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The original PSP was infamous for being piracy friendly, thanks to a backdoor that Sony themselves introduced into the design of the portable gaming machine. The good old "replace the battery with a custom one" trick, which Sony originally added to the console as a way to fix frozen PSPs, opened the door on piracy with custom batteries being made that came with special firmware for playing ripped games.
The new PSP Go does not have a user replaceable battery for a start, so hackers have to come up with more tricks. So far, the work on hacked firmware for playing copied games is proceeding quite fast, although things may get harder once Sony release their upcoming 6.0 firmware.
Having previously acknowledged that piracy has helped to sell PSPs, Sony may be reluctant to make the PSP Go's entirely piracy-proof, at least not at first as Nintendo's DS, another console known for being piracy friendly, has a huge sales lead over the PSP.
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The new PSP Go does not have a user replaceable battery for a start, so hackers have to come up with more tricks. So far, the work on hacked firmware for playing copied games is proceeding quite fast, although things may get harder once Sony release their upcoming 6.0 firmware.
Having previously acknowledged that piracy has helped to sell PSPs, Sony may be reluctant to make the PSP Go's entirely piracy-proof, at least not at first as Nintendo's DS, another console known for being piracy friendly, has a huge sales lead over the PSP.
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