Talk:PlayStation Portable homebrew/Archive 1

Total Rewrite

I've spent the past hour and a bit editing, but this article still really needs help. Problems:

• Inaccurate, outdated information (one paragraph saying 1.00 was only firmware with homebrew)
• Lots of repeated information (list of the homebrew methods at the start, with a brief description, then even more detail later)
• Too many lists
• References to specific people (EdisonCarter and Fanjita are great, but there's no point in just mentioning them in one part of the article)

Fixes:

• Lots copy editing
• Generally needs to be more concise
• Perhaps the seperation into 1-1.51, 2.00+, Misc, instead of the current jumble.
• Consider splitting into several articles ("PSP (Emulation)", "List of PSP Homebrew Games" etc)

--Falcon9x5 14:13, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I have actually made efforts to clean the article up and remove the nonsense, but it became too difficult. --TheEmulatorGuy 23:03, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I just removed nearly all of the redundancies and useless information. There still needs to be sections re-written and I'm thinking the homebrew games and emulators should be put into seperate lists. --TheEmulatorGuy 23:24, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

It's looking a lot better now anyway. I might go through it and take out more later on, I'll see. Thanks --Falcon9x5 12:38, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

~30 edits, don't think it needs too much work now, maybe a general tidy of some parts (I still don't like the PMP format being in "Notable homebrew programs", but it's infinitely better than it was. --Falcon9x5 14:28, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

i'm currently making a new site about psphb --wilhel1812 13:39, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Pictures and info

I think it needs pictures of things running on the PSP, also I just split the text up into sections, might be wrong. Havok 21:55, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

I can take screenshots and pictures of homebrew running on the psp. I just dont know what should be shown that would add most to the article, perhaps pictures at each stage of a psp being downgraded from 2.00 to 1.50 using the MPH downgrader? powerfool 07:39, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

The force is strong in this one

I have a feeling this article could have great potential. I'll probably work on it in the future, but we need some sort of way of getting it more noticed. The PSP homebrew scene is quite large, and as such, this could provide for a large article. Xizer 09:55, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Error Fixed

I fixed an error. The previous person who editied the homebrew devs list made it that McZonk and Placa were in MPH. That is incorrect; they are in Team Emergency Exit. And MPH had nothing to do with Quake 2. --Benlisquare 03:37, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

2.70

2.70 patches the GTA exploit. --205.240.39.203 21:23, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Supergage

Supergage (a new external link added) links directly to a rom/iso site. Is this suitable for the article? --Falcon9x5 12:40, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

External links

I will be removing all the External links for this article, seeing as Wikipedia is not a link repository, and that section is way to big. Before I do, let us discuss it. Havok (T/C/c) 10:50, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Removed them for now. Do not re-add them before we have found out which linkes to keep. We can't keep all the links as Wikipedia is not a link repository. Havok (T/C/c) 20:44, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I just put back psp updates and psp dcemu, they're both regularly updated with recent, relevant, news --Falcon9x5 13:12, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I added PSP-Programming's tutorials. It is a relevant site with unique and necessary information for users wishing to create their own homebrew. --Brad 11:35, 19 Jan 2007

Capitalisation

Anyone prefer having capitals in the section titles? --Falcon9x5 10:25, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I honestly don't give a shit who prefers capitals, because it's in the manual of style not to.--TheEmulatorGuy 05:13, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Most Advanced?

I would contend that calling the Genesis the "most advanced" system to be emulated at full-speed is POV. To avoid a holy war between Nintendo and Sega fanboys, it might be best to rephrase as something like "16-bit-era consoles" and mention both the Genesis and SNES. I'm not sure if TG16 is full-speed now or not, but I can vouch personally for the previous two. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.164.102.17 (talk • contribs)

I aggree. In fact, I think the SNES is the only one to be fully emulated. But "16-bit" is fine +Falcon9x5 06:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Lua?

I think Lua should be mentioned under notable homebrew, as it's definately become something of importance to homebrew, there are at least a hundred games and applications released for it. I'm not too familiar with the program or its history so anyone willing to add it? Mr toasty 17:23, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

27th or 28th?

(The 2.70+ homebrew section) The Hello World program says it was completed on the 27th, not the 28th. The newspost confirmation was posted on the 28th. Should it be changed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.57.56.137 (talk • contribs)

I assume it was completed on the 27th in some parts of the world, 28th in others - I changed it to read "late August". +Fin - 15:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

2.71 downgrader

Why hasn't the new down grader been mentioned?

