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PS3 Finally Hacked!
サーバ: Fairy
Game: FFXI
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By Fairy.Spiriel 2010-01-26 16:14:28
Asura.Artemicion said: I recall there being a "hack" or "mod" to the PSP that allowed you to play virtually any PS1 ROM that was loaded on your memory chip. Did Sony bitchslap everyone with new firmware that restricts the usage if changed? Not quite as simple to do as you stated, nor as reliable. Some games worked better under different firmware than others.
But every single firmware released since then made it progressively harder and harder to hack. It took almost half a year before a custom 5.5 firmware was released, iirc. A number of publishers have also stated that pirates make it "not financially feasible" to develop for the PSP.
 Midgardsormr.Sammitch
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By Midgardsormr.Sammitch 2010-01-26 20:13:08
Remora.Dubont said: With linux installed on the system, the PS3 has the capability to run 360 games which is a feature that is very key in the console war debate bs uh, what?
I'm very interested in the solution you propose to run DirectX-only games on an openGL-based console without having so much overhead as to render the game unplayable.
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Ramuh.Krizz said: Asura.Artemicion said: So in other words, new PSPs can't be modified to run emulators? Correct. Inaccurate. The new PSP GOs have not been cracked [because no one buys them], but as far as I know the slim was cracked, and the regular fat PSPs have been regularly cracked with each firmware upgrade.
To whoever said you can't crack past 1.50, I just dug out my PSP that I had updated awhile ago which is running cracked 5.00 firmware.
The method, as far as I can remember, is you grab a game like Lumines or GTA that has a weakness in the save files, load a cracked file onto your memory stick, and follow the steps to downgrade to 1.0 [or 1.5] firmware, and then upgrade to various cracked firmwares after that. The more recent versions can update themselves when a new firmware crack is available.
Alternately you can buy or make a special battery for the PSP that makes it boot into service mode where you can load anything you want, taking the bad games out of the equation. It's called a Pandora Battery.
 Ramuh.Krizz
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By Ramuh.Krizz 2010-01-26 22:49:47
Midgardsormr.Sammitch said: To whoever said you can't crack past 1.50, I just dug out my PSP that I had updated awhile ago which is running cracked 5.00 firmware.
The method, as far as I can remember, is you grab a game like Lumines or GTA that has a weakness in the save files, load a cracked file onto your memory stick, and follow the steps to downgrade to 1.0 [or 1.5] firmware, and then upgrade to various cracked firmwares after that. The more recent versions can update themselves when a new firmware crack is available.
To me downgrading firmware isn't the same as cracking it. It's like saying you cracked Nero 10 when you just installed Nero 7 that was already cracked.
Midgardsormr.Sammitch
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By Midgardsormr.Sammitch 2010-01-26 23:15:05
I will simplify since you don't seem to get it.
1. You get a PSP with 3.0+ official, 'uncrackable' FW.
2. You downgrade to the very crackable 1.0
3. You upgrade to the cracked current firmware, 5.X M33 and play any game you want.
As an added note, Sony added the ability to play PS1 games, so you don't even have to crack the PSP. [as best as I can remember] You just download the games, or rip your own ISOs through a converter. [the name of which escapes me]
Caitsith.Neonracer
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By Caitsith.Neonracer 2010-01-27 00:02:38
Reminds me that the time ppl have been cracking the Nin roms and the old times, the 'actual' arcade roms.
I think though with M.A.M.E or Multi arcade machine Emulator, ppl found a way to get readers from radioshack or these cpu places, and b4 Arcades became absolete, they took the old wooden boxes broke them down and just infiltrated the system hardware.
There was going to be a time that the 80's arcade would die, they just wanted a way to perserve them.
So this hacker is just trying to find way to "perserve" his ps2..
IDK, still too new to me, but give it a decade or 2, then yea, Hack the ***outa the ps2, but your to early pal, give it some time.
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By Gilgamesh.Cardinalgate 2010-01-27 00:48:22
lol he has great power
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By Asura.Ryanryu 2010-01-27 07:49:01
i have a friend hu put a chip directly onto the motherboard of his PS3 which allowed him to download games 4 free, psp can be hack easily as well.
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Ramuh.Krizz
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By Ramuh.Krizz 2010-01-27 08:07:37
Midgardsormr.Sammitch said: I will simplify since you don't seem to get it.
1. You get a PSP with 3.0 official, 'uncrackable' FW.
2. You downgrade to the very crackable 1.0
3. You upgrade to the cracked current firmware, 5.X M33 and play any game you want.
As an added note, Sony added the ability to play PS1 games, so you don't even have to crack the PSP. [as best as I can remember] You just download the games, or rip your own ISOs through a converter. [the name of which escapes me] No, I got it. I just don't think it deserves as much credit as it gets. If the current firmware is cracked to begin with, why the downgrade? It tells me that it's halfassed at best. Considering the failures of the crack that I've heard, I'd say that's a fair assesment.
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By Asura.Bismuth 2010-01-27 09:40:26
It's downgraded because patching CFW takes advantage of security holes that were patched in future versions. While I'm sure they could look for ways to patch newer firmwares, it's a wasted effort that could be used towards something like developing a new firmware.
www.theregister.co.uk said:
Once impenetrable PS3 cracked wide open
iPhone hacker: 'I have great power'
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
Posted in Security, 25th January 2010 19:51 GMT
The first hacker to successfully jailbreak the iPhone says he has pulled off yet another modding marvel, this time penetrating the previously impervious PlayStation 3 gaming console.
The hack by 20-year-old George Hotz, aka geohot, is significant because the PS3 was the only game console that hadn't been hacked, despite being on the market for more than three years. The feat greatly expands the functionality of the box by allowing it to run unrestricted versions of Linux and a wide range of games that are currently forbidden. The hardware and software designer told El Reg it took him five weeks to develop the hack using a combination of modifications to the console's hardware and software.
"Basically, I used hardware to open a small hole and then used software to make the hole the size of the system to get full read/write access," he said in an interview. "Right now, although the system is broken, I have great power. I can make they system do whatever I want."
The first three weeks were spent trying attacks to directly access memory of the console. He eventually settled on his current approach after realizing software approaches alone were insufficient.
A dropout of the Rochester Institute of Technology, geohot said he is declining to provide details to prevent Sony from introducing changes that would stymie the modifications. But a blog post announcing the accomplishment makes clear the hack gives users unprecedented control over their systems.
"I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor," geohot wrote. "In other words, I have hacked the PS3."
The hack will allow PS3 users for the first time to run unrestricted versions of Linux that have full access to the system's central processing unit and graphical processing unit. That will greatly expand the kinds of things users can do with the console. For starters, they could use the mod to run emulators that will play PS2 games on the machine, something Sony strictly forbids. It could also allow programs like the VLC media player to run much more robustly. The hack also opens the door to pirated games on the console, although geohot said that's an activity he's not interested in pursuing.
Geohot said he doesn't plan to release the software used to unlock the box until he can make it more reliable. It currently takes about 15 minutes to run and frequently fails to work properly. "If I posted what I have now, people would get fed up with it," he said.
He praised the PS3 as a "pretty secure system," that was harder to hack than many hardware systems he has penetrated.
"One of the main things Sony did right was put all the security on at once," he explained. "From day 1, the PS3 was secure."
Well this is so nice! ^^b
Edit: Another link from the news (BBC)
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