"In a sign that frustration is starting to set in, some enterprising hackers have gone to extreme lengths to get homebrew software to work on a PSP 3000. Take the example of a hacker named Royginald from the Philipines, who decided to simply swap in a PSP 2000 CPU while keeping the case and screen of the PSP 3000 intact. Sounds like a reasonable plan, right? Wrong."
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I suspect that this hacker is doing it simply for the challenge, not to actually propose swapping CPU boards everytime someone wants to run homebrew.
lol there bashing him for this he did it for these reason
Royginald explains his reasons for doing the hack in his forum post (semi-translated):
1. To know if the PSP3000 can run ISOs
2. To learn more if $0ny did a GREAT alteration to prevent homebrew to run.
3. To identify more info in this new revision using HB apps (like PSP Ident)
4. To know if HB scene is Doomed for good (which is not ) on the PSP3000.
...hackers don't necessarily need a "point." The whole idea of hacking (whether it is computers, phones, PSPs, etc...) is to experiment with the system, find new and unexpected ways to tweak things, and ultimately discover things that the creators probably never new was possible.
So, I think the article writer was missing the point, not the hacker.