DevHook 0.45 UMD-ONLY

**PSPCRACKER** · July 23rd, 2006, 19:18

wat so diffrent in this release?

**BL4Z3D247** · July 23rd, 2006, 19:22

u can now load emus thru 2.71 emulated and im sure some minor fixes

**hempy** · July 23rd, 2006, 19:28

i agree with mog. its pathetic to think u people actually believe devhook is illegal as an app. its what u can do with it that could be illegal. you all need to get ur heads out of ur asses and realalize whats really goin on

**BL4Z3D247** · July 23rd, 2006, 19:32

i have the "illegal" version too but i've never once used or even thought about usin I$Os i just wanted the ability to load emus on 2.71 and not have to wait for the patched version

***Kaiser*** · July 23rd, 2006, 20:04

Originally Posted by hempy

i agree with mog. its pathetic to think u people actually believe devhook is illegal as an app. its what u can do with it that could be illegal. you all need to get ur heads out of ur asses and realalize whats really goin on

I never said anything about legalites. I simply said it was a clean version. I'm tired of your trolling so I'm going to ban you for awhile to give you some time to grow up.

**ataribob** · July 23rd, 2006, 21:37

I find it funny that people would call it illegal .
Take away the XXX and leave only UMD version.
And call it legal

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And other people say it's how it's used to be illegal ..

It's got Sony's Firmware and all the other goodies That Sony did not give away.

Call it what you want. It's still illegal in any version.
But who is that going to stop.
Not me

I have the best version

**sirhax0r** · July 23rd, 2006, 22:16

Excuse me for saying this, but "that which we will not name as we cannot speak of them"s arent illegal until they are used for illegal purposes. Does anyone remember the LocoRoco demo "you-know-whats" that were hosted on DcEmu?

**IWantMyMTV** · July 23rd, 2006, 22:32

Originally Posted by mog

It's a bit like saying kitchen knifes are illegal if they could potentially be used as a weapon...
As long as they are only used for food preparation, there is nothing illegal about them...
I don't see how this is any different.

Your logic is a bit flawed...kitchen knives are never illegal, but DevHook is not analogous to a kitchen knife. It's more like an H&K MP5 (which is illegal in the U.S. whether you've shot at anybody or not). It wasn't designed to cut vegetables...it was designed to kill people. You may choose not to use it as a weapon, but that was still it's primary design.

DevHook was developed to run that acronym that we cannot name in this forum.

Now as far as legality of homebrew...*shrug* I'm not quite sure. I imagine a lot of homebrew is quite legal. Emulators are a bit different since the roms required to enjoy them are, by and large, still under copyright.

Sony's biggest reason for upgrading firmware is to prevent PSP owners from playing pirated material. No one wants to make games for a system that are readily pirated. Sony has to demonstrate good faith to the game developers/publishers or they'll have a platform with no games, and more importantly, they won't be receiving any licensing fees which is how most video game hardware vendors make their money. Microsoft wasn't making any huge profits on sales of the XBox360. They'll get the money back through licensing. Thank you Nintendo for that business model. It worked much better than the flawed Atari 2600 model.

However (back to the point), the files necessary to get DevHook to emulate firmware are freely available from Sony or can be decrypted from UMDs. As long as you don't sell or redistribute said files (data and reboot) to others, I can't see how it's illegal, but I'm not a copyright lawyer.

I personally applaud dcemu for their stance and don't view it as hypocritical at all. Pirating software (ie the acronym that we can't use) is self-defeating. If developers can't make money off their games, they will stop developing them. Everybody loses. In the case of emulators (legal or illegal), very few companies are intending to make a profit off Warsong for the Genesis. No one but used video game stores even sell the hardware to play it or the Genesis cart. Developers make no money from the re-sells. While still illegal, I can sleep at night playing Warsong on the PSP (and at one time, I owned both the system and the cart...they are now in a landfill somewhere...may they rest in peace).

If you go to many of those other sites that host the full versions of DevHook, you will see that their threads all center about which IS-s (acronym that I can't use) work and with what compression routines.

I love DevHook, and since I loaded it up two weeks ago and verified it worked with Burnout: Legends (1.52) which I owned and was running with Genesis Launcher, I've bought Daxter, Field Commander, and Worms: Open Warfare.

I can't wait to buy Tekken on Tuesday. I don't have to search the web for a Tekken IS- (acronym that I can't use), and then read hours worth of threads to figure out how to fit the UMD on a 1 GB memory stick. I can just buy it and play it with DevHook.

Thank you Booster for DevHook...BOTH Warsong and Tekken on the PSP...a middle-aged gamer's dream come true.

Thank you DCEMU for taking an anti-piracy stand which only makes sense (to me)...I'm not sure why the people who don't get it just don't stay at one of your competitors' sites...

**notaforumtroll** · July 23rd, 2006, 23:07

Is there a change log, or a post that describes the content of the package provided in this post?

It appears to me this tread has filled with
meaningless/useless/redundant opinions and replies.

Who gives a $#@! if its illegal or legal. Sony probably doesnt want you to use it. And you're going to use it anyway. so stfu and post something useful.
You know because 99% of us are going to use it for "Educational Purposes" and not to boot into 2.71 and play eye-esss-ohhs
right.....All these websites are a haven for piracy. look at the adds, modchip 4gig microdrives, regular users dont require 4gig microdrives or memsticks, because all their software is legal. and if they are copying movies over, chances are they were downloaded illegaly anyway and are in violation of copyright infringments.
Its no different that telling people not to use drugs, while supplying them with the information of exactly where when and from who to find them. lets stop this "anti-piracy charade and at least own up to what we are all doing here.

Anymore info on this release?