HEN TIFF Exploit Cracks PSP-3000 Open For Homebrew 77
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."
Cool (Score:5, Funny)
All 27 remaining PSP users must be thrilled with this!
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Tribadism, not Tribulation, you moron.
I dunno, it looks like the most difficult way possible to get off. Tribulation might be accurate.
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More like 50m.
I was surprised when I saw that number a few months ago too but it's true, PSP has 1/3 the handheld market.
That raises the question, why aren't there any killer games for the PSP? 50m is still bigger than all the next-gen (PSWii60) consoles combined.
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As I said a while back on here, I looked into getting a PSP and planned to hack it, with piracy being a part of it.
I didn't see anything for the PSP worth pirating. And only one game worth buying. (Football Manager.)
Of course lately the DS isn't much better IMO. I've largely stopped using mine.
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Re:Cool (Score:4, Informative)
50m is still bigger than all the next-gen (PSWii60) consoles combined.
Say what now? Wii has 50M pretty much all by itself.
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OK, so combined sales of next-gen is almost 100m. Still, not too far out...
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This announcement is why there aren't more killer apps on the PSP. Where the piracy potential is high, game developers don't want to take the risk to make high budget games.
For the record though, God of War was really good, as was Daxter. Personally I thought Patapon was the ultimate in hand-held fun but Puzzle Quest is pretty great too, especially since its easily suspendable when you need to put it down. Suspending Patapon on the other hand is almost always a bad idea (due to the timed input).
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This announcement is why there aren't more killer apps on the PSP. Where the piracy potential is high, game developers don't want to take the risk to make high budget games.
I suppose that's why there are no high budget games for Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, or PC.
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Where the piracy potential is high, game developers don't want to take the risk to make high budget games.
Until this announcement (which hasn't been released yet) you had to use a special battery pack to mod your PSP and there was a chance of bricking it.
Compared to DS, where you can buy R4DS + other brand flash carts from newsagents, at least in the cities here in the UK, and I'd say pirating games on PSP is an order of magnitude harder on PSP than DS. DS still sells boatloads of games though, even though its install base is only double that of PSP.
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Because the PSP can do near PS2 quality games, there is a large onus to up the production value. Bigger budgets mean higher risk, and this is probably the real reason why the PSP is pretty barre
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Just wondering, is there even 27 games out for it?
I thought the PSP was nicer hardware overall -- one nice big screen, instead of 2 small shitty screens with a HUGE seam between them like the DS.
Then I looked at the game selection, and I bought the kids a pair of DS. It was also a lot cheaper (not only the console itself, but the memory cards too)
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Well, the game lineup is still a trillion times better than the PSP. But if you know something better, please share...
Why.... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Digital cameras produce TIFFs.
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Did, you mean.
Back when people still used flobby disks...
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Did, you mean. Back when people still used flobby disks...
Actually, some digital SLRs use variants of the TIFF format to store their "raw" files. They may muck about with the headers and you need to know the RGB response curves to make proper use of the data, but underneath, it's still a TIFF. The Pentax PEF format as produced by the istD family of DSLRs can be rendered by TIFF readers which ignore certain "irregularities" in the header, for instance.
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Re:Why.... (Score:4, Insightful)
"Why I would want an uncompressed image from my 2-megapixel POS camera with a crappy lens, I have no idea."
Because it uses the super crappy jpeg compression code which will give even worse results. At least if you can capture in raw you can do post processing with you crappy computer without the jpeg artifacts.
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Most digital cameras use TIFF as the file format for RAW files at least, but many also do so for their JPEG files (you can store JPEG in TIFF encapsulation).
The ones that don't use TIFF seem to use TarGA.
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About 6-10 high-end models (generally medium format backs).
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Yes, I wonder the same thing about TIFF support on the PSP myself. It was touted as a new feature for the 2.0 firmware, but I don't really see the point, given how insecure it is in general and how rarely it is used. Furthermore, if it is used for a camera picture, it's pretty useless anyway, because the PSP will generally not show the picture if it's too large anyway, which is usually smaller than digital camera resolution. The original PSP model does only have 32MB of RAM, 8 of which is not available in u
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TIFF, by nature, will contain more exploitable code then other image formats
Care to elaborate? It seems to me that TIFF, being uncompressed, would require less lines of code to process than a compressed format like JPEG. Less code usually means less security holes. What's the case here?
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Care to elaborate?
TIFF at this point is basically a container. You can stick anything into a TIFF, including a JPG.
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The TIFF file format is unusual in comparison to other image formats, in that it is composed of small descriptor blocks containing offsets into the file which point to the actual pixel image data (composed of bands of pixel rows). This means that incorrect offset values can cause programs to attempt to read erroneous portions of the file or attempt to read past the physical end of file. Like most other image file formats, improperly encoded packet or line lengths within the file can cause poorly written rendering programs to overflow their internal buffers. Properly-written image rendering programs generally avoid such pitfalls.
Which basically means, buffer overflows are trivial to do with TIFF. Then there is the fact that libtiff has several exploits (as mentioned by a previous poster) that still exist in the most stable version of it.
