Is this what the PS3 scene is all about?
I’m having a hard time finding stuff to blog about on the PS3 scene. One of the reasons is that I’m much more focused (and knowledgeable) on the PS Vita and PSP scenes, but the other reason is that most of the news-worthy content on the PS3 is, these days, about piracy.
And it’s not even about debating if piracy is good or not, no. If you check the other major PS3 scene websites, since the CEX2DEX hack and the leak of 3.60 keys, 90% of the “news” are basically warez releases. No, I won’t link to those, if you want your dose of piracy, you know where to find them.
Ah, well, don’t get me wrong, I see where this is coming from. The reason isos were not the main discussion topic on the PSP scene was basically because once the first CFW was out there, piracy was child’s play. The games that were actually secured enough that they could resist a few weeks made the headlines of most scene websites, such as for example the infamous Kingdom Hearts: Birth by sleep.
Then again, I can’t help but think that on the PSP scene, there were people hard at work to get all isos to run on a CFW, not just spoonfeeding patched eboots to the community. Honestly I’m not really interested in the process, but is it that hard to automate? Or is it that the people behind those patches enjoy the power they have on the PS3 underground? To me it really feels like a failure as long as CFWs don’t have,embedded within them, the features to patch the games (which is what PRO CFW does on the PSP). Again, I’m sure it’s more difficult than it sounds, but I can’t help but being surprised at the differences between the two “scenes” on that specific point. Could it be that hackers like Virtuous Flame are extremely rare?
I’m sure there’s more to the PS3 scene than Eboot patches. Tons of emulators, or the great Showtime that I have yet to try and review (shame on me, but hey, I just recently got a hackable PS3, so…), etc… What types of articles would you guys want to see about the PS3 Scene?
A lot of the emulators are half-finished or unreleased. DC, N64, Saturn, PS1, and I think DS and GC emulators were also in the works. Seeing all, or some, of them get finished would be great.
The problem is that on 3.41 PSJailbreak/PSGroove, you could build a dynarec core around Kammy.
Geohot, by thumping his nose at Lv2 patches, effectively killed any of those emulators from continuing when the scene moved from the 3.41 jailbreak hack CFW 3.55. That’s why Mr. Anonymous left the Desmume port never to be released. That’s why you never saw Wii64 on PS3 – and that’s why you will probably never see any other ‘modern’ console emulator on PS3 anytime soon – because without being able to write a dynarec, we are *** out of luck.
In my opinion, Geohot released an intentionally neutered custom firmware just because he was angling for a job and thought this was his big ticket to get in. Of course it didn’t quite pan out how he expected it to, but still, the prime intent was never about ‘enabling’ anything.
The PS3 scene was all about piracy from day one. The first homebrew created for the ps3 was a backup manager, GeoHotz offered a homebrew only piracy free solution, but people didn’t like it, so CFWs like waninkoko ar Kmeaw came out with peek and poke. Before the ps3 was hacked people were using the excuse of “with such a powerful hardware, there’s lots of possibilities”, plain BS, it’s all about hackikng, very little homebrew and emulators are also available to the psp and the ps2. Why would I want to hack a console whose emulators are the same as it’s weaker predecessor? and the same will happen to the vita, lots of people are talking about it’s potential for homebrews, but when it gets really hacked, it will all be piracy again and again. Makes me sad, and mad.
That is mostly true, but I can honestly say that I used my PSP FAR more for emulators than anything else. The PSP/Vita design is perfect for the oldschool systems in a travel format. Sure you can play them on a TV console or PC, but it isnt the same. They feel legit on the PSP.
