Custom Firmware - Good or Bad for the Scene ?

[YourStillWithMe]

Sony will no doubt attack back at us but i say bring it on because patience is key and i believe that within a month or 2 we will have decrypted the firmware with the psone emulator and thats all i care about than i probably will not ever buy anymore psp games i'll just play psone, all my other homebrew, and just wait for the n64 emulator to be good what else do you need? Really!? that sounds good enough for me. . . tekken will be cool thought too i be that'll have a 2.71 update at the most so i'll be able to play that game. Anyone see a game with a 2.70 update yet?

[psiko_scweek]

...you all really think its about the money and that sony is some evil entity. Thats really not it. Yeah its about money, the world does need money to go around.

Sony is not stopping homebrew because its an evil corporation. Sony is actually more friendly toward homebrew than any other gaming corporation. They had the Yaroze, which if you didnt know, was a playstation one that allowed you to write your own playstation one games. Also they had the PS2 Linux kit which again allowed you to write homebrew for the Playstation 2. Both were limiting on the homebrew they would allow you to make but they did allow you to make homebrew.

Sony is trying to stop homebrew because it is hurting the salse of the PSP. If everyone could download PSP games off of torrent sites and run them on their PSP like as if they purchased it, it would ruin the PSPs sales. Granted sony would sell alot more PSPs, but sony does not make money on the PSP sales, but rather on the UMD sales.

I can guarentee if the homebrew scene was just homebrew games with emulators sony would not be so adamant about blocking the homebrew scene. But its not, the homebrew scene instead isnt about running hombrew titles like Doom on it, instead its about emulating higher FW, and ISOs. I know there are communities that are about the first part but the community that is supporting ISO downloads and calling sony the devil are why sony is trying to block hombrew.

[F9zDark]

Emulating firmware really isn't the issue either; since that allows 1.5 PSP owners to go out and buy higher firmware games. In fact that helps the PSP.

But you are correct in your opinion of ISOs. Its really a shame that an ISO loader was ever made, because that just solidified Sony's reasons for trying to thwart homebrew on the PSP.

I believe that if an ISO loader never saw the light of day, Sony would be thinking about ways to give us homebrew on the PSP rather than thinking of ways to take it away.

About custom firmware, I am not really a proponent of it. It wont be long before unknown coders start throwing malicious firmwares about.

I personally think that DCEMU should take a stand against custom firmware. In the days when people knew that writing to flash was a terrible idea, there wasn't much in the way of malicious code going about (for what reason? Hardly anyone would do it since everyone knew that writing to flash was bad news). But now PSP-terrorists can keep their malevolent programs hidden among well intentioned ones, and who are we to know the difference?

I believe that DCEMU should either:
A)Not allow custom firmware on their site

or

B)Have a preffered developer program, of which only a few developers are part of and who are the only ones to have their custom firmware on DCEMU.

Personally, I like the latter better than the former, but with the slew of recent additions to the 1.0 and 1.5 PSP families, there will be a ton more targets for scene terrorists.

[Briggzy11]

Forget this PSX emulator sony is making, there will be a homebrew one on the horizon, Pretty soon some mad man/woman will program a Wii to the PSP haha (Been a bit over confident about the homebrew scene there as you can tell haha)

[whitey75]

There is nothing illegal about custom firmwares at all. If I buy a car, say a porsche, and decided to put a ferrari engine in it. Than that's totally my business. Sure Porsche will no longer service the car, but then you just go to another mechanic. Noones going to jail.

As for devhook, hmmm...not really sure on that one. You are still using Sony's product, and all the firmware are free, in fact Sony encourage people to use it. I don't remember ever reading a disclaimer suggesting you cannot alter the firmware, although I do tend to ignore those things anyway.

Cheers

[emuking]

good because you never know they could make a custom firmware that unbricks a psp, you never know that could happen

[tophead420]

i say these are good for the scene becuz this could draw in more people to the psp with these added features and /or bring new ideas to the psp this opens a new window in homebrew becuz now we have more to look forward to and i totally love this fw alot some of the things about my psp that would annoy me before dont for example the SCE logo autobooting my games , the corrupt data icons and so on now this is al fixed and fine now im totally happy with my psp and i totally recomend this to anyone

[emuking]

the only reason sony wants to stop homebrew is because of the dreaded i s o loader, simple as that, i personally feel sorry for sony because they have to deal with the worst piracy ever created

[kayhanbakid]

I would never touch my flash unless it was 100% necessary and safe. And for me, I will just never feel safe with a custom firmware. I have no idea what could happen in the future. Although I never plan to upgrade (I would either get a modchip or 2nd PSP instead) I would never risk my 1.5 PSP with something that will save me 30 seconds.

But I think it should be legal to if someone wanted to do it. It's not too difficult to get the files from the $ONY update eboots. There may be a problem with all these sites posting the firmware files directly on their websites. That's always made me feel uneasy.

[10shu]

The actual custom firmware is a hacked version of a sony firmware so it s illegal to use it...

However, it good to the scene; We may see stuff like psix booting up from the psp soon