Warning: Quantronics Selling Downgrader
Alias420 | October 24, 2005
Quantronics.com.au (not linked on purpose) is selling a downgrader service for $79. There is no need to pay for this downgrade it is freely available. You can download the MPH downgrader right here and do it your self. If you do not know how to use the downgrader have no fear you can use this tutorial. Once again you should not have to pay to downgrade your PSP from 2.0 to 1.50 here is a quote and a screenshot from the site detailing their service:
Want to downgrade your PSP to firmware version 1.50?
Seen hundreds of homebrew apps and ports and want to run them yourself?
Scared of turning your PSP into a brick?
Our service is 100% guaranteed! If we brick your PSP we will replace it, on the spot with a Ceramic White 1.50 or Regular Black 1.50 - the choice is yours!
The service takes approximately 30 minutes and is a 100% solution to your 2.00, 1.51 and 1.52 firmware woes.
NB: Modification may void product warranty. While we do assume all risk in this procedure we do advise to thoroughly check your console for faults before undertaking this service. The charge associated with this service covers the cost of a replacement console should upgrade prove unsucessfull.
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What’s the problem? Yes you can do it yourself but some people would rather pay for the secuirty of having the console replaced if they screwed up the downgrade
Yep, seems fair to me, especially as they even seem to mention that the charge is to help cover the cost of replacing the console. If you want it done free, but with a small risk of being left with a brick, do it yourself. If you want to be assured that if it goes wrong you still get a 1.5 PSP out of it, pay someone like this to do it.
there is a free downgrader out there already. i doubt that anyone is gona but it…altough it does replace ur psp if u briked it, but its all good, im just sayin u got to be really stupid to buy this thing. its POINTLESS
Wipeeeeeeeeeeee.
Anyone wanta to sell me a bricked PSP and we can get these jokers to bulk replace them with a white psp…
#’s 1&2 It’s a warning to noobs that might buy this not knowing about the free options.
what a joke ! 80 dollars for such an easy thing to do in approximatively 2 minutes 20 secondes ?????? LOL i hope no newbies will buy these services. Noobs, just check the tutorials with google and dont pay for these thieves.
Why pay 80$ to something that is free? We should throw them poo :D
haha well its not the first time people are actualy selling the emulation programs for the psp on ebay for like 40 bucks lol some people are just dumb
wow…guaranteed BAITED!!!
There Also Selling the 4gb Datel Hard Drive for $319.00 bucks!!! lol i already ordered mine for 200.00 whats the deal w/ that. i guess it could mean 319 AU but thats still more expensive then the other place Lik Sang.
I hope they get sued by Sony.
Hmm… I need an app that bricks my PSP should it try to be downgraded… hello white psp for me…
Tell you what, anyone wants to pay, gimme 50 and I can do it in half their time, 15 mins!
#13 lol! But do you offer a replacement guarantee?
Hey its a good way to make a buck i wish i would have thought of that. It’s a little steap though.
Why do I get the feeling I’m going to see alot of our users auctioning this service on e-bay?
It’s nothing new, atleast they actually do it for you. Only a few days after the downgrader was released there were LOADS of people selling it on Ebay. Hell I bet they even linked to this site for the download and instructions, now thats taking the piss as some of them were charging upto £30.
Grow some balls and do it yourself you pansies.
This is like paying someone to fix your computer after you overloaded it with spyware and viruses from porn sites. Download fucking AVC Virus Scan and Adaware and do it yourself. Nothing will go wrong unless your an idiot.
YOU DON’T EVEN DESERVE TO OWN A PSP IF YOU WON’T EVEN TRUST YOURSELF TO DOWNGRADE IT YOURSELF. I HOPE YOU SEND IT IN, GET IT BACK, AND BRICK IT BY MESSING WITH THE FIRMWARE LATER.
These guys are cold-hearted, idea-stealing, ass-fucking scumbags. Don’t give them money.
Once again, you don’t deserve to hack a PSP if you can’t even hack it down to 1.5 correctly.
I ratted them out to Nintendo for trying to sell NES/SNES Emulators with there PSP packages.
