the freakin questions are put in such a way to make the hackers look like they are evil people. hahahahahha. sony= losers

Where's the question that asks,



"Sony is too lazy to add the features that the users want, so I (the hacker) have to step in."



-Strongly Agree.

There are only two questions that really touch on the legality of pirated software. Frankly, I would be surprised if more people combined used a "hacked" psp for homebrew or programming or features rather than for copied/dl'ed games.

Yep, hacking a psp is sooo impressive; I'm a total rebel...

I kinda want to too, even if they do storm my house afterwards >_>

Completely agree

Somebody go bop the CEO on the head...

If sony wants to overcast the homebrew community they need to do something so impressive that people want it more than homebrew.



What's the best thing that sony added into new firmware releases that doesn't involve anything except the PSP? (so no Remote Play,LFTV or any WI-FI related stuff)



Probably,abilit y to play PSX games on the PSP, being able to listen to music and view pictures at the same time or PSP running at 333Mhz in games. These aren't such great things but generally these things are the only things aren't related with the PS3 (cos alot of people don't have it)WI-FI (same thing as the PS3).



So what does homebrew offer for the PSP?



Irshell,Daedalu s,CXMB,Pandora/DC, heaps of emulators and more that I can't remember.



Everything that sony added was already available by homebrew before sony added it.



Its just that Sony made the PSP which I think is awesome but their not puxhing it to its full potential.

They're just like any other company.

If they treated the PSP like the early Playstation 1, and released a developer version to the general public, like as they did with the Yaroze.

And then greeted homebrew like they did back then, then people wouldn't see hackers and the likes of DaX being such a huge issue.

this devilish test will tell them all about PSP hackers and will put an end to homebrew as it is.

once you take the test, your conscience will get flooded with guilt and coder you will be no more.

stay away from this test, it is pure evil.

It's funny how this survey is trying to imply that installing an unofficial firmware is illegal. Well that's like saying it's illegal to install Linux on a brand new Windows Laptop.



Sony show us proof that it's illegal before you spout this nonsense...

That is questions #11 and last, but written Sony-style

1. 1 rebel? against what?

2. 1 Yeah Impesses Stupid People.

3. 3 unhacked psp also gets free content.

4. 1 what a stupid question

5. 5 just like modding

6. 3 will sony sue anyone defiling a psp privately?

7. 3 is it s crime? who's to stop anyone?

8. 5 my psp is destined for the cabinet now that ive finished god of war and ffvii crisis core.

9. 3 is there?

10. 1 this is another stupid comment by sony!

11. 5 Bingo Dude! Now You're Learning

12. 3 Legal? Technical Yes!

13. 5 for knowledgeable YES, to us cheapskates YES but less.

14. 1 this is the 3rd stupid survey question.



Question to Sony

1. When will you fire the maker of the stupid survey?

2. Who the heck thought of that surver?

3. What the heck do you exactly mean when you say "Hacking the PSP?" the survey feels like people that hack commits a crime against humanity (ex slaughtering tens of people).

I'm in the Unofficial continuation piKey team, Sony didn't make a keyboard, and they put an IRDA on the PSP, and never used it(and removed it on the slim >:( ). People have used the PSP like a remote control already with the IRDA.. This survey is also obviously biased.

somebody's not to happy with the 'rebel' community.



The questionnaire should have been an essay for it to be non-biased but $ony fears that some truths will come out. Such as mentioned above about $ony slacking in allowing its handheld to release its full potential. And don't want the obvious to be blatantly slapped in their face. We all know that but $ony doesn't want it officially confirmed.



Choices are limited. One glance and it becomes obvious that these are leading questions. They don't give you room to reason but instead you are viewed already at the choice they have placed in the questionnaire.



From this, it could only mean one thing if this survey is true. They want to publish the results of this survey in order to show modders as the antagonists of their handheld society while escaping other pressing matters and truths about their handheld. They want to wash their hands on the subject by clearly eliminating the chance for the consumers to state that they too have something lacking as if they have done all that they can for the console.



I advice you guys not to patronize the questionnaire. Anything you pick in that survey will be used against our community. Nothing good will come out of that propaganda.



I bet the game producers are already pressuring them to do something. In my country, I wouldn't be surprised if 95% of the console here runs on a CFW. PSPs with Official FW are only sold at official $ony shops. Other than that, every shop here sell PSPs with the M33 FW plus its bundled with china made accessories and a spare battery under $220.00. Modded consoles are even sold in malls.



Nobody bothers to buy the console here with the original FW. Anti-Piracy Law has no tooth in our country.



If $ony wants to eliminate modded PSPs, either they have the technology to do it (which I guess would only work for a short time) or they plead for tougher enforcement of laws. Anything shorter than a 20-year prison term is dismissible in these country. You could easily pay for bail.

"I advice you guys not to patronize the questionnaire. Anything you pick in that survey will be used against our community. Nothing good will come out of that propaganda."



I don't believe this will be the case. The questions are largely rhetorical. They probably won't further Sony's anti-hacker agenda substantially other than understanding the motivations of the average person who modifies their consoles.



Now on the other hand, if the questionnaire weren't multiple choice and asked pointed questions about the source and means of fuel for our firmware and gaming needs, then we'd have reason to worry.



All in all, it appears Sony has made the gross assumption that kids, perhaps teenagers are the core group that hack their consoles, meanwhile the demographics suggest the age of the average gamer is probably early to mid twenties. I myself am approaching my mid-thirties, and I only considered buying a PSP bearing in mind the cumulative expense of owning many games. Plus I wanted confirmation that my library of retro games would be put to good use again. Value is key and Sony appears to stifle what could be a highly valuable dollar-for-feature commodity.



