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Hello World for FW 2.00-2.80!
greg | August 28, 2006
And the weekend finale…. drum-roll please… GTA-less “Hello World” on firmware 2.0, 2.01, 2.50, 2.60, 2.70, 2.71, and… 2.80! Yes, you read correctly - all 2.XX firmware! What does this mean? Well, I’ll just quote you the entire readme:
Finally, it’s here! As of today, the world of homebrew is no longer restricted to owners of Grand Theft Auto.
Following the publication of a new proof of concept TIFF vulnerability by NOPx86, a team of PSP developers has been working hard to turn it into an opening for homebrew on the PSP. We’re pleased to announce that the wait is over, with the release of a Hello World demo that runs on all PSP firmwares that are capable of viewing TIFF images!
To install, just unpack this ZIP file to your PSP’s PHOTO folder, and then attempt to view hello_world.tif. Hello World will launch automatically. You may find that occasionally the full screen doesn’t show - this is a known problem, just restart your PSP by holding the power button until it turns off, then open the image again. To quit, hold the power button until the PSP turns off.
So what happens next? This shows that we can run code via this exploit. It won’t be too hard to develop an eLoader that can use this exploit on v2.0 - v2.6. v2.7+ will be harder, due to extra security, but will happen a little later. Kernel mode is unavailable on v2.8, but it is likely that a downgrader is possible on all other firmwares. But then, with the possibility of kernel homebrew running without the need for a game UMD, why would you need to downgrade?
Full credit is given in the Hello World, but repeated here: Thanks to NOPx86 for the initial proof of concept on the x86 processor, and psp250, Skylark, Joek2100, CSwindle, JimP and Fanjita for the PSP work. Thanks also to Ditlew, HarleyG and our families for general support during this work.
’nuff said. My personal thanks to all the developers and people who contributed to achieving this remarkable feat!
Download: Hello World for FW 2.00-2.80
- source: noobz
OMFG!
I would think there would be a lot of comments. This is amazing everyone can enjoy homebrew and not to mention possible downgraders in the works
w00t!!!
this is such a huge step… I never would have imagined
Any one know where I could find the source code to this?
Congratulations all you 2.++ guys
I literally just finished downgrading my friend’s 2.00 to 1.5 when I saw this news posting.
Wow this is sad, the same exploit on 2.00 is usable again? I thought they patched it..
cool
omfg and i just got my psp and thought i’d have to downgrade to 2.xx then 1.5 to get homebrew nice work guy’s
OMFG, amazing. simply amazing.
wow!!!! great man!!! that’s mean i can run ISO? THX guys….to those who r still “muo muo ken jun” ppl, keep goin!!
the download link isnt working could someone pm me the link that works
great news. $ony got served again i guess…
there joking :P
The link works.
has anyone tried it on a TA-082?
works on ta-082 2.5 fw
ive got 2.8, and when i try to get to the icon, it freezes for a bit and then shuts off. Is this supposed to happen?
Wow, literally almost every PSP has the potential of homebrew. Sony’s firmware developers are gonna get now.
And I quote from Jay-Z, “I came, I saw, I conquered…”
That is exactly what NOPx86 and his dev crew has accomplished.
It seems that what ever Sony throws at PSP crackers has will be cracked.
I love being on the side that I’m on.
It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
tight
to #19 Nevermind, 9 was the luck number
KICK… ASS!
now I don’t have to help this little whiny freshman kid downgrade lol
Congrats to all those on firmwares 2.6+ and/or those who don’t have the old gta UMD, and lets not forget to thank those working on the project :P
Yay… freshmen suxxx…. lol…j/k GOOD JOB… I HATE HAVING TO START MY GTA AND WAIT LIKE 3 MINUTES JUST TO LOAD STUFF… Will this also mean that homebrew apps that were availiable for 1.5 only will now be available for 2.6?
HOLY CRAP THIS IS AWESOME!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!
Eat my shorts SONY!!!!!!!
Hurray! I feel a massive downgrader coming on if you know what i mean
WOW congrats to everyone, i’ve been a long time owner of two psp’s both 1.5’s and been going to 2.0 and back over and over im going to 2.7 web browser without DEVhook, wow congrats all you that’ve been waiting and now there is gonna be a lot of developing going on. And of course to all the programmers and dev’s that have worked hard on this project these 2.xx owners cant thankyou enough
GOD dEE Umm SONY IS GETTING STR8 RAPED LATELY
@Ravenmaster
Of course. Kernel mode access for fw 2.0-2.7, as of the proof of concept
OMFG IT FING WORKS THANK THE GODS LOL
Guess this means 2.9 or 3.0 is releasing a little earlier than expected.
I love Sony, but what I wouldn’t give but to hear, if anything, the ruckus that’s going on in the firmware development department…
I kinda hoped this would have been announced after v3.0 was released, since it is most likely that Sony will patch it. Either way, expect v2.81 to be released before then.