I have absolutly no problem with the service. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
1. Maybe someone doesn’t have internet!
2. Maybe someone doesn’t feel comfortable to do it.
Whatever the reason there is no excuse for bad mouthing something just because you can do it yourself.
i wounder if anyone has bought this…
Hey, if they can get away with that then I think I’ll start charging people $100 to let me install AOL on their computers!
OMG THIS IS SUCH A SCAM. YOU SEND IT IN, AND THEY JUST STEAL IT. OR MAYBE ITS LEGIT. BUT I WOULDNT TRUST IT.
It seems that the Downgrade Service was removed from their website. But i’m according that is a disgusting method for a seller to make money.
Well, people that bricked their PSP could buy this and say that the Quantronics’ downgrader did that, so they would get another PSP for only U$80 instead of 250
#25 Not quite they would see that your PSP is already bricked when they attempt to turn it on to downgrade it.
almost like the dvd full of psp games that was being sold to peeps on ebay a while ago for £10-£20 per disc!
good scam! wish i had thought of it! lol
hahaha, its like you’re buyin’ an insurance for your psp, they break your psp, u got a new one for free, nice tho… at least, u dont have to worry bout turnin ur psp to a brick…rolf
LOL what more can you say there are suckers out there so might as well take advantage
Firstly, this website is australian and is Australian dollars!
Secondly, great company owned by a great bloke trying to offer a service(not selling software) to assist ppl in downgrading their psp’s.
Can I suggest that all the fucktards that a re flaming this get a life coz in my short time in the psp scene, I’ve come across alot of fuckknucles that think they know everything, but actually know nothing!
Take a look at the sad fuck that created software designed to brick a psp(and create a video of him doing it).
Take a look at the kiddy tacticts between, now, rival so called psp development teams, an absolute fuckin joke!
With their carry on it is little wonder ppl are confused as to what will work and what wont! That is why Quantronics service is awesome!
I have had them do mine and I am absolutely over the moon that I can now use homebrew apps etc, without having to worry about fucking it up!
Same rule applies to modchipping of PS2 and xbox, I find these very easy to do, but most don’t. it is for this reason ppl offer chipping services, same rule applies here!!! If ya dont konw what you’re doing, stay the fuck away from it!!!!
Long live Quantronics….you CHAMPIONS!!!
umm…that guy didnt create the virus he just demonstrated it and you can stil brick ur psp this only covers the downgrading
30 u prbly work 4 them
does mph have copyright 4 this?
Oh yeah I’m sure they have a copyright for their copyright infringing program. (US copyright at least)
Ive been to quantronics and i am prob gonna get the datel 4gb from them. This service is mainly for the noobs who know almost nothing about computers or the internet, ne1 else could do it easily themselves…that being said if i was a noob (prob still am) and i wanted my psp downgraded and did not know anything. Id be glad to have such a service advertised.
#30, your a wanker.
How about getting your fist out of Quantronics arse.
#36 you are the exact fucktard #30 is referring to! how about you add value or simply SHUT THE FUCK UP. BTW your mum doesn’t spit it out either, she said to say hi!
Man sony’s gonna be pretty pissed off (someone actually selling a program that modifies the psp in some way). They gonna get sued for sure.
#38 how is Sony gunna sue for a firmware version that they released???nothing illegal about using that!, no breach of any copywright laws either.Downgrading is perfectly legal, its the umd emulators, loaders, iso’s etc, they’d be concerned about.
You don’t have to update your firmware if you dont wanna and its not a crime if ya don’t.
Why are you on http://www.psp-hacks.com if your doing everything legit???
I’d be fucked if I’m paying for a downgrade. But I know a lot of other dickheads that are either too stupid or too scared to do it themselves. I think that’s where this service comes in.
I’ve been to this place a few times. They are pretty good cause they actually know the shit they sell.
And to the knob complaining about the price. It’s in Australian dollars! Yes you can get it cheaper from lik-sang.. but you wouldn’t be able to bring your PSP into lik-sang and have them install it for you free would you?
Enjoy.
A jesus dont buy this downgrader, even if your worried , u wont brick it.
And if your retarded just give it to your friend, an IQ of 60 is needed, all it is following simple instructions.