- T

heh thats not a survey, thats just sony trying to chastise psp hackers.



"bad hackers bad hackers!"

Here's a link to a mock-up of the Sony hacking poll. Why should only certain people get to vote? Curious what the results would be? Take it yourself and find out!



http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/334109

It is aimed at brainwashing the homebrew community into obedient moma boys..



I'm a hardcore gamer and there was nothing on the PSP that can interest me at all........ ipod plays and has better music functions......Everyone else has a computer at home to surf the net....The DS has a tons more games to offer.............The PSP had so much potential and yet compared to these there was nothing Sony was doing about raising the bar on the PSP and nothing was done about it.



in my opinion 85% of the games suck but i have to give credit where it's due. This year has a terrific PSP game line up and i couldn't ask for better.....but it was a litte too late to make up for what they were lacking.



But if you (Sony) had put more effort into the PSP or maybe 1/4 as much effort into putting more content on the PSP and making good games out for it in a reasonably timely matter, people wouldn't feel the urge to look for other ways to fill in the missing gap.



When i first got my PSP over a year ago the only game I bought was Monster Hunter becaues it was a great game even with the flaw of not having a second analog stick.



the only thing worth waiting for was the super cool GPS device and the camera attachments and i've waited for it over a year now and got slapped in the face when found out japan got both of that for such a long time while i'm patiently waithing for it to come out.



The line of games and content up for PSP made me feel so miserable that i bought the PSP for only one game and the wait for better stuff to come out after another long wait went on forever until i had enough and started digging through the internet.



I found out about homebrew and learn all the skill needed myself and no i'm not one of those LAZY IGNORANT LOSERS who bought their pandora batt and memory stick off Ebay.

Since most of the games suck at that time i got CFW i was playing a lot Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Gameboy advance games forever running homebrew application which was really a blessing because it was made by someone for the PSP homebrew community to use free of charge and it came out one after another. There are so much that i can no longer keep up with all the fantasic hombrew freebies.......If it weren't for homebrew my PSP would have FLEW and HIT wall one day on PURPOSE...........Homebrew help me stay a loyal Sony "only" console buyer and i'm soo GREATFULL and PROUD to see how far homebrew has gone now.



I feel abadon from Sony even though i love them to the death and will never buy a xbox or 360 but maybe i'll get a Wii for "Monster Hunter 3" only for that game...lol.



And again I think Homebrew and the homebrew community for helping keep the PSP alive for trying sooo hard to squeeze all the juice out of an abadoned tree. The fruits of your labor is delicious.



P.S. my favorit games are MHF2, MHP2-G, Crisis Core, God of War respectively.

by the way sony, by making the cfw, D_A helps you sell more psp systems

The way I see it is sony came up with the psp good. Harley came up with a motorcycle and it was well let's just say boring my bike on one hand only became cool when I added my touches to it like pipes and a hiped up moter the paint work and all the extras this I saw fit to make steel or buy. I don't see harley gettin bent becuse I played with MY bike damn at least they now look at the bike show and what the other's are doing to these and know we see all kinds of differnt and must say some cool thing's from harley. They see what we want and try to give it to us that's why there are who they are today. The choice of the people.

Sony should look at what's really going notice there short commings and try to do what there costmers really want. I honestly would have no intrest in the psp if not for those who really make the cool stuff for it like Dark Alex, noob, and all the other who make the damn thing worth having.

maybe sony would pull up there pant's work with those who they condem and make the psp as great as it could be. Listen to them they know what we want.

I LOVE TO PLAY OLD SCHOOL GAMES!!!

Enough said by a fraction of the psp community above me so all I can say is



PSP Homebrew Scene FTW!!!

I have to tell you kloplop321, when I found out the slim didn't have an IR port, I was pissed for That reason. The keyboard was easy for everything, AFKIM, Web Browser, even some games are just more fun to play with keyboard, such as FPS games.



I know many were pissed about no IR for the remote control, but I loved using the damn keyboard, ah well I guess. Makes me wonder, how hard is it Really to make a damn keyboard for the PSP, Sony? Connect it to the USB or something I don't care, just something.

i wanna take this survey, and even answer it honestly.. i think for 27 the things about being a rebel and cool are pretty much all 1's that crap went out a while ago in my life. if it wasn't for homebrew i would have never asked for a psp for my birthday and would have never got it (yes i still get gifts on my birthday). the only thing on it of any value without CFW is the browser for me and even that is slightly lacking.



i "hack" my psp cause i want to get my $200 worth and sonys programs/games just don't seem to offer the money worthness that HB definately gives the options of (saying HB is free and more usefull then almost the whole sony lineup)..



make this a public survey and not just a select few survey and you might get more of a true answer, though severly crippled from the bias of the questions to start with

Well I don't know if Sony are reading this site or not. But I've hacked my PSP so I can max out the potential of this device. I also have an M3 for my DS - I don't pirate games ever though. I don't even make backups to run off memory cards.



There isn't much but I love DS homebrew, and backing up saves is also quite handy.



PSP hacked because I can get games running smoothly at 333mhz. I gave up on battery life a long time ago.

"lets not forget sony has blessed us european owners with a nifty little TV tuner that kicks ass."



The TV Tuner was only released in Japan.



I live in Europe but I think that the US people also deserve these things.

The reason is simple for me. The possibilities for unlocking countless features on a device I already own. Not only will I have a wireless hub for music, an infrared remote, portable movie player, portable PDF reader, but creating it myself gives me a sense of accomplishment and furthers my knowledge of existing technology. I think it wouldn't matter what sony added to their hand held, I always look at potential.

the firmware does not have linux in it. stop talking.