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PSP Slim's bare essentials: Welcome TA-085

Posted Sep 04, 2007 at 05:22PM by Ceasar S. Listed in: Hacks & Exploits, Homebrew Development, PSP Slim & Lite Tags: FCC, nand, 0okm, PCB

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Straight from 0okm, creator of homebrew enablers, took the PSP Slim and Lite (or PSP-2000) apart and discovered that the the new PlayStation Portable's board is spanking brand new - new enough to warrant a new PCB version. Folks, welcome TA-085.

Now the kicker here is that the new aesthetics, appearance, UMD drives, plus the video-out feature and firmware version 3.60 aren't the only things that would set your trusty PSP apart from its slimmer cousin. 0okm speculates that the NAND Flash and DRAM memory could both be embedded in the new CPU chip, identified as CXD29758GG. An FCC ID would have helped identify the chip's maker and specs, but none was provided as of yet.

Now it's no secret that 4 Mebibytes (mega binary bytes) of DRAM are also embedded in former PSP systems, such as TA-082s, but details as to how much memory and where it's embedded is difficult to determine. The Media Engine chip, specifications unknown as of press time, had the chip ID CXD5029 printed on its surface. More details to come as soon as they develop. Image courtesy of 0okm.

Thanks to xSaVage for the tip!

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by yay (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» yay

FIRST

Re: IronLung (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» mebi bebi

4 Mebibytes of DRAM

oof-da! fix that!

Re: FreePlay (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» Mebibyte is correct.

1 Mebibyte + 1MiB + 1048576 bytes
1 Megabyte + 1MB + 1000000 bytes.

lern u a buuk.

Re: ... (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» ...

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Re: SomeGuy (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» Mebibyte is for fools!

1MB (Megabyte) will always be 1048576 Bytes, this is the original definition and almost completely universally used in the industry.
MiB was invented to continue to sell the lie that HDD manufacturers and internet companies have been fudging the lines for many years. If you're old enough you'll remember when they first started doing this half the hdd manufacturers said they were just rounding up, since then they said it's less confusing because people think it's 1000 anyway. Several years later they even tried to make it official.
You can't buy things to make them official, it has not been accepted and will never be, and if you believe everything is correct on wikipedia you'd be incorrect.
Ask any programmer any processor designer and they'll set you straight, you don't have a computer industry without them.

Re: Ext. (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» Dear ... (Unregistered)

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Re: PLayero_1 (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» THANK U!!

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Re: @ Ext. (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» ...

looser... wht kind of sad ***** likes to snitch?? i wou hate to know what kind of nerd you are in real life... i ve personally tried the program wen it was first posted on this site and found it very amazing. Why do you think anyone will waste time posting some shy.t over and over again withought getting payed for it?

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Use your head and try it once, if yuo don't like it then ignore it.

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Re: @ Ext (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» Re:

looser... wht kind of sad ***** likes to snitch?? i wou hate to know what kind of nerd you are in real life... i ve personally tried the program wen it was first posted on this site and found it very amazing. Why do you think anyone will waste time posting some shy.t over and over again withought getting payed for it?

i mean.. it's a refferal link, that means hes a custom and not a representitive. What kind of representitve of a company have that kind of spelling??

Use your head and try it once, if yuo don't like it then ignore it.

Re: gullible idiot (Unregistered) - 2007-09-06

» TO C0CKSUCKER SPAMMERS ON QJ

These offers are all over the internet. So most people are sick of seeing them everywhere they go.

F*CK OFF SPAMMERS!!!

This is for talking about the PSP goddamnit!!!
Not for helping your stupid ass company make money!!!

by ... (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» i thought

that TA-086 was out long before now in the colorful japanese psp's, i assumed that TA-085 was out before it. correct me if i'm wrong

Re: ... (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» ...

You are wrong.

by rafi (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» --

interesting.

Re: weenis (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» weenis

Did they honestly think they wouldn't come up with a mobo revision with the PSP slim?

by .. (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» ..

lol 0okm.

by Niklas (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» well

Well I hope that even though it has a different way of running software that they hadn't had enough time to change the hardware at the last minute to not take calls from the IPO differently which in the original PSP said to look to the PSP battery flash files, which is how we got our universal downgrader.

Cause I just per-ordered a Ceramic White PSP Slim on play-asia.

Re: dg (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» downgrade

so anyone who has downgraded yet?

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Re: jensy (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» no, you idiot

of course not, for fuucks sake

Re: D@rk_Zer0 - 2007-09-04

» DG...

