Firmware 2.80 - Flash0 Writing Confirmed!

In the wake of the recent PSX-P emulator release, Kando has been running around like a chicken in an IRC channel, uncovering (and confirming) some new information. This new information comes a few days after Fanjita's new eLoader (v0.995) and xLoader, and you guessed it, it uses the new eLoader to accomplish its feat! This feat is none other than the writing to Flash0 on your PSP. As of right now, custom gameboots have been flashed to a 2.80 PSP using xLoader (custom gameboots are illegally made, so please do not distribute them here).

Kando used a certain program (which we will not reveal for the safety of our readers, bricking is highly possible) to read and write files to the Flash0 on his PSP! With flash0 access, the first thing that was tested was the gameboots, and it succeeded without any hiccups! You can watch a video of the custom gameboot below -

So, now that we have this acccess, what can we do? With flash0 access, a user can create, and use custom gameboots, fonts, backgrounds and remove the signature wavy-thing on the PSP's XMB. As I am writing this article, several users (Freeplay, Jordan, Kando, NOPx86, vb_master, etc) are all discussing this new discovery and what they can potentially accomplish.

i suppose now a downgrader is very very possible!

So, in theory, writing to flash means that users could possibly run homebrew from the XMB with a custom firmware?

Or also, could the 2.80 firmware be more easily dumped for devhook?

Or could we see a new custom firmware from DAX which is like 2.71 SE but 2.80?

Meh, I'd be pleased to see the results of this in time to come.

Cool $#@!.

cool $#@! indeed. This week is gonna' be interesting as hell.
The PSP scene is alive and well!

Well i agree with Tetris999 a downgrader should be possible and should come out soon i also think that Dark Alex will now be checking this thing out as soon as possible and hopefully he can help us.

Alright!!! This is some good news and could be a much needed momentum boost in the scene.

Whether this helps out with a new DevHook, downgrader, or 2.80 SE custom firmware, hopefully this will be the start of a new chapter in PSP homebrew.

it'll be exciting to see what happens

Cool roll on 2.80 SE great work Kando.

unfortunatly its not FULL kernal access, so even though we have read/write/delete rights to flash0, we still dont have IPL access and thus a downgrader is not directly in front of us.

but its one small step for homebrew!

cheers 2.80'ers!

Originally Posted by kando

but its one small step for homebrew!

cheers 2.80'ers!

Any foot in the door is always good and im sure if any exploit or possible path to a downgrader or ways to run custom fw are there you will find it.