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Poll: Is Devhook a Devil Device, or Divine Intervention?

Posted Jun 6, 2006 at 10:10AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Firmware, Hacks & Exploits, Site News, Opinions & Analysis Tags: DevHook, Location Free, psp firmware, PSP Web Browser

Devhook Poll

As I'm sure the majority of our frequent readers know, yesterday saw the release of the groundbreaking application Devhook v0.40/v0.41 by Booster. The good part? It allows 1.50 users to fully emulate 2.50 Firmware, not only granting them access to features such as improved audio codecs, the PSP Web Browser, and Location Free functionality but more importantly making it possible to play UMD's that require 2.0-2.50 Firmware on a 1.50 PSP. Sounds great... at first.

The downside to this, as many of you have discovered, is that it also holds the potential to run illegally obtained backups in the form of ISO's. Those of you who have been with PSPUpdates for a long while know that we do not support or encourage UMD piracy, so our posting of this news may come as a bit of a surprise to some. However, this decision was not made lightly and it was determined by our staff that the "good" of this program outweighed the negative impact.

Some people insist that by posting this news, we are harming the PSP Homebrew Community which we have the utmost respect for. I can't say I agree. With Sony's current approach, supporting homebrew does just as much damage as piracy does - both keep people from buying new UMD games because we can't play them on 1.5/2.0 PSPs. That's why Devhook is a "breakthrough" and some of the biggest legitimate PSP news in a long while.

A very slippery slope, and not an easy decision - but I can honestly say that this new version of Devhook does more good for the legitimate PSP scene than harm. Now we can play great homebrew games like Callisto, and buy the latest UMD games as well. Its win-win for the PSP. Those who would use it for piracy do so on their own behalf, and would do so with or without this program.

So what do you think? Is Devhook inherently evil, brought forth on this Day of the Devil, because it can run UMD backups? Or is it a true victory for not only homebrew and hacking, but for the PSP in general? Make sure to take part in the poll which can be found in the sidebar on the far right, halfway down the page. If you are a homebrew developer, please let us know your take on it as well in the comments, since you are the heart and soul of the PSP community!

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Now I can get all those games I passed on to keep my homebrew. I don't even know how to use ISOs anyway or where to get them. And really, what percentage of the entire psp owner base knows of and uses all these watchacallit homebrew thingys. I don't know but I'm going to guess it's not a great number.

# heh — Guest 2006-06-06 11:40

If possible, this sentence from the article should be in bold

"Those who would use it for piracy do so on their own behalf, and would do so with or without this program."

Devhook has been used for piracy since it first came out. If anything, the emulated firmware was a bonus. I really find it annoying when people start to whine about piracy. Those who pirate games won't change their ways because some righteous joe-schmo points out that "stealing is stealing" and how piracy hurts everyone. Guess what? Pirates don't care either way. Piracy didn't kill off the XBox, PS2, Gamecube, and the GBA. The PSP is no different.

# Hmmmmm......dilemma — Guest 2006-06-06 11:40

well

might kill umd sales

but i guess devhook can only get better!!!!

yeh poll doesnt work

# WTF!?!?!?!?! — Guest 2006-06-06 11:41

I think anyone that has a problem with this app should STFU and not use it.

Remember folks...ignorance kills!

# wth — Guest 2006-06-06 11:45

Devil device ? Whaaaaaaaat ?

I'm glad it can run ISO's. I've been able to rip my original BOF III and put it on my MS. Now not only i'm able to enjoy this great game on my 1.5 without having to up/downgrade all the time, but with super fast loading times too ! Which makes the game much more enjoyable (Believe me, the long loadings on the UMD are horrible)

Thank you so much Booster !

# since sony hates its customers and doesnt care about profit — Guest 2006-06-06 11:46

seriously, emulated games + UMD games = everybody freakin wins.

who cares about isos and anyone who does probably has the umd and uses them for the lack of load times.

get a brain sony. thanks for a great platform but no thanks for trying to make it as useless as possible. you are just abusing and ostracizing your core demographic, what a stupid business model.

no one cares about emulating your current-gen games and its not even possible to emulate the last gen on a psp. this never was going to be ps1 piracy all over again, this is just nostalgia and this is what everyone wants, an end to the big brother policery of technology and data.

# Whos Ignorant? — Alastair 2006-06-06 11:46

People have a problem with it because of the illegal uses OTHER people do with it. They aren't upset because it gives THEM the oppurtunity to play ISOs...You STFU you ignorant fool.

And: "Those who would use it for piracy do so on their own behalf, and would do so with or without this program."

Errr...I disagree...this tool IS giving people more of an oppurtunity to pirate games...

# OH NOES — Guest 2006-06-06 11:54

PSPU. Stop making iso downloading such a big deal. It is legal to load isos if they are your own. That is so much better than loading it off the umd where loads take 5 times longer. ISOs don't hurt sony. They only hurt stores such as bestbuy. Its a small hit though considering the millions of non-piraters out there.

# this, homebrew ? — Guest 2006-06-06 11:57

If I can play UMD games without updating, I will buy PSP games, otherwise I keep my money and play homebrews. This isoloader is indeed no homebrew, it's made by Sony because they finally understood that we homebrew players are meant to buy UMDs. Actually, if Sony had sold a lot of UMD this year, this devhook wouldn't be there. Thanks Sony...

# umm.... — Guest 2006-06-06 11:58

come on alastair, you must have more to say, thats not a good explanation, it contradicts itself, explain better please.

and honestly, do you think someone would feel GUILTY?

# It's fine. — Guest 2006-06-06 11:58

Sure, it can run ISOs. Many people like to use ISOs of UMDs they've legally obtained to improve their battery life and load time (it helps - a lot.) Plus Devhook also has plenty of perfectly legit uses (firmware 2.5 use/development/playing 2.5 UMDs/etc.) I think it's perfectly fine and that we should support useful software like this.

I'd also like to point out that warez kiddies will always be warez kiddies and that this application has far more legit uses than most ISO loaders.

# Dev Hook 0.41 devs are GOD!!! — Guest 2006-06-06 12:00

nocomment

# This is what causes all the problems — Dionysus 2006-06-06 12:00

It's bad thing, it's one the many reasons sony keeps blocking HB. If you stop all the piracy software and fakers sony might be will to allow HB again. If you abuse it, you lose it and everyone else suffers for it.

# I say it's for the best ^^! — Jx1 2006-06-06 12:01

It helps us 1.50 users to keep Homebrew and still play newer games. Not all of us support ISOS.

So indeed. it's for the best of us ^^

# Its good — Guest 2006-06-06 12:03

Pirates can already play isos so that wont change anything but people like me who have held out for hope of something like this can no go out and buy umds and keep our homebrew its the best of both worlds and will help the psp

# Yeay for devhook! — Guest 2006-06-06 12:04

I still say people who claim piracy is bad for overall sales are idiots... so yeah, of course this software is going to incresase UMD sales! I always buy my games if I have the money... it's much cooler to have the original discs and packaging than the ISOs. And I know lots of people who agree with me on that. However... even people who WON'T buy their games are practically walking advertisments for the PSP when hanging around playing the latest games all the time. The PSP is an eyecatching gadget. Piracy will always exist... that's a fact. This program just makes it easier to be legit if you want to.