You cant downgrade the psp slim as of yet; everyone's still wondering how we can access and where the flash went lol

Re: KURiBOS (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» actually...

I have a downgrader for the psp slim. I even made a 3.60 custom firmware to go along with it. Its fun, but I wont release it, because im a jerk

Re: Bill (Unregistered) - 2007-09-10

» CFW for PSP Slim

I wrote my own CFW for my SLIM PSP but it bricked it while testing. :(

by nights (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» Haha yeah

But do you really think its the same ? I think this signifies a new beginning more than old chipset. ;)

by ponderoso (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» yall can count your kbs...

as long as i can browse the internet in style on the slim, i dont care about anything else ... the lamest ish about psp 1 has got to be that message popping up sayin "it might help" to increase your cache when u know (AND YOUR PSP SHOULD KNOW TOO) that u already did that the first time it happened.

all that and i just wanted to check my email!

by patrick sheeks (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» haven't you heard?!

a japanese fool accidentally placed his psp (left on) in the microwave and put a bowl of miso soup in it unknowingly that he had left the psp there, then microwaved it for 30 seconds. when he found his psp it had returned to firmware 1.5. he had backed up his original psp's 1.5 flash into the memory card along with his games and music, and the microwave somehow triggered the psp to completely replace the flash with the memory card's contents, however after this the memory card had to be formatted to be used again, and the battery had to be replaced, somehow the hardware and screen had survived. 4 other people were desperate enough to try it and they got the EXACT same results!!! one even gave a video! the only thing that sucks is that Sony shut down the whole website and it's forums. but i can't believe i'm the first one to bring this up, hope you guys find interest in this.

Re: Niklas K (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» wow

Do you honestly have nothing better to do than spout fake crap. Seriously though, if it was at least funny it might be worth it but this is like a pile of dog crap.

Re: Dib (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» Troll...

Trolls... They exist on every forum

Re: weapon (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» yeah

for real i dont flame but that was gay as hell.

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Re: misoup (Unregistered) - 2007-09-04

» missoup

please also post the brand of the microwave and the energylevel. and how big was the bowl of soup ? :)

Re: $ONY 1337 D00D LAWL (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» Operating system

What operating system was the microwave running?? i keep downloading microwave exploit to my microwave... but its in this weird format, do i need microwave linux??

Re: warning - this guy is lies (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» dont try this

I tried this with my new slim psp but the miso soup boiled over and now my psp doesn't turn on. Just makes strange sloshing sound when shaken.

Re: . (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» .

Nice try idiot.
No one would put electronic stuff in their microwaves.

Re: Family Gay (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» true

I did this and a monkey jumped out of the microwave. It was the evil monkey from my closet...

by african penguin (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» psp downgrade

the brand of the microwave must have been microsoft

Re: ks4life (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» micorwave

lol what os is your microwave running? ahahahaa

Re: .. (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» ..

My microwave has linux on it.

Re: Kevin (Unregistered) - 2007-09-10

» CFW for Microwave

I tried to load CFW on my microwave and bricked it. It now makes for a great door stop.

by XboxLuva (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» Pandora Soon

Guys what you gotta think of is that with new hardware new drivers are required. A bit like xbox with the Focus & conexant video chips. Im sure the team will figure it out how do we no its not running but because of the video encoder we cant see anything on the screen.

by scaly genital wartz (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» that microwave siht

Wtf i had my microwave totaly pimped out, neons, bling aswell as wifi and a 2 TB hard drive. who knows what they are capable of.

fake sht 4 lyfe lol haxor rotfl

by retodude (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» Re:-Mebibyte is for fools

I agree with this comment, as if you look back in the history of computing for example during the time of the ZX spectrum C64 Amiga etc 1MB was infact just around 1024k. Our history of computing is very important and people should resarch our history of computing. PS my first computer was infact a Slinclar ZX spectrum + with 48k thats 48 kiliobytes of memory.I then upgraded to an amiga with 512k and soon I upgraded my A500 to 1MB. Thoses were the days!.

Re: Nobody (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» Memory amounts

Man, those numbers seem so small 512k and 1MB.
I recently upgraded my computer from 1GB (1000MB) to 2GB (2000MB) 20 years (7300 Days) that will seem small too.

Re: SomeGuy (Unregistered) - 2007-09-06

» Re: Memory Amounts

why put your ram in brackets specifying a incorrect amount it would of been better to leave out the unnecessary information that to clarify it with something incorrect.
Try this goto run and type msinfo32, look for your ram it'll say 2048.00MB

Also you forgot to factor in leap years for those twenty years.

