what does this mean????????

“In a really near future , a loader will be released to make games work via the memory card.�

I think that pretty much says it all.

Which will actually be a big help for me. I currently own Resident Evil (movie), Smart Bomb, Wipeout Pure, and Lunimes. It would be a huge help to be able to just keep the games on my (1gb) memory card rather than lug all the UMDs around in case my mood changes

hmm, you think there would be any problem going online with twisted metal off teh memory stick? Like how xbox live will ban you if you have a modded xbox? Aww snap, will this work on 1.5?

Large size duo sticks are ridiculously overpriced and that stupid memory stick modification is just assinine. Until the duo sticks come down in price I don’t think this will be of much use, besides, even the 1 gig will be too smal for some games…

I hope they could ban people for it, but I seriously doubt it’s possible.

Piracy is a bad thing, especially this early in the PSP’s life. I’m all for homebrew, but piracy ultimately hurts everyone.

Piracy is a bad thing. I agree.

This is just interesting news, who knows what other possibilities a “loader” may provide. We will not provide or host any illegal content.

come off of it, if you could play these off you ms, you would. you people kill me acting all innocent. Let me guess, you can’t wait to get on that tetris, or emulator. piracy has nothing to do with the failure or success of any system.

i looked at the file sizes and none of them ore over 700 mb

Guess what? Not everyone behaves like you. It’s morally repugnant to steal someone’s hard work.

Why would I care about Tetris? I still have my original Tetris gameboy carts + an SP.

I love being able to play my old NES games on my SP however, and would love to be able to play my SNES games on PSP. I’ve still never managed to finish Chrono Trigger. Guess what? I own those carts too.

Just because you own a cart, doesnt mean you have the right to play the same game on another machine. if that was the case, you could buy madden for pc, would it then be ok to play a back of it on ps2. that is the same thing you are doing.

“Just because you own a cart, doesnt mean you have the right to play the same game on another machine”

Actually it does, it’s called your fair use rights. Keyword: Rights

actually, it doesnt. wait, i guess thats what the cart slot on top of my gamecube was for. just admit that you pirate stuff, then you will feel better. If they wanted you to make backups of your legally owned games, don’t you think it would be easier. Why don’t you take nintendo to court for not letting you physically copy your carts. Downloading a rom I think doesnt fall under the fair-use laws.

Backups of games are illegal.

The thing about pirating games, many people (myself included) do not have the cash to go out and buy half a dozen games. A large percentage of peopel who download warez are what is considered young. Being a student, Im lucky if I can pay the next months rent. If I download a game, the developer is not missing out on profits because they werent there to begin with. If a game is exceptionally good then I will go out and buy it, but who has the cash to be paying for all the games they want.

Don’t worry - You’re a fu*king moron.

I’m not going to sit here and pretend like I never pirate software; however I would not participate in PSP piracy. Piracy is what murdered Dreamcast, slowly bled it to death. If people had supported the new console and embraced it rather than exploiting it’s weaknesses perhaps the little console that couldn’t would have stuck around a little longer.

Don’t f*ck the system before it’s even got a real dedicated market. You’ll be sorry when the bottom falls out in a year and you’re stuck with what you were able to rip off before they stopped manufacturing games.

Mayhem, I feel you there. At least you can be honest unlike some other people on this board.

your the only moron who thinks piracy kills things. did music piracy kill music, no. did piracy kill revenge of the sith, no. Bad games, bad movies, bad music kills these things. 3do, sega saturn, neo-geo, jaguar, game gear, all had no success. why, pirating?

one more thing, halo 2 had over 5 million copies sold. what this tells me, make a good game, people will buy.

If you seriously believe that piracy didn’t play a role in the Dreamcast’s demise, you’re even more thick-skulled than I thought. The piracy was rampid, because it was so f*cking easy.

The PSP is emerging technology, it’s only moved..what…1.2 million units in the US?? Comparing the piracy of a brand new console to that of the movie or music industry is just flat out idiotic…

The only reason that piracy doesn’t impact things even more than it already does is because most piracy requires half a brain and at least some computer/electronics understanding. Most people are too moronic to find let alone implement pirated software/games.

you are the thick skulled one. everyone is entitled to their own opinion including myself. Based on the name calling and things, I will not continue this debate with you because you are acting childish. If you want to come at me, come with respect or don’t come at all.

also, dreamcast was released in the us sept. 99, cracked june 2000. Xbox released October 2001, cracked may 2002. Yet it took along time for gamecube to be cracked. Do you see where I am going with this?

