Team M33 is back | 3.52 M33-3 Released!

[Uberman]

Who actually edited the EBOOT at ps3news? Was it Team M33, or was it ps3news? That's confusing me.

At any rate, you spend time building trust in your product with a community (whether it's free or not). One stupid, childish thing like this damages or even destroys that trust. If this was done intentionally (and I guess that's still to be determined), whoever did it is actually, deliberately costing people money. It's one thing to do it accidentally; deliberate intentions to destroy your hardware drops the perpetrators to the bottom of the food chain in my book.

As for the "license" on M33-3, I suppose Team M33 can do what they like, but imposing your personal morality on your users is just immature. What they may be attempting to achieve in this case in the name of "antipiracy" is, to me, equivalent to requiring me to be of a certain religion, or to love and embrace seatbelt laws, just to use their cfw.

Something that's possible, I suppose, is that ps3news deliberately altered the M33-3 release to cause this kind of chaos, to intentionally discredit Team M33 (anybody remember the cyanide-laced aspirin on store shelves in the 1980's?). I don't know what the relationship is between the two, but it doesn't sound amiable.

[Cloudhunter]

PS3News hex edited the anti ps3news message in the firmware installer, but the installer bricks if hex edited.

So it's PS3News fault.

Cloudy

[MicroNut]

OMG
How on gods green earth could anyone on M33 team know how to associate your PSP with you or where you have been on the internet?

Thats just stupid.

The only way the updater could find something wrong is if the file was edited or if you were trying to install it on top of an edited installation.
Solutions:
1) Dont edit the update... duh...
2) Dont use it to upgrade an edited install.
Go back to 1.5 and then upgrade...
the only sure way to delete any stolen source code out of flash... ungh...

Stop beating on each other and go play some games.

[Anger]

PS3News hex edited the anti ps3news message in the firmware installer, but the installer bricks if hex edited.

So it's PS3News fault.

Cloudy

sorry but its not ps3news's fault if a person used to visit there site and no longer does yet still gets bricked.

[darknight88]

So is this thing safe to flash on the PSP yet? i have M33-2 and im not sure to update to update#3 if it messes up PSP once updated.

[Cloudhunter]

sorry but its not ps3news's fault if a person used to visit there site and no longer does yet still gets bricked.

Yeah, but if PS3News hex edited the EBOOT which is why it bricked, is it M33's fault even then?

And is it M33's fault that PS3News have edited every comment on their release thread saying that it installed fine, even when they knew it was a bricker?

Cloudy

[Nocuddle]

Sum1 at maxconsole says he went to ps3**** site with his PSP & nothing happened.

[Cloudhunter]

Sum1 at maxconsole says he went to ps3**** site with his PSP & nothing happened.

That's because nothing happens.

Cloudy

[Anger]

So is this thing safe to flash on the PSP yet? i have M33-2 and im not sure to update to update#3 if it messes up PSP once updated.

definetly not if you like visiting any site there is. basically at this time if you have visited ps3news.com then it will brick your psp.

Yeah, but if PS3News hex edited the EBOOT which is why it bricked, is it M33's fault even then?

And is it M33's fault that PS3News have edited every comment on their release thread saying that it installed fine, even when they knew it was a bricker?

Cloudy

cloudy dont get me wrong im not standing up for the s$#@! at ps3news.com - they are the lowest of the low but bricking psp's because people happen to visit the site (even by accident) is just wrong - even you have to admit that. we all know exactly what ps3news (and before ps2nfo.com) has done and its pathetic and sad attempts to gain money, but why couldnt m33 target the site itself rather than the people that may/have/will use the site? there after donations and yet there bricking the psp's of the very people that they want to donate to them. this is just madness.

in case you didnt know it also bricks peoples machines who have visited the site no matter how long for and the sad thing is there will be people who have been linked there and not realised that its still in the cache. the number of inexperienced psp users that will brick as a result of this alone will be large.

*EDIT* can it be confirmed that it does not brick if you just visit the site?

[MicroNut]

I've watched Ren and Stimpy Vol. 1
& Sin City with some problems.

I did run into a few small snags

1) After about 15 minutes I got some jittery video playback and then a crash of the videos.
I did re-dump the video strait to memory card with the same result.
I am going to try another dump method.
NewUMD vs. USBSSS

2) Swapping out UMD games when a UMD Video was mounted.
I received a game cannot be played because it is wrong region... it is not.
I rebooted the psp and it was fine again.

Testing playback on two psp's.
One with counterfeit ebay memory card, one with official Sony.

I only own these 2 UMD movies.
Maybe its time to buy more :P

UPDATE:
I was using New UMD Dumper and getting major playback problems.
I tried using USB-SSS and now everything seems to ok.
I changed the ISO mode between M33 and ISO9660... didnt seem to make any difference.
Tested the movies listed above.
Sony 4gb stick performed as well as the 2gb counterfeit card.

Dont use New UMD Dumper
USB-SSS seems like a good choice.