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Hello World on Firmware 2.01 and 2.50!

greg | December 12, 2005

psp3d are reporting on successfully running unsigned code on firmware versions 2.01 and 2.50 via the hacked save game file for GTA:LCS released by Edison Carter. This is a huge breakthrough for 2.01/2.50 firmware users!

Hello World for 2.01/2.5 PSPs has now been released by Fanjita. Using Edison Carter’s GTA cheat machine, Fanjita has successfully found a way to load custom code on firmwares 2.XX of the PSP, through a savegame exploit/glitch in GTA.

This program he has compiled successfully demonstrates how to run the Hello World homebrew application on 2.01/2.5 PSPs (which prooves external code launching on 2.XX). In the future, expect things such as an EBOOT loader and more soon!

Quoted by Fanjita, “This Hello World demonstrates the proof of concept that this can be used to run applications, and provides an easier platform for other people to work with - not to mention, a platform for me to get the EBOOT loader working on top of.”

Note that you will need a copy of GTA: LCS in order for you to run this hack! So go out and buy your copy today (heh, Sony should be seeing a lot of profits).

For installation steps, check out the readme.

Big ups to Fanjita on this hack, and extended credits to Jim Paris, psp123, EdisonCarter, abu, toc2rta, groepaz and bitmap1 for their contributions. Great job!

Download Hello World for 2.01/2.50!

Thanks to everyone for the emails. And keep up the great work! :)

Now go buy GTA:LCS - it’s the shit anyway!

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120 Comments »

Comment by Coldbug
2005-12-12 12:10:27

wow. This is very promising.

 
Comment by Administrator
2005-12-12 12:15:41

yes very! I would expect a downgrader soon. Hopefully one won’t be needed though.

 
Comment by Monocraft
2005-12-12 12:42:36

Who cares bout new downgrade. Maybe we will finaly have an opportunity to run ISOs from our memory sticks!

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 12:52:25

yeah this is good news, Hello world only tho, why post it if there is no real application running on v2.XX

and if we can get a EBOOT running in GTA save file we could some how exploit it like the old overflow.tif so that you dont even need a copy of GTA:LCS to load a save file, there must be a way to something like this in the existing firmware like a hack to exicute the contents of a save file and run under the v2.XX, if it can be done in gave surely it would apply to out of game say in a tamperd EBOOT v2.6 firmware and if we can finally get a compiled custom firmware, we could launch via gta:lcs and wham boom psp hacked wide open after al sony cant upgrad to new psp to a higher firmware that wont run there own games, so would allways have a way to modify files, so we could be a step closer to sticking one finger up to those pen pushers at sony HQ

 
Comment by Logicalx
2005-12-12 12:57:27

Iso’s On 2.0 Here We Come *hopes* great breakthrough keep up the good work guys !!!!!!!

 
Comment by Shearstone
2005-12-12 13:03:25

ISO’s on 2.00 nope sorry runs in user mode and is even more restricted than the tiff exploit even a downgrader seems impossible atm

 
Comment by HA_HA
2005-12-12 13:05:43

This was on pspupdates way before it arrived here…

 
Comment by Mjollnir
2005-12-12 13:09:56

Still is nice to see.. i hope it all goes well.. but its probably possible with many games

 
Comment by Sheru
2005-12-12 13:11:41

Fanjita should wait on the exploit on 3.0 firmware. This will be more usefull as we are eventually goign to ahve to crack it than….jsut wait so sony doesnt fix it.

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 13:27:29

why wait untill v3.00 the same will happen plus all the good games now run under v2.00 so most people are sorted untill gat: VCS or some shit port/ripoff

 
Comment by Pebbles
2005-12-12 13:40:20

So, can anyone confirm that it writes in Kennel mode? So isos can be possible?

I know what I have to get for Christmas! =D

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 14:02:12

lol santa brings you GTA lol poor guy can’t afford to buy his own copy, oh did i say santa is your mum and dad ooooopppps sorry little kiddys

 
Comment by bob
2005-12-12 14:49:03

so i can play gta on my psp without the original UMD???

