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Yes. The remote control contains a microcontroller of some sort (can't tell exactly which sort as it's covered in black plastic, as per tradition :), so one of the pins will definitely be a power feed to drive it. Don't know exactly which one though. I started investigating the remote control port, ...

Actually, it's 6 pins, not 3. The ones on the bottom are distinct from the ones on the top.

Yup, it's true. Cool, now you never have to wonder what month it is anymore. :-)

Btw, the promo-shots of the PSP seem to have been taken during August last year, because they have the dark blue background colour you get for August.

Well, the PSP might not *have* a BIOS per se. It would be enough for the FLASH to hold the firmware, and this is the most common situation for consumer-type embedded devices. BIOS, firmware, same thing, different name. It's the resident software which abstracts the hardware enough to let you boot a...

Looking around at various press releases we can see that the PSP supports two types of encryption: MagicGate and 128bit AES. There's a few interviews that say you only need a MagicGate card if you're going to use the card for more than standard game saves. AFAIK, MagicGate is for DRM, so it is prob...