Epsilon BIOS Custom Flash Replacement For PSP: Is This Good? |
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Hell, yeah it's good!That's if this turns out to be true, as there are many hesitant members in our forums (follow the PSP Hacks Forum Thread below) about this Flash replacement for the PSP. But no matter how dubious this "news" seems, we'll still give you the details of this custom flash replacement for the PSP.
The team developing the Epsilon BIOS custom replacement flash is claiming that this program will allow PSP owners to use homebrew software, run UMD ISO games from the memory stick on the latest firmware releases including the 2.71 firmware update, and still enjoy the built-in features to the OS such as WMA support and RSS feeds, among other things.
The Epsilon BIOS team can't release this program yet as they are still fixing some bugs and are still finalizing the modifications they made with the custom replacement flash that's been made to work with Undiluted Platinum (you need this to be installed in your PSP to use the Epsilon BIOS).
Features if this program in development include:
- ability to launch homebrew software from the memory stick;
- kernel mode access for software requiring this app;
- support for 1.0 and 1.5 EBOOTs;
- simple UMD ISO loading; and,
- has own compressed ISO format.
The team developing this program stated that they will be releasing a video of the Epsilon BIOS working in the coming days. The release of this depends on how long it will take them to resolve some problems with the application.
If this isn't just a hoax, we're all in for a treat. So I'm hoping it really isn't.
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Can't wait for the mod-chip to come!
cant wait man!!!!!!!!!!!! !
"a video of the Epsilon BIOS working in the coming days"
Well, in a few days this is confirmed or not. Come on, let it be real.
And yes, slow as always qj?
If you can run ISO's that require 2.7 + ZOMG! how sweet is that, now I can back up all my games and play them off the mem stick....
Yeah, if we get a vid of this ill be screaming.
Wow.
I higly doubt the odds of this being real
I made my own custom fw that added componets to 1.5
Browser/Media coditics
But I found it almost impossabe to add the needed PRX files
to higher fw's
The main resion this is bs is their clam of having 2.71 fetures.
We still havent even decripted the 2.71 fw, nor do we have a dump of 2.7x
Deducting that this must be a fraud
This is a bit odd.
To QJ: I would suggest taking down the Undiluted Platinum picture. I know that it might be a bit confusing, you know?
I mean, the impression that I took away from it is that this custom firmware type stuff could be put on the installed flash, right? Like, it wouldn't need the Undiluted Platinum?
Also, would it let you run ANY firmware's game?
#6 just because you did a piss-poor hack job doesn't mean that it cannot be done.
The mod chip is required for this program to work.
ISO loading just gave it away. Sorry but I believe Epsilon is fake, but the chip is real.
just my 2 cents
Anything could be created, just as along you have the resource and the knowledge to do it. I can't wait to get this. I hope they release like they said about 1 to 2 weeks on release and fix that alittle problem soon.
I update my psp to 2.7 just to play a game, and now I could downgrade or load iso straight from my psp without any iso loader, just put the compress image in the game folder. I mean thats really awsome. When the update that comes with PSone emulator comes around, I hope it works with the modchip too.
Sounds like its pretty much how it was done on the first Xbox. I hope you can disable the chip, like on the newer Xbox chips, so you can boot from the internal firmware.
It could easily load ISO's if its a custom firmware with 2.71+ modules which can run homebrew (ISO's could be seen as just regular UMD's in this case).
now the psp is usful
bit off topic but does any1 know if the modchip will be shipping to australia? ive had a look on the net and cant find anything saying if it will be
if this is a free download then screw the mod chip im going to get this
#16 if u read the whole article u would have relized u need the modchip to run it
You need the modchip installed so you can install the BIOS.
@15
im sure any modding place or person u see in papers or online will have the PSP mod in a few months/weeks.
in oz
hope this is real along with the chip, so all the people talking s*** to the people who upgraded will feel stupid.
let this be true :) I'd do anything for it to be~
I will only believe after I see it in action.