It has. See the 2.70+ section. +Fin - 22:24, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

TIFF programs section

There's a new section devoted to the new TIFF homebrew programs. (I didn't write it; I just fixed some grammatical errors.) To be quite frank, I'm not entirely sure this section is needed -- all the information there is already under the 2.71+ section. (Except for the stuff about the sound and graphics being bad, which is obvious at this point.) Your thoughts? Perhaps as things evolve, the section will be more necessary. Jvd897 21:18, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

DevHook

Should we include all the firmwares DevHook can emulate? Also, should we include 2.71 SE support in the DevHook Launcher/VSHEX Mod? Should we include the DevHook Launcher/VSHEX Mod and note it for its new Enhanced CSO cache system? (JALsnipe 01:33, 27 November 2006 (UTC))

As far as I'm aware DevHook only loads the flash1 config files onto the PSP's flash1, so stating that a large part of firmare is installed there would be false. I'd imagine the ratio of what is running from the MS pro duo to what is flashed onto the PSP would be somthing like 10000:1 (Apoptygma 12:06, 13 December 2006 (UTC))

Updated Some Stuff

Well I updated some stuff, including info on the new release of 2.71 SE-C and also included the news that Booster will be releasing v0.50 of DevHook very soon... Timboman2000 02:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

GameShare Loader

Should we include info about the GameShare Loader for firmwares 2.6-2.8? Should we also include the ability to back up GameShares as demos? (JALsnipe 18:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC))

3.03 OE-A

You guys think that should be added to this article??? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Deananoby2 (talk • contribs) 21:12, 24 December 2006 (UTC).

No, there is no such thing as 3.03 OE-A at the moment. There is however 3.02 OE-B.

He made no mistake. 3.03 OE-A is, as I gather, Dark_Alex's next (or possibly current) project. It is still very much a work in progress, so there's not much to write. And sign your comments. 80.194.187.185 01:34, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

It has been released so I added it. Someone can add a source to back it up. --Thaddius 04:26, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Major Cleaning Needed

I was reading this article, and realzied that it needs a LOT of work to even be worthy of Wikipedia... There is so much to clean I don't know where to start, some suggestions please? GotPSP 22:18, 31 January 2007 (UTC) Also, I don't think that the homebrew itself and the history should be in one page. As is, this article is longer than some biographies...GotPSP 22:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Strongly agree with you there. "KXploited"? "screeching halt"? Hardly the language of an encyclopædia! And no mention anywhere of Sony's announcement that it intends to release non-commercial development platforms to universities! Citation needed? Of course: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Sarah%20Lemari%C3%A9%22%20psp%20dev%20kit --Rfsmit 21:19, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Strongly agree; this reads more like a commentary than an encyclopaedic article. Like you, I don't know where to start. Possibly the introduction :) Nevalicori 10:52, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

3.52 M33

Please Update, 3.52 is the newest OE-FW.

I had a look on M33's site and found nothing stating a newer update than 3.52 M33-4 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.169.189 (talk) 09:28, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't custom firmware be on a different wikipedia page?

~~ AVTN ^Contact 16:45, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps it should. This page is getting too big to be informative anyway. KLiCKER 22:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)KLiCKER

This article is a joke anyway because only 5% is actually about homebrew. its more like the history of PSP custom firmware/downgraders/hacks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.188.190.65 (talk) 21:12, August 23, 2007 (UTC)

toc2rta

toc2rta was shut down by Niacin on May 4th. Perhaps a note is in order? toc2rta was on of the most popular IRC hangouts for developers. KLiCKER 22:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)KLiCKER

NOPx86

I'm responsible for the libtiff audit that resulted in the tiff related bugs in the psp firmware, the research was sponsored by my employer and patches and reports were responsibly disclosed by me last year. I dont know who NOPx86 is, but its certainly not me, and nobody else who was involved in the audit. I've amended the section appropriately by removing the references to him.

-- taviso 23:36, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I think you're lying. I was in that IRC channel in the early days of that exploit. NOPx86 deserves the credit. Do you have any proof it was you? Mr.KlicK 18:32, 14 June 2007 (UTC)Mr.KlicK

I actually discovered both of the libtiff stack buffer overflows that have been used to execute unsigned code on the psp, but the one that NOPx86 is claiming credit for is CVE-2006-3459. Here are some advisories from major corporations crediting me, including Apple, RedHat and Novell.

