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Originally Posted by romevi
It's a PDF, but it's the same as what's in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIkQPkNmgSA
The PDF comprises pictures of the Mars with red circles over the buttons we're supposed to press, and one-sentence instructions. We early adopters presumably would have to follow them if and when we get the manual firmware upgrade. |
Pretty sure there's been a miscommunication then with your seller. Those instructions (which I already linked earlier in the thread as evidence people who don't have a device with the "Google Framework" option are screwed) will only work on a device with firmwire which allows using Google Play in the first place, just those devices don't come with it enabled, and those instructions cover how to enable it.
They certainly do not tell you how to flash new firmware, trust me. That would be done at the minimum by either connecting over USB and using a proprietary application, probably from the command line, or, copying the firmware into a special directory and using some obscure sequence of actions to reboot the device into a hidden developer mode, which would allow flashing firmware.
I do find it exceptionally unlikely at this point that Boyue will release that information, as it would enable custom firmware to be developed that much more easily, which they evidently don't like the sound of. Which is a terrible shame, it's not like they're selling a ye olde PSP where you can flash CFW and run pirated games off the memory card (which happened, unsurprisingly, to be much faster than the UMD drive, so there was a strong incentive, even if you had a legal copy of a disk, to rip it and run CFW).
(Also it was possible with a simple frequently shared application to convert any PS1 game ISO into a file that would work with the CFW edited official PS1 emulator on PSPs, allowing you to play literally any PS1 game on your PSP, instead of choosing from Sony's own expensive and seriously small selection.)
Ah, I loved my PSP.