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You may have already heard about the latest PSP exploit discovered within the classic puzzler Lumines,
availing owners of any variety of PSP -- all the way up to its current
firmware, 3.50 -- the opportunity to run homebrew, install custom
firmware, and generally monkey up Sony's plans to get you to play PSP
games on the system over, say, 14-year-old SNES games. Can't stop 'em,
Sony -- this is what people want. People want their hardware unlocked,
they want emulation of everything up to PSX, and they don't want you
steppin' on their toes over it. Proof? Hell, look at Lumines.
Quite
a big jump for a launch title. Hey, I'm not saying it wasn't a great
game -- it's certainly one of my all-time favorite titles to play on
the toilet, that's for certain -- but I can't imagine a nearly 6000%
jump just for nostalgia or 'cos word got out that it wasn't half bad.
It's levelled off a bit since then, but still impressive -- the force of a wall of gamers all moving towards emulation and maybe-probably piracy. Well, at least they'll actually play the damn things, now. Go buy Crush, jerks!
Following research in conjunction with Archaemic, Noobz are proud to
present the first ever all-firmware exploit for the PSP. Based on
Lumines, the "Illuminati" exploit is a user-mode exploit using a buffer
overflow in the savedata file - similar to the GTA exploit.
That's right - if you've got a legal UMD
copy of Lumines, then you can run homebrew on your PSP - whatever the
firmware version. That includes v3.50! Right now, the only homebrew is
the Hello World demo released below - but in future we intend to
release a HEN and downgrader.
To make the exploit work:
Check that you have an EU or
US version of Lumines (ULES00043 or ULUS10002). Currently we don't
have a version for the Japanese version, but we're working on it, as
soon as we get hold of a Japanese UMD.
Extract the contents of the 'MS_ROOT' folder from the ZIP file into the top-level of your memory stick. (HINT: If you wind up with an 'MS_ROOT' folder on the stick, you've done it wrong).
Start
the game, and as soon as it gets to the 'Press START' screen, press
START. If you wait until the demo has started, the exploit may not
work.
The screen should go blank, and the exploit will start
after a few moments. It doesn't do anything except look pretty at this
stage - but feel free to enjoy the first homebrew on your v3.10 - v3.50
PSP
Fanjita may have told you guys what to do with a non-homebrew capable PSP, but now it appears that everyone can get in on the homebrew fun! The "goofy exploit"
which exists in firmwares 2.00 to 3.03 was found on Friday, January 25,
2007, a date which you'd think might go down in the PSP homebrew
history. But it probably won't because despite their seven-day ETA, the
Noobz team has once again fortified its position at the top of the homebrew coding ladder with a 3.03 downgrader - just three days after the exploit was found!
Some call it magic, others call it an act of god, but whatever the reason for it, PSP gamers all across the world can now downgrade their consoles to the magic of homebrew-capable 1.5, and then if they wish to do so, upgrading to homebrew-capable custom firmware. All you need is a PSP running firmware 3.03 (if not then update to 3.03 using the update EBOOT found here) the downgrader files and the 1.50 EBOOT as well as an unpatched version of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
Unpatched versions of Liberty City Stories contain the 2.0 update, whereas patched versions contain higher updates. If your copy of LCS
has an update higher than 2.0 on it, then you will have to find an
unpatched UMD to proceed. There's no need to worry if you have a TA-082
PSP as the downgrader will check yourmotherboard and patch it if necessary. Note the downgrader will not let you proceed without patching if your motherboard requires it.
Not
only has Noobz released a 3.03 downgrader but they've also managed to
release a 3.03 HEN (Homebrew Enabler) for the PSP. This means that
those of you who aren't too sure that you want to downgrade can still
play homebrew on 3.03. This does not flash your PSP, but by running
HEN, it installs a patch in your PSP's memory, that allows you to run
homebrew almost as if you had a v1.5 PSP. This patch remains in place
until you fully turn off your PSP - it will survive the PSP being
placed into sleep mode. You run the HEN application just as you do the
downgrader using Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
To
use this simply download the 3.03 HEN files from the download links
below and copy them to your PSP. Then run your unpatched version of
GTA:LCS and the patch will apply itself. It will be stored inRAM and
will stay there until you reset your PSP. Putting the PSP in sleep mode
will not remove the patch. This is based on the source for HEN 2.71
provided by Dark_Alex, so the Noobz team would like to thank him for
the code and the help. Additional credits go to Booster, Team C + D for
the registry kernel exploit and Mathieulh for the help provided to
Dark_AleX.
PLEASE READ: This downgrader has been tested by the highly-successful Noobz team and has been proven to work, however there is a small chance that bricking could occur during the process of downgrading.
