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

[ab88]

They indeed were asking to get owned *cough*fakegranturismomobile*cough*
*cough*Link-sag*cough* and other sh..*cough*

[imagecko]

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.

lol if you can't beat em join em. good stradagey on sonys part:rofl:

[SnoopKatt]

They probably do not like this, but this is not a huge impact because we're only a small portion of people who know about PSP homebrew, and even less probably know about DAX's custom firmware. However, Sony will probably try to stop this.

[irishwhip]

i think sony should use this as a lesson. they obviously fail hard at security. every new firmware update gets decrypted within days (don't think i'm knocking the talents of the psp coders either, i know they are skilled).
i think the only way sony could defeat the homebrew scene would be to employ all the talented coders like booster and dark alex

[Tetris999]

I dont think their goal was to make money with the psp-ps3 store in a sense of ps1 game sales. It was all just a gimick to get psp owners to buy ps3s to utilize a functionality on their consoles. Otherwise, why not just have an online store accessable from a pc?

This release with psx capability, homebrew, and it plays current psp games, is how the system SHOULD be. Its how it should have been since day one. And they wonder why the DS is kicking their ass.

Im sorry to say, but what you said is totally way wrong out and far fetched

see here, what sony did try to is make therye next gen console a freaking storage device for your psp games, judging that they didnt release a ps1 store for the pc, obviously everybody got mad. the idea seemed gold to sony, heck it was a smart thing to store stuff on youre console, and they though "our psp user's will obviously buy a ps3 for connectivity" unfortunately they were wrong about therye system. ANYWAY i believe that they will release a pc store soon anyway

now to get on to the homebrew part, do you even know what you said? do you even KNOW what the custom firmware DOES? oh yeah its lets you run ISO's "supposebly backupped"<----The Cause of this? HOMEBREW!! why the hell would they allow custom programs be written by people? because people LOVE to have free stuff man, soon as they let you develop stuff for your console, you are gonna be looking for the best, cheap, affordable way out

thats why theres damn modchips out

I have all the respect for sony about why therye trying to stop us, heck if i was the owner of sony, i wouldnt want some losers making money off free pirated games, and crap. To save my money the owner of sony would obviously not let homebrew, piracy onto therye systems. Sony Arent mean and big and evil therye trying to stop therye profits from going down and they go to waste

Its like that saying, the gangsters say " nothing personal just buisness"

Dont Get me wrong, i love homebrew lots and the new psx emulator is awsome, but really you cant justify homebrew, because the first thing thats EVER developed for it is, piracy

EVEN IF homebrew made the system better with calculators and stuff the piracy would still be there, i think its unfair to lots of people when therye things are stolen due to piracy

Stop trying to justify homebrew, because its number one function is piracy, and thats a fact

I agree with many about the ps3- psp was a total piece of bull**** but still i dont think they will keep it that way soon or later theryr gonna release an online store for the pc

Heck this compatibility comes in very handy for any ps3 owner

and sometimes i think sony is, messing up for a purpose

[F9zDark]

Albeit being a user of this firmware(happily) I hate to say it that I do believe Sony will take action over this.

This firmware trumps Sony's marketing strategy (to make money selling us PS1 games we already own). And given the fact that Lik-Sang was trumping Sony's markets in Europe, and they took SWIFT action, I believe the same will come for homebrew.

They have always hated homebrew, yet have had no real concrete evidence to put a stop to it (piracy doesn't count unless they have evidence proving that astute members in the scene are responsible for the lion share of it; but this, they have hard proof that their market is undermined, and being the capitalist nation that the US is, the courts are always interested in protecting the monetary assets of the huge corporations).

I just wonder how Sony will respond? Will file suit or will they do something less conventional? I mean, they do have the Rootkit under their belt; it really surprises me that Sony hasn't made such attempts on scene assassination in the past, considering that they put a rootkit on their CDs...

[Vega]

Sony may very well react to this.... Only time will tell.
But for the record, I believe most of us here that are a part of the scene would not even bother paying for PSX games on PSP. Us from UK would have had to wait until next march also due to the PS3 launch delay. It is more than expected that we would grab our own games and rip them for play on PSP.
As said earlier in this thread, we shouldn't be expected to have to pay for games again. With the amount of sh!t that sony has sent our way, we are entitled to play our own games on our own handhelds. F*ck sony... what gives them the right to tell anyone that they cant play games that we already paid for over 5 years ago? F*ck that.
This is release is the ultimate "shove it up your ass" to Sony, and I thank Dark_Alex for giving me the oppurtunity to do so.
Its just a huge shame that the Scene the only ones who have now got the power to stick it to sony, I do honestly feel for people who are gonna' pay their hard earned money to those sony f*ckers because they updated, have a TA-082 or just dont know about homebrew on PSP.

[Wrrryyy]

This is my first post ever on these boards - I'm usually much more of a lurker, but I needed to voice my opinion on this whole thing.

The firmware is great and was definitely inevitable. Someone was bound to hack Sony's emulator. It's undeniably awesome. However, I read a post a few pages back where someone said something to the effect of "forget Anonymous Coder" and that Dark_Alex beat him to the punch. That's just ridiculous. Dark_Alex did some great hacking, yeah, but he has nothing to do with programming the emulator - that credit goes to Sony. AC's efforts shouldn't be shot down, though. He's an amateur coder who, from what I've read, has done a great job building an emulator from scratch. Of course Sony's emulator is going to be incredible - it's their ****ing system.

Also, it pisses me off to see how many people post "**** Sony" this and "those Sony ****ers" that. Yeah, Sony makes a lot of retarded decisions, but all of this joy that you're getting from playing these games on this hacked firmware is on a Sony system. It's an amazing piece of hardware, whether or not Sony utilizes it correctly. I had a GP2X before I switched to a PSP and it's a world of difference. At least appreciate the hardware and give them a little credit where it's due.

Finally, yeah, I think Sony's definitely going to take some action against this. It's pretty much an attack on a whole chunk of their marketing strategy, even if it's a small chunk of PSP owners. It could turn nasty.

Edit: I guess I have 4 posts. Look at me go.

[BelmontSlayer]

Take PSOne for example. Come on! EVERYONE (I mean EVERYONE) had their PSOne mod-chiped.

I didn't...

[DKing]

Conspiracy theories abound. My take on it is that they wont do anything other than what they're already doing. This doesn't change their 'marketing strategy' one bit. Guess we'll find out!