Hey, this is on the front page of *****:
"A talented Team have been hard at work on a custom flash replacement for the PSP, which will not only allow you to use homebrew files and run unsigned code on the PSP but will also allow you to enjoy the quality features built into all $ony PSP Firmware revisions, right up there to the current v2.71 Firmware! The Team behind the Epsilon BiOS have completely cracked the encryption methods and developed the OS hacks to run unsigned code and even in kernel mode. The Team have been unable to release this previously due to the lack of a mod-chip for the PSP, but with the much talked about Undiluted Platinum PSP Mod just around the corner, a dream can now become a viable reality! The Epsilon BiOS will be released soon. Epsilon BiOS Team Statement:
Epsilon BiOS is a custom flash "replacement" for the $ony PSP which unleashes the full potential of your handheld, allowing you to both use homebrew software and run UMD iSO games from your Memory Stick on the latest Firmware releases while also enjoying the impressive features built into the operating system such as RSS feeds, WMA support etc. Currently the 2.71 Firmware release is supported - that's right, this means we have cracked the new encryption methods and developed the operating system hacks necessary to allow unsigned code to run, even in kernel mode.
We have been developing Epsilon BiOS for quite some time, but due to the fact that it requires a dual-flash system (one flash is used to bootstrap our code, the other stores the normal PSP Firmware) we have been unable to release it - until now, with the appearance of the Undiluted Platinum mod-chip. Previously we had been using our own custom hardware for development, however about a week ago we received Undiuluted Platinum prototypes and have since modified our code to work with their hardware - its working great, despite a few bugs which we need to iron out before the release. For those who are wondering, yes, you will need an Undiluted Platinum installed in your PSP to take advantage of this.
As mentioned above, using Epsilon BiOS its possible to launch homebrew software from the memory stick, kernel mode access is also available for software which requires this. Both 1.0 and 1.5 style EBOOTs are supported. UMD iSO loading is almost transparent, simply copy your iSO files into a directory on your Memory Stick and they will appear under "Game -> Memory Stick" in the operating system menu alongside your homebrew applications. Simply launch them from here, no need to use a seperate iSO loader application. Furthermore, since the games are actually running on 2.x Firmware you dont need to worry about strange loading methods or patching the iSO files - they will simply work, in their original state. We have also developed our own compressed iSO format and will be distributing a packing tool.
We will be releasing a video over the next few days showing Epsilon BiOS in action - keep an eye out for this! As for the actual release, this depends on how soon we can resolve the remaining issues, but we hope to have it out within 1-2 weeks."
Sounds pretty authentic to me.
if they actually decrypted the files then why cant they just put the custom firmware together, and have users flash it in with a modified PSPset?
"Previously we had been using our own custom hardware for development..."
Like what?
This smells like a big steaming pile of poo.
If this is really true and authentic, this has the potential to give the PSP what it needs to be on the top as far as portable gaming is concerned
so... is this the first custom for psp if its true? whats BIOS? err... im so confused:[
It seems convincing to me, they use the mod-chip flash memory to boot a program that launch and patches on the fly the firmware contained in the ma¡n PSP NAND flash.
This way they don´t have to decrypt the firmware files, just debug some memory addresses and patch (but you need the modchip).
Can´t wait to see this in action.
""Previously we had been using our own custom hardware for development..."
Like what?
This smells like a big steaming pile of poo. "
you're hilarious!!!
team xecuter had custom PSP HW since last year they were the first to get CF CD and MMC cards to work on the PSP
"The main resion this is bs is their clam of having 2.71 fetures.
We still havent even decripted the 2.71 fw, nor do we have a dump of 2.7x"
not too hard.
for example: load FW1.5 off of the modchip and then dump the 2.71 FW files from flash0 and flash1
"if they actually decrypted the files then why cant they just put the custom firmware together, and have users flash it in with a modified PSPset?"
I believe it had something to do with the boostrap portion of the FW code.....
not exactly sure why the custom FW itself isn't enough to boot up the PSP, but if I understand correctly, this is supposed to read SOME files off of flash0 and the rest off the modchip - kinda like how you have to use an original DS cast with the PASS-ME and MAGIC KEY when you want to play DS roms off of your flash cart.
Wow laptop games computers anti virus operating system
"team xecuter had custom PSP HW since last year they were the first to get CF CD and MMC cards to work on the PSP"
This means absolutely nothing to me. What "custom" PSP hardware? And how does it validate this claim of a custom firmware that works?