Plus, for insane NEVER INTENDED TO BE BEATEN games like Battletoads, the rewind feature on some of the emulators is very cool.
just like TheSpillmonkey, I can tell you that I have a PSP 2000 and only use it for emulators. I have a PSP GO for GBA and Gameboy emulators. I can count on one hand how many games I like and have on my PSP. The Vita will be perfect for SNES, MAME, Amiga, and so on. But so far, I have 3 Vita games and a PSP game and two Vita games pre-order. With that said, yes I would abuse the *** out the Vita when it is jail broken and I can run ISOs:)
‘GeoHotz offered a homebrew only piracy free solution’
Geohot offered a neutered piece of *** that caused the person who had invested a lot of time into writing a dynarec for PS3Sx (a PCSX port for PS3) to give up in disgust and throw his Desmume port in the trash because the oh so wonderful brat ‘Geohot’ was more interested in angling and brownnosing for a job at big bad Sony. That they sued him in return is a wonderful little instance of karma coming back to bite you in the ‘you-know-what.
And besides, nobody elected some late teens/early twentysomething to be their ‘overlord’ and moral guardian who gets to decide for the rest of us what we can and can’t do. People don’t like restrictions, self-neutering – we leave that *** up to the companies that provide these vendor lock-inned consoles to us in the first place – we don’t expect to be treated like idiots by the people that are supposedly all about ‘enabling’ it to do things it can’t do normally.
The whole concern about ‘piracy’ is a bad joke – most of the people who like to talk about that all day I’ve found are the biggest pirates out there – and the PS3 scene has some real highlights in that regard. It’s like a closet racist denouncing racism everyday while simultaneously being the biggest racist in town – two-facedness knows no bounds in these ‘console homebrew scenes’ centered around ‘quasi-legal – reversed with IDA Pro’ SDKs that look ‘suspiciously’ like the official SDKs.
Emulation IS piracy.
emulation on legacy consoles is not illegal in anyway. you should go read the law before you open your mouth and insert your foot.
Doesn’t VHBL in a sence enable piracy as well? Emulators, roms, Etc…
Only in the same sense that any form of a jailbreak or hack of a device enables piracy. It isn’t coded for that, and doesn’t enable it directly. It’s other developers that make their own code that runs inside HBL (There is NO piracy in VHBL as it doesn’t have kernel mode access right now) that enables playing of isos. And you really can’t hold HBL accountable for piracy occuring from misuse. If you did, then you have to hold Sony accountable for the exact same thing.
I think that any system that becomes hacked is going to have many that will use it as only a means for piracy, but I beleive it’s all dependant upon the developers that are involved in the scene. I believe the psp and vita scenes will be more for actual homebrews than any other system. So, far I haven’t seen a scene have more homebrews and work done to actually make the device better, than work to make piracy easier, outside of the psp scene. And I think (and hope) the vita scene will follow suit.
wololo, Try showtime is a very very good if not great media player piece of homebrew.
For me the reason why PS3’s scene is all about piracy is because the PS3 is home console and people do not care that much about homebrews -they bought PS3 to play PS3 games on huge 50 inch TV
The other reasons are the people on the PS3 scene. The dongle guys rule the PS3 and even at the dusk of their era they are trying to squeeze out some more money out of it. They are not exactly the guys who will create those homebrews because they are free and don’t guarantee the interest of the public
Well, be ready for another gigantic rant. ._.
