PSP Games That Can Detect Custom Firmware Out Now

[wraggster]

Some very interesting news i found at pspita (http://www.psp-ita.com/?module=news&id=28462&view_reply=1) who in turn got it from french site pspgen (http://www.pspgen.com/premier-jeu-qui-detecte-custom-firmwares-est-arrive-actualite-188285.html):

Heres the translated details:


Sony and the software house to pass counterattack. E 'of the news yesterday that the game Evangelion: Jo, for now this only on the Japanese market, is able to recognize the presence of the PSP Custom Firmware that is started. This is done by making a check on the RAM of the console, and whether this is positive, the game will not start. The solution to the problem might be but just around the corner. Like the CF-A 5.02GEN has a feature that allows you to emulate an official firmware, soon also the last 5.50GEN CF will benefit from this option.
We will keep you updated when new.

We thank you for reporting cesy94

How long before every game features some anti custom firmware check, interesting times ahead, bit of a downer if you buy a game and because you have custom firmware you cant play it

[Malksta]

basically now pirates can't buy games?

[Darksaviour69]

basically now pirates can't buy games?

lol good point

[Mauragon]

Rock Band Unplugged deletes the GAME folder if it doesn't have any contents

[AlexIncinerate]

If it does catch on it will be irritating for a month or two at most and then a workaround will be discovered and it wont even be a problem...

Its almost comical how hard Sony tries to stop homebrew and yet each and every time the hackers find a new workaround.

[masterchief929]

I imagine the idea came to be in a conversation like this:

Person1 "Hey, how can we make it so that the hackers don't want to buy a game even if they want to?"

Person2 "I have an idea! Lets make games not work on hacked PSPs so that they ALWAYS have to download patched, pirated copies!"

Person1 "Great idea! You get a raise for being a retard!"

Don't you just love sony?

[wolfpack]

*facepalm*

[chuggman]

We need a real psp2 not a psp go anyway.

Now back on topic.

If anyone with a custom firmware psp really wants to play the game. They would buy the game. Then downgrade their psp to official firmware and then upgrade it back to custom firmware when they are done finished playing.

Less there is anything in the new firmwares that keep pandora's battery from working. Which I doubt.

Or you can do what others do, which is wait for another more elegant work around.

[megaman_zer0]

lol whoever thought of this is a damn retard

[arcadekidflo]

But what if this prevents the game's dumping ?
Or the game that checks for cfw , even as iso . So we might have a paradox where the iso checks for cfw and does not start .

[PoorKingz]

Can't we just run the OFW off the memory stick with pandora and time machine?

[mike_jmg]

Anything they do will get patched, hacked etc. and a lot faster than the strategies they can come up to avoid it. They should just give up.

[ojdon]

Sony once again destroying what's left of their sales.

[staticshade]

anything to prevent piracy of a game isn't a waste of time yes it will be hacked but at least for the time being it would not be downloaded either

full dlc versions of games are coming so people complaining about carrying around games can now stop winging

soon to probably be annouced app store like service would allow budding devs to make games/ apps etc

so if you really aren't a videogame pirate whenever the psp go launches with the new firmware and all these services no one will need cfw anymore

yes ? no ? maybe ?

[sappo]

NO! WHY EVANGELION: JO!

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I was hoping it would run on GEN-A 5.50! :(

[noname1]

I want to download this game only because i want to see what kind of error message i get. :P

[Bearmon]

You guys worry too much!!! :eek:

There is a workaround for it someday. Relax! Dont waste your time.;)

Therefore, save your comments.

[ian h]

the guy at the start of this thread, person 1 and person 2 says, f@#king hilarious

[watupgroupie]

Just buy the game, rip it to your memory stick, find out where that feature is stored and rip it out with umdgen. Or maybe they coded it in somewhere special, then nevermind.

[gelon]

Fully playable using CWCheat in 550 GEN

[apocalypticvisionary]

Sony store checks for the newest firmware, as do the games you d/l from them. They already tried this and all we did was change a txt file if you had version 5.00 m33....if it's checking ram for loaded files, that might be all it's looking for. This looks like no more than an attempt to be smart while looking dumb. Stopping people who use homebrews from buying new games, whether they play dumps or not, is the dumbest thing on the planet. And there is no such thing as not being able to dump a CD/UMD/DVD. You'll just run into the Protections they've been running with for years. Someone always fixes it.

[Qmark]

Fully playable using CWCheat in 550 GENSo it's already just like the modchip detection in PS1 and PS2 games, where a simple gameshark code disables the check, huh?

[jxx2005]

But what if this prevents the game's dumping ?
Or the game that checks for cfw , even as iso . So we might have a paradox where the iso checks for cfw and does not start .

woah man
you just blew my mind

[Saracchini]

But what if this prevents the game's dumping ?
Or the game that checks for cfw , even as iso . So we might have a paradox where the iso checks for cfw and does not start .


You dont need run the game to dump the iso. So a in-game protection is rather useless to prevent piracy in this way. And it is likely that such games would be patched by pirates to prevent this memory-check or like aforementioned CFWs, they just circunvent this protection emulating OFW.

The best protection so far, is make the handheld unhackable or pretty hard to hack, like PSP-3000 was some time ago.

[sappo]

Fully playable using CWCheat in 550 GEN
AWESOME, thanks!

[gelon]

Yeah, playable,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UjDtVPPwLY&fmt=18

[ian h]

The best protection so far, is make the handheld unhackable or pretty hard to hack, like PSP-3000 was some time ago.

im not bein funny mate, but if the console is hard to hack like the psp 3000, then that would be pretty stupid, seeing as it WAS hacked, therefore why make it like the 3000? daft in my eyes. personally i believe sony has lost the psp to hackers and there never going to get it back.

[Saracchini]

im not bein funny mate, but if the console is hard to hack like the psp 3000, then that would be pretty stupid, seeing as it WAS hacked, therefore why make it like the 3000? daft in my eyes. personally i believe sony has lost the psp to hackers and there never going to get it back.

I just stated that before PSP-3000 was unhackable, it is not anymore obviously. For some time all that we had was nothing really useful to run homebrew like the Gripshift exploit, and if you think, the IPL signature check problem was not solved yet . PSP-3000 owners with updated firmware are still unable to get CFW in their handhelds, until the next exploit.

By the way, such measures to block piracy in PSP are quite useless... when you are hable to run unsigned code in a platform in kernel mode, practicaly theres no much that can be done. After the advent of the last exploit practically almost PSP available in market can be hacked.

[PoorKingz]

Fully playable using CWCheat in 550 GEN

Let me guess: They NOPed a branch?

They fail.

[steve520]

Im sure hackers will find a way around this i mean they always do

[Zargon]

Would laugh if removing this is just as easy as removing the censorship blur from Manhunt 2. Just delete or change one line of an .ini and your golden. Kind of a waste for $ony to pull this stunt, but I see what they wish it could do. Just kinda dumb at this point cause now they've thrown the proverbial gauntlet and I know that there are people out there that will see this particular challenge met...
*sigh* oh well... It matters not to me really where this goes, I just want to sit back and watch the show.

[Nokiaman]

Lol Sony fails again. They are just angry that CFW is far better than their shitty OFW.