OK if this bios can do all this magical stuff that a group of people that have never mentioned it until now it will be good. Although I usually don't say fake about anything just to reserve judgement. But this does seem kinda far fetched. It seems like they just came out of nowhere and went through every ones wish list about homebrew and isos and said that this bios can do it all.
Although I will not say that the chip is fake I do believe that this is. If it's not then great I will get a chip and install it and the bios and all will be good. If it all turns out to be a bunch of bollocks then it is no big loss for me as I have one psp with 2.71 fw and one with 1.5 so I will keep doing what I always do buy games to play one one and use the other for homebrew.
Hope for the best..... but expect the worst!
This way you are not let down.
http://pspupdates.qj.net/PSP-Mod-Chip-in-the-Works/pg/49/aid/8137
#31- Laptops are portable in the sense that sure, you can bring them around, but its kinda hard to whip the laptop out on the bus for a 5-10 minute ride. And it also doesnt have sleep mode, and have fun using it for your MP3 player. Thats why PDA's and Blackberrys are around.
#32- If you think back to about 2 months ago, heres the link actually: http://pspupdates.qj.net/PSP-Multiple-Firmware-Hack/pg/49/aid/28994, that was a custom hack that could boot up two firmwares. And I am pretty sure that there were custom hacks before that was even put up. Keep in mind guys that U.P. has been in production probably for some time, and probably, only one of many different mod-chips being developed.
If this is true,
would we be able to flash new firmware onto the psp, and un-brick the psp, then take the modchip out, and still have a non bricked psp?
If so, then wont all the bricked psp's that everyone is selling actually worth something?
some ppl are say this is a load of poo becuase if this was relaesed then why haven't they posted the files , well it becos it's of no use, you'll need a 2nd flash for their program to work and thats where the u.p comes in to action and helps us all
yes you will be able to flash new firmware and unbrick (from wats beeen said). if all thats been said is true then u should be able to take the chip out and have it unbricked, wouldnt be a bad way to buy some bricked ones off ebay and reflash them to a 1.5 then sell them, thats if u knew how to install the chip
Well, they arent syaing "Hey! this program will flash ur psp with custom firmware!! i did it!!! woot!" liek spammers would.
They have simply made a custom firmware that can be flashed to the modchip and run. It seems perfectly legit if you know hwo ti works. Pretty much, instead of flashing 2.7 or 1.5 firmware to your modchip, ptu this and it is liek 1.5+2.7 combined, I dont see much use sicne the modchip will alolow booting the latest firmware and 1.5, but I guess it helps cuz its all in one OS and no need for switching. I hope it is real, and it very well could be
Everyone is so tense over this... If its true, the scene will be better. If its false, the scene will be just as good as it is now.
Dont get to convicned about it just yet,wait until further notice, this would be aswome if it was real but dont get your hopes up just to bring them sailling down. I would say it seems legit because if they added the mod chip, the new firmware update would mod to the new chip, not to the psp's chip, we might be able to use 2 versions like 1.5 and 2.7 on one psp, how cool would that be, anyway, I for one think this would be aswome but I'm not going to convinced just yet, maybe time will do it.
ISO's - i can feel a Dreamcast coming on.
This is sad, the gaming industry, for the PSP, is suddenly going to fall and crumble. No one is going to buy the games any more - they will just be on peoples memory sticks.
Why dont people just buy the games? I know they are expensive - but if you didnt pirate in the first place, then they wouldnt be as expensive.
So just think, when you are running you ISO's on your new mod chip, count the years untill the PSP just becomes a distant memory, sitting colecting dust...
It's good for gamers who don't want to carry 20 games around with them and risk getting them all stolen. We should be allowed to install games to the memory stick by default anyway. It uses less battery power to load from the stick and it loads faster. It's got nothing to do with piracy, but everything to do with convenience and protection of the original media.
"Why dont people just buy the games? I know they are expensive - but if you didnt pirate in the first place, then they wouldnt be as expensive."
That's total BS. They'd be MORE expensive. They currently keep the price of games down to prevent combat piracy. If they raised the prices any higher, piracy would be absolutely RAMPANT.
