M33 believes Sony will make the "ideal firmware"

by Andrew Yoon { Aug 7th 2007 at 6:00PM }

Russian hacking team M33 quickly and easily grabbed the attention of the PSP homebrew community for continuing work on custom firmware after Dark_Alex suddenly quit the scene. The team of five have met their fair share of complaints and praise over the past weeks, many complimenting their quick work, but lamenting the numerous patches made to tackle a persistent list of bugs.

Interestingly, in the team's first public interview, they revealed that they believe Sony will ultimately make the "ideal firmware." They believe that consumers just want the ability to do more with their system, and Sony will learn from the homebrew community: "When Sony understands the useless of their attempts to fight against CFW, they WILL release the firmware that will allow to run homebrew."

The battle against homebrew shouldn't be equated with the battle against piracy, they note. "Sony should allow homebrew development, as on PS2 in RTE (Runtime Environment) on which you can program homebrew, but can't run ISO." Certainly, we applaud the hard work of many homebrew developers out there -- if they could be recognized without piracy running rampant, all PSP owners would benefit.
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Tags: customfirmware, homebrew, m33

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

kingofwale @ Aug 7th 2007 7:05PM

I'm 100% for the idea. Why don't Sony just go with the PS2 route? a CFW with no ISO, There's obviously thirst from PSP owners for homebrews, and even the FW developers know (and want) a FW that's opened to the public without having be called "pirates"

Good job. Sony, time to reach out to them.

nerdXcore @ Aug 7th 2007 9:36PM

Couldn't have said it better myself. If Sony were to release an official firmware that supported legal homebrew apps, then only pirates would be attempting to hack their software (and break the law).

I support homebrew, not piracy.

Extinction @ Aug 7th 2007 10:58PM

If Sony were to allow homebrew, and add a feature to PS3 (or release a disc for PS2) to rip PS1 games WE OWN/PAID FOR, to PSP, then I'd give up custom firmware.

Steve @ Aug 7th 2007 11:25PM

Yes, thank you M33 for your efforts. Don't worry about people complaining about bugs. As long as you guys continue to fix them, I support you 100%

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AJ Collins @ Aug 8th 2007 12:14AM

@nerdXcore
"If Sony were to release an official firmware that supported legal homebrew apps, then only pirates would be attempting to hack their software (and break the law)."
Not exactly. I own all the games I have on ISO format on my PSP. The reasons why I use the ISO versions of games is..
1.Better Framerate
2.Faster Loading
3.Less battery usage
4.Modding game files

Hashbrown_Hunter @ Aug 8th 2007 1:43AM

@AJ Collins:
I think that is legal because you do own original copies of the game.

Back to Topic:
Well I agree that Sony will eventually make an ideal firmware, but I think before that they will create an impenetrable FW and bring all homebrew to a halt for a while. Then they will try to reason with the homebrew community by creating the ideal firmware.

Anybody else agree?

Alien @ Aug 8th 2007 5:02AM

Finally some real , acceptable idea . This schould have happened a long ago , hopefully Sony is allready working on a solution :)

jamma @ Aug 8th 2007 11:17AM

What i don't understanmd is that, if pirates are using CFWs and can do so easily, why don't sony create a hombrew enabling firmware anyway? it won't affect sales, as people are already pirating, and may even boost hardware sales

james hare @ Aug 9th 2007 9:43PM

ISO loading is a thorny subject. I have some ISOs on my PSP to replace game discs that broke (regrettably it seems Sony did not consider the rigors of snowboarding when they designed PSP game discs). Since there is no other way to back up PSP games, a solution that allows ISO use is all that I'd consider "ideal." Something along the lines of an ISO ripper/loader that required digital signing would be truly "ideal." For anyone from Sony reading: given the three discs I've lost from breakage, I haven't bought a PSP game in quite awhile. I play my emulators and enjoy my portable N64, PSX, SNES, NES, SMS, Genesis, atari, etc...

Either a backup solution or a new format is necessary. Nintendo seems to understand the portable market better--optical media is just too fragile for the rigors of portable gaming--flash memory is getting cheap enough that i'd much rather see releases on memory stick.