SonyXTeam Warns PSP Homebrew Devs
Alias420 | October 19, 2005
For any of you homebrew devs out there working on cracking the 2.50 firmware SonyXTeam has released a warning you may want to look at:
SonyxTeam News We want to warn any team creating version changer programs that the 2.50 index.dat encryption pattern has changed, therefor you have 100% chances of bricking your psps if you try to use it in your flash.
That’s also why we are not using it on our version changer.The reasons why sony would do such a thing are
- To prevent people from creating version changers (they failed to do so, since we know how to create our own index.dat)
- To prevent people on 2.50 from downgrading using an earlier index.dat version
- Because they think we are dumbasses that would brick some of our psps in the process (that’s too bad since we didn’t brick any of our psps as we tested the 2.50 index.dat using BFM firmware loader).
Also Sony wouldn’t imagine us sniffing in their IPL and figuring out that the Version information is now located into the 2.50 IPL whitch means that the index.dat is now useless and has just the purpous to fool us (yeah $ony just failed mouhahaha, we are way smarter than they imagine, next time I do hope for their sake that they do better….)
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Leave it to Sony to make shitty products/software.
Sony…
Owned.
If Sony would let ppl use hombrew on every psp out there, they would earn much more money, because the ppl would buy more psp’s and also the newer versions. I think when last psp 1.0 up to 2.0 will be sold they will see a big brick in their earnings from selling these little wondermachines xD
That’s my opinion about this…
#3 - the PSP is sold at a loss. The products Sony are pushing are games and video UMDs. The PSP is just a delivery mechanism. If anything they want to sell less PSPs and more games, as each PSP costs them!
#4: Yup, that’s true. This always seems to happen to most systems coming out nowadays. Same thing happened to the Xbox on its initial launch. It took well over a year until Microsoft was gaining a profit on the system.
#1: It’s not Sony making shitty products, unfortunately for us, its them protecting their products. At this point it doesn’t matter as they found an alternative route for changing the version number. Good work Sxt
How much does it cost Sony to make a PSP?
one other thing you’ve gotta take into consideration; $ony has more than likely looked at the capability for black-hats to write viruses/trojans/malware for the psp. it’s possible with anything, but you’ve got to imagine it’s a good bit more plausible for a system that’s capable of a wi-fi connection. in this case though, it’s prolly just $ony trying to cover it’s own ass as far as illegal .iso’s.
LMAO.
Does $ony think the gaming comunity is dumb?
Homeberew is good unless used to play isos. they ram their UMD movies down our throats but dont realise only dumb ass people buy em and thats what they are doing with this notice. assuming we are all dumbasses and take their bate.
Ohhhh Sony is owned again…
ONLY THAT??, THATS OK.
AS LONG AS I DONT GO TO JAIL.
IM NOT AFRAID. THE WORST THING COULD HAPPEN IS, I BRICK MY PSP. IF THAT HAPPEN, I CAN RETURN IT TO THE STORE. OK , SONY, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW..
Well all I know is I’m not going to stop buying UMDS because I’m too caught up in playing Homebrew. The thing with the updates is they are free, sony isn’t making a profit by making us upgrade. They need to open up the system to the homebrew world and watch the dollars roll in.
If they were to market the psp as an all in one game system they’re profit margin would go up 100%
Sony is starting to piss me off.
i just updated my psp to version 2.5 :( has anyone (yet) hacked this version? is it possible?
Sony wants us all not to use homebrew for a reason. If you want to brick your psp thats fine with me. Because some dumb ass will just make a viris or something, then youll say thats the coolest homebrew ever. Then you load it up. Shit! I am should have listend to sony. I want my psp to stay alive.Sony also want to make money. I would be pissed if ppl arent buying my games. You should just stop getting homebrew. Sony needs some money They just dont want ppl to buy the psp then thats it, they want ppl to buy the psp and games with that, and movies.
Sony wants us all not to use homebrew for a reason. If you want to brick your psp thats fine with me. Because some dumb ass will just make a viris or something, then youll say thats the coolest homebrew ever. Then you load it up. Shit! I am should have listend to sony. I want my psp to stay alive.Sony also want to make money. I would be pissed if ppl arent buying my games. You should just stop getting homebrew. Sony needs some money They just dont want ppl to buy the psp then thats it, they want ppl to buy the psp and games with that, and movies.
Does anyone think that the 2.5 will be hacked??