Regarding ROMs and use on different consoles, what you’re referring to is a red herring. The game I’m playing is identical. If I bought Madden for xbox then pirated the PC version, it’s still illegal. It’s not the same code, they’re technically two separate products.

Regarding piracy in general… I don’t have to defend myself to you. Hell, the only console I owned until this year was a Gamecube. I assure you I wasn’t pirating any games for it. I don’t even see the NEED for it. I have literally hundreds of games. Probably 80% of them have been picked up used or in bargain bins … If I want a new game, I buy it and I play it.

I also love music … and you can be damn sure I buy every single album I enjoy. I’d see the bands live too if it was at all possible. The MP3 argument doesn’t quite hold as well though, because if it was left up to radio, I’d never have heard of most of the music I listen to. MP3s have been an incredible way to expose me to all sorts of amazing stuff. I’ll download an album. If I enjoy it, I’ll buy it. If I don’t, I delete the MP3s as I have no use for them.

I guess the real point is, “whatever helps you sleep at night.”

I really really appreciate the work that goes into making a game (or album or movie), I think it’s imperative that the creators are compensated for it.

Games are way too expensive and theres no way I’m spending 40 bucks for a rehash of an old playstation game with worse graphics. I bet they would make more money selling games for 20 bucks to more people than selling them for 40 bucks to you rich f*cks

Illegal is one thing immoral is another. If you think us pirates are immoral lets take a look at the perfect moral business practices of sony corp.

So if I own the genesis cart “sonic the hedgehog,” do I have the right to play it on any console or pc that it may appear on for life? I would have to say no. The point I am making is this, Snes carts were made to go with that system. if you are playing it on anything else, you are just like everyone else who downloads stuff. I just don’t see why you people try to act innocent. Doesnt it make you sorta sick when you buy something like MVP for $50, 3 months later its $30, next month $20. you try to trade it in they give you $7. Who is really losing on this deal? If they lowered the price of games, less people would do pirate the games. You will always have some who won’t buy it even if it cost $1, that’s just the nature of the beast. I would not buy a cd unless its a cd-r, but I would goto a concert.

Hey guys. I can’t decide which side to take but what if you think about it it terms of “morals”. Frankly, piracy is going to happen regardless of if you are doing it. If I went out and downloaded every xbox game I played that would be FOR ME …. “piracy”… If I owned Halo for the PC and Splinter Cell for the PC and I wanted to play the xbox version and I downloaded them “YES IT WOULD BE ILLEGAL…” But as far as I’m concerned… NOT IMMORAL. Hell… Ubisoft and Bungie have got my $50 and now I want to play it on a different console. I’m not saying its LEGAL but I’m not losing sleep over it.

Now on a lighter note… Halo PC was a piece of shit and I regret buying it and its an insult to true halo players… now all the Splinter Cell games are good…

Just to clear things up, I am in no way knocking anything about the scene. I just wish people wouldn’t act like they don’t do something when they do. I know people are going to say they don’t make bootleg games or whatever, thats fine too. I just find it hard to belive certain posters have never pirated anything. How many of us have had authorization to make copies of our dvd’s that are encrypted? I think when you buy something such as a game, you are buying the right to play it as much as you like, not copy it as much as you like. also, check your terms of use on any system.

Its very easy you dont want to priate the games DONT! You want to priate them DO! It’s not hard now is it. I cant belive I had to sit here reading all this “crap”! I thougt oh man 28 comments maybe someone has something to add to this awsome find! @ both sides you not gonna change anyone’s mind about this, so dont try! Anyway I would love to play the classic nintendo/atari games on my psp! If nintendo/atari would release these for the psp I would buy everyone :) Hey guys show the

Does this mean that any homebrew game will work through this loader on the firmware I have, 1.5?

yes 1.5 (1.51?)

this rocks btw!!
i hate the noise my untold legends umd makes, also i’m looking forward to pirating a few games as they’re too expensive for me. you got a problem with that go 6675636Bh yourself ;)

dose anyone else think sony will release another patch to clear this up?

