I have a few questions about the "Custom brewery" scene on sony consoles

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Ajescent said:

1: what can a hacked psp do that a normal psp can't? I hear people say "Oh I can do a lot of things with my psp" what I want to know is- what? with the exception of playing pirated games or emulating other consoles, there's really nothing added I can think of.

Run great applications like CXMB which allows you to replace your stock XMB with something like this. This is one of my favorite things to fool around with on the PSP. I also change things like bootup animations, sounds, etc...

Or you could just browse the homebrew sites for user created PSP games or other various applications. Emulators are only one part of what it can do, plus you have to realize that most of what the scene brought to the PSP have now been incorporated into the stock PSP by SONY. Things like Web Browsing, Youtube, PS1 EBoot emulation, RSS feeding, custom themes and internet radio.

2: How safe is the psn store? I know I keep brining this up but I'm really worrying for the "one-guy-in-a-basement" developers who, after all their hard work making a game, won't get jack for it. It's easy to not feel sympathy for guys like EA and Activision but what about the little people?

I don't understand what you mean here. The PSN store is fine...

3: Everyone kept saying the only reason why Geodude and FoF hacked the ps3 was to get back linux and OtherOS, with that in mind, this is a 2 part question

A: After getting the keys, why not then find a way to return the OtherOS and leave the other parts alone instead of releasing everything out into the open?

Restoring OtherOS wasn't the reason for doing so. Restoring the ability for homebrew was the reason. It is just that the removal of Other OS is what prompted the big shift in the scene.

B: So...where exactly is the rebirth of Linux and the ressurection of the OtherOS? Because all we seem to hear about is games getting pirated and online getting hacked. The less I hear about Linux and OtherOS resurfacing, the more I think they are filled with shit.

It isn't said that they opened up the PS3 to get Linux back. They said they opened it up because Linux was removed. Two different things actually.

Linux allowed homebrew to run on the PS3 when booted into Other OS, so with that there was no incentive for most homebrew devs to even attempt to crack it. With it removed however they gained a real good reason to do so.

4: Online: I've never been really big on online but once in a while, I do get into it. I was keen to try out games like LBP2, Motorstorm:A and Uncharted 3. Whilst I don't think hacking can really affect LBP2 (not sure what could be achieved by this) but competetive games like M:A and uncharted 3 can suffer, how safe are those games?

SONY will have ways to find out who cheats and who does not, just like Microsoft does with the 360. You need to stop worrying so much just because MW2 has hacks. MW2 had that problem on 360 a long time ago and guess what? People still play it and enjoy the hell out of it and the cheaters get banned.

5:  From what I understand, game developers have some means of countering piracy such as disc reading, supposedly, aspects of the game won't work unless it can read the presence of a disc or I once heard of a failsafe on Batman:AA where if a disc isn't read, Batman instantly suicides amongst other stories, my question is: Why aren't developers more proactive in countering this? Is it because there are no effective methods or what's the deal?

They are taking measures and that is the companies talking about selling you a game and then you need to download the rest of it. This came before the news of PS3 being hacked. They also are coming with these Online passes too.

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