Here are two major security news sources crediting me SecurityFocus and Secunia Secunia (PSP specific).

Here is a bug report for the issue with the libtiff developers, including them thanking me for the report and a testcase uploaded by me, [1].

Looking at the thread that was previously linked to about "Nopx86" here, you can see the timestamp is 16th August 2006, which is about two weeks after this issue was released by me. Here is a demonstration exploit for the issue by me [2], and there is another copy of it with a timestamp here, uploaded by me and with a timestamp of 2006-08-06 21:14 0000, 10 days before the "NOPx86" discovery. On This "noobz.eu" page [3], If you scroll down to the "Brave New World" headline, you can see at the end of the section "UPDATE: It has since come to our attention that the initial research that discovered the libtiff vulnerability was done by Tavis Ormandy of Google, Inc. For more details see here. Please note that all development of a practical exploit for the PSP was done entirely independently, by the team noted above.".

I downloaded the "hello world" from this URL http://files.fanjita.org/psp/helloworld_all.zip, and examined it.

I use the unzip tool to examine the archive:

$ unzip -vl helloworld_all.zip 
Archive:  helloworld_all.zip
 Length   Method    Size  Ratio   Date   Time   CRC-32    Name
--------  ------  ------- -----   ----   ----   ------    ----
    1684  Defl:N      900  47%  08-28-06 01:30  920bf03f  readme.txt
   81778  Defl:N     2313  97%  08-28-06 04:57  156a676f  hw.tif
--------          -------  ---                            -------
   83462             3213  96%                            2 files

The timestamp reads 28-Aug-2006, several weeks after my initial report. Now using the tiffdump utility from the libtiff package, I examine the tiff file from the archive:

$ tiffdump hw.tif 
hw.tif:
Magic: 0x4949 <little-endian> Version: 0x2a
Directory 0: offset 10012 (0x271c) next 0 (0)
ImageWidth (256) SHORT (3) 1<8>
ImageLength (257) SHORT (3) 1<8>
Compression (259) SHORT (3) 1<1>
Photometric (262) SHORT (3) 1<1>
StripOffsets (273) LONG (4) 1<8>
StripByteCounts (279) LONG (4) 1<10004>
PlanarConfig (284) SHORT (3) 1<1>
DotRange (336) SHORT (3) 32768<29549 14896 27695 25134 28265 0 0 0 65535 1535 65535 1791 57152 2558 56400 2558 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...>

Notice the DotRange tag with excessive values, this is one of the vulnerable tags I mentioned in my advisory as using the TiffFetchShortPair() routine without validation, and is also used in my exploit, which is available from the popular SecurityFocus Website.

Note that I had nothing to do with the PSP development (I dont even own one!), I believe it was someone using the handle "Fanjita" who used this bug to develop a working exploit for the psp and deserves the credit for that, I just discovered the bug and dispute Nopx86's role in this. -- taviso 08:49, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Also, using curl you can check the Last-Modified header from the exploit code on SecurityFocus:

$ curl -sI http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/19283.c
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:43:07 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:17:15 GMT
ETag: "180f4c-fa2-4e8410c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 4002
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Notice "Last-Modified: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:17:15 GMT", 5 days earlier than the forum post by "nopx86". -- taviso 11:45, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I am also listed in the "Acknowledgements" section of the libtiff website, and this file is included in recent libtiff distributions. I know the tiff format and the libtiff codebase quite well, and also work in computer security, so if you have any technical queries about this, Id be happy to answer them. -- taviso 12:03, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

About Patched lumines.

Read. If you do any changes in 3.50 article, Lumines has only been patched in JAPAN. So if you edit the 3.50 article, check the citation, or google.

