No plans for custom firmware 6.00 M33 |
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So official firmware 6.00 is here. As with every OFW release, there's bound to be speculation about what steps the homebrew community would counter the new protections it puts into place, and who do we all turn to but Dark AleX?
Those hoping for a 6.00 M33 release will likely end up waiting in vain, however. According to PSP Wiki and www.Dark-AleX.org admin Alek, there are currently no plans to release a custom firmware version of the latest official system update.
Here's what he posted on the PSP Wiki:
Please, don't ask here, the Blog, IRC, etc for a 6.00 M33, as it isn't planned.
Tough break. I've actually been looking forward to upgrading past 5.00M33-6. Still, those looking for their CFW fix have other avenues to turn to now.
Thanks to shadownhero for the tip!
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Relax DAX
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Now do you care?
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Our hope now rests on GENyUS. I've never had a problem with GEN, I like all their firmwares, and use 5.50 GEN-B. It's just a lack of intuition and creativity on their part thats really holding them back, but at least it works and has consistent updates still.
DaX, thanks for the work, you've been great, you'll be remembered, but I think GEN have a leg up due to their abundance of free time, which I'm sure you don't have if you're still in school/searching for meaningful employment. Thanks for all the pioneer work, someone else'll take the reins now.
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they've been out way longer than gen
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Dark AleX (a.k.a. Team M33) has been out since the BEGINNING
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I'd like to be able to buy some new games.
GTA and LittleBigPlanet come out next month.
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I'll just sit here and relax until something meaningful for the PSP comes along.
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This post will definitely be marked down by DA fan club.
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They have already start looking on Sony's OFW 6.00 and they even start to joke with Spanish's (Remember DAX is almost my neighbor – I'm Portuguese and he is Spanish). One sentence calls my attention: "ne cherchez pas en Espagne, ils ne savent que nous copier ces derniers temps…". This means something like: "Don’t look at Spain. They don’t realize yet that we have copy/stolen their last times…"
It’s more or less like saing: "Now we rule…"
Came on DAX show up and kick some French's boastful butts... LOLOLOLOLOL
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If you play "5 games per day" 4 of them being pirated and one official. You have a descision to make. Finish the store bought game and go back to 5.00. Don't know why people are crying because they actually have to buy games their looking forward to?.... Sounds stupid.
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I'll never take my copy of Dissidia out of it's case, but it's fine there as far as I'm concerned.
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M33 for life!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!
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He's done this before, anyway, starting with the OE releases, "quitting", and then releasing again as m33. He stopped at 5.00-6, saying that he was going to wait for another major version before releasing again. Now, we're at 6.00, and nobody can play the new games without giving up their homebrew. That security they added is a major change, and unless he leaves the scene entirely, I think he'll do something about it.
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Oh well.. click dislike comment. Get a life while you're at it. I make a grave point for people with good eyes and introverted personality.
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If DaX and m33 are waiting for the next major firmware release, wouldn't it be reasonable to say that the next major firmware release would be the one accompanying the release of the GO?
Assuming that it runs off of the same firmware as the 1000s, 2000 slim/lites, 3000s etc.
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Come on, gang. Let's form our own custom Firmware team.
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If at this point DaX isn't releasing a new M33 it's simply because he can't.
DaX and M33 has fallen off. It's been pretty obvious for a long time now, this merely confirms it.
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NOT INCLUDING THE STUPID TMX-1 efen noob got everyones hopes up -.-"
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and use despertar del cementerio to emulate 5.00m33 whenever you need to play brew.
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Contrary to what you may think, DAX does not owe the community anything. It's very much vice-versa, we all owe him alot. Even if you don't use M33 CFW, the person who made it was influenced by DAX at some point. Without him and his motivation, there might possibly have never been CFW in the first place. So if DAX decidsed to finally put up his hacking hat for the PSP (And possibly find the time to start playing one) I think we should all give him a big thanks, and let him go in peace... it's the least we can do for the guy.
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if something fundamental changes in new firmware, like in 1.50->3.00 on 3.xx->5.00 there is no real reason to make new firmware.
just because some people cannot play warez is not a good reason for making a new cfw.
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Might be time to turn one of my PSP's into an OFW unit, unless someone gives the ISO a patch like they did with Soul Calibur.
If only Sony would wake up and give us a digital copy along with the UMD, it'd make the Go! a lot more attractive...
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IF they did there would've been a 5.50M33 then a 5.55M33 and there will be a 6.00M33 but as they dont care there is nothing for the last year.
At least we have GEN that DO care about the PSP CFW scene.
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Think about it, I have 5 UMDs, or a MS with all those games on it. Now which is more portable? Which makes the battery last longer? Which is faster?
