PSP firmware 3.10 released, and decrypted
by James Ransom-Wiley 
{ Jan 31st 2007 at 10:55AM }
Sony's PSP firmware v3.10 was decrypted less than 24 hours after its release, claim reports out of the "homebrew" community. While the decrypted files are useless to the average PSP user, they represent the building blocks for requisite hacker celebs like Dark_AleX, Booster, and the Noobz team. New custom firmware? Another DevHook update? Sony lost this round, fast.For those good lil' updaters out there, firmware 3.10 brings support for new PlayStation Network games, MPEG-4 AVC format for the Location Free Player, and the 'Dynamic Normalizer' sound setting, along with a memory saving mode for the browser.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
The True Gamer @ Jan 31st 2007 11:00AM
Can't wait to see how long it takes to hack the PS3. If people thought cheating in Halo 2 was bad, just wait until PSN gets somewhat of a real user base with some real online games. Better then Xbox Live because it's free? My ass!
sheppy @ Jan 31st 2007 11:08AM
From my experience, when people throw around words like "cheater," it just means that player is significantly more experienced than you. On Timesplitters, for instance, many an Xbox Live gamer called me a cheater instead of "map memorizer" or "remote miner." And I've even heard people on the PS3 boards claim there are Resistance cheaters....
owenkun @ Jan 31st 2007 11:17AM
:cue Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust':
Jake @ Jan 31st 2007 11:48AM
@1
Does the free subscription really make cheating on PS3 more likely? Can't Sony ban your PS3 from online if you cheat? You would be out $600, then. Right? I mean, a system that can't go online is a brick to me, anyways.
I actually don't know, which is why I am asking. Does anybody have a true, non-fanboy answer? I know cheating on PC is prevalent. Socom on PS2 was pretty rife with it.
MoonfirePewPEwPEw @ Jan 31st 2007 11:52AM
@2
1 meant specifically using an outside program source to aid you, a "hack" essentially.
sheppy @ Jan 31st 2007 12:01PM
I'm aware of what the flamer was refering to. I'm saying, despite the claims of it being a huge epidemic, from my experience, it's usually just really good players. I'm faced off against a few hacks but for the most part, a lot of people don't cheat, they just get good. And people expecting to jump in for a few wins, they are usually the first claiming "cheater." Hell, after a TMB:O match, on the board it was arranged on, I was called a "fucking cheater" because I used invincibility and freeze specials. Anyone who knows TMB knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Jake @ Jan 31st 2007 12:22PM
Sheppy,
People yelling cheater because they suck has nothing to do with actual cheats. Actual cheats are when the game is hacked and usually involves someone being invisible, invincible, etc. If there is one cheater in a 16 person match, it completely and totally ruins the game for the other 15. Maybe you are one of the people that buys these cheats online so are defending them. Or, maybe you constantly defend Sony with your well written, but logically empty posts.
sheppy @ Jan 31st 2007 1:55PM
Jake, the hell, man!?
Okay, confession time. I have a Gameshark. I keep this gameshark around for when an RPG requires too much grinding (Xenosaga) or a fighting game that requires a ton of time investment in the single player just to unlock a sizable portion of the game (Soul Calibur III and Marvel vs Capcom 2) which I'm only dong to use in multiplayer anyway. And that's the extent. A little artificial boost.
In online, however, I play it straight because I have played games against hacks and yeah, it sucked for a round, until the host boots their ass out for cheating. When I play online, I rarely come across hacks or true cheats. Most often, I come across really, really good players. And in the chat channels, I hear a bunch of people yelling about how the player is cheating. To me, a vast majority of the "cheat claims" I'm seen and heard, are just because that player sucks. Does this sound familiar? "This game cheats!"
But seriously, how in the hell did we even get on this topic? Oh yeah, firmware gets hacked, again, and suddenly this relates to PS3 and their free online service... how, exactly? The fuck does this topic have anything to do with PS3's online?
