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Noobz gives quick Illuminati exploit update, Lumines sales skyrocket to 14,000% |
Listed in: Hacks & Exploits, Homebrew Development, News, Titles, Games Tags: Amazon, downgrader, Exploit, homebrew community, Noobz, psp exploits, psp hacks, Q Entertainment
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In the wake of the recent Illuminati exploit from Noobz, the team has posted a quick update on their site yesterday. No, they haven't come up with a downgrader. (Yet.) But they gave a suggestion for PSP users exploiting with a European Lumines:It seems that the Illuminati exploit doesn't work properly if your PSP is set to non-English settings. At a guess, it's something to do with unicode when displaying the profile name. // Anyway, if you are having problems, especially with the European Lumines, then try switching your PSP to 'English' settings.
Well, a lot of our commenters have asked, really, which version Illuminati would work on. Good thing Noobz was finally able to clear it up.
Now speaking of Lumines, Noobz pointed out that, over at Amazon, sales for Q Entertainment's rhythm-puzzle game went skyrocket. As of June 24, Lumines sales went up 14,000%. Surprised?
We checked for ourselves how the game is currently doing. Under the Video Games category of the online store, it pushed way past the currently released games for the Wii, DS, and PS3, and is now comfortably sitting on spot #2 (right under the Wii console itself). Sales ranking though currently notch it up with an increase of 350%.
Moving on, for those who have been waiting for the grand daddy itself (i.e. HEN and a downgrader), we're still promising to give you guys an update. If you remember the last time, January 25 saw the previous Hello World exploit. Then, just two days later, a homebrew enabler and downgrader finally hit FW 3.03.
It's been two days since the Illuminati "Hello World" exploit. It's going to be any day now... (or maybe that's just some of us hoping) As of now though, let's make Tetsuya Mizuguchi proud of how his creation is currently helping the homebrew community.
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There *****s, now you cant be first
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Yesterday, amazon.ca had the game for $15 canadian.
Now, it has it for $37.75!
LINK:
http://www.amazon.ca/UBI-Soft-8888332435-Lumines/dp/B0007VDF22/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/702-5113303-2200805?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1182819134&sr=8-1
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So I want someone to prove me wrong with that comment above. Why do you think this downgrader coming out is a good thing? If you want a hackable PSP, get one that's a lower grade, anywhere. There are numorous places. That Noobs team just wants to be as well respected as Dark Alex so of course they're going to make a downgrader, and really they're just going to make sales a whole crap load worse.
When Metal Gear Ops came out, there were 13,000 seeders for MiniNova. ...Think about that, that's almost as high as a Naruto episode or South park, and that's just the Seeders. Dude, I don't even seed stuff, and I know there are other people out there that don't either, hah.
Then, on a certain PSP site, (Not going to advertise it here) there are over 150,000 people joined that's all about sharing games. (Which is weird because it's a great site but when I talk to people with custom firmware no one really knew about it) And then you have the people from here and other sites.
If this downgrader comes out, ***** for the PSP is going to turn really bad. I pray people update to the "unhackable" 4.00. If I brick mine or break mine, that's my fault and I will go find a new one. But man I wish this downgrader would not come out.
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If your a homebrew nutter buy a PSP now before the slim comes out, but if you dont mind just playing games made by proper companys wait for slim
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In the end it's been Sony's downfall for making the PSP so versatile and allowing it to read the memory stick. With the DS, Nintendo constantly avoids the piracy problem by making their units closed and feature focused on games. Even today people need to purchase additional hardware that is illegal to obtain in a growing number of countries. Had piracy not hit the PSP so hard and early in it's like, then it might have competed better with game sales against the DS. No, it WOULD have.
Shame isn't it?
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Plus, it's not like they can make the unit that much smaller since it has to fit the UMD drive.
Of course, if you don't care about homebre or backups of (somebody else's) games, I'd say wait, since the new version (should it exist) will sport better features than the original.
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When this exploit came out Buncha money for Lumines
When a downgrader comes out more PSP's will be bough and more lumines games will be bought as well.
Homebrew, I believe is only 2% of all the PSPs in the world. And only a small percentage know about homebrew.
This downgrader won't hurt anything. It will just add money. And wow 15,000 out of 1,000,000. That is so small. And besides, the companies making the game just want your money, so as long as people buy thier games they don't care about piracy and all the other kinda crap that's happening.
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At least I back my numbers up:
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/security/dmorrill/archives/bit-torrent-what-is-being-traded-in-june-2006-10359
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Do you have any real idea about Piracy on the DS?
Nintendo have not made their units closed at all, even with the newly released DS Lites the firmware can still be completely flashed over with hacked firmware.
There are now new DS Slot 1 cards that take mini SD. You do not need anything else and they are not illegal.
In fact there have been more Slot 1 card releases than I can remember and there have been about 10 new ones in the past week.
Not only this you do not need to patch DS games to run them. All you need to do is drag and drop. You do not need to modify the firmware but some do it to add a recovery menu. The fact is, the DS has just as much a piracy problem as the Psp and is now just as easy or easier than it is on the DS.
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That is why killing Hitler wouldn't have stopped world war 2 because someone exactly as escentric and carasmatic would have wanted to start a world with only the arian race as well.
Kids - pfft
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I can see how you think that piracy and stuff breaks the system, but still, theres not THAT MANY DECENT games for this thing... its very reminiscent of the N64 vs PSX war a while back.
