PSP 1.5-2.8 "HELLO WORLD" (homebrew possible on all PSP firmwares)

[Zenien]

Today hundreds of PSP's will say hello to the world as they run their first piece of homebrew - the "Hello World" application. This will be made possible by a new exploit found that does not require one to own a copy of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, but rather load a simple image off of your memory stick. This remarkable demonstration can be executed on 2.0, 2.01, 2.50, 2.60, 2.70, 2.71, and 2.80 firmwares!



If you are stumbling while reading this sentence, I wouldn’t be surprised. I just told you that you are now able to execute a homebrew application on 2.0-2.80 firmware. Now that you know it is possible, you are probably wondering how. With the combined effort of several dedicated users – NOPx86 (provided the original x86 proof of concept), psp250, skylark, joek2100, jimp, cswindle and Fanjita, they have managed to execute the first piece of homebrew on all firmwares above (and including) 2.0!



Less than a week ago, Fanjita dropped by our forums to tell us that a newly discovered exploit is indeed genuine and a usable exploit. This “exploit” started off as a discovery by NOPx86 in libtiff. He managed to find vulnerability and as a result – alter it to crash the PSP and many other image viewers. Fanjita, NOPx86 and the rest of this exploit team have put their hearts and souls into this exploit, and as a result they were able to execute a Hello World application on all PSP’s with the ability to view tiff files (2.0+). This application runs in "User Mode", but kernel mode will be achievable on all firmwares except 2.80.



To execute this “Hello World” application on your 2.0+ PSP, please follow the following directions -

1. Unpack the ZIP file to your PSP's PHOTO folder
2. Navigate to your PSP's PHOTO director and attempt to view the newly transferred picture

Note: You may find that the screen does not show correct (occasionally happens) - just restart your PSP (fully shutoff by holding the power button up) and open the picture again.

DUN DUN DUN.

Emulators here I come.

 

[Mentok]

Wanna chuck up a link to this Zip file Zen?

 

[Zenien]

I don't have a link since the forum I got it from isn't allowed to post links to this sort of thing.

 

[Mentok]

Pm me the name of the forum then.

 

[Zenien]

I do not know the website, apparently the original poster over-reacted, as this only proves that they can now get unsigned code running on all the PSP firmware, they have yet to rebuild a program to take advanatge of this.

 

[Avalanche]

I have absolutely no idea what all that meant.

 

[XwolverineX]

Yeah, me neither, but I wish I did, 'cause I want Homebrew.

 

[Danalys]

well it will save me loading GTA all the time. i'll wait for more news tho. it's be nice to update my firmware if possible. while still retaining functionality. but because of the 2.8 limitations i might not update.

 

[Manny Calavera]

I do not know the website, apparently the original poster over-reacted, as this only proves that they can now get unsigned code running on all the PSP firmware, they have yet to rebuild a program to take advanatge of this.

If you can run unsigned code on it, then he didn't overreact, you could still play homebrew games on it