
Over the past few weeks, the homebrew community has been working hard on a new exploit in PSP firmware that would allow users of PSPs 2.0+ (including the recently released 2.80) run homebrew without Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. NOPx86, a team of coders, worked to take advantage of a flaw in libtiff. What that means is that the potential for homebrew is here: and it's easy as well. The team released a "Hello World" application as a proof of concept, and you can try it out yourself here. Just extract the image, place it in PSP's PHOTO directory, and then try to view the image. You'll see the homebrew message working, even on a 2.80 PSP!
This is absolutely fantastic, especially because of how incredibly easy this is. Try it out, and who knows what kind of exciting new developments we'll see?
[Thanks PSPFan]
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8-28-2006 @ 1:35AM
Colin said...
This makes me so happy I could cry.
The homebrew ap I want the most? The ability to increase the cache size of the freakin' PSP browser, I'd like PSP fanboy to load properly every so often. Also, it would be great if I could see the link destination of any link I hovered over. AND I'd like a scrollbar on the side of a page, to see how long the page is.
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8-28-2006 @ 1:55AM
tim said...
Can anyone say too good to be true? i have not personally tried this out, and sure the page looks real enough, but i had thought for sure that sony was on top of this, especially after that last "downgrader" that just brikked your psp. kudos to them if this is for reals, but i/m just going to sit here next to my salt shaker a little longer.
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8-28-2006 @ 2:29AM
FiredCylinder said...
I just tried this and it seems to work great. Lets hope someone makes something that's actually useful with this.
Also, how do you make it quit? I had to remove the battery to get it to stop.
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8-28-2006 @ 3:29AM
Dave said...
Yup, it works. Just watch out, as it will load as soon as you select the photo menu on your PSP, regardless of whether or not you click on it. Also, it will "freeze" your PSP for anywhere from 15-60 seconds before it launches Hello World.
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8-28-2006 @ 3:35AM
Shane said...
This is great. I hope some more comes out to exploit this soon. Maybe an eloader?
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8-28-2006 @ 3:52AM
d said...
I had it in a subfolder. It ran as soon as the subfolder was seleced. I just held down the power to turn it off. It executed immediately, and I have the absolute latest firmware.
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8-28-2006 @ 3:58AM
daniel-kun said...
Unfortunately, this is a bit late. The PSone-Emulator will be out in the next months. IMHO it would've been smarter to hide the fact that libtiff is still exploitable and wait for the 3.0 firmware to see if it's still homebrewable with this exploit. Now Sony knows about the ``security hole'' and it'll be easy for them to fix it. If the devs waited with making this public, we might've seen 3.0 homebrew from Day 1.
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8-28-2006 @ 4:04AM
Benjamin said...
http://consoul.blogspot.com/2005/04/unlocking-psps-future.html
Very very interesting article - although I knew it before hand. Take that all you DS Fanboys!
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8-28-2006 @ 4:11AM
alex said...
thats a lot of PSPs...and cool covers.
im not big on homebrew, but this looks cool anyways
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8-28-2006 @ 6:47AM
Swish said...
I tryed this on my 2.8 PSP the first time it worked the second and third time the PSP froze the fourth time the PSP shut off automatically the fifth time it worked again.........needs some work never the less this is amazing. The steps to this remind me of the downgrader that bricked your PSP plus they both had hello world text.
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8-28-2006 @ 7:53AM
Sloberg said...
Im so happy, Love these guys :D
Thanks to NOPx86, psp250, Skylark, Joek2100, CSwindle, JimP, Fanjita, Ditlew, HarleyG =)
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8-28-2006 @ 1:32PM
mandarin said...
So basically you're looking at a picture of a hello world process... Ok I see I need to go to dsfanboy just to get REAL HOMEBREW.
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8-28-2006 @ 2:25PM
new wit homebrew said...
ok i just downloaded homebrew for my psp the 2.80 ok i got it to work when u look thru ur pics then it shows up well i just want to no were are u going to put the games and will it be as easy as it was to install homebrew 2.80 thanks ... eric
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8-28-2006 @ 2:28PM
new wit homebrew said...
ok i put home brew 280 on my psp it works got it all set up just wondering will puting the games or whatever on your psp be as easy as installing it was
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8-28-2006 @ 2:39PM
pixelator said...
@13: It's simply showing that they've cracked it. A downgrader will follow shortly. If you think this is the extent of PSP homebrew or that DS is the one with 'real' homebrew, more's the pity.
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8-28-2006 @ 7:38PM
ZipperSeven said...
It's a proof of concept. You can't use it with homebrew *yet*
Give it a little while, I'm sure that coders are hard at work...if you want to help, support a developer.
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8-28-2006 @ 10:34PM
swybs said...
If someone, when the homebrew software becomes available (specifically ISO loader and homebrew access), wants to walk me through this, I would be willing to paypal them some dough. I am pretty much familiar with all of the lingo, have read the information guides, etc, but just need a knowledge filled individual who is willing to help me out. Again, I can do paypal or another form of payment (and I will pay by the hour or so, 50$ or so an hour)...let me know-- [email protected]
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8-28-2006 @ 10:38PM
JBONL said...
So what does this do/mean exactly? After downloading it should i be able to download hombrew?
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8-29-2006 @ 1:32AM
FiredCylinder said...
#19: No, it's just proof that they have found a new way to run code on a PSP. New code needs to be written to take advantage of this exploit.
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8-30-2006 @ 12:40PM
new wit homebrew eric said...
so that pic thing is not home brew its just some thing like look what we did but will p uting the home brew on your psp be as easy welll any 1 want to help me understand this and answer some of my Qs my e-mail is getingkindaold at yahoo dot com thanks
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