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Fanjita - real name David Court - is very different from the popular hacker stereotype of the socially inept teenaged geek working all night in his bedroom. A married man of 34, he is an accomplished professional programmer who writes server software for large telecommunications companies for a living. He spends an hour or two a night hacking PSP software in his Edinburgh home, and is also a martial arts enthusiast. |
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Nice too know that someone is given these guys a chance to talk about them selves. Instead of people just saying what they want about them and not giving them props for what they have done. You guys are the best in everything you do in the psp seen. Keep up the good work.
exactly, I like what Dax said on the pirate thing, really sensible, I myself don't really like piracy, but need a way to see if a games worth paying £30 for (I'm broke, sob) so open edition really helps.
that was a lot more mature than i was expecting i guess BBC reporters realy are beter than ABC ones
Word.
whats next?
Fanjita and Dark Alex do the talk show circut?
about time they were properly commended for their effrts in the homebrew scene. Good work guys!
Homebrew developers get famous ! :D
That´s cool! They have to invite them to a TV-Show, though!
:P
BTW: 1st
wasn´t the first one....
It was me that was first hehe.
an intellectual first post. Wtf is wrong here. And yeah, its nice that BBC did this, people might start to see them as people instead of just downgrade/homebrew makers
yes i thought making a good first post would make people do the same. Instead of FIRST POST! crap. I really love the PSP I have and the 15 psps that i have customized for all of my family and friends because of these Devs. Keep up the good work all of you in the Homebrew seen.
Cool, I hope that these homebrew communities will get a little bigger now.
And not to forget, all thanks to Fanjita and Dark_Alex for making this all possible :)
Fanjita... 34 years old... uh didn't expect that the 3.03 downgrader author was that old, but thanks anyway, for not forgetting 3.03 users to the homebrew scene :)
**going to read the article** Have fun all homebrew coders :)
acctually, i dont want the homebrew scene to get bigger. Think what it means. A bunch of newbies asking "How do i played homebrews??!?". I'de rather keep the relativly small community we have now.
If they just read the F'ing README. then they wouldnt have to ask any questions.
That could get annoying, but if we get a big enough following we might get support from sony, or at least having them compete with homebrew guys instead of trying to make it hard for us
$ony's not anti-homebrew, they're anti-piracy. The psp doesn't allow homebrew cause then people would use it for piracy so $ony has to block it or the developers and they themselves (cause sony makes games too) would get pissed off. On the ps3 however, $ony didn't block homebrew and the ps3 is entirely open because so far no-one's really cracked blu-ray (have fun fitting 54gigs on your hard drive anyways) so $ony has no reason to block homebrew and as far as they're concerned is 1 more reason for people to buy their console. +)
not one bad comment about any of the teams, the reporter even went as far as to say you cant do any of this if u buy a psp with latest firmware.
they must be feeling good now, theyll be as famous as sony themselves soon ;-)
Fanjita is from Edinburgh - who would have guessed that (NOT ME)
i thought that everyone on the internet is american but i was proved wrong XD
nice sarcasm there...
i kinda knew he was scottis cos only we eould have names like that ,im scottish too lol
Scotland, Spain......
Let's wait a couple of weeks and see what kind of hacks can be made for the PS3 when it comes out here in Europe......
So we endly know why Sony waited for the release of the PS3 here......we are to smart ;-)
lol everyone american, many hackers and homebrew creators live in Europa and Asia. And dont think amarica is the only country with internet, europa has many more rich countries
I knew he lived in edinburgh, a 4 hour drive from me. Anyway, British impartial media FTW!!!!
haha, 20 min drive from me.
Since i am from Glasgow.
It is good to see that they are progressing up the ranks of the community and reaching other peope around the world.
Score
man he probly live round the corner from me ( i live in edinburgh i gotta locate that dude)
What a great article!! It's about time the true geniuses of the PSP receive some credit :) Happy day :D
Worth a read.
i wonder if it will get on the TV
Great to see them getting this level of coverage... Just a little shame Edison Carter didn't get a mention for finding the original GTA exploit...
Would be very cool if it got onto TV...
has anyone heard from him recently or has he quit the homebrew scene?
Reading what DAX had to say about this just makes me apprciate what he's done more. He's practically a celebrity in the PSP community and it's cool reading what he has to say. Don't get me wrong Fanjita is cool too, but he's dealt more with PSP's that are not 1.5, while I constantly use Open Editions so I'm always knowing about DAX more.
Way to go man.
Haha, Nice, And Keep Up The Good Work Guys :)
lol now wouldnt that suk if u lived next to them and didnt not noticed until now
or better yet friends with them n didnt notice the they were the greatest hacker of the psp
Props to all three teams for all of their great accomplishments. If you ask me, because of what they have made the PSP capable of doing, it is the best console to own right now. Thanks especially to Dark Alex for the amazing Open Edition.
^
im from paisley and would definetly take you for a pint to say cheers for all your good work keep it up
So in other words, slow day at BBC, so they decided to throw these guys a bone. Haha.
Was that supose to be mean? Cause thats not very nice. These guys do very good work and diserve the reconition for it all. So please if this was supose to be mean then keep it to your self.
if that was supposed to be mean ill come and cap all ur homies.
jk
Its great to see Fanjita, Dark_Alex and Team C+D getting so much publicity on the BBC site.
Well done guys ;)
For two people who are so talented with Coding the PSP,
WHY OH WHY did they mention there real Names,
How Stupid was that, SONY are going to take both of them to the Cleaners, you wait, they will be SUED for alot of Money, for what they have done!!! Maybe Imprisoned!!!!
