“Lucky.”

Yep. I’m lucky. No really. There’s only one type of PSP that is absoultely unable to be downgraded to 1.5, due to a block in the hardware, or something, and it is model TA-082. These are supposed to only be found in Asia, and most often only on white PSPs. But, as luck would have it, the one I bought just a month or two before, from a FutureShop.. in Canada. With a Canadian manual, and a bunch of French text all over the box.. is.. a TA-082!

Tell him what he has won, Johnny!

A pain in the ass, that’s what. It’s not even supported by “Undiluted Platinum” (worst name for a modchip ever) the PSP modchip. So what is a boy to do? Well, I’mm’a just have to wait until there’s a 2.71 downgrader (PSP came with 2.6, had to upgrade to 2.71 to play a game..) that works on the TA-082 without error. According to many sources, the TA-082 is identifiable by looking in the UMD “tray” (for lack of a better word). When you open it up, if you look at the mainboard inside, you’ll see the text “IC1003.” Mine has “C1003″, no “I”, but I’m still almost positive it’s a TA-082, because they’re the only one with any text on that part of the mainboard.

Anyway, as I was saying, I’m lucky, eh?

P.S. I bought Lumines today. It’s unbelievably good. 10/10, though it can get annoying.

July 17, 2006 · Filed Under Journal

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2 Responses to ““Lucky.””

  1. dialtone on July 29th, 2006 7:00 pm

    Ya I just bought my psp from Walmart in Mississauga Canada the other day and low an behold in the top right corner is IC1003 and to top it off my gf lost the reciept so I’m in the exact same boat =/ Looks like those greedy efers at Sony are now distributing this model all over North America!

  2. The Lazy Canadian on July 30th, 2006 6:29 pm

    Ah. I thought about returning mine, but then I realised I too had lost my receipt. Anyway, I’mm’a just deal with it. Eventually there will be ways to bypass the TA-082′s asstasticness (my word, use it and die) and as such be able to downgrade further than 2.5. ’til then, I upgraded to 2.8. Why? Video podcasts, baby. Now I can watch Diggnation on the bus. :D

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