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10/03/09
No system is undefeatable.
Again, check back in six months for some exploits. : )
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The GameCube went years without people being able to run burned software on it too, no one remembers that.
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Everyone has some moral high horse about stuff like this and i'm sure a very large percentage of them can't say they've never downloaded anything ever "illegally" whether it be music, a video or anything else. Give it a rest, until you follow the law down to the letter then you really have to be quiet.
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Fact: If the PSPGo gets hacked, it won't be long before pirated games are being played on it and if that happens then shit turns bad sooo, unfortunately for homebrew, the best thing to have is a non-hackable system because it'll mean a lack of support from both Sony and 3rd party devs if the Go can play pirated games. Peole are expressing their concern and intelligently realising that hacking the Go isn't a good idea for the average PSP owner.
What you need to do is think of the knock-on effects this can have and consideri the already weak (but strengthening) dev support.
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I won't lie, people do tend to sicken me when they preach as though they've done nothing wrong, but the conversation isn't about their wrongs, assumptions of their wrongs, or speculation of hypocrisy. It's about the topic at hand and the finger should be pointed solely in that direction. You donβt have to be Ned Flanders to have an opinion about illegal activities.
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Moral superiority is irrelevant when your argument is factually wrong.
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Out of curiousity, what do you think about convicts or ex-convicts telling kids not to end up like them
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I think they do enough on their own to ensure lack of support. Where's that umd transfer program again? haha.
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What bothers me is when people claim an update "broke" some modded hardware and try to blame it on the company. Those people should know better than to update, plain and simple.
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Even though I feel you are a Nintendo hating site. Thanks for finally being fair. You post Wii hack stories once every 4 months.
Good job on reporting this.
Like Billy Jean said
"Fair is Fair"
Most of you kids will not get that reference.
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Since when does hacking = hating?
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It's WhatCD from over at GN! Sup dood?
Now, to tackle your post.
Most of this 'omg nintendo hate' crap (and yeah, a lot of it is crap - and I mean no offense to you, I'm just tired of it myself) can be explained logically and reasonably instead of posting cop out responses along the vein of 'omgbias! haterz'. This is no exception.
Check the 'hacks' and 'mods' tags, bro. You'll find that the other consoles are pretty much posted on just as much.
Only reason the Wii's mods get posted as often as they do is because Wii hackers are getting further with the system than any console hackers have ever gone before - that's including the PSP (and also that Wii hackers seem to be a bit more vocal about what they're doing).
Wii hating site? : /
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So none of those articles good old Luke post are Nintendo Hating at all. Come on now. Please pass the stuff you guys are smoking!
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Hmm so 6 to 3 or 2 articles. Well I give you the Wii hackers are loud mouths, but Luke and other writers on this site. I have proven too many times. The rather post bad news then goods about Nintendo and the Wii.
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anywhos, yeah, I'm just gonna come out and say it - no, none, or at least not as many as you would suggest, are straight up 'Nintendo hating', unless there was a reason to post an article that may be negatively construed in the first place. Considering that around GN, any article that isn't one hundred thousand percent positive regarding anything Nintendo is suddenly 'hating'... well, you know I'm exaggerating, but since the beginning of this gen, especially in the minds of Ninty fans, the bar for 'hating' has been lowered. I'm not saying there isn't a lot of idiotic or unjust hatred out there, but it seems like it's given you guys an excuse to claim that any and everything is hating these days.
Like this article, or articles like them, for example. Apparently, Wii hacking articles are a sign of hate, so therefore I can conclude that Owen Good clearly hates the PSP, and that he's posting to keep the poor console down, right?... or maybe, just maybe, the kinds of hacking developments that get posted have more to do with their noteworthiness or how loud that particular hacking community tends to be?
This also applies to your other post - hacking news isn't 'hating' like you seem to think it is. In fact, a lot of the articles here aren't 'hating', and again, can in fact be explained reasonably.
Remember that 'Nintendo from '89 to '2009' article that you and a bunch of other guys from GN claimed was totally biased and unfair, simply on the basis that they hadn't made a similar sort of article about companies that haven't been in gaming near as long as Ninty has?
yyyyyeeeeeeeeah
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Not every single person who cracks open their psp/wii/xbox360/ps3/etc. is trying to stick it to the man by saving money through piracy or damage the company who made the thing.
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sure a lotta people steal all their games, but a lotta people don't
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Dark Alex seems to have given up, he's already said that there's no plans for a newer M33 firmware version. I had to change over to GEN firmware because I wanted to be able to access the PS store and remote play again.
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There is something new about the firmware.
Namely the support for games with 5.55 or 6.00 Kernel.Can't play those on Dark Alex old Firmware.
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Thats my reaction to all this hacking nonsense.
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Trine will come to NA octobre 22nd
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To answer your question i can churn out a mean pun, offer a somewhat intelligent view on things, and i make light of nearly every situation. I'm also known to mooch of my friends' popularity, go ahead, check the profile
10/03/09
Anyone that says companies spending money on DRM is stupid needs a reality check. Just because it'll eventually be hacked doesn't mean they shouldn't put security into place. They need to protect their property.
