Would the Release of a Full Speed (or near full speed) Get a Bad Reaction From Sony

[nigelrigel]

There is one this besides all this that really questions my mind, From all the hombrew, sony has come up with alteratives, to make people want to upgrade, (wipeout pure web browser, The extreme want for good flash) and now the ps1 emu, homebrew is the driving forse for these updates, im sure there wouldnt be many if people had never attempted to crak it, The point that im coming up with is that is sony makes 3.0 and it gets cracked then what will they include in the next firmware, more harware and games is all they have to offer. sony is fighting a losing battle and they're giving everyone what they want while they do it. Me, i say just sit back and let the good times roll

-also i think that the ultamite solution for somebody making an emu, is not to try and CODE an ENTIRE EMULATOR, but to simply attemt and crack 3.0, And yes If it happend sony WOULD be Horrified.

[Slade]

I didn't read all the comments, so sorry if this has already been said. Like others already mentioned, emulation is perfectly legal so long as they don't include the bios with the emulator. Now I don't know sony's history of court cases, but the only ones I remember hearing about were with bleem, and not only did that contain everything needed to run PS games save for the games themselves, the creators were also trying to sale it.

So would sony even bother with it? I'm not so sure they would. Maybe send some threatening letters and whatnot, but would they engage in a legal battle that they'd surely lose? I'm not sure even sony is that evil/stupid.

Ah well, here's hoping either a PSone emu comes out or devhook is able to emulate whatever it takes to run sony's official emu.

[doubledragon]

If the coders remain anonymous Sony can't do a thing. Freedom of speech and expression will protect the coders of such action. As long as the developer aren't selling their emulators with the sony ps1 bios than there really isn't anything Sony can do from a legal standpont. Obviously Sony would be pissed off if someone were to come out with this but there really isn't anything they can do.

[doubledragon]

Sony can't press charges to people who make emulators as its not illegal. Distributing the PSX bios or roms is another issue and they have every right to press charges.

Sony couldn't do anything because the programming is his "work" It would be futile. Yes it is based on Sony property but it is still his work. If the programmer trys to sell his work than Sony would have grounds because he is profiting off of a property that originally wasn't his.

[slayer2psp]

im sure someone will find a way to use the emu sony makes.

[fistikuffs]

Lumir was not referring to legal homebrew and if he was he could of said DCemu becuase they have all the legal homebrew that is out.

Lumir didn't make any specific mention of legality you jumped in and did it for him.

RE: Nigelrigel...your dead right the more firmware gets cracked and the more homebrew is released the more sony has to give to counter it. It's like free market economics (i think ) and we the consumer are going to benefit. Long live homebrew!!

[Briggzy11]

Personally...

...SOD sony there useless to be honest with you. They made the PSP so now they can move on and let the homebrew scene take over because lets face it, theres WAY more games on DCEMU for the PSP than there will EVER be commercial games, i can sense that.

But to be fair sony have done well trying to beat homebrew but just a shame they are not good enough.

[stotheamuel]

emulators are legal i thought

but sony would be pissed

[ArchAngel]

Well lets look at it this way, PSX games are almost dead in the ways of new titles and hardware, so emulation would fall under the act of data preservation. Just like emulation of GBC, NES, etc. GBA would still be illegal now to download just because its games are still under production and Nintendo is still making money from them. So I believe since they are making a PSOne emulator for the PSP, it is an upgrade for the PSP, not releasing of new titles for the PSX.

[vettacossx]

Originally Posted by $n!pR
Sony can't press charges to people who make emulators as its not illegal. Distributing the PSX bios or roms is another issue and they have every right to press charges.

TO KEEP SONY OF OUR ASS....

i think that if you were to port somthing like epsxe it would be perfect because anyone who has ALL THE PLUGINS for THIS EMU knows that it runs ANYGAME FASTER THAN THE ORIGINAL SPEED IF YOU USE THE RIGHT PLUGIN......and TOO KEEP OUR ASSES COVERED IT MIGHT BE scratch that WOULD DEF. be a good idea to MAKE SURE THE EMU REQUIRES A BIOS for legal resons and its already an existing emu FROM A PC VERSION THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU COPULD ARGUE IN COURT THAT THE PC VERSION HAS BEEN OUT AND IN USE FOR YEARS WHY THE STINK NOW??? WE ARENT DOING ILLEGAL THINGS BY HOMEBREWING A PS1 EMULATOR AT ALL if its done PROPERLY THAT IS....WE ARE JUST DOING SOMTHING THAT DOES INDEED CUASE SCEA SONY TO BE " PISSY" SO TO SPEAK