My guess is that it needs a shell to do homebrew in such, or at least I hope. It does not have compatibility for anything usefull as I see it. If this is going to be the begining to the creation of real cfw one that is made from scratch without a bunch of sony’s code then I find this a real breakthrough.

will this help?

Well, fuck this ‘thing’ then. It sounds completely useless!

Wow. This sounds like one of those “has a f***-load of potential” kind of things. I’d say this would take homebrew on the PSP to heights it’s never seen before. This could be pretty freaking sweet. :)

i would think this is pretty cool…. if only i understood anything that i just read. could someone please make some sense of this?

Sounds like it will allow cooler homebrew once implemented, meaning more advanced.

So what “will” it do, yes yes its a base for the system, but what will it enable us to do that we cannot already accomplish???

well i think that is ussles we want something new what we never seen before on a psp.
dont we?

it’s basically a homebrew development enviroment on the psp making homebrew eazier to make rather than just on the pc. It also seems like this will allow a new kind of homebrew to be made.

This really looks as though it’s intended especially to be entirely incompatible with everything that currently exists… So the future of PSP homebrew is the same is it now? Everything incompatible with everything else?

Awesome.
Just plain awesome.

Though i wouldn’t use since the main reason of me buying the PSP was the games….

Now, if we could have something like a boot loader having this project ruinning on the MS would be pretty interesting….

(I quite understand the reason they would be disabling features like isos. Though, i really think that would would repel lots of users….)

Well.. If you dont like it, dont use it..

Simple.

1. First version of utopia, should not change the everyday life.

2. It will not be compatible with all current homebrews.

3. It will not be compatible with UMD games.

BUT.. once well-developed, with its text-based interface, Our PSPs will have so much FREE RAM memory, emulators and other homebrews stuff will run faster, and they will all be compatible because homebrew developers will not need to update their homebrew just to change the NIDs everytime Sony release a new firmware..

and also the PSP-SDK will be much more completed, Delevelopers will learn new ways to code.. Everything looks perfect for me, i dont know why you all bitching about that awesome piece of homebrew.

the bitchers have no idea what they’re bitchin about, the one thing that i find possibly problematic is the limited functiion with in the psp this kernal will have at release, however with the demise of the 1.50 kernal something is going to need to take its place and this may be that thing i just hope dark alex gets on board to help this project be all it can be.

to the bitchers you cant “see” the 1.50 kernal but its the basis of everything great on the psp, this new kernal will fiill the void left behind when 1.50 can no longer be used and from the sounds of things that maybe true with the next m33 release scraping 1.50 all together possibly

this sounds cool
but just
cuz it cant do those things form the get go
dosent mean it cant later on right?

so basically, it’s the beginning of something phenomenal, and it is puny and worthless at the beginning, but like people are saying it is a BASE. That means you grow and build on top of it. It’s making the PSP truly ours and the firmware will no longer be “custom” but rather be a true alternative OS for the PSP. What this basically means is that instead of living in the Sony house, sprucing the inside all nice, we will be living in a house that we have built ourselves (well the people that know how at least) and make it to our needs and wants. If you understand my metaphor.

This project is the start of taking out Sony’s mind and instead placing in ours. That is why it’s called the Utopia Project.

Sounds like this could really be something amazing. Once people like dax get on board and code the gui it will take off. Just think, when sony adds stuff like skype and other programs, we have no control. But with this we get to choose what features we have, and since it takes so little ram we can have bigger, better, faster programs. And i can guarentee that UMD support will get added at some point, otherwise it wouldn’t be a PSP, and i bet ISO is a good possibility, but i think it will require some sort of emulator to run it.

I do see one possible problem though. If this isn’t “regulated” than anyone with enough skill could make their own version, and if it goes long enough then FW’s could be different enough they might not run each others firmware, just becuase the kernels match doesn’t mean compatibility, just look at XP and Vista lol. If the homebrew community can make a standard version, with people like dax, the gen team, and others working together on one version, then we will have power over sony that seperated we will not have.

