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1.52 --> 1.50 ? where

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    *update* a few fake files were released on bittorrent - these were porn.

    the dashboard if it exists is still being uploaded to some server somewhere.
    all the action is on efnet #freezepsp

    oh and ellesar - i don't think this is a downgrader. its a firmware replacement or somethign along those lines (or at least it claims to be)


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,525 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    RE*AC*TOR wrote:
    the dashboard if it exists is still being uploaded to some server somewhere.
    all the action is on efnet #freezepsp
    I've already seen that declared a fake. It was on mininova yesterday. Haven't tried it myself though (being on 1.5 and all ;)). Does it actually say somewhere that it works for 1.5x/2.0??


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,525 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    Okay, now the guys who made it are saying it's a fake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    This is extremely lame I know. However, here is an interview with FOen (the creator).

    <brad666> sorry to pm you but just need more info about Freeze_PSP_Dashboard_0.9_BETA1.rar to put up on our site psp-scene.org! Can you help me?
    <FOen> yes i can
    <brad666> can you tell me a little about it?
    <FOen> did you read the nfo ?
    <brad666> maybe do a small interview for the site
    <brad666> sure did
    <FOen> I will do the interview
    <brad666> 1st up dose it work?
    <brad666> straight to the point sorry
    <FOen> yeah it works we got many ppl in tiel (the netherlands) on the marked for beta testing
    <FOen> 1 bricked psp in the whole progress
    <brad666> so if im not wrong ver1.5x and 2 can play homebrew as from 2day?
    <FOen> we replace the whole firmware there isn’t any secrerty anymore so all homebrew work and we block the UMD updater
    <FOen> so if you put this firmware on it you can’t upgrade your psp anymore with org firmware
    <brad666> this sounds to good to be true, with the scene being let down badly already people are not going to believe this!
    <brad666> but i do something about it rings true
    <brad666> so did you rewrite the firmware?
    <FOen> there is a problem video isn’t proof anymore we dint yell like wab we make it work and than we release but ppl are making it diff to upload ddosers flooders
    <FOen> and things like that
    <FOen> so im still uploading
    <FOen> many ppl downloaded from false torrents
    <brad666> i have just got it now
    <FOen> there isn’t an official release made yet PS2MAN is the host
    <brad666> so what do i have
    <brad666> by the lucks of it its being leeched m8
    <FOen> we are working hard now to upload it to many mirrors than release it
    <FOen> the ****ing jackass that posted the fake torrent
    <brad666> you know if you guys have done it you’ll be gods
    <FOen> we dont want to be god we just want some respect
    <FOen> but we got flamed to much so this mebay or first and the last release
    <FOen> the final release will only be for the ppl that respected our work
    <brad666> can understand that, but dont worry about flamers, like i said after wab ****ed things up it will take time for ppl to trust again
    <FOen> I will add psp-scene.org to my thx list on the final release
    <brad666> so the beta it works with no problems
    <brad666> or should i say no none problems
    <brad666> sorry it was some porn movie not your Freeze_PSP_Dashboard_0.9_BETA1.rar i downloaded bastards
    <FOen> yeah that’s the beta resean there are still bugs we dont know
    <FOen> Freeze_PSP_Dashboard_0.9_BETA1.r00 is fake
    <FOen> Freeze_PSP_Dashboard_0.9_BETA1.r92 is fake
    <brad666> i just found out
    <brad666> where