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Vita "hacked," (PSP) homebrew on the way (not piracy)
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Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
If this can allow me to play my 25+ UMD games that I cannot currently play on the PS Vita, I am all ears.
I really don't care about playing the latest emulators, the PSP does the job for that. What I do care about is being able to play the PSP games I OWN on a future machine should my PSP die somewhere along the line and buying a replacement is difficult.
I really don't care about playing the latest emulators, the PSP does the job for that. What I do care about is being able to play the PSP games I OWN on a future machine should my PSP die somewhere along the line and buying a replacement is difficult.
the problem in a nutshell. sorry for the vita didn´t deserve such a death.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Especially when you consider that PS mobile and PlayStation Suite already exist. Opening up the machine suits no real purpose other than piracy, in my eyes.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
I don't see how buying a PSP could ever possibly be difficult. Theres millions out there, and unless a future world dictator orders a burning of handheld hardware, I think there'll be readily available over the decades to come.
I mean therein lays the rub for me and all this homebrew speak. There wasnt too many new game or application jewels to be found in the hacked wide open PSP homebrew scene, so at the end of the day people are mainly just after their emulators again, all of which can still be had on the cheap as chips PSP.
Now people speak of wanting Dreamcast emulators for the Vita, while Sega are trying to do right by fans for once with pretty damn awesome ports of stuff like Jet Set Radio to Vita. If Vita DC emu came around, why would Sega even bother, and we'd be lumped with iffy framerates and off transparencies rather than the lovely fixed up wide-screen and draw distance enhanced re-releases in development.
test_account
XP-39C²
You can get Atari 2600 (a ~30 year old system) today without any difficulties, so getting a PSP in the future should not be a problem at all. Now, older systems were much simpler, which means less chance for failures, but i dont think it will be a problem with the PSP. Should always be possible to find working units in many, many years from now.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I don't know. Sony only made 70+ MILLION PSPs so there's a good chance PSP units will vanish before the battery in his Vita dies.
Well, after reading the guy's twitter, it seems like this exploit isn't even guaranteed to work as it will take months to complete and in that time Sony may fix (un-bloody-likely) the hole. Also it doesn't do anything about the encryption behind retail games (but some asshole will take it upon themselves to crack that as well)
when has this kind of exploit not lead eventually to a full-blown jailbreak? it's just a matter of time
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
Well, what can I say, you saw right through the homebrew crowd. That's all we do in 'your-favorite-gadget hacked' threads, pretending piracy never happened. It's good that honest people sometimes come to these threads and expose us. Sometimes.
I bought two psp* for homebrew, so I guess I saw something in it. The psp has been my primary music and video player on-the-go for years, my lua devbox on-the-go, my e-reader on-the-go, my free-game player (I have hundreds of hours in freecell psp). What negative impacts homebrew could have on the system depends entirely on how the system was built - if it was actually 'rooted' or not, etc. So pardon me if I cannot humor you by claiming to know how things will turn out in this regard.
* Well, technically, I bought the 1st one out of curiosity, and some hoping that SCE would follow through on their vague talk and actually release an indie sdk, stupid me. Still, the platform delivered big time there.
Why would you do that?
Member
DSi, for one. Can't think of anything else, though.
Holy Order Sol
Member
lol, "dark truth"
Insisting on pointing that out must really make you feel great.
Delusibeta
Banned
AFAIK they're still making new PSPs and distributing them in Europe. Admittedly it's a crappy version with no wi-fi and costing about £20 to make, but still, they're out there.
Umm.. Vita had the best launch line-up ever (or at least it's up there) and the Fall line-up is great. It has games, even if people with sad, limited game tastes don't appreciate it.
N64.
PS1 with improved res. and texture smoothing.
Probably the Saturn if someone wanted to really dig in.
Superior SNES, GBA, and Genny performance, as in perfect performance and not all the hoops you need to jump through with the PSP.
Far superior ScummVM emulation with touch screen support.
Mame up to and including CPS-3, better overall Mame.
Android apps.
Nintendo DS.
There's a lot of pretty interesting emulation options.
Yeah, you've totally sussed out the secret motivations of homebrew developers.
All the great, amazing software that homebrew brought about like XBMC was just a cover up for their true intentions.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
Vita is officially dead. I mean it was dead before but its fucking over now. Once piracy releases its fucking over. Hopefully Sony cuts its losses and discontinues vita early 2013.
Discontinues a product that it spent millions upon millions on R&D and production before getting back even a fraction of it? That doesn't seem to make sense to me whatsoever.
Why would you do that?
Member
Decrypting retail games would be awesome, since it means we can rip the music. I patiently await the day 3DS games are decrypted. Oh so patiently...
Also, note that decrypting games != piracy enabling in the slightest.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
What's to feel great about? I'm a concerned Vita owner that doesn't want to see this shit ruin any chance it had of living a half decent life. I didn't blow $250 on a Vita to play DS games.
Cornbread78
Member
Ugghh, why the hell would I do that? I have a DS for that...
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Yeah, you're right. PSP was loaded with great amazing software from the Homebrew community.
Who says they'll be able to make anything back on it?
Being able to rip your PS1 games and install them to your memory card, rip UMD's and install to your memory card, run games at higher CPU clocks, removing the slowdowns in FFT, remote joy, fusa sd, the emulators, screenshot function, custom menus.
Again. I'm not sure if the homebrew stuff was worth the negatives of the PSP being opened. But there were still some nice homebrew.
Pspradio was awesome.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
Clearly those firmware updates made it hard on them to do it, right?
People actually ripped their own UMDs/CDS?
Maybe it's because I'm from a country where people think that piracy is a right, but I never knew anyone with an original UMD at all.
Oh, I see. Sorry if I sounded a bit rude in my post. :<
In my country people thinks that buy original software is a stupid thing to do, I get tired of it so I always told them I download it, even when I buy the original game first.
This will help hardware sales, but developers won't want to touch a platform that's been cracked wide open. I wonder if Sony is holding internal discussions on whether or not to capitalize on the inevitable sales bump for a bit before releasing a fix?
Great deal, provided there's nothing horribly wrong with it.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I don't think any of those things made driving pubishers off worthwhile.
And while it's nice to be able to rip your games to memory card and have your collection with you at all times, those same firmware hacks allowed piracy.
mocolostrocolos
Member
Sounds like Spain :lol
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
The emulation possibilities are endless
Dreamcast emulation may actually be a possibility!
It is, and you can support it financially by purchasing Jet Set Radio HD on October 16 at a budget price to encourage Sega to release upgraded versions of other Dreamcast titles on the Vita.
I wonder if, in case this kicks off, there will be a possibility to take uncompressed screenshots.
Yeah, as I said, I'm not sure if I feel that it was worth it, personally, either. I just wanted to make the point that there has in fact been some nice homebrew.
Yeah, as I said, I'm not sure if I feel that it was worth it, personally, either. I just wanted to make the point that there has in fact been some nice homebrew.
I can use any old SD memory card and back up and restore my games and saves quickly without any weird desktop software requirements.