was using some exploit that was supposed to turn the screen red (which it did), and then it is supposed to crash the machine after updating the firmware. i think i mistook just having a black screen as crashing, and after restarting (or trying to) nothing would come up. think i just didn't give it enough time to actually update. it's ok though, will be taking it back this morning to get another one. no big deal.

> > ha, got it, and within a couple hours it was a 200 dollar plastic paper
> weight.
> > it will be going back tomorrow for an exchange. think i'll stay away from
> > modding for now :)
> >
>
> What happened? My upgrading/downgrading was pretty straightforward once I found
> some good guides through Google. PSP desperately needs its equivilant of
> xbox-scene to host all the homebrew stuff and some good tutorials.
>
> Actually getting the homebrew to run is another matter alltogether. I've tried
> about 3 or 4 snes emus that either don't include any readme at all or one in
> japanese with no translation anywhere I could find. Seems different hacked
> firmwares have different ways of running homebrew, which seem to all be out of
> date since Dark Alex started releasing his own ones.
>