Why is CFW better than sony¡¦s FW

Posted: 11 July 2007 at 7:46pm | IP Logged

Me and many other senior members or mods have seen so many threads about why Custom Firmware (CFW) is better than sony's firmware (CE or Closed Edition FW as smyth12 names it ). There's also been threads which say they're in 1.50 and don't realize that CFW is heaps better. So now I want to make it clear to everyone why CFW is better than CE before any more unnessesscary threads are created.

CFW has many functions which 1.50 doesn't have. It supports the Internet Browser feature unlike the 1.50. 1.50 doesn't even have the remote play feature and thus limits the internet features by very far. Another major reason is that CFW doesn't need additional programs to get ISO games working. In 1.50 fastloader is required in order to load ISO's. However in CFW it is not nessesscary thus making it a lot easier to play games. There are also other minor things such as turning off the Auto-Run UMD thingy after startup. You can also place a background theme in your psp in CFW in which you cannot do this in 1.50

CFW is also better than 2.xx or 3.xx or higher firmwares because it has no DRM. DRM limits your psp by stopping games from working in these newer firmwares. In order to play games in these FW, they need to be legimitate games on UMD's or demo versions in the ms. In CFW however, these rules don't apply because they are designed to play all psp type games from your MS. Games which can be played in CFW and cannot be played in new CE firmwares include any games in ISO format, any emulated games such as psx, SNES, Genesis etc. and homebrew games.

I hope now everyone understands why CFW is better than all sony's FW whether 1.xx, 2.xx or 3.xx.

Posted: 27 September 2007 at 10:35pm | IP Logged

smyth12 wrote: If sony Bring 4.00 out and no one decides to make a CFW (which no doubt someone will) Im going to learn to code and make a patch that lets UMD Games which Require a higher Update to play... there IS a exploit somewhere... I will try to find it one day LOL

Lol, spike could do the programming. He's good at it I think.