M33's View on Custom Firmware developement

**xg917** · September 17th, 2007, 15:20

Hello, world.

As you have seen, some things have changed between Sony and the developing of custom firmwares.

Due to the leak (that we've always gone against this crime) of the OE sources from a private svn, everyone can
take a peek into the patches done from the Open Edition to the original firmwares to allow the development
into this scene that was growing day after day. And, when we say anyone, we include Sony.

This intrusion into one of the basis of the actual PSP Scene, has just made harm to the entire world of the
PSP Scene. Therefore, Sony saw this and made some interesting changes in some modules (mainly loadcore), plus
the change of some nids that are used to the development of M33 Custom Firmware.

So, if you can't wait for the new release, you'll have to wait; and this is cause this leak and this changes
made upon the material we work and we try to release asap to the *entire* psp community. Looks like, as always,
there is someone that wants to be important in this world when no-one asks him, and his result is this delay
on the development of the new versions.

This "benefit" that much lammers talked about in foreign forums, talking about OE leak, will just made a result
in the near future: that serious developers (including us) will think twice before releasing anything else.

And also, speaking about the new "custom firmwares" that have been released, such as AoP, and others addons
that use M33Cf, will be deeply studied and reversered to see if *anything* of the core, reboot, or whatever
from our work has been ilegally used. If this is afirmative, we'll have to act against this.

This changes won't probably last too long and won't be an important problem, but it's just, as we have just said,
another resultant of trying to be someone on this world by stealing and leaking instead of studying.

Please have patient and stay tuned for the next Custom Firmware for PSP and PSP Slim and Lite

M33 Team.

So hang in there guys!

**ICE** · September 17th, 2007, 15:26

hmm i had a feeling something was up. 3.71 m33 was taking too long.

**bah** · September 17th, 2007, 15:58

Originally Posted by ICE

hmm i had a feeling something was up. 3.71 m33 was taking too long.

How long ago was it released, 4-5 days?

Your concept of a long time is certainly different to mine...

**ICE** · September 17th, 2007, 16:23

Originally Posted by bah

How long ago was it released, 4-5 days?

Your concept of a long time is certainly different to mine...

well since it took like 2 days for 3.60 m33 i figured that 3.71 m33 should take around the same right? the only reason for it to take longer is if something has changed which it has. that was my point. i never even said it was taking a long time i just meant its taking longer than it should be when compared to the previous releases.

**stevo11185** · September 17th, 2007, 21:26

Hmmm. on their site it says that people may be using their source illegally? i don't understand that concept since the files they mostly use belong to Sony (prx and other files).

How then can M33 say that they are angry when they didn't ask for permission to use Sony's software?

It just seems that they are trying to dominate the CFW market.

However i do agree with them that the time they have put in to developing the CFW to make a better experience for us is being used by people who add just a small amount of code on to theirs.

**kjetil1991** · September 17th, 2007, 21:43

aaaaaaaargh! sony let us have our homebrew m33 dont let sony win let them feel what homebrew realy is =)

**cal360** · September 17th, 2007, 21:45

Originally Posted by ICE

well since it took like 2 days for 3.60 m33 i figured that 3.71 m33 should take around the same right? the only reason for it to take longer is if something has changed which it has. that was my point. i never even said it was taking a long time i just meant its taking longer than it should be when compared to the previous releases.

Well don't you remeber how long it took to get our first custom firmware, so at this point I don't mind how long it will take.

**Bobtentpeg** · September 17th, 2007, 22:18

I applaud them for their work, but they are thick f they think sony didnt know how they did it before.

I have a cousin at sony, in the PSP devision, and sony has known how they did it, and how to stop it, thus far they have let it be because they liked what they saw, and wanted to put it in their own firmwares.

I know for a fact that sony decompiled DAXs 303 ... within a week of its release

and M33s even faster