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HEN TIFF Exploit Cracks PSP-3000 Open For Homebrew
indrora writes "The PSP community was rocked this weekend by the Homebrew Enabler (HEN) from developers Davee and Bubbletune. One of their friends on the Team Typhoon development team posted a YouTube video showing proof of the TIFF Exploit running on Firmware 5.03, changing the firmware version and MAC address for a reboot. This comes after a picture of gpSP running on a PSP-3000 via the HEN exploit. From the QJ.net article: 'First [things] first: No, Davee hasn't finished the HEN yet. Which means it isn't out yet. What we do have today is some visual confirmation that the HEN can indeed run emulators, in this case the GBA emulator gpSP.' And from the more recent article showing the exploit demo video: 'Be patient, everyone. Davee's HEN Kernel exploit will eventually arrive, given time. "This is a demo of the 5.03 firmware running the tiff exploit and booting into a HEN environment on a PSP 2003 (3000 Support also) on 5.03 Official Firmware. This proves that the code survives a reboot and the system software and MAC address can be changed. This is something that only can be done with a kernel exploit. A video launching homebrew will be posted later."' Hopefully, we'll soon have PSP-3000s playing homebrew games and running PSP uCLinux."
All 27 remaining PSP users must be thrilled with this!
Why even include TIFF support in the PSP if you were trying to lock people out of homebrew? TIFF, by nature, will contain more exploitable code then other image formats (based on how the image is stored and other technical specs of the TIFF format), and is much lesser used compared to JPEG, PNG, GIF, and the dozens of other image formats we use on a daily basis. But the inclusion of TIFF seems puzzling, unless by default various Sony products save things as TIFF, there doesn't seem to be any need for it.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Hopefully, we'll soon have PSP-3000s playing emulators and running the same goddamn games you've all been emulating since the first emulators came out for PCs.
There. Fixed that for you.
Unless someone can show me a decent amount of actual, fairly good, unique homebrew games, that is. You know, not the piece of shit "proof of concept that we can homebrew" game clones we see on every iteration of homebrew hacks, but the groundbreaking games that all the proponents of homebrew keep bragging about and assuring us will result from it?
Didn't 5.50 come out a few weeks ago? Get crackin' on that one please, thanks.
Why do you keep trying to lockout your homebrew users, who are some of your most talented fans? Why not end this stupid war and simply sell an open version that can run what people want to run on it?
Same for Apple. You are trying to control too much. Leads me to cheer for an open Android platform with healthy competition from clone makers. The biggest jump in improvement of the Apple platform I ever saw was during the brief period that Apple allowed clone makers.
Proprietary systems are never to the consumer's advantage.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
So they're going to use an exploit to put homebrew on current PSPs. Cool. But won't Sony just fix the exploit and ship newer PSPs that aren't vulnerable?
Isn't this simply a temporary opportunity that will shortly become obsolete? From a "look what we did" perspective, it's awesome. From a "here's how you can homebrew your own PSP", it seems like a flash in the pan. Get it while it's hot because it'll be gone soon.
This is all assuming you can't just flash the firmware to the vulnerable version yourself. I assume if you could do that, you wouldn't even need to exploit it - you'd just flash your own firmware and run whatever you want.
I don't get it.
>Same for Apple. You are trying to control too much. Leads me to cheer for an open Android platform with healthy competition from clone makers.
Much like Apple they do earn money using software and sell hardware as loss: why the hell do you think they lock their platform this way ??
> The biggest jump in improvement of the Apple platform I ever saw was during the brief period that Apple allowed clone makers. ;)
Yeah, the only problem being that Apple clones were faster and cheaper than Apple's own machines
Pics or it isn't real.
Stupid kid, instead of keeping quiet and use this exploit to unlock the future PSP that will bring some real new features, he wasted it on this skype psp.
Tribadism, not Tribulation, you moron.
If all these homebrew guys are such loyal PSP fans and great coders, why don't they release their cracks with a block on running PSP ripped games, thereby protecting the success of the console they enjoy playing on?
That'd be a decent thing to see (right up there with alien motherships, flying pigs and world peace)
If he's the Walrus then can I be a penguin please?
Why not end this stupid war and simply sell an open version that can run what people want to run on it?
Because then you can't squeeze the corporate publishers (you know, the ones with the money) for a gatekeeper's fee.
The biggest jump in improvement of the Apple platform I ever saw was during the brief period that Apple allowed clone makers.
Even bigger than 9 to X?
Proprietary systems are never to the consumer's advantage.
Then which computing platform that comes with a composite or S-Video output as a standard feature (like the PS2, PSP 3000, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360) is to the consumer's advantage? And what handheld gaming system sold in North America is to the consumer's advantage?
All PSP-1000 and PSP-2000 models are crackable using a modified, so-called Pandora Battery.
But Pandora isn't even out yet. If it were, people wouldn't need PSP homebrew. Why did people start calling it a "Pandora battery" instead of a "service battery" or a "-1 battery" anyway?
Tribadism, not Tribulation, you moron.
I dunno, it looks like the most difficult way possible to get off. Tribulation might be accurate.
It's been a long time.