I think I'll stick with my 5 ISOs and keep the UMDs at home where they are safe.
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I've got videos that I've had since 1.50 and they still work fine in 5.50GEN so it's not the firmware thats the problem.
Do the smart thing and reconvert them again properly.
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There are others that have made CFW too and you all complain about their work.
Where is the rest of the team that made the first CFW? They have all gone and I think DA was the last left. Now he's gone you have to worship someone else.
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im at 5.0m33 and will not update to anything other than dark alex's custom firmware higher version.
already downloaded dissida (works) and soul calibur (works)
but i think ill only play again when my psp is updated.
facebook farmville will wither my days away, until i go back to my psp.
anyways thanks to all homebrew people and their nice homebrew programs! no hate to any of you, just love and respect!
wish devhook is revived so we can emulate any new OFW.
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I also hope someone, anyone, can make a new CFW. But usually all CFWs are just reverse engineered from M33 anyway, so I wonder if we will see another one.
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what i wanted to write was :
"UNLESS something fundamental changes in new firmware, like in 1.50->3.00 on 3.xx->5.00 there is no real reason to make new firmware."
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he said that OE and M33 still thinks about us AND that they have been out much longer THAN GEN.
he didn't say that GEN has been out longer than OE/M33.
everyone knows whose been here since the beginning, there's no doubt about that.
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b|ank Crossfire said if you wanna play newer games, upgrade to the latest Official Firmware and then when you want to play your homebrews or other ISOs that you obtained legally, then you can use Pandora to go back to 5.00 M33-X.
In other words, the only people who are complaining are the Pirates because they don't wanna upgrade to 6.00+ to play the latest UMD Games cause they don't buy their games at all!
get some common sense people. people like you give americans a rep, that all americans are "stupid"
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so no new games that are coming out "catch your eye"? thats a load of bull.
@ UltimaArmorX:
LMAO! the graphics on the PSP are not supposed to be like XBOX360 or PS3 Graphics, ofcourse the quality is going to be lower but the graphics are WAY better than on other handheld consoles such as the DS and other previous home consoles like the PS1 or gamecube.
lmao! "sharp eyes"!!!!!
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and Alek is Dax's right hand-man so Dax tells Alek what to say.
and incase you don't know Dax's other names, they are
DAX/Dax
Dark-Alex/Dark_Alex
D.A
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If new games require 5.55 or 6.00 FW and could not be patched like Zman patched Soul Calibur to work with 5.00 M33, i probably will switch to GEN :/
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My opinion is that I can play any of those games on the main consoles so why would I fork over any money for a watered down version of it that I would probably never play?
Dissidia is about the only game I was interested in only to find out that it is another squeenix button masher, again watered down.
So you see, I'm a customer who is a little difficult to please so if you don't like it you can whine some more.
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"Dark-Alex is not going to make a New CFW"
I don't know if he's just Done with trying or Just sick of PSP. I don't know or Blame him, But i do know he's not going to make a New one So more or less you got 2 options
1. Stay on 5.00m33-6 (where right now all games New and old i like work just fine)
or
2. Update to GEN and Hope you don't get any errors that's not to bad. =P
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I hate to say it but if AleX can't come through, at least by the arrival of the PSP Go then I'm going to have to look elsewhere for PSP Firmware updates.
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I had already pre-ordered LBP and Motorstorm - Arctic Edge and now I'm wondering if I should cancel them seeing as how it looks unlikely I'll be able to actually play them without having to give up all the lovely extra features that custom firmware opened up to me on my PSP Slim.
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As for people like me who have had a PSP since the beginning knew about CFW and all the benefits of homebrew were lucky enough to have a Full CFW on our PSPs.
And this is SONY's way of fighting piracy. And this is the point that I was trying to make, only pirates are the ones who are crying.
As for 2000v3 MoBos and 3000 users, sorry. HEN CFW can only take you so far. Maybe a Coder/Dev will be able to create a "Modern" Dev-Hok for PSPs with unhackable MoBos to emulate a higher FW Version.
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So that is why I said it was bull. If you have the home consoles then thats fine, but don't say I'm getting defensive when I was simply stating a fact.
And BTW, i'm not the one whining, its all these pirates that keep crying out for a 6.00 M33/GEN CFW.
Read buddy.
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The Guy RULES! We should all be thankful for what he has done! We should actually collect money for him and send him some for all the work he has done thus far!
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I really wish a new version would come out, I mean. That would actually help $ony because then there are more people able to play it when they buy the UMD.
