Some Concerns On Where the PSP Scene is Going?

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Originally Posted by Thomly

Personally, i will never downgrade. I know you all think it's an idiot idea, but i'll never do something that has the chance to be illegal. I'm not trying to be a noble knight or something like that, but at school, you see people who just downgraded, en then upgraded to Dark_Alex's firmware JUST to play iso's and roms. Isn't it a better idea to make a costum firmware with homebrew, but no iso's?

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if people wanted to just play homebrew, they might as well stick to 1.5

roms and isos make the psp better, why would you carry around 3 or 4 umds when you can just carry a memory stick thats already inside the psp,

umds suck anyways, they break real easy, as soon as the window thing is pushed in, they dont work

psx games on the psp are awesome, im not going to wait for sony to release my favorite psx game and charge my $5-$10 even i already have the game sitting there next to my ps1

aint nothing wrong with isos and roms, its just more convenient to me, plus the iso, psx, and hombrew loading straight from the xmb is a nice touch

does anybody know about this ..... i know that when you agree with the upgrade and stuff (official) it says how sony owns all rights..... so some people in school keep telling me its illegal just because the files were tampered with in any way.... is this true?/

I dont think ther is a problem with legallity in the custom firmwares just the legality of the things some people use them for.

id say the only illegal thing is playin psp back ups (ISO's) when u do not own the original!! where as PSX back ups when you dont own the original? who cares? PSX has had its chance 2 shine and its past after all we have the PS3 now, so i dont think sony care about the PSX emulation bein hacked!!

We should be thankful for what we have got. We are lucky we have a full speed Playstation emulator to even be able to complain about minor bug issues in, in the first place. For those who do not want to downgrade, that is their choice (loss) but I plan to use my Psp to its full potential and will never upgrade to any official firmware. The Psp for me is a joy, especially GBA and Psx gaming.

As for Dark Alex's custom firmware containing keys, he is much smarter than that and has made sure nothing like that exists in it. Look at the popstation release, nothing illegal was included, you had to aquire the keys and the base.pbp yourself.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

but as a scene are you worried about the direction its taking regardless of how good a release the Popstation emu is. ?

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No, I am not.

if you read the t&c's that are supplied with the update file one of them states that it is illegal to reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise tamper with the files supplied so by even looking at what sony have coded you are breaking the law. if even looking at the contents of the file is against the law rewriting it is going to land you in a little bit of trouble!

Why would you use a UMD? I mean buy it and convert it and load it like that. Using an UMD is hurting the consumer. If Sony was really intelligent they would stop using UMDs all together and use the sticks. They could make the stocl unwrittable to somehow after the game is added and that would give no one an excuse for converting and using ISOs. Until then I don't think Sony should be telling people to hurt their battery life and load times. I doubt half the people their really play one for recreation so who are they to say that we should wait (sometimes up to 5 minutes) for one race or map to load. I know the loading times on midnight club 3 are long enough to kill somoene.

All Sony really does is try to win over new converters. Once they convert someone to buying the PSP they made their money and the only reason they really fuss about homebrew is that they can charge for some of the features that people here do for free. Like the PSX emulator for example that the Anonymous coder was working on.

Im definitly not worried about where the psp scene is going! The custom firmware's that DAX puts out are clearly one of the biggest developments in the homebrew world to ever happen. I mean playing ANY ps1 game full speed on your psp. Along with having all the advanced features of a highest firmwares that sony put out, but still maintain the kernal of 1.5. Which in-turn give's you the ability to play any homebrew.

The scene will of course have its users who's sole intent is to use there psp for illegal intent. Downloading iso's, warez, and other illegal material. As i see it however, ripping your OWN ps1 disc and converting it for play on your psp is in no way a violation and inturn i think is what DAX's popstation was truely created for.......

Theres nothing wrong with the scene, Its just What users do that determine where the scene will end up in the end.

I think the scene has alot of time left. I mean we get a couple of homebrew releases a day. And a custom firmware nearly like every week.

So it is still going strong