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Gloom & Doom - UMD Dumping Utility Circulating The Internets...
- Thread starter The Faceless Master
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Guy LeDouche
Banned
I smell another firmware update.
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Deleted member 284
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Not bloody likely. I am not having a modder open up my PSP.f_elz said:
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
I smell lots of dust under the screen as a tradeoff. :\
Sony could very easily include the update with new runs of their games as well as new games, and encourage third parties to do the same. It's happened in Japan already.Stinkles said:
What would be interesting is if someone ripped those games and removed the need to install the firmware update before playing the game.
Jonnyram said:
Ah, that makes sense indeed. I assume this refers to music videos from the UMD, not the memory stick.
Btw, I hope they will allow to create a proper MOVIE folder and just drag and drop unrenamed MP4 files in it in the future. I really don't get why they did the whole movie thing the way it is now.
Late Stage Marxist
Member
At worst rampant piracy will be great for hardware sales.
The games are usually .9 GB right now, 1.8 if they use dual layer.
But we know that good crackers may reduce this by a good amount, either do they rip stuff like movies or in many games most of the space isnt used anyway.
I would buy the games anyway if I play them, but having 2 or 3 on a 1gig memory stíck with faster load time and lower power cunsumption would be great.
But we know that good crackers may reduce this by a good amount, either do they rip stuff like movies or in many games most of the space isnt used anyway.
I would buy the games anyway if I play them, but having 2 or 3 on a 1gig memory stíck with faster load time and lower power cunsumption would be great.
Nick Laslett
Member
I'm looking forward to playing games from the memory card.
When the PSP was first announced, I thought that it would not be long before the mod community enabled you to play ripped UMD games from memory sticks.
This is a great idea. I'm very happy to buy product and then put it on a memory stick. Sony won't suffer any loss of revenue from me. But I appreciate that it does open the door for simple and effective piracy.
I've been ripping DVDs and playing movies on my PSP since day 1, this is no different. But I have already purchased all these things legitmately.
When the PSP was first announced, I thought that it would not be long before the mod community enabled you to play ripped UMD games from memory sticks.
This is a great idea. I'm very happy to buy product and then put it on a memory stick. Sony won't suffer any loss of revenue from me. But I appreciate that it does open the door for simple and effective piracy.
I've been ripping DVDs and playing movies on my PSP since day 1, this is no different. But I have already purchased all these things legitmately.
The Faceless Master
Member
wrong.Juice said:
live works fine as long as you turn the mod off and didnt change your hard drive after using live the first time
hell, even those crazy softmodders use live...
Stinkles said:
And keep a PSP on the side to be modded... after each firmwire update you're going to start to see games that won't play unless you have the latest firmwire installed(I think we've already seen that), but since not everyone has an Inet connection(I know, crazy right?) I'm not sure what they are going to do, unless they are also going to start including the firmwire updates on the games themselves...
Man, would it fucking kill Sony to toss in some usability improvements with these firmware updates? Maybe then they could get people to actually upgrade. Fuck web browsing and email, I'd be happy if they improved the pathetic performance of the image viewer, added a bookmark feature to the movie player, and added said bookmark feature as well as the Go To feature to the audio player (not everyone listens to 3 minute songs). That would thrill me. And if they were really nice, they'd allow MP4s to actually use the PSP's full resolution. But nope, we just get "durr security update!"
zackattack
Member
TTP said:
I've seen rips with differing sizes than these, and I bet half of them aren't going to work.
The Faceless Master
Member
were they compressed or not? that could explain the size difference...zackattack said:
The Faceless Master
Member
<scoobydoo> RUH-ROH </scoobydoo>
looks like people made quick work of the ripper
it's a good thing for sony that none of that stuff actually works...
though if the tides change, sandisk could be the big winner
looks like people made quick work of the ripper
it's a good thing for sony that none of that stuff actually works...
though if the tides change, sandisk could be the big winner
You know, I'm getting real sick of how every other non-mod these days seem to find it funny or smart to quote the ToS just for kicks. Most of us can read it, the rest that can't deserve to get banned if they break ToS and the mods couldn't give half a shit about people who think they can police the forum part-time. 
The Faceless Master
Member
nbot?Mihail said:
xbot?
joke post?
it's so hard to tell sometimes...
and hey, at least Sony lasted alot longer than Nintendo and it's DS!
Regarding the me-too and smarmy tone of your post, the board was asked why we were discussing this and who it benefitted and I responded. Hate to break it to you, but you still aren't in line to become a mod.duckroll said:You know, I'm getting real sick of how every other non-mod these days seem to find it funny or smart to quote the ToS just for kicks. Most of us can read it, the rest that can't deserve to get banned if they break ToS and the mods couldn't give half a shit about people who think they can police the forum part-time.
Everyone was asked questions > no one directly answered both questions despite the asnwer being a click away. That was the flow of my thoughts when I made that post.
Firest0rm said:
Honest question, are they losing money on the North American sales? Everyone assumes so, but people's perceptions of hardware costs are highly inflated and the shit they're packing in doesn't cost $50 over the base unit.
Are their royalties on UMD movies? What about the indirect sales of MemoryStick? It would be neat to know.
The Faceless Master
Member
saw someone post these elsewhere
but tiger woods? wassupwitdat?!
i can guess THUG2 is big because of the music or something...
but tiger woods? wassupwitdat?!
AndreasNystrom
Member
actually, isnt Piracy a good thing for console-sales?`
More users who have the console = more developers will do games for it..
C64 = lots of piracy.. just needed a doubledecker to copy most games.
The result was that it was one of the most sold computers, and most gamedevelopers for it.
Amiga was the same.. it dies cause of those Doom-games unfortunatly..
PSX = sold lots cause of piracy too..
More users who have the console = more developers will do games for it..
C64 = lots of piracy.. just needed a doubledecker to copy most games.
The result was that it was one of the most sold computers, and most gamedevelopers for it.
Amiga was the same.. it dies cause of those Doom-games unfortunatly..
PSX = sold lots cause of piracy too..
