Yes, hibari.prx has been fully reversed and coded for the 1.50 kernel that's why. Theorically we could now add 1.50 kernel support to the slim (which could handle about 90% of 1.50 homebrews) but we finally chose not to.

Why ?

For several reasons here they are :

- Porting reboot.bin patches for every kernel in order to run 1.50 is a real pain (although it is still being done for the FAT psp, we have no way to know if sony wont find a definitive way in the future to prevent such a thing.)

- The 1.50 kernel does not allow the use of the extra ram on slim, is not optimised for slim in any way, does not allow the video out (and we do not plan on reversing dve.prx to do so)

- Devs should have switched to 3.xx kernels ages ago, the psp slim is a good opportunity to force them to.

- The 3.5x kernels are optimised for slim and have been improved a lot, thus those are now faster than the over 2 years old 1.50 kernel. Not to mention that the 3.5x kernels allow the use of the 32MB of extra ram available on slim.

- disallowing the 1.50 kernel on slim will allow future improvements of the pspsdk for later kernels.

- there is allready the eloader from noobz for people that want to play nonupdated emulators (such as pspgen emu for megadrive)

- there is (for now) a private ongoing project called the utopia project that may render the use of SCE kernels for homebrews pretty much obsolete. You will know more about it in due time.

~Mathieulh

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Thanx for the information....I was wondering why, you really help a lot!!

"- disallowing the 1.50 kernel on slim will allow future improvements of the pspsdk for later kernels." pretty much sums up why 1.50 kernel wont be on the slim.

i dont have a slim but if i ever did get one i would want my homebrews to use the advancements that the slim offers and the 1.5 kernel does not help them do that.

thats sad no kernal but at least we have a modded psp which we can play homebrew and games!

I try to use new homebrew when I can.

But I just found a whole archive of 1.50 homebrew...
http://seamonkey420.tech-recipes.com/psp.html

I use eLoader and might try this out..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VeStVJX3XQ