People steal games for 1 of 3 reasons:
They are forced to (can't get it, cant' afford it, DRM screws them over).
or
They have a personality that forces them into it. It's like a limited form of kleptomania.
or
The games mostly SUCK. I've been burned on MOST of the games I've bought in the last few years. Wasting $50 each on 3 games that suck is MORE than enough to make me buy $100 worth of hardware to steal the games before I buy them, in case they suck. If they don't suck after all, I can always go buy the game as well. Most times, this isn't the case, though.
It's like asking why people rob banks. They don't do it because they're jerks. They do it because they feel they have no other choice.
does that mean that u cud run homebrew on 2.71????
has no 1 notist how the chip is not on the battery side where they said it would be
this whole things just blows my mind
cant wait for this chip to come out and custom firmware that will follow
This chip will lead to more piracy because of this:
"(...) this program will allow PSP owners to use homebrew software, run UMD ISO games from the memory stick (...)"
Running UMD ISO games is the same thing that saying: piracy!
And for the guys that are saying...."oh...its not Ilegal ISOs, it's backups..." ....please...tell that story to another...."
I'm all agains't all kind of piracy! Homebrew, yes! UMD ISO's NO!
most people are too dumb to solder the mod chip so i won't really worry about a huge spike in priacy.
so funny, CoderX, the dude who made the "starcraft" game for the psp is jealous and says it's not possible
coderX just sucks ass, his starcraft was total crap as they can't program an engine for it and he's too noob to hack the 2.71 firmware so he claims no one else can
go eat ***** coderx you suck donkey balls
just to piss you off (cause i love priacy) silenx, i have 40+gb of games for my PSP that i downloaded
HAHAhahahahahah ahhaahha
piracy owns
i'd also like to add that you are a very ignorant man silenx
thank god. now i can run iso's! this is what i have been waiting for!
i do own 10 umd's and 2x4gb ms. i wish i could copy these games to the ms so i wont have to carry all umd's with me.
also, loading times from ms are much faster, so no pauses during gameplay, and of course - more battery life.
i dont get the point of having 40gb of iso's while you play just a few. game i really like - i buy.
I approve piracy man, not everyone has an income and can buy anygame they want, you think I take isos from the net because I want to, it's because I don't have money o buy games, just getting the PSP took me more than 6 months to get all the money for it, and I can't be buying games at the same rate they come out, that way I would never play all the games I wanted to play, my allowance is not big enough to be buying games, sure I bought 2 not really they gave them to me one on my birthday and one on christams, and even if I spent all the money in games in a year I would still have like 5 games a year, 5 games I can finish in a month or less.
and I'm talking only games , music and movies as well, things are expensive and I do not have enough money to buy them yet, maybe when I get out of school and get a job, there I will have enough money for all these things, until then I'm doin piracy, AND I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY.
"AND I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY."
-You just did.
Really, piracy has nothing to do about the economic situation or something. It has nothing to do about the moral or ethical standpoints people have. You do it becuz you can. The freedom of the press to
spread information world wide meet people of diverse cultures. Isnt that what the internet was based on? If not, why not just close the internet and come up with something new, like realITy or something.
This chip is fake *****. It is not real.
I am going to be laughing my ass off when this gets delayed and delayed and delayed to the point where each and every one of you idiots finally start to slowly realize that you've all been suckered.
I will laugh, long and hard. And then I will go right back to playing my homebrew on my 2.5 as I have been doing for months.
i don't get it!!! so you put the chip with the old flash??? but there is no room for it!!! or do you take the old one out and install the new one???
wonderful
this will start the downfall of the psp...yet another system lost to piracy....*sigh*
Both PS2,Xbox,Gamecu be have modchips available and there games are still selling good. And soon to be PS3,Xbox360,and Wii will soon get hacked.
I get my isos from my uncles video game store so no need downloading.
There are some games that I buy because they are really good and keep me intertained for a long time so i buy the game. If they suck i don't get them.
You spoiled little brat. 5 games a year? Well, la di da, get a job if you want more. Untill just recently I was only getting 2 games a year or so.
Thats like my buying a car, but becasue I dont 'have' enough money for gas, I start stealing it from other peoples cars!
Now I really don't have a problem with the ISO thing, but when whiny little kids like you start trying to justify it with stupid reasons like that, it just gets annoying.
