PSP MAC Address Changer

[Cloudhunter]

I was thinking that too, cause it does edit "Flash0" and anything that writes to that can potentially brick a PSP

Yeah, and editing the idstorage is even more dangerous, even UP users can't easily recover from an idstorage brick.

So my advice to anyone: Only use this if you have a use for it... i.e. new wlan adaptor.

Cloudy

[jak66]

to people that dont know, this patch is permanent and not just an overlay on the system info bit. if it was just an overlay X-flash would display your PSPs orriginal MAC, not the new one, wouldnt it

[F9zDark]

I'd think the PSP would be smart enough to get the WLAN adaptor's mac address on its own. It may just store it so doesn't need to look anymore, but I am willing to bet that anyone installing a new WLAN adaptor (if its even possible) could just do "Restore Default Settings" and have the new mac of the new adaptor show up.

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The MAC address is in the hardware, and physically resides in a place on the network hardware, as is the case with all network hardware. It is my understanding that MAC addresses are unique to every piece of hardware for networking and can never be changed. On first boot, I imagine the PSP gets this MAC address and writes it to flash, which now that file is changed to reflect the new MAC setting. Read above to see what I think would probably restore the original MAC setting (if it doesn't then oh well, but the MAC address on the adaptor cannot be changed at all.

[Shrygue]

to people that dont know, this patch is permanent and not just an overlay on the system info bit. if it was just an overlay X-flash would display your PSPs orriginal MAC, not the new one, wouldnt it

You could still get your official MAC address back if you backed it up previously and reflashed it.

[jak66]

yea i know (i did) but theres bound to be 1 person that wont

[Cloudhunter]

I'd think the PSP would be smart enough to get the WLAN adaptor's mac address on its own. It may just store it so doesn't need to look anymore, but I am willing to bet that anyone installing a new WLAN adaptor (if its even possible) could just do "Restore Default Settings" and have the new mac of the new adaptor show up.

I'm afriad restore default settings only clears the flash1 settings... It doesn't touch the idstorage.

Cloudy

[darn02]

i know tyhis mus realy sound a little blond but... beep breath... whats the mac thing for again

[Shrygue]

The MAC address is the hardware identifer for the wi-fi card in your PSP.

[darn02]

thanks, ive been here a while and never caught on lol, i might just go ye my hair blaond now and complete the process

[cloud_952]

o_O So.. when you actually went out to connect to, say, a router with your PSP, would this be working as a spoofed MAC? I could see maybe some uses for that (such as: you've been blocked from using a router, or a router is enabled for only certain MACs, and thus you could match it up to a trusted computer when connecting). But if not.. this is just incredibly dangerous and terribly useless..