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

[emuking]

send their sony ninjas to kill Dark_Alex, he wouldn't have a chance to survive
j/k

[Accordion]

. 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...

that could be the funniest thing i have ever heard! [or read!]

[F9zDark]

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!

As far as they're concerned 'its piracy'. We are getting games for free that other people have to pay for. Sure, we paid for them already, ages ago. But Sony will not stand for it this time; the PS1 emulator was their saving grace for the PSP.

Why do I say that? Because the PSP, while having done 'well' hasn't done 'great'; in comparison to the DS who has sold 100,000 units a week, every week, since damn near last January.

The PS1 emulator is EASY buck in Sony's wallet. If a 1 million PSP owners buys 3 games at 5 bucks each, thats 15 millions dollars in their pockets for having done NOTHING. Wow they coded the emulator... Hell they probably didn't even do that, they probably ported over Bleem.

Point is, Sony will certainly react to this. They were probably more than happy to see Devhook .51 emulate 3.02; to them that meant more people able to download PS1 games.

Now OE-B means, 'we're gonna use our own PS1 games and you got nothing to say about it.'.

I can imagine Sony will be reacting to this in the coming weeks.

[FOL]

As far as they're concerned 'its piracy'. We are getting games for free that other people have to pay for. Sure, we paid for them already, ages ago. But Sony will not stand for it this time; the PS1 emulator was their saving grace for the PSP.

Why do I say that? Because the PSP, while having done 'well' hasn't done 'great'; in comparison to the DS who has sold 100,000 units a week, every week, since damn near last January.

The PS1 emulator is EASY buck in Sony's wallet. If a 1 million PSP owners buys 3 games at 5 bucks each, thats 15 millions dollars in their pockets for having done NOTHING. Wow they coded the emulator... Hell they probably didn't even do that, they probably ported over Bleem.

Point is, Sony will certainly react to this. They were probably more than happy to see Devhook .51 emulate 3.02; to them that meant more people able to download PS1 games.

Now OE-B means, 'we're gonna use our own PS1 games and you got nothing to say about it.'.

I can imagine Sony will be reacting to this in the coming weeks.

If SONY, hadnt decided to do the stupidest thing ever, and try to force people to buy a PS3, just so they can play PSOne games, then this wouldnt be happening. I would have gladly paid for PSOne games at their store, even though I have them on CD for my PSOne.

SONY have brought this on themselves, making us non PS3 owners suffer.

[alucard001]

Don't you guys think its a little coincidence that people have been able to hack firmware updates from sony, I think sony is letting the homebrew scene win. Think about it, sony is rich as hell, im sure they have coders with them 1000 times better than Dark_Alex (no offense to Dark_Alex, he is the greatest) Didn't they make the ps3? Anyway Sony is letting little holes in every firmware update, and left a secret ps1 emulator in hot shots golf 2. Sony could just make a firmware unhackable, im sure they got the power to do so, but they know that the only thing really selling their psp's is homebrew, I don't think that they think that their console is selling because of their crappy psp games. So to make the public think that sony is just stopping piracy would be a good idea for sony, so the law thinks, "o well sony does have a homebrew machine, but they are trying to stop it." So sony itself doesn't get in trouble with the law. They close link-sang, showing the public that they mean bussiness, but let devhook go on to emulate newer firmware versions, people said it themselves, sony is getting lazier with the security of their new updates. Sony did this on purpose, to let coders keep on working with their handheld. (think about it)

[alucard001]

Don't you guys think its a little coincidence that people have been able to hack firmware updates from sony, I think sony is letting the homebrew scene win. Think about it, sony is rich as hell, im sure they have coders with them 1000 times better than Dark_Alex (no offense to Dark_Alex, he is the greatest) Didn't they make the ps3? Anyway Sony is letting little holes in every firmware update, and left a secret ps1 emulator in hot shots golf 2. Sony could just make a firmware unhackable, im sure they got the power to do so, but they know that the only thing really selling their psp's is homebrew, I don't think that they think that their console is selling because of their crappy psp games. So to make the public think that sony is just stopping piracy would be a good idea for sony, so the law thinks, "o well sony does have a homebrew machine, but they are trying to stop it." So sony itself doesn't get in trouble with the law. They close link-sang, showing the public that they mean bussiness, but let devhook go on to emulate newer firmware versions, people said it themselves, sony is getting lazier with the security of their new updates. Sony did this on purpose, to let coders keep on working with their handheld. (think about it)

[DKing]

As far as they're concerned 'its piracy'. We are getting games for free that other people have to pay for. Sure, we paid for them already, ages ago. But Sony will not stand for it this time; the PS1 emulator was their saving grace for the PSP.

Why do I say that? Because the PSP, while having done 'well' hasn't done 'great'; in comparison to the DS who has sold 100,000 units a week, every week, since damn near last January.

The PS1 emulator is EASY buck in Sony's wallet. If a 1 million PSP owners buys 3 games at 5 bucks each, thats 15 millions dollars in their pockets for having done NOTHING. Wow they coded the emulator... Hell they probably didn't even do that, they probably ported over Bleem.

Point is, Sony will certainly react to this. They were probably more than happy to see Devhook .51 emulate 3.02; to them that meant more people able to download PS1 games.

Now OE-B means, 'we're gonna use our own PS1 games and you got nothing to say about it.'.

I can imagine Sony will be reacting to this in the coming weeks.

If Sony saw the PSX emulator as the saving grace of the PSP the machine is in a lot more trouble that I thought.

People need to look at the bigger picture. 95% of the PSP owners out there (yes I made that statistic up for this post) can not even take advantage of the OE-B firmware. Now.. If the TA-082 was busted open and was able to run custom firmware like OE-B then I'd be more apt to agree with you.

[alucard001]

sorry for double posting my goddamm internet browser froze...

[Shyvnal]

Sony are money hungry tards like all of us, simple as and i dont blame them for doing what they did.

[F9zDark]

Don't you guys think its a little coincidence that people have been able to hack firmware updates from sony, I think sony is letting the homebrew scene win.

To be honest, I have felt this way for some time. When the PSP launched in Japan at firmware 1.0, it was completely devoid of the AES encryption technology that Sony used to keep the PSP secure. That seems like a huge oversight to me, considering the fact that its not like they DIDN'T have the encryption; all games, even from those days are encrypted with the key that Sony used.

However, to save face, Sony had to update the firmware to seal this leak (no developer would want to produce games for Sony if they would openly allow homemade code to run, without even so much as another program to control its usage).

However, it may have also been a total fluke...

If Sony saw the PSX emulator as the saving grace of the PSP the machine is in a lot more trouble that I thought.

People need to look at the bigger picture. 95% of the PSP owners out there (yes I made that statistic up for this post) can not even take advantage of the OE-B firmware. Now.. If the TA-082 was busted open and was able to run custom firmware like OE-B then I'd be more apt to agree with you.

Perhaps my wording was inaccurate. However, I believe that Sony felt the PSX emulator would intice some homebrewers to upgrade as well as make them more money, which is a win-win situation in their book.