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In other news, really, people who say that the chip would destory the PSP... has it destoryed the PS2? The Xbox? The GCN? No, they still sell and people still buy games. You don't 'lose' a system to piracy over one little thing like this, I doubt this will effect even 100,000 of the 10,000,000+ PSP that have been sold, Really.
"I know they are expensive - but if you didnt pirate in the first place, then they wouldnt be as expensive."
This is utterly false. No game publisher in the industry would drop prices if someone provided proof that piracy was on the decline. They would just sit back and watch their profit margins widen.
The fact is, they aren't losing that much money to piracy. The gaming industry is consistently making more per year than the film industry, after all.
For all of those who are trying to justify the downloading of Psp games in Iso format there is no excuse. What ever way you look at it, it is stealing, regardless of what pathetic story you use to justify it the fact will always remain.
By the way, if you really didn't care what others thought then you most likely wouldn't have written exactly that.
I would laugh if some of these same kids grew up one day to create a unique game spending lots of time and money only to find people downloading it from the internet. Sooner or later you reap what you sow.....
>>>>>WE NEED A WAY TO FLASH THIS ON OUR 1.5!
.
I'D PAY THEM THE PRICE OF THE MODCHIP TO BE ABLE TO DO IT!
i dont wanna mess with buying the modchip, installing it and risk *****ing my psp
I already saw "tweaked" firmwares coming, but I was hoping for them to be flashable on a normal 1.5 PSP
"Tweaked" firmwares? Where is your source on that?
"Thats like my buying a car, but becasue I dont 'have' enough money for gas, I start stealing it from other peoples cars!"
but thats completely different (well not completely but hey...) when you steal a car, you are taking some1 elses property, THEY WILL NO LONGER HAVE IT, whilst if you download a game, you arnt taking it from anyone, noone is losing anything
to 62, 2 games a year???? well I guess you're not as adicted as I am with games that would last me a week or so, games are too easy these days and have a life span of a moskito.
I will get a job eventually and I will buy games until then I don't care , let me put it this way if I don't download the iso they wont get money but if I don't buy the game because I can't well they won't get it anyways, so I don't see what they lose either way they don't get any money.
People who buy the games, keep the industry alive. If it wasnt for them (me) there wouldnt be games like we know today.
What makes the people who dowload iso's so speacil that they dont have to pay for them? Why do we have to shell out 30+pounds for them, when the other lazy gits get them for free?
It isnt fair. Everyone just pay for the hard work thatothers have put in. Its not that hard....
Oh and....STOP TRYING TO JUSTIFY ISO'S - YOU CANT
will they still be huge, like 1 gb each?
or will they be smaller and better, cuz if not then ill have to buy a 2gb chip...
he says that they said before it would be on the battery side
this looks to be on the other side...
PLz God dont tell me the mod chip itself is all a hoax
@56 - The internet was made by the US army for a means of better communication to kill and destroy more efficiently. Not to bring the world together.. hippies.
I'd buy this mod chip, dunno about getting this modified firmware tho, there will be some other ones coming up later on. Everybody is bad mouthing the chip saying it will increase piracy so much it'll kill the PSP, no way. This modified firmware allows the running of ISO's, not the mod chip, so there you go, don't blame the chip, blame the firmware.
This is for LOL and to the other morons:
If you think i'm ignorant, think again... for people like you I have only one thing to say: .|.
Someone said that he doesn't have the money to buy PSP games....So?! I don't have the money to buy an Lamborgini Gallardo, but I'm not thinking about steal one...
If you don't have the money....wait! Just like I do..I have only 3 UMD games, but this games were BOUGHT with hard work, not just clicking in a stupid web site, download a stupid ISO, that someone stupid is sharing...
If you think you're cool (LOL and the other's) think again... you are a theaf! nothing more...
...about the fact that no this is not confirmed yet, or that we has an internet page or at least an email, or SOMETHING on who is making both this Costum BIOS, AND the U. P...
I am 14 years old and when i first got my psp (which i had to work for 1 months with my dad and paper round money) i wa buying a new game every week and a half from ebay and shops then i had a 2.0 psp and i knew about 1.5 but i didnt want to try it until my m8 downgraded his then i bought a 2gb card and got 6 discs with psp isos of ebay for £10.