Most likely they will release a Firm. upgrade yes! They will probably be slick and put some features on it like walpapers :) which I know everyone wants! But when they do soon it will be cracked again so no worrys! Im gonna put 1000 nintendo roms on my psp :P

I will say that i have pirated a few games back in the floppy era but now that i have money i make all resonible effort not to. the thing with the snes roms and stuff is its impossilbe buy the carts any more, and alot of the time its illegal to even sell them unless you have a contract with nitendo or who ever its like tapes cassets and videos and stuff you are aloud to make back up of your games it used to be recommended for the pc and you are aloud to run only one copy at a time

My 2 Cents:

After reading all these posts I’d have to say about 80% of you are morons.

How long has the Xbox been cracked?

How long has the PS1 been cracked?

How long as the PS2 been cracked?

Piracy DOES NOT kill a console. You idiots that live in your own little world seem to think…what…over 70% of console owners even own a CD Burner???? MOST console owners are not able to pirate even if they wanted to. You small minded people think very small!!! That was just one of many many many ways in which piracy CAN NOT bring down an entire console.

Now on to piracy. It’s illegal. ok…NEXT! What’s your point? I pirate apps and games left and right! Have been for many many years! I will keep on doing it! But here are some other activities I perform:

1. If it’s for business or profit I buy it.

2. If I can’t live without it I buy it.

As for paying $40 for a F’ing game that is pretty much no different then it’s 100 previous releases and odds are I wont even finish it then HELL YEAH I’m gonna download it first and at least try before I buy. But odds are if it doesn’t live up to 100% of the standards that I have regarding software I AINT BUYING IT.

Question:
I buy a DVD player and take it home. I hate it! I return it for 100% refund. This is todays standard that is acceptable for most consumers. WHY CANT THIS WORK FOR SOFTWARE??? Well, we know why because then piracy would really sky rocket. However until software is sold in this manor then the hell with the author, I’m downloading!!!!

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!!!

Oh and another thing. If you do ANYTHING to circumvent the security on any device. You are breaking the law as well. So for you JERKOFFS that claim you don’t pirate or break the law if you circumvent the security on the unit to play just your homebrew you are breaking the law. So SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY.

Now exploits are another issue! :)

I can’t wait to break my PSP wide open. I’m hoping a solution will arise that will allow us to play our own video at full resolution.

Maybe the point was missed with the consoles being cracked. My point is that other consoles were cracked in less time than Dreamcast, and they survived. I bought my psp with every intention on playing off the Memory Stick. My investment will soon pay off, hopefully. If not, it will continue to collect dust.

if you own a game, you are legally entitled to make backups of it. thats how stores are allowed to sell mod chips for the ps2 and psx….so you can play backed up versions of the games you own…so whoever said that you cant play the roms of games you own is dead wrong…there was a law suit about it.

Ok.. I disagree with pirated games for any system. It ultimately kills the system. Period.

Regarding the right to play games you own etc.

Say you have SuperMario Bros. for the SNES. You do NOT have the right to download a rom and play in on an emulator.

You DO have the right to dump the rom from the very cart YOU OWN, and play that on an emulator.

That is the ins-and-outs of ROMS and what you can and can not play.

the law states that you can make or download a back up copy of any thing as long as its for u and just a back up if something happens to the other game

I know this is flooded with assinine comments, but I thought I would throw my iron in the fire.

How many people here even owned an XboX before you knew it could be modded? I know I didn’t, but as soon as I knew you could run MAME, Linux, XBMC, python scripts, etc. I got an XboX and an Xecuter.

I would be willing to bet cold hard cash that most people posting here and elsewhere did the exact same thing.

PIRACY DOES NOT KILL A SYSTEM! THE PS2 KILLED THE DREAMCAST!

Piracy had nothing to do with the death of the Dreamcast. If anything, the emulators that were so easily made kept the dreamcast alive. That’s why I bought my dreamcast. And, danee92, those law are about movies and music. Video Games are not affected by the same laws. The intellectual property rights for video games have made video games non-copyable, even for private use. Hence, piracy is almost anything.