But you right things are getting bigger, too by a Terabyte hdd and to find it's 70GB short of a real TB would be annoying.

I hope you weren't suggesting this would be a good thing?

by Dude (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» 1 Mb = 1024 * 1024 bytes = 1048576 bytes

Sorry i didnt give an example
Heres the real truth!!!
1 Mb = 1024 * 1024 bytes = 1048576 bytes!!!!!!!!
PS I have qualifications in computing.

Re: . (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» .

This man speaks the truth!

Re: lars (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» you seem to be unlucky when trying to think

Hey dude,
from one point of view you're right, that the Kb, Mb, Gb and soforth within computer science is generally thought of as units for numbers of 2 raised to the power of x. However, the word KILO (hence the K) means 1 thousand, not 1024.

Please, just don't tell me, that if you stand on a scale and it says that you weigh 128 kilos (I assume you are a fat f*ck), that you think it actually means 131072 grams, because that would be just plain wrong (I can tell you the right answer would be 128000 grams, if you happen to be stuck in the american or english measurements).
The thing is that computer science has from the very beginning misabused the terminology which is not too unusual.

So to be exact, 1Kb + 1000 bytes.

PS. I have more computing qualifications than you have, obviously. ;-)

Re: Jin (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05

» ...

Wow who would have thought this was such a huge issue?

...Seriously.

Re: SomeGuy (Unregistered) - 2007-09-06

» Re: you seem to be unlucky when trying to think

More qualifications... LOL that was a good one :)

p.s this type of argument is about specifics is it not? your concerned that the M must mean 1000 but forgetting the b means bit not B for byte.

We all should know the Prefix only has relevance when we look at the unit being Byte or Bit, call it what you will it makes more sense to use Mega than Mebi which didn't exist. they rounded to the closest thousand figure, so you got a question wrong once in a test, It's not hard to work out that when they follow a binary format it's never going to be exactly 1000.

You either find binary too confusing or your being paid by someone who'll benefit from the renaming of the term.

The prefix can mean whatever the creator deems it to mean and it's perfect the way it is.

Re: Lars (Unregistered) - 2007-09-07

» unlucky again

I don't know where these strange conspiracy theories come from about the usage of these prefixes.
From wiki:
"In January 1999, the International Electrotechnical Commission introduced the prefixes kibi-, mebi-, gibi-, etc., and the symbols Ki, Mi, Gi, etc. to specify binary multiples of a quantity and eliminate this ambiguity.[16] The names for the new standard are derived from the first two letters of the original SI prefixes followed by bi, short for "binary". The new standard also clarifies that, from the point of view of the IEC, the SI prefixes will henceforth only have their base-10 meaning and never have a base-2 meaning."

Yes, me saying Kb when i meant KB was just a typo (and I never said that M (Mega) stood for 1000, only that K stood for 1000).
Yes this, is specifics about definitions.
There are no gray zones here really, regardless of what you say.
KibiB + 1024
KB + 1000.

Binary is not confusing for me, in my profession I have to think in these terms every day.
Nor do I benifit in any way from using either of the prefixes.

I can agree though, that the pronounciation of the new prefixes feels odd, so if you write or speak KB and mean 1024, I sure do understand what you intend.

Re: SomeGuy (Unregistered) - 2007-09-07

» Re: Unlucky Again

I my country it's not official and it hasn't been adopted, most people don't care about the topic as they see it as foolish and that the definition will never change from it's original meaning.

I'm sure you'll agree there's no point expressing binary in groupings of 1000 if you understand binary. Think about it, when do you need anything expressed in a multiple of 1000, it's inefficient.

I don't know much about the IEC, I do know there are also other companies who've made this (nonsense) official but most didn't come to the conclusion until recently. The term is still not universally adopted, the US has adopted the term far more than most.

I'd like to hear the reasons why such an old term needs to be changed?

If it so urgently needed to be changed, who has the power to do so and who'll listen to them?

I like the term megabyte I used it a lot in my youth and I'll continue to use it regardless, I never saw anything wrong with it and love how it was different, it's what made it special.
I see no need to express any binary term in multiples that aren't binary.

I would like to understand the other side of the coin but I believe the only driving force behind it is greed. If you can find another, let me know.

by jsharrad - 2007-09-05

» mebibyte?

just lol, never heard of that before now

by sasDSA (Unregistered) - 2007-09-05