The loading times is also a valid argument. Some games are just dreadful in that department... I mean... 20 seconds wait for a level to load, on a handheld!? Seriously. I always dump my slower loading UMDs on memory stick before playing... at least if I plan on playing for a while.

# Dev Hook 0.41 devs are GOD, I confirm! — Guest 2006-06-06 12:04

nocomment too

# WTF!?!?!?!?! — Guest 2006-06-06 12:05

Whos Ignorant? Alastairs ignorant. Listen up idiot, since you couldn't figure it out on your own let me spell it out for you. Anyone who hates this app because it'll "harm the PSP Homebrew Community" is an absolute ignorant fool. Apparently you're one of them. I say that because you obviously took offense to my post out of guilt.

You sad, sad little piece of crap.

Also, as for your post:

"They aren't upset because it gives THEM the oppurtunity to play ISOs"

That has NOTHING to do with what I said. So your intelligence is a little on the low side as well. If you can't understand what is being said then don't bother to comment on it.

# All Emulators are Devils!! — Guest 2006-06-06 12:07

OH Please PSPUPDATES what about the other emulator your supporting they run back up roms too. If your reading this you know what i'm talking about. People download roms when a new emulator was released like N64,SNES,Sega and so on . Do you think people here have the capability to back their own roms.

I DONT THINK SO.

# WTF!?!?!?!?! — Guest 2006-06-06 12:09

@#17, that's one the ignorant people I was talking about. People like him/her just don't understand.

# Errm isnt this abit OTT? — Guest 2006-06-06 12:10

This debate is so boring and come up every time something like this is realeased!! Who cares? If people want to use pirate games, let them, if they don't then don't! An app like this is good for both people!

"Those who would use it for piracy do so on their own behalf, and would do so with or without this program."

I agree with this. Don't get me wrong this is a cool app, but it has only allowed like 8 games which weren't playable before to be played. The list of compatible games has alot which worked on existing loaders!

Oh and to the guy above... shut up! Where ever there is homebrew there is piracy. This will never change! And no one is 'suffering' as it is, coz Sony are crap at producing effective security updates lol!

# neato — soopergooman 2006-06-06 12:10

I just went out and bought another copy of both socom and GTA so that now me and my best friend can play against each other, i used to rent said game and would upgrade my 1.5 to 2.0 then downgrade it back, that takes too much time and there is that slight chane of bricking after 80 flashes. my old psp( #1) was acting weird after 100 flashes, this is great, too bad Sony didn't think of this or put out homebrew umd's.

all thoise that say this is bad, should rethink. so you can play up to 2.5, all newer games are going to require 2.6++ so the piracy thing ain't really an issue.

# D'yar — Guest 2006-06-06 12:14

D'yar!

I be a pirate. What be so wrong with playing with my bounty? Yar.

# huh — Guest 2006-06-06 12:16

well its divine for me and its ironic it came out on 6/6/06

# piracy? — GameLordOmega 2006-06-06 12:17

ok. has ANYONE here seen the south park episode of piracy? if so, you see my view of it.

i also think that if you really want to download an iso off some site or w/e, then its your choice. no use telling other people how to live their lives; go live your own.

besides, if one person bought a psp, it is THEIR psp to do what they want with it. am i not correct? the people who make games get rich off all of it already.

# Thanks to QJ and Devhook... — Guest 2006-06-06 12:18

there have been so many games I've wanted to buy but didn't only because I didn't want to upgrade. PSPUpdates is where all the PSP news is and this was too big of a story to pass up on. There is always a good and a bad side to everything. From day one that PSP launched there were people who would be involved in piracy and others that loved the system for the easy programing that it allowed. If this new program is a way for me to go out and buy the latest version of a game then amen to that. To each it's own, I know I'm glad I can now use the web brower and enjoy the benefits of both a 1.5 and 2.5 firmware. Thanks again QJ for the great update!

# It is indeed good. — Guest 2006-06-06 12:19

Lets face it, there is a war going on here. We got sony trying to kill us Homebrew lovers to focus us on their games, and we got the hackers, the people who work hard to deleiver awesome games free of charge to the public. Sony may have a great advantage over us, but when somthing like this happens, it proves that we will never quit. I HIGHLY applaude this piece of homebrew. WELL DONE BOOSTER!!!!

# to Alastair and people agaisnt devhook — Guest 2006-06-06 12:20

you and people like you need stfu and let people do what they wanna do. go suck sonys d*ck and maybey that might help sony feel better about their umd sales.

# #25 — Dionysus 2006-06-06 12:22

Sorry, to upset you on truth

# lmao — GameLordOmega 2006-06-06 12:22

lmao j. dogg... nice

# .... — Guest 2006-06-06 12:23

well piracy is always going to be around so if anything just let it be.

# one thing... — GameLordOmega 2006-06-06 12:28

some people at the other topic of this, they said that when they reset back to 1.5, all their settings were deleted. to those people, i would suggest using x-flash v9f to backup registry; afterwords, restore if you want to go back to version 1.5

# I think its a good thing. — Guest 2006-06-06 12:31

Because now i can buy new games and play them without

upgrade and downgrading all the time.

For example now i can watch my iron maiden umd without upgrading.

This is a really good development.

I love it !!!

# But remember — Guest 2006-06-06 12:37

Even if you don't condone the use of piracy, no one will listen to you who does already. Its like telling a person whos smoking that its bad for them. But remember, at the end of the day, all that really matters is that you have a good amount of cheese stored in your fridge.

# definitely — GameLordOmega 2006-06-06 12:37

hellz yeah. i second that

# one more thing jackie! — GameLordOmega 2006-06-06 12:42

ooh...... one more thing i just remembered. you dont even need this app for those things, you could use dax for iso's (awesome and compresses em to about 100mb), mphfl for the internet browser and locationfree (get 2.5 eboot), and genesis umd launcher for teh umd's.

so, if you have a problem with teh "evil, demonic piracy" in this, be happy. theres plenty more to go around :)

p.s. sorry for double posting

# its only good — RaiderX 2006-06-06 12:46

I can run 2.6 ISOs on my 1.5 PSP WITHOUT devhook! So this isnt opening any doors to piracy! It is only allowing you to run newer UMDs without upgrading and allowing you to use great features like the web browser. This is the only use I would have out of it, but I have a 2.6 PSP alos, so I really have no need for this application, althoguh, it is a godly program!! And it is the best we have until the modchip, not to mention, this one is rick free and payment FREE!!!! Its amazing! nothign bad about it

# to 42 — GameLordOmega 2006-06-06 12:48

how would you be able to run 2.6 isos/umds on a 1.5? i have been trying to get me and my katamari working for a while now, but everything i find seems to be only for 2.5

# Agree for Article — Guest 2006-06-06 12:50

I agree with the concept of this loader. Even if it can play ISOs, for those of us who actually had games that were not playable for the fact that we didn't have a 1.5 or greater, this is a godsend.