The number of pirates are substantially smaller than the entire demographic that plays video games.Nothing besides being an akward or inferior system would kill a system. And if you haven’t noticed, which I doubt you have, retro-gaming is making a huge comeback. Piracy’s a little niche of people doing what they want because they can. Try it, you’ll like it. Work at a video game store, or blockbuster. Then you’ll see the benefits of piracy. Most of you aren’t even old enough to work, so go ask your mom for some money to buy or rent the game pirates get for free. she can take it out of your college fund.

Also, it’s not impossible to buy SNES carts anymore. I work at a used video game store in Omaha, NE, and I can tell you prices for any game you’re interested in. o.t.h.e.r.siderevolution@gmail.com

after that last comment i felt my IQ drop more than when i watched napolean dynamite

but how does downloading a rom of a game you own violate any copyright laws since you already paid for the product in the firstplace?

lol.. i was one of the few people that bought xbox at launch. i’m glad i did, i love it, and since i got a original release, i was able to do an exploit, and it runs just like a modchip. but, that doesnt mean the xbox is cracked, for it to really be cracked, you would need to play backups on ANY console, no modification. now… to the topic everyone is bitching about… piracy. i dont agree with it. but i have to admit, at one point or another everyone does it. i have 32 xbox games, only 1 of them is actually burned… i would have bought it… but i dont feel it was worth the $40. i have it 85% done off of a freaking week. if it was that simple, why would i buy it at that outrageous price. i will buy it, when the price comes down, and i also feel that designers and programmers should be rewarded for their time and work. truthfully, sony is the only company i agree with. they said, sure, we will do a linux product, but the part i dont agree with is, they charged for it… make the thing open source, as linux has always been, dont charge people for something that you got for free. microsoft on the other hand, shot themselves in the foot, and they get exploits, so the moral of this story is embrace the opensource/homebrew community, and you wont have as much trouble. sony shouldnt have used the “duo” because it’s a rediculous idea to force people to use a higher priced version of your equipment. they should have allowed loading from memory stick, it would make the psp more profitable, but ya know that’s my opinion.

no flamers, please(there are enough here anyhow)…;)

danee92,

Can you post whatever law you are referring to. I’d like to see the text that inlcudes downloading something ? It says you can make a backup copy of property that you have purchased. That means making a backup copy from the cart that you own, nothing more.

James,
How long do you think game developers are going to keep putting millions (possible less) dollars into games that people arent going to buy, rather they will download them ? The PSP hardware may profit from emu’s etc, but the community as a whole will lose out because game developers will put their money elsewhere.

all i know is, i cant wait to download new psp isos from IRC and torrents and play them. hands down… if you dont like it, dont do it. as for the rest of us, we’ll be giving each other high-5’s and playing free games.

F34R,

game developers won’t put their money elsewhere… where would they put it, into another system where games are pirated as well?? name one system out there that doesnt have pirated games? you cant..psx, deeamcast, ps2, xbox, psp, nes, snes, gameboy, gba sp….its a part of life, games are going to be pirated. i read a case study for a internation business class and they said that overall pirated games make up about 2 percent of total game sold…..so it doesnt even effect these companies, sony will still rake in plenty of billions of dollars this year, dont worry, your 39.99 isnt going to kill them

Some Of You Kids Are Such Cry Babies!

YES! The DEV Was Sent!
YES! You WILL PLAY YOUR GAMES!

Be PATEINT!

To the people who dont support piracy, do you buy umd movies, or do you use your original dvd to memory stick?

Agreed. All systems get pirated games. But for the PSP to get it so early into its life.. devs might see this and decide to not make games for the PSP. I didnt say it WOULD happen, just a theory. In reality, no one knows whats going to happen. Its all speculation on our part.

Also, I enjoyed your comments on this.

As a natural unpatient person I want the 1.5 emulator SOOO bad. I’ve been checking this site and psphacker every hour today and yesterday. I’m wonderin’ how soon is soon? 1 hour? 1 day? 1 month?!!

hey guys i just got my psp and the way i see it is that if you are willing to spend like 150 bucks on a duo then go for it i buy all my games movies ect. but i still download stuff just to check it out. if you think we are ripping them off then how would u justify paying 150 bucks for a memory stick? download it or buy it what ever floats your boat you still have to pay for the duo and the system if u want the movies and games to. so stop your complaints and download if u like it and if you dont then tough

If this “loader” is going to be in the form of a special firmware, will it still be possible to play retail games?

