PSP-3000 finally screams 'Hello World,' homebrew to assuredly follow
By Ross Miller 
posted Jan 5th 2009 10:21PM
posted Jan 5th 2009 10:21PM
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hacking a psp3000? MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!
Madness?
Madness?? This...is...Spartaaaaa!! (sorry, tried but couldn't resist).
wait what?? it was hacked because some1 changed a file name to this is spartaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
Did anybody else count?
Not a filename, I think, but basically yes. It's called a buffer overrun exploit.
@cheater912: Absolutely.
It's very similar to the Twilight Hack for the Wii. In that hack the horse's name in the save file is overwritten with one that is too long.. the game never checks to see if the name is too long and loads it into memory, overwriting things in memory it shouldn't in a way the hacker planned to allow for code execution, basically*. Sounds like this is the same type of hack.
* - The idea is to overwrite a specific pointer in memory that determines where to return after a function call. Overwrite it to point to somewhere else... say, somewhere else in that big name we just loaded into memory... and once the function returns it'll jump into the big name and treat it as program code instead of a name, so if we put code in there it'll run!
That's how I understand it at least, though I left off the technical terms.
why is this even news...
Because this is a Tech website, and the PSP happens to have a decent appeal to homebrewers, who are interested in technology, who happen to visit this site?
And oh yea, ITS A GADGET
Because the PSP-3000 has a new motherboard and, up until this point, has frustrated custom firmware developers as appearing "unhackabale." Of course everything is eventually, but people have been working steadily at it with no success until this.
While this is awesome, does anyone still play their psp a lot? i don't....
I recently picked mine up again and started going through a few games. Disgaea especially is one I'm really enjoying, and I missed out on the original for PS2. Most of the games aren't very conducive to portable gaming, though, so I can see why most people make comments like yours. I mostly use it when the gf has taken over the TV to watch the food network all night.
I was just playing Jeanne D'Arc at lunch.
its kinda scary for me, even thou i havent made up my mind about up grading to a DSi, im scared if i do homebrew isnt going to work. I mean there already working for solutions, but i hope its just as simple as a firmware update for me, cuz if it aint im not buying, and second when the DS2 comes out, it'll sucks cuz then ill have to spend the money i aint got to buy games
holy crap....you can install 1.52. Hmmmm....time for a new psp. I use my psp daily, I play games and watch video, listen to music. It's not just for games you know.
I think you misread.
And this from the article...
FAQ
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Q: Will this allow downgrading?
A: No, because this is an usermode exploit and functions required to downgrade are
only available in kernel mode.
I'm thinking someone should take a look at Ratchet and Clank, see if it has similar issues in regards to buffer overrun protection. It's distributed with the vast majority of 3000s, which would be very convenient.
How the HELL do you find a glitch like that?
Directing your attention to Wiki...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow
You try, really hard
The rest is plain damn luck, GTA: LCS, Lumines 2, now Gripshift, its a wonder that they found these glitches amongst the hundreds of games on the psp.
Yesss, I can now play Genesis games on a screen with terrible interlacing problems!
ahhhhh fond memories of custom firmware on my psp
even back when the GTA exploit was found in 2.0
good times
What a waste of time to hacking a psp is. Its almost a dead system. Only four games came out this Christmas season. The online store suck, it sure not the apple store. The sony store even charge tax on a movie I rented. Hacking the psp is destoring whats left of it.
@ Juan
I agree completely. The system is dead and homebrew killed it.
Actually, hacking the psp gave it life. Obviously this comes from a person who has never tried a hacked psp.
A bit of history for you:
-The first internet browser for the psp was with a hacked Fired Up game. (pre 2.0 FW)
-480x272 (AVI or MP4) playback, way before 3.0 FW was out.
-GPS before it was officially available (though you needed some soldering skills)
-a Java Virtual Machine
-Playback on TV before it was officially supported (PSP-2000), though Sony did it better
-A crude PS one emulator (though Sony did come out with a better, stabler version)
-As a universal remote (yay for us PSP-1000 users!)
-And anything else that could be coded in C running on a 333MHz MIPS proc with 32MB of RAM.
With such an active software development community, I don't see it becoming dead in the next few years.
@rnieto
I own a hacked PSP. I won't lie, I'm part of the problem. I say the homebrew community killed the PSP because from a developers standpoint, I would never put my time and effort into a product that will so easily be pirated. Game development, just like all software development, is a long and tedious undertaking.
It simply isn't worth developing for the PSP anymore.
@Danny
Holy hell, the homebrew = piracy = no sales argument again. So you're telling me that people should stop making games for the X360, PS2, PC and Wii because it could be so easily pirated?
What about the DS?
The DS is also hacked to high-heaven, but it sells. It sells really well. Nintendo just was able to capitalize on the casual gamers, the ones that are immediately sold on the cute factor, coupled in with a simple yet solid gameplay.
I like my psp for 'some' of the games which would never be available on the DS, or the games that would look even crappier on the DS. In example, the psp has God of War, Crisis Core, etc, games that are good to be played once, but have very little replay value. The DS has Nintendogs among other games, with the cute graphics, simple gameplay, and highly replayability, why shouldn't it sell?
Blaming piracy for not developing good games is BS at its best. The 4 platforms I listed above proves that you could earn a lot of money even with the rampant piracy, if there are enough good games.
Homebrew doesn't kill a platform, poor games do.
Can that run iso's is the question?
your mom killed it. homebrew is the only reason to use the psp.
It's a useless hack.
Thx Man
I've been waiting for it to be hacked
Props to U
I got my first psp (3000) a month ago and I've been loving it, got a good set of games, my friend showed me his hacked 1000 with snes emulator and good old roms on it and that just wetted my appetite to be able to hack my 3000, I buy all the games I have, including the ones from the playstation store, I'm interested to see what kind of unofficial stuff I can do on my 3000 now...
Oh hey, thanks for mentioning my involvement.
Huh? You didn't?
sigh.
Yeah, fail.
We wouldn't have the hello world without FreePlay, thank him.
can we play iso/cso in psp3000?
after hacking with gripshift....
from where i got that save file for gripshift for uk version....
as i hav the uk version of gripshift
please reply me
dying to know answer...
so help me out
can we play iso/cso in psp3000?
after hacking with gripshift....
from where i got that save file for gripshift for uk version....
as i hav the uk version of gripshift
please reply me
dying to know answer...
so help me out
Hey, think of the unhackable thing this way....Back when 3.30 firmware came out they made a hack to downgrade it....after that, they thought it wuz unhackable....but after a couple of months they made the pandoras battery...and now...after so long..the pandoras battery wont work...so now that the almighty pandoras battery dont work, people start saying its unhackable again..it may be unhackable, but i'd wait a while to find out
So, it's basically like the Wii Twilight Hack.
So does this mean I can already play download games using the said SDk and downgrader? please reply. Does this mean everyone can now buy PSP3000 and dump their PSP2000?