People can not call the program "evil" for the fact that it plays ISOs. A gun is not inherently bad, but the person who uses that gun against society is bad.

If it can push for more sales of 2.5 umds, then it is good.

Don't get your panties in a bundle for the fact that it "can" do something bad.

# gud. — Guest 2006-06-06 12:53

This is definetely a good thing. I haven't bought a new PSP game since launch just because of the firmware update. Now I can play some of the games I've been itchin to play for a while.

# 2.5 --> 1.5 — Guest 2006-06-06 12:55

Yea, i cant figure it out =/ Readme is in some weird language and i cant figure out how to get out of the 2.5...

i tried running the program again but it just says corrupted...

anyone have a clue?

# hmm — GameLordOmega 2006-06-06 12:57

very well stated, granasaberx! couldnt have put it better myself

# 6.5 — Guest 2006-06-06 12:57

this actually didnt come out today lol...so using the devil is not a good joke....it came out yesterday...

# #46 — Dionysus 2006-06-06 12:57

Ha ha....no, never going to work, don't even try

# Hmm — Guest 2006-06-06 12:58

Well lets see today is... GASP!!! 6/6/06

PRODUCT OF THE DEVIL!!

# Evil — MasterQ 2006-06-06 12:58

This is definitely evil for the makers of the U.P replacement flash because they just lost my $90 haha

# UMD Video rocks! — Guest 2006-06-06 13:05

This is great, now I can watch UMD Video's that needs 2.XX to play (and can't be ripped by the way...)

WOW!

# Not enough profit? — Recrofne 2006-06-06 13:06

Hey Sony, don't blame homebrewn for lack of game sales, blame crappy games.

Though it looks like they're getting a few more good titles out there.

# 2.6+ please — Guest 2006-06-06 13:07

i cant wait for 2.6+~!!!! i've bought LEGALLY, games that require updates just to support the PSP but cant play any of them w/o ripping furst, hail devhook. 1.5 4ever

# Better than worse. — h3inousguy 2006-06-06 13:08

Just because people use ISOs doesnt mean their PSP Pirates. ISOs are for backups, its not my fault the UMDs break, but I can prevent this loss, by making backups, I do the same with my music. People who do pirate, as someone said, will not have their minds changed by anyone. Even though Sony does not really care about our wants does not mean you have the right to punish the middleman (Lik-Sang, Best Buy, Game Stop).

Thank You.

# ... — Guest 2006-06-06 13:15

Im a pirate. What will PSPUpdates do?

# Piracy is not okay (but devhook is) — Guest 2006-06-06 13:16

To all of the people who claim piracy is fine and doesn't make a difference:

The PSP is different from movies, music, and many game consoles. There aren't that many PSPs. Therefore every single sale of a PSP game affects its "sales performance" significantly, and often determines if a development team keeps their jobs and if the company producing the game will continue producing for PSP. If "PSP games don't sell well" then we'll be stuck with only the games from large companies who can afford to stick with what they see as a loss, and so we'll end up with 2403284 rehashed crappy EA games.

I believe that if you like something, you should buy it. It only helps the developers and the PSP itself.

On the other hand, Devhook is fine. The ability to load 2.5 and to develop for it and play 2.5 UMDs outweighs the ISO load feature, and the ISO loading feature can be (and often is) used legally to play legal games off of memory stick, because UMDs are slow, bulky, easily lost and broken, and eat batteries.

# Hi — Guest 2006-06-06 13:21

Does anyone else remember MPH's 2.5 game loader? I'm surprised everyone is getting so worked up over this when we've been able to emulate 2.5 for a few months now. At least it does have a half decent web browser but we've also got Link's browser so I just say take this down so the pirates can't continue their little evil streak.

# piracy NOT ok? bahahaha — GameLordOmega 2006-06-06 13:22

the only thing piracy does is make the freakin rich makers of the game lose a little income. "oh, now i cant buy that superhuge hotel complex i wanted. oh snappo. ill have to buy just 3 huge cars with spinners instead." -thats how it is.

# Isit cheating if............. — Guest 2006-06-06 13:23

I voted 3 times on the poll , sorry , got carried away :(

# Same oppinion as my #emergency-exit friend, bri3d — Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 2006-06-06 13:23

Now I can finally play something but homebrew. There is a lot of great Homebrew, but there are also some official Games I allways wanted to buy.

Now I finally can.

# SVR 06 — nllx 2006-06-06 13:31

Anyone know if backing up my copy of SvR, then using an ISO work on this??

I really really really want to know!!!

# to 61 — GameLordOmega 2006-06-06 13:31

if you voted FOR devhook, its not cheating

# Stop getting bent out of shape... — Guest 2006-06-06 13:33

People need to calm down about the whole piracy bit here. Why condemn QJ.net for releasing such an amazing program? Chances are that those who would use this program for piracy purpose have their .iso's archived and were waiting for this day all along. On the other hand the people who would use this for it legitimate purposes shouldn't be denied access to such a fine program on such a fine site! This program is not going to affect the gaming community or development of games any more than it's predecessors already have. Look on the bright side of things, those that held out and refused to update can now conserve precious battery life by running their legally backed up .iso's and enjoy a fully functional web browser! All comes down to is, if you're gonna' ***** and complain about something you have no intentions of using or supporting then you haven't exactly got your priorities straight...

# quit the drama — Guest 2006-06-06 13:37

i think overall its just one of those endless battles of people who want everything. Sure, from a 1.5 point of view, they look at it as a way to finally get original UMD games that can play on their older FW psp. (not everyone runs .isos). From a 2.01+ its a way of saying that certain things that can only be done on 2.01+ (which makes it better than a 1.5 ((i.e. web browser, aac, etc) has now been taken away because 1.5 can now take advantage of it.

Let's flip the script. How many of you would actually complain if by some miracle, you were ABLE to do all the stuff you could on a 1.5 (that you actually wanted to do ((i.e. better SNES TYL))? Would you have a big "fit" about it? Probably not?

If someone "pirates" then let them pirate. I do not support piracy but i do agree with some people that posted on here. If games actually had more thought into it and the fun factor was there ALL the time, i dont really think we would have to deal with piracy. People don't just dl .isos just to have millions of games. They're like music. You have all these songs on your comp but how many do you ACTUALLY listen to on a regular basis.

Support what you want to support. Don't B@#$H about it.

# Good grief. — Guest 2006-06-06 13:41

IS DEVHOOK A DEVIL DEVICE, OR DIVINE INTERVENTION?

IS ALCOHOL GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH, OR BAD?

IS COFFEE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH, OR BAD?

