Will Dark Alex Firmware/Popstation Cause Sony to React Nastily Towards PSP Hacking ?

**pspleech** · December 26th, 2006, 19:40

I very rarely post in forums but this one got my attention. I disagree with a lot of the post so far:

1) Sony MAY react to this. They have a history of suing people and being all 'round ###holes.

2) This may not be as major a problem as people are making out for Sony. The majority of people who belong to the "homebrew" scene wouldn't have paid for the psx downloads anyway, so people using their own iso's isn't an actual loss of profit. Neither is this likely to be popular with newcomers due to the new MB's etc.

3) With regard to people saying Sony should do this and that with security, shut up. You don't know jack. Since Sony made fundamental flaws at the beginning of the PSP's life, coupled with the virtual imposibility of making anything truly secure through software (especially when it can be RE'd) they will never kill off the scene. They will merely make it hard for more people to join the scene i.e. downgrading, new mb's etc.

4) Seriously, there is so much good (and free) advice floating around the net for Sony, and somehow they manage to consistenly mess things up, treat customers like mugs, fail to deliver on promises etc. If Sony carry on like this for more than a year (granted thats quite a while) we really could be looking at the death of this company. I can't remember such a large companies fall from grace on the scale of Sony. Everything they touch at the moment turns to s###.

5) I think Sony will likely offer psx downloads etc from a PC in the near future, and it was always their intention. I think the only reason they didn't straight away was to boost PS3 sales. This was an absolute disgrace on their part...along with the racist adverts, fake utube videos etc.

6) Final rant...how can a company be SOOO arrogant in the light of such terrible performance in recent years. Some of the comments from their execs over the past 6 months defy belief. Sony haven't done anything good in recent years...even the PS2 was the worst of the 3 consoles...it just had a massive following from the PS1 which lead to developers supporting the platform. I really think people are coming to the end of their tether with Sony. I used to love this company, but now I genuinely dislike everything they stand for.

**acn010** · December 26th, 2006, 19:43

Originally Posted by gunntims0103

The thing that i found quite laughable is that Sony basically gave us the ps1 emulator, intern they basically did the homebrew scene,AC, and yoshi's job for us. I dought that Sony knew this was gonna happen and that someone would figure out how to decrypt there fireware to an extent to where we can play out own ps1 games.

i jut realized that.oh wow lol:rofl:

**SSaxdude** · December 26th, 2006, 19:50

Originally Posted by mavsman4457

I'm being 100% honest here and I would hate it if this happened but why don't they just hire Dark_Alex. It would be such a simple solution for them and it would garuantee them a secure firmware.

Then homebrew would probably die because most people (not me) would update their PSP.

pspleech you have some very good point, especially #2. I don't own a PS3 and most people at this site don't.

**SpooForBrains** · December 26th, 2006, 19:58

This just goes to show there is highly unlikely to ever be such a thing as an unbreakable DRM. DVD CSS? Cracked. iTunes Fairplay? Cracked. PSP PSX emulation? Broken WIDE open.

On the other hand, I wish I could say this would actually have any effect on these companies. As other people have said, most PSP owners have already updated past the ability to downgrade, or have a TA-082. Hell, if the 2.6 downgrader hadn't been developed, I'd be just as stuck as them.

Yeah, iTunes users can decrypt their iTMS purchased music to stick it on non-Apple MP3 players, but most of them just drop some cash and buy an iPod, because it's easier. DVDs still sell buy the truckload, even though people can get the same content for free.

DRM may not be perfect, but it works. I'm just glad that for those of us that don't want to be controlled for other people's profit, there are people out there working to crack it, crack it and crack it again.

**danknugz** · December 26th, 2006, 20:07

this is possibly the most valid , legal form of emulation, since most of us have scads of ps1 cd's laying around, to be able to just convert them and use them on our psp SINCE WE ALREADY PAYED SONY for the games, thay shouldnt be able to say SH!T! this is flat out fair use. so go suck and egg sorny.

**Anonymous D** · December 26th, 2006, 20:34

just want to say thanks to sony for giving us the best christmas present ever, a full speed psx emulater! Theyve been owned once again. on another note they could do what microsoft do and have a team of hackers trying to break their software, so that they can find all these bugs...

**ShuzzleBuzzle** · December 26th, 2006, 20:49

Has anyone ever thought this may be some sort of viral marketing attempt targeted at people who Sony know are going to pirate games or not play their in order to sell the hardware. It just seems so convenient that a full speed PS1 emulator just happens to be included with the ps1 psp games. Face it we are just a small group of people who are most likely only going to tell this to another small group of people.

On a side note does anyone think the emulator they are using is Bleem?

**digihoe** · December 26th, 2006, 20:59

Well considering that they didn't bother changing the decryption key for each firmware release, they would know that the source for the PS1 emu wouldn't be safe... 3.02 came out after the 3.0 decryption key was know...
Maybe it's some sort of wacky tactics from sony's side, I mean we all seen how wacky thier commercials can be...

Nice Xmas gift, it's the best one of the once I got this year

Thanks!

**yoshinatsu** · December 26th, 2006, 21:07

A console that gets modded all the time NEVER fails.
Take PSOne for example. Come on! EVERYONE (I mean EVERYONE) had their PSOne mod-chiped.
Did that harm Sony? NO! They f***ing ripped both Sega's and Nintendo's asses with the PSOne. Why the PSP fail with that? That's a fact Sony has to consider.
Yeah, I know it doesn't hurt Sony, it hurts game developers, but when you take a place against the fans... They're gonna be angry... Just what happened with the PSOne emulator yesterday. They did some bad moves that were against the users of the PSP, and they paid dearly.