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Originally Posted by Alisa
I would think that most people can lay their hands on a Windows machine once in a great while if they needed to. I take it this stuff doesn't work under emulation?
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My understanding is that the belief is that, in general, there's more chance of timing issues mattering with 'flashing' I/O[*], and running it from emulation adds a few extra steps into the chain which might have enough of an effect to matter. Combined with the fact that a bad flash might make the device unrecoverable[**], the advice is find/boot a Windows OS.
[*] The receiver code will be as small/simple as possible as it'll normally be in ROM, where space is critical, rather than in Flash-ROM, and as a result will have less buffering, etc to cope with delays or errors.
[**] Although to be fair, the Sonys have proved to be very resilient to bricking, even when flashing with the custom tweaks to the firmware. (It's possible to make some minor tweaks, such as adding a clock to the status-bar, different icons & font-sizes in the UI.)