Quite frankly, I don't really care... so long as I can ENJOY my vodka, coffee, and the stash of 2.5 UMD's without the expense of losing my homebrews because of its requirement(s).

Kudos to PSPUpdates and BOOSTER!

# Holiness!!! — Dark_Lord 2006-06-06 13:42

Saint DevHook is the most holy homebrew to date.

# 1.5 — Guest 2006-06-06 13:43

if i would have not updated the day i got my 1.5 psp i would get this but im at 2.7

# Since when is it our job to keep track of UMD sales? — Guest 2006-06-06 13:45

Hey its our job to play the games, regaurdless of whether its pirated, our own backup UMDs, or the legit actual UMD. Its non of our business how much sales the makers make, leave that to the professionals, executives and CEOs of the companies to worry about. In the mean time, stop letting it impact what we choose to do on our psps, mind our own business of what other people do on their psps and just have fun playing the games you want to play no matter how you choose to obtain it. Thanks to this we can now all do that.

Sony can never fall becuase of what we choose to do on our psps

# typo lol — GameLordOmega 2006-06-06 13:46

hehe, btw this topic has a typo >.< devine is a city in like texas or something

divine is teh word lol, ill be going now

# Meh — Guest 2006-06-06 14:39

I only pirate PSP games anymore, and I'm not a zealot about it and I don't go flaming people for buying them, I'm just jealous that they have more cash than me :P.

I demand pirate tolerance!

# we bought the game why would we hafta update to play it — Guest 2006-06-06 14:40

nocomment

# no help or how to — Guest 2006-06-06 15:00

sorry im not new to this program style i dont see any help or how to for this program which is odd for it being on here and not having one every other program has one on here. any one help or has time to creat one or something im sure im not the only one with problems or anything and as the whole "illegal" stuff goes theres always someone out there that will do it that way and theres always someone out there to do it another way just like homebrews piracy grows everyday with new ways to do things so forget the fight its a waste of time and a waste of everything.

# . — Guest 2006-06-06 15:00

hhhuuu? come again? good homebrew = devils device??

is Jake D. amish?

# limited 1.5s — JoRaPi 2006-06-06 15:01

in my opinion, this won't hurt sony's sales too much because not many people even have 1.5 or 2.0 psp's anymore, most are using 2.01-2.6 for homebrew anyway, so in reality, only a select few can pirate, and many don't anyways

# Where was this 2 months ago? :p — Guest 2006-06-06 15:15

I'd purchased a game (which I have since sold to another person) that required at least firmware 1.52 to play. Not willing to upgrade, I'd tried various loaders to get the actual UMD to run. Eventually I did, but with some major issues.

This is what has kept me from buying new games. They won't run on my PSP, because I have chosen to keep a more open firmware revision. This gives me the freedom to actually PURCHASE games that I've had my eye on, and I can now look at upcoming games knowing that I will most likely be able to play them. ISO loading can be a gray area, but I do know that it helps save on battery and load times, which are a wonderful improvement, if you've bought the game. It's a senseless argument though, which will never cease.

I, for one, support this wonder piece of work, bringing the functionality of later firmware to us, and opening the door to playing UMD games that were closed to us 1.5 users.

I salute you!

# best thing since mphgameloader — Guest 2006-06-06 15:16

I am dieing to play many of those games on psp 1.5, love you boost! peace

# come on — Guest 2006-06-06 15:28

why is it that pspudpates has to make everything like a boston legal or west wing episode? Cut your damn political and drama bullsh|t and stick to teh facts.

# Good stuff for me — Sevenz 2006-06-06 15:31

This is good I believe, since I don`t have to upgrade to 2.0 to play my GTA and SOCOM.

I always hesitate to buy PSP games everytime I`m in the store, since most of the games that I like requires 2.0+ fw.

But yeah, overall I believe this development is good, allowing me at last to enjoy GTA and SOCOM.

# ha ha ha — Guest 2006-06-06 15:35

Sony has nothing to worry about with this new app, I say. I'm no expert, haven't even tried to run an iso, but from what I understand, they're big files most requiring you to buy a 2 gig memory card, they're hard to find and hard to get running properly. This whole thing will only mean more profits for sony since more people can buy their new games without worrying about losing their homebrew. that is all.

# WTF Good or Bad — Guest 2006-06-06 15:37

This is a great app for the scene. It finally give us a full working Web Browser and Shell from the 2.5 firmware. It also allows us to use some of the latest games / UMD legally, and still be able to play with our homebrew. Yes it does have a downside of pirating, but people who pirate were not going to spend the money anyway with or without this app. So please stop this F*cking *****!! This is great news and lets leave it that way!

# pretty weird — Guest 2006-06-06 15:40

this site claims not to support piracy but y is there console emulators advertise on this site? SNES N64 GB GBA MSX it doesnt matter if the games r old its still piracy

# Human — Guest 2006-06-06 15:49

I think Its like a Human. It can achive many great things, but can commit desterly deeds

# pirates gold — Guest 2006-06-06 15:54

AAAARRRRGGGHH!! !

# Excellent News — Guest 2006-06-06 15:55

Awesome!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

Loading Times Suck on the PSP. By running the game from

the memory stick the game is 10x faster.I really don't care if it hurts sony sales. If They were smart they would of never put a memory card slot on the psp.I bet the guy that said "lets put a memory card slot " was fired a long time ago.

Thank you Devhook, and hope you guys stay forever!

# Options are good. — Guest 2006-06-06 15:57

Piracy concerns or no, I'm just thrilled to have all options of my 1.5 PSP open now. I can finally buy new games for the PSP. I wasn't missing much a while ago, but the newer games that are on the way have been tempting me to update. No longer. =)

# to 84 — GameLordOmega 2006-06-06 16:04

i think if you ask ANYONE here, they will say they like emulators. dont question it; take it for granted! lol

# Hypothetical Loss — Guest 2006-06-06 16:06

99% of all loss that sony would suffer from any type of piracy would be hypothetical, there is a very slim chance that people would buy a game for various reasons (not enough money, just want to try out the game, parents wont allow, ext...) so pirating it isnt a loss because it would not be purchased anyway: that being said this program, along with all other programs that promote piracy are good for the scene as well as the consumer, piracy just shows sony that they need to lower prices and stop blocking out users from using the PSP for things that sony wasnt able to think of

# 8) — Guest 2006-06-06 16:25

To all the people that said "LOL THIS CAME OUT ON 6/6/06! HOW IRONIC! LOL DEVIL!", this new version of devhook was released on 6/5/06.

