V2.0 Firmware Will Never Run Homebrew !!

[PPP(PROWD PSP OWNER)]

isnt the UMD games 128-bit and the iso has been copied

[LordVox]

ho hum. Is this like when the xbox came out a few years back and microsft was bragging about an "unhackable" system?

What I don't get is WHAT is so great about the sny web browser? I mean, no java, no flash, it's not terribly fast, WTF?!^!#

[djarcas]

I'm sure there will be a distributed crack system, a bit like SETI @ home. It'll get cracked, everything always does. All Sony are doing is reducing the appeal of this oh-so-perfect console.

[g00dfella]

no one in known history has broken 128 bit AES encryption... or at least that I have heard of.

Yeah but its just like almost every other type of hack/mod you dont break the encryption, you just go around it... it's only a matter of time... the hackers always win

[parabolee]

LOL nothing is uncrackable, believe me they will crack v2.00 within the year. I'd be willing to bet hard cash on it. Maybe it will take modding the PSP but they will do it. Name a single console that has never been cracked!

Personally I would prefer a crack that allows homebrew but not pirate games, that way it would keep Sony of our backs, but I doubt it will even happen, if you can run programs off the mem card then you will be able to run pirated games off it. It's damn shame.

I think the worst thing is that fewer developers will be attracted to working on the system if they know not that many people will be able to run their work

[Omatic]

Well unfortunately, this is the carrot on the stick for people. The common person would be ecstatic about these upgrades to the firmware, and think "Man! this system is even MORE kickass now!". Later they come to realize that they can't run homebrew, and Sony has disabled the ability to downgrade the firmware.

This is something I find not only very agitating, but I can't help but lose some faith in the company itself. I was truly hoping that they'd sit down and think about how genuine, benevolent homebrew would help the system more than hurt it. When I talk to people on the street with PSPs (I see some every so often), I talk to them about emulators on the system, and they usually talk about the fears of memory stick corruption and the like when dealing with homebrew. NOW, there's a very tempting official firmware that will completely cut off people who choose to upgrade. It's looking somewhat grim for the PSP homebrew scene, as it will only become harder and harder as games start to require v2.00 down the line.

But there's always the hope that SOMEONE will crack it, or SOMETHING will happen. Just think that 2 months ago, we were still waiting for the 1.0 to be cracked! Now we've got emulators for all the good old classics, and lots of other great stuff. This point also leads me to another, which is that the impending end of homebrew (at least for a while) might encourage more programmers to take up the fight against firmware. All able-minded men need enlist! We want you!

[shadowprophet]

Do you think maybe sony is only pressing this issue as a means to protect its third parties,And please the other big game companys that may be breathing fire at them over this? I mean Sony its self Doesnt stand to gain much by preventing homebrew,I mean dont start shooting at me over this but sony really isnt that big of a game developer in its self Just electronics and colsoles.except for peace and tranqulity from its third party developes and compitition, How does sony personaly gain from preventing homebrew?

[rmedtx]

I will not upgrade my PSP (1.5), I want to continue playing homebrew games. It's not that I don't want to buy official games. In fact I have a few and I will continue buying them.
I'm working on a BOR mod. With 1.5 I can run it on my PSP. If I cannot run it with 2.0 then I don't want to upgrade. If the new games are released only for 2.0... Well I guess that will be it. No more purchasing games. I have other consoles I can buy games for.

[SA1K0R0]

That sucks..... that really sucks!! If its true in the long run though.

Im not a hacker/coder/whatever by any means, but I have been following Emulation and its scene for about 4 years now. And if theres Encryption, there defintiely is Decryption. What boggles me is how stern Nintendo and Sony are being at the moment: Emulation has been around for quite a while, and other consoles like the X-Box and Game Boy Advance also offer Emulation options, sometimes even better options (like X-Box's MAME and SNES 9X for example). I have also seen those Knockoff 200+ game kits in the mall selling for a platry 15 bucks, all containing pirated ROMsets (Namcot?? Conami?? PLEASE!!). Why so stringent on the PSP?? What is this console doing so differently that others have been doing for about two years?? Emulation is a way to preserve our golden gaming years, I see no harm in it at all. If the PSP was currently emulating X-Box or PS2, then I would see a problem.

The big boys should lighten up, you homebrew guys are only coding, not burning UMD's.

And I am now glad that I have 2 PSP's, Im going to be paranoid about updates on one system!!

-Saikoro

P.S. I think this is going to inspire me to learn some C+ to code my own stuff.

[parabolee]

Unfortuantly SA1K0RO the increase in protection is probably more about the Pirated games that is now so easy to run on 1.00 and 1.50 than it is about homebrew. I'm sure they don't care that much about the homebrew scene but they want to prevent the playing of pirated games that are now all over the Bittorrent sites