PS: Oni, like I said, read carefully the NOOBZ! article. --Dekabreak101 00:14, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm well aware that it's only been patched in Japan. I'm sorry I had a lapse and removed the part about Japan. I'm not sorry I removed the word "Unfortunately", though. ~ Oni Lukos _ct 00:49, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

So in Japan it's patched and on NA they dont sell it at all? That explainds why EB games didnt havea copy, not even a patched one! The one guy there knows and says that's why they dont sell it, but they sold me LCS and I am under 18! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.153.204.116 (talk) 00:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

PSPISO

Some immaculate programmer has decided to make this in to a very large conflict that could have easily been resolved by allowing this website to be added to the external links. It meets all criteria to what an external link should consist of, and this website is the largest PSP website that exists primarily for the PSP itself (from what I've seen). The primary argument this high school "programmer" has is that it isn't listed in the top ten Google results, but you'll also see that this website doesn't advertise on other websites.

The only way to get high Google ratings is to be directly related to the topic searched for (PSP home brew), if you've paid to have other pages link to you and your meta tags fit the description, or if you've payed to get a higher rating in Google search results. This page has become the most popular without doing any of those things, and yet it is not listed when Dark Alex himself posted there for quite a while. It is a major website and can't be ignored just because they don't pay Google to rank them higher.

This website asks no one to advertise it, doesn't spend any more than server and new website costs, and yet is a major contributer to the PSP home brew "scene". Please give it some thought, and offer your opinions if they're anything that need to be offered.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.233.140.125 (talk)

Wow, I must have really offended you for you to type up three paragraphs of stuff just to get one link added to a page about PSP homebrew. You even went to my userpage to dig up information about me and use it as flame material (trying to use the fact that I was in high school as a pejorative is definitely the maturity I'd expect from someone who implies that they're older than me). Actually, I'm posting this from my college dorm room, but that's not really relevant. I just haven't updated my userpage in a while. Anyway, I'm actually rather in in the PSP homebrew scene, and until that link popped up, I'd never heard of the site. Surely if it was that big, I'd have heard of it. I'd heard of all of the other sites on the list prior to this, though. Funny, imagine that. And, um, reverting the page when you put non-NPOV information on the page (I was going to stop reverting it until I noticed that it was no longer non-NPOV, a big no-no). Also, one question. If your precious site asks not to be advertised, why the are you adding the link in the first place? ~ Oni Lukos _ct 21:29, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree, I'd never heard of PSPISO before I saw the external link added, and I'm fairly into the homebrew scene too. Curious. Fin©™ 01:16, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Jesus... can you please separate things in to paragraphs? Hurt my eyes a bit in an attempt to read that. I'm not trying to tarnish your reputation as a Wikipedia (whatever you call yourself, you may insert that here.) This website has been around since 2005 - this can be checked by simply using the web archives- , the creator of the Pandora's battery released it on this website, most of the major things that happen in the PSP world are taken from this site (if you'll trace your links back some sites even use the rules from this site to guide their own forums.) The reason this site is probably less known to you is because it has a very large "warez" aspect.

This website has an average activity of 600 users on at any given time and I'm just a normal member - if you'd like to look for me its ProfanityD. I hardly meant to flame you, I was simply pointing out the fact you obviously have some in ability to click a link and look around a bit. I hardly care about who you are, I looked at your page to see if you had any useful contributions to the website - as I don't often pick fights with people that are doing their best to keep Wikipedia clean day to day. By the way, I'm hardly older than you - in fact I'm seventeen but I haven't seen the high school in over a year, Francis Tuttle drafted me to continue learning there my senior year. Distasteful 05:10, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Glad to see this conversation is getting more civilized. Anyway, if you read one of my edit summaries, you notice several things: "rm external link again: sure, it's big, but it doesn't register on the first 5 pages of Google, so it's probably nn. Too many links anyway". I did click the link (albeit not the first time you posted it, as given the name, I assumed it was just some PSP warez site...not really the kind of thing that should be linked to on Wikipedia). Also notice the word "probably". I did a search for "PSP" on Google, and it came up on the 43rd page. I did a Google search for "PSP homebrew" (without the quotes) and it didn't show up on any of the 50 pages (494 results) Google offered (it says more than 494 at first, but if you go to the 50th page, that's what you see). So it definitely sounded non-notable. Also, the Pandora's Battery was first released on the Noobz website. The release of the Pandora's Battery on PSPISO was secondhand information. ~ Oni Lukos _ct 16:10, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Well said. Fin©™ 19:07, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

proseline tag

This page is not "proseline", as it is naturally organized around successive improved hacks for successive firmware revisions; it is a well-flowing history with dates of an unusually fragmented subject, and the complex explanations of each hack are unsuitable for a strict timeline format. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.208.61.201 (talk) 12:13, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Goofy Exploit.jpg