Lets get into the nitty gritty, shall we? 9/10 users of a CFW on their PS3 only use it for two things: Enabling playback of MKV or a like format the PS3 doesn’t accept (Which, again, nitty gritty? It’s likely a pirated HD movie, or anime [which isn’t -technically- stealing, as it’s not licensed, but that’s a gray area] they’ve downloaded) or playing backed up PS3 games. There are upsides to this, for the 1 non-pirate user of the console; His games run faster. How much faster? Likely a negligible amount. I suppose with two consoles (combine that with the already low ‘legit’ PS3 CFW users and you’re looking at maybe 1/10000) you can play the same game at the same time, assuming the game is -that- good, or you have friends over and want to LAN. Which, combine THAT with the lack of games and the forced ‘LOL U PAY US TO PLAY ONLINE’ *** of online passes, makes that already insignificant number even smaller. So really, what is there for your PS3 that homebrew brings that the PS3 already doesn’t? PSP, i love my PSP. Thanks to homebrew, i can use it as a PC controller, as a TV remote, to watch youtube on, read .txt files (which is useful for, say, a walkthrough of a game you don’t want to get up and check the PC for every 5 seconds), unzip files (which again, can be useful for when you want something from the net that’s zipped, no need for the computer), and god knows how many non-piracy apps i use that i forget about. What of that is of use on the PS3? Or is within the PS3’s limits? None of it. It’s not portable, so there’s no reason to load txt files, (and it doesn’t even need that kind of homebrew with the web browser), The controller can already be used as a PC controller. Doesn’t have any IR function so there goes that. Zip files? Yeah, i suppose..but if you’re next to your PS3, i don’t think you’re going to want to go through the difficulty of all that on the PS3 even with a homebrew. It’s nice for PSP because it’s portable, and thus if you’re using pub wifi at like a hospital, you can unzip on the fly. Really, what does PS3 offer -but- piracy? One of the biggest reasons i bought a PS3 that’s backwards compatible is because i want to play PS2 ISOs. Sure, it’s piracy. But some games have translations. Like FFXII International Zodiac Job System. It’s in Japanese, would be an insane cost to import, and can only be played via my PC (and you need a decent one, at that) or a modded (be it soft or hard) console anyway, because you need both FFXII and IZJS in ISO format to convert the IZJS to english. And that’s just one game, don’t get me started on other games that get polish for pirates, or even legit (few as they are) users who own the disc. Ar Tonelico 2 is getting a superb tuneup. And that game rules. So, again, i ask you. What does the PS3 offer in terms of homebrew that isn’t readily available on my PC, or my PSP that’s of any value? PS3 is a sit down console. Not a portable one (unless you’re insanely rich and can afford Ben Heck, but that falls under the low percentile). There’s not much -to- be added, honestly. Even emulators are piracy. Even if you own the game, did you rip the title yourself? Did you get a SNES rom creating hardware (forgive me for not knowing the proper terminology) and rip it yourself? Then you are a pirate. And really, why would -anyone- do all that to begin with when it’s so much easier and cheaper to click download? People can claim to ‘not be a pirate’, but even if they aren’t lying for the sole purpose of ego on the internet (a useless purpose, i might add), they’re truly missing out on a very large portion of our culture. The poor, as it sits, get the very short end of the stick, and the rich usually cram that stick in places it doesn’t belong. Video games are a gigantic part of our culture. A poor person will live their lives never being a part of it unless they pirate. Piracy debates are pointless. There’s pros and cons for both sides of the table, so it’s just a big morality fight between to squabbling children on the internet. Game companies rape your wallet to the ground. Even with the current piracy, they still make an insane amount of money. The only difference to pirates is that they try before they buy, so they don’t get suckered into the hype that the companies want. Really, i have a few friends who are pirates. Know how many of them purchase the games they liked? All of them. The exception being myself, but that’s because I’ve not really seen a game i can honestly say is worth the price. If we could set our own prices for games, i think piracy would be different. But oh god, that’s a horrifying thing for big gaming hollywood. It’ll never fly. Ever. Not in the land of the capitalist. Anyway, rant over. Anyone who made it out alive, treat yourself to something sweet, because you’ve earned it x.x
😀 time for a snack
I uh..i just wanna add, sorry Wololo for adding stress to your server, i kinda went off and length-be-damned. ._.
Doh’, i forgot to add something to my rant. Sorry people who are already enjoying their sweets, and sorry to those who’s eyes have glazed over by this point. There is one huuuuuge feature i would love that the PS3 implemented via homebrew/CFW. The ability to play music in any game. It’d probably take a whole re-write of something vital, but that is one genuinely good thing i think CFW could bring. So many damn games don’t support music in-game. It’s one of the larger reasons i like 360 so much.
But does it bake…
Besides games… why should any1 try to develop anything for ps3 when they could it (or has been done) on the x360 ?
coz it’s different 0_0
I don’t understand how people can complain about piracy and be against it, then go and use emulators. That is 100% piracy just as if you were pirating Vita or ps3 games.
Highly doubtful people own the ridiculously high number of ROMs for all the emulators irl. So it’s not “backups” it’s piracy.
People are such massive hypocrites…
It is extremely different. We are talking of games that were made dozens of years ago, conpared to games that were just released and haven’t made their money back yet. I dont know for you, but I dont still get paid today for the work I did 10 years ago.
