the benifits or the necessities of this...



what's so unlikable about buying a console, buying games for it, and downloading additional legit features from time to time that you have to tinker with something that is working properly and is secured?... it's a simple as that and my PS3 experience is surely not lacking right now and will get better and better as more improvements in games library and console features come.



there is no need for this, i'm sorry but that is my opinion.



if it ain't broke don't fix it, more often than not you'll mess it all up.

i can understand having extra features on the psp, since it's portable, but the ps3? why risk my $600 machine just to run some apps that I could just as easily run on my pc? and if you think people will be able to rip a bluray to the ps3's hard drive, remember how big those suckers are.

And all you other people that say that you don't see the point just don't know the potential of this powerful machine.

spent $800 (yes, our PS3s here in Australia are way more expensive than in the US) on the PS3 if i don't know the potential of the PS3.



and i say it doesn't need it, so don't go judging people and saying what they do or don't know.



would you like me to stereotype you and say that you want the PS3 hacked because you're to cheap or too poor to buy actual games?



No.. you wouldn't like that... and I won't say that to anyone anyway cause that is not true... and that goes with what you said as well, it is not true.

No qj stay away from homebrew related topics about PS3. I remember when i first got the PSP and i went on this site it was so great. Every article was about new official firmware and games.PSP section is now filled with homebrew crap like fertl Version 1.2 for an example and i know thats not real im just showing u how retarded this crap is. I never go on the PSP section anymore and i dont want to see the PS3 section turning into numerous homebrew articles. I love coming here and seeing for expl Paradise demo has online or new ps3 model and topics about graphix.

that's why i said i wouldn't say that you are too cheap cause that wouldn't be true...



but i guess you also know that together with the progress of homebrew on the ps3 comes the boost of piracy as well... this are directly related and the growth of one is the growth of another.



there are never win-win situations in life and if there are any these are mostly too good to be true... if you get something you tend to give up something... the smart thing to do is to weigh the pros and cons.



and in this issue, personally, i have weighed the pros and cons.. and i say that i would rather give up homebrew than to welcome the possible risk on the PS3 (as a machine and as an entity) and, to a broader scale, the gaming community in its entirety.

I can barely stand to read through the PSP section trying to find legit GAMES and actualy info, not crap-tastic "LAWL, I can has make pak-man 2 guise!!!11!!1."



I want to hear about Patapon, new real games, and thats it. DIAF, game thieves.

Well, they could remove the region lock on PS2 and PS1 games, for example ?



They could remove the checker which checks whether the PS2-PS1 disk is legit.



I would pay for this... I have lots of pirated PS1 and PS2 games... shame on me +(

Why people are so scared of this console getting hacked, every console gets hacked, it's always been the case, so whats so scary about the PS3 getting hacked, I don't see any of you guys complaining in the PSP section because the PSP was hacked, or the sbox 360, and wii sections saying it's wrong. There are hacking groups out there like NooBz who could hack the console if they wanted and wouldn't put ISO loaders out there because they are totally against them, and others who would put ISO loaders out there for very different reasons, mostly they are put they're so you can load your OWN back-ups, obviously they aint used that way, but thats what they are there for. I choose to be one of those people who downloads games to try them out, of course no one believes that but its true, I do buy the games that I like. Either way the PS3 will be hacked and I think thats a good thing, because the expansive features will be great, homebrew delivers where Sony doesn't.

p.s. how many of you have firmware 2.10 still i know i updated right away to ge tmy cod4 online :|

Just to these people who say we don't need homebrew in XMB because we have Linux, homebrew isn't just limited to games, as we have seen with the PSP, it can add great features that are not currently there that people really want, such as flash apps, ingame music (which was done on the PSP) and the list goes on. If we had it you would use it. And you wouldn't be saying that we don't need it then. It's easy to assume that homebrew just means ISO loading but that's bolloxs, it brings so much more.

actually the size of most ps3 games today are below 20gb.

Like some of the guys have stated above, homebrew is not dedicated to piracy. It would be nice for people to get homebrew on their PS3s without a hassle, but what I'd like to see is access to the RPX through Linux. NOW that would be cool. (ability to display sophisticated 3D objects, like in games)

In my own opinion, it's alright to download games, but ONLY if production of them are done (1st generation of games all the way to the last generation) because they have a minimal effect on sales)

When they say "open" they mean the network. Like how you can put mods on unreal tournament 3 for the ps3 so easily yet the 360 has no word of mods yet, for an example.