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Can we at least acknowledge that TIFF isn't an image format but a linked library format, and make the buffer overflows a feature and not a bug?
Just admit you're not making new homebrew games (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
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Dead parrots?
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Well shiver me timbers, this landlubber has yet to discover the bay [piratebay.org].
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http://www.zincland.com/powder/
It may not be groundbreaking, but it's a good game.
"Decent amount" it may be true that there are not many yet, but there are allready some good free versions of the quake-type game e.g., so we may see some good free games in the future.
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Check out a program called Colors, which is a simple painting/sketching program which uses the touch interface. To my knowledge, the DS doesn't have this feature otherwise.
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(--FreePlay)
Stupid Sony (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
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Because 99.99% of this "homebrew" - pirated games. Sony did sell open for development(but not for piracy) PS1 and PS2, guess how many bought?
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Because 99.99% of this "homebrew" - pirated games.
Is Ubuntu a pirated copy of Solaris? No. Is GIMP a pirated copy of Paint Shop Pro? No. Is OpenOffice.org a pirated copy of Microsoft Office 2003? No. Are Lockjaw [pineight.com], Gnometris, and KSirtet pirated copies of Tetris? No.
Sony did sell open for development(but not for piracy) PS1 and PS2, guess how many bought?
The "Net Yaroze" PS1 and the PS2 with Linux were token efforts, discontinued in less than a year. Other than VAIO and PLAYSTATION 3, Sony hasn't kept a commitment to any computing platform without a lockout chip.
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The biggest jump in improvement of the Apple platform I ever saw was during the brief period that Apple allowed clone makers.
Really? Such as?
I can't say I remember much of the clone period as I wasn't that into macs back then. Still have a SuperMac sitting around in a storage closet somewhere though... What changed?
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Mac? No, he's talking about the Franklin Ace. Now get off my lawn, kid!
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The biggest jump in improvement of the Apple platform was when Apple quit trying to write their own operating system and switched to UNIX. That was long after they stopped allowing clones to run that piece of crap Mac OS.
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Nitpick: They didn't switch to UNIX.
They switched to NExT (xnu,) adopted a bit from FreeBSD, and added the BSD userland and their own proprietary front end. Then got it certified UNIX.
No, the biggest jump in improvement for Apple was bringing Jobs back. The only thing it's bad for these days are the techies who think their minority opinion is what everyone really wants.
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Nitpick back. I'm so tired of people who either (a) don't understand what the revolution in computing that UNIX introduced was and what it meant, or (b) have skin in the game and want to queer the pitch for everyone else by playing games.
NeXTstep was UNIX.
FreeBSD is UNIX.
Linux is UNIX, and was UNIX even before they got certification.
OS X is UNIX.
UNIX is as UNIX does.
UNIX is and has been for over a quarter of a century - since the first independent implementations like Idris and Regulus, a FAMILY of operatin
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They are just trying to limit the amount of piracy. i am sure that somebody on sony agrees the put homebrew and backup games on the psp thing. but it also opens the door for piracy i wish someday a console will let you do backups so only you can use. instead of having to rely on hacking the console for it. on a unrelated note my starcrafts disk are all dead beyond repair if i had a backup of them i would not have to go download them from piratebay. (keys are lost too fyi so no blizzard downloader)
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"Proprietary systems are never to the consumer's advantage."
Of course not. That's because it's not about you or what's good for you. One day we'll wake up and realize that the market, in it's current form, isn't based on "best product" for the "best price". It's about gaining enough market share to afford legislation to protect your business model from innovation and competition.
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The so-called fans bought the damned device!
That should be enough, but Sony's plan was to merely balance the books with the hardware - it was making the software turn you around and getting you to bend over, that was the smiles-round-the-board-room moment.
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Because those so-called "fans" don't generate revenue.
Then don't take a gnikcuf loss on your hardware. Try actually selling a low-cost PC that connects to a TV, or a Linux-based PDA with a D-pad, and charge a bit more than it costs to make and ship it. What a concept!
Then what is to the consumer's advantage? (Score:2)
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?
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That's the way it always works, the manufacturers catching up with the crackers. Don't worry, there will always be more exploits to discover.
And sometimes, exploits are practically unfixable. All PSP-1000 and PSP-2000 models are crackable using a modified, so-called Pandora Battery.
Pandora Nukem Forever (Score:2)
All PSP-1000 and PSP-2000 models are crackable using a modified, so-called Pandora Battery.
But Pandora [openpandora.org] 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?
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I have a hard time believing Apple sells hardware at a loss. Do you have anything to back that up? Are you talking about the iphone and its associated phone contracts as I don't think that'd really qualify for what you're saying?
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I don't think Apple even sells hardware at a loss at all. The iPhone is sold full price to carriers, who are allowed to subsidize it in their sales contracts with Apple. (After all, I'm sure the carriers don'
Novel idea (Score:4, Insightful)
That'd be a decent thing to see (right up there with alien motherships, flying pigs and world peace)
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