You people in here saying how your too poor and cant afford to buy them and just plain liars i have to do 2 paper rounds to buy games and i only turned to iso's so i could get games before everyone else and i began to get cheap and spend my money on modding my xbox.
I am a thief and i know but the whole internet is full of theifs i dont know anyone in my area who buys music of itunes or in the shops everyone just downloads it from limewire.
Anyone in here who can say the have not stole anything from the internet inculding iso's, roms you dont own, music ,movies and apps need to get a clap because you must have some high principals.
look there is nothing special about us an we are thiefs I admit it, Isos are not bad if you have the original UMD that noboday can say is bad if you don't yes it's wrong, but I don't care, and for the record thare are very few games that acctually are deserving of being bought like the LOK series I liked those so much I acctually saved for all the games for all the systems even tough I don't have any of the systems they use all I have is a playstation 1 a PSP and the PC, LOK was deserving warcraft was deserving diablo as well, lately there haven't been any games I can say this game is worth it's money, I may steal isos but most of the games that have been coming out lately it's them who are stealing from you.
Rags said: "(...) I may steal isos but most of the games that have been coming out lately it's them who are stealing from you."
That's no excuse...
duberryboy1 said: "SHUt UP" "I am a thief(...)"
No , I wont...and glad you admit...
Whoops, I ment to say Steal GAS I dunno why or how I put cars... huh...
Whoops, I ment to say Steal GAS I dunno why or how I put cars... huh... That changed the context of it entirely.... Heheh...
And about my only getting 2 games a year, the only way for me to get money was to not eat lunch when going to school, and I always didnt get money for school lunch, so it took me a while... I mean, even to get a PSP it took me 6 months to get it, and months more to get the 3 games I have for it...
Heh, and then freakin la di da it gets stolen a few days ago, as well as my college stuff, so $400 in PSP stuff and more in college... ughh, so sucks right now... at least none of my DS stuff got stollen... (got most of DS stuff as gifts =p) and darn, I was gonna use my HS grad money to get a DSlite... now I have to buy a PSP again... heh... maybe I can find a used 1.5 at Ebgames or something... or 2.0... dosn't matter...
Well, thats enough of my rambling... yeah... I ment gas.
So its, "Thats like my buying a car, but becasue I dont 'have' enough money for gas, I start stealing it from other peoples gas!"
And Not, "Thats like my buying a car, but becasue I dont 'have' enough money for gas, I start stealing it from other peoples cars!"
~ARG, it cut off almost all my post last time... cause I had a thing in it that made it cut off.... dangit.~
i hope there will be people to install this for you cuz im a dumbass and already broke a psp once and dont want to do it again. as for the chip. it will be great. isos are good as well cuz no body with a normal paycheck can be runnin around payin 50 bucks a pop for a game. if they were a more reasonabl price maybe.
g nizz said: "can be runnin around payin 50 bucks a pop for a game. if they were a more reasonabl price maybe."
Yeah...50$ for each game is a lot...but now you can buy some of the greatest games, like Wipeout Pure (I bought ir today:D ), Burnout Legends, Ridge Racer, WRC, NFSU Rivals, Pursuit Force, V. Tennis, Medieval...F1... for 24.90$ each... they're not the latest games but some of them are great! and there's an oportunity....now with the Platinum series...
To silenx... good to see you have a strong sense of morals regarding piracy. However, software pirates can't exactly be equated to thieves of the conventional sense (you drew a comparison to stealing a car). The key difference is this:
What is being stolen is merely data. It is this that reduces the impact of the crime. For example: A game comes out. For whatever reason, you will never buy that game (no money, not enough interest in the game, whatever). However, you obtain the game anyways by stealing it off a store shelf. In this way, you hurt the retailer and the company that produces the game by taking a hard copy that has monetary worth.
However, data is just intelligent property. If you download a game, the only damage done to a retailer or game developer is that a customer was lost. That in itself isn't as damaging. Now factor in the condition that the person who downloaded the game doesn't have any money, or for whatever reason (besides not buying it with intent to download) will never buy the game. Did the retailer lose a customer? No, the condition is that the person is never a customer in the first place. So really, who is harmed? The person in question gets the enjoyment of a game, and no harm done to anyone.
