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Firmware 2.81: Looming in the Horizon?

Posted Sep 06, 2006 at 09:53AM by Anna S. Listed in: News Tags: DreaDNought, Sony, Europe, DevHook, Hackers, FrSIRT
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It has always been a cat and mouse relationship between hackers (or attackers according to FrSIRT) and Sony. And by cat and mouse by no means do we refer to Tom and Jerry, but the carnage that is Itchy and Scratchy and the nasty ways they've figured out to hurt or in this case outwit one another.

Take the case of DevHook. Some time in August the developer received a Cease and Desist Order from Sony that lead to the site's shutdown. But that little stint only caused developers to get even. Hence, the release of numerous downdaters/downgraders. While others like DreaDNoughT took the more comical approach by releasing a satirical game called Hackers vs Sony.

When FrSIRT reported that "A vulnerability has been identified in Sony PSP, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands," it's like music to hackers' ears. We can only speculate that this urged Sony to take the defensive and release v2.81, with a v2.81 ad flashing across their site. However, it is so far only available in Europe as the US site still has v2.80 on their System Update page. Even the Sony's Official Japanese site doesn't have this release.

QJ Forum members have been so kind as to try and download the World Tour Soccer 2 with hopes that it's bundled in the game, but the experiment only confirmed that it is not coupled with the game. If you want to go see it for yourself you can bypass the YourPSP registration by entering in your PSP's serial number and putting "SB" at the front instead of the other letters you have, and by entering PSP-1003 as the code.

Which can only lead us to speculate, wait and speculate some more on what Sony is up to. At this point, we can only give you a friendly reminder: If you still want to play your homebrew, do not upgrade.

Since Scratchy has made his move, aren't you the least bit curious what Itchy will do?

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   by Stian (Unregistered) - 2006-09-07

2.81 also supports memory sticks bigger than 4GB.

   by alexlaban (Unregistered) - 2006-09-07

how need bigger than 4gb if u cant use hombrew

   by DarkLink5607 - 2006-09-07
 » @#30
too true man. Look how successful Windows is because of that fact! You'd need a 2gb memory stick to run isos and even then it clogs up a lot of your space. On the plus side of the ability to run anything, homebrew is great, and emulators are absolutely legal (which sony hasn't learned, isn't learning, and will never learn). There are also tons of legal homebrew apps out there that don't run any sorts of roms or isos, and sony just stomps on them because they only want money, money, money. Well i don't give a dam how much money sony makes off of me, but ideally less! Why the hell can't i just play my legal homebrew and sony piss out of my business?!

   by Gamesdmc3 (Unregistered) - 2006-09-07
 » v2.81
nocomment

   by td (Unregistered) - 2006-09-09
 » read
read the bloody article, it's only on the euro sites

   by Juga Juga (Unregistered) - 2006-09-10
 » UNbELIEVABLE
i did it...i got homebrew...it took a while...but i got it on 2.81...im gonna post soon enough and tell how i did it

   by Juga Juga (Unregistered) - 2006-09-10
 » UNbELIEVABLE
i did it...i got homebrew...it took a while...but i got it on 2.81...im gonna post soon enough and tell how i did it

   by discrete_sam (Unregistered) - 2006-09-16
 » seriously
seriously...like DONT UPGRADE i mean like i had a 2.6 and then upgraded to 2.7 and was stuck there for over a year...no Edison Carter.. no homebrew...nothing! It was like a taking a pacifier away from a baby...luckily i heard that the downgrader/downdater came out...so i downgraded succesfully and am now in 1.50.. its crazy..... so make me proud as well as other hackers AND DONT UPGRADE!!!!!

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   by stupid blond! (Unregistered) - 2006-10-06
 » so stupid!!!
I am so stupid, I uploaded my 1.5 with 2.81 by accident, I am so stupid! So UNbelievable, please tell me how you managed to get homebrew.

   by kicks (Unregistered) - 2006-10-06
 » 2.81 emulator
how can i play iso games on my psp v2.81

   by nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (Unregistered) - 2006-10-07
 » no
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i got 2.81

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