PS1P Private Beta 3 News - New PSOne Emu for PSP Coming Soon

[quzar]

Sony will not be able to bring it to court, at least here in the US. There is NO LAW against an emulator, except selling copyrighted material (Bleem and VGS)... Those were shutdown because the coders were making cash off of the emulator...

Wonder why PCSX2 isn't shutdown, even though it prolly runs better than PS1P? It's because Refraction, Shadow, and all the other coders aren't charging for the emulator nor are they distributing the BIOS... And last time I checked, the PS2 isn't exactly a dead system....


Fine me any law saying "Emulators are illegal in the United States." and you win... But til then, your arguement is crap

It is just as legal to sell emulators as it is to give them away. No more of this talk.

[Tinnus]

It all gets to the point that a good PS1 emulator could rip some serious cash off Sony.

Mess with money, you're talking big.

Mess with LOTS of money, Sony is screwed.

Depending on how good this emulator and Sony's are, and how much Sony is counting on getting cash outta the PS1 re-releases, something like that could end the PSP business and even SCE entirely.

Also remember you'd be able to download PS1 games via the PS3 to the PSP... now if the PSP has a good PS1 emu, that feature would be completely useless--including downloading games to the PS3 to play them there since you could just pop the PS1 game disc in the PS3 and play it.

It is just as legal to sell emulators as it is to give them away. No more of this talk.

It just pisses Sony more when you make money out of it

[Vega]

Just had a thought....

Do you think it would be possible to hack sony's official emulator, so it would work on our lower firmwares?

[DPyro]

Just had a thought....

Do you think it would be possible to hack sony's official emulator, so it would work on our lower firmwares?

Someone will do it...."Someone"

[Stoner4Life]

AC hobo should release this emu before sony,s 3.00 firmware is released.

[-=me=-]

Just had a thought....

Do you think it would be possible to hack sony's official emulator, so it would work on our lower firmwares?

Devhook

[Vega]

Someone will do it...."Someone"

$n!pR... I like the sounds of this Something tells me that "Someone" has a trick up their sleeve

Say no more

[hockey2112]

Sony will not be able to bring it to court, at least here in the US. There is NO LAW against an emulator, except selling copyrighted material (Bleem and VGS)... Those were shutdown because the coders were making cash off of the emulator...

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Fine me any law saying "Emulators are illegal in the United States." and you win... But til then, your arguement is crap

Please, show me where I said that there is a law that states that emulators are illegal. I never said that, and for you to make that statement shows me that you didn't even read my post. The whole point of my long-@$$ post was that it doesn't matter if it is legal or not to make this emulator, nor does it matter if Sony has legal grounds to take AC to court over it.

Sony CAN cause AC quite a bit of trouble, whether they have the law behind them or not. Like I said, they don't have to win a court case; they can accomplish just as much damage and fear by simply threatening one through a CAD order. (please refer to the "Choose Your Own Adventure" section of my post... or did you even read my post at all?) Do you think AC is a legal expert, or has access to a lawyer? Do you really think that homebrew coder is going to have the resources with which he or she can stand up to Sony and not end up in the poor house?

Please note: I am not a legal expert, nor do I claim to be. However, it would be naiive to think that Sony will not do everything they can, including legal threats, etc, to keep something that threatens their bottom line under wraps.

Wonder why PCSX2 isn't shutdown, even though it prolly runs better than PS1P? It's because Refraction, Shadow, and all the other coders aren't charging for the emulator nor are they distributing the BIOS... And last time I checked, the PS2 isn't exactly a dead system....

My thought on why PCSX2 has not been shutdown is because Sony probably does not see it as a major threat. Think about it... you need a large investment in the form of a high-end PC to emulate PS2 games. To emulate PS1 games, and remove a major financial opportunity from Sony, all you need to do is buy a $200 PSP. Therefore, PS1P's threat is more imminent, and therefore more likely to be a thorn in Sony's side.

[quzar]

That's it. The thread has been derailed completely from what it's purpose should be. All that is getting discussed is the legality/repurcussions/etc. Since this is a private emulator, and nobody can really CONTRIBUTE to any sort of discussion about it.

Normally warnings would just be issued to those who derailed it, but that seems to be everyone.