Firmware 3.10 Available on US Network Update

[ACID]

well just about no one would update from DA's custom firmware to sony's real firmware, unless they wanted to use it for testing...like DA...

let's just hope DA's psp doesn't brick while trying to make a downgrader for 3.1 :P

Lets hope not but in all essence he is a huge part of the seen so if that happened donations will have to start in a matter of seconds.

[DPyro]

Sony's not bricking peoples PSPs. Just some asshat from maxconsole who modified the 3.10 and D_A made a modified PSAR dumper which resulted in some people bricking their PSPs.

[Terial]

I don't see the big deal in dousing homebrew and patching all possible holes. I mean, if you buy a 250 dollar handheld computing device, damnit, you should be able to do any damn thing you want to with it.

Custom firmwares aren't illegal unless you use Sony's own copyrighted firmwares. There's no disclamer on the PSP that says "You cannot use this hardware to do w/e you want to with, you may only use sony's offers for this product." It may say it in the firmware, but if you use your PSP and not your firmware for homebrew, (which is what people are trying to do) then I dont see what the big deal is.

[SnoopKatt]

People are buying the PSP mainly for homebrew, and they are trying to fight that now aren't they.

I'm pretty sure the rate of people with 1.5/custom firmware is very low. On Sony's message board, it said something like less than 10% had 1.5 (back when custom FW didn't exist). Since DA started making custom FW, I'm sure more people have hacked PSP's, but the general public doesn't really know about any of this. Out of all the PSP's I've seen around town and school, only one of them has been hacked.

[F9zDark]

Can someone link to these developments so we can read for our selves?

-Updates never have run after being modified, homebrew able or not.

-Using a modded PSAR dumper will not result in bricks... If the update was placed into OE-UPDMAKER, then into OE-Flasher, perhaps bricks would occur, but I don't think people would be that stupid.

However, since IDStorage has been changed in TA-082 PSPs to allow for Downgrading (maybe IDStorage changes were introduced in another firmware to stop downgrading even more...), it seems very likely that Sony's updates could easily result in bricks from TA-082 PSPs that have been downgraded...

[jonezybaby]

im not even gonna try upgrading

[Shrygue]

Me neither, unless I had one of my PSP had a modchip installed that is.

[pkmusicmaker]

Hopefully this means the PS games that were glitchy will be fixed now. (Like Final Fantasy VIII).

[-=me=-]

just how is the gta exploit a "security hole"?
No one other than you could brick your psp through that.

[Veskgar]

Yes, its true. Dark_AleX has confirmed that the GTA Exploit has been patched with this latest firmware. Further proof that SONY has "homebrew spys" on the payroll keeping close tabs on the latest hacks & exploits in the homebrew scene.

The only thing worthy in this firmware upgrade is the possible increase in PSX emulator performance/compatibility.

So depending on whether or not the files used for the pops (PSX Emulator) can be decrypted in this latest firmware, perhaps we could have a plugin similar to the 3.02 pops plugin that lets us use the newest PSX emu from SONY with 3.03 OE-C instead of 3.10.

just how is the gta exploit a "security hole"?
No one other than you could brick your psp through that.

How it works is that it scares people. People want the latest and the greatest and also don't want to have their expensive PSP get infected with some "virus" LOL.

SONY has a very effective strategy by simply saying the word security in all of their updates so that most PSP owners will blindly update.