QJ.Net and the Noobz team are not responsible for any damage which may
happen to your PSP by this application. Can you also note before use
that it is possible to brick using this downgrader if you downgrade and
then update to 3.03 and then downgrade again. The advice from Fanjita
right now is to only use this once. If you update to 3.03 again after
using the downgrader then we suggest you leave it there to prevent your
PSP from bricking.
Now we've got the boring bit over with, we
can move onto the downgrade process itself. Here's QJ's "how to" for
downgrading from 3.03 to 1.50:
1. Update to firmware 3.03. If already have this firmware then proceed to step 2.
2. Open the 3.03 downgrade file and copy the contents of the folder MS_ROOT to the root of your memory stick.
3. Open the 1.5 update and rename the EBOOT.PBP to UPDATE.PBP then copy it to /PSP/GAME/UPDATE/ Make sure not to overwrite PSP/GAME/UPDATE/EBOOT.PBP
4. Load Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (unpatched)
5. It should get to loading save game, clear the screen, the screen should fill with a light blue color and then reset the PSP . (If this does not happen see below)
6. Check that HEN is running by going to system settings then System Information and it should show up as system version 303 HEN
7. If it is showing up as 3.03 HEN then go to the memory stick and run the x.yz update
8. Before the downgrader does anything to your PSP it will ask for you to agree to what it is doing. If you no longer want to continue press the Right Shoulder Button (R-TRIGGER).
9. Once you have agreed to start the downgrade do not unplug the PSP
10. Once finished the PSP will ask you to press X, after pressing it will reset it self.
11. If it comes up saying that the settings are corrupt press X to continue.
12. Enjoy your new shiny 1.5 PSP.
What do you do once you have firmware 1.5? Well, you can either start downloading homebrew games from our QuickJump Downloads site and use DevHook to run your current homebrew games or use the more popular which is to upgrade to Dark_Alex's 3.03 OE-C Custom firmware. The friendly people over at our forums have even created an easy-to-follow installation guide for 3.03 OE-C
if you've never used custom firmware before. This will give you all the
features of 3.03 and the ability to play homebrew and PSX games too! It
doesn't get much better than this. [Updated Video of the downgrade process after the jump, thanks to demologik]
And Dark_Alex is back with a beautiful custom firmware hack, this time
the newly released v3.10 is supported :). As if that wasn't enough,
he's even thrown in some cool features for developers as well as
allowing the 4th level of brightness to be selected without an AC
adaptor. Check it all out at his official release thread. Be sure to spread the word and digg this!
After much work over the past few days, we finally succeeded - we have an easy-to-use
downgrader for v3.03 PSPs!
Some ground-rules:
This downgrader is for v3.03 firmware only. But
if you have v2.81 - v3.02, no problem - you can just upgrade
to v3.03 to use the downgrader.
You need a copy of the unpatched GTA:Liberty City Stories UMD.
No ISOs, no patched UMDs, not Vice City Stories. See here for
some info on how to check if your version is patched. The most reliable way : the unpatched
disks have the v2.0 firmware update on them.
This downgrader is intended to enable homebrew. Homebrew is NOT the same as piracy.
Don't be a thieving loser - buy the games you play.
The downgrader will work on all current PSP hardware (TA-079 - TA-086). Patching of
TA-082+ is automatic in the downgrader.
You downgrade at your own risk. There is always a chance of bricking,
although we have done everything we can think of to make this process safe.
Full instructions for downgrading are included in the Downgrader_HOWTO.txt file in the
ZIP file. Read them carefully! You will need:
Enjoy! You can get support for any problems at the PSPUpdates forum.
Remember to check out the PSP Homebrew Database for information on
homebrew that can be run on your newly-downgraded PSP!
Warning:
After downgrading from 3.03 to 1.5, there are some remnants of 3.03 left in flash.
If you later try to re-upgrade to 3.03 and repeat the downgrade, things will break.
At some later point, we will work on a cleaner that will remove these extra files. Until then, enjoy! (Don't worry,
upgrading to 3.03 OE firmwares still works fine).
We've seen plenty of Wii hacks since its November release, and we've even seen a completely uninspiring "hack" to run backup discs, but this time, we're thinking it's for real. The Wiinja modchip is on the loose, and apparently it requires soldering to the Wii innards in order to function, but it purportedly allows for Wii and GameCube
backups to be played back on the console. Unfortunately, there's not a
whole lot of information beyond that, and there's just a single photo
to instruct forthcoming owners how to correctly attach it, but if
there's one thing that helps its case, it's the video. So go on, click
on through for the YouTube demonstration, and start saving up those €40
($52) it'll run you when this hits "commercialization."
