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

**aries2k4** · December 27th, 2006, 03:29

Lol, I´m pissing my pants laughing at Sony. They deserve this. what about all of us in Europe who couldn´t play psx games even if you had fw 3.+.
I was thinking the games were reformated. It seem most games are working. they already had their full speed emu and they just throw out a handful of games? they should have thrown out a few dozen by now.
I mean how much trouble is it to change the pic and background icon?
very arrogant on there part.
I don´t think they counted on Dark Alex´s genius.
So, hey, thanks sony for some good hardware and a great emu.
THANK YOU Dark Alex for the best fw on the psp.

**kpaul_nyc** · December 27th, 2006, 03:33

Originally Posted by FrostyTheSnowman

Sony WILL retaliate. It won't be public or anything, but they won't just sit idly by and allow this to happen. But all they will probably do is revamp their PSX EBOOT security in a new firmware release.

In any case though, screw you Sony. And for Dark_aleX, we're all behind ya buddy.

But it won't matter much would it? We can use our own games now

**Ramza042** · December 27th, 2006, 03:38

Originally Posted by 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)

[SARCASM]
Give this man a cookie, he figured it out.
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I'm sure Sony has maybe 5 guys that work on firmware... I'm also sure Sony has no clue about any of this, nor do they really care. 1500 people (out of HOW many millions sold?) "hack" their psp to play old playstation games that they bought 10 years ago. And Sony cares? EVERY PIECE OF SOFTWARE EVER WRITTEN IS HACKABLE. Keep that in mind next time you think Sony could make... no, could even even think about making an "unhackable" firmware. Sony didn't intentionally leave holes in the firmwares, they just happened. If Sony "wanted" us to run homebrew, they wouldn't have started trying to patch all the holes in the first place.

Homebrew is NOT all that is selling PSPs. Trust me. I know 3 people that got PSPs as Christmas gifts WITH GAMES! Imagine that! GOOD games too! Do they care about homebrew? Nope. Do they want to run psx games on their psp? Yep. Are they going to go buy a PS3 to download the games? Nope. Are they going to wait till the PSX games are easier to get? You betcha.

**Destroyer699** · December 27th, 2006, 04:06

I laugh.

**kiore** · December 27th, 2006, 05:19

Most of my mates with psp's have got no idea what homebrew,iso,emulators are and are happy to buy $80+ games. But the ones who do know like what I got but dont want to risk their expencive toys. So I dont think the problem is as big as made out.

Dark_AleX is King.

**scarph** · December 27th, 2006, 05:46

lol i love that someone thinks that its a conspiracy.

I agree with the 5 people working on the firmware thing, but sony is clearly aware about hacks to their firmware.

its not a big mystery to find this site or qj.

but lololol at the conspiracy man

**FireStag** · December 27th, 2006, 06:39

If you google "PSP Emulation News" this is the first site that comes up, so I strongly doubt Sony is in the dark about their firmware being hacked. And as to sony retaliating, I will say one thing, I've noticed a lot more leechers and seeders on torrent sites since this firmware was released... something Sony might get pissed about.

**jerrt** · December 27th, 2006, 13:19

I really don't think it is going to cause sony too many problems. I mean how many of the psps bought from the beginning to now are capapble of installing the firmware needed? between bricks, broken psps, people who updated and the new motherboards, what is the percentage of consoles still used that can do this. I mean, alot of people who come to this site have the option, but this sight sort of attracts those people. so really, what is it going to hurt sony? they just figure eventually all the first gen psp's will have died and they won't have to worry about it. [on that note, i'm taking real good care of my 1.5 [: ] {oh and hears to hoping I can get the advantages of the new custom firmware without having to flash my bios}

**alucard001** · December 27th, 2006, 14:20

Originally Posted by Ramza042

[SARCASM]
Give this man a cookie, he figured it out.
[/SARCASM]

I'm sure Sony has maybe 5 guys that work on firmware... I'm also sure Sony has no clue about any of this, nor do they really care. 1500 people (out of HOW many millions sold?) "hack" their psp to play old playstation games that they bought 10 years ago. And Sony cares? EVERY PIECE OF SOFTWARE EVER WRITTEN IS HACKABLE. Keep that in mind next time you think Sony could make... no, could even even think about making an "unhackable" firmware. Sony didn't intentionally leave holes in the firmwares, they just happened. If Sony "wanted" us to run homebrew, they wouldn't have started trying to patch all the holes in the first place.

Homebrew is NOT all that is selling PSPs. Trust me. I know 3 people that got PSPs as Christmas gifts WITH GAMES! Imagine that! GOOD games too! Do they care about homebrew? Nope. Do they want to run psx games on their psp? Yep. Are they going to go buy a PS3 to download the games? Nope. Are they going to wait till the PSX games are easier to get? You betcha.

lol im just fu!@#$ing with you guys, i don't know what's going on in sony's mind, nor do I care, look we got a ps1 emulator!!! oh final fantasy... (starts playing psp)