Evangelion: Jo is first anti-CFW PSP game, more to come? |
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French site PSP Gen has got some curious and interesting tidbit regarding certain games that can actually recognize a Custom Firmwared PSP, which in turn blocks you from being able to play it. On such game is Evangelion: Jo, currently available only to the Japanese market.Said the post (duly translated):
Sony and the software house to pass counterattack. E 'of the news yesterday that the game Evangelion: Jo, for now this only on the Japanese market, is able to recognize the presence of the PSP Custom Firmware that is started. This is done by making a check on the RAM of the console, and whether this is positive, the game will not start. The solution to the problem might be but just around the corner. Like the CF-A 5.02GEN has a feature that allows you to emulate an official firmware, soon also the last 5.50GEN CF will benefit from this option. We will keep you updated when new.
An anti-CFW check, you say? If this be true, then Sony is apparently upping the ante on their drive against homebrew. But at the same time, they'll just be driving more people towards piracy. Sound tough, but not exactly the win-win situation we'd rather have.
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How are they implementing this going to drive people towards piracy?
This will just wast there time as i easy a Easy fix around it.
Waste"
Man i need to stay off the shrooms +P to re: re: edit that. "This will just waste there time as i see a Easy fix around it. "
Developers are sick and tired of losing money on the PSP due to hackers and piracy. Now, of course My PSP is on CFW but I don't download games that I don't already have. Basically I only use the PSP as an NES and SNES Emulator because i have the original copies of the games that I have in the emulators.
Two solutions I can see straight away. 1. CFW caters for the checks. 2. we get patches for ISO's like every other cracked system previously. If #2 happens then people will be even more inclined to the dark side than using their own backups.
You are so full of it. You're a filthy pirate and you know it.
Yeh he is full of it. And they are right i Dl it only to see if it was true and yeh it is.
There's already a fix around this problem. =P
just use update trick to make it believe we have OFW. or does that not work?
Kind of ironic since they would of had to install a cfw to develop there anti cfw code.
That doesnt even make since. sony can run programs on there psp software because it is not unsigned.
Yes it does, how can they detect something if they don't know how it works.
DJ Max Black Square, DJ Max Clazziquai Edition, and Pangya were the first ones I think.
They know how it works, and they wouldnt even have to know, it just checks the ram. And anyway theres so many ways it could be fixed
instead of stopping piracy they are only killing their own sales.its going to get cracked no matter what they do. but there really are some law abiding psp users that only want to fully unlock the full power of the hard ware they paid 169-300$ for by installing a custom firmware. now these few people who would have actually purchased the game will choose another title. just plain stupid. i hope it gets cracked just out of spite!
sorry man, still wrong its "their", not "there
They convert X people from CFW back to OFW versus they lose Y sales because people can't play the game. The company doesn't gain from X and I am pretty sure Y would be the greater number anyway.
that wouldn't work..its reading past a simple txt file...its looking for signatures in the ram...
I don't get it...why not just make it where the iso's won't load..why UMD? is it so wrong to want more custumization? and power saving prxs? and added features like in game music? can anyone tell me theres anything wrong with that? i don't care about the damn ISO's...but the UMD's?
Like how certain games delete the ISO folder, that got blocked with a plugin. Idolmaster had some protection, people went and hex edited it out of the ISO This will be no different. They will just remove the checks
Not necessarily, I own pretty much all the games I have in my emulators on my PSP. I only play the few games I found good on early NES and SNES systems like Mario, Megaman 2, Galaga, River City Ransom, Punch out!, etc. As far as PSP games go, most aren't worth the bandwidth used, unfortunately, to download them.
"a Easy" + "an easy" cmon...
they shouldent even be worrying about this, more people aculy buy the game then aculy pirate, so why the hell do they even try? there making more money then there lossing, because if they were lossing as much as they said they were the go wouldent even have been made. i think there geting more greedy and want the extra penny from the people who do pirate
I really am not a pirate. Go ***** your self you assuming *****bag sack of *****.
Everyone has a bad day now and then.
I don't play these types of games anyway, they got past PlayStations store firmware detection so can they for game firmware detection. also I dont pay for PSP games because they are so *****ty some times only games I bought were. ATV off road fury GTA Liberty City Stories GTA Vice City Stories Medal of Honor Heroes 1 Medal of Honor Heroes 2 almost all the others is like paying $30 for a revamp PS1 game.