# lol — Guest 2006-06-06 16:25

i will play every iso i can find and yall can't do nothing about it. Thanks DevHook

# arrr — Guest 2006-06-06 16:35

IMA PIRATE ARRRRR and thank goodness that the world didnt end today XO

# ps1 emulator! — Guest 2006-06-06 16:58

it seems as tho this app can reflash the psp's firmware to different versions, so perhaps over time, it will be used to reflash 1.5 psps to version 3 or so when it comes out...which will then give 1.5 users the ability to use the ps1 emulator shown at E3 this year (included in a future firmware). As for iso loading and piracy...errrm... hello, this has been going on for yonks, ever since umd emulator came out, ye it dosnt help that this application gives you access to more games u can pirate, but each to thier own. If you dont want to pirate games, dont. If you do, thats up to you.

# awesome — Josh1billion 2006-06-06 17:02

Devhook is awesome.

# Upgraded my PSP to 2.5!!!! — Guest 2006-06-06 17:14

this thing upgraded my psp to 2.5!!!!!!!!!.... PLEASE HELP! I wanna go back to 1.5 :(

# never mind — Guest 2006-06-06 17:19

I turned off my PSP and turned back on... now it's 1.5 :)

# I think it's a good thing — pnoy 2006-06-06 17:40

There's lots of people out there that barely know about ISOs or even where to get them. So, those that love homebrew but also wanna buy the new games with the 2.5 or lower updates might use this program for good. Probably MORE people will buy the actual UMD of games for a change.

# hehe — thunderchild214 2006-06-06 17:41

I went to Fry's electronics and purchased the import of BOFIII. I've been trying to get it to work by switching PRX's with the JAP version but to no avail. The only way was to use the genesis 2.6 launcher and it had no sound or save...AND it crashed before you could actually play the game. I eventually upgraded to play it (thank goodness it was 2.0 only...) Now I've downgraded and i can play my LEGALLY bought UMD. THANKS DEVHOOK

tc214

# Meh — Decon 2006-06-06 17:46

I love this program and I can tell i'm also playing isos (in also i mean i have some isos, and some new real umd games :)). Ill tell you why im playing isos and why i dont care about the sony in this case; they dont care about us so tell why the hell should i buy their games and support them when they dont even want to give me homebrew access on my psp ?

# Downside?! — Guest 2006-06-06 18:09

"The downside to this, as many of you have discovered, is that it also holds the potential to run illegally obtained backups in the form of ISO's" The DOWNSIDE?? They aren't neccesarily illegally obtained games...

I loved the way qj made it look like it was just a full 2.5 emulator giving all the 2.5 features on a 1.5, but on the other sites they were advertising it as a new 2.5 game loader

It was good booster made it not just a 2.5 firmware emulator.

# People run ISOs, not the Devhook... — Guest 2006-06-06 18:33

It's a great program. If anybody run illegal iso-files, it's his problem. It is like anybody buys a gun: He can shot a human with it or not. Devhook opens a lot of great new possibilities to 1.5 users. Iso-loaders anyway exist and people who want play illegal copies will find anyway a solution. Myself I only play cool homebrew and own original UMDs, (a game makes more fun, if you own also the Cover and the manual.). It is ok from qj.net to bring news about Devhook. Thank you.

# If you own UMD's — Dave 2006-06-06 19:12

It makes the game more enjoyable - example: GTA is owned by allot of us here, i'd say its more enjoyable with the UMD.

# Still alive — Guest 2006-06-06 19:33

Devhook is a solution for a problem, for me its amazing and i dont think it ruins the h/b coomunity. sony just has to start thinking about new markets and open its mind, they will make a lot more money this way. plus people who do UMD backup wount probably buy them anyway (I know wount, its amazingly expensive, i still have the umd's i got when i bought my psp, and i DONT do umd backups!)

# Its awesome — Guest 2006-06-06 20:35

cant wait for it to support ..2.6+

i want to play my katamari game i bought a while back

Devhook cant play it yet. (black screen/game requires 2.6)

# rant time — justD 2006-06-06 20:36

i love piracy

just look at the name PIRAcy remarkebly like PIRAtes hmmmm

coincendence?

i think not

piracy isnt new... its old skool

i hate people whining about it

it wont destroy the psp as it didnt destroy the ps2 or the ps1 or every other console before it.

dont even get me started on the hypocrites out there

I doubt there is many of you who dont have an illegal image (porn for example), mp3, video, rom, iso, game on there computer

piracy = bad... stop beleiving the corprate propaganda

D

"whats the point of living if you follow all the rules" - Me, 2006/06/07

# UMD drive sucks — Guest 2006-06-06 20:43

I think devhook is a gift from the sky cuz umd drive is very slow and is a battery-life ogre.

People have the right to choose to go illegal or not, if they do its their problem and if they get caught its their problem too.

But devhook has nothing to do with this choice and moreover I think that when you buy a 250$ console you have the right to exploit it as you like (in term of running software).

# What the hell did justd just say? — Guest 2006-06-06 20:48

Umm.. yea, Piracy is related to Pirates... everyone knew that.. what's your point?

and emulating ISO's and playing illegal games WILL destroy a console. as you can see due to the introduction applications like Pspvideo9 and other video converting programs, the UMD Movie Format is almost being pulled off the shelves completely.

If people are playing ISO's and games illegally, developers will be less inclined to make games for that console, therefore, less PSP games and more DS games and so on.

In my opinion.. you seriously have no idea what your talking about JustD, the reason you probably "hate people talking about it" is because your the type of person who doesn't buy games or other software, nor are you willing to do so, therefore you have a narrow view on all of the news.

# Devilish?! — huds601 2006-06-06 20:50

How can it be a bad thing? As said in the post, people who want to run illegal ISO's will do with or without Devhook, as they have been for many months now.

Pure genious in a download

# helpage — thunderchild214 2006-06-06 21:04

hey for anyone who needs help, if you are running a DOWNGRADED PSP upgrade to 2.00 then downgrade again. I had a downgrade go wrong, i put in a movie and none of my buttons worked, and when i used psp-ftpd it wouldnt read my UMD drive. Just a suggestion. there are some different instructions on ps2nfo that work (for me they did) I hope this helps.

tc214

k bye

# playing isos = evil?!? — Guest 2006-06-06 21:19

sorry, but i do not share your opinion on playing isos!

do you ever compared loading times and battery life when playing umds and isos?

although i am against piracy, i bought a 2nd psp with 1.50 just to be able to play my games with the much shorter loading times when playing isos from ms (and of course so i can play homebrew)

# pspvideo 9 didn't kill umds — Guest 2006-06-06 21:25

Sony did, by making them ridiculously priced with less content than their dvd competitors to begin with.

also, maybe one or two umds were worth buying since most that came out were bad and overpriced crap no one saw at the box office anyway.

Fact is, that not even pirates would pirate those movies. If devs make good games, they'll surely sell well to the gazillions out there who wouldn't bother to learn how to do a dance and google a hundred sites to learn how to play an iso...

the factors involved are so wildly different than umd situation, there's hardly anything worth comparing. Sony's to blame for the poor performance of umds imo.

# Idiotic — Guest 2006-06-06 21:36

Your view on piracy is out of bounds and idiotic. I was used to play my iso's, and didn't play GTA (of which I own the UMD) untill this was released. As soon as I started GTA the loadingtimes, noise of the UMD drive, my battery draining and more was irritating me.