Anyways, I'm glad the noobs will prolly eventually bring this downgrader out cos my mate bought a psp just for emulation / nes stuff! ... screw all this new crap!
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IF you had actually read what he wrote (and understood it) then you'd realize that he answered every piece of bull that you submitted in a single sentence.
PSP + normal memory sticks + game + unlock.
DS + "illegal" slot1/2 card + SD card + unlock.
slow down and read before you make yourself look like a retard.
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Name 10 REAL people you know who pirate on this website.
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Is there any way that you can claim that your piracy is in some way my fault?
By opening up homebrew on PSPs, we're giving freedom to the end user. They can choose how they use that freedom. If they care about the platform, then I hope they'll use the freedom responsibly, and run only legitimate homebrew, or at worst, backups of their own UMDs.
Those that choose to pirate have themselves to blame if the platform suffers. If you choose to shoot someone, it is not the fault of the gun manufacturer. Modern society seems to place very little stock in individual responsibility - all we seem to hear about is "I want my rights", and not "I want to have the responsibility that goes with them". In my opinion, that's what's wrong with the world today - a refusal to take responsibility for our individual actions.
Downgraders are tools. We provide them because we believe in individual freedom and have faith that human beings can be responsible. We do not like being treated like children by those with whom we spend our money.
So it's your choice what you do with it. And this isn't aimed personally just at Zetsurin - everyone who uses the downgrader for bad should look at themselves critically, and accept that THEY ARE HURTING THE INDUSTRY. THEM, THEMSELVES, BY THEIR OWN CHOICES AND ACTIONS.
And to those who are stockpiling copies of Lumines, in order to profiteer from the shortage of stocks - shame on you. It disgusts me that we give our time and effort so that everyone can freely enjoy homebrew, just to see a greedy few attempting to screw others over. It's hardly community-spirited, now, is it?
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Don't let a few idiots who think not of the large picture drag you down - keep doing what you are doing, as MOST of us appreciate it.
You kick ass Fanjita!
P.S. - I bought a Lumines UMD yesterday for $12.99 at my local GameStop!
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PS. I live in sweden and Elgiganten doesn't even exist in the US.
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You can talk about guns, freewill, and responsibility all you like, but maybe you should take a step back and think for a second, 150,000 members on One single PSP site (not this) don't exactly have halos on their heads.
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I have a 3.03 PSP that could be downgraded, but I couldn't find an unpatched Grand Theft Auto: LCS UMD. I have sat with my PSP for well over a year and not bought a single UMD game for it, and yet I use my PSP very frequently. I listen to Music, watch Videos, and share Photos. I will not, nor have ever (other than GripShift) purchased a UMD game for my PSP because I don't like the selection that the platform has to offer. Furthermore, I do not intend to pirate any games for the PSP because again, I don't like the selection that the platform has to offer.
In no way does any downgrader account for piracy. It is completely up to the user as to what they do with the capabilities of lower or custom firmwares. So to anyone who blames dedicated coders for their own or other's piracy habits -
Go to hell.
You kick ass N00bz!
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Can someone confirm if we only have user mode for now?
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- Coolham23 -
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Jin show him some respect while your correct to an extent mind you. Got my lumines for 5 bucks. Anyways fanjita is right it's sort of like you steal a car saying gta told me too. It's your fault if you do something bad your own concious will haunt you don't blame others.
Thx fanjita best advice since life sucks wear a helmet
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Last year, when Socom Fireteam Bravo 2 came out. It required fw 2.80 to play ONLINE. Devhook could not emulate 2.80 yet. All was good, over 16000+ users online and not a single hacker in sight. 3 months later, Darkalex releases Devhook+2.80 support. The next day, there were ppl running around with infinite health, unlimited ammo, teleportation, shooting thorough walls, etc. In just 3 short months FTB2 was utterly and completely ruined for thousands and thousands of people who bought the game legally. It's really really really f'kn fustrating. All it takes in one guy and the whole game is ruined.
Well, now-a-days, hardly anybody plays FTB2. Too many hackers.
A new Socom game is going to come out for the psp. I'm not even gonna bother buying it bc it will eventually be ruined and the worst part is, you crackers don't even acknowledge your contribution.
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So you admit to not having the moral backbone to avoid piracy. And yet you claim it is my fault? Do you not have the any control over your own actions?
There's presumably no-one stopping you from shoplifting when you're out at the mall. You've got pockets, hands, and shop staff that can't keep an eye on you at all times. So do you steal their stuff?
In no way do I expect everyone to do good. But I do feel that they deserve to have a choice. You can't be nannied by the industry and the state forever. At some point, you have to reclaim your independence and accept some responsibility for your life's actions.
I wholeheartedly believe that the benefits to the group of people who want to use legitimate homebrew to enrich their experiences, and who are not so morally lazy that they hide behind other people's work, far outweigh the actions of the selfish pirates.
I notice that the bulk of people who argue against downgraders already have homebrew-capable PSPs. What makes you so special that you deserve homebrew, but no-one else does? By your own admission, a lot of you pirate software. In which case, there are a lot of new potential homebrewers who deserve it a lot more than you do. Ditch the elitist crap.
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You people who downgrade are dumb.
The psp isnt made for homebrew, why do you risk bricking a £90 psp.
When you can buy a GP2X which does all the homebrew stuff you want, no hassle.
But hey credit to the morons who try lol
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for easy cash and hardcore fuzzy hamster stuffing !!
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