Question about comparing updates

[ohgod]

WARNING:This is pure late night speculation. Anyway I was thinking of the 1.51/1.52 patches and was wondering how hard it was to compare these patches to eachother and to the PSPs 1.50 firmware. Couldnt we just compare the update to what is missing out of a firmware dump? Or is it more complicated?
Could we compare the 1.51/1.52 updates and see what they changed, so we could then go back and exploit what they fixed? Again questions I had to get off my chest late at night. Flame Away! :clap:

[NeoRedXIII]

Things like this were thought of already and are being worked on.

[SuperN00B]

yup.

i bet sony is going to release another firmware update because of all the piracy now.


piracy is a no-no :naughty:

[ohgod]

I cant beleive people would go that far. They had to of known what Sony was going to do, now Homebrew is going to get locked down( if we want to play the latest games) I think Sony mighta looked the other way with emulators but when their own games get pirated it draws the line. Does anyone else think that those people ruined it for us?

[FURsAKeN]

Originally Posted by ohgod

I cant beleive people would go that far. They had to of known what Sony was going to do, now Homebrew is going to get locked down( if we want to play the latest games) I think Sony mighta looked the other way with emulators but when their own games get pirated it draws the line. Does anyone else think that those people ruined it for us?

But, thats just how the whole scene is. People are always gonna want to get what they want for free.. Games are always going to be getting pirated.. and new means of protection will be developed/implmented to ward off homebrewers. While in due time a new hack comes out to stump the new update, whats SONY going to do.. only thing it can. It's going to be a constant back and forth battle.. the way its always been over the whole piracy scene in general. So all you can do is leave it up the devs to find the ways around, and wait it out..
Last thing, I'm not sure but I am going to assume that Sony is upset over homebrews period. ROMs, EMUs, everything.. not just the piracy.. they dont want their hardware to be used for illegal means..

[Merovingian]

Originally Posted by ohgod

I cant beleive people would go that far. They had to of known what Sony was going to do, now Homebrew is going to get locked down( if we want to play the latest games) I think Sony mighta looked the other way with emulators but when their own games get pirated it draws the line. Does anyone else think that those people ruined it for us?

I'm not quite sure what your post really means. Sony upgrading the firmware was going to happen with or without piracy. Homebrew would have gotten locked down at the same exact speed anyway since running homebrew usually leads people in the direction of piracy. Does it speed things up, probably not I think the firmware updates will happen at the same rate of speed reguardless of piracy. They were already 2 versions ahead before we were able to boot a UMD. Remember first and foremost Sony doesn't want you running any code on the PSP period. It's obvious they would have never looked the other way or you would be playing with a 1.0 US PSP and we would have never seen version 1.5, 1.51 or 1.52 (all of which came before the loaders).

[ohgod]

I think Sony came up with the patches so people could not run Pirated games. What I was thinking was that now that there are games actually being pirated and run they will lockdown on it faster than before(more games requiring updates).

[TheMysteriousThug]

the difference is probably security and micellaneous stuff that isn't useful

[ohgod]

Originally Posted by shadyhomie

the difference is probably security and micellaneous stuff that isn't useful

Of course security but what I was saying was comparing those security changes rom patch to patch and trying to find loopholes in what they changed.

[TheMysteriousThug]

they make it harder to hack. sony has tried fixing security on there systems for awhile and the updates make it so it's tougher to hack. but sometimes it adds languages.fixes playing music and all that other BS

[Kortanis]

It's too bad more companies haven't gone the way of Tivo, who actually encourages hacking of their product (provided they aren't stealing service of course). Tivo's best features have actually been developed by hackers, some of whom now work for Tivo.

It's just too bad...