You understand that almost every game on every console is a re-vamp of something earlier right? :) If you don't like the games that's fine, but to say you just don't pay for them (which implies you still download them) is just piracy. I use CFW too but pay for my games. I've imported over 50% of my collection becuase Europe has piss-poor support from Sony (we get games last and pay most for them). Give Macross Ace Frontier a go, it's awesome :)
pure drivel and hype. the only people this is supposed to satisfy is greedy f@cking $hareholders
I tried playing it, and it would not start up. Well know I know..
Ya sure talk like one.
With the many advance hackers that are present in this world, SONY is losing this on going battle. This simple security issue will be resolved in minutes...SONY GIVE UP!!!
odds are this will be fixed very soon i wouldnt be all that surprised if a fix comes out tonight lol. First off all it does is check the ram, so if you could just inject an official firmware into the ram it would give you official for one boot, aka until you power down. Ram looses all its contents after shutdown in which it would read the flash and upload your CFW into the ram, as such making a temporary change of firmware. I also believe that this will be quick because their are lot of eva junkies out their lol, and im one of them.
..or people who, for some inexplicable reason, behave like greedy f@ckin $hareholders by marking down the truth.
of course they will fix it. hackers don't like data nazis.
Well pirates, this is what your greedy, thief ways have caused. Will it stop you from stealing video games? Nope, you'll continue till the day your sorry asses are put right into prison where they belong you damn thieves.
I just thought of something couldn't a hacked psp in most cases simply use pandora to install a offical firnware to play the game and then once finished return to custom firmware, also does the firmware from memory stick function on the pandora battery write the firmware to flash???? In either case its already possible to get around the games security if someone actually cared enought to play this game. I would like confirmation on how firmware from memorystick works???
Do you enjoy pretending to be a paid shill, but not even getting paid for it? Utterly tragic - what a sad p3nis you really are. To me fellow pirates - Shiver me timbers!!! They've tried to kill us for generations me hearties - and they all end up drinking a salty brew down in Davy Jones locker!! Death to the men in grey and their wh0reslaves that work for free! Yar - de har- de harharrr! Catch us if ya can ya frilly w@nkers! You patch - we patch - you patch - we patch.. Patches all round - slap em on yer bad eyes, me hearties!! Let em have it!
I just thought of something couldn't a hacked psp in most cases simply use pandora to install a offical firnware to play the game and then once finished return to custom firmware, also does the firmware from memory stick function on the pandora battery write the firmware to ram???? In either case its already possible to get around the games security if someone actually cared enough to play this game. I would like confirmation on how firmware from memorystick works???
http://markshroyer.com/files/piracy.png nuff said
If you have a CFW but NOT for ISOs, this could potentially (if there isn't a good fix and it becomes the norm) stop you from playing your UMDs as if you were running the OFW. Not enough detail was given but if it the UMD disc detects your FW and prevents you from playing, but a modified ISO of the same game runs fine, you are only hurting legit customers.
Sony doing this, are essentially trying to make you pick a side. The problem is if they keep trying copy preventive measures it will drive people away. Look at PC games. Piracy is very high with it, because people don't want to deal with the copy protection. BioShock I remember reading only allowed you to install the game a limited set of times. This really pissed people off and why buy it legally when maybe in the future you can't use it. For my experience I had a modded PS1, I bought Sony games for it and it didn't work because of my console. So my choice was to unmod my console or never buy a PS1 game again. I think a similar thing is happening now with the PSP, people who buy the game legally might face a similar dilemma concerning the PSP. This I think will drive more people toward piracy. People hate inconvenience. Don't forget how Sony use to brick psp with that motherboard TA-085, even if your running homebrews, not pirated games, Sony chose to brick your machines, by doing this creates contempt and people are no longer loyal and will turn towards piracy. Loyalty is very important for Video game companies, they succeed and fail because of it.
im pretty sure that sony wouldn't dare try to dish out a new OFW just to stop people playing the UMDs on CFW, considering that some psp owners, especially the ones who are faithful, would go out and buy the games anyway regardless that they can play it for free, which i advice that everyone should do if they want sony to come out with something better then the psp go.
I am paid for it, thank you very much.
the music industry suing their own customers. It didn't work then and I doubt it will work now.
we got a word for scallywags like you: TOOL
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