@Ravenmaster
Wait, I take that back. Obviously, not all apps that were 1.5 only will be usable for the other firmwares(ie. custom firmwares, X-Flash, etc)
This is awesome! 2.80 really surprised me!
FALCONS PWN
I must say cheers to you guys for all you hard work. You are our front line soldiers in the war of homebrew and open developement. Here you are programming for free just so the public can enjoy homebrew. 3 cheers to you guys. AND HELLOWORLD!!
and freshman suck, junior right herr bitches
this is so gr8
like OMFG! this it like awesome man!
Ok so how do I get homebrew and stuff onto my 2.8 PSP? Im a newb to this stuff so an answer will be appreciated!
Ha, try that on for size sony! (But great! now they are going to remove tiff pictures in the next firmware saying some crack like “removed tiff picture capabilities due to sequrity holes” or something)
great news!!!
Does this work on ta-082 fw 2.6 ?
I echo what was said above about this being released a little too early - it’s obviously now very very unlikely that a similar exploit will work come 3.0 (or even 2.81/2.9), and if Sony had no idea about the security issue, it would have been a bigger hit against them. I’m not saying, however, that this particular work is designed to be something as coarse as a “Fuck Sony”, but they may as well have maximised their gains over two whole firmware releases (1.0 - 3.0, even if 1.0 had a great deal of freedom). It would have been lovely to play “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories” one moment, and an emulator the next (on the day, or in the week, of its release)…
That said, this is obviously great, great work, and my thanks goes out to them. It’s going to be an interesting few weeks to see if exisiting 1.5 homebrew will run through the exploit, although, even with little technical knowledge, I doubt it will. I guess the dream to get universally compatible homebrew applications is a little further off (perhaps an impossible distance) than homebrew for all. I assume we will have to pick each of our homebrew versions, and I have no problem with that. Delighted .
Thanks,
^Doody.
good news. but why do u geeks always talk about sony, when u own a sony product. thats pretty dumb, u should at least be glade they even made the psp. this is kinda of bad news, cuz now the game developers aint going to make games as good, now cuz every body will be downloading them for free off the net. who knows, thanks alot, u just killed the psp game indistry. smart move dumb ass’s.
tried it on my 2.71 and it worked perfectly. Good work.
hah finaly i dont have to ebay the psp im writing this from
MyFuckingGod.
I have two 1.5’s, but this is just awseome news for the world of psp homebrew!
Well done to all involved
im cry’n ”
as im writin this, im SO HAPPY! :~)
I gotten out of bed & turned pc on as im ill,& i come on here to read up [as i do each n every day] & wow im feeling better already,[im already an owner of 2 psps white n black] but my sons gotta 2.70 he upgraded his psp to now i can downgrade it today so he dont have to use myne all the time to play me on certain games lol [you know kids sitcky fingers n all] so again great news not just for me n my son but to all the others out there who couldnt downgrade,[YOULL LOVE IT, 1.5OFW THAT IS] wasnt expecting for at least 1 month or so so a really well done to ya.
Could have waiten for fw3.00 tho as then all wouldve been available to us but no great big deal,Youve done it on all other firmwares so you know this ones gonna get done sooner or later.
does homebrew work 2.71 now
this works gr8 on my psp 2.60
what is supposed to happen, mine just brings up a message and stays there
sooner or later soney may just give up
Hate to ask this, but what actually is this?
Is it a downgrader for users who have firmware versions between 2.0 and 2.8??!!
haha. Good news for those people who’s stuck on TA-082, 2.7+ owners ^^ makes homebrew, downgrading available on all current firmwares! WITHOUT GTA!
$ony! you LOSE! hackers exploited all ur current FWs!
Do we have kernal acces from versions 2.00-2.71
And was there a sorce code relesed
(No. 57) It doesnt make downgrading avalible on all firmwares only 2.00 -> 2.71 because 2.80 has no kernal access.
YES!!!! now i can update for VCS knowing homebrew will be following :)
chrislawrance wrote:
‘YES!!!! now i can update for VCS knowing homebrew will be following :)’
You’re kidding right? if anything is going to be running on 3.0 it is VCS.
