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11/19/08
11/19/08
Basically.
Go to walmart pick up an extended life psp battery.
-use a blade or screwdriver pop of the plastic coating.
-use small screwdriver or blade to break top pin of computer chip on battery (the chip has 6 pins coming of it, break the top right pin)...
- put plastic back on battery,... put in psp. wala !
- open back up solder pin back to bored.. or just push it back down either way will work really..
- keep or return to walmart.
11/19/08
Also, dude, it's "voila" not "wala".
11/19/08
11/19/08
CAN THIS HACK MY TA-88-V3 PSP 2000?! BECAUSE I BOUGHT IT 2 MONTHS AGO AND I STILL HAVEN'T PLAYED A GAME ON IT WAITING FOR HOMEBREW!
Sorry about the CAPS
11/19/08
FYI IF YOU WANT TO BE OBNOXIOUS JUST USE THE BLINK TAG
11/19/08
11/19/08
10/30/08
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the number is in the single digits. :P
As for being smarter than a Sony hardware engineer - the new screen's pixels have more surface area than the old one, a more-or-less essential change to improve brightness, while the vertical RGB arrangement cuts down on horizontal ghosting. The scan lines are visible because to accommodate the larger pixels, the electronics had to be rearranged.
And, the "jaggies problem?" It's well known that smoothing filters are very dependent on the subpixel arrangement of the monitor, so changing the pixel layout will make those filters look a lot worse. Don't believe me? Go into your Cleartype settings and tell it you've got a BGR monitor instead of RGB, and you'll see the problem firsthand.
10/30/08
Also I found the horizontal line/s on Trinitron CRTs to be way more annoying than this issue.
10/30/08
10/30/08
10/30/08
10/30/08
no, a pixel is a pixel is a pixel. blue pixels only go blue, red ones only go red and green ones only go green.
the only way to get it to "scan the other way" is to physically rotate the display.
10/30/08
10/30/08
10/30/08
The pixels look much closer together in the PSP3000 though, so maybe they just need to change the way in which images are scanned to update from horizontally to vertically?
10/30/08
They should have charged you EXTRA for that!
(whispers)
They did?
(more whispers)
Oh.