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 14:53:47

nope it dont work on 2.6 because edisons cheat save file dont work on 2.6 what cant people understand about that ! dont workmon 2.6 do off and spamm someother thread

 
Comment by pimpi
2005-12-12 14:54:31

fuck

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 14:55:47

blollock he beat me to it piped to the post by a nood shame on me

 
Comment by Monkey
2005-12-12 14:56:34

??? so can i still run my fastloader and device hook

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 14:57:59

if your fastloader works on v2.00 yes if not no noy untill someone works out how to run them under 2.oo via this hello world method

 
Comment by Monkey
2005-12-12 15:00:06

wot the heck does this program do?

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 15:01:01

all it does is load hello world in the gta game insteda of the gta cheat device carter created and thats all

 
Comment by Monkey
2005-12-12 15:01:43

ohh ok that nothing amazing but thanks for the reply

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 15:03:10

no problemo im here to help untill when i get bord :D lol

 
Comment by Anthony
2005-12-12 15:10:41

@bob
no…

@Monkey
Its a demonstration. If you dont know what it does, then its useless to you. Trust me…

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 15:11:52

yeah you can’t play hello world so why do they even bother with it these days ?
apart from sturring up noobs who ask toomany questions

 
Comment by Anthony
2005-12-12 15:21:24

I wonder what edisons technique for the savegame editing is?

He may be able to do it for other games for lamers who dont like GTA (yes i know a few!!!)

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 15:24:43

yeah i hear what your saying dude, GTA does get a bit lame after you have played every single installment since it was released back on ye old psone.

a mod file for socom would be good or maby wipeout, the list goes on, hey quick thaught does the cheat thing work on multiplayer gta ? if you saved the file into you network settings ? any one know

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 15:25:48

ha a Wall hack for socom would be good, just like the old opengl CS hacks :D:D:D:D:D

 
Comment by Anthony
2005-12-12 15:30:45

nope it dosnt work on multiplayer. i tried it. when you through the multiplayer menu it just puts you back to the start of the menu. so you cant actually get into multiplayer

 
Comment by Anthony
2005-12-12 15:36:36

NOTE:

the traditional downgrader changes the version number to 1.00 so you can install 1.50 over 2.00

This technique will not be possible on 2.01+.
From what i know, it is encrypted and i have heard rumours that the location of the version number is different (possibly incorperated into a system file).

 
Comment by BigTeebo
2005-12-12 15:41:55

It’s things like this make me want to wander back to simpler times of the Atari 2600. The atari 2600 did not boast about polgyons per second, firmware updates, region lockouts, imported vs. local games, and rabid 14 year olds bragging about who has the best sytem.

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 15:45:25

my psp is better than yours, bet you cant use yours as a door stop or a tea coaster :P firmware that

 
Comment by Poop
2005-12-12 16:02:53

WORKS ON 2.60, god do you people even try. On 2.50/2.60 it only works some of the time. Next time dont get news from faggy psp3d, get it from pspupdates!

 
Comment by PSP3D
2005-12-12 16:03:55

OK, let’s steal another idea now!

 
Comment by -=|Lotje|=-
2005-12-12 16:06:30

steal who’s idea when why who? i dunno i think #33 wants some fame now lol get your own thread byatch naab

 
Comment by Lordicast
2005-12-12 16:57:59

You fags need to stop hating if your not impressed make your own app. people like you is why there’s war in the middle east and michael jackson touches kids you assholes

 
Comment by Oliver
2005-12-12 17:02:51

#12 HAHA!

 
Comment by Max Lawlor
2005-12-12 17:03:59

Eight year old + Computer = Post #35

 
Comment by Chinaman
2005-12-12 17:22:30

wow so much foul language anyways im just waiting 4 downgrader 4 ver 2.5 4 now ill just play battlefield 2 4 the ps2 it owns like CS ^_^

 
Comment by Tokes
2005-12-12 17:36:26

GOOD JOB FANGITA, but props goes to Edison Carter for this one, without his GTA Hack we would still be twiteling our thumbs! :)

 
Comment by Neil
2005-12-12 18:00:38

okay i put that fanjitagta.rar in my ULUS10041S0 (GTA SAVE) and the cheat device still dont work??

