wow…………….I’m 1st LOL

Wow…… that’s really not good.

While this may be bad news for upcoming games I’m sure we’ll find a solution

I hope DA can do something about this new CFW check. cuz if all devs start using this thats gonna suck! BIG TIME!!!

Hopefully they do this for all PSP games. I have a second PSP which is currently custom firmware but I have no problem switching that to an official firmware PSP.

if no solution is found for this soon, then maybe it works for the best that psp 3k doesnt have pernament customn firmware version.

RockBand Unplugged does something similar…if you compress the iso even at Level 1 compression it freezes at its logo…

oh my god.. becky look at her butt she looks like the girlfriend of one of those rapper dudes

This is just Great news not

On the plus side, if it’s scanning the RAM, it might be nice if we can find an exploit within the game, giving easier access. I dunno, just spewing dribble here. But still :(

Not really bad news, just return 0’s on all the memory that it checks, effectively blocking it’s detection. Or if that doesn’t work, return what a regular PSP would. Kind of like a wii in gamecube mode for example. There’s a program running outside the gamecube part, but inside the gamecube memory, it cannot detect it.

As time goes by, I’m still not amused by any histerically hypped title officially available for my handheld, so this information doesnt’ have such tragical tone, as first three comments make it sound like. Besides that I do remember many security systems being aplied by many different companies in the past just to be cracked in short time by hacking community. And I do not talk about only PSP and Sony now, PC games developers had to ditch all of their antipiracy measures so far as they did not prevent pirates from stealin the product they suppose to protect and actually made many of legitimate customers mad, after they could not install the game they just paid for in the Best Buy more than twice or such blemish. Many plp I know didnt want to use pirated software, but after they had to call to the company for a new serial number everitime they want to reinstall their copy of the game, they just simply gave up and stopped giving them their hard earned $$$. Other issue I have with the games we suppose to pay for on PSP is that it’s a piece of code questionable quality you have to dish out $50.00 a piece for with no return policy in case you just dont’ like the product. What is up with that? You buying a sweather in K-Mart, you dont’ like it, you bring it back in three monts with no receipt and they are still able to refund your purchase. And be frank guys – how many games they trying to sell is really worth that fifty bucks? If maybee five titles so far, and even that might be a stretch. Simply put – they will not be able to sell more games even if they put this new security feature on them. They just have to start making better games and change the policy and prices.
And now you can flame me hard, because this is controversial topic indeed. Thank you for your time.

I would call this the WTF app

Is the game any good but?

Its fully playable using CWCheat, just looks my gameplay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UjDtVPPwLY&fmt=18

Ok would it not be smarter for sony to implement activation/registration of said product rather than sabotaging customers hardware? I for one buy my games and I own 3 psps at this point. But I still enjoy the ability to use open source software so sabotage of your customers hardware is inexcusable. Sony needs to start an activation database to protect the loyal customer as well as themselves. This article is about pure laziness on Sonys part instead of all the updates just make games inert without strict online registration I for one wouldn’t mind. Sony has used psp-hacks and sites alike purely for R&D purposes and they should be advocating open source software. As coders become more numerous they are in fact the future customer just give them the tools they need and they will continue to pay through the nose for them.

This plan works for everyone.
-TKG

Hey possible similar situation with the new Dynasty Strike Force game, it wont even load on any of my psp’s. And I have tried everything from 3.90 to the 5.03 Gen A on my 3000 model. If anyone has had any progress with either title feel free to share. ;)

Sony needs to go fck themselves and then come back with a brain i only give them credit 4 making the best damn gaming system the psp if they’d get a fcking clue about wtfs going on they’d now wtf 2 do

funny, how they started doing this with a low pro game

sounds like we need a revamped fastloader for OFW..

most japanese games release this year has some security on them well atleast could play Idol Master SP now on my CFW throught patching the iso

But right im having problems trying to play finder love fumi hara has anyone been able to play this game on there CFW

IF you have a pandora and a MMS this realy doesn’t affect you as it only takes a couple of minutes to switch from CFW to OFW, especially if you use DC8 to back up your nand.

This game is already hacked. Someone said that there’s a hack for it with CWcheat, so I think even psp 3000’s will be able to play this.

have you tried m33driver(better one) or oefisos from pspmenu select or you just have a bad import from the game.

hmmm, I wonder if you can spoof the mac address on the psp if you could kinda spoof the firmware make it read as if it’s an offical firmware.

Really folks, copyright infringement won’t be stopped, but it is worth the company’s time to make it as difficult as possible so as to prevent as much of it as possible (I don’t like the word piracy for the act, it is simply not the same thing)

The user agreement is pretty hard to enforce, if taken to court, Sony would loose. CI is illegal in pretty much every country, but backing up your own games is legal in most.

If you want to play a game, buy it. If you want homebrew use it, but don’t deny the developers there reward for their work. It makes them less likely to make games, and is NOT justified by “I can’t afford it, it’s too expensive”. I can’t afford a copy of a PS3 dev kit or a Rolls Royce, so I don’t have them, capitalism is what it is. If you do try then buy games, then write to companies that you would like to see more demos. Let them know that you do use CFW and that would be one more reason not to bother.