Andif he does brick your PSP…. Pound the shit out of him and take his! :P
O and I made a program to brick the PSP,(dont worry im not puttting the plans out or masking it as an emulator LOL) its a simple 1, I just made the screen appear black, and basically Un-binded all the keys so that you couldn’t get out of it.
This Site is Autralian?
YEAH!
And trust it to be a shop from paramatta…like ethnic/crime capital hahaa
I think I should pay the shopa visit and (house) BRICK them for this rip off service!
Seems to me if you’re PSP isn’t bricked , then you should get the 79 cents back. And it takes 30 minutes ?? WTF? Doesn’t sound right if you ask me :P
Oops, I meant 79 bucks, not cents :D…lol
42 u wrote “O and I made a program to brick the PSP” why would you even want to do this?
is it something u came across trying to do other stuff or are you just a dickhead
44 u wrote “And trust it to be a shop from paramatta…like ethnic/crime capital hahaa
I think I should pay the shopa visit and (house) BRICK them for this” you cannot undo the crime by commiting ur own.
Real Dumbass pay this service
Wow. I like pizza and coke (or pepsi ;)on a friday night.
Yep indeed.
haha, they’ve only made about 32,000 dollars so far downgrading peoples psp’s. figured they would have made more than that.
What’s the problem? you fuckin retard! they didnt do the downgrader! it is not their idea! so they are making money out of the LEGIT authors! I say burn those mother fuckers!
The way I see it, you are paying for insurance, not for the actual downgrader. Sure, it’s easy to do on your own, but if you can afford the AU$80, then more power to you. It’s not like the downgrader is faultless, there are more than a few out there that have done everything right and still bricked their PSP. Just luck of the draw.
Myself, I got a 1.5PSP, and have not upgraded it. Until 2.0 is fully hacked, I won’t, though I really do want the new codecs and the web browser, and LCS. :)
hehe…it’s kind of funny because I was downgrading and loading emulators for some friends on their psp’s (and I’m not tech savvy) and they were saying I should charge for it and that people would pay…I thought that was ridiculous and silly…but I guess someone decided to run with the idea. I think if they people are willing to pay, I guess it’s okay…but still kind of silly.
Humm..went over to their site to check it out and it seems they took it off…thanks for psp-hacks for educating people that these homebrew stuff are for free!!!
i say just keep upgrade then downgrading untill it gets bricked, so you can get a white one
Guys,
it’s not even on the website anymore so why are you still going on about it? People were paying for the insurance and security, just like fixing a TV or car. Even with manuals you might wreck something.
I think if you read the site more, or even give them a call as I did, you will find they aren’t selling a downgrader, they are selling the service to downgrade the PSP, you have to do it instore so they will not steal your PSP and you can’t scam them buy bricking yours and going ‘oh, you did it, gimme a white one’.
In any case, whether they are ripping people off or not is irrelevant as people are only ripped off if they don’t pay it. Something is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay and if I paid $80AU and bricked my PSP, I would get a 1.50 PSP (colour of my choice) on the spot and put my memory card in there, I’m sure they don’t pay under $80AU for their PSP’s so good on them.
If you want to do it yourself, feel free to do so, but the choice was there for those that were unsure. And for all the posts about ‘if you cant downgrade you dont deserve to hack it’, what about if i just want to play the homebrew games on it, not isos of anything, like air hockey or chess or something?
I have been into the store on a few occasions and they seem to be really nice guys. I think they are copping a lot of shit for a good idea and service.
As for ‘paramatta…like ethnic/crime capital’, Parramatta has a Westfield and Parramatta Business Centre, so I guess we can’t buy anything from there ever again, damn.
If you guys feel ripped off, don’t use the service, why don’t you start a forum about mechanics ripping people off. If my car was broken I wouldn’t trust myself to fix it, even with all the parts, equipment and manuals, though I am still allowed to drive it, am I not?
Go get a life instead of putting otheres down. Learn about the real world instead of going on the internet all day because you’re a fifteen year old school drop out that types things like ‘lmao, lol, rofl, kthx, npz’ and the like
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