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<rant>This just goes to show how screwed up the patent system is. A patent is supposed to describe the invention in such detail that anyone with average skills in the field can build it from the patent papers alone. How exactly does a simple block diagram of a handheld computer with networking enab...

Sorry if this has been posted before but I couldnt find any references to it. There's a function in Ape Escape to change the name you use for the save file name. After a quick look through the SFO I found that the name was stored in the save data file ("sarusave.dat"). So when we use this ...

Thanks for that gorim. I'm gonna go hunt that book down now.

I may be wrong but i thought the CPU was a MIPS64 (R4000?). The manual for the processor is avaiable at PSP Hacks

It just seems that the PSP boots from cold too quickly to have to decrypt ROM data.

I doubt that the whole OS will be encrypted. It's more likely that it will have certain sections compressed a lá microsoft's Windows Mobile OS. Pocket PC ROM structure contains a small unencrypted, uncompressed boot-strap in the first few blocks of FLASH. This allows the device to decompress whateve...