Don’t be so arrogant that your little bit of free use of someone else’s work doesn’t affect how much money they make. CI isn’t theft, but if it is something you would buy, then your just preventing more of that type of thing being made.

Resistance Retribution is awesome, but the numbers I see say only 130,000 copies were sold. I would like to see more games like that, but with the cost of development,(even accounting for the old code used) I doubt we will see something like that again unless they come up with a much more secure way to prevent CI.

Choose to do whats right, not just what is easy. I myself only have games on my system that I have bought, but I would put a game on to check it. I put my own movies on, but if I can find a movie on UMD that I like, I buy it. Even with how hard it is to get the movies, tracking them down on-line because no one carries them anymore. (All of the underworlds, Across the Universe, Dark Side of the Moon, and many more)

Reward good work, don’t just keep your money for an extra two cases of beer or a quarter.

oh M***********!! if this goes on to all games!! s***!! thats a total bUmmer.. especially to us ChickHEN users!! dT_Tb

i personnaly dont care what anyone thinks on here. i mean, does it really matter? we all do what we want regardless so i dont think any speech can sway our minds about this issue. game companies are other people. worry about yourselfs.

Doesn’t really matter to me… it’s been so long since there was a PSP game I care about, I use mine pretty much exclusively for homebrew and Web browsing.

It’s all simple really.. the ethics for pirate gaming that is.
1. If the companies can make it, they will overcharge for it.
2.If it has been made, we’ll find a way to “borrow it”
3.If they make good quality games, then the more honourable ones WILL actually buy a game now and again to keep the industry alive, BUT, they will never stop pirating because the developers get greedy. and right away over react when we find ways against society’s views of right and wrong.

Don’t label people who arent all rich fucks as thieves and ingrates, we appreciated quality and the hard work that goes in just as much as the next consumer. but we’re not all high paid work monkeys with the spare cash to spend $60 on some game that may or may not be worth the money. This goes for all systems as well. The DS specifically (more fucking kiddie games now then a bloody carnival).

The simple solution: PRICE THINGS LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE JACKASSES.

That or they should meet us halfway at least, ot take legal action on every single pirate. Not so generous but still plausible option, points system. Buy games, stick some codes from box online or wutever after like 2-3 games get a free one. most people would be stupid enough for that to keep them happy for a good couple of years.

Also .. and now this is just cuz i can say it. Xbox in general sucks ass, Wii controllers dont respond well (therefore games cost to much for an incomplete system), DS games are for frickin 7 year olds usually or from movies -_-, and Sony.. well they have good quality but they charge way too fucking much. $500+ for a console and $200+ for a handheld is TOO MUCH MONEEY…

New version of devhook?

Firstly if the greedy fucks didnt charge as much for games they wouldnt have as big a problem in the first place. Developers just got greedy, if every game was $5 then maybe a lot less people would pirate.

Secondly as everyones has said, theres only a handfull of games worth parting with $50 for.The umd cases dont even protect disks, they actually trap dirt and i have many games that no longer work properly.

Lastly sony r stupid idiots, they r yet again to release another version of the psp with no umd drive, STILL NO SECOND ANALOG STICK AND ITS FUCKING MORE EXPENSIVE.

SONY HAS ONE BIG STUPID FUCKING RABBIT AT THE CONTROLS.

FIRE THE FUCKING RABBIT.

10 to 1 odds say the shity companies that make pirate bait game(the games not worth buying but are time passers) are going to do this, but the big one like sqaure-enix, EA, ect might not do this becuase thay get alot of sales, like square enix and thir recent rip-off tactics on FFXI,they may not even worry about it too much

I would not B so surprised if I learn that Sony Corp. has a major financial problems and going under. Get ready for that news guys.
Just saying.

Well with some of $ony’s business practices lately I’m not suprised Piracy has taken off. I mean encouraging manufacturers to NOT include Infrastructure in their game just so $ony can TRY to force you to buy a PS3 and use adhoc Party (Which is not available outside Japan)! They keep that crap up and they’ll go the way of Atari. Then there is that PSP Go travesty, sorry all you UMD buyers! HaHa got yo money!!

It really is about pricing. Man I remember at launch when umd movies were 12 to 13 dollars.

My thought process at the time was.

1- umd = psp only bad
2- small screen no tv acsess bad
3- suround sound?
4- no specieal feachers bad
5- dvd quality good
6- portability good

So clearly umd is the cheaper product adiquitly priced as such, so should I go for 13$ umd compared to 20$+ dvd. Its obviuos umd = win at that price.

I go three weeks latter to see whats new and the same movie I got for 13$ was now selling for 20$ to wich I had the same thought process. Except it ended with clearly umd is the cheaper product why price it the same as a dvd in that case ill just get a dvd with mor featchers, Why pay more fore less.

Witch brings me to my point sony is terible at pricing. brand new umd games should never have been more then 30$ at best. Over pricing invites pirating sony wont understand that.And trying to put bugs in games like this one will only make hackers patch it and life will go on. It will only make them loose consumer pirates those that actually buy games even with cfw.

CFW 5.50 GEN-B is up and good for download. One of the details says that it can now play Evangelion: Jo without using the CWCheat Game Initialization Code.