Many of you know that DA has 'apparently' quit the psp scene. One of his reasons was Sonys pursuit of ps3 hackers. For the record fw 1.10 and 1.11 are the firmwares that have been cracked. This crack allows a user to boot a ps3 copied game. But booting a game isnt playing a game and so far no copied games have been played. Also there are no homebrew apps on the ps3 so far. But the problem is they dont want the ps3 to turn out like the psp. Nowhere in what i have read did it mention about the psp homebrew scene. Many sites said that the scene is to big to stop.
Most of the articles that I read said that ps3 users that do crack the sony security patch would be aggressively pursued with legal action (no mention of psp users). All this said I believe that sony considers the ps3 to be their most important child, look what they did to lik-sang over imports. So for now i would believe that the psp homebrew scene is safe. Also in an email that someone sent sony asking why dont they allow homebrew sony replied:
Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. (SCEA) does not recommend downloading any unauthorized software (i.e. games, movies, etc.) for your PSP™ portable entertainment system from the Internet; these software downloads have not been officially tested nor approved by SCEA and may
cause damage to your PSP system.

Any damage caused to your PSP system due to your use of unauthorized software downloads will void your Limited Sony Warranty for the PSP system. The only approved network updates can be found at PlayStation.com. (source: psp.1up.in) So where does it mention that its illegal?
But these findings brings up the other fact, has DA really quit?
xpa

I hope he changes his mind. Sony is a bully and they deserve to have their asses handed to them by nintendo. If they bothered to notice the incredible upswing in sales for Lumines because of the crack, they might actually figure out people like their product, just not the way it is and make a move to let people do what they please with it. WE own the PSP's, not them. We should be able to with them as we please and the harder they fight the worse their product will perform in the market.

Look at microsoft. People do untold amounts of unathorized things with windows, but you don't see them releasing patches every five seconds to prevent people from doing those things. Granted, it's also used to hack things and make viruses, but they're the minority. Atleast microsoft realizes there's nothing they can do about it and may as well not fight it. They realize being a total bully about their software only hurts their business. All they have to do is say they take no responsibility for what people do with the software and their hands are clean.

If sony would do that, the PSP would become a very popular item, trust me. But since they treat the PSP like it's the frakkin' nuclear suitcase, they will continue to fail in the market. All they have to do is take no responsibility and say do at your own risk, and we charge your stupid asses for repairs.

I dunno. It's all completely idiotic and sony deserves to lag behind in the market. Maybe if they ever get their heads out of their asses...

I have a feeling that this isnt the end of Dark Alex. I think that it may just be that he will either continue to hack the psp under a different name or work with others. I think that sony announcing what it wanted to do to ps3 hackers have rattled the cage and DA may wnt to wait for it to cool back down before he carries on. Also he is a student so may have alot of work at the moment and wont want to be pressurised.
Also I think sony dont care as much about the psp, the scene is way to big to stop, but they dont want the same happening to the ps3.
xpa

I just can't believe that DAX quit. I usually browse QJ everyday, then I go and look at it today and it says DAX Quit. I could hear my PSP dying in the distance. If there are no new CFW's made how will I play my new PSP games? Go back to Official Firmware? I've been looking forward to playing games like Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles, Dead Head Fred and Wipeout Pulse. But as for me going back to the official firmwares, That's not going to happen. Besides DAX wasn't the only CFW maker. I'm sure the Other ones will catch up to the newer firmwares. I'm sure the hombrew scene will stay alive though. Like Daedalus R13... I'm looking forward to that. We'd like to see you back DAX. Maybe he'll come back with the final firmware released for the PSP in OE version, but that'll be awhile.

As for me, I'm just gonna wait this one out.

