Friday, August 05, 2005

Possible Progress On v2.0 Hacking

- realritzcracker has emailed PSPUpdates with an EBOOT file that apparently gets past the "Corrupt Data" message you get from trying to run homebrew code on a v2.0 firmware PSP. It does not fully run, but at least it is not being flagged as corrupt.
- From the broken English in the ReadMe, it seems to work like this:

- The EBOOT will only work on v2.0 PSPs.
- This firmware will read from a folder called UPDATE and not complain about its contents.
- Any other file is currently reported as corrupt.
- The update has to be set to a version higher that the current firmware version, (i.e. v2.1 which is higher that v2.0.)
- You PSP is not actually being updated.

- While this is interesting news, I hope this is not leading down a dead end where a PSP is trying to update itself with a file that is not a firmware.
- Hopefully though, this is useful for opening up some kind of exploit, such as running memory out of bounds so we can run out own commands or something similar.

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