wikipedia says that one of the games was made free to play via a new icon on a system update. that game would play ps2 + ps3 disc-based songs. i do not remember that icon on OFW recently. if you got the game from that icon back then, then you technically have a license i suppose. but if you did not get it that way at that time, then you might not have legal claim to a copy of the game.
..No problem, I understand. Anyway, I assumed it was a 50/50 shot at my post getting deleted. I guess that's a discussion meant for another place/time.
okay, but if it is still there why do you nees to download it from pirate site? if it is free, then it is free; but when you mention a site like that one, we can only assume...
Here's some info about that: https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/NPDRM_Selfs#License_TypeOk, I'm really not knowledgeable enough to discuss this, but I'd say that this particular game was always free, for everybody. It's the game you cannot remove from your PS3 and things like HEN have a switch to be able to remove it, etc
@Coro you say the game is not part of the new firmwares? I just updated to 4.88 and the game was still there, but I guess that makes sense.
Also, one of those sites said the license (which I think captures from the PKG header or something) was "Free (no RAP)" or something, but again, not really sure of what that means
I just downloaded it because convenience, and because I only have a single version / region, but when doing this kind of analysis is always really useful getting your hands on as many binaries as possible.
yeah, if you read the whole thread there is probably someone saying the same thing (unless some posts got deleted). on these games it is harder to tell because of the songs.
that's the grey area. if it is not being distributed now, it may not no longer qualify as "free" for everyone according to some laws. just to the people who already had it. i wonder if it is available in the store from those areas right now for free?
yeah. the pups where included on discs (except recent) so most are "still available" IMO. 4.88 is downloadable now so it is fine. i'm not gonna complain about any in between and neither does sony AFAIK. main issue is just mentioning the sites like that. really would not bother me except for the raps.
but feel free to remove the link from my post to be safe if you want, no worries.Are the pups in game discs really OFW updates? There's a site which backs up old OFW (I won't post it just in case) that claims that they are really web updates padded with null bytes. Is this right? I've never needed to look into it so I don't know much about it.
The Singstar Online app was just an free to download app that had nothing else with it and was useless until you bought songs from the Singstar Store using the Singstar Online app. This was a last ditch effort by Sony to get more people interested in the game. If I remember correctly the last update for all of the Singstar games basically downloaded Singstar Online when inserting a PS3 Singstar disc into the PS3. I guess what I am trying to say is that if you have an original Singstar PS3 disc all you need to do is insert disc and then check for update and you will have the Singstar Online app installed as the last update.