As for them not releasing until 3.0 is released, that would be a pointless excercise as 3.0 is pretty much a complete re-write of the firmware, see fanjitas website:
http://www.fanjita.org
‘The final nail in the coffin was spending the last few weeks trying to break a leaked copy of the v3.0 firmware release. Sony have done a really good job on this one, and we’ve given up hope of being able to crack it. Not even the GTA exploit works - it seems that Sony are really serious about security this time, and it’s depressing. The slog ahead to try to crack what amounts to a total rewrite of the firmware just doesn’t seem worth it. Good luck to anyone who does decide to try.’
cool sweet but try to put other pics on it and u wont be able to view them :/
This news seems very exciting as I almost had a fit when I come across this webiste and saw all the cool stuff that the psp can do (i upgraded to 2.8 UNKNOWINGLY)
What does this actually mean in essance, I got hello world working… so does this mean I can now install homebrew etc??? Please help!
not yet jon p, wait for an eloader
btw that stuff on fnjitas site was an april fools, good one! Maybe they should have waited before releasing, especially as im currently selling an unpatched version of gta on ebay, gonna go for less now i know it
one of the best news, I have seen to this day….
lol, who I am kidding, this is the best news ever :D
46- there is only a small amount of people who illegally download psp games.
most people (including me) actually buy the games.
it saves room on your memory stick which you still need to buy from sony anyway!
HOLY SHIT OMFG I AM SO HAPPY OMG FUCK U ALL I LOVE THE Hax0rz OMG WOOOHOOOO THEY DID OMG THE DID IT I LOVE YOU THANKS !!!!!!!!!!
how do u start this program? It automatically loads but then stays to a screen with a message bouncing up and down? It says Hello World for the PSP on 2.0.0 to 2.8.0-”Paving the way to a new homebrew area” 27/08/2006 http://www.moobs.eu AND SO ON. How long do I have to wait?
A little somethin’ for everybody.. May the force be with you Guys! SONY is DOing some Counter attack again.
SONY BitE Meh!! Harharhar
this is kinda funny. i left the psp-hacks.com webpage up and went to sleep. when i woke up, i was like maybe if i hit the refresh button something about the psp tiff exploit will have something new. AND IT DID! i thought i was still sleeping and this was all a dream. but its not! :) GOOD WORK ALL OF YOU!
I don’t own A PSP, but this news is really makes me want to buy one,
excellent, in few days we will see ISOs and third party games working fully on fw below 2.8…
awsome, can’t wait to see whats next :)
OMFG WHEN WILL WE HAFE ELODER?
Or so I would say if I was stupid like the rest of the noobs. I’m new to this too, but I understand that this is a great step forward. I got my PSP a few months ago and it had firmware 2.5 on it. I updated that to 2.6 and didn’t update since, hoping that I could get homebrew working once I can afford GTA. I got that last Saturday and of course it was patched, I didn’t have much hope but then again it’s no big loss, I’d have bought GTA anyways.
This new exploit gives me hope, so kudos to the hacking team and keep up the good work!
could this brick my psp?
This will probably make sony bring out there FWv3.0 early, they were keeping this one back to be released at the same time as the PS3, it supposedly has the long awaited PSone emulator which in itself will tempt ppl to upgrade, I will be one of them as I am lucky enough to own 2 PSP’s, anyway well done on this discovery, this means also that ppl on ebay wont be making a fortune selling overpriced 1.5’s because they will nolonger be a rarity.
YESSS!!!! SWEET.Thanks so much guys now I can use my other 2.8 PSP for something other than just sitting around.
fuk yea dude this is awsome
meh… its cool i guess.
YOOOOO! CANT WAIT FOR AN E-LOADER! GREAT JOB GUYS… GREAT NEWS FOR ALL WHO HAVE 2.6 AND ARE LAZY OR HAVE 2.7+ AND CANT HAVE NOTHING BUT FLASH GAMES… YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
ps. thanx for reply xxx ace xxx I think i understand now… still A GREAT ACHIEVMENT THO
now all they need to do is implement the eloader into the tiff hack and then bam total homebrew
To stop it from autorunning do what was done in the Tetris libtiff exploit on 2.0, http://noobz.eu/.
Simply put it in a folder with the hello world file and another image file which was modified before the hello world file.
To open just open up the folder the hello world file is included in.
(sorry for my earlier blank post, I accidently pressed enter)
I’d like to own 2 psp’s too lol :D
Nice ! and now just wait for eloader, or downgrader or devhook. this is the greatest year for psp hacking
AWESOME i knew this day would come
FINALLY…GOD LOVES US!!1
Great news for 2.xx users!i have a 2.0 fw @ downgraded 2.5 to 1.50.havent tried yet going to wait for eloader!but huge news for psp world
PPL this is a demo and the loader will be comming soon .. this just proves this is possible its like a proof of concept if u wish …. its awsome thouhg
Well, I don’t want to sound stupid, but i got the picture to work on my ta-082 ver. 2.71 psp, and i was just wondering if this necessarily means that the eloader will work on mine when it comes out?
forgot to credit saotome, he discovered the first version of tif exploit
CRYING WITH HAPPINESS!!!
THANKS FOR BRINGING HOMEBREW TO OUR WORLD!!!
THANK YOU FANTAJA AND EVERYONE ON THE CREW
GOD I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
first post whoooooo… not! :)