Firmware 3.01 Released!

i hope an exploit is found to get homebrew on it that way im not stuck with my friggin 2.81 fw

Ok seriously, without even thinking from a homebrew users perspective, what the hell kind of message is SONY putting out to consumers by releasing REQUIRED firmware updates every day. I mean almost all of the updates have just 1 addition:

Security Fixes

This is almost like fear mongering. SONY wants to make you think that some hackers are going to tap into your PSP and steal your identity or your kids identity, etc. etc. When in reality, these firmware updates do nothing more than try and prevent homebrew usage.

SONY is only helping Nintendo and the DS Lite because consumers are seeing that the DS Lite is much more simple and easy to use with no maintenance. And no "security flaws".

I think once again SONY is shooting themselves in the foot by putting the fight against before the overall quality of their product.

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Originally Posted by jman420

I hate sony so much... the one reason I bought another PSP, for the PS1 game play, and they had to $%#k it up... I hate sony so much its not even funny... I now have to give them $499.99 for their crappy PS3 system, just to be able to download PS1 games to play on my PSP... I hate this, GOD DAMN SONY TO HELL!

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Get a PS1 man ...

Get a life man ...

I have a PSONE, I dont like it, I would prefer to play games on my PSP, not my crappy resolution PSONE...

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Originally Posted by Veskgar

...SONY wants to make you think that some hackers are going to tap into your PSP and steal your identity or your kids identity, etc. etc. When in reality, these firmware updates do nothing more than try and prevent homebrew usage...

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One of my friends thought that. One day he was like "OMG 2.71 out!" (This was a few months ago), and I asked "Why do you need to update?" and he responded "I need to update, so the hackers don't steal my identity!" I told him otherwise after.

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Originally Posted by Veskgar

I think once again SONY is shooting themselves in the foot by putting the fight against before the overall quality of their product.

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It sucks, they were good back in the day... :(

I bought a second PSP for upgrading to play new games coming out.

The possibility of the PSone emu was a bonus, which is now dead in the water for me.

Only useful thing to me from the update is something that bugged me ever since I first got one.
The auto start of the UMD's...I hated that, and now it's finally disabled.

Thanks for that little addition Bony, the rest of yer firmware stuff blows.