Custom Firmware - Good or Bad for the Scene ?

[lopezc]

I dont use custom firmware,I just dont see the benifits of it.But when Metal Gear comes out for the psp alot of people are going to upgrade,im already thinking about about what to do when it comes out.

[Briggzy11]

sod sony there useless and they can't do a damm thing about the custom firmware, its all custom so in other words its the makers of the firmware that have the control of their FLASH programming. the makers of the custom firmware cud sue us for using it haha

[jwilds73]

This is no different then buying a computer or laptop of any kind and replacing Windows with Linux or Mac OS with Linux etc. Sony limits it's product in a way I do not like. So I will do whatever that is required to make work how I want it too. The PSP has so much potential with flash and other homebrew. Games that truly succeed and have huge followings are games like Quake and such where players are able to make addon's and changes to the games themselves. Just look at the Smash Bro's homebrew where people make their favorite characters. Imagine if we had that power with the N64 version

[The_It]

you should be able to put whatever you want on your psp, since you pay 250$ for it, and if what you put on it will kill your psp, it is your problem.


by the way, what is malicious code?

[The_It]

This is no different then buying a computer or laptop of any kind and replacing Windows with Linux or Mac OS with Linux etc. Sony limits it's product in a way I do not like. So I will do whatever that is required to make work how I want it too. The PSP has so much potential with flash and other homebrew. Games that truly succeed and have huge followings are games like Quake and such where players are able to make addon's and changes to the games themselves. Just look at the Smash Bro's homebrew where people make their favorite characters. Imagine if we had that power with the N64 version

sony only tries to stop people from making their own free programs for the psp because sony is drowning in their own greed for money.

Money is the worst thing man has ever made, I tell ya!

[penileartery]

This is no different then buying a computer or laptop of any kind and replacing Windows with Linux or Mac OS with Linux etc. Sony limits it's product in a way I do not like. So I will do whatever that is required to make work how I want it too. The PSP has so much potential with flash and other homebrew. Games that truly succeed and have huge followings are games like Quake and such where players are able to make addon's and changes to the games themselves. Just look at the Smash Bro's homebrew where people make their favorite characters. Imagine if we had that power with the N64 version

i totally agree with you. if you want you want to install custom firmware its just like installing linux on your laptop. either way. i still dont like to have custom firmware on my psp because i dont see the point really. im just happy with my 1.5 psp.

[E.J.]

I'll get crazy of joy and eat my own socks the day somebody makes Linux run on the PSP.

And i think that the custom firmware is the first step.

[stotheamuel]

sometimes i think that devhook should have have waited.. for the ps1 emu to see if the hack still worked... no it will 150% most likely be patched

[SnoopKatt]

I really doubt Sony would make malicious code against DevHook that would hurt your PSP, they would probably just try to block it. And you're all right, we paid for it, so we should be able to do what we want with it.

[ModMan24]

have a little faith... the creators of devhook have been smart enough to keep everything working so far. I have a feeling they will get 3.0 working to. in fact im pretty sure they will, because all that needs to happen is decrypt the firmware (and possibly a few other things that i dont know about... but i know thats a major part). they have found a way to do it to 2.71, and they will find away to do it to 3.0.

I agree that sony is being over controling. Its kinda like a parent if you will... to controlling for its own good. but im pretty sure that the people who have created the homebrew scene will make sure it survives.

Though i will say... Sony has a nasty trick with some games with 2.71... it forces the upgrade upon loading the umd. (i have a friend that was forced from 2.0 to 2.71 because of it).

As to custom firmware... I dont use it... and unless something really really cool comes along for it... say all of 3.0 built into 1.5 with the 1.0 homebrew abillity. I probably wont... Im happy with Devhook and 1.5.

Thats my opinion anyway you can take it or leave it.