Anyone that thinks an open system (piracy/homebrew) kills it is ignorant. The same old lame comment about how the dreamcast died from piracy is a bunch of BS.



If piracy/homebrew kills systems then why aren't these dead or "had died" during their time?



GameCube

Xbox

Xbox 360

PS1

PS2

PC!!!!!!

GBA

NDS





Getting HB on the PS3 wont kill it any more then any other system died from it or piracy. The amount of actual pirates versus paying customers is so ridiculously small it's a moot point.

Ok, I understand the desire for ps3 cfw, think of the awesome games people could develop, or all the apps. But I reallllllly don't want there to be ISO access, because if that happens, there goes all hope for good games. It's happened with the psp, now please not the ps3. Because the fact of the matter is that ps3 games don't take up a full 50gb, most are 10-20 (some are on the higher end at like, 25-30 gb) and if you buy a 320 gb hard drive, that's alot of games. Just hope people don't go and ***** up the system. I for one am not going to put cfw on mine.

for someone who doesn't have money riding on the security of the console ha? or from someone who hasn't really lived and experienced piracy in countries like China, Indonesia, Philippines etc where the industry is just trying to keep it's head above water.



how shortsighted some people are... now if those huge population of people would just buy games then maybe developers and publishers won't have to charge that much just to breakeven... what did you say? "amount of actual pirates versus paying customers" way to go in saying that it's good to carry these slackers on our money paying backs... maybe games like ut3, gears, and crysis would have sold more on the PC... lord knows they deserve those sales.



no those systems are not dead because the companies behind them fought to keep it that way.. a battle that was unnecessary to begin with.



piracy does nothing good, only for those people with selfish intents is it of any worth.



way to go in promoting stealing, you have a good future in politics... they need more shortsighted shallow people like you... newsflash: the world is a lot bigger than your personal needs.

"no those systems are not dead"



I knew even you couldn't have been dumb enough to disagree.



That's is correct, they are not dead and they all had block buster titles. Meaning piracy does not harm consoles.



As for the rest of your crap about the companies having made more money or having to do something they shouldn't...blah blah blah....that is neither here nor there. None of that had to do with the conversation taking place.



"piracy does nothing good"

Who the hell said it does? And NO I do not support piracy. Thanks for showing us all what kind of a POS you can be.

Piracy has been around on the 360 for a LONG time....and it is SUPER easy to do, not to mention the ISO's are under 8 gigs.......360 is still making tons of cash in the software front....



Even if they get code running on PS3, it's going to be AT LEAST a year before they get an ISO loader running....



However it also allows people to start porting graphical apps that can access the RSX and actually make PS3 a nice Photoshop/rendering machine.....it would also allow for video and sound editing software to be ported (if people take the time) in which PS3 would kick ass at....



Not to mention countless other applications.....

...or at least they go hand in hand. I mean, c'mon- who is actually buying PSP games when they can download it from the net that easily. I BET there would be almost no one on CFW if it wasnt for the iso loader. Who is interested in free play? Playing Pac man- like games on a high end portable console?

On the PS3 if im into mini-games, I get them from PSN in awesome quality. The only thing that WOULD be nice homebrew. wise would be emulators (N64, Amiga etc) You can have that on your PC, however.

What is: 1680 x 1050?

any good..

That is what you call a 16:10 resolution and they are nothing but a PITA. Between poor video driver support and sctretching issues.

because it gets adictive. you spoil yourself with free stuff. and when it comes to real life, leisure will ALWAYS be an expense



i hav a psp and never am interested in homebrew. hell, i buy games. Jus like others, IM F*CKIN paying money to keep the gaming industry alive so that you blood sucking tics can continue abuse.



Unfortunetly, ppl lik me failed to keep the psp scene from runnin and conseqently, UMD "failed". I had a decent collection of movies! matrix 1 and Ong Bak bein my fav.



Who could blame Poly Dig from backing away with GT mobile. my 2 cent

Homebrew does not equal Piracy. You can use homebrew without pirating games. Its just that many losers with homebrew choose to take advantage of it to steal games. So don't start accusing all of us of being thiefs.

sorry forgot this aint psp thats on firmware 3.9 i believe now lol

In case any of you know, the internal hard drive is formatted to FAT32, which has a file size limit of 2 Gigs, So have fun trying to compress a 20 gig file to 2 gigs and still be playable