Another Reason For Sony To Kill Off Homebrew

**Sterist** · February 23rd, 2006, 23:12

why the hell are yall freakin out lol its just another one for 1.50..... im sure sony, or any other publisher, wouldnt find this as any more of a threat than before, simply because there are none for 2.00+

**EnderPSP** · February 24th, 2006, 00:36

OK, let's make this very simple: Sony isn't going to go broke even if PSP is a complete failure. If you don't see this, you're a complete moron, and have no ideea who Sony Entertainment is.
Now, the real money don't come from the consoles but from selling the games; actually the console is cheaper than its manufacture costs, 'cause Sony figured out they'd make the money from game sales. So saying pirating is healthy is simply not true. Sony gets revenues from each game sold, so this is where the money really come for them.
Each manufacturer tries to protect its product (mainly from piracy), so it's only normal that Sony will continue to make 3.0, 3.01, 3.02, 3.1, 3.50, 4, 5, 6, 7.00 firmware upgrades (or whatever necessary) to protect their investment.
But saying that mph's launcher will affect the scene is just plain dumb. Same thing does the downgrader. It comes to me a scene from Farscape the Peacekeeper Wars: John creates what all his enemies and friends asked him to do the entire series... and when he does, and they realize it's not what they expected, they said "why?"... YOU asked for the downgrader, YOU asked for this launcher. MPH is a great coder, he did a lot for many of you, and nothing illegally against SONY. This is exactly why the PSP scene is dieing, a lot of morons, and a lot of ISO leechers. Many coders are slowly getting enough bull$#@! from ppl that just aren't sattisfied... Can't you make it red, bigger, and with a hamburger on top?... Wtf...
Sincerely, real damage is done from loading pirated iso's (without buying the games liked). But it's a free world, and we SHOULD have alternatives. I personally cheer this comes out, the only thing I fear is the bunch of morons that bend in the wind, advertising whatever "some guru" said (like this launcher is bad), instead of using their brains (yeah, what brains...) and see what this really is. Many $$ for games that are crappy and dont deserve 5$... Haven't you learned anything from the (dieing) gaming scene? "We do not suport piracy. If you like the game buy it". Makes a lot of sense to me...

If this post is too long for you and you already have a headache, too bad. Many people don't wanna hear the truth or simply can't see or understand it. Not 1% (one percent) of you can do what he did, though you have oppinions.

The PSP scene will slowly die if morons continue to complain, leech isos and not buy (at least the favourite game). Many good coders had enough and left the PSP scene. Are you really that narrow? Can't you see that if there is noone to make your day(s) creating a downgrader or an emulator or a homebrew (/game), you'll really have to only play the created games which some are totally crap? It's good to have alternatives instead of just eating McDonalds, KFC and Burger King... GET IT?

**shadow77** · February 24th, 2006, 00:52

Respect to MPH, you've done what many people said was impossible.

The fact is Sony does not want homebrew on its console, regardless of iso loaders. This loader won't hurt them or developers at all because barely any PSP owners have a 1.5 (I'd say less than 10%).

The GTA exploit has NO WAY of running an iso loader and look they tried to stop it by changing the syscalls in 2.6, no doubt they will patch it for good in firmware 3.0.

**Hidavi** · February 24th, 2006, 03:57

yeah, I would hate to see the PSP stabbed to death by bootlegging ala Dreamcast. I paid for my 25 PSP games.

**J sims** · February 24th, 2006, 04:22

Here is why I belive that sony makes the upgades in no particular order of importance.

1)The first reason is obvious to most people. If Sony can upgrade their product then that means that they can add features that will make their psp more attractive to consumers. eg web browser

2) They can also add features that will make it easier for developers to make games. this amounts to better games and, more profit because more people will buy them.

3) The firmware upgrades may help to against piracy via umd loader. I seriously doupt any corporation will choose to do nothing to prevent losing money if they can do something.If you drop a dollar on the ground you are not going to leave it there because you have 100 more in your pocket.I am also sure that the developers aren't happy about iso loaders and have voiced their complaints to sony.I know I wouldn't develop for a system whose company does absolutely nothing about piracy.

4)The firmware upgrades may help to against piracy of other handhelds like GBA. Although The GBA emulator we have now in not up to par, Nintendo sees this as a threat and I am positve that they weren't quiet about it. All morals aside why would the average consumer by a GBA when they can buy a psp that can play free GBA games on a larger screen and, do much more.Also why buy a GBA with ported games when I can play the original SNES games on a larger screen for free on psp.The consumer would see that in the long run that is is more cost affective to buy a psp than a GBA.

**mog** · February 24th, 2006, 04:34

Hmm, i recon this program is great, if you ignor the fact that idiots will abuse it.

Does this help me in any way with my problem?
I was given a lumines umd at christmas, which was bought from Game.
Lumines requires fw 1.5, but i have fw 1.0 on my psp.

I have tried using WAB and SXT version trickers but they couldnt make it load.
I couldnt take the game back because i dont have a receipt, so i am waiting for a program that will let me run the umd without updating my psp.

This program sounds like it could do that, and should work on a 1.0 fw psp but i know mph fw loader does not work on fw 1.0.