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jackie_w · 03-31-2011, 05:57 PM

I offer the following as a purely personal opinion. If any of the statements are incorrect perhaps others will jump in.

PRSPlus has been around for quite some time starting with the PRS505. This version (v1.1.3) was a fully working version, not alpha or beta. I used it on my PRS505 with no trouble at all and would happily have recommended it to others.

As the newer models have come along kartu has tried to improve the features and is trying to bring everything together with a very simple install procedure. This is what you're seeing now with v2.0.10alpha.

Very soon after the alpha was released Sony brought out an upgraded official firmware for PRS350/650 to fix a couple of bugs. Unfortunately, if you've installed this already then the PRSPlus installer won't work. I'm sure kartu will be working on this but Sony's timing was probably not helpful.

On the positive side, if you haven't upgraded to Sony's latest and you want to try PRSPlus v2.0.10alpha and it all goes pear-shaped then the recent Sony upgrade may do a good job of getting you back to a "clean official" version.

I should warn you that I haven't actually done this on my PRS650. I'm going to leave it until the beta release has been around a while.

I have put the alpha release on my PRS505 because I was fairly sure I'd be able to reverse out if things went badly wrong. I had a few installation problems but I believe I was in the minority. However it is working OK now. The PRS505 is used every day and has shown no problems.

Finally, most of the benefits I get from PRSPlus probably wouldn't be very interesting to an 8-year-old (custom epub fonts, screencaps, dictionary, custom key bindings). I don't play the games so cannot really comment.

03-31-2011, 05:57 PM	#2
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,252 Karma: 16544692 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	I offer the following as a purely personal opinion. If any of the statements are incorrect perhaps others will jump in. PRSPlus has been around for quite some time starting with the PRS505. This version (v1.1.3) was a fully working version, not alpha or beta. I used it on my PRS505 with no trouble at all and would happily have recommended it to others. As the newer models have come along kartu has tried to improve the features and is trying to bring everything together with a very simple install procedure. This is what you're seeing now with v2.0.10alpha. Very soon after the alpha was released Sony brought out an upgraded official firmware for PRS350/650 to fix a couple of bugs. Unfortunately, if you've installed this already then the PRSPlus installer won't work. I'm sure kartu will be working on this but Sony's timing was probably not helpful. On the positive side, if you haven't upgraded to Sony's latest and you want to try PRSPlus v2.0.10alpha and it all goes pear-shaped then the recent Sony upgrade may do a good job of getting you back to a "clean official" version. I should warn you that I haven't actually done this on my PRS650. I'm going to leave it until the beta release has been around a while. I have put the alpha release on my PRS505 because I was fairly sure I'd be able to reverse out if things went badly wrong. I had a few installation problems but I believe I was in the minority. However it is working OK now. The PRS505 is used every day and has shown no problems. Finally, most of the benefits I get from PRSPlus probably wouldn't be very interesting to an 8-year-old (custom epub fonts, screencaps, dictionary, custom key bindings). I don't play the games so cannot really comment. Last edited by jackie_w; 03-31-2011 at 06:03 PM.