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that's pretty much how the xbox dashboard handles it.. dashboards are identical across regions, but if the eeprom setting is NTSC, it will offer hdtv options, if it's PAL, it will offer PAL-60 option, for example.

uh? my home button works just fine, push it and it asks to quit game, say yes and you're back in the PSP OS.

it won't. as I said, MDs are physically larger, and the PSP doesn't support MD or MP2 at all.

dead pixels are permanently on, and not just flickering on and off.

and then what? MD and UMD are entirely different formats. and MDs are a lot larger than UMDs.

well, it IS a fact that the ps2 has serious laser issues.

well, sony's ps2 went through 5 different laser units by now too, and sadly, every single of them is extremely cheap and prone to failure.

I doubt it will just work without a modification, I am pretty sure sony thought of that and is gonna have a check implemented.. however it MIGHT just be a matter of a small hex edit of the FW.

there's only half a billion pictures of the PSP all over the net.
yeah, better take some more and post them.

turkey should count as europe comercially.. if nothing else simply cause it's so close. the the EU release should equal the turkey release.

it's possible that the PSP indeed uses a sort of basic ftp protocol to send the firmware updates to the psp.

actually, UMD media would be quite expensive, and so would be writers.. for the simple reason that it's not widespread and not many people will actually have a use for it with HDDVD and BLURay coming.

every time someone makes something idiot-proof, nature comes up with a new idiot.

the problem is, later on there will be official updates and the flashing CAN fail even if you do it right.

as for the charger-only flashing, that may be added for the US firmware then, since it's mentioned in the US manual.

@cory: According to the US Manual, updating the firmware will not be possible unless the PSP is hooked up to the charger, so there's no risk of the battery failing during flash.