IDK about 2.5 but wow #14/#15 is a fucking idiot go play ur snes games on your cock or get a new firmware upgrade bitch!
Sony’s a bunch of idiots, if they want us to buy games: lower the prices! And if they want us to buy movies: come out with original movies!
if sony let homebrew grow and flurish with their supervision. lots of usefull apps would be made, it would open the PSP up to not just gamers but people interested in something they can use instead of a pocket PC.
Hey #5….actually, believe it or not, Microsoft STILL loses money on every XBox they sell. (The system I mean.) The MS Xbox division made money for the first time (rather than losing money) in the financial quarter that they released Halo 2, but if you look at the annual figures, they lose money because of the Xbox system sales. That is the reason that MS went to a different design approach (more like Nintendo and Sony) where they OWN the chip designs on Xbox 360. MS was never able to control their cost on the original Xbox because the CPU and GPU were owned by Intel and Nvidia respectively. Since MS was “locked in” to those manufacturers, neither of them had any reason to lower their costs to MS. On the Xbox 360 however, MS owns the GPU and CPU designs (which were designed with the help of ATI and IBM respectively) so now they can have more control of those components prices by shopping the manufacturing to whatever FAB they want. It also means that MS can redesign the chips later to decrease costs, etc. And even do a “slim” version later in the life of the X360 like Sony did with the PS2…if they chose to do so.
1. Sony actually makes shitty stuff, see with the ps2…
2. Yes, Sony thinks people are retarded. And they have reasons to think it. In France, ps2 was something like 400 euros and a bunch of sheep bought it without a good game on sale. They also lied so much in 1999 and poeple actually believed them. “ps2 graphics will be as good lookinh as pre-rendered cinematics like toy story” LOL…
Anyway Fuck Sony.
HAHAHAHA! wow, i can belive that people would complain about uses of the product. its exciting and fun with homebrews…i know i didnt spend 250.00 just to play games with a nice(but mini screen). i want to see a whole new world. and where in the hell are you ever going to use a umd besides the PS3, so shut up. do society a favor and stop bitching.
PS(there gay undercover software employees)!!! OMG might be true……..
/OWNED
i LOVE sony but i just think that they’re just a bunch of n00b japanese guys (no offense to azn’s… I LOVE YOU GUYS!!) that think that americans are a bunch of dumbasses that dont know how to do the simplist of tasks on modding a psp and being smart enough to actually check for things of that nature…
even tho you are a bunch of n00bs i still love you sony…! but at the same time i hate your guts….
Well I am sonys side. You can just fuck up ur psp. And to bad I dont even have a snes. So suck ur cock.
sry for double posting but i forgot to say alias stuck it to em’ good….
but you know who taught him what he knows? that’s right… me… (lol)
youre all a bunch of freeloading wasters. get a job
UM whats the version needed to play GTA liberty city stories? I hope i dont need the 2.5 :/
why people they don’t realize that what we do is more flaxble with PSP more than Sony it-self. if you see the future of 1.5 it’s stil more advance morethan 2.0 or 2.5. I mean hackers really know what they want from PSP hardware… it’s make people think for new technology every day, whey its bad for doing that? (I’m talking about software not downloading games). Even Sony can have more new ideas to sale PSP.
this is interesting and kinda adds to the whole sony released the original virus that makes your psp useless untill the hacking community can fix it :D
TRUE! #30
#29 your a pussy
MEGAMAN
Geez. Grow up and get a job the lot of you. It’s like bloody children arguing in a playground for god’s sake..
IF SONY WOULD LET ALL VERRSIONS RUN HOMBREW AND BECOME THE ALL IN ONE VIDEO GAME SYSTEM THEY WOULD HAVE TO PAY OTHER COMPANIES FOR USING THEIR TRADEMARKS. ALL THESE COMPANIES ARE MONEY HUNGRY!! DONT YOU THINK NINTENDO WOULD WANT A SHARE FOR LETTING THEM USE THEIR GAMES AND OTHER COMPANIES TOO. DONT ENCOURAGE SONY TO RUN HOMEBREW ON ALL VERSIONS BECAUSE THEN THEY WOULD FIGURE OUT A WAY TO DIG EVEN MORE DEEPER INTO OUR POCKETS FOR OUR CASH
….#35…..THINK!
Are ROMs of other systems LEGAL?