And, to answer your question, to my knowledge, Sony Store downloads a console specific license file with game purchases. It's that way for PSP and PS3. Granted, the PSP versions got hacked. Regardless, if Sony could tie online gameplay to a specific console for that title, it would be function in a way that Sony could deny that license from functioning. As in the software automatically spawns a certain code specific to that copy of a game. The main trouble with this is the potential for reselling. Let's say Sony incorporates this as a unified file on the PS3 itself. Well, what if the servers scan for a code in use and you sold your copy of Funky Widgetwonder XI to a friend. Because he was online, getting Widget with it, and the same code shows up on two consoles, it could attempt to permaban your console. This, however, remains the defacto, 150%, worst possible case scenario. The logical conclusion would be to hide this file in a game save itself and the servers would look for that save. Then, should someone be caught cheating, that copy would be permabanned. Not exactly the optimum solution, however, as you could easily pick up a permabanned copy from EB shelves.
Jake @ Jan 31st 2007 3:22PM
Sheppy,
Thanks for your last paragraph. Seems reasonable and answers my question. I never brought it up in the first place. Someone else did, I got curious and asked, then you went off on how cheating isn't a big deal. I think it is, you don't, woopety doo we disagree again.
And no, I'm not denying that a lot of people scream cheater when they are being pwned. I hear it all the time in R6V, and have yet to witness an actual hack. But I have played Socom games where people are hidden inside of walls at my spawn fragging me constantly. They don't get booted. So, I either have to die constantly for 10 minutes or drop out of the game. Either way, my rank goes down (you lost rank in SocomII for dropping out in the middle of a ranked match). That ruined the game for me. I was good at the game, enjoyed the challenge of getting my rank even higher, and was really pissed when some a-hole would use a cheat and set me back 5 games.
If 360 games started having any of that I would be very sad. If I were a PS3 owner and PS3 games started becoming rife with cheaters I would be very sad. It may not seem a big deal to you, but it is a very big deal to me and a lot of people. And I hope that Sony keeps it out of their games, whatever it takes.
The bottom line is that I have witnessed cheating on many PC games, the only PS2 game I ever took online (Socom 1-3), and have never seen it on a 360. I hear Halo2 had it, but I wouldn't know personally.
sheppy @ Jan 31st 2007 4:51PM
I personally never got into SOCOM so I wouldn't know anything about that. The PS2 games I usually took online were Twisted Metal Black: Online, ATV Offroad Fury 2, Amplitude, Ratchet & Clank, and an occasional shooter. Truth be told, I rarely do online and most of the time, it's with a small group of friends (due to most online players being complete asshats). I can see how cheaters can suck on ranked matches (but once again, I never really felt the urge to "be the top ranked player"). So we agree on that.
One day, I may get into the whole ranking scene but as far as multiplayer goes, I tend to prefer either a LAN party or splitscreen over the whole online competition scene. I do play online games from time to time (frankly, the idea of online Wipeout excites me.. mainly because I'm one of the few in my group that gets into this series).
Hell, I was debating on whether or not I would work on my game tonight, work a little in Reason, or just take Lost Planet online... since I haven't taken that one online yet. Granted, I've only had the game four days, halfway through the campaign, and wondering how the online portion.
And while I'm ranting about multiplayer? Is it so hard to request consoles that now come with 4 controllers remember this fact in their new releases? All of the following games had me ready for four player multiplayer funness....
Gears Of War
Full Auto 2
Blazing Angels (PS3)
Lost Planet
Saints Row
Motorstorm
NFS:Carbon
Ridge Racer 7
R6:Vegas
I mean, seriously.... the companies need to start pushing four player again, like they did on N64 (seemed like every other game was four player back then).
SKI @ Jan 31st 2007 11:47PM
@4
Since it's free, would Sony spend the money to police it?
That's the most un-fanboy answer I could come up with for you.
SuicideNinja @ Feb 1st 2007 8:56AM
I find it funny that PSP's get more used for hacking toys than for gameplay. You'll hear more about firmware getting cracked than "great new games". The PSP isn't worth the effort, really. As long as I don't have to Sonyify my PSP to use with my PS3, I'm good.