The problem I see is that if we lose the ability to play retail games, then anyone who uses this update will have to download cracked games to play them off their memory stick. This could be bad to PSP game sales.

I thought that this was a commentary form on the boot loader, not a pointless, drawn-out discussion about piracy.

I can’be believe I wasted my time scanning all these worthless argument over piracy with only a handful of comment event remotely on topic….

anyway, cant wait to get that loader, tho. PC-engine and megadrive on the go sounds great!!

looking forward to this so I can switch from my iPod to be able to read ebooks since hell will probably freeze over by the time sony releases a propery text/ebook/web browser app.

Although I do agree that the hacked firmware will contribute to piracy, it will also allow for some pretty cool stuff with the PSP.. Personally, I would love to be able to run a SNES emulator on my PSP, and be able to jam out to Final Fantasy III on the go! Or, a port of FireFox for the PSP, perhaps? :-)

I realize that I could just get a GP32 for that, but I’ve already dropped the cash for a PSP.. ;-)

I HAVE THE SOLUTION!

Anti-Piracy people go buy the game.
Pro-Piracy people get the game for free in your Memory Stick…

I personally prefer just to run emulators and other apps like a browser, agenda, remote control… But UMD games hmmm I think they should get the treatment new NEO GEO games get, crackers dump the ROM but the wait like six months to a year before they release it.

I think that maybe a happy medium can be achieved. Want to play GTA:LCS? buy the game now or wait a good 6 months for the dump.

#1. I’d like to point out that as someone so nicely put “Piracy didn’t kill the dreamcast the PS2 did”

#2. emeulator = legal (kindof see 4)
Rom = So-So (legal if you own the game illegal otherwise see 3 for more info)

(now for the fun stuff)

#3. rom = legal if you own the EXACT SAME game. EX. if you get the PC version of Halo (dont know why u would want it :P) you DONT i repeat DO NOT have the right to download the Xbox version (legaly).

#4. emulator = legal IF it dosent use the BiOS from the system EX. ePSXe is legal to all until you get the BiOS then its Illegal unleyss u own the PSX.

#5. regarding backups, you may have backups of things u own. regardless of how it’s obtained. so if u have the Mario cart. and want to have a backup copy you can download it from the internet or make it your self

my family was killed by pirates, so yes piracy is wrong and detrimental to all that is good. they also took my psp.

wow..it’ll work with 1.00, 1.50, AND 1.51? great job!

A few points Id like to add to the debate if I may.

Firstly, I don’t condone piracy, it is the respected persons work which (they) are entitled to receive proceeds from.

However, I don’t fully disagree with people copying titles dependant on there personal circumstance.

Being a gamer all of my life, I’ve not always been in the position to pay large sums of cash for games I’d like to try out. If you read the jargon that every designer plasters on advertisments or websites, every game ever made is an absoloute must buy.
Playing demos, does not do the games justice or the user, as most are unfinished code, one “hand picked” level, or a rehashed part of the game, which is designed for testing.

During my Youth owning computers such as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 etc. ment that the machine cost was down to my parents, and what pocket money I had went into buying something I liked. I never felt guilty at that age concerning nipping round a friends house, and doing a tape to tape copy on a hi fi system, then playing it at home. Atari ST, Amiga later on had the same principles behind it. I purchased titles like moonstone, eye of the beholder, because A) I loved the packaging, and B) new these games were exceptional by people having copies of them. That didnt stop me lugging around an 80 cap disk box of games, and swapping them like trading cards. Again I never felt guilty about this, and the only loss of sleep ever received was only wondering what other trades would be on offer the day later.

As a student during my PC days, again, its extremely difficult to pay student costs, pay for the PC on higher purchase and buy software and games on a part time job. So pirating those titles was more of a way of life than not doing so.

