Quoting Mathieulh:


"After much investigations from Alex and I, we concluded that the 3.73 firmware is fully identical to the 3.72 firmware, the only thing that changed were the module versions and the index.dat/version.txt that display the firmware version. ALL the kernel and vsh modules are the same, so are the rco files.

As you know this does not really make sense and we have yet to find out why sony issued a new firmware revision when nothing was changed. Perhaps there may be some flaw in the updater itself that may explain this move, I don't think we will ever know for sure.

Also this the part when some "coder" gets greeted by noobs because of being so "fast" to port "his" custom firmware to 3.73 while nothing at all changed from its previous 3.72 version. I will let you all figure out who that might be...

UPDATE: lflash_fatfmt seem to have changed a bit (over 20 different bytes) but that's all we could find, no critical change and certainly does not need ANY patches to be modified/updated in any way to run a custom firmware, perhaps the bugfix is there (we are not sure of that yet, we are curently taking a closer look at the module to be sure)"

Lulz, I beat you to it. =D

"PSP firmware 3.73 is now available via Network Update. Strangely, this update does not list any improvements before installation begins."

Well, technically Sony said there were no changes either.

They do not support piracy and all of the things they do are to prove a point. The end user is responsible for anything illegal.

Why do you think people are confused? Either Sony made a mistake, or they're up to something.

It's SONY's product it's there choice what can and cannot be played on it,. make that choice b4 your purchase instead of resorting to these kinds of activities,. everyone knows Firmware users use it for Pirated Games,. the extras are just put in as an excuss/civer-up to that fact

>> everyone knows Firmware users use it for Pirated Games.

Tim, I'm an intellectual property attorney. I own no pirated music, no pirated movies, and no pirated games. I use custom firmware on my PSP-fat (3.52-OE) to rip and play my PS1 games on my PSP - all of which I bought at retail prices. I bought the PSP-fat after buying my PSP slim for the sole purpose of medium shifting my PS1 games - a practice that is done all the time when I convert music on a store-bought CD to mp3s or AACs for my iPod.

While I am not so foolish as to assume that everyone that uses custom firmware uses it for legitimate purposes, I take exception to the statement that firmware use it for pirated games.

-p-

Maybe, but DAX won't make a CFW unless it's it's an update worth making a CFW of. There will be no CFW of 3.73. Someone made a CFW of 3.72, but it was a rip-off of DAX's 3.71 CFW, so it shouldn't be taken seriously.