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> My sony PSP and nintendo DS are collecting dust because I already played all the licensed games I was going to on them. Now these devices are worthless to me and get tiny prices on the 2nd hand market. If their owners released firmware signing keys, these devices could have a new lease on useful life as homebrew machines

Where have you been for the past couple of decades? This is literally planned obsolescence, you need to buy the new hardware and discard the old one. According to manufacturers, you shouldn't have any electronic device older than 1-2 years, or any car older than 5. Any ideas of a homebrew around any device are viewed as dangerous...




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