Of course, it's morally wrong to do. But in reality, pirating a game that you would have never bought in the first place is a victimless crime. Maybe a little guilt for person who downloaded the game, but if that person had no effect on the retail market of that game, no damage done. In fact, it might be beneficial, because if the game is worth buying, it's free word-of-mouth advertising.
Is anyone else tired of qj.net editors including links back to the SAME GODDAMNED ARTICLE I'M CLICKING THE LINK FROM just to get higher search ratings?
I click on the goddamned link to see more information and it opens a new *****ing tab with the SAME *****ING ARTICLE.
Thanks, guys.
Every time someone mentions umd loaders or the like someone starts on ISOs. One person will start with cool I can run isos then you get the response about the isos being wrong. All the sudden the comments are full of back and forth arguing about them and not what the article is about. I don't care one way or the other, people will do what they want and no comment on a website is going to change their mind. If you don't like isos then don't download them, but just leave the ones that do alone you won't change their mind.
Now I don't use isos, not because I don't want to it's just that 90% of the games for the psp I just don't like and the three I did like I bought (NFS Underground rivals, x-men legends 2 and burnout) I will get katamari and the ratchet and clank game someday. But don't try and discourage those who use isos because I just don't care what others use their internet for as it is none of my concern.
that's what I was tryin to tell, if I spent all the money I can get in a year sure I could buy 5 games a year but I don't and I could never do that , I need other things that are vital for my body to survive, save a little on buying the least expensive meals yeah I do that, not buying useless junk, that helps a lot. There was a time that my internet conection was not good enough to take pirated copies, then i bought all the games I could, when I couldn't I borrowed from a friend, then I got a cd burner and well that started it all burning games from firends, we would all buy diferent games and share them so we could burn them, then I got a much more faster conection and learned more about piracy, yeah I pirate but I still buy games, I never said that I have GTA, and need for speed for the PSP, the rest well I get it from the net.Right now I have no money so why not get the games from the net and play them until I get some to buy a game, Right now I need to save money for mu PC it has heating problems I think I need to get more fans and a better heatsink.
"I know they are expensive - but if you didnt pirate in the first place, then they wouldnt be as expensive."
"This is utterly false. No game publisher in the industry would drop prices if someone provided proof that piracy was on the decline. They would just sit back and watch their profit margins widen.
The fact is, they aren't losing that much money to piracy. The gaming industry is consistently making more per year than the film industry, after all."
by Rehevkor, at Jun 04, 2006 at 09:58AM
Seems like most people keep forgetting this. Piracy or not, somebodys making big money.
Sorry guys, but this is impossible. The PSP has a bit of hardware-based code that decrypts the IPL (bootloader) code for execution, meaning that this code has to be encrypted in the first place. In other words, these guys would have to somehow magically encrypt their flash replacement using Sony's private key for it to work at all.
Not to mention: For it to really be able to run homebrew, they would have to rewrite every single system call in the firmware. From the functions that clear the screen to the functions that read/write files, it'd all have to be done from scratch. And trust me, that's not going to happen.
I'm not saying a mod chip is impossible; I'm saying custom firmware is impossible. The PSP will not boot if the bootloader is signed by Sony's private key, and there's no way to get that by "cracking" encryption. It's not stored anywhere on the PSP, and brute-forcing the key would take somewhere around 10,000,000,000,0 00,000 years. So... It's BS, complete and utter.
Poop in all your mouth's!!!
;)
IFTHE MOD CHIP ALLOWS YOU TO PLAY HOMEBREW ON
WITHOUT TIFF OR GTA EXPLOITS THEN DUMP THE FIRM- WARE FOR PEOPLE WITHOUT THE MOD CHIP.
I download music off the net, download games for my
nintendo ds..who cares...others of you burn movies when renting, download music off some site, get a copy of a computer app from friends, stealing data does not hurt companies, they have been ripping us off for years.
Just because your music group put out a one hit wonder record, should that justify you becoming a multimillionair e...it's all about status and hype.
it cost .15 cents to make a music cd, and probably around .30 cents to make a umd disc...they make a huge ass profit with the sell of games..that's why companies are willing to take a hit when it comes to producing systems... Music use to be free. I think games should be priced more reasonably, as should music cd's, dvd's, etc.
Since companies get greddy and start raising and raising profits to insure they drive lamborgines and live in mansions, then of course some people get pissed off and look for alternative means in getting there products...
