Can the PSP-3000 Defeat Homebrew?

PSP World Writes:

"Unauthorized hacking of the PSP has been a serious problem for Sony ever since enterprising hackers managed to run unsigned code on the PSP-1000 back in 2005. The ability to revert to an unprotected version of the firmware, and later the ability to install completely custom pirate firmware has enabled some owners to play pirated PSP games downloaded from the internet.

Clearly, defeating piracy is one of the biggest concerns facing designers at Sony. It appears that the company may be planning to take some drastic steps to deter homebrew on the device with the release of the new PSP-3000 model, but like always, the company remains very secretive about its plans."

[clinker]

Piracy on the PSP has been one of the major reasons for a lack of high-quality third-party support.

On the other hand, long load times and other annoying problems with the UMD format also contributed to the piracy problem.

[Baka-akaB]

i disagree its their official excuse .

Real reasons is they planned on dropping their ps1 ... ps2 ports and spin off crap and it backfired ... while the DS made a killing .

With games like God of war , monster hunter , ff7 crisis core , and the actual real PSP game coming so late , without homebrew the psp would have been paperweight for at least a whole year .

[TheColbertinator]

Doubt it.Hackers are methodical and the only thing that has halted them has been the PS3.But even that has been hacked so with this PSP model,its only a matter of time

[kwicksandz]

theres no way ill buy a 3000 if i cant run homebrew apps on it.

[lilmetal]

PS3 is still not hacked.

[Qdog]

Exactly when and how has the PS3 ever been hacked? You would have to disable the Cell processor in order to run unsigned code, as there is a core specifically dedicated to hypervisor protection at ALL times, so there's no way to install a mod chip, hence no way to run unsigned(unauthorized code as of SDK 2.1) code, which is why the PS3 has NOT been successfully hacked... Is it possible? Yes, but very unlikely as you'd have to work in the upper echelons of the Sony Corporation, to have access to a dev kit. So you my friend have submitted a false statement even implying that the PS3 has been hacked. The attempt I think your referring too is the Warhawk backup, by Team Ice, which wasnt a hack at all if you read the EULA when downloading the game. You fell victim again to Team Ice's smoke and mirrors video trick.

[mfwahwah]

Unless you yourself have hacked the PS3 (and have QUALITY proof), then I don't believe it. Those people claiming to run backups on the PS3 are full of ****.

[Qdog]

How could you run native code on a disabled processor? Anything is possible?... Heck the pope could all of a sudden come to my barracks and name me his holy successor, but it wont happen though...There is no GPU access, there is no 7th SPU (or eighth for that matter) access, there is no TSCC access(Toshiba Super Companion Chip...google it), and there is absolutely no advanced directive, or native code interception...So time is not a factor, licensing a Dev kit thats numbered and tracked by Sony is a factor, and trust me, it wont happen. Sony didnt treat the PS3 as it did the PSP, there is no backdoor, there are simply, preconfigured developer kit models, and consumer/business models. See your not just dealing with a PC clone, like the architecture of the 360/Wii... It's a radical new and under-developed architecture, that the industry has been slowly moving towards since the 286 PCs of yester-year. You cant just compile code from a pc and get it to run on the PS3, it has to be written from the ground up in streams, not packets, so I find it hard to beleive that with all the security based developements within the console, that most were unaware of, that this console is only a peice of pie to hack.

I've used this once, and I will use it again...I would wager, or even be so bold as to say that Sony has made it extremely tough,(nigh impossible), for console hackers and pirates to succeed on the PS3 platform, because unlike the PSP, Sony attacked the possibility of piracy on all fronts within the console...from the DRM on the Blu-ray discs, to the hardware, and software(Hypervisor, that sends random usage info) anti-piracy implementations, they even threw in firmware updates for overkill (to fill in future holes, that devs may leave), they seem to also have used a larger less viable(for piracy, due to size) format with blu-ray...all while actually using an on-die method(a core within the processor itself dedicated to security and halt execution, which rules out using a modchip to circumvent security measures, without disabling the processor itself) to deter piracy, and hacking... So this makes the PS3 a very viable solution to console piracy, and possibly one that other console manufacturers will likely implement in future iterations(generations) in their own way.

Sorry if I seem stand-offish, but I am so very tired of uneducated people spreading myths and rumors, and trying to blemish a record of quality that obviously deserves credit where credit is due, and that record of quality my friend would belong the engineers at Sony that created this technical marvel , and brought it to the gamers for a fraction of what it was actually worth.

[princejb134]

yea if it cant support homebrew no reason to get it, one of the reasons psp has sold so much its because of the homebrew

[haujohnny]

could anyone please tell me what website i could download psp games

[HeroOfCows]

No.

[Julia Bond]

just google 2girls1cup all the games youll ever need

xoxo

<3

[silvacrest]

Google is your friend

[Qdog]

For an alternative psp game download site, you could google meatspin.com, but you have to wait for the front page to load.

[f789790]

Why would anyone waste even more effort on a different version? If you are this late to the game you most likely are not going to be wanting custom firmware.

[mfwahwah]

My friend has a 1000 model just for homebrew. If he actually wanted a PSP for a PSP, he'd buy the 3000, sure. That's just not the case.

[FantasyStar]

Never know unless you try. I don't own a PSP by the way. Not a portable gamer.

[Silvia007]

You efforts will be futile. Doesn't hurt to try though.

[Rice]

Well...I never believed in Homebrew crap..I had my psp for like 4 years and yet it has to be hacked...

[faisdotal]

Ever tried in-game music on PSP, and turning it to an Universal Remote for the price of nothing? Or how about a much slicker interference?

Homebrew provides all.

[badz149]

sony has every rights to improve their hardware and I can't see anything bad about releasing this new model PSP-3000. this means that they are keen on continuosly supporting the PSP and that's a good news, right?

