Ooops, should've asked here:
Anyways took advantage of the Amazon bundle deal purely to get a Vita for $175. Didn't care much about the bundled games & stuff, plus next-to-useless 4GB card(ordered a 32GB with the bundle).
So this thing showed up today, and I did the most basic setup possible, 32GB mem card -> trial PSN, setup WiFi to check. Doing something or other it asked about updating the fw which I decided to decline.
Went to check fw, and it's 1.0.6.
So I guess my question from this being my first Sony handheld console(skipped psp, not many good native games, and by the time I looked for a portable psx emu it was dicey about getting the fw hacked, plus phones and other devices had caught up enough to do good psx emu on their own, but not necessarily with ideal controls(touch screen kinda sucked) and others usually lack 2 shoulder buttons). what is the difference between the user mode exploit and kernel?
User-mode = temporary?
kernel = "permanent"?
Any "feature" difference between the two?
I also picked up Persona for it(I liked the psx games, and the ps2 games so I figured hey even if it's not hackable portable fun for probably hundreds of hours...)
It's busily charging up right now, so it'll be a while before I feel like I must decide, although from the sounds of things I'm thinking may as well just update fw to latest...
bah nm, just went and looked at prices on buying from sony's store... cheap enough that I don't feel too ripped off buying my games at least twice(some will be as many as 4 or 5 times... which makes me sad though...)