Uh... there's TONS of homebrew on the PS3. It's all linux apps. Sony made the PS3 work with linux to give real homebrew devs the ability to code for the PS3 without the attendant piracy you get from other methods. So far, it's worked wonders. The people trying to hack the PS3 Game OS are working under the guise of letting "backups" work. There is no need for homebrew in the Game OS as linux (several distributions) is fully supported by the PS3. Notice that Sony is warning the people hacking the Game OS, but never says a peep about linux apps, even the morally ambiguous ones.

If Sony had released an OS for the PSP for homebrew that precluded running ISO images, there probably would have never been all the fervor over the custom firmwares. It wouldn't even have to be linux, just something that allowed homebrew to run. If they made that OS incompatible with the OS the games used, it would have been almost impossible to make "backups" run. That's the point of linux on the PS3 - it's NOTHING like the Game OS, so it doesn't contribute to playing backups.

I meant homebrew apps in the ps3 os not linux.

I dont see the point of getting pissed of at sony because they are the ones who made the PSP and they're trying to make as much profit as possible because homebrew takes away a lot of the sales because there are so many people downloading games and dont deny it cause thats the real reson people download the OE firmwares.

i think that dax is retirement or maybe he just needs a break but
in an interview with sony, on pspfanboy they said they are considering possibilities from the homebrew scene

well let's keep our fingers crossed about dax retirement... maybe as of now he just needed a little space... hope that he would still be back...

Bloody Sony, in some ways you can see their point, as far as they're conserned, their a business, and all they see the homebrew scene as is illegal ISOs and eboots, meaning a loss of cash. Sony are a ridiculously mercenary company and if they're already losing however much on each PS3, they're understandably rather tetchy about possibly losing more. That said, legal action is taking it a little too far and scaring DAX away makes me rather angry with 'em. Everyone, show your anger and UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD AS MANY ISOs AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN!!! See how much we can lose Sony, I'm at 25 non owned games so far, at £30 a game thats £750, have sommavat!

It hurts Sony, granted, but in the long run it hurts us. Because the reason the developers make games is to make money. So if they spend x amount of $ to make a game, and sell a couple of copies and everyone just copies them they don't make any money and don't have incentive to keep making games. So there needs to be a happy balance.

Well, I'd still be cautious about the PSP, even though they don't say anything about protecting it....

The PS3 is expensive enough, I wouldn't wanna mess with it.

But I've got an XBOX360, so there's my choice there...

Few things:

1. Sony is in no way failing in the handheld market. It has been very successful against the DS.
2. DAX may continue under another name or someone else could pick up where he left off. Its not like he's the only person that know how to code.
3. Worst comes to worst for the OE firmwares, theres always Devhook.

I guess sony needs to think big time on making 3rd party applications legit. Thats the only way they can move ahead. PSP has huge potential to rock as the no 1 handheld. Or sony should shell out millions to get us applications for free . What say? Maybe then they will respect the free stuff that the homebrew developers are developing for their product

I think the reason DA got scared off is people got too ****ing bold about DA and cfw, in the last 2 months I have seen idiots actually asking for iso downloads on the official playstation boards and they kept bragging about cfw there too. Hell one idiot post a tribute topic to DA after he quit.

P.S. I think qj .net is going remove their cfw library like DA did cause you can dl 3.30 OE-A' but not 3.30 OE-A wtf plus they took down 3.10 OE-A' and my fav 3.03 OE-C (I know Harry1 is adding them here but his list is still incomplete)

Sorry about the double post but I just found out really old news that DA actually gave his personal info in a BBC interview where the hell have I been.

link: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/27/psp-hack...njita-unmasked/

wow sony is realy trying to scare ppl but i dont think this is going to work how would they even know if you did crack there security?

Which is just silly. Why try for homebrew on an undocumented OS when a fully documented OS with tons of existing software runs on the same system. What does PS3 GameOS give that isn't in linux? 3D acceleration via the RSX... if you manage to ever figure it out. You will never see any homebrew in PS3 GameOS. It's just a waste of homebrew developers' time.

i wish DAX would come back

forget sony, they jus mad cuz the hackers did a way better job than they did