ISO's are not bad, you're blind.

# > — Guest 2006-06-06 21:46

Blablabla...

I want to make my own choice in dl-ing iso's or not. Currently I have none illegal "back-ups" and I've bought 5 games and can't play 2 of them on my 1.5 without some stupid trick. If there's a new trick wich makes it easier for 1.5 users to play their 2.x games, hell, by all means, post it on this website, but plz don't start babbling on about iso's this, iso's that. I really don't think that this site should educate its users on how unethical iso's are. It's just not your place. People should make up their own minds.

And btw, nobody on the internet should talk about how unethical downloading is, if that person (which I give about a 99,9% chance) downloads music, films or whatever themselves.

If this continues on this site, I will predict alot of people (including me) moving over to other sites that just don't ***** that much.

For the people that are going to say: "Then go morron" or something like that..shush...just shush...

(Forgive me for my "english", but I'm dutch ^^)

# Personally... — Guest 2006-06-06 22:01

...i'm gonna buy recent games that i like, without the hassle to upgrade. This is a great leap forward for all the 1.50 users. I'm so looking forward to games like LocoRoco, Ghouls'n'Ghosts extreme and such... not to mention new hardware periphericals like the gps. But i do like to code for psp... and no way i'm gonna update the firmware.

Maybe, it could even increase umd sales...

# Anti-piracy nuts read this.... — Guest 2006-06-06 22:19

Ya'll can't wait to suck corporate c*ck?

Piracy has NEVER killed off anything. Look at the world around you,there is no ceiling on Sony's profits while you are stuck in a rut paying them for there feeble and sub-standard offerings. the corporate animal wants as much profit out of you as possible and it'll always find the feeble minded to prey on. My point is... they earn enough profits without giving BACK enough... so stealing from them is completely moral... if not legal.

i read some idiot talking about pspvideo9 killing off UMD. You moron, have you ever thought how dumb the UMD movie concept was?? How EXPENSIVE and DUMB it was?

I rest my case. You all should buy 1.50 psps ;)

# ISO's are Good ! — Guest 2006-06-06 22:36

If anyone thought that the number of ISO's downloaded and used are the numbers of UMD games lost to piracy...are a bunch of idiots.

I have played at least 30 ISO's on my PSP (most I have played maximum of 20 minutes and then discarded for ever).

The only game I liked was Burnout Legends which I went out and bought the UMD. The other was GTA. All the other games are worthless which I wouldnt buy anyway though I tried them out.

ISO's weed out the crap games from the good so you only buy the games you will play.

DevHook is God's gift to PSPites !!

Hurray!

# I think my 2 PSP's F/W 1.5 have doubled in value now. Thanks Booster — Guest 2006-06-06 23:00

The only people who berate this good news are jealous 2.01+ users.

Ha ha ha ha

You sad F*cks!!!!

I am completely speachless. ..

# wondering??? — Guest 2006-06-06 23:01

i have japanese psp can i use ths devhook..afraid the devhook made from 2.5 us software & cant be use with jap version psp.same like you have us ver psp but can't use jap update software

# pspvideo9 vs. umd video — Guest 2006-06-06 23:03

like stated above i have to say that sony dig its own grave with umd movies. they did hardly have any extras and the prices were just insane! for 10$ max. i would have bought some...

and that the psp did not support the full resolution for self encoded videos bothers me even more!

sony is a bunch of greedy m*****f*****s! so they want you to buy umd movies to have high quality video on your psp!!!

back to pspvideo9 vs. umd video

pspvideo9 is just a very good replacement for coversion software sony is offering themselves for free anyway... THINK ABOUT IT!!

# ONCE AGAIN.... — Guest 2006-06-06 23:07

Nobody here works for sony so why are we worried about other unknown people sitting in their basements pirating sony's games? That doesn't effect any other psp owner in any provable non-hypothetical way.

"Oh noes, if people can pirate the games, convert DVD movies onto the memory stick, less people will buy the UMDs of games and movies thus less developers will want to create games for the console."

Geesh....... why not just say its wrong for people to not even buy games at all for their psp since its causing Sony to loose profit. Yes lets make a law saying every psp owner must buy at least 6 UMD titles to make up for the loss sony makes in selling the console for less than it costs to build so that they don't loose profit. Because yes, technically by purchasing a PSP unit and less than about 6 UMD titles we are causing sony to loose money which is no different than i pirate downloading a few ISOs instead of purchasing the actual UMDs.

Either way, if people choose not to buy games at all for the PSP it hurts Sony, whether its because of they can obtain it pirated or just don't like any of the titles and just want to play music and downloaded videos.

Actualy this is pro-business neo-republican logic. The true 1 + 1 = 2 logic is that we can't hurt sony by not buying their games, whether we pirated it or choose so. Its like saying your hurting McDonalds by choosing not to eat there thus that will make McDonald make crappier food because less people want to eat it......

Oh and for the record. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LABEL DOWNLOADING A PIRATED A GAME AS STEALING BECUASE YOU DIDN'T TAKE AWAY ANYTHING FROM SONY, YOU CAN'T PROVE SONY LOST ANYTHING. Its only an OPINION to think that just becuase someone downloaded a pirated game, it would prevent them from going and buying that game, they still are fully able to go out a purchase the game or not reguardless of the pirated version and thats the FACT. You can't argue an unprovable opinion against a logical fact unless your one of those Christian conservatives argueing against the existance of dinosaurs becuase they think humans were created first.

My conclusion? STOP WORRYING ABOUT SONY's PROFITS AND HOW MANY DEVELOPERS CHOOSE TO SUPPORT THEIR CONSOLES. IF THEY CHOOSE NOT TO AND SONY FAILS, ITS THEIR FAULT AND ONLY THEIR FAULT FOR WHAT EVER REASONS. All you little big business and corperation fanboys stop trying to be wannabe CEO's for sony, mind your own business, and purchase 100s of UMDs, make corperate donations and stock investments if you really beleave in supporting how much profit they are making instead of whining and b!tching about people not buying their crap.

# For those who donno what Neo-Republican logic is... — Guest 2006-06-06 23:14

They think that if they argue hard enough, they can get people to beleave that 1 + 1 = 11 for their own envy and selfish reasons hidden behind a what seens an ethical pretext.

# Good for Sony — JoeDaStudd 2006-06-06 23:45

If you think about this it will be good for sony now people with 1.0, 1.5, 1.5x and 2.0 will be buying more UMDs, which of cause is GOOD for Sony.

As far as the piracy goes, who hasnt got a;

*Few songs they havent paid for on there PSP or PC

*Few ROMs of games they never owned

*Copied DVD or Video (copied them selves or brought from someone)

*Borrowed a software CD

*ect

Just because you are not surposed to do something doesnt mean that you cant. Like many things in life YOU are the only person who can make YOU do anything and if YOU choose to watch, play or listen to something copied its YOUR choice to do it.

