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- isewise, on 10/12/2007, -1/+54DRM from Sony is actually good, it gets broken withing 48 hours of its release. There must be someone at Sony that is purposely leaving security holes.
- rockrapdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24It would be ironic if that dc would run on the PS3
- aramova, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Eh? What the hell are you talking about? This has nothing to do with copied games. This has everything to do with running our own applications that we build on a platform that we paid for and Sony has locked. There are no "copied" PSP games out there. You can run the PS1 games you already own on a PSP with the OE firmwares, a feature which Sony will only allow to those who buy a PS3, then buy the PS1 game, again.
Read up and get a ***** clue before you go off ranting about anti-piracy. This is about getting to use a computer I paid for, with games I already paid for, and with applications that improve the use of the PSP. - bshep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Encryption cannot reduce the size of a data stream, in fact sometimes it INCREASES it, usually by the block size of the cipher. In other words if your crypto algorithm uses 64bit blocks then the data will be padded to a 64 bit boundary if its size is not a multiple of 64.
In addition to all this once you encrypt something you usually cannot compress it, well you can but it wont compress well. The reason for this is that encryption makes data look random, and random data is hard to compress. This is why you usually compress something before you encrypt it.
In any case you either compress, encrypt or both. but saying that encryption is equal to compression or that encryption compresses data is inaccurate. - seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20The encryption of the firmware files arent exactly DRM, they are just to compress the files and cause slight diffictulty to hackers. Unencrypted, the files are much bigger, and theres no way that all of the flash files would fit in the limited amount of space that the PSP's flash0 has.
- Phyrefly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Ahh, I meant to say:
So any PSP with firmware older than 3.10 can be downgraded safely and easily? - kypen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"They need to break the PS3 firmware."
Think about what you just wrote for a minute. 99.99% of these developers claim that they do this type of cracking in order to get more functionality out of a device. The PS3, which will run Linux without hacking, getting hacked would completely negate this argument. I don't like Sony any more than the next guy, but they recognized a fundamental need in the video game console market, and were the only one to fill it. Hacking the firmware would tell them that this type of feature is worthless.
You want additional functionality on the PS3? Write / download the program for Linux. The only reason for a cracked firmware is for illegal reasons. Don't give Sony the chance to prove their dumbass RIAA supported wing right. Instead, support what Sony has done here and hopefully it can trickle down to their music department as well. - gotforce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10if you went out and bought a psp now, it wouldnt be 3.30 lol, you'd be safe to downgrade to 1.5, as i dont think there are any retail psps with 3.10+ on them.
- PunkRampant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Safely and easily if you know what you're doing. Read a couple tutorials before jumping in or else you could find your PSP bricked.
- john2kx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10English, please. Nobody knows what the ***** you just said.
- x3sphere, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10wrong aacidusx, this makes OE very possible (and not too far away at that)
QJ is far from being an accurate source.. I actually know what I'm talking about ;) And seeing as my site is affiliated with DA's site and lan.sh.. well you should trust my site more than QJ. - acceleriter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@kypen - That would be a good argument, but they cripple Linux by disallowing access to the raw hardware, particularly video--thus a crack will be required for people to truly use what they own. But then, that's not a problem for me because I don't go around giving money to GPL violating, rootkit purveying, DRM pushers like Sony.
- Zoids, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Nearly 21 million people hate you.
www.vgcharts.org - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4A little offtopic:
Can you install the OE version on devhook? - Zoids, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yes, there is decent hombrew on the PS3, via Linux of course.
- darkamster07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3can you upgrade to 3.10 OE-A directly from a psp firmware like, say...2.60? or do you have to downgrade to 1.5 first, and then upgrade?
I also don't get why sony does this, woulden't added functionality make thier system more popular? - cesarandreu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, you cannot. Just upgrade to 3.10OE-A'. Its much better.
- Anders1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@kypen:
But the PS3 Linux is limited - you only get a framebuffer, no 2D or 3D acceleration. - pathy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes, you need to downgrade.
