According to John Koller, Sony's Director of Hardware Marketing, the company has made the PSP Go battery non-replaceable in an effort to prevent piracy that has plagued earlier models, most notably the 1000 and 2000 models. Using the infamous Pandora's Battery, users of past PSP models could easily modify official PSP firmware and therefore play pirated games at their leisure. Sony wanted ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by hendrix12:Agreed. It won't be long before it's released that people will find a way to mess with the firmware again.
all this really means is that you cant easily modify the hardware
if a hardware exploit is found it wont stop people from opening it up and just doing it that way
Originally posted by ZippyDSM:correctamundo, when the internal propertarian battery dies, you've gotta send it back to sony to be replaced, but i think $40 is a little low zippy.
Because they can save a buck building it and charge you 40$ to replace it of coarse!
Quote:Originally posted by ZippyDSM:correctamundo, when the internal propertarian battery dies, you've gotta send it back to sony to be replaced, but i think $40 is a little low zippy.
Because they can save a buck building it and charge you 40$ to replace it of coarse!
why can't companies let us use AA rechargeable or agree on a standard that we can replace ourselves.
Originally posted by beanos66:I agree.
and again Sony screw the honest majority of their customers
Originally posted by KillerBug:Naa naa naa, they just did this so if we do try and modify the PSP Go and it don't work you end up having to go and buy another one :-(
So based on this, can we assume that the PSP-go can be hacked easily, and all that one must do is open it up and splice into the wires going to the battery? If so, I am sure the pirate community is overjoyed. If not, then Sony has made this change to fix an issue that didn't exist in the first place!
Originally posted by hendrix12:
all this really means is that you cant easily modify the hardware
if a hardware exploit is found it wont stop people from opening it up and just doing it that way
Quote:Taking a page out of microsoft's business tactics it seems.
Naa naa naa, they just did this so if we do try and modify the PSP Go and it don't work you end up having to go and buy another one :-(
Pritty good tactics to make more money if you ask me ;-)
Quote:i dont support piracy either but sony needs to make a reasonably legal way to create and run homebrew without any issuesOriginally posted by hendrix12:
all this really means is that you cant easily modify the hardware
if a hardware exploit is found it wont stop people from opening it up and just doing it that way
exactly i'll probably rip mine open anyways if i ever get one. It's not that i support game piracy but i don't like sony telling me what i can and can't do. Plus i already have a whole load of UMD's
Originally posted by shaffaaf:I've had some PSP batteries die on me, two phats and one slim, but just got new one's off the net -very cheap :-)
good idea sony tbh. how many people seriously have had their battery fail? and ipods havent allowed this since forever yet no one minds about that.
i also like how when the PSP first came out its was OMG UMD IZ TEH SUX! and now its going away its the holy grail.
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