Swaploit one year anniversary!
A lot of you may have forgotten, but today is a very important one for the homebrew community. Exactly a year ago, a Spanish group carrying the name PSP-DEV provided a light to the many who were blinded in the dark; paved the way for those who were lost; and guided them to find the light.
I may be getting a little too dramatic, but let’s just say that it’s a carryover of the joy I, and I’m sure all of you, had when CybBlade, Pawstick and Killer-X brought to us the very first exploit for FW 1.50 – Swaploit. June 15, 2005 marked the date when the said method first serve American PSP users the very good taste of homebrew for their PSP.
It must be taken into note that right after the Hello World exploit for FW 1.0, before PSPs were launched outside of Japan, Sony released their FW update thus blocking homebrew for gamers around the world who just bought theis handhelds. Swaploit, a method that may be considered medieval in terms of modern technology, answered the prayers of many to have emulators and homebrew for their newly blocked PSPs.
Crude yet very effective, Swaploit worked by swapping Memory Sticks while starting the application. It may not have basked long in terms of popularity among homebrew users (a week later the same guys released KXploit), but it still holds a very special place in most PSPanatics’ hearts because it was the very first tool that gave us the power to go up against the updates, giving us the power to use our PSP the way we want.
It has given us the hope that if an exploit could have been made in the very first update, it’ll only take time before other FWs are hacked as well. That very same achievement is the very thing that makes other users hold on to the dream of having another tool to use against the latest update. We already have the Devhook, and pretty soon we’ll have the modchip, things are indeed very looking bright for us – no small thanks to Swaploit.
Whenever I think of this, I always remember the line “The darkest hour of the night is right before the Sun comes out“. Indeed the days before Swaploit were very sad and dark, right now, I’d like to think we’re all basking under the heat of midday sun.
Amidst reminiscing those good old days, I sincerely ask for everyone to offer a few seconds of silence for CybBlade whom we lost to cancer last year…
A lot of you may have forgotten, but today is a very important one for the homebrew community. Exactly a year ago, a Spanish group carrying the name PSP-DEV provided a light to the many who were blinded in the dark; paved the way for those who were lost; and guided them to find the light.
I may be getting a little too dramatic, but let’s just say that it’s a carryover of the joy I, and I’m sure all of you, had when CybBlade, Pawstick and Killer-X brought to us the very first exploit for FW 1.50 – Swaploit. June 15, 2005 marked the date when the said method first serve American PSP users the very good taste of homebrew for their PSP.
It must be taken into note that right after the Hello World exploit for FW 1.0, before PSPs were launched outside of Japan, Sony released their FW update thus blocking homebrew for gamers around the world who just bought theis handhelds. Swaploit, a method that may be considered medieval in terms of modern technology, answered the prayers of many to have emulators and homebrew for their newly blocked PSPs.
Crude yet very effective, Swaploit worked by swapping Memory Sticks while starting the application. It may not have basked long in terms of popularity among homebrew users (a week later the same guys released KXploit), but it still holds a very special place in most PSPanatics’ hearts because it was the very first tool that gave us the power to go up against the updates, giving us the power to use our PSP the way we want.
It has given us the hope that if an exploit could have been made in the very first update, it’ll only take time before other FWs are hacked as well. That very same achievement is the very thing that makes other users hold on to the dream of having another tool to use against the latest update. We already have the Devhook, and pretty soon we’ll have the modchip, things are indeed very looking bright for us – no small thanks to Swaploit.
Whenever I think of this, I always remember the line “The darkest hour of the night is right before the Sun comes out“. Indeed the days before Swaploit were very sad and dark, right now, I’d like to think we’re all basking under the heat of midday sun.
Amidst reminiscing those good old days, I sincerely ask for everyone to offer a few seconds of silence for CybBlade whom we lost to cancer last year…
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