You're Doing it Wrong: Hacker Misses the Point

Kris Erickson • Oct 30, 2008 • Comments (4)

The PSP homebrew hacking community has awoken from its peaceful slumber to unite and rally around a new challenge: the PSP 3000. Sony's new hardware revision is slimmer and brighter than its predecessors, but those are not the only improvements under the hood of the PSP 3000. It is also heavily protected against the efforts of hackers. Sony has remained quiet about the invisible new hardware changes, but under their breath company executives must be secretly praying that their new device is unhackable.

So far that has proven to be the case. The pandora battery exploit, which allowed unauthorized access to kernal memory and firmware, has been closed off. Hackers like Dark Alex have not been able to figure out any other way of cracking the device.

In a sign that frustration is starting to set in, some enterprising hackers have gone to extreme lengths to get homebrew software to work on a PSP 3000. Take the example of a hacker named Royginald from the Philippines, who decided to simply swap in a PSP 2000 CPU while keeping the case and screen of the PSP 3000 intact. Sounds like a reasonable plan, right? Wrong.

What Royginald didn't realize is what vocal fanboys and even Sony itself were saying last week -- the PSP 3000 screen is interlaced to reduce the "ghosting" effect in previous models. Interlaced video is completely different from the progressive-scan video used in the original PSP, so there is no way that the motherboard from the PSP 2000 would be able to output the correct signal.

Well, at least the hacker can enjoy his homebrew applications by using the TV-out feature. Wait, what's that you say? The PSP 2000 CPU doesn't support standard definition televisions? d'OH!

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Filipino hacker Royginald plays with his new modded PSP 3000.

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Burat

- October 30, 2008 6:22 PM

actually you dont understand how hackers think a quote from royginald Quote from Royginald Why I do "this" 1. To know kung pwede pa magrun ng iso ang PSP3000.("downloadable/hacked iso" yun bang nabibili sa suking tindahan as low as tatlo 100 hahaha.) <---- this means if wants to know more if it can run iso 2. To learn more if $0ny did a GREAT alteration to prevent homebrew to run.Pwede kasng iblock nila mga HB apps which is not ... 3. To identify more info in this new revision using HB apps (like PSP Ident) 4. To know if HB scene is Doomed for good (which is not ) dito sa PSP3000 (They can't stop us all hehehe) Some theory for LCD to display. 1. Well as DA say theres an encryption from the new FW just for the new LCD. 2. Maybe if i can update this blindly new firmware installation will correct such lost files ..more like reinstalling Windows on a new CPU/Mobo PC style. 3.As of now even the Version3 CPU cannot be read by any Apps...kaya there's no way to back up its full nand image to read . 4.Maybe a BSOD will fix this "glitch" 5.CPU from previous PSP running on a New Mobo simply says its really hackable! it's only a matter of ipl / flashing .Who has the balls to run apps if you know that you cannot even Unbrick your PSP?!! 6.With Pandorizable CPU i can run ALL Software Experiments on this UNPANDORIZABLE PSP. (try nyo nga ibrick yung Version3?? paano nyo ulit mabubuhay?? hehehe) +++++++++++++++++++ hackers want to learn, so you cant say that he misses the point, he is curious & wants to learn about his ideas, that is what hacing is all about, its not making something cool, its learning and experimenting

Royginald

- October 31, 2008 10:24 AM

I don't miss any point.. actually i'm loosing all you statement.. Point is something you are destined to reach right?? More like you've reached a certain point! And what am i trying to achieve is to install CFW on the new PSP3k .. which actually I DID! MAybe the LCD issue is something i didnt BUT definitely anticipated! But my point is to RUN PSP2k CPU on a PSP3k Mobo! which it DID? You can never win a war if you don't have any idea of the battlefield.?? How can you penetrate a tight security building without knowing first its blue print.?? How can you enter such codes if you don't even know which button to press?? How about reading first its hardware component.. CPU , Decrypting its flash program which can only be achieved by the way by taking out the PHYSICAL Nand and putting it on an external Software reader... So ang paghack sa kanya is only using USB,Battery,memory stick?? biglaugh btw Who says i render other unit useless after this experiment?? ever heard of PUTTING IT BACK??

LelouchSG

- March 7, 2009 11:54 AM

Well Royginald, i believe whatever you do is for the best of the PSP community:)CHeers buddy! Let the haters and non believers do their part.:)

abhi

- April 10, 2009 12:26 AM

hey man, m plannin to buy a new psp 3000..is thr any hope tht it will b ceacked??? or i wont buy it..pls help thanx..

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