The PSP gaming system is making incredible waves in the gaming community. When it comes to gamers they do not all just want to play the game, they want to get involved in creating the game as well.

Gamers come in all breeds just like careers. You have those who love to generate the PSP homebrew download games, and then you have those who like to just play them. You have those who are curious about the mechanics of the games, and others who want to play only the PSP homebrew download games because they love that they are made by other gamers- for fun not profit! There are certainly a lot of these available, more than the original games themselves! (no wonder Sony is so jealous!)

Even if they sell them their motivation was more for props and to feel like the PSP homebrew download creator, building a game that reeks of their personal touch!

The PSP homebrew download was born out of a deep curiosity of the games mechanics and because people wanted to get props for making their own game mods (short for modified) as their called. Now the PSP homebrew download games are being sold through memberships sites.

Sony does not have a problem with the PSP homebrew download games themselves or even the gamers modifying the games (at least that is what they officially reported), they have a problem with the potential piracy issues surrounding the technology used to make PSP homebrew download games. As long as Sony makes a cut of the PSP homebrew download games sold they seem to look the other way, and membership sites that pay Sony a cut of profits for licensing their titles are one form of this concept.

Some sites offer the full suite of licensed games and pay Sony a piece of the sale, much like people producing Disney shirts pay Disney for the right to use their logo and name on their shits aka Officially Licensed Product. Adding the PSP homebrew download games modified by other gamers as other downloads in the membership site become just another game in the mix. Sony does not like the idea of homebrewed games but again they can not really stop it so they figure if the sites are willing to give them licensing fees for the PSP homebrew download games, it is a non published compromise. They generally will not fight them if the site is already selling licensed PSP games.

In many ways they keep releasing firmware upgrades that attempt to circumvent the ability to build homebrew games but hackers are way ahead of them, going in and changing the firmware upgrades to remove the circumventing code yet allowing users to upgrade unhindered. Many new games including those found at PSP homebrew download sites, require the firmware upgrades to work on the system. The hacked firmware codes are mass distributed by many sites as cracked firmware upgrade.

Dustin Olenslager is a video game enthusiast who works as a private consultant for the PSP reviewer. To start downloading PSP games and movies today visit PSP Downloads

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