Posted Nov 24, 2006 at 07:26PM by Chris L. Listed in: Homebrew Development, Rumors Tags: DevHook, Booster, Dark-AleX
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Could it be, you and I, never imagined?


Rumor alert!!!
Did we just boost the spirits of our PSP Updates readers? Readers Alomo and Axel told us to check MaxConsole Forums out, where forum member Mathieulh claims that Booster is back in business with the PSP, and working on DevHook, after several months of inactivity due to coding... for... another... console (guess which one). This is what he said:

Just for the people not to worry, Booster has now resumed his work on the psp (especially devhook) after several months of inactivity due to beeing working on another console's scene (I am not sure I can name it so I wont).


I am sorry, for now I cannot give any ETA current devhook betas, still be sure to know serious improvements were done.


There's no other independent confirmation of this claim from Mathieulh, other than Dark_Alex's hints about a DevHook 2.80 beta (and the hints about the other console). And that it still had some bugs needing working out. This is the most likely scenario we're looking at. But there's that 3.0 dump/decrypt to consider.

Check the source out and see how many times the numbers 3.0 and 3.01 pop up. Welcome to the world of wild dreams and wilder speculation. As we said, the hardest piece of intel we have on Booster comes from Dark_Alex about the 2.80+ betas, so we can safely sit on - or stand by - that. After the dump of DA BIG 3-0H, can we begin to believe in miracles again?

Without any direct post from Booster himself, everything else really is idle speculation, even from us. But we'll bet that when he does speak up, the scene will be hanging on his every word. Our bet's on the 2.80. But we can still believe in miracles, even the wildest ones...

Thanks, Alomo and Axel, for mailing us this tip! Batten down the hatches, QJ boys and girls, the reaction's gonna go wild!


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   by longbaugh (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » to booster

WELCOME BACK!!!


   Re: well (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » come

back TOTALLY AGREED MAN (good thing you arent a noob)

   Re: Muhu (QJ. NET Staff) - 2006-11-25
 » +D

Welcome back Booster!

   Re: wind (Unregistered) - 2006-11-25
 » good luck!

good luck!! awaiting for the 3.0 Devhook!!

   Re: Anonymous stranger (Unregistered) - 2006-11-25
 » yeaaaa

OH YEA, I can't believe it!!! pinch me!!!

   Re: SpankyMCnoodle - 2006-11-26
 » I Believe!!

WOOT!!
   by Money Loo (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » Sweets

Sounds good.

   by demz (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » told yah

to all you idiots who were doubting..

HA!

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   by JC (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » Cool

Do you think we could emulate 3.0 on 2.8 eloader or use the new devhook?


   Re: dragonforce (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » ur right

if there is a decrypter and dumper then there will be emulation on the psp once more

long live homebrew

   Re: haha (Unregistered) - 2006-11-25
 » well..

only time will tell,

Welcome back booster and goodluck with upcomming projects. We all love your last work and im sure we will love your new work.
   by dag (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » plz o plz 3.0

Welcome back Booster, this is great news.

   by NinjaMy (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » GREAT!

Woohoo..this is definitely great news to everyone.. waiting for full emulation for 3.00/3.01

   by Shakespeare (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » All praises to Booster!

You can doooooooooooooooo it!

   by Matt (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » TIA Booster

dont stop programming... we love those pbp's :)

   by lostmongoose (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » Last I checked Cease and Desist meant just that.

Can't wait til Sony comes down on him like a bag of rocks if he continues devhook development. Cease and Desist letters turn to lawsuits when ignored, and I'm betting he lacks the money to handle a prolonged legal battle.


   Re: Lettin u know (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » about the C+D order

The C+D order was the distrobution of Devhook .43(the wifi fix if im not mistaken) which was an unoffical build that contained a file copyrighted Sony.

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   Re: you hatin (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » you hatin on booster

dude ur names lostmongoose, you have no right to talk smack about booster. he'll knuck u
   by name (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » the other console...

was he busy coding for ds? just guessing though...

   by machinegun - 2006-11-24
 » Goddamnit!!!!!!!!!

Goddamnit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just a few weeks ago I updated to 2.81 to play GTA VC, now the day after yesterday updated to 3.00 because of the "bug". And now I'm so desapointed, I should have waited until this to play my GTA....


   Re: kevin (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » im still waiting..

yea i never even decided upgraded when i bought my gta VCS im staying 1.5 forever, if you dont have patience then you wont get the great homebrew like devhook

   Re: i am (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » sorry

well i saw u on MAXconsole if it was u evrybody advised u not to UPDATE and wait man am sorry i tought u knew that and y did u update again?!

   Re: 300 (Unregistered) - 2006-11-25
 » Christ...

Why did you update to 2.81? The game in UMD version worked perfect in 2.71 SE-B''!

Christ, sometime people are retarded.
   by Chris (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » Sony Executive

Boosters a lil B1TCH!
I, nor-anyone else, gave a SH1T about his G@Y programming for PSP! He just releases CRAP that is used for hacking sonys PSP and everyone only uses it as an ISO loader!

I mean, come on! What the f*** is up with this cat!?


   Re: Dajax (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » WTF

You artard Stop impersonating Sony... Jesus! BTW, IF 3.0 get Emulated for 2.80 the PS3 OWners Will be happy to have Connectiblities... Freakin Idiot!