Don't expect anymore Updates now People!!!!
hmmm... I don't think sony would do that if they are smart. Cuz people realy investigate how they can fully use products wich they will buy, and when they investigate the psp abilities, and see that there are no exploits and other goodies, the wont buy a psp. So SONY, for you own sake, don't take out Dark_AleX, he is your "mole" :P
No they wont get imptisoned or anything cause they arnt doing anything illegal right? Piracy is illegal, they arnt doing that. I can understand Dark alex maybe is on the line but not Fanjita, and any way they only know Dax's first name... Thats my 2 cents.
Sony isn't going to try and sue them, they are going to try and kidnapp them. Then Sony is going to put Dark_Alex in a cold room and force him to make new updates that kick ass. Fanijita is going to be forced to make PSX emulator updates. :P
Ye! plus If sony is really smart, they will create some form of electronic delivery system! like valve did with steam! that way we could still have the benifits of Iso games (ie, load faster) and it would still be legal!
Is there a mistake? :
"Anyone buying a new PSP with this firmware installed will be therefore be unable to unlock their console - at least until Noobz, Team C+D and Dark Alex and his crew find another exploit and the whole cat-and-mouse game played by Sony and the hacker teams repeats itself."
Which firmware do they mean? I thought every FW (I know 1.51 and 1.52 can't) can be downgraded or hacked?
Any thing higher than 3.03 can't be downgraded, although I don't think any psp will come with them installed for quite some time.
I truly enjoyed this article. It was a good read. Too bad team tOc didnt make it :( lol
Anyway, glad to see that the homebrew scene is being brought out into the media as a way to enhance the PSP instead as a monster that will break it.
I hope we get more articles like this from QJ instead of spamming the front page. Thanks for providing this article QJ.
;)
Also, its evident that other people enjoyed this article too. Notice that there were no 1st!11!!!111!!! posts. Articles like these make people want to make real posts and give their opinion, instead of spamming the comments.
I was the first poster and i thought it would be a good idea to make a good one. Instead of FIRST POST! crap. I hate it when they do that. Just post a good and thats it. Thanks again.
You missed team C+D in the tags, they are mentioned also. What about them :D
that was amazing hope it gets on tv.... *drools*
interesting..i thought these two were from US or something..lmao
dotn preach and sin my frind what makes u any different huh ur ignorance distgusts me do u really pay any attention to things outside of ur contry of course not u pay attention to dumb crap on the computer if u dont like america then stay out and keep ur friends out 2 we are nto ehre to be ur friends we are jsut here and how we choose to live is fine with dummies liek u around the world why not? and for the record when it comes to self centered biggitist people much like ur selrf ignorance is bliss viva la america
@ p0stal_sean
Ffs...your comment was soo booring and soo hard to read I just couldn't be arsed to hear what you had to say.
That's why American and Ignoramus are synonymous terms.
dark alex - alejandro the gothic lol
if dark alex lieks metal music then he just might be my best firend lol
oooh ur hurtign my poor american feeling hahahaha. and to TIS sorry man when i get mad i ramble alooot that and my keyboards broke put short thanks for beign polite unlike these second rate humans
I don't think Goths listen to Metal. I'm not Goth and I listen to Metal. It would be cool if Dark_Alex did like metal, though :P.
@ p0stal_sean, lol, your comments are so awesome :P. I have a heavy accent associated with you. Oh, and your rant is a bit weird. It seems like your making fun of Americans, and also saying if you don't like America you can leave... Sort of weird. I'm guessing that your talking about Latin Countries, but...
i think its about time that bbc and so on start reports on this
an i think now since the news is on the bbc that Click (a bbc programme will report on it
What about Booster? he should have been interviewed too.
Shocker said, What about Booster? he should have been interviewed too. Apparently I don't think he would want this. BOOSTER has some problems with Sony. Sony gave a cease and desist order to BOOSTER because of his famous Devhook. Devhook allowed emulation of the latest firmware and so there was no reason to upgrade. And BOOSTER had a website which he used to host his Devhook but Sony closed this page and Sony asked the owners of the site to tell them when BOOSTER came online. Anyways, as you've seen in the article, they talk about the developers real name and BBC actually meet these developers. BOOSTER might have not wanted to go for an interview because then BBC would know BOOSTER's location and Sony might ask for this location. And just imagine your BOOSTER, and you hear the doorbell ring. And guess who it is. It's Sony telling you to meet them in court. Sony would obviously try and sue BOOSTER, and actually, they would win. Devhook is an illegal program that allows you to load ISO/CSO which is illegal. And because of BOOSTER, there's no need to upgrade anymore. BOOSTER started the whole emulation of firmware and because of BOOSTER, we have custom firmware as well. Though this thing about BOOSTER not being interviewed is just an idea. But the thing about us having custom firmware because of BOOSTER is true. BOOSTER started the idea of being able to still load homebrew and use the features of the latest firmware and being able to load ISOs/CSOs. Dark_AleX took it from there so you could do all of this just by turning on the PSP so you don't have to load Devhook and stuff and also he added some things of his own like recovery mode and PSX emulation.
The C+D order was only for distributing the firmware with the package, not for the program itself. He hasn't distrubted the firmware with the package since, and would NOT be sued by anyone.
Booster is not there because my ***** is too big
Booster never received a cease and desist order. His ISP did, since someone had posted a copyrighted file on his site.
LongLive DAX
Why dont SONY start shipping the New PSP's with 3.03OE-C.....
Atleast everyone will start buying PSP for sure...
What a smart question... the reason they don't is because then everyone could just download games instead of buying them and sony would go bankrupt retard... they LOSE money selling PSPs and they expect to make up the money by selling games... if they don't sell games, no more games will be made and the PSP fails. Why would you expect them to enable what they have been trying to stop all this time?
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