Don't think iso's will be the end of the psp... The DS has been outselling the psp like crazy..and it's had the carts much longer...same with the gameboy... The average person only buys so many games per year...These companies have already planned on how many and who they are going to screw...
Kudos to you if you wont allow yourself to be screwed..
I AM A 17 YEAR OLD WHO IS FAIRLY INTELLIGENT ! WILL I KNOW HOW TO INSTAL THIS WITH NO ELECTRICAL EXPERIENCE?
you all do it dont lie
uh... you spelled install wrong #92
lol thats funny, but to #92 ur best to look in trading newpapers when the chip comes out and buy 1 from that, the person selling will generalling install it for you
First off, this is awesome news!!! This is FxxxING GREAT!
While yes it is very cheap for them to make a UMD, I doubt even $0.30 to make one. But take this into account, they spend tons of money developing, and they need to always sell X amount of games to make that back up... while music works quite differntly, it costs them almost nothing really to make a song, there are no development costs, so comparing the two, just becasue they use disks, is stupid.
Ive been creating my own firmware with lots of programs eg windows internet explorer , Java , winRar , 1.5 game loades , universal video player and much more and because I named it 3.00 it also works on 2.71 . I may charge for it please think of a decent price for me also if anyone wants to help just say
www.epsilon.com.pl
Some people got 2.6 or higher accidently or sadly upgraded and want homebrew. Most people should be able to do this easily is if does not require smolding to get the modchip on. If it does, less people will use this gift from the psp god.
If anyone is interested in locally (toronto Ontario) buying a PSP 1.5 original MINT CONDITION w/ 2GB pro duo sony high speed + alot of extra's email me @ kevin_sarasom@h otmail.com
If this is true, then my prayers have finally been answered. : P I have been waiting for a long term solution since the second update came out for the PSP. (The 1.51) Having the latest firmware, with homebrew, and some nice other features will be great.
I purchased a PSP on Launch in NZ, got Ridge Racer bundled with it.
I dont see a major problem with ISO Loading, Considering the majority of PSP titles are either sloppy ports or just plain horrible games.
I would purchase a DS title as it appears a little more work goes into their flagship titles... you actually play ds games for more than 5minutes :p.
PSP games dont really yet have any 'fun' accociated with them.
I enjoyed GTA and NFSU, but i couldnt justify the 100$nzd it costs for titles when the games are pretty crap.
Hopefully in the near future Sony will stop their mass crap production and start putting some effort into making just a few titles on the platform worth purchasing.
also, dont forget when u purchase a psp it's subsidised.. so basically Sony are giving big discounts on the console... because all the profit is made from the sales from the software... but if the software stinks and nobody purchases it... then where do we go.
does this let us boot ANY isos of games?
including games that only work on 2.7??
so can we get like GTA and Syphon filter and all those ISOs?
im of the opinion that downloading isos is in fact not a crime, the gaming industry is frequently earning more money than the last year, and as far as i can see, downloading doesnt hurt anyone. Your argument is "well, dont you see how hard theyve worked to produce that game?"
Now i almost never download any games because im also of the opinion that "if a game is worth playing, it is worth to pay for it" or something like that, that is why i "often" (once or twice per year) download a game, play it for sometime, and then decide if im going to buy it or not, if i dont think its a good game, i dont, but if I do, i TRULY buy the game...
that is why im protecting piracy, or something like that...
(and btw, law is just a commitment to the illusion of a static reality, it actually depends on "belive"-values, and nothing else, so a thief today, just might be a legal citizen tomorrow...but you dont know that, do you?)
UTTERLY FAKE
IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE CUSTOM FIRMWARE WITHOUT ENCRPYTION KEY!!
So to all those that said the U.P modchip is fake. Looser's. I have one right here running the 1.5 third party firmware as we speak.
And to those that keep on and on about the firmware being encrypted. Yes it is but they have more or less hacked the 2.5 and 2.6 fully so not much longer for the 2.71.
Also to the other's that keep ranting on about piracy. Tuff *****! Put up with it or do something about it. Oh! forgot you can't. Ha ha .|..
Where can you download the Epsilon BiOS
the chip is real people r so thick these days cuz u r all a bunch of noobs.