It’s all about the scale of money that these represent. For emulators and old games, in many cases, the people who actually made the game dont even work for the same company anymore, and would never see the money.
Finally, most of these games are nowhere to be found legally anyways, so where do you expect people to buy them? Reminder: second hand market is worse for the industry than piracy!
Yeah, that’s just it. Piracy has two sides of a table. Piracy is superb for keeping old media that can’t be found anymore. Likewise, it’s good for people who are poor. There’s no way to regulate piracy, though. I made a rather large rant in another of your blog posts about how nowadays, most games aren’t even worth the price they charge. There’s such a gigantic gray area with all of it, i honestly think the whole thing is just a means of discussion. Piracy is bad? There’s much more pressing matters to address before piracy. God knows how high the chain goes in terms of worse and worse crimes. All crimes are not equal. Piracy is one of the very lowest. If people have time to debate about why piracy is wrong, why don’t they have time to address bigger issues? I think it’s what it’s all about, wololo, because that’s just this generation. Teach a kid how to do what he wants to all the time (in this case, play video games) and of course he’s going to run with it. Dx Iunno, i dun wanna make another blog-sized rant so i’ll cut it off here. Dx Dx
So, considering only “new” purchase gain the developers money, wouldnt pirating ps3/any-newer-system games that you can’t buy new anymore be okay? I can go into my local GameStop and there are lots of PS3 or 360 games that you simply cannot buy new anymore. The devs don’t get a cent out of used games, so by your logic, isn’t that perfectly fine?
Yes. If you can’t buy a game “new” anymore, then by all means, in my personal opinion, it is better to pirate it than to buy it second hand. Keep in mind though that with the rise of digital stores (PSN and xbox live), I think you can always buy PS3 games from there, and guarantee a revenue stream to the original devs (even if Sony takes a bigger share than they should)
Edit: there are layers to that too. If you buy it second hand from a personal friend who is a gamer, there’s a high chance he will reuse the money to buy more new games, so that will benefit the industry in general. What I don’t like is the “middle man” type of situation with most “used” stores.
I’ve always had the same thought on the “copyright sell_buy date on digital media” where a digital product would let’s say to be fair a span of 20 years be under copy-right, after that should be known as archive digital open source.
If memory serves, BBS wasn’t so much antipiracy measures and more that it need a bunch of system files that were needed weren’t in the old firmwares that the CFW of the time was based on but I could be(and probably are) wrong about that
Both, it encrypted its data files with a then unknown security feature and also called to a certain instruction which the old firmware PSP’s did not have, but really it was only the first part that took time to figure out. The fix was decrypting the files and negating the instruction via a misspelled letter.
x360 has been easier and more cost efficient to hack for me. Say what you want about xbox, but it does have its advantages over ps3 and vice versa.
If I could find a hacked or hackable ps3 for cheap I would want it.
well let´s be honest, 95% of people that goes or joins a scene is for pirating games. that´s the reality of every scene there has been, has there been one that dosen´t allow pirecy ? in each and every one there is and always be there.
I pirated 2 games on the vita KH: BBS and Crisis Core, technically four if you count all the versions of BBS. However I later importing the Final Mix copy which set me back $60, so I really only pirated one measly game and even then I still feel guilty since I think it was worth a $20. Furthermore people don’t join a scene, they just follow one. Lastly the PS3 scene would have taken off however it was the news sites which led it to its current state, it doesn’t help when scene sites mentioned every revision to multiman but only reported on the emulator and programs weeks after they released.
