With Christmas just around the corner, were sure that there will be many of you who will be picking up a PSP for someone special. The problem is, you want to make sure it is running firmware 2.00 so they can downgrade or run homebrew on it, so they can enjoy it as much as you are.
Posted by Admin on Dec 23, 2005 01:00 (Dec 23, 2005 01:00)
First, find the barcodes on the box and look for PSP-1001 K (the 1001 can be different, depending on where you live.) Below that you will see 120V, and below that a letter. The letter is what we want to keep our focus on. Sony has a system in which the different letters mean a different firmware. For example: if the box has no letter, then it is a PSP with 1.50 firmware and was shipped during the North American release. Here is the list of confirmed and unconfirmed letter codes:
No Letter = 1.50 (North-American release) Confirmed
A = 1.50 Confirmed
B = 1.51 Confirmed
C = 1.52 Confirmed
D = 2.00 Unconfirmed
E = 2.00 Unconfirmed (Most likely 1.52)
F = 2.00 Confirmed
G = 2.01 Confirmed
Note that the PSP Giga-Packs are the unknown, because they are Sony™s latest PSP bundle, they will potentially be either 2.00, 2.01, and maybe 2.50.