# Tired of puritanism — Guest 2006-06-07 00:07

I'm tired of the hypocrital puritanism of PSP Updates.

We don't need anyone to give us lessons, that usually get the contrary effect.

Are all USA people as puritanist like the mods of PSPU? I hope no, for your mental health.

# #107 — Guest 2006-06-07 00:31

You can play Me and My Katamary already with RunUMD.

You just can't save yet. =/

# Good or Bad? — Guest 2006-06-07 01:08

I commend Pspupdates for posting this, although arguments can be made for both sides I have to favour the positive.

Piracy in whatever form boils down to the responsibility of the individual....Do not buy or download it & they have no market....

The homebrew scene on the PSP is fantastic & the constant updates by Sony only serves to stifle that and not encourage it..Sony want to make a profit & that is fine too I happily buy the games & videos.

This homebrew development is excellent as it keeps the updates from Sony available & allows people to ENJOY (yes I did say enjoy) the homebrew scene & the sense of community it engenders.

Well done to the Devhook team & to Pspupdates for a courageous, if controversial decision.....

# Good, or Bad? — Guest 2006-06-07 01:47

I can understand the concerns on the downside of this application…

However for me this is a great thing… I have a V1.5 PSP with a 2GB Memory stick… when I bought my psp I got 2 psp games… GTA: LCS and Ridge Racer.

Being on firmware V1.5 is something I don’t really want to give up, it’s the most compatible and fastest firmware for homebrew... And I certainly cannot see myself ever upgrading beyond V2.0 firmware.

I love homebrew and I love my psp… this application gives a little more freedom in what I can run. I bought GTA:LCS that has been sitting in a draw for the better part of a year. I use my memory stick for music and videos and don’t want to give up half of it to play GTA nor do I want to upgrade to V2.0 firmware.

This application gives me more confidence in buying games for my PSP…. Especially when those cheaper platinum titles go on sale

Although I’m sure there will always be somebody to exploit something like this to play games illegally, I’m sure there will be many more people that will do the right thing…

# good — Guest 2006-06-07 02:00

Hmm games cost around 50 euros..way too much, so i prefer homebrew, or before acutally buying game, I must try it. No review hepls me there.

So thanks god for this application.!!!!

# Sony will never turn a blind eye!! — Guest 2006-06-07 02:01

Many times I have heard people say that if not for piracy aka kernel mode access, Sony might have turned a ''blind eye'' towards homebrew, I even heard this in the ''PSPShow12.mp3'' download on this site.

All I can say is take a look at the firmware update that blocked the Eloader of which the authers were vocally anti-piracy.

I think this new Devhook loader is great, I have approximately 15 UMD's of which many will not run without either 2.5 or 2.6 firmware updates. For this reason I had stopped purchasing anymore after a while.

Although Isos can save on battery and loading times, I prefer to use my actual UMD's because I am not wasting memory stick space or messing around with settings. I just set Devhook to autorun whatever UMD is in the drive and that's it.

One can never have good without evil, there will always be opposing sides, with homebrew comes exploits, with firmware emulation comes the possibility of running higher firmware UMD's on lower firmware and with this comes the possibility of running ISO's of those UMD's.

Even if Devhook couldn't run ISO's we all know someone would have modified it or found some kind of workaround.

# blah — Guest 2006-06-07 03:17

Well, yeah, i kinda think that people will pirate if they want to. In my case, i own 2 psp's 1.5 and 2.7. I'd LOVE to be able to do some fierce GTA battles with some friends, but guess one, my one copy of GTA doesnt cut it. I think this is great that i can now do that. I'm not giving it to anyone else, i'm not selling it to anyone, i'm not distributing it over the internet, i'm using my license to play with a friend of mine without having to pay 100 bucks total.

# good! — Guest 2006-06-07 03:36

It's freakin' good.

# is divine — Guest 2006-06-07 04:08

i think that this is the best emulator for the psp, and you know what? i used it to write this!

# Its a Good thing — Guest 2006-06-07 06:22

I will be going out and buying more UMDs now that I can play them without upgrading. Thats a good thing for everyone invloved.

Hackers are smart. They will figure out how to pirate one way or another so in this instance we must take the bad with the good. But for those of us who have stuck with 1.5 firmware for homebrew reasons this will allow us to buy a few more UMDs we can run.

# u hypocrites — Guest 2006-06-07 06:26

I think this is great. Probably one of the best homebrew programs to come out since, well UMDEmu. Its funny how lots of ppl are saying its bad because it runs isos and all that. But this is coming from the same people that love emulators and have roms on their psp. I don't know how dumb you folks are but ROMS and ISOS go hand in hand. ROMS are just as illegal as ISOs are.

# What are the steps — Guest 2006-06-07 07:15

I just wanted to ask what are the steps to install this application because i run the application and when i press start it tell's me that it can not installed it

# It could ease drilling a hole to 2.x... — Guest 2006-06-07 07:46

Definitely not a god nor a devil, DH has many-many potenital uses besides piracy. Take this, for example:

As you know, in 2.x it is impossible to fool the firmware into loading a user .prx in kernel mode. I think that devhook makes possible experimenting with changes in 2.x modules to bypass this protection. MPH FL was not really mimicking the OS as closely as DH does. With DH, people can fiddle with the firmware itself and stand good chances of coming up with a 2.x firmware mod that will allow kernel-mode homebrew in 2.x (previously unthinkable of). What about that? Well, it could be paired to the UP chip and make possible an off-the-chip version of 2.x which would allow custom (homebrew) kernel-mode. Who wouldn't want this?

# Like W — Guest 2006-06-07 07:46

hmm what is everybody *****ing about ISO going like littel kids it bad its bad this tool is great for 1.5 user. And about emus like you only want that kind of old ***** for your psp

# PSP Crashes — Guest 2006-06-07 10:04

After running this App.. If I shutdown my PSP and then turn it on, it fails to start without the UMD in it.

I get a blueScreen with some non english charecters.

If i keep the UMD and then turn it on.. then it works fine.. Does anybody have this issue.

# PROGRAM OF THE YEAR!!! — Guest 2006-06-07 10:21

I have been messing around with this program for a few hours now and damn this thing rocks. I only came across one problem, when I was in the web browser I tried to save a page and it freezed on me. I was on 222mhz too, I dont know. I dont really care about the browser anyway, just thought I would let you all know. I downloa....I mean I bought and ripped Fight Night Round 3 and Pinball Classics and they work like a charm. A devilish little device? Sure, It was released on 6/6/06 what do you expect. You know Sony is just cringing right now at the release of this. This program does not end here, this means that all futrue games will easily be played when this program is updated in the future. All they will have to do is write in code to allow say 3.0 firmware, get the firmware dump and bingo, there's your next version. Our 1.5 firmware PSP's will live forever without ever having to really upgrade. Will "commercial" PSP game devs hate this program? Sure they will, but they will continue to make great games for the PSP anyway. Recently I read on another site the PSP was crowned "Most hackable video game system of all time". Pretty good achievement if you ask me. Do I feel bad pirating games? No way, these guys are going to get all my money and all your money when the PS3 comes out. Thats why I dont feel bad and thats why you dont feel bad (YES YOU).