Piracy? The reason companies are trying to hook you on online play is because they can easily black it on a pirated console. Its like a dealer giving you an addictive drug and then taking it away and raising the price. Look at Call of Duty sales, they repack the same games year after year and try to sell you that its better than the last. When they try to say that MW2 has better graphics than 1 and MW3 beats 2 I just laugh. How did the graphic chips in consoles suddenly gain new polycounts. PC too since most are xbox ports…1280×720 xbox ports. *sigh*
The original hackers on the PSP scene developed the homebrew SDK’s quite extensively before releasing them, thats why you had such a huge flux of quality software being released at a massive rate, the PS3 scene had no such luxury. The PS3 ran all apps of its PPC not utilizing any of the 6 SPE’s and leaving the graphics card completely out of the equation. The Nouveou project decided not to try and port their drivers to it, so all we had for the lengthiest time was framebuffer support. Finally people are developing NoRSX and Cellframework to make apps easier. But now all the hype is gone, devs have moved on elsewhere and unlike the nice PSP scene, competitive multilayer shooters had turned most PS3 users into *** who rebelled against freedom when they saw its. Sony’s threat against indie devs followed the lawsuits led to most devs leaving the console alone. And just like Independent parties in politics the scene suddenly lacked any real followers or mass. I have to say that the PS3 scene more than any has focused almost entirely on piracy, but how can you blame it.
The real devs hacked the console to fulfill the masses desires, the masses loved it, until Sony blocked them from PSN. By their addiction they then blamed their own rescuers, through in lawsuits and PSN getting hacked when it did, suddenly every user who wasn’t for piracy instantly developed a hatred for hacking/indie homebrew/pirates of any kind. Sony planned their efforts beautifully and ensured that any sort of further hacking would be attacked like hungry wolves to a injured sheep.
heck if Sony never did anything, their sales would still be about the same and we would have dozens of codecs, a word processor and probably a better internet browser on are ps3s right about now.
^^^^ This guy. This guy right here gets it.
@Whiteclad, now I’m the one wishing I had an upvote system on my blog’s comments. Great analysis!
now that was a good read, I do hope you join us in the forums cause you sir have impressed me ^___^
frankly I never tought I would see a intelligent post in the blog comments 0__0
Also, possible second rant in the same blog post. Wololo, who in their right mind purchases new games? What is it that new games offer that a used one that’s 10$ cheaper doesn’t? Especially cartridge games. You may miss out on the manual (oh boy, a 3 page booklet of patents and other useless dribble :/ ) Aside the current online pass, which really only is a greed maneuver, as they’d only get 10$ for every game, verses 60, and it really hurts your friends who borrow the game since they need to use your account or buy a pass themselves, what reason is there? If you can save 10-40$ on a game that’s in near-mint condition (the only thing that’s not mint is the smell and the plastic wrapping) why wouldn’t you? You still bought the game. It’s not stealing or anything. I don’t think -anyone- will look at a collection of games and go “yeah but how many of these did you buy at full price and support the developers?” because in the end, the game, as soon as it leaves the wrapping is used. The only difference is that people made a (albeit, i am in no way justifying gamestop, they’re evil corporate greedbags who need to burn) centralized trade system with a middleman. Even if i sold the game to my friend, it falls back to the whole ‘why would i buy new?’ If I’m selling it to my friend, i doubt I’m going to charge him a full 60$, and if i don’t, what new game can i buy that’s -not- used? I can purchase an older game, but even then, the good ones are generally used, so that defeats the whole ‘wanting to support the publisher’. I think, like most things, that’s just another useless arguement. It’s good for personal morality and ego, but it holds no weight elsewhere. A collection is a collection, be it bought used or new. You own the game, be it supporting the devs/publishers or not. To make a big deal, heck, -any- deal out of something so trivial as if you bought the game used or not because you ‘support the creators’ isn’t worth your time. x.x
That probably depends on people. These days, personally, the main reason I buy games is to show support to the developers team (half of the games I buy I don’t even play, because of lack of time, sadly). Therefore, I always buy them new. Also, I don’t resell them (but I tend to give them away to friends).
I know that just too well. 😉
Sometimes, I’m asking myself, if I’m more of a gamer or a collector.
It’s not that I keep anything sealed. I unpack every game I buy and play it at least for short, but I don’t sell my games, as they’re something more valuable to me.