 
Comment by noobsaredumb
2005-12-12 18:12:24

LOL @ THE NOOBS!!!!!!!! this is only proof. Hello world is a program to prove that you can run unsigned code. So this will eventualy lead into something that can load homebrew and maybe even iso loaders.

 
Comment by shadows6282
2005-12-12 18:25:50

quick poll here but would anyonedowngrade if they could run game of their sticks on 2.5???

 
Comment by fg
2005-12-12 19:16:03

finally we r so close 2 that downgrader or evan juss homebrew on 2.50 i can juss taste it…mmmm sweet victory on sony..taste good..kinda lyk chicken

 
Comment by LOL
2005-12-12 19:28:28

Like i will buy this game for this shit. Everytime we will proove we hack it but nobody will put enough effort to have what we have on 1.5 firmware. And sony will always do firmware updates. The real reason is, why the fuck do you update!

P.S. Is this the downgrader???? ROFLMAo!

 
Comment by Kari
2005-12-12 19:33:04

I heard it have been released a downgrader for version 2.01

 
Comment by yesenia
2005-12-12 19:36:39

EVERYONE 2.50 AND 2.01 HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY HACKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PSP-HOMEBREW RULES!!!!! :)

 
Comment by Kari
2005-12-12 19:47:45

not for 2.60??

 
Comment by peeInMyPantz
2005-12-12 19:51:46

sony will run out of GTA when this works.. and they’ll produce patched GTA UMD …

 
Comment by septicmadman
2005-12-12 19:56:49

So if an iso loader was released I could load the iso using gta and play the iso of GTA. Quite the breakthrough…No reason to upgrade except codecs which looks to be coming along, slowly albeit, but coming salong nonetheless.

 
Comment by Kari
2005-12-12 20:04:56

Lol, sony got owned!
Downgrader for version 2.01
http://www.uploda.org/file/uporg259696.zip.html

One guy said this works..but use at own risk

 
Comment by fgfg
2005-12-12 20:47:28

it doesnt work

 
Comment by fgfg
2005-12-12 20:51:42

the 2.01 downgrader that is

 
Comment by dalenkwint
2005-12-12 20:57:25

^thank you #47, one of the the only intelligent and sensible posts I have read in this thread. Again, thanks!

This find is amazing. Who the fuck is Edison Carter and how the fuck does he do this shit that he does!

 
Comment by bob
2005-12-12 21:12:47

edison carter, i fucking love you.

 
Comment by yesenia
2005-12-12 21:26:45

#53 CAMMON DONT BE LIKE THAT……..THERE ARE JUST SOME NOOBS THAT DONT KNOW SHIT THATS WHY WE NEED TO HELP THEM 2 BECOME MORE……..WELL………UH….SMART.YEAH SMART………WE NEED 2 HELP NOOBS 2 BECOME MORE SMART. (if we can)BUT U DO HAVE A POINT #47 WAY 2 GO DUDE!!!!VERY GOOD COMMENT!! (FOR ALL OF U THAT DONT KNOW WHAT THIS IS AND ARE STRUGGALING WITH RAGE AND CONFUSSION,AND FEEL UR ABOUT TO HIT A WALL OR MIGTH JUST BE SURFING AROUND THE WEB THIS IS WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS FOR ALL OF U NOOBS) FIRST OF ALL THIS IS NOT A DOWNGRADER,OR A GAME,OR A LOADER,OR A MOVIE, OR A EMULATER,THIS IS A TEST PROGRAM!! I WILL SAY IT ONE MORE TIME A TEST PROGRAM!!IT IS CALLED (HELLO WRLD GTA)U WONT BE ABLE TO PLAY WITH THIS PROGRAM OR WATCH MOVIE IT IS A TEST PROGRAM!!!IT MEENS HACKERS ARE VERY CLOSE OF HACKING 2.01 AND 2.50 NOT 2.60!!!!U CANNOT RUN THIS IN 2.60!!AGAIN U CANT RUN THIS IS 2.60!!!!THEIR IS NOTHING FOR 2.60!!! (NOW IF U HAVE 2.60 U WILL HAVE 2 DEAL WITH THAT SHIT TILL THEY MAKE HOMEBREW ON IT) WELL I GUESS I MADE IT LOUD AND CLEAR FOR ALL OF U (NOOBS) AND PEOPLE………………………WELL THATS THAT……. :) IF U ARE STILL CONFUSED EMAIL ME AT YESENIA2952@SBCGLOBAL.NET