Today I am full time employed, and even now have more important things to spend my hard earned cash on. When I do have spare money, I do put it towards picking up a cube, ps2 or xbox game, that I know really deserves some applause in the way of financial gain.
However, on the same note, I will still download certain titles for systems, and give them a bash for an hour. If the interest lasts that long or longer, then I will purchase it when its released in my territory. I did the same with Star Ocean, thought the game was superb, after downloading, practacally finished it before it was released here, but still went out and bought it on day of release for the original packaging and artwork.

I shall certainly be doing the same on the PSP, which I feel is my right to do. If I like the game I will buy it, if last 30seconds before my hitting the power button, then I would be more than glad not to have paid the current asking price of titles, which I might add is rediculous for a hand held, and dont even get me started on the movie prices, which are far higher than a DVD, which can be watched at least half the way the director intended on a big screen.

Essentially the way I see it is theres three choices, if You want to pay full price for every title that looks good, fair play to You, but when You sit back and think, well that was a load of s#it then thats Your own fault.
It will happen, it will happen often.
The second, try it, then buy it, if its worth it, if not delete it.
Lastly, for the people whom simply cannot afford these titles, and have the machine paid for as a present by poor familes then by all meens, do what You need to do to test them out.

On another point raised above, and this makes me sick to here it. Piracy DOES NOT and NEVER HAS been the route of inflated prices of titles. I know this as a fact having worked in the industry. Most developers cant give a t#ss whether its been ripped off or not by 10% of the total amount of titles in the hands of gamers. WHY dont they care, because they have done it themselves for a start. But more to the point, prices are being raised, because fat pocketed big chiefs want a fatter pocket and the end of the financial year. Most head persons dont care less whether there game plays well, if it makes them money they are happy with it.
Next gen titles are going to be priced at higher rates than current titles. AAA games will be over 20% higer than the current top price game. Does that meen that the games that arnt AAA are known not to be by the developer and therefore placing a lower price tag on it, such as #45.99, if its not AAA whats the point of buying it?
EA said themselves, they have wanted to make far more on sales and were intending to increase the cost of current generation multi format titles, but decided that with the invent of newer generation systems, that would be the far better time to do so. Not because it takes them longer to produce, your still going to see the same amount of people involved with the title come the games credits, your still going to see the title released in the same time frame, lets say 12months for your standard multi format tosh, and apart from some visual enhancement, not made by the developer but simply because the hardware CAN gloss it up more, your gonna get the same at a higher price. Don’t believe everything that the anti piracy groups write. They have to invent reasons why piracy is bad, just as much as the people that copy them provide reasons as to why they cant pay for them.

One last note, the Dreamcast did not die because of piracy, again FACT, the piracy of a system was as inevitable as the release of another system by another manufacturer. The death of the DC, was more to do with the advent of the PS2, combined with the fact that the cost of manufacturing consoles that were not being sold left the company in the red. If each of the systems were sold, at a fair rate, then yes we would be experiencing Dreamcast 2 or 3 by now, and Yes many people would appreciate such a machine. I certainly would, and felt the demise of the Dreamcast as a sad part of gaming history, but it wasnt due to the odd lucky person having access to the web with a half decent connection, or a coders cable and had the know how and time to rip there own titles. Most people I knew whom owned the machines didnt even know that the titles were available on copy let alone where or how to do them.
Piracy therefore has nothing to do with the death of the SEGA DC, the reasons were as mentioned along with the fact that Segas advertising campaign as usual was quite frankly piss poor. The PS2 has larger base of piracy than the DC ever did, yet thats going strong, and making sony a considerable amount of cash. Will that meen no PS3 or PS4 of course not, the sales revenue from the systems more than makes up for the loss of the pirated title in circulation. That alongside the sale of legitimate copies.

Trust me, if Sony decide not to release PS3 or PS4, it wont be due to piracy, if Holywood stop releaseing movies, it wont be due to piracy, and if the talented musicians decide to stop writing music for the masses it wont be due to piracy, it will be down to the fact they either feel they lost the market share in units sold, figure no ones interested in another Rambo, or cant be arsed to put the lyrics onto paper.

Rgds
Farscape

I wont lie… I personally don’t mind piracy. I undestand how this can hurt the people who develope the games, but here’s how I see it.

