...ISO questions...

[Kaiser]

If mods do their job, this can be avoided. however I understand why you might not think the mods are up to the challenge. It's probably best that ISO discussion be avoided on this paticular board, as the competency of the staff is questionable at best. Like that old saying, better to be an idiot than a criminal, ey?

I can partially agree on that. But I think its not a matter of competence but I think the PSP section in particular is understaffed. 1time has his hands full dealing with all the forums by himself. The rest of the staff only drops by the occasionally. You should have seen the amount of Piracy threads before 1time became a mod. But I still don't think ISO/Loader discussion should be allowed, even for modification purposes, at least not yet. One thing I can safely say is that the PSP scene being in its infancy has not yet matured enough for any sort of safe discussion on modding games. That go's for all PSP homebrew sites. Lets face it there are way to many noobs who would misuse the information being given to them.

Piracy is never going to be a major problem for this system as there aren't enough games that are good enough for people to want to pay for. If person A doesn't buy a game because its bad, and person B gets the game without paying, the result is the same for a company. The people that are interested will always find piracy. And when people find out they can run home-made games, they look into running real games. It's what happens, and its caled the internet. Just by helping run homebrew on the newer firmwares, it's helping the pirates. Homebrew is basically weed, where piracy is heroine. SOny'd like both the harmfull drug and the gateway drug illegal.

I agree, aside from the Piracy thing never becoming a problem. The PSP is to young to make such an assumption. Piracy will never be snuffed out that is information even big name companies must be forced to swallow. But that doesn't mean we should give up fighting it. We should try to minimize its damage every chance we get. Sure we open up doors for Piracy because of our craving for homebrew. Meh so what? Even if all we can do is discourage heroin while we smoke our weed so be it. Heroin is a lot more dangerous then weed.

EDIT:

SWEET JESUS HERAN_BAGO I KNEW I RECOGNIZED THAT NAME! Your a Sonic 2 beta junkie aren't you? Know a nice little guy named Simon Wai?

I used to be a "cult" follower until the "old" owner sold out

The PSP scene could use a Tech Member

[Cap'n 1time]

For roms there are legal sites where you pay monthly fee and can dl old games.
Site owner makes money , compay gets some money for stuff that would never normaly sell and you can just dl them legaly.
Not gona post link but search for yourself 10-15$ per month isnt that much ;/.

yeah, ive seen roms being sold on CD for MAME before.. Also there is that one that has all thoes commercials.. feel free to post a link to that. I often question if they are actually legitimate.. Id be interested in hearing how they confirm their stuff is legal..

Anyway, we are not refering to GBA and DS roms.. I mean old stuff from dead machines. While it is illegal you are not really hurting the company sales by downloading them. Downloading PSP ISO's is very damaging to the company and actually might be damaging to our homebrew scene because these "ISO emulators" were developed with the homebrew sdk. Now Sony, being the paranoid jerks they are probably would have locked down the system even if "ISO emulators" were never made... Anyway, my #1 reason for dling ISO's is because they hurt the companies that produced them.. Sony can go to hell and die, but the great 3rd party companies dont need to suffer.

What annoyed me about your comments was that you seemed to imply that I was some kind of drone that ignorantly follows wraggsters commands. I however was chosen for this job as a mod (even though I was the biggest asshole on the whole forum) only because I looked at the whole ISO discussion like that.

I'll get to why I lock any threads that dsicuss ISO's when I get back.. Till them just reflect on whats already been stated. And once again, forgive my ignorance in the above posts. That was idiotic, and you were right to be offended.

[IndianCheese]

hey 1time christmas is over you can change your sig back

[Heran_Bago]

ROMs aren't completely exctinct. Nintdo and Sega are very well known for integrating emulators and ROMs into commercial games. Animal Crossing, the Classic NES series, and the Sonic Mega Collection/Gems series all use an internal ROM and emulator. Word is the Nintendo Revolution will also include emulators where you can pay to download games.

That Sonic Crackers avatar.... A REAL SONIC FAN!?

I used to go to the CulT too! That place was awesome! Then Pachuka got arrested for raping some girl, and my new (much better) home is SWS2B! Come on over!

[Kaiser]

That Sonic Crackers avatar.... A REAL SONIC FAN!?

I used to go to the CulT too! That place was awesome! Then Pachuka got arrested for raping some girl, and my new (much better) home is SWS2B! Come on over!

Hahaha, you bet I'll see If I'll register there maybe in the next few days or so. Kinda of busy I got some projects going on. I've only really lurked at SWS2B. How hard is it to get past trial-member status now? Sometimes they'll let just about anyone in and other times they are pretty nazi about membership.


PS: Sanik teh Hadgehag Too is on my PSP

These I've yet to put on my MS

Sonic Advance 3: Extreem Manseckz?
Mario Super 1: Gayer Game!

[Heran_Bago]

Those three ROM hacks are jokes. =P. And don't even bother with SA3:EM unless it's on Visual Boy Advance. You're going to want to play that sucker at full speed.

If you post on SWS2B like you do here, you'll get accepted no problem. If the test is too tough, a techie (me) can send you an invite to bypass the test. You're a cool guy and I bet you'd fit in.

[Cap'n 1time]

hey 1time christmas is over you can change your sig back

uh... i lost it

[IndianCheese]

Hey Kaiser, have you ever tried the Sonic Crackers beta rom? I have it on my PSP right now, and it is pretty awesome. The music is good, too.

[Kaiser]

Hey Kaiser, have you ever tried the Sonic Crackers beta rom? I have it on my PSP right now, and it is pretty awesome. The music is good, too.

Well considering the sprite in my avatar is from Sonic Crackers, I'm pretty sure I've played it, a lot. Ya the music is good, Its actually taken from other sonic games like Knuckles Chaotix. Its an interesting little rom.

[Heran_Bago]

It's more likely the other way around. Sonic Crackers later became Knuckles' Ring Star, and development was switched over to the 32X. We don't exactly know what team made Chaotix or Crackers, as Yuji Naka keeps that information classified in all interviews asking.

I personally think it is somehow connected to the MARS color format which Sega stole from Nintendo's SNES (RGB 555, intel format). Although without a BIOS source code or SNES dev kit, this can't be proven at a technical level. We do, however, have a 32X SDK. =P But that issue of color formats on non-native hardware is off-topic. ISOs = bad.