PSPgo To Have Internal Battery To Stop Pandora Pirates
From very early on in its life-cycle, Sony’s PSP has been subjected to hacks that enable it to play pirate games. With the introduction of a new model, Sony hopes to stop the pirates. Some hope.
From fairly complex and initially nail-biting hacks (please don’t let me ‘brick’ it), hacking the PSP to play pirate games has got increasingly simple.
With the introduction of the now-notorious Pandora Battery, carrying out those modifications became significantly easier and within reach of most amateur modders.
After piracy became easy on earlier models, the company feels it is ready to bring an end to these hacks with the introduction of PSPgo, the next iteration of its popular handheld device.
“You won’t be able to rip your games and play them on the system, the firmware precludes that,” said Sony’s John Koller, confidently.
Countering the specific threat from the Pandora Battery, Koller says PSPgo addresses the issue;
“There’s no external battery, so there’s a number of protections put into place on the system.”
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. We’ll report here when PSPgo inevitably falls to a new hack.
This is a complete failure! 2/3 of PSP fans all around the world, isn’t going to buy a PSP without advantage to run custom firmware on it, $ony has to let us, at least, run our own homebrew software… They can, but they don’t want, and one thing for sure: piracy isn’t the reason that $ony don’t let us run homebrew, buy a GP2X Wiz, instead.
Well said, totally agree!! Get a GP2X Wiz, it’s awesome.
http://openpandora.org FTW
People are already up in arms over its price to screen and no UMD ratio… Now this? They really don’t want to sell these things, do they?
Just wait a bit. Like its predecessor, modding will be difficult at first, but without that significant HARDWARE piece necessary, reprogramming it will be much much easier. And it will only get easier with time.
Look at the Wii. I bought one early, first year or so, and wanted it modded. My options were send it away for three+ weeks, at a cost of over a hundred bucks, or install my own modchip with solder and shaky hands for about thirty bucks. I did it, but it didn’t really last…long story short, the DVD drive in it was totally borked and wouldn’t read even REAL discs anymore. Fast forward to a month ago, when I discover that the scene has been BUSY, and you can now softmod with nothing more than an SD card. I’m now playing my Wii off a hard drive, and have a copy of Rockband2 purchased with the tradein value of all the other real games I already had. What I’m trying to say is, time defeats all protections…especially Sony’s.
Sony is what happens when a content company makes hardware, mass paranoia often insues. the first psp was pretty awesome though
But doesn’t the battery need to be replaceable to follow the EU regulations, like with the iPhone?
[...] Looks like Sony’s PSPgo is going to have a bit of beefed up security. This will surely dishearten the game system modding and home-brew communities. Not too long ago Nintendo beefed up security with the release of the Nintendo DSi. It’s a common issue system developers in the gaming industry must deal with, but I assure you when I say that a new method/solution to bypass these measures will likely unveil itself sooner rather than later…Not to mention people can also just buy a normal PSP still. Here is an excerpt from Freakbits PSPgo Article– [...]
Awesome article. Just put a excerpt on http://www.geekmontage.com with a link back. Too bad companies aren’t supporting the homebrew communities. A lot of good could come if they did. I’m sure this update is going to anger the pajesus out of ‘em.
Already cracked, already hacked, open source Go, PSP protection=HELL NO. hahahahah….no to $$$ony meddling in homebrew scene. Not piracy, homebrew. Suck it, $$$ony!