Is Sony Biting Back?

[aQwaBlaz3]

This is why ya dont mess with stuff...if its upgraded, its upgraded for a reason. And if your going to rollback the version...DON"T go on a P2P and get it...they are filled with virii up the wazoo.

I could see Sony doing this...getting revenge for hackers, making a PSP dead, and then having people pay for a replacment or some crap like that...they are all about money...

But as for the DS stuff....I dont know...how could anyone mess up a system that has great games like Nintendogs.

 

[Alpha2]

Here's a conspiracy for you: how about People who dont like sony creating the Bricker so that people can sit around going "I bet sony is responsible" without any evidence.

They make money off people having the systems and buying games not taking the systems out of circulation, this is why they make the upgrades half to fight hackers and half to fight piracy and they dont care that homebrew in a casualty. No company would risk this kind of damage, if anything the fact that there's a Bricker for the DS should proove there are just evil virus making hacker bastards out there who are more than willing to screw up anything they can get there hands inside of.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

how could anyone mess up a system that has great games like Nintendogs.

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and dont forget pacpix!!

oh, and of course, the award winning warioware...TOUCHED!

 

[Alpha2]

Hey don't take Nintendog's lightly. Chicks dig digital puppies! But seriously that thing sold ridiculously well.

 

[Johndifo]

yes Sony dont mind to brick your PSP's

from pspupdates.com

Mathieulh from SonyXTeam has put out this warning to the PSP community about the index.dat in firmware 2.50:

We want to warn any team creating version changer programs that the 2.50 index.dat encryption pattern has changed, therefor you have 100% chances of bricking your psps if you try to use it in your flash.
That's also why we are not using it on our version changer.

The reasons why sony would do such a thing are

- To prevent people from creating version changers (they failed to do so, since we know how to create our own index.dat)

- To prevent people on 2.50 from downgrading using an earlier index.dat version

- Because they think we are dumbasses that would brick some of our psps in the process (that's too bad since we didn't brick any of our psps as we tested the 2.50 index.dat using BFM firmware loader).

Also Sony wouldn't imagine us sniffing in their IPL and figuring out that the Version information is now located into the 2.50 IPL whitch means that the index.dat is now useless and has just the purpous to fool us (yeah $ony just failed mouhahaha, we are way smarter than they imagine, next time I do hope for their sake that they do better....)

It seems sony became very interested in our work....

Anyway if you plan to create your own version changer, do NOT use 2.50 (or higher) index.dat file !

Nice try sony

 

[Alpha2]

That they dont mind if your system get's bricked is different from them actively trying to brick it for you.

The point Sony's tyring to hammer home by making these changes is that attempting to bypass their security has risks. They were hoping to trick the hacker/coders into ruining their units by their own hand, but didn't count on them having ways to protect their hardware. If you arn't a Hacker/coder you wouldnt know half of what these guys are even talking about so someone just marching blindly into backdating, downgrading, whatever would have to worry (atleast untill they've finished making an easy homebrew tool for 2.5).