..how to boot it from the Chicken Hen Tiff, and how I can copy PSP2 games to it if possible?

If I cant' get PS2 games to work..where are these guys getting their games from??

miggins is still allowed to post stuff and ant isn't.

staggering.

YouTube - How to use ChickenHen on your PSP(No pandora required!)

You cant load PS2 games onto a PSP. The PSP games are available from almost any torrent site. ChickenHen seems to be a fairly new thing, I hadnt heard of it until today

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Originally Posted by Missismiggins

the question is..can any ISO format be played on a psp??.

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an iso is just a software copy of a disk , you can mount DVD isos in a DVDplayer emulator on your PC - I have a couple of virtual DVD players on my system using daemon tools.

I suggest you start googling and reading

It's possible to rip games from UMD copy them into a memory stick and play them from there, Fastloader .7 is one programme, but for the money you might as well get your pirate copies from the Thai bloke and save yourself the hassle.

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Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

It's possible to rip games from UMD copy them into a memory stick and play them from there, Fastloader .7 is one programme, but for the money you might as well get your pirate copies from the Thai bloke and save yourself the hassle.

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This is the info I am after! thanks a lot, see, I was under the impression that the UMD could NOT be ripped!

Now I have a starting point... and to be honest, it's not the cost of the games at asll, it is trying to get my head around the technology, and ways around these ridiculous copyright blocks.

It appears that the PSP can do a hell of a lot more than Sony allow it to!

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Originally Posted by Missismiggins

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Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

It's possible to rip games from UMD copy them into a memory stick and play them from there, Fastloader .7 is one programme, but for the money you might as well get your pirate copies from the Thai bloke and save yourself the hassle.

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This is the info I am after! thanks a lot, see, I was under the impression that the UMD could NOT be ripped!

Now I have a starting point... and to be honest, it's not the cost of the games at asll, it is trying to get my head around the technology, and ways around these ridiculous copyright blocks.

It appears that the PSP can do a hell of a lot more than Sony allow it to!

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Whats the point of ripping a UMD to put it on a memory card unless you're uploading it for a torrent to share?

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Originally Posted by melvbot

What do you want to know Miggins? How to put games on it etc?

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Actually, the first thing is a lot more embarrassing than that!
I really dare not turn the damn thing off as I cannot remeber how the guy booted into this chicken hen mode, you go to photos on the memory stick, where there are a few photos of some Japanese anime, and about three photos of a fried egg, from what I watched him do, he just scrolled down to the second last egg, and as if by magic it started.

I tried a couple of times at the shop but didn't get the full picture, however my son reckoned he understood, but when we got back home he bacame a little "unsure" so at the moment the bugger is kept in standby mode.

I say, I have seen a bit on the net about chicken hen, but these guys discussing it are on another level...it's real GEEK stuff.

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Originally Posted by melvbot

Whats the point of ripping a UMD to put it on a memory card unless you're uploading it for a torrent to share?

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so you don't have to carry the discs around and have more than 1 game available to you ?

ISO is a file, it's a DVD dump or mini-DVD dump,

it would basically be like your tape dump into a computer file, like in a backup

ISO are convenient to copy and for backup, it's a mirror image of the CD/DVD

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Listen , Hen allows the cfw to be put in your psp’s flash .. your psp will be forever hacked as long as you put it into stand-by mode rather than shuting it down or if the batt. falls out…. if you shut it down or the batt. falls out you have to redo the Hen and cfw process

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put the unit in standby and charging when you are not using it

then google and read

Google

I would say cfw = custom firmware
the tiff file is normally a picture file , but the tiff you open is probably malformed which forces the psp into a mode where you can load the custom firmware - the homebrew for the wii is like this.

can you write down the steps you remember ?

I very rarely turn mine off even though it doesnt matter if I do, never had an issue leaving it on standby.

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Originally Posted by baldrick

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Listen , Hen allows the cfw to be put in your psp’s flash .. your psp will be forever hacked as long as you put it into stand-by mode rather than shuting it down or if the batt. falls out…. if you shut it down or the batt. falls out you have to redo the Hen and cfw process

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put the unit in standby and charging when you are not using it

then google and read

Google

I would say cfw = custom firmware
the tiff file is normally a picture file , but the tiff you open is probably malformed which forces the psp into a mode where you can load the custom firmware - the homebrew for the wii is like this.

can you write down the steps you remember ?

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You are certainly on the right track!

He removed the UMD disc, then you have to switch of the UMD cache, and the UMD auto start, then he showed me something in the system settings where he had reflashed the firmware to version 5.03.

After that, you had to go into the photo menu and select the memory stick, there are a few of these "hentai" images, followed by three photos of a fried egg, one JPG if I remember, and the second one is a TIFF (which I think is the one he went to to start it up)

There is also another file in there called "SLIM" or something.

He seemed to just let the cursor select the Tiff, and suddenely the screen goes garbled, then it boots into this custom mode. There was another step, and that was in the system settings menu, but if I can get the thing to boot, I reckon I can follow it from there.

I am curious to find out what the games are! Are they PSP games, or PS1 or what? They seem to range from about in size from 450MB -1.2GB) and are ISO files.

I mounted one of the images, and it has 1 file and one directory, the file is UM_DATA.bin and the directory is PSP_GAME, which contains the rest of the data, it contains a folder SYSDIR and USRDIR, it also has four files, 2 x PNG files, a SMF file and a SFO file, if you know what any of this stuff is, I would be grateful.

When he originally set it up, he used a separate (different - his own) battery pack and memory card, so I suspect there is some sort of encoding via these two pieces to prevent hacking.

Fascinating stuff though!

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Originally Posted by melvbot

YouTube - How to use ChickenHen on your PSP(No pandora required!)

You cant load PS2 games onto a PSP. The PSP games are available from almost any torrent site. ChickenHen seems to be a fairly new thing, I hadnt heard of it until today

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Thanks a bundle for that! That looks like what I need!
Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Missismiggins

I remeber when I was about 20, my mother and father bought me a BBC B microcomputer, it cost an arm and a leg those days, 16K memory and a fucking tape recorder for a "hard drive".

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LOL. That brings back memories! First computer I ever came across was that one, in work. As I recall all we ever used it for was playing "Star trek", which was really basic, just black and white, with dots and crosses (IIRC).

Not sure it actually was used for anything work orientated.

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Originally Posted by Missismiggins

I remeber when I was about 20, my mother and father bought me a BBC B microcomputer, it cost an arm and a leg those days, 16K memory and a fucking tape recorder for a "hard drive".

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LOL. That brings back memories! First computer I ever came across was that one, in work. As I recall all we ever used it for was playing "Star trek", which was really basic, just black and white, with dots and crosses (IIRC).

Not sure it actually was used for anything work orientated.

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I also remember the extreme pleaseures of programming one of those 64K machines in machine code, everything in Hexadecimal, having to "load the accumulator" it took days to write a simple few steps!

As far as the PSP goes, I think I am getting there! I seem to get the gist of what I need to do and have managed to get the CF program understood, I "KNOW" what I hyave to do to boot it up using the TIFF, but I still haven't dared try it in case I can't get it working, there'll hell to pay if it doesn't work!

I even mamanged to download some PSX games and Eventually get them running, however they seem very tempremental as to where you put them on the directory structure!

You learn something new everyday eh! Never a dull moment.