It's funny that people never look at it from the other side. If you made a game/console that cost millions to develop, not to mention years, and people were just hacking it and dl'ing your games, how would you feel?
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I don't download games, and if the DRM isn't something that actually effects legitimate customers then all the more power to them, but that's typically not the case. More often then not, the only people who suffer because of the DRM are the people who actually bought the product in question.
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@Chroma3000: I disagree. Without the PSP hacking community we wouldn't have PSP emulators. Sure some people will pirate games with it, but I think that the large majority just uses it to play old SNES or Genesis games on the go.
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Fuck Them I say!
Also the 3000 is hacked. You can install homebrew on it. With certain models you can play isos on it. The reason the PS3 hasn't been yet. Mainly because the price of the system. Hackers didn't want to risk their 500 system dieing just to put emulators at the time. Now that it's cheaper you can bet your ass one is coming.
So this is the first step in making the Go come to a complete stop! LOL
10/03/09
The 3k has been hacked for several months I think. It slipped under my radar initially but it's definitely been broken in. Comparing the 3k to the Go is a little off though, while new hardware can close old doors large hardware revisions tend to also open up new flaws as well.
Also you seem to be missing the point of the whole anti-DRM argument which is against DRM where it harms legitimate customers. When these security measures just get broken so easily it negates the point of the security in the first place. This leaves the legitimate customers stuck with the after effects of the security measure with the knowledge that said security measure is useless.
The real problem is that pirates are proactive and the industry is reactive.
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uh, dude, just a question, but how much do you know about these modding scenes?
The reason the PS3 hasn't been truly hacked yet is because of issues such as blu-ray disc decryption and the strange architecture of the system.
it sure as heck ain't because of the money - I've heard of quite a few Wii/PSP/360 hackers who spend a lot of their income on the systems - to replace 'em, to get computer hardware for 'em, etc.
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Say! What's your definition of "theft"?[/sardonic]
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Personally I don't bother with stores that have DRM that will generally screw me over. I don't bother downloading music/video with iTunes as it restricts use to iPods/iPhones only. But the issue is that we are in the minority as most consumers perfer the ease of use of iTunes.
Hopefully as a compromise the industries will move towards purely account-based DRM such as Steam/PSN/Xbox Live, which has shown that DRM can be implemented without hurting the consumer so much (be honest - how many people have more than 5 PS3s/PSPs? Unless they're running a game-sharing club), but I'm not holding my breath...
P.S. My first ever Kotaku post - woo-hoo!
10/03/09
Anything for blog clicks I guess
(like the Scribblenauts "sambo" controversy = bullshit.)
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Besides, from that video, have you figured out how to hack a PSPGo? No.
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I also believe that savvy people looking for hack-tips have mastered the youtube search function by now.. Though i could be mistaken of course
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The video didn't show you how to hack the GO and there are certainly more video's on youtube and more websites on the internet that a person would go to before coming to Kotaku to learn how to hack a video game.
If you are someone reading Kotaku even semi-regularly then you probably know enough about games to know about hacking them, even if Kotaku never posted any articles on them.
I propose that your comment was meant solely to get attention more than this article ever was.
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Mind your step..
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Kudos then on obtaining a star before being approved.. you work fast..
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Complaining about it is rather moot, given that the eagerness to hack it (this article being proof) is the reason you've all got to live with 'replacing a PSP for its battery' in the first place.
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Now I can fix this, but it's gonna cost about $250 for the parts alone...
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So yeah, Sony's getting a step closer to stop piracy - and I'll bet it'll be a long time before a proper hack is released for the Go, let alone a complete one.
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I give it a week ;)
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i mean playing genesis and game boy advance games (that i already own in physical form) along side psp games from my own personal library that ive ripped, cave story, and some arcades that never got ported all on my 1000 was great.
ive never downloaded a single psp game, but all the other things you could do were definitely nice.
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Same thing seems to be in place with the Go. They'll probably be able to get as far as they did with the 3000, but without the UMD system in place, there's going to be a lot of roadblocks to get around for running CFW.
Which I personally think is a good thing, as PSP games deserve to sell, not just get pirated by a bunch of scumbags who don't support the system.
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Also, remember, NES/SNES/Genesis/GBA/etc emulation is still piracy, and it IS still illegal.
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Of course that is a rarity but still
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Even more so if it's next to impossible to get a copy of.
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The only caveat to that being that some of the better games are now being sold via services like the Wii VC or in various collections on disc. They are still economically viable in many cases.
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If I, for example, would like to play Legend of Mana. Not only did it never hit europe, it has long ceased production, given that it's for the PS1.
So what should I do?
SE aren't re releasing it as far as i can see.
Even if it gets a PSN-release it won't be available in Europe.
Any "legal" way are extremely roundabout and won't help SE anyway.
The only reason it's illegal to download is by principle.
THAT's one of the reason I can't view piracy as all bad.
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That's why I said "caveat". I wasn't attempting to apply my statement to all emulation or games. Trust me, I'd be a bit of a hypocrit if I condemned emulation as a whole. But I'm also not going to pretend that damage can't be done.
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And who cares about those, right?