 
Comment by dalenkwint
2005-12-12 21:33:16

my #53 post is meant for what is currently # 46, in other words:

“^thank you #47, one of the the only intelligent and sensible posts I have read in this thread. Again, thanks!”

is meant for the dude who said

“EVERYONE 2.50 AND 2.01 HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY HACKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PSP-HOMEBREW RULES!!!!! :)”

 
Comment by yesenia
2005-12-12 21:41:08

u meen me i posted #46

 
Comment by dalenkwint
2005-12-12 21:41:40

#49 said
“So if an iso loader was released I could load the iso using gta and play the iso of GTA. Quite the breakthrough…No reason to upgrade except codecs which looks to be coming along, slowly albeit, but coming salong nonetheless. ”

Why dont you try BUYING games? For every person who STEALS a game from the internet or wherever, think of that as contributing to a lack in quality of future games.

And your idea of loading GTA through GTA is retarded. Not that i dont understand what you mean, I’m not that dumb. But you can’t even buy one game? How the fuck did you get a PSP then?

 
Comment by ri1s
2005-12-12 21:54:03

assuming this does lead to an iso loader sony will be very quick to update their new copies of gta that force u to update to 2.6 b4 running it

 
Comment by ri1s
2005-12-12 21:55:10

so on the off chance that this might work itd be a good idea to go buy gta now that rather if it does work and they sold out everywhere and landing upwith their bullsh#t update that ‘requires’ 2.6 and forces u onto it

 
Comment by josh
2005-12-12 22:43:20

i cant get it to run whers the read me at

 
Comment by dudert123
2005-12-12 23:01:26

haha YOU nOObs there is already a 2.5 downgrader

 
Comment by Neil
2005-12-12 23:56:22

Okay lemie get this straight is this program for, so u can USE the Gta Cheat device thats only for 2.01 2.50 work for 2.60? Sorry if it sounds stupid.. Im a beginner.

 
Comment by Khoa
2005-12-13 00:18:35

Hello psp firmware 3.0… features nothing except security updates… *yawn*

 
Comment by DrMadCow
2005-12-13 00:26:45

Well people this might not lead to a downgrade like other ppl posted. But it means there might be homebrew eventually on 2.01+. No ISOs unless someone figured out how to run them on 2.00+ but thats neat for ppl who got a new psp that came with 2.01

 
Comment by maxime
2005-12-13 11:35:27

I AM SORRY GUYS BUD I CANNOT UNDERSTAND IT GOOD, PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THIS IS

 
Comment by g4hit
2005-12-13 12:07:24

haha,that’s a big news for me,and I’ll play more games.
Oh!Does anybody have used it?

 
Comment by LOL
2005-12-13 13:19:02

Lol at 58!!!

you dumbass. how can we steal games from the internet idiot! when we can find something on the internet it means that someone in the world actually bought the game. All hes doing at the end is sharing it with his “friends” :)))) ROFLMAO!

 
Comment by bigred85
2005-12-13 15:08:40

i kinda wondered about the possibilities the cheat device would open up; well i guess now we know, only a matter of time before somebody gets it figured out enough to run homebrew and iso loaders :-D

 
Comment by Gismo
2005-12-13 15:10:18

But has someone load an ISO game with this method¿?

 
Comment by playb0y
2005-12-13 16:17:09

Hey,
I dont understand a jack **** about this new hack, and i guess alot of ppl are with me on this one. Can someone expalin in plain english what you can do with this hack and what you need? Ive got a 2.5 PSP , can i finaly play riped PSP games? Yes, no? Would be really nice if someone could help me out!

 
Comment by playb0y
2005-12-13 16:25:39

Ok, i figured it out now! But why doesnt this work on any other game? For ex. i got Burnout Legend on PSP, cant he somehow change it so it works with all games?

