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The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 Wifi Networks - Wololo.net (wololo.net)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

FOSS people are crazy awesome

[–] PlasticExistence 14 points 3 weeks ago

Being crazy is a big part of that

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Ah the nostalgic days of obsessing over wololo to see if my firmware was finally going to be supported.

IIRC for the PSP there came a day where you could run code straight from the external storage card without needing anything else. Which led to bootable game ISOs from the vanilla UI.

I could be remembering things wrong as it has been over a decade.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I miss when most hardware was jailbreakable as easily as running a basic script. Nowadays it's like you can maybe jailbreak your device if it's running software version 3.04.05.6 EXACTLY and your device was manufactured inbetween the dates 2017-05-05 and 2017-05-07. It also needs to be a full moon and the third Tuesday of the month Otherwise, nope it's completly locked down

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I love stupid exploits like the patapon demo exploit where you use a specific save file as the payload entry point. That's what I like the most about exploits. Or how for Nintendo consoles all the Smash games can be used to install cfw.

[–] zourn 3 points 3 weeks ago

With patched firmware, yes. And there was a program to convert any PS1 iso into a PSP loadable game as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

That was early firmware 1.50. Just put homebrew on MemoryStick Duo and run it on stock firmware. Before Dark_AleX and the beginning of the cat-and-mouse game...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I actually run a hidden WPA1 SSID at home just so I can connect my PSP Fat to the net, so this is directly relevant to my interests.

Of course I need to upgrade my CFW. Still on M33 5.0. Then again I've been needing to do that for a while.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I love my PSP Go, such an awesome emulation machine

[–] BreadOven 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is the wololo the same one as in age of empires?

[–] whostosay 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, it means a murloc is behind you and it's already too late

[–] BreadOven 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Fu....

Edit: not saying F U. But saying fuck and then got captured halfway through.