@wololo “but I tend to give them away to friends”
can I be your friend?:)
@Leires that was a lot of reading..my rant to your rant.. I have a PS3 jail broken with a huge HD. I have downloaded a lot of PSN games and a lot of PS3 games. I have play those PS3 PSN and full retail games for about 10minutes or so..frankly, I think that I’m to old (NES/SNES generation) I do not enjoy 90% (games that I like capcom games fighting/SNK)of the games. I think that it is mostly because my lifestyle changed and I just do not have time to play games on a big screen or the games have became way too advance. I have a PSP jail broken as well.. all I play are emulators and yes that is equal to piracy. My PSP Go serves me as a GBA/GBC console. Games on my PSP, Ys series, Castlevania and SFA3, I have the physical copies. I just purchased a Vita, got UGA, UMVC3, MK9 on pre-order Street fighter vs Teken and LBP. Games that I like, I do not mind purchasing and supporting the dev. Here is what *** me off on the current industry.. If I purchase a hardware (vita) I should be able to run anything on it, Emulators and also run current games. If I buy a hand held game, I do not want any DLC add on. When DLC were introduced, I was like, I wander if gamers will accept that ***. To my surprise gamer these days are more tolerant than older generation. In my view DLC should not be allowed, I feel like people are purchasing Demos or incomplete games. The online pass, that is the biggest you know, what that I have ever heard. Full retail digital prizing is also a big you know what. If I own the physical media, I should be able to own the digital as well. On the Vita, I have 3 physical games, I should have the right to copy the games inside my Vita and not use the physical games. I have a 3ds as well and I think that 3ds games cost a lot. I tend to purchase used games because I will not support the current industry directly. For my PS vita games, MK cost 8.99, UGA free with my vita, UMVC3 got it for 28.00 amazon, my pre-orders games $30 dollars 10 off from newegg on pre order games. Sony took “insert name here” to court and everyone turned ageist him. Calling him pirate, looser and all kind of names. I was like ***. If I were one of these smart guys that jailbreak staff, I would not release it to the public. It would not surprise me at all if “insert name here” has fully jail broken the vita and running all kind of *** and we will not see that any time soon. also everyone here wants to run emulators on the Vita and have purchase games from PSN every time there is a new “insert name here” release but look a the SKFU blog and how many people have donated for the Vita devkit?. What I am trying to say is that, the video game industry has gotten way too greedy and consumer are not putting a fight. Stop buying over prize games and stop the poblisher ***, stop playing on consoles and go play some MAME arcade games. You might find out that MAME arcade games are more enjoyable than today’s games and it will only cost you a download. As for the next Generation of games costing over $100, used games not being playable on the console, I will just have to wait and see if consumers have sank to a new level of stupidity.
Yep, that’s about it. I’m just as surprised as you are that people are eating the *** that is DLC. Did you know some games actually have on-disc DLC? That’s right, the content is finished already, but you have to PAY to unlock it. People *** about it, make long rants like i do, but nobody (myself included) does anything about it. We’re juuust fine eating the same *** that’s spoonfed to us every year (call of duty for example) and not mentioning the taste. We’re juuuust fine paying 60$ for a 6 hour game, when back in the day the same amount would get you 100+. Immersion? Woah pal, that costs extra. Purchase the DLC now for extra immersion! I honestly see DLC as a scam for consoles to get ‘expansions’ to games. Except they’re not even expansions. They’re just tiny bits of content that are severely overpriced. Any dev that makes DLC does not deserve a single *** quarter from me. I’m sure it’s not the dev’s choice for DLC, but even if it’s not, I’m not going to pay for content that should have came with the game. If your game needs more time, then take it. People need to stop being so impatient with stuff and just wait. The very small minority of devs that are even worth your dollar are the indie ones. And guess what? They sell their stuff in humble bundles. Want not just one, but -several- great games of varying gameplay length for less than 20$? Here you go, choose how much you want to pay. And, better yet, you can choose where it goes to. That is how it should be. Not 60$ for a garbage rehash of the same old genre day in day out. Which applies to just about every genre. Nothing breaks the mould these days. It’s always take the safe route. Hype up your game to high heaven, make it look really pretty, and sell it. Content? Gameplay? We already have your money, you don’t need any of that stuff. It’s illegal for a person to scam another person, but it’s not illegal to be tricked into buying garbage things like games nowadays? The industries are growing far too damn big for their britches.
