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Well that was fast. It was just Saturday that hackers at Noobz found a buffer overflow exploit in the puzzle classic Lumines that allowed hackers to run a simple Hello World program on any PSP firmware, including the recently released version 3.5. By Sunday, our blogging brethren at PSPFanboy caught the above screengrab of Amazon's Movers and Shakers page showing the game's sales jumping a ludicrous 5900 percent in just one day. As of this posting Monday morning, the same page shows a more moderate 750 percent rise pushing the two-year-old title to the second-highest spot on Amazon's video game sales charts.

We understand that there are a lot of people out there that want to exploit this new, uh, exploit to run homebrew code on their PSPs. What we don't understand is how there can be so many PSP owners out there that don't already own Lumines. How do you buy a PSP and not immediately pick up this hauntingly beautiful musical puzzler? We suppose there could be some PSP owners out there who eschew UMDs altogether for legally questionable emulators, but really, if you need a firmware hack to justify shelling out a few bucks for such sublime puzzle goodness then we don't want to be your friend anymore.

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wow, i didnt realize the size of the homebrew market, seems way too complicated and illegal to me...but i see the appeal-stick it to the man and free games (thru emulation)

Homebrews are perfectly legal.
And yes, its HUGE.

I prefer to keep in the DS market though. More games :p

Nice find... sooner or later, loopholes will be found

why do you think GTA:Liberty City Stories was popular... there was an exploit in that game too

what exploit was in that game?

back when PSP went to 2.0, the only way to play homebrew without downgrading was a save file exploit found in GTA

I did not know that....learn something interesting everyday.

Exploits known as of right now for homebrew

1.5:KXploit... most prefered by homebrewers
2.0: GTA Save exploit
2.0-2.6: Tiff exploit
2.8: HEN
3.0+ need custom firmware variations
to my knowlege 2.8 is the highest firmware you can downdate but beware... you don't know what you are doing, you will brick the psp... accidentily bunked a buddy's PSP
this new info means another exploit is coming to the PSP
and another firmware update ASAP