Dark Alex Releases 4.01 M33 Firmware For PSP

Croakyvoice writes "Dark Alex, the PSP hacker from Spain, and his Team M33 have released a new version of the custom firmware for the PSP, which now supports the very latest official firmware from Sony. Benefits for the end user include the ability to play the many hundreds of games, demos, applications and emulators written by the homebrew community for the PSP."

... and?

[pathological liar]

I can understand new releases of major software... a new GIMP, new KDE, new GNOME, new kernel, new release of a distro or operating system being newsworthy... but an announcement of a cracked firmware bin for a portable game system?

Re:... and?

[pathological liar]

No, you can run the exact same software you could before, this is a bugfix release -- and a trivial bugfix at that -- for something with the camera. A niche product on a niche product. Oops, I guess it adds one new function to the SDK, although neither the article or the summary actually says what it does.

Re:... and? The PSP is no niche product

[sien]

You are absolutely right that this story shouldn't be posted.

However, just out of curiosity I checked the PSP's sales and read up on on the PSP. The PSP is the eighth best [wikipedia.org] selling console of all time. It's surprisingly successful for a device that is often thought of as a failure compared to the DS.

Re:i know there are legit uses but...

[Michael Hunt]

looks like Slashdot users don't like reality since i am right about this but i am getting flame baited and trolled.

No, you're being corrected because you are FLAT OUT WRONG.

An EULA does not and can not apply unless it is presented to you BEFORE consideration is exchanged (in the case of purchasing a PSP, this would be at point of sale, BEFORE you gave them your cold hard and the title of said PSP transferred to you.)

Consider an analogy: If i sold lawn mowers, for instance, and you bought one off me with the (IMO perfectly reasonable) assumption that you could replace the blades with any compatible brand, and then went to replace them and found that i'd placed an EULA sticker across the nut holding each blade in place saying "ONLY USE MICHAEL HUNT BRANDED BLADES. THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT," then you'd be pretty irate.

The fact that Dark Alex's firmware happens to allow playing of warez/backup games/imports/whatever is completely orthogonal to any argument you may or may not make RE: the legality of breaking an EULA. EULAs are not, and can not be retroactively binding. End of line.

Re:This is great...

[Anonymous Coward]

If your only complaint is that the games are nothing more than rehashes of old games, then why are you even bothering to pirate them? Unless, of course, you're lying, and actually believe that they DO have some value, but that you're somehow special from everybody else and shouldn't have to pay for them.