I never thought about jailbreaking my PS3, as I have a PC and if I needed some smaller TV device to play media and stuff, I can’t with my PS3 already, I could get a raspberry pi.
The only thing, I do on my PS3, except for playing movies, is gaming. And as long as there is no DRM-***, I like to support the companies, I play and like the games of. So there is no need for me, to jailbreak my PS3.
A portable device like the PSP or Vita on the other hand is perfect for homebrews, emulators and experimenting with the hardware.
We just want you keeping the good job made until now.
On a personal level I’m interested in trueblue going away. I’d much rather there’d be “free” piracy than trueblue running some protection racket. It’ll be very interesting to see what stories these news sites gravitate towards after they become a thing of the past but for now, I’m willing to believe the focus is on piracy because no one likes trueblue and with good reason.
right now, i have 9 vita games.. they are in hard-copy since i have a small memory card.. and i’m completely ok with it.. in fact, i still plan on buying Ragnarok Odyssey.. 🙂
but i still think that piracy *might* help the vita to sell more… the users love backward capability and the vita can do it, the only problem is that PSN doesn’t have some of the popular titles from the PSP. in fact my brother wants to buy KHBBS from the PSN, but surprise, surprise… its not available…
backward compatibility is also ( and i am fairly sure) the reason why 3DS sells more than vita.. you can play downloaded games and play then through R4 cards without hacking or modifying anything. you can also use your old cartridges on it, its a big deal for nintendo fans who still have their old cartridges with them right?? on our vita, we can’t use UMD even if we wanted to. in my case, i admit that i don’t have even a single UMD, i downloaded all my games since i hate the noise and slowness of using the UMD…
so if i may ask again, any news regarding TONY’S CFW?? the world kinda needs it.. 🙂
my psp is being used by my younger sister and its running on PRO CFW btw.. 🙂
A small comment about the release of “fixed” EBOOTs etc; currently, any games requiring up to 3.60 can easily be fixed by anyone, and I think there is a PoC CFW which has the 3.60 keys (but it still can’t play 3.60 games without them being fixed quite yet, I’m sure it won’t be too long though).
For games that require over 3.60, the only way to “fix” the games is to acquire a decrypted EBOOT. That means either obtaining the keys for FWs above 3.60, or getting the EBOOTs another way. I believe the general consensus is that no one has the keys, and so the EBOOTs must be obtained some other way.
“TrueBlue” has been releasing a few fixed EBOOTs (only for use with their own CFW & DRM dongle, of course), but I would guess the slowish stream of these releases is because of the difficulty in obtaining decrypted EBOOTs. For games that have updates on PSN, I believe a QA flagged console can be used to download these updates and with a proxy, the URL of the debug EBOOT (unecrypted) can be found. But that is only valid for games that have updates. And of course TB don’t want to release anything that might help people play these games without their dongle, so they won’t release anything to let people fix EBOOTs themselves.
Then pleople say I am wrong when I don’t support CFW and so on. I like HBL because it won’t support such things as piracy ( at least not from it’s main devs ), but surely 90% of the people who come and go around wants only to pirate games. Sadly.
Hope your work continue to change the way people see ” hacks “.
it is all about piracy everything that is leaked is for piracy on the ps3 dont get me wrong i like a little piracy but homebrew EMUs are better no dreamcast no n64 no booker nothing on the ps3 why because no one cares about that just care about latest games
their is a RAM exploit which allows you to dump the trueblue eboots but the best thing is to be dex then you can pirate all you want on the ps3 aslong as the game has an update
im haveing problems with houseing. i have all my computers and such in storage. but i hope to continue development here real soon. i hope to release a few things and show to the world that ps3 homebrew can be a great gameing exsperince. i hope to release a homebrew engine that i will port to custom firmwares that will make it super easy for others to “make great first person homebrew storys and exsperinces” i think that your work is great wololo. infact my engine can run on the half byte loader! :/ but im just part of a very small dev team. and well.. in time i guess evrything will come together :/