If you want to use homebrew on the PSP, there a few general steps of action to take. Just don’t ask me questions about how to use bittorrent to download illegal copies of commercial PSP games, okay?
Nonetheless, you’re all able to make your own decisions about how you work with and enjoy your devices, so as long as you recognize that there is some risk involved in the following technique, I do have a splendid article by gamer Andrew Childress on how to downgrade your PSP firmware to gain access to the treasures of the homebrew community and more. But the 1% of malicious rebels can easily find it amusing to mislead you and cause you to trash your sweet little Sony device.
The problem is, Sony doesn’t make downgraders available, so you’re at the mercy of the online community which, I admit, is 99% great people. You’re right, I will include a disclaimer because about every week or so I get an email from someone who was fiddling with the firmware version on their Sony PSP and somehow ended up freezing or “bricking” the system. The instructions remain, but you’re on your own finding any specific software, hacks or earlier versions of PSP firmware. Note: The links have been removed from this article due to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act violation filed by Sony against AskDaveTaylor.