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I for myself have a very legitimate reason to use CFW: I make ISOs out of all my UMDs and copy them to memory sticks. This makes the PSP even more portable without me having to carry the case with the UMDs around with me and risk losing them (especially on cross-Atlantic flights where it's cramped as it is). Also, until Sony blocked access, I was buying titles (4 before they blocked access) in the online-shop and find it retarded that they keep me from doing that now.
I just enjoy being able to do more than what the manufacturers thought of with my devices that I paid good money for. I can understand they're trying to keep people from pirating but at the same time, they should come up with a solution that still allows me to copy my UMDs to MS legally. Homebrew is nice too. Why not use the same approach for PSP as they did for PS3 where one can install a linux system?
Just don't generalize on here when it comes to using CFW! Not everybody uses it for financial gain. I can afford my games!
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And to the Users rating me Low for telling the truth HAHAHA i guess people just wont things Sugar coated for them.
(Here you go)
O i am SURE dark alex will come out with a New CFW soon, i mean he just has to rigth?..... "happy now" lol
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And as your insolent comment about them not being able to do it....epic fail.
Not as much as your parents phailed when they tried to raise you, but fail indeed. These guys have had one of the biggest companies ON THIS PLANET, on their phucking heels for close to 3 YEARS now. How many useless updates has $ony released to TRY to combat them? I've lost count.
You should be on your knees thanking these men for their hardwork. They have given the community countless FREE gifts, and liitle snot nosed punks like you are most likely the reason they don't care to help out anymore.
Would ANYONE like to helpout ungrateful phu|
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In closing, I'd like to thank DAX, and all the homebrew developers. Your hardwork, and GENEROSITY know no bounds. Your work continues to inspire me in many aspects of daily life. The diligence and thoughtfulness is almost unheard of in this day and age.
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Fact remains, it doesn't matter if DaX can or not, or if anyone can actually make it work; he isn't producing. He didn't release 5.55 when we needed that and he's not releasing 6.00 either.
As far as I'm concerned he's useless.
He did great work in the past, but unless everyone is content strictly playing games from 2008 and early 2009 then he isn't really doing us any good.
All these fools said "wait for 5.55, DaX will release it then." Then it releases and he says no. Same fools say "wait for 6.00, he'll come through then" and lo and behold, nothing. Now the very same fools are saying "wait for PSP Go, he's really gonna make it happen then!!!", well... you guys keep waiting. I'll be here laughing and saying "I told you so."
Till then I stand by my statement, DaX has fallen off. I sure hope he proves me wrong.
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good thing i own 2 psp_s one with cfw and the other with boring ofw
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I'd gladly wait for his release, heck, take off the ISO support too. At least that's guilt off his back, I mean, if you were told that your invention or project was the cause of worldwide pirating... well, it doesn't sound so good now does it? There should be no qualms or complains right? I mean all the people asking for the 6.00 support have bought the game anyway so there should be no problem at all. It's all about HOMEBREW right?
And please don't go with the whole "I don't want to bring so many UMDs" crap... One game should be enough on the go, whoever plays 3-4 on a bus or outside, should just go and start a damn convo with the person next to you or read a damn book. GET A F.CKING LIFE or a damn UMD CASE (it's $5-10 only). Greedy Bastards.
Flame on....
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And it wouldn't be several times a day, I'd switch from CFW to OFW until they update the friken FW. All I use my PSP for now is games.
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that's it.
so move on.
the only thing keeping me on m33 is a working cwcheat plugin. if i ever figure that out on genb, then im gone bye bye.
thanks for being on top. but i see it's hard to stay there
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As for 5.00m33-6 It's Doing Just Fine and ALL of the games that "did" not work before on it Now work fine, And like people have done said on here if a game comes out that can't be played on the 5.00m33-6 some one will find a fix or work around Like they do every time.
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Right now, I can't imagine myself playing PSP games without the nice features that plugins add to my PSP's life, like in-game MP3s, additional brightness (very important), RemoteJoyLite (for recording and TV-out), Hold+, etc...
If it weren't for that, I'd not really care about playing in OFW or CFW.
So, bring on the new CFW! (hopefully before or shortly after Dec. 3)
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m33 was setting the standard, and other cfw groups were following it. almoste every custom firmware followed m33 feature-wise.
now most remaining groups are struggling with hacking the new firmware. i'm guessing there are big changes in features and security of 5.55/6.00. or the homebrew community was too reliant on DA, and now severely lacks skilled homebrew hackers.
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the closes anyone has gotten is GEN-B2 and their not as good as DAX
in closeur thank you DAX for everything you have done because of you i can play my favorite ff games for ps1 games and all those awesome apps that you opened up in the CFW community thank you.
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Well the think is that i edited the EBOOT.PBP on a Hex editor the part where say 5.50 i changet to 5.00 and now it load but say "The game could not be started (80010087)"
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