Posted Jan 29, 2007 at 06:38PM by Gino D. Listed in: Firmware, Hacks & Exploits, Homebrew Development, Interviews Tags: Microsoft, Sony, PSP Show, homebrew community
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Firmware downgraders, unpatched UMDs, and the homebrew wars... - Image 1PSP Show was recently able to have a quick interview with QJ's very own Jake D. And they were able to talk about what's on everyone's minds: the 3.03 downgrader.

Yeah, the past couple of days have seen a milestone in homebrew history and we here at PSPUpdates have been witness to all that. When the 2.0-3.0 FW Hello World exploit was revealed, a lot of us already saw the downgrader coming. Surprise of all surprises, it did.

But how does this affect the entire homebrew scene? How massive are the tremors, and how far really does this turnabout reach? We're talking wide-scale, international effects here. Virtually every PSP owner could possibly take the downgrader (given that he/she has the original GTA:LCS) and get the best of both worlds - best of all firmware world, more like it.

Where does this put Sony, though? The homebrew war is getting fiercer with every notch up the FW ladder, and especially with Korea's recent 3.10 FW update, Sony's really catching up with their security patches. XNA homebrew programmers have a different process with Microsoft, so how much is this different with Sony's approach to their gamers?

Your minds are probably racking with all these thoughts by now. Will there be a truce between the homebrew community and Sony? The PSP Show posed our man Jake with an interesting idea: "we need a single voice to talk in a business way to Sony to try and find a way around this..."

As for Jake's response, we'll have to leave you guys guessing. All of these running questions about the downgrader and its effects are discussed in the interview and you can listen to it by clicking the link below. They also talk more about OPL codes, PSPRadio, emulators, and, of course, future updates...


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   by 1 (Unregistered) - 2007-01-29
 » 1im

http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=46565
dax decrypted 3.10

   by suck (Unregistered) - 2007-01-29
 » this

one

   by Extinction (Unregistered) - 2007-01-29
 » Well stop using it for ISO loaders...

Sony has no choice but to fight homebrew when you idiots build piracy into the custom firmware.

   by CATFISHD (Unregistered) - 2007-01-29
 » HI

HI THAR CAN I BE A PART OF PSP SHOW. THANK YOU. BTW HAI.

   by *sigh* (Unregistered) - 2007-01-29
 » iso loaders, or legit backup players?

what if ur umd drive craps itself? id like a umd loader then!

but moreso,

Sony = for the dollar
Homebrew = for the user

Enough said. As tho there will be any meeting of the two.
The ONLY way that can happen, is Homebrew for the dollar.
Licensing, suing, intellectual property, control, inability for others to edit, rah rah rah. it aint gonna happen.

WTF do you think we needed custom firmware & downgraders to start with!?#

   by Pal (Unregistered) - 2007-01-29
 » Sony's own fault

It's Sony's fault for giving the end-user so much to play with: MemoryStick, USB, flash ROM, etc. Freedom spells trouble in other perspectives!


   Re: :) (Unregistered) - 2007-01-30
 » Naaa

Naa, i think Sony should have supported homebrew, but locked out the capability to access/emulate the UMD functions

Would have been a smarter move by Sony
   by Mike [RealG187] (Unregistered) - 2007-01-30
 » Too much!

They mke games too expensive, they can alteast offer free games like homebrew,

homebrewis great sire sony dont make any money, but they dont put any into it

either, this helps sine it makes people want the PSP even more.

Since they try to stop homebrew and over price, I want them to lose moeny!

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   by kabir dhupelia (Unregistered) - 2007-01-30
 » I need to downgrade from 2.82!

hey guyz does anybody know how to downgrade from 2.82 to 2.60?thanx alot...if u know please email me, my address is colakabs@gmail.com

   by claimer (Unregistered) - 2007-01-30
 » dax

hey dax is fatter than the fattest

   by FANTASYX72 (Unregistered) - 2007-01-30
 » WE SOULDNT BE HAVING DOWNGRADER

WE SOULDNT BE HAVING DOWNGRADER IN THE FIRST WHAT ASS**** WOULD UPDATE AND LOSE ANYTHING

   by rokero (Unregistered) - 2007-01-30
 » please help.....

i know this thread is about the psp, but is there any way that we can get a hacker to contact the admin from myloforums.net? we would like to hack the mylo, but are currently unable to because we arent hackers ourselves. thanks in advance.


   Re: Sharry (Unregistered) - 2007-02-17
 » I run MyloForums

Hey, I run MyloForums.net what the problem Rokero? Please contact me directly via the forum itself. Thanks.


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