Sony don't allow this because of piracy. It allows you to run PSP, PSX and whateverother Emu games you have installed directly from the memory stick. - knodi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@kypen - The current crippled Linux on the PS3 runs as fast as it runs on a 800Mhz P3. And I more so mean to break it to run backed up ISO of the harddrive to load them from a DVD.(as most game are small enough to put on a DVD5 or DVD9).
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I got 3.03 OE-A.
Can I update to 3.10/ 3.30? - londonsparky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hi Gang ~ I feel stupid ! I brought a Sony PSP the other day and knew nothing about this downgrade stuff ~ So you guessed it . . . . I uploaded the 3.30v . . . . HELP ! ! ! I want to go to 1.5v PLEASE
THANKS in advance :O ) - livester, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Very strange. I've always liked posts like that. Dugg.
- trigga256, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dark_alex needs to realease the 3.30 downgrader quik time
- distortioned, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0be patient....with the way things seem to be going....we'll be seeing a firmware v3.30 downgrade to v1.5 in no time.....my only wonder from there would be, how long will it take the guys who wrote the program IR commander (Infra-Red) to upgrade their programs to run on the new homebrew 3.30 OE-A........
making your PSP a remote control for television, dvds, etc seems faascinating! maybe not entirely practical.....but I'm eager to try :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4aramova, you know as well as I do that for every legitimate piece of "homebrew" on sharing platforms like BitTorrent and Usenet there are ten more retail PSP games. Without these 'hacks' there would be no piracy on PSP.
- x3sphere, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Phyrefly: yes any PSP with firmware 3.03 and below can be downgraded. most PSPs out there now have version 2.81
- aacidusX, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6innacurate, they are miles away from an OE!
heres a better source:
http://pspupdates.qj.net/PSP-v3-30-Decrypter-by-Team-C-D/pg/49/aid/87960 - MrPlug, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1wow i haven't followed this in a while, what to do with my PSP, must turn it into something useful
- scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Is there any decent homebrew on the PS3 yet? I just ask, because I never see any stories about that on the front page...
I mean, the PSP firmware hacking IS all about the homebrew, right? ;) - sahaskatta, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1is there any thing to allow running homebrew on the PS3? (through the PS3 operating system)
it would be neat if emulators were available to play N64 roms and other games off the PS3's HDD - knodi, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2They need to break the PS3 firmware.
- Snipz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2nope most likely you would get something with firmware less then 3.03 in which case you can downgrade theres a 10% chance you will get higher then that
- Hochler, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2@neiltc13: Wrong. No developer wants to make a game for the PSP because no one's buying it. They'd rather make a DS game.
- Nysul, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1So if I go out and buy a PSP now, I still have to wait for them to make a downgrader, right?
- Raisedshoulder, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Nintendo has the same problem with their DS. M3 or G6 anyone?
- Phyrefly, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1So any PSP with firmware
- knodi, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1vgcharts... not a vaild source of any kind.
- terminalpariah, on 10/12/2007, -18/+11That someone is called "management." The PSP would be dead in the water if it wasn't for homebrew, and I think Sony knows it.
- twtmc, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4I don't think people give sony enough credit. At this point they realize that people only buy the psps now in order to play homebrew, watch movies, and listen to music (MAYBE to surf the internet sometimes, but it is slow as hell to type on it). If they take away 1/3 of why people buy psps, they might as well discontinue the psp altogether. Sony is probably just leaving these holes in now with a "who gives a ***** our brand will be dead in a year anyways because of the PS3" attitude.
- DiggTheWii, on 10/12/2007, -16/+8Sony, will you ever get security right? Props to the C&D boys again as always.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1Don't tell me you will need a PS1 game rom, a scratch CD, a japan tie clip and a Sony secerutiy pass !!!
Sorry, the feats it is coming to just to have homebrew on a PSP is becoming bizarre - helldragon, on 10/12/2007, -18/+5lol
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1Sony should fix this and stop the piracy. No wonder the platform lacks good games - no developer wants to make a game for it if they know it's just gonna be copied.
- briandadude, on 10/12/2007, -19/+0I always forget that people actually own PSPs.
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