I just can’t wait to see what the great programming minds can come up with.

when people run this, would u start it like a homebrew game, or is it like a firmware that u install on it with flash?

This has great potential. A project like this would allow greater hardware control for programmers developing homebrew.

Good luck.

Excellent project in my opinion.Opens the door for new and hopefully better looking homebrew.And for the last time,don’t flame if you have got no idea what you’re talking about,it just makes you looks even stupider than you already are.I’m not pointing fingers at nobody,you know who you are.

man its justt the begining and im so excited and pleased with psp-hack.com greg dax gen m33 and this whole community we shall all reunite and destroy sony …. ok wel not destroy but flip those tablez around ;)

oo and letz rack those pandoras up and get em redy incase of emergencys ;)

to those of you bitching and moaning about how this is useless, do some research before opening your ignorant mouths.

this is the single greatest thing to be announced for the PSP since the ability to run unsigned code. This gives new meaning to “custom firmware.” Up until now, all custom firmwares were just modified Sony firmwares, with a few extra letters. SE, OE, M33, GEN, HX, etc. but now, we can have a true custom firmware, coded from scratch. No more dealing with Sony’s software limitations, or pointless upgrades. While it may not be able to run current games at first, games will be ported, and maybe even UMDs will eventually be working.

just my two cents. hopefully this will help those people understand the magnitude of this project.

Interesting, I’d like to see what type of great apps and home brew they come up with.

Eerr, I mean … hacking your PSP is wrong. You are stealing our money, I mean people’s hard work. So go upgrade to FW 4.00 and don’t use this ridiculous homebrew thinga-ma-jig.

- Sony CEO (in the toilet)

I think it´s only in the beta phase but after a few releases it is the best i ever heard.

Yes first it´s useless but wait a few month…

I think its a good Idea. Since the sony code is blocking most of the homebrew, there should be away to remove it completely.

This is shit. No offense

you are shit lots of offense

It’s a great start… the gateway will be open for some pretty heavy homebrew which in time will pwn whatever Sony throw at the PSP. But currently, let’s be honest here… it has absolutely no use whatsoever until it gets to a stage where Joe Enduser can make good use of it.

This is the gateway I been hopeing for a long time thx for the info about this
I cant wait to test it out when or if it comes out Yay^^

So, let me get something Strait…
As I know it, everything we have for the Sony PSP, as of this moment (UMD’s, ISO’s, Homebrew, the XMB), all of it, is Embedded and Supported by Sony’s Firmware. We break that Firmware open, stick a bit of Good Ol’ 1.50 in there, and we now full control.
However, its still all based upon the Files in the FLASH0. Things like the VSH, and all that crap.
Things like NervOS, and IRshell, are just Shell’s based still within this Firmware.

However, what this will allow us to do, is basically Format FLASH0, and put ONLY the Utopia Kernel files… and it will still work (by still work, I mean that the Kernel will run the PSP’s Hardware. Without a GUI or anything, it cant do anything, but it wont just do nothing). So, with the Utopia Kernel, we wont need any Sony code at… All? like none of it? no little injections at all? (Unless we wanted any support for existing PSP… anything).

Well if this does work out… gets its self a GUI… some nifty programs… could be fun!

I would not use this.. I dont car eif it is a great achivment. I still rather jsut use simple m33 firmware . even more sicne this cant even do anything yet. not all psp users really care about the sence geting more advnaced. I understand why that make you mad. but you cant expect everybody to care about coding.

this sounds kick ass maby it will support a nintendo 64 emulator thats as good as the project 64 for pc i would love for a full working n64 thats portable plus gba roms and all sorts of stuff

i would love to see a whole custom firmware made from scratch. i mean if we could start a new franchise of a firmware lmao, that would be halarious its just like slapping sony right across tha face. Then we could eventually make our own games, own media, own anything

someone should change this from the “comments” section to “Flamer” section, because it seems thats the only thing that takes place here.

Windows 98SE has a smaller footprint then windows xp, yet i dont see anyone using 98 ;D