Posted Oct 04, 2006 at 03:25PM by Karl B. Listed in: Homebrew Applications Tags: 0okm, motherboards, TA-082, GMail
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TA-082 motherboard


We've got some pretty bad news for PSP owners out there who have firmware 2.50 with the cursed TA-082 motherboards. Coder 0okm, who was working on a SoftDown downgrader for TA-082s, has decided to stop working on the said project. This decision came about after somebody tried to hack into his Gmail account and discredited him with some nasty gossip.

All the people who were generous enough to donate support for 0okm's work were fully refunded - which is a good thing - but we still can't help but feel a bit down about this news item. Hopefully, either 0okm will decide to work on the project again in the near future or someone else will pick it up.

Right now, let's all show some support for 0okm in whatever his next homebrew project is.


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   by dude (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » who cares?

who cares if it was a scam or not? did it affect any of you so personally that you may not sleep at night? don't get butt hurt. any cash he got he returned so no big deal. if the downgrader was real well then the scene itself is to blame for the quick discontinuation of it. if it wasn't? pfft. who gives a $hit? not me. let him and yoshihiro start a dev team together. they can call themselves 'lie-cheat-steal dev team if they want. life rolls on.

   by 1.50 4life (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » damn

no comment lol
i luv my 1.50

   by hahahah (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » hahahah

haha stupid homebrew users

   by Jeef (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » scam?

scam?everyone who donated to him got his money back, and i sent him my isp e-mail(what the hell can he do with it anyway?) and my firmware dump+serial number and i got the downgrader and it worked...i bet all the others who sent him their info got it to
so it was not scam just cut it out

   by you noobz (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » who is Ookm again?????!!

oh, only just one of the original coders that worked on the PERFECTLY LEGAL PSP SDK TOOLCHAIN.

without Ookm's hard work, we might never have had legal homebrew period.

think about that before you open up your pie holes and start talkin mess about someone you know NOTHING about

   by Skate4LifeisaPOSER - 2006-10-04
 » ff

Ummm #27... i think you need to get a life. and Also i know youre gay. That should be news on here. Trollbait is really a little F@G boy!

   by Lii (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » !

Let's all thank that ***** by shoving his head up his ass. Nice. Somebody is always, ALWAYS, THAT LOW, as to go and do something to ***** it up for the rest of us.

   by Chuck (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » Aww...

Aww that sucks alot. Come back and finish coding please!! We need ya holmes. Thats so gay... why must people do things to these hard working coders? I mean it works out for them anyway. He did nothing wrong as what i can see... that sucks ballzzzz. Oh well, i hope he comes back. What evil lol

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   by Lii (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » ...

Ookm is a very interesting dev. A lot of people think SCAM! but, he was one of the first and worked on the tool chain as 35 said. If it wasn't a scam this definately sucks. However, I agree, he should release the source. I don't think it's a scam as he refunded everyone

   by lol @ you sorry azz kidz (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » um your gay

oh no!

I'm gay!

Skate4LifeisaPOSER really owned me!! he knows I'm gay cos he saw me at the gay porn theater, he sat right next to me.

I can't believe he outed me!!

I must kill myself.

Skate4LifeisaPOSER is 2.8 user!!!
Skate4LifeisaPOSER is 2.8 user!!!
Skate4LifeisaPOSER is 2.8 user!!!
Skate4LifeisaPOSER is 2.8 user!!!
Skate4LifeisaPOSER is 2.8 user!!!


   by - (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » -

thank god the downgrade wasn't realised. ookm's work so far has been a total dis-service to PSP game devs and to sony by enabling people to downgrade for the sole purpose of playing pirated games and ISO's.

People are gonna say they don't pirate games and only want to use legal homebrew which is bull*****, but we all know that 95%+ of people who do downgrade are doing it for free games which ultimately will hurt the PSP as a console.


so good riddance to ookm and i give my thanks to the hacker who screwed him.

   by hahahah (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » @ Skate4LifeisaPOSER

hahahah

troll bait was clearly stated, yet YOU FELL FOR IT!!!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

   by zzz (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » doubt the hacker has ta-82. too bad for all those guy

calling 00kim a scam is like saying AHMEN from irshell is a scam. they have both donated too much time to this scene to be fakes.

calling 00kim a scam is like saying AHMEN from irshell is a scam. they have both donated too much time to this scene to be fakes.

calling 00kim a scam is like saying AHMEN from irshell is a scam. they have both donated too much time to this scene to be fakes.

calling 00kim a scam is like saying AHMEN from irshell is a scam. they have both donated too much time to this scene to be fakes.

calling 00kim a scam is like saying AHMEN from irshell is a scam. they have both donated too much time to this scene to be fakes.


why want a ISP email account? so he can post your ***** up when you post his firmware dump he gave you


   by logicbomb.de - 2006-10-04
 » @ 41

Spoken like a true 2.8x user!!!!