After just a few days since the release of Sony's latest PSP firmware update, it has already been cracked and is now being emulated on PSPs with older firmware versions.
There are no news yet regarding the Playstation 1 emulator
compatibility with this method, but even if there is, I doubt Sony will
allow people to purchase and play games on 3.01 PSPs for very long.
It's a never ending battle, instead of what could have been a long
and prosperous relationship. People like to have homebrew software in
their consoles, but they also enjoy great (and fun) games, and right
now, if you buy a PSP, it doesn't deliver much of those two.
After the disapointing PS1 Emulator release by Sony which requires you to have a PS3 heres some better news.
Tonight Finally is the release time of PS1P the PlayStation Emulator for the PSP - AN Exclusive for the PSP News site at DCEmu.
Its been a long wait but our friend Anonymous Coder has now agreed to
release the first Alpha of his Playstation Emulator for the PSP.
This release was to be a Single Game release but AC
contacted me today and changed his mind so thats great for you all,
heres what he emailed me
The wait is worth it. I'm releasing a version that will run anything. ISO, BIN, Z and ZNX
The rest you know. scph1001.bin and images in the __SCE__ps1p directory
This version has some compatibility problems which I plan to fix soon,
for example the FF7 intro movie doesn't run. You can play the game
though, just get past the intro using a standard PC emulator (PCSX,
ePSXe, ...) and copy over the memory card file ( mcd001.mcr or
mcd002.mcr).
Use L+R+ up/down to tweak the CPU timing.
I think L2 and R2 aren't working at the moment too.
--A.C.
P.S.: to make things clear. This emulator has nothing to do with PCSX,
psx4all or any other emulator already released. The only thing I did
was use for the game selection screen, the same font code that psx4all
uses--it's from some GP2X demo/app.
The PSP 'scene' is having some of its best times lately, what with the recent deluge of downgraders, and one of the most awesome pieces of homebrew, Devhook. And guess what? Booster has just raised the bar with his latest incarnation of Devhook. Apparently, the latest release supports 2.71 reboot. Or in other words, 2.71 Emulation! Now that we're caught up, the ball is in Sony's court!
Here's a small guide on how to get it running:
Download Devhook 0.44 and put everything on the memory stick as usual.
Open the EBOOT.PBP with PBP Unpacker or similar and extract the DATA.PSAR file.
Put the DATA.PSAR in the root of the memory stick. (Not in any folder)
Run the included Devhook installer on the PSP (install flash0 and flash1).
Extract
Devhook 0.44 again and overwrite everything in the dh folder (its going
to be a couple of .txt which include the path for the prx's)
Use the 2.71 Decrypter to obtain your own copy of a decrypted reboot.bin file, or make use of Google to find one online
Place reboot.bin in ms0:dh1reboot.bin
Note: You'll need the decrypted Flash1 files from 2.60 Firmware! (reboot.bin, system.ireg and system.dreg)
Now you can enjoy all that the latest PSP firmware has to offer on your 1.50 PSP - including the flash-enabled PSP Web Browser! Want the rest of the world to know about one of the greatest PSP conquests yet? Be sure to Digg it!
Recently we reported the the breaking news that Kernel mode in 2.5 and
2.6 had been unlocked by hitchhikr of “hitchhikr SoftWorks” and demo
scene group Neural via The Edge. This was a incredible accomplishment that was previously thought impossible. Fanjita and many other members of the PSP homebrew community have come together and been testing the functionality of the proposed exploit.
Using
the tools and methods that have been released, we have compiled a
"Downgrader Guide" for those of you with a PSP with Firmware of 2.5 or
2.6 who would like to downgrade to 1.50.
Materials need:
2.50/2.60 PSP -NOTE: IT CANNOT BE A TA-082 PSP, TA-082 refers to the motherboard, here's an easy way to check.
If you own a PSP then I'm sure that by now you've heard something about the ability to run 'arbitrary code' (a.k.a. homebrew) on ANY version of the PSP's firmware. This article is to help those of you who haven't yet done so and wish to. When I started to play around with homebrew on my version 2.6 PSP I found that a lot of readme files were corrupt, incorrect, not in English or simply non-existent.
Although this tutorial describes how to get a SNES emulator running on PSP it can also be applied to running most homebrew.
Requirements:
You'll need a copy of the great game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and a PSP running firmware 2.01 or higher. (Note: PSPs with version 2.0 can also run homebrew using a different method than described in this article however, I suggest that if you have a version 2 PSP you find a reliable copy of the MPH downgrader and enjoy a version 1.5 PSP)
Download Illuminati exploit