When will hackers start?

[shadowprophet]

There are a few points to be made here. First, it IS possible to have un-crackable security for the PSP. All they would have to do is make it impossible to boot code from the memory stick or usb. THEN you'd have to do some crazy things like use some random game, but if they do it properly it would be possible to simply not allow it at all.

The second thing is that, yes homebrew firmware/bios IS possible, but would require horribly intimate knowledge of hardware and all it's functions. If someone hacked the firmware and modified it (which hasn't been happening) then that would simply be illegal. So far no firmware for the psp has been cracked or hacked, the only thing that has been done is workarounds made to work with the firmware as it already exists on the system (to my knowledge). The main obstacle is finding out how sony does the security on the updates, which would require something along the lines of monitoring data transfer during the update routine and analyzing it. The problem with this is that unlike most things, if data is corrupted or fails to be passed correctly here, it could result in a useless psp.

The best BEST way to do this would be to take the psp firmware, modify it, then pull the chip that holds the firmware inside the psp and replace it with a flash rom. When you have done that you upload your custom bios that has different debugging features and go to initiate an update and track how the update occurs. An alternative would be to try to use the firmware chip already inside the psp, because it would already have to be of the flash variety to be able to update, but there is a chance there is some sort of hardware protection on it against such a thing.

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yea, that's it.

Snizzle this man knows his stuff

[captainstingray]

PSP firmware version 2.0 has a web browser with JAVA from what I have read. I have also heard that you can use the web browser to read txt files and such off of the memory stick. Why doesn't someone just make a java program that you can put on the memory stick that you can access through the web browser that acts as a gui for the user. You could then just get into the java program through your web browser favorites and run whatever programs you like through the java gui.

[IndianCheese]

Does anyone know is dev teams have started working on the PSP 2.0 yet, or can I slump into a depression?

[Cap'n 1time]

it was being worked on since day one by lots of people. check out ps2dev.org for some more info on that subject.

[IndianCheese]

it was being worked on since day one by lots of people. check out ps2dev.org for some more info on that subject.

omfg i am bookmarking that site thankyouthankyouthankyou

[shadow77]

The only real reason to upgrade to 2.0 is to play future games, there's no reason at all to upgrade for the web browser, media features etc.. all that can be done through homebrew apps.

If you really want to run homebrew and play games the best advice is to just get a second PSP. A modchip for PSP seems like the solution but its not, even with a modchip you will have to upgrade the firmware to load the new functions for games, and when you are updating the firmware Sony could dectect your modchip thus not allowing you to upgrade.

I'm sure exploits will be found later on - maybe through a UMD game similar to how you could softmod the Xbox through the Splinter Cell exploit, but its not going to be like what we have in 1.0 and 1.5 which is basically drag and drop.

[IndianCheese]

I'm sure exploits will be found later on - maybe through a UMD game similar to how you could softmod the Xbox through the Splinter Cell exploit, but its not going to be like what we have in 1.0 and 1.5 which is basically drag and drop.

What splinter cell exploit???????? tell me!

[shadow77]

What splinter cell exploit???????? tell me!

Check out http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=215055

Look under "The Gamesave Exploits", three games can be used for the exploit - 007 AUF, Mech Assault, and Splinter Cell.

Personally I've never tried it, so be careful. It's much easier to do a hardware mod with the Xbox (imo) you could always contact a professional modder if you don't want to do it yourself. There are also many non-solder modchip options for the Xbox.