 
Comment by haha
2005-12-13 17:07:52

is shit

 
Comment by Pirez
2005-12-13 17:10:02

seems the new hello word works in other games as well… good work fanjita

 
Comment by PSP tje
2005-12-13 18:05:34

It’s working people. Thanks to Fanjita, great work.

 
Comment by PAK
2005-12-13 18:19:56

Finally some good news. I needed 2.0 for GTA and would rather not downgrade my firmware. I will buy as many good games that are available on UMD, but I want emulators dammit.

 
Comment by Neo
2005-12-13 19:06:07

Guys, what is the dump.bin file for after the hello world thingy has been done? what does it do?/Can you do with it?

the file was 28 mb.

Thanks
PS GReat work done already!!!

 
Comment by djkarlkani
2005-12-13 20:44:28

#78 SO how do you know its a downgrader ?

 
Comment by LOL
2005-12-13 21:18:33

To 69

Lol you idoit by the time(thats if someone actually boter to do it) someone find a way to make iso run from mem stick with firmware 2.XX (thatll be in months) well dozens of updates will be available and like always everyfucking idiot will update and ask for a downgrade or hack anyway. I just cant undertand how people are retarded. What the hell with updating when you fucking want homebrew!?

 
Comment by sicko
2005-12-13 21:18:37

#78 u dickless shit trying to brick pples psp

 
Comment by zzaz3
2005-12-13 21:19:22

forget this hello world, psp3d.com now has TETRIS!!!! the first homebrew for 2.01

 
Comment by No namer
2005-12-13 21:32:25

this post does not concern me but I just gota say something
to #7, this post actually got on this site before the PSPupdate did, so try to get you fact right.

 
Comment by dalenkwint
2005-12-13 23:49:51

Personally I wouldn’t give a rats ass who got what news first, as long as the news gets to me!

 
Comment by whaaaaaa!
2005-12-14 00:05:36

The rewards of each newly hacked FW is only as great as the number of titles requiring said firmware. Right now 2.0 has only a handful.

Why wouldnt SONY just skip the 2.5 requirement on games and move to the 3.0 encryption? Its just a key tied into the firmware right? Jumping the gun with 2.5 hacked will cheapen it’s deserved greatness!

Remember there are most likely yet-to-be-found exploits within the growing list of FW already released.
Being able to downgrade to 1.5, and thus able to upgrade to which ever version you like, is important, so the latecomers to the scene can look into passed errors in code.

LONG LIVE THE DOWNGRADER!!!!!
(any downgrader that is)

 
Comment by lowrider
2005-12-14 01:07:25

haha nerds

 
Comment by SpaXx
2005-12-14 18:20:47

Look #71
When PSP-Hacking started.. People found out, how to use Third-Party-Software.. The first one was this hack, “Hello World”. It is nothing else, just a text saying “Hello World”. But is the first hope to see the 2.01 and the 2.5 FW is beeing hacked. In future it could be that u can use an loader to play ripped games, no question. Only Time can say it. I have also waiten a long time to do it, and them MPH made the best xploit ever.. the DOWNGRADER !

Amen
SpaXx

 
Comment by Matt
2005-12-14 19:55:45

PLZ a ISO loader, PLZ

 
Comment by josh
2005-12-16 03:41:59

wait i left #61 nobody told me there was a 2.5 downgrader someone tell me were to find it

 
Comment by Owned
2005-12-16 09:12:01

This is good. We need to start exploiting Overflows In GAMES not the firmware, They don’t force game updates unlike firmware updates, so the overflow works onto the next firmware and the next ;)

HAHA now sony must find a way to recode games on the newer firmwares to remove the overflow in the game from working ;), that’s hard considering, they will have to look at the code in MIPS Assembly and rewrite code that fixes the problem when the UMD game gets loaded into memory ;)

 
Comment by josh
2005-12-16 15:48:43

is there a 2.5 downgrader or what #62 said there was but if there is how come i cant find it

 
Comment by Bill
2005-12-16 17:37:08

i think #62 just wanted to see how many people would be asking about it. if there really was one, you would be hearing about it on every hack website by now.

 
Comment by josh
2005-12-16 18:57:10