Russian hacking team M33 quickly and easily grabbed the attention of the PSP homebrew community for continuing work on custom firmware after Dark_Alex suddenly quit the scene. The team of five have met their fair share of complaints and praise over the past weeks, many complimenting their quick work, but lamenting the numerous patches made to tackle a persistent list of bugs.

Interestingly, in the team's first public interview, they revealed that they believe Sony will ultimately make the "ideal firmware." They believe that consumers just want the ability to do more with their system, and Sony will learn from the homebrew community: "When Sony understands the useless of their attempts to fight against CFW, they WILL release the firmware that will allow to run homebrew."

The battle against homebrew shouldn't be equated with the battle against piracy, they note. "Sony should allow homebrew development, as on PS2 in RTE (Runtime Environment) on which you can program homebrew, but can't run ISO." Certainly, we applaud the hard work of many homebrew developers out there -- if they could be recognized without piracy running rampant, all PSP owners would benefit.
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Quite a nice idea. I hadn't known about the RTE on PS2. I hope Sony allows homebrew because that not only increases the growth in homebrew titles, but I think it would boost the sales by much.

"if you cant beat them, join them" lol...nooo id rather have us do homebrewing and stuff....all them homebrewers hardwork was so that WE could enjoy the psp...now if sony take it...the fun will be goone...theyl do most of the things for us...

The problem for Sony is that it's not easy to allow homebrew to run on a firmware, but not allow that homebrew to run ISOs.

i dunno why sony is being like tht way.....it is supposed they make things easy for us ..not compete us

I agree with Chi-Chan 100%. Let the hackers do all the work, let us enjoy what we got.

I really dont see this happening. Sony might live with the fact that the homebrew is out there, but there not gonna make a fw that officially supports it. Not at all.

Yeah, i dont think sony is going to give up to hackers just yet. Only time will tell what will happen.

I doubt Sony will ever give in to an open development environment for the PSP. They did well with YDL on PS3, but it is still completely isolated from the official firmware and operating environment. There's just too much at stake.

it would be a good idea to legalize homebrew