HELL NO! (Unless you already have them)
So companies like Nintendo can’t take action against SONY! They’d have to arrest millions of people like me downloading RO*s and IS*s off Morpheus!
number 11# ur stupid u had to pey like 30 dollars so u can retun it to the store and i dont think no one did that right???????????
well i didnt f u ok?
How does this stop a firmware downgrader. What happens if i inject MIPS Binary code at the entry point of the getversion syscall to return what fireware i want it to be.
One thing guys all of you who hate sony why on you on this website. I’m sure you don’t have a psp, you hate sony they make crap right. Is there no DS hack site you can go to and rip sony. umd movies will be completly useless when memory cards get cheaper. i have one movie i bought used for $10, don’t buy them just play dvd’s off the memstick. and by making it hard to hack or run homebrew sony is not calling all gamers stupid, it is calling most people lazy. they din’t have to make hacking impossible (its not) they just want to make it sp hard the average consumer won’t bother.
#5 is a moron. Microsoft has never made any money the XBox.
14 shut the fuck up bitch
39 ds sucks and you should get the fuck out of this website thats why its called psp hacks not ds hacks moron EAT SHIT PUSSY
#24 SHUT THE FUCK UP B4 WE BOMB UR ASS AND UR ASIAN HOMIEZ TO (AGAIN)BUT I LIKE ASIANS TO BUT STILL FUCK OFF
ur all crazy,can someone tell me how to putt a file in root of the memory card?thx
oh,and is there a way to download and watch porn clips on the psp just like a pc?
all u guys are pussy, u dick suckers
Ahhh i took a shit and pissed
hey hacks are fine by me as long as they don’t brick my shit. #45 download psp video 9. works on 2.5. is there a way to turn off the screen when playing mp3s to save battery life?
#48 ur a retard if u dont kno how to turn off ur screen while u play mp3s u dont deserve to use any hack site if u cant turn off ur screen
Just relax man, if he wants to know how to turn off his screen, tell him. You turn it off by holding down the button that changes the screen light (dark, bright, brighter, and when on ac adapter, brightest), and he will go away because he is satisfied :/
yeah seriously #49, just give the guy a break. remember at one time, you didnt know how to use your PSP.
Ur rite srry #48 im just a little pissed off about sony crackin down on homebrew i mean wat the fuck u bought it u should be able to use it to its full potentioal its a bunch of shit keep up the good work hackers
hey speakin of downgraders is there gonna be one out for 2.50 anttime soon
sony is trying 2 protect us from virus’ i use the net alot and i do not want my £200 psp to be usless!
you guys all make me laugh….!!
i’m playstation from start to finish….playstation, playstation one, playstation 2 and now PSP (soon to be with PS3!).
it doesnt matter if sony block homebrew by introducing games that need a firmware upgrade. i’m sure the umd burner is in the works and whats stopping the “backup” iso’s from being played then?
but i had a thought. if sony do manage to stop homebrew, will the gamers lose interest in the PSP all together? what put sony top of the consoles? the fact that the playstation had the highest number of playable “backup” games in the market. dont lose hope gamers. i think sony is on our side!
I’m so glad that the PSP Homebrew community is a mature, friendly environment. This really makes me, and others, want to get in on the experience that is the homebrew scene.
I wouldn’t mind playing my NES/SNES/SCUMM games on the go, or having an IRC client on my PSP, or using some of the other really snazzy Homebrews I’ve seen. But not if it means having to socialise with a community as rabid as this one.
i r the sry u r wtf. LMAO. I think the internet has done more at sapping brain cells than anything else in the past. Put your PSPs down and learn some grammar and spelling. Good hell. Oh, sorry, what I mean is “ur kul, sry 2 anoy u!!!!!!11one”
oi oi how do u download the homebrews go on http://www.psp-vault.com or http://www.psp-spot.com
howdy my psp is a version 2.1 how do i get home brew on it
you cant! muhu hwahwahaaa!!
p.s.#59 is a total noob……… mwa ha!!!!
p.s.p.s.FEAR ME!!! psp- (-:-[____]-:-) !!
on a different matter,yeah guys,this is the end,$ony let us down… ***king jerk-offs…
Have none of u anything better to do! Sony did a great job with the psp and the hackers have done a great job with it too..ffs instead of bitchin at each other try doin somthin for the hacking community that works so hard to please a bunch of immature pre-pubesent retards!!!!! BOOM HEADSHOT! I LOVE U ALL……
how do u enable the fucking mwa so u can listen to music?
PLEASE TELL ME !!!!
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is anyone there
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