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BetacommandBot 06:03, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

mb

I don't think flash3 is about one millibit in size. Please fix. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.139.161.106 (talk) 16:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

The page isn't protected, you know, you can could have changed it yourself. ~ Oni Lukos _ct 17:27, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Multiplayer

I play multiplayer games on my GBA Movie Player. Will homebrew game system emulators for PSP have multiplayer mode so other PSPs can play older games (or homebrew games for older systems)? It it is able to, mention its ability in the article. --SuperDude 04:01, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Proposal to move PlayStation Portable homebrew to PlayStation Portable hacks

I hereby propose to move the current article to the name PlayStation Portable hacks, because, as someone said near the bottom of the discussion page, only 5% of the article is about homebrew, the rest about hacks, custom firmware, modchips, and downgraders. --GSK 21:19, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes I think we should do this; change the title to PSP hacks. And then create a new wiki page called PlayStation Portable homebrew, which has info about homebrew games & programs

I disagree,custom firmware, modchips, and downgraders are all used to be able to run homebrew.Greek Coin (talk) 19:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Downgrader issues/ solutions

There are indeed well known issues with the downgraded TA-082/86 psps such as the blank screen for the recent 3.50 downgrader as well as others from 2.71 downgrader which they've never been seriously addressed by this article except, it was partially mentioned under the Motherboard section (I think they don't really belong to this section and should be moved to a new section of its own).

Chilly Willy made a thing to fix 082 the early downgraders messed up! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.153.204.116 (talk) 00:39, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Popstation Compatability List

I was going to create a compatability list for the popstation (PS1 emulator) feature in the custom firmwares. But, I think a user edited database would be much better and would be updated a lot more...at least a lot more than the Maxconsole one (http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=40526). The creator asks not to "Steal" his list, but it hasn't been updated for months now, anyway, I'm sure it wouldn't take long for it to be updated by users. It'd probably be better on a separate page, that way we can show which custom firmwares each game is compatible with or what problems it has spreadsheet style.

Crispben 05:19, 23 July 2007 (UTC)crispben

3.10 vandel

Has anyone here checked the 3.10+ sec of the psps homebrew page is someone going to fix it or should I I wanted to check with you guys first before I overwrite something that you may not want me to jmccabe871 05:32, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Best Homebrew Programs

People...you need to add to the "Best Homebrew Programs" list. I have only included the ones that I have used and enjoyed. Please add programs to the list only if you have used them and enjoyed them.

How about mentioning device hook which can emulate firmwares.

Moving the piracy stuff to a different page

Would be a good idea as it has nothing to do with legitimate homebrew development at all.

But you have to differ between piracy (loading isos) and just loading UMDs you own under firmware versions they were not meant to run under.

Redundant Information

As the homebrew scene constantly changes and evolves, new information is continuously being added to this page. Unfortunately, the information that has become irrelevant or obselete is left intact, creating a tangled web of information. Many of the sections could do with complete rewrite to better reflect the current state of the homebrew scene, with a seperate section preserving the historical aspects.

Re: Redundant Information

I may rewrite this if I get a chance(maybe when i get unbanned from the schools PCs on April 6th...crappy school banned me for using Firefox)

Remove information on how to recognize unpatched GTA:LCS boxes

Check this link: http://www.qj.net/How-to-find-a-Homebrew-Friendly-version-of-GTA-LCS-Updated/pg/49/aid/58178 It's a mess. Ultimately, it's not possible to tell for sure if a certain box or disk is "patched" or not. I suggest we remove the information until things are sorted out, before someone blindly believes this article, and wastes his money. I am not a regular, so I won't remove the info (I don't feel qualified), but I will add a note...

Internet Relay Chat

I think a list of the popular IRC servers and channels would be useful for this page. IRC is integral to the development of PSP homebrew. At the least, it plays a big part.

Intro, Benefits, Risks & Summary

Hi, The page is very good, but it is more like a history lesson for people who already know what all this is about. I would really love to see an introduction to the subject that talks about the benefits of downgrading the firmware, or the benefits of custom firmware over the offical Sony versions. Why are the returns worth the risk? Also a sumamry at the end would be good. What progress has been achieved and where the next challenges are. I know that this is touched on, but it would be a good idea to group that info together. Thanks