[sirbigam]

I'm not trying to start a XBox360 flame but even the Xbox360 is hacked, I own a ps3 and it's pretty good but when I see my freind playing games WEEKS BEFORE they come out on the 360 that he downloaded, makes me wanna go out and get an xbox360 and hack it, the ony thing he has to buy is some quality disks that come in a pack. It's thanks to this guy that I even have my psp, and iphone hacked.

[TheDesperado]

It allows for piracy, and that's all it is. If people want to pretend their hacked PSPs aren't used for pirated games, die.

[Baka-akaB]

it's quite fair , now in all fairness devs shouldnt blame failed sales from their crappy game on it ...while everyone struggle with it .

People do forget that the DS was even easier to pirate . not cheaper with cartridges to buy , but far easier .. while psp had to fend off costont new firmware , and to use homebrew iso launcher and sometimes complicated means to hack the console .

[Strife Lives]

And I love playing Final Fantasy 7,Dino Crisis 2,Tekken 3 and a few other memorable games on it.infact,I just reached Nibelhelm in FF7 lol,just started a new game.so nostalgic. Lol.anyways,I find myself playing ps1 games WAY more than any PSP games on it.I buy all of my PSP games.but with its ridiculous price,the last one was Fifa08.I only own 5 games,MGS portable ops being one of them.and while pirating to me is a no no,I cant help but think if this PSP is unhackable,chances are the DS has already won,and sales figures wont be anywhere near the PSP2000s.btw, you guys just have to play FF7 on psp,dudes its really cool.if you hack your psp for 1 reason,do it for FF7!

[FantasyStar]

/jealous

[Azures]

Lack of third party support? Have you seen the onslaught of high quality third party games coming to the psp?

I don't think Pandora Battery can be defeated, not the way it works.

[Lumbo]

Actually it can be easily defeated, Sony only needs to remove the debug mode trigger the battery uses, voilá fixed.

Thats not to say there wouldn't be other ways to get it running again. But the easy factory debug mode way via the battery can be stopped with new hardare.

[Strife Lives]

I gotta feeling,cutting the line or pulling the pin to make the battery turn into a pandora wont work. I just know theyve done something to it. .maybe. .to get homebrew on,its going to take guys welding the board itself now.and that would really limit homebrew. And I for one wouldnt be doing that lol.

[jlytle1234]

im all for stopping the piracy if it will encourage devs to support the psp more. If sony was smart they would start an app store for the psp. let people submit apps to be certified. Then start releasing more games for download on the psn and put out way more ps1 games for download too. boom piracy solved.

[silvacrest]

Even if sony did what you said and even if all the content in that app store was only $1 each people would still hack and download PSP games because FREE will always be prefered to most people

Oh and because of the ammount of homebrew content already avalible for hacked PSPs i dont even think an app store would be that popular

[jlytle1234]

its up to the designer of the app if its free or not. sony cant charge for an app they didn't make without the maker wanting to charge a fee and get a cut of the action. The psp wasnt hacked for free games, it was for the ability to run homebrew. If sony doesnt change their stategy to appeal to the homebrew crowd and we dont change our behavior of pirating games, there wont be any games to pirate.
The app store idea comes from the iphone app store, which is the main appeal of the iphone over its competitors like the instinct.

[user9422077]

If dark-alex is around then maybe, but Sony might of and would of made it non hackable as they would not let there new psp go down the drain.

[Strife Lives]

Its true,somebody said people would always prefer free instead of buying.but,the music industry still thrives despite Limewire and p2p networks in general.Look,people that pirate games do so because games are expensive.their expensive because Sony owns the rights to the UMD format.So,devs pay them to press discs,and we foot the bill. (and UMD is pointless,especially in terms of loading games like smackdown vs raw08 etc,takes up to a minute).Sony needs to drop prices.That means,maybe shifting games onto 1gb or 2gb memory stick duos.That way,Devs could get companys to do it instead of Sony and prices would go down.lower prices,lower piracy.if an audio cd sold for 50 or 60$ where would the music industry be now?

[jerethdagryphon]

i had to watch a friend try to use a pandoras battery to hack his psp1k

fortuently the battery was for a slim and didnt work

:)
i dont pirate games or films in that every film on my ps3 is in my dvd collection if its not on blue ray in which case its in my blue ray colection

but i will dl divxed copys of what i own

illigal maybe

buti never coul get divxing to work right
same with pc games
i own legit all of them most run from virtual drives or with no cd .exes cause im a lazy bastard and cant be bothered digging through
tons of cases andboxes

am i hape about anti hacking precautions yes
will i get a 3k yes

piracy is wrong, and while i support some homebrew i feel its too easily abused and turned to piracy

[Qdog]

However, the PSP phat, and slim always had a backdoor, where as Sony has learned from this mistake and opted, not to include one in the consumer model PS3, effectively excluding the possibility...and I agree, as long as there is physical hardware, it can be hacked, however, there was a very smart failsafe implemented, by using the very brain of the PS3 as a proofing agent, so if you try to circumvent the Cell, the Cell shuts down, leaving out the possibility of using it...so essentially a hacked Cell becomes a placeholder, more so than a physical piece of hardware, and unable to be hacked.

I also commend your choice to remain legitimate. I personally wish that the PSP was secure enough for Sony to include a Linux distro with it, like with the PS3. Thanks to the efforts and successes of misguided geniuses though, that is probably never going to be a possiblity.

[WengYong]

But in the past I have been more than tempted to hack my PSP. What Sony should do is provide better incentives for people to update their firmware (like a free ps1 game if you update) Because if an update just has a new music visualiser then thats not very encouraging. Give PSP users more incentive. Top job trying to prevent piracy though