# Piracy !!!!!!!! — Guest 2006-06-07 10:24

I have used isos on my 1.50 psp with various loaders, but I have bought the UMD if I really enjoyed the game eg. GTA, Ridge Racer, Everyones Golf, World Cup Soccer, Burnout. THU2

This realease also means that I can play Gottlieb Pinball and Pursuit Force which I bought when my PSP was firmware 2.00, which don't run now.

I still have isos but usually play the UMD's that I own as also I have found that some images crash at random intervals, (annoying), I fully support this release and thank the developers for their time and knowledge in producing and releasing this package. Importantly I find that testing a game this way enforces the acceptance of supporting and buying good software.

I understand the implications of the arguement that this release could potentially enforce mass piracy but as adults we have a choice, use the app and support the industry by buying good software OR use the app and kill the PSP scene by our lack of support......

The choice is ours.

# FIRMWARE UPGRADE — Guest 2006-06-07 10:47

What would happen if I tried to download and install 2.7 on the network update while running devhook, would that be an easy way of getting 2.7 and keeping 1.5

# Explain! — Guest 2006-06-07 11:11

If im such a moron explain why it wouldnt work, or do you even know why it wouldnt work.

Come on lets hear it, for once i would love to get a polite reply, something simple like sorry that wouldnt work because, No of course not i have to get another one of you angry posters, so my guess is you're not "getting any" and probably never have! SNAP!

# to 127 — GameLordOmega 2006-06-07 11:23

are you using runUMD 0.01 (experimental)? it wouldnt work for mine on that one

# ^_^ — Guest 2006-06-07 11:57

I believe that this program is heaven sent for majority of the gaming community but also a messenger of death to those who wants to cash in on the modchip craze. ^^

# rg — Guest 2006-06-07 13:40

Its good

# Firmwares — Guest 2006-06-07 14:06

where can i find legit copies of 2.00 and 2.50 firmwares that wont brick anything and is it possible to brick a psp with this emulator by installing nasty firmwares?

# umm — Guest 2006-06-07 14:10

penis ha ha

# wtf — Guest 2006-06-07 14:28

Jesus christ you pirates, stop being punks and just buy the fuoking games. You're ruining everything for the rest of us.

# this is awesome — Guest 2006-06-07 15:42

in my opinion this is a great thing. notice I said thing, so it can´t be good or bad, it´s what people use it for that can make it good or bad. now people that want to play the original umd on there 1.5 can buy the game and play it. good for both sony and the customer. what about the customers rights? I can´t find anywhere on the packaging of the game saying anything about which firmware is required to play the game. definately wrong in my opinion.

people who are saying this ruins it for them. ruins what? Sony supporting homebrew? haven´t seen that happen, isos or not. Kills a console? haven´t you been paying attention to the DS? kills the gaming industry? well guess you haven´t heard that the gaming industry has passed the movie industry. Piracy killing a console. I say

WAKE UP!!!!

Get off your high horse, stop *****ing and go buy a psp game(or games)that you have wanted to play, load it up with this wonderful loader and have fun.

# POST 1fkin46 — Guest 2006-06-07 18:59

POST 1 hundred AND FKIN 46

WTF?

WHO TEH FCK RITES OR EVEN TALKS LIEK THAT???

ur just a loner with no life or gf.

# so... — Guest 2006-06-07 19:09

who the ***** cares if it can run isos? so what. hell im glad it can run isos. if u wanna be a retard and complain; dont use it. It can run umd's and use the web browser. Some umds have to be isos to run anyway. hell isos is why I run 1.5 and the good homebrew makes it worthwhile (shame about the ***** tho)

# Ok... — Guest 2006-06-07 20:19

Wow people, calm down... ISO does not = Evil or even illegal in some cases. Comparing Iso loaders to guns is actually a pretty good example... CAN be used illegally (like to kill someone) but has legal uses to (like a shooting range).

P.S @ Nigel: the update has been disabled by coding b/c not all things may be redirected correctly (kind of risky to test something like that right now ;)

# Confusing... — Guest 2006-06-07 22:18

If this lets you run/use:

-2.50 umds

-2.50 web browser

-2.50 media player

-2.50 photo viewer

-...and everything else 2.50 on 1.50...

...then how long is is until it supports 2.60/2.70> ?

# HOW?? — Guest 2006-06-07 22:26

how the hell do I put the 2.5 files on i dumped then and get an OUT and OUTX folder no FLASH0 how does thsi work

# question — Guest 2006-06-07 23:46

is there a big difference between 0.4 and 0.41?

Can't really understand the difference..

# helpful — Guest 2006-06-08 05:41

Steve, read the readme for the program (you have to put them in the correct folder structure), OR use a program called fake updater to automaticaly put them in the correct folders, OR download the full .40 version to get the dumps.

# Money from DevHook(not for you though) — Guest 2006-06-08 17:59

http://www.craigslist.org/eby/ele/169537311.html

this is what i hate. when people make money off of stuff like this. i mean i could be doing this too if i wanted to. just read it and you can see that he is talking about DevHook

# eiej — Guest 2006-06-08 19:19

It's a shame; ahh well i hope this bastard gets reported. But I must admit he is giving the games and flash folders as well. if a idiot buys it then he loses his money.

But still how stupid do u get:

By bidding and purchasing this product you are agreeing that you already personally own all of the games and videos listed

(WINK,WINK:). Who would own 163 psp games? I know what he means but its still a dumb comment to make espcially in the legal info. And the ***** is selling homebrew (snes etc).

# . — Guest 2006-06-13 10:50

why should i pay for games that i have to upgrade for against my will? it is the best thing to happen to the psp community

# To #157 — Guest 2006-06-13 15:40

There is a big difference between this and guns. First, I doubt you've ever tried to buy a gun before. There are loads of paperwork you have to fill out and you can't get one even if you have a committed the smallest of misdemeanors. This thing is open to the public. I wouldn't give guns out like candy to anyone.

# stuff — Guest 2006-06-13 19:20

devhook is awesome! unfortunately my UMD drive died on me so my 15+ umds/movies were worthless at the time, but then came a light! and its name was device hook 0.22 by booster. it saved me from having to purchase a replacement drive or whole new psp. in terms of piracy i do think it opens the door to it, but i always like to try before i buy so, this helps out when deciding how i will spend my well earned money.

# last post — steve_723 2006-06-27 11:29

LOL I am probably not the last to post but I am board. Last post.

# hehehe — Guest 2006-06-28 00:54

..............NOT!!!

# . — Sevenz 2006-07-10 06:26

There's more ;)

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