   Re: wow (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » hehehe

your funny

   Re: dragon force (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » wtf

of course we care about boosters work u r the G@Y 1 u probably hav 3.0 or 3.01 hahahahaha or ur sony, sony is G@Y as well as u hahahahaha whos with me long live homebrew and dev hook

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   Re: firyice (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » WTF

chris....you should go swallow a knife....seriously....haha....just kidding...not really....maybe...

   Re: . (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » to firyice

lolololololololololololololololololololol!!!!!!

   Re: Sony Executive (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » Sorry

We have seen the light and are currently working on a firmware release to bring back homebrew to the psp
   by yoshinatsu - 2006-11-24
 » Yeah... 3.0X is on the way... We can see it...

WILDEST DREAMS can come true, and especially WE, PSPers know that VERY good...
We have been surprised many times in the past (remember Exophase? or the Custom Firmware? those things seemed IMPOSSIBLE)
And YES, I'm more than 100% sure, that 3.00/3.01 will be emulated in no time. Just have A LITTLE patience.
A give Dark_Alex a WEEK to a MONTH.
You'll see I was right.


   Re: kwastie - 2006-11-25
 » Dark_Alex

Dark_Alex? devhook is programmed by booster and not by dark_alex

   Re: rofl (Unregistered) - 2006-11-25
 » yea

kwasie is right rofl, btw, your right, nobody thought 2.5 downgrade was even possible, wow, go to first page of pspupdates, some old stuff!
   by Psy (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » Freaking sweet!!

Welcome back to the scene booster!!
Ohh, i feel like peeing my pants in front of a crowd.

   by Jin (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » Amazing to hear.

Booster is the man and a half. For some reason I can already tell the if DevHook does come out supporting 2.80 and not 3.0, there are going to be plenty of greedy idiots saying, "Omg Kewl Booster BUT WHEREZ 3.0!>!?!!!?!?!?!"

Any news from Booster is going to be good news, that's how I see it.

   by Im so happy (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » wELCOME BACK

Welcome back booster =) and yeah, Emulate 3.0 !!

   by kiel (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » SONY WILL

FEEL THE WRAITH


   Re: CarXCrashXHearts - 2006-11-24
 » Halo.

The Wraith? We're going to run them over with Covenant tanks?

   Re: Master Chief (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » Halo.

Only with my consent.
I personally prefer a quad-bike stampede.

   Re: teh uber halo pwnerer (Unregistered) - 2006-11-26
 » banshee...

no i think they should feel the front of a banshee!!!!
   by *Witty name here* (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » Early X-mas?

With the holidays just around the corner, I wouldn't doubt a Devhook upgrade. Many people will be getting new games that require 2.8X and won't be able to play them (a situation I face myself). If Booster were to come out with 2.80 or even the great 3.00 before X-mas (which seems perfectly reasonable), it would be a massive boost for both Booster and the homebrew community and also another blow to Sony.


   Re: Once again (Unregistered) - 2006-11-25
 » ok..

it might seam reasonable to you if your not a programmer, the code doesnot write and debug itself.

It would be awsome to see, but give them some time, before x-mas... yeah right

dont you think they have lifes too... well they do if you dident know, So I would say sometime next year before we see any homebrew or emulators for 3.0/3.1

If they do come out with a devhook 2.8 then that will be awsome, and sense it was in beta, it is very possable that its near a release.


But lets not rush these guys, the more time they have the better their work will be.

ID personally like to see all the great work on a CUSTOM firmware that is made from scratch..

wich is said is next to impossable..

now dont yeall SE-B at me, i know its a custom firmware, but it is not written from scratch.. its based around pre-exsiting sony firmware.
And dont get me wrong WONDERFULL JOB to DA
for his wonderfull creation.

If they could get FULL control over every aspect of the psp firmware they could overcome ALOT.

But doNOT rush them. LOL

   Re: *Witty name here* (Unregistered) - 2006-11-25
 » whoops

By perfectly reasonable, I meant a 2.80 emulation. As you said yourself, he already has a beta version of it, so again, 2.80 emulation before christmas seems fairly reasonable. However, if there isn't, no biggie; no one's gunna die (If you are then that sux). It will happen eventually; I'd just prefer it sooner than later (as would many).
   by soke (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » w00t

Homebrew FTW

   by nikeskatekrew (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » come on

Come on booster you can do it.....im hoping for 3.0/3.01 but i will settle for 2.8x

   by SYM (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » Halo definitions need not apply

wraith - an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death | basically he's saying for sony to hede the spirit that brings their demise...or he couldn't spell wrath (Personally I think it's the lateral)


   Re: CarXCrashXHearts - 2006-11-24
 » Lol.

Personally I don't think you know what you just typed. But thannk you anyway.





DEVHOOK 3.0 FTW!
   by FreeJ - 2006-11-24
 » awedome

yay
winnar

   by dekonstruktr (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » good news!

Just talked to my mom and she said to tell Booster "Welcome back!!"


   Re: denumberone (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » lol

say hi to ur mum for me

   Re: luke (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » haha

tell ur mom thanks for the root and ill give her payment soon
   by zim (Unregistered) - 2006-11-24
 » oh my god

booster I could kiss you. I knew you werent gone!