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Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:11 am**

It just dawned on me, that all along they have been trying to stop homebrew, and custom firmware. lol, still after all these years, a few different kids sitting at their computer have managed to outsmart them. I mean honestly, you gotta be pretty retarded to not be able to stop that, and in your own product, lol sad really. Maybe it's just because most of us are Americans, and they can't read it.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:12 am**

Computer code is a whole language in itself, really has nothing to do with understanding a foreign language. And the fact is companies don't have a problem with legitimate homebrew. Look at Apple with the app store. Sony making a built in function to partition the PS3 drive to install linux. Homebrew is not the issue. It's the pirating of software that is and THAT's what the companies have issues with. Unfortunately in many cases homebrew means direct access to pirating, and for the companies to stop pirating they have to try and stop homebrew.

When it comes to company's not filling in security holes and such... Companies work on time frames. Time = money. Hackers don't. They have all the time in the world to break down code and find any flaw they can. If you gave companies that same capability, you would have more secure devices coming out and be waiting forever for the d**n things to be released.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:47 am**

Observe, as brent comes in and ruins all the fun... Smooth one. You always have to be "accurate" on everything, lol.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:59 am**

Lol... actually laughed at that one. Sorry for the logic. After that obama thread I was in the mood to type

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:19 pm**

I have a feeling that Sony just outright doesn't like the idea of homebrew at all. I mean, consider the phat PSP. It has an IR sensor. Sony, to my knowledge, never had anything "big" that they used for the IR sensor, but when they made the PSP-2000, they took the IR sensor out.

They had to know that IRShell and IRCommander etc. were some of the most popular homebrew.

-DarkPacMan77-

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:19 pm**

Homebrew was the main reason I bought a PSP.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:12 pm**

brentbizzle wrote:Lol... actually laughed at that one. Sorry for the logic. After that obama thread I was in the mood to type

you "actually laughed at that one"? so none of my other jokes are ever funny!? lol. But yeah, that is why I bought a psp also. but back then, we only had firmware 1.5 and 2.0...

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:10 am**

I know why I bought a PSP... in fact, I was 2 weeks away from buying an Xbox 360 lol (so for anyone saying I don't like 360 - eat it

)

But yea, I was going to get a 360 two weeks from then, but my pal brought over his new PSP and I was so impressed by the screen, size, weight (yes, I love the weight of the phat PSP), and the graphics were very nice. I played Wipeout Pure and Metal Gear Acid but neither of those "blew me away". Then I popped in the demo disc and watched the Ridge Racer demo movie and I was so impressed by the graphics of the demo (particularly the end scene with the girl's eyes) that I went out the next day and got a PSP instead.

Happy ever since

-DarkPacMan77-

Posted: **Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:37 am**

There's a whole other reason Sony is funny...

http://i.gizmodo.com/5141893/sonys-4th- ... 95-percent

95%

-DarkPacMan77-

Posted: **Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:23 am**

Diehard335 wrote:lol, still after all these years, a few different kids sitting at their computer have managed to outsmart them.

Theyre not actually kids sitting at their computers either...most of them went to school for coding and actually have careers programming.

Posted: **Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:53 pm**

brentbizzle wrote:Lol... actually laughed at that one. Sorry for the logic. After that obama thread I was in the mood to type

Hooray people are visiting my thread!

Posted: **Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:28 pm**

DarkPacMan77 wrote:I have a feeling that Sony just outright doesn't like the idea of homebrew at all. I mean, consider the phat PSP. It has an IR sensor. Sony, to my knowledge, never had anything "big" that they used for the IR sensor, but when they made the PSP-2000, they took the IR sensor out.

They had to know that IRShell and IRCommander etc. were some of the most popular homebrew.

-DarkPacMan77-

It was to my understanding that they did nothing at all with it, unless i am mistaken.

=/

Posted: **Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:54 pm**

Yea, that's true from what I can tell. I'm not sure that they used the IR for anything other than showing it off at tech shows, but... still. Nobody can deny that one of the single-best homebrew applications, if you were to place them in a top 5 or something, would be IRShell.

Sony put the IR on there for a reason, I'm sure. They never used it, but they had to have a plan for it or they would have never put it on there. I honestly feel that Sony just felt like fools because the biggest thing to happen for the IR sensor was a homebrew program. Feeling like they were beat out using their own technology, they took it out.

That's how I feel about it. I mean, think of it this way. Imagine a Sony employee talking about the PSP to another company like an advertising agency or showing it off to game developers etc. Now imagine the other person asking, "Say, what does that little thing up there do?" - then the Sony guy has to think to himself... "well, nothing, but a homebrew developer made a seriously awesome program for it..."

-DarkPacMan77-

Posted: **Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:50 pm**

I hate IRShell.
It's horrible.
Bad button configuration, bad navigation, horrible layout.

Posted: **Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:52 pm**

brentbizzle wrote:Computer code is a whole language in itself, really has nothing to do with understanding a foreign language. And the fact is companies don't have a problem with legitimate homebrew. Look at Apple with the app store. Sony making a built in function to partition the PS3 drive to install linux. Homebrew is not the issue. It's the pirating of software that is and THAT's what the companies have issues with. Unfortunately in many cases homebrew means direct access to pirating, and for the companies to stop pirating they have to try and stop homebrew.

When it comes to company's not filling in security holes and such... Companies work on time frames. Time = money. Hackers don't. They have all the time in the world to break down code and find any flaw they can. If you gave companies that same capability, you would have more secure devices coming out and be waiting forever for the d**n things to be released.

Just like the old expression "if you cut of the head, the bodie will die."

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