I understand 30% of a pirates mentality.

First and Foremost, I have a PSP but I do NOT pirate software.

IT IS ILLEGAL and MORALLY WRONG to take what people have spent their lives working for.

But I wish to address a concern I have over the PSP that many users know about and what a few pirates I've asked have always complained about.

PS1 Games. Or lack of PS1 Games.

I own about 7 games on the PSP that I actually play and wanted at the time. That's it! Same for my DS.

Granted, I can't wait for the NEW PSP wave of games (LBP,GT,Invisimals,etc.) to come out but this is taking FOREVER!

I blame Sony's inability to come out with good PS1 classics as a major culprit to the rampant PSP piracy dilemma.

Most Pirates I talk to seem to rip their own copies of PS1 games onto the PSP to play because they aren't on the store and I ask the million dollar question...

WHY the F NOT?!?!?

It is now Mid 2009, and there should be at least 50% of the ENTIRE PS1 catelog on PSN. As of today, there are ONLY 51 titles (mostly shovelware) on PSN. BUT what happens when they put GOOD PS1 games up???

well..... FFVII, Metal Gear 1, Street Fighter Alphas, and Crash Bandicoots are the TOP PSN titles! WOW! who would have thought right? well, no! it's obvious. the price is right, the games are great and I can easily play them on my psp FASTER and with less batter drain and also on my ps3.

Sony needs to get this right and make all PS1 downloadable NOW! Not 2 years from now, TODAY! Put a huge dent in piracy and make fans happy!

Pirates can get the top ps1 games on the store and more for free.

They can get psp games for free.

People can hardly stop them.

That's all there is to it.

Yah people will always pirate what they can. Thanks to p2p sites its even more rampant. I agree with you I started a japanese psn account just to get more ps1 classics hopefully sony sees this and opens the market to us!

The funny thing is that the pirates are so advanced that when you try to update a hacked PSP it actually downloads newer hacked firmware just like you would normally get it off sony.

Talking about how people pirate games makes me sad :( I'll never do that, I find joy from buying my games, no matter how bad sony is with the market.

The funny thing is that the pirates are so advanced that when you try to update a hacked PSP it actually downloads newer hacked firmware just like you would normally get it off sony.

zaku101

sony has ben slow with almost all of the psp in term of games. they care more about the money then people,back when games where slow comeing out they should of had ps1 games on the psn.Now with the up comeing psp-go new games and now sony tells the devs to make apps for it