There will always be people who will pay for games and software..no matter how easy something can be pirated. Always!! It’s these people who help the software company and game companies make their money and take home profits. Much like the music industry… even with all the pirating of MP3s ou their, everyone is still making money no matter what percentage they claim they are loosing.. the money is comming in by the truck loads.

The same is true even with the PSP. Sony will make a killing no matter how wide spread pirating becomes on the PSP. Just because someone pirates doesn’t mean they were going to buy the game anyway. In fact my purchase of the PSP came with the strict intentions that pirating will come to this platform with in the first year.

my gosh, if nintendo can make a killing off of their gameboy which is the easiest and widest spread piracy platform out there, than Sony will have no problems making 10 times more despite what happens to the PSP platform..

And I thank those who buy games ro support the developers and make companies grossly rich… so I don’t have too :)

If piracy really hurt anyone then why do only 1% of the world’s population own over 99% of the world’s wealth? Is that fair?

Don’t you think we should all have a million dollars? Don’t kid yourself, there’s more than enough wealth in the world out there for every man woman and child to have a cool million us dollars in their respective piggy banks.

Does anyone actually think that coming on some message board to say “Piracy is wrong” is going to help you sleep at night? Well, maybe, but morality is a personal matter and does not require instruction.

If you really want to attack someone for hurting other people with their actions why don’t you go after the bureaucrat and their perpetuation of the same captalistic dogma and the american dream itself.

This isn’t the breakdown of society, it’s the very fabric that makes up our rich tapestry, the dirt out of which the flower grows. Long live hackers and piracy, until the world works in a such a way that everyone truly has an equal opportunity to fufill their dreams and entertainment is everyone’s shared reward.

Back to the topic at hand. I can’t shake the fact that they mention it “will likely be in the form of a BiOS replacement”. This tells me they are only in the strategy portion of their project. How are they going to release anything in the NEAR FUTURE if they aren’t even sure it’s going to be a BIOS change. That means they have nothing.

And who knows what they meant by near future. They could have just meant it’s not going to take the usual year (or whatever) so it could still be months (and months) away.

I remember reading one of these posts mentioning they hoped it was here by this weekend. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Yeah right. They aren’t even sure if it going to be a BIOS update or not.

Another guy mentioned checking the site every hour for it’s release. That’s an even bigger laugh. Dude! Lower it down to once every other day or you’ll drive yourself nuts!

Also, I don’t believe any of this “testing” crap either. Anyone saying they have a crack but they need more time to test…BS…they don’t have anything yet. What is there to test? There is only one PSP. That is if you’re replacing the bios then a PSP is a PSP. It’s not like we have thousands of different PC configurations to test for. Either you can run unsigned code or you can’t. That’s juts a pathetic way to buy time. Now if you have to mess with the different firmwares then you have two units to test but again either you can run code or you can’t. So at the very least they would release 1.5 and “test” 1.51 later. Otherwise they don’t have squat!!!

I give it two months before we start to see light. Hopefully I’m proven wrong. But that seems “near” in the hacking world to me.

After readin all this hit herez the final answer :Buy the mother FU*cking games you wand and shut tha hell up let sony do w/e tha F*ck they wana do sooner or lata theres gonna be a new upgrade wit all tha coolest shit and u would have to choose:;:;:;: PSP cool Homebrew Or Psp No Homebrew but web browser wall paper, play music while play, pause game wacth a movie and resume game listen to music while lookin at pics Ect IDK THA REST BUT MSNY MANY MORE! Choose wisely

Piracy will never die, it is a hobby of upcoming programmers who crack software and eventually get hired by big companies. Backups are not illegal just have to back up from your own copy, but of course most people dont know how to do that so they get a rom from somewhere else… its a grey area no one has really been to court for it only had settlements because of lack of money for a lawyer. So all the ppl saying piracy is ghey or whatever shut up same to all those way cool 1337 people stfu back up your own and sit down you 12 year old fat kids

Well look at how rich jennifer lopez is or other singers are.. they don’t care if you steal their music.. they are filthy rich.. so i don’t think privacy is a big issue here. as for games.. i am sony made enough just by selling the console.

Are you sure 55808 about this?!?

Realy? That’s 36355 crazy!!

Are you sure 70007 about this?!?

crap piracy thats why psp wont place landmarks on the phillipines becuase of piracy.