Come on now, do you belove in Santa Claus too?

If the PSP fails its because of the way Sony handled it and the fact that the games themselves hardly carry the system.

PS2 is one of the most easily exploitable systems out there - the DS even easier - and you can easily see how big of a "failure" those two systems were.

yup

now get off the computer, gramma's trying to make a phone call

   by Bob Joe - 2006-10-04
 » grr!

I'm so mad! my friend has a 2.60 psp (ta082)

:(

   by Hey!!!??!! (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » Anyone know who it is?


Who the ***** was it!!!!!!!!
I'll have him killed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   by potat4o - 2006-10-04
 » !

sony paid someone I know it

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   by lol internet (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » lol internet

@ 27:Congratu-FVCK-lations, you've just made the worst comment/post/flame/opinion, EVAAAR!!! (you are THE A$$hole that fvcks sony reps)

@ 36: and you know this HOW?? (so gay!)

but i do think that the softdown would brick our psps.
what it does sounds like too much to mess with, BRICKER!

   by unknow (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » sony

it was sony how try to hack the gmail

   by Skinny310 (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » Full of S***

this guy is full of s*** how do you know he returned the donations qj.net is just repeating what they read in Ookm's own blog and he was sopposed to be the only guy trying to help out ta-082(unfinished iso loader,fake downgrader)but he never realeased anything usefull, and as for his 1.5 to 1.0 downgrader he realeased a couple months ago you could only do it if your psp was originally a 1.0 he had the excuse that if you tried it on another psp it would brick did anyone notice he tried the same s*** with this sopposed downgrader.I myself give a thousand praises to Dark_Alex the only guy(besides the noobz team) that helped us out as for emulated 1.5 it starts everytime and does everything a regualar 1.5 psp does and the HEN rev.C starts almost on the frist try every time now and doen't take me more than 5 times now compared to like 20 from rev.A, so I think the downgrader was pretty useless anyways so good ridens.

   by Geez (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » WOW

ookm sounds like a real pvssy! I mean COME ON!!! One douche tries to hack his email and spread a little gossip, and the dude rolls over and wets on himself! What is he, french!?! I really feel for those poor TA-082 users...

   by Funny *****, logicbomb.de (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » Funny *****, logicbomb.de

http://tinyurl.com/mb8tp

   by bop (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » o

he quit because of noobs? lol
he made a downgrader for ta-082 where each person had to cantact him through emails. what did you expect? these are people who want homebrew yet bought ta-082 psps

   by zot (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » aaaa

개씨발년아 니가 그럴줄 알았다 개같은년아

   by jchaike (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » ...

every1 whos saying crap bout this...cool it! i dont see any of you coming up with some brilliant way to downgrade psps!

   by Teggles (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » Hacked?

The article says someone 'tried to' hack his gmail account. Yeah right. There's no way you can know that someone tried to hack your gmail account unless they actually got in, in which case the article is written incorrectly.

   by reptie7 - 2006-10-04
 » 2

Either this was a hack or sony has something to do with this.

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   by akuma2099 - 2006-10-04
 » oh poor baby

He had to stop because it was a fake piece of *****. I mean who ask for peoples personal information and then threatens to release it.

And to all those who say "why don't you come up with a way to downgrade a PSP" I don't need to as I have a 1.5 and will never upgrade so why should I make something that would be of no use to me? I am currently working on improving on the n64 emulator so it will run Starfox and Smash Bros pretty well for my own use since those are the only games I liked on the n64. And it isn't that hard to do I thought it would from the amount of time and problems others have had with it, oh well. So I guess those 4 years of advanced collage computer courses are good for something.

P.S. my version even HAS SOUND. interesing idea for an emulator huh?

   by ? (Unregistered) - 2006-10-04
 » uhhh

He never said the person who hacked into his account had anything to do with the downgrader so why did he cancel it.

   by Mystic8277 - 2006-10-04
 » lols@58

You can't even spell college.



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