Some Concerns On Where the PSP Scene is Going?

[wraggster]

First off the recent releases by Dark Alex and co have brought a fantastic although hacked emulator to the PSP, but also it has raised issues over the legality of the Custom Firmware, now im no tech head so i may get this arse about face (er wrong) but the last release contained some "keys" and that pushed the firmware into the warez territory. (from what ive been told)

I personally dont know about this as ive not actually used the firmware and continue to use a v1.0 PSP, but as a scene are you worried about the direction its taking regardless of how good a release the Popstation emu is. ?

(Now if im wrong about the firmware then please correct me as im only going on what ive been told)

[Cloudhunter]

First off the recent releases by Dark Alex and co have brought a fantastic although hacked emulator to the PSP, but also it has raised issues over the legality of the Custom Firmware, now im no tech head so i may get this arse about face (er wrong) but the last release contained some "keys" and that pushed the firmware into the warez territory. (from what ive been told)

I personally dont know about this as ive not actually used the firmware and continue to use a v1.0 PSP, but as a scene are you worried about the direction its taking regardless of how good a release the Popstation emu is. ?

Well, as I understand it, the "keys" were only if you downloaded playstation games, not actually included with the release. So really, it doesn't contain any keys, it just contains the method to generate the keys so that the playstation games can be played on any PSP.

The only possible issue will be is that it goes against DRM, but as such it still doesn't contain what you need to fully crack it.

Cloudy

[textkihi]

Well upgrade your psp and judge yourself

[gopherbob]

To do anything on it the user has to purchase or download a ps3 store psone game to obtain the 'keys' you talk about. This firmware may tweak some things but contains basically the same thing as found in a sony 3.03 firmware.

If your confused wraggster, then its basically like a game boy emulator. You have this emulator. If you want to download the rom you do it. Then you play it on the emulator. The users responsible for the legality of the rom they have downloaded.

So the only illegitimate thing going on is when someone downloads a ps3 game they do not own to play their own psone games.

And if your worried about legality all these custom firmwares and devhooks allow the user to play download psp isos why hasn't that bothered you. That is way worse than users playing their psone games on their psp. I for one have about 50 playstaiton games I've kept over the years just cause they are worthless to trade in at a game store.

[Endlessrain]

I think work needs to continue on our own homebrew PSX emulators, so we can fix the bugs that the Sony emulator might never fix. As much as I love the Sony emulator, I doubt that we could do much else with it except play bugged games, seeing as we dont have the source. I doubt Sony would fix them.

[The_Ultimate_Eggman]

TBH ive felt the psp lost its way some time back $ony dont really seem to give a stuff about it.If it were not for the excellent homebrew emulators my p$p would havve gone months back,of late tho my DS has taken up more of my gaming time with stuff like new smb,mario kart,children of mana games the psp can only dream about.

[Veskgar]

Look, the scene is going where SONY forced us to go. Now I know SONY needs to try and keep the PSP as secure as possible so that game developers will keep developing games but it goes much beyond that.

The last straw was the PS3-PSX download fiasco. Its called a Playstation Portable. The fact that over 2 years since PSP's debut we cannot just connect to a hotspot, log in to a server and purchase/download content is absurd. And there is what? 6 PS1 games officially released for North America? What a joke... Obviously plenty of PS1 games play just fine on the PSP so there is no excuse other than greed.

The PSP is a great portable multimedia device. The problem is SONY has done a poor job fully utilizing the PSP. It seems their focus initially was to kick the Game Boys & DS's a$$ in terms of specs & hardware.

Remember the comment a SONY rep made referring to Nintendo stating that the PSP would take handheld gaming out of the handheld gaming ghetto? Yes, they actually said that.

So sure they have this marvelous gadget that is the PSP but obviously not a plan.

Homebrew is what has fully unlocked the PSP's potential and allows people to do things they never would of dreamed of.

If anyone is starting to feel bad for SONY, don't! They are seemingly abandoning the current PSP in a year or so when the 60GB "PSP2" is unveiled. So SONY will continue with the PSP platform and probably do a better job the 2nd time around.

So basically the current PSP should continue down its current exploited & homebrew-enabled path. Anyone with a guilty conscience can buy the PSP2 when it comes out.

I hope more and more people discover PSP homebrew and more downgraders and exploits are developed. I would like to see this scene grow and still be strong 2 years from now and beyond.

I would urge everyone to tell there family, friends, & colleagues about PSP homebrew and help grow this great scene.

[Thomly]

Personally, i will never downgrade. I know you all think it's an idiot idea, but i'll never do something that has the chance to be illegal. I'm not trying to be a noble knight or something like that, but at school, you see people who just downgraded, en then upgraded to Dark_Alex's firmware JUST to play iso's and roms. Isn't it a better idea to make a costum firmware with homebrew, but no iso's?

[opiate81]

Its not the way I would have liked to see PS1 emulation but Ive got it
PS1 emulation was the only reason I bought a handheld and I chose the PSP over a GP2X coz I thought the PSP homebrew scene would get there quicker

Its a bit like all the emulators how many people can really rip their own NES,SNES,Genisis games?
I can rip my SNES games with my UFO thingy
and Im also lucky enough to have a couple arcade machines in my draw for the CPS2 emu as well

[LazerTag]

I don't think this even goes that far. It's to my understanding this is no different then the other Dark_Alex firmware releases.

It is essentially a combination of the 1.50 and 3.03 firmware. No "keys" such as those that are included with the PSX downloads from PS3 systems are included. You are only using what Sony provides freely to any PSP owner. Dark_Alex's program is combining the two firmwares together, which yes is a "hack", but still does not provide anything "illegal" in the distribution.

To play the PSX stuff you either have to download with your PS3 or obtain it by illegal methods.

Otherwise it seems to me, minus all the new updates, my PSP is no different then if I had it at 1.50 still.