Custom Firmware - Good or Bad for the Scene ?

[juliusceasar]

I think the main reason Sony don't like the homebrew scene is the associations with piracy. As much as the homebrew scene wants to distinguish itself from piracy allowing homebrew will result in an iso loader coming out.

[jwilds73]

I really want to know why we aren't running a completely custom firmware from the memory stick just like Devhook does with now up to 2.71. I'd be more then willing to give these custom firmware's a try if they offered this option. I don't know if I can simply replace the files in devhook with these custom ones but if I could I'd give these firmware's a try.

[NoQuarter]

It's seems like we are on the threshold of big changes economically, the open source movement leading the way towards a truly free market.Not this psuedo free market we have now.One where the end user decides what is produced.Big companies are going to have to change their market strategies or face major profit loss,face it or get left behind

[drEDN4wt]

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).

Games such as?

[MikeDX]

Such as "LIES" - the fun game where its a race to find out who will get caught out first!

[jaws365]

I dig custom firmware because I hate to eject my umd every time I reboot my PSP, which is quite often. Also I think the other features are great.

Wraggster said something about time-triggered autobricking of PSP, anyone got some more info? That sounds really scary, a little terror-like actually.

[nonarKitten]

I would venture to guess (and I'm basing it on my knowledge of the legal system in Canada - and as the US is a little more draconian, I may be off), and say that distribution of a patched BIOS is illegal as it infringes upon copyright; the act of reverse engineering and bypassing the pre-existing encryption is against the DMCA (whcih we in Canada think is sooo stupid). So, anyone supplying these firmwares ought to be very careful.

[jwilds73]

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).

Your friend is lying to you. There is not one game that auto updates your system upon loading.

[Psyberjock]

Well, any actions taken by Sony against Devhook or custom firmwares will be dependent upon us upgrading our firmware. Certainly they can make it more difficult to emulate the newer firmwares, but they can't hurt our homebrew friendly PSPs unless we update, and that has always been the case.

[Accordion]

well i use custom firmware and its great, i doubt sony will do anything more than make the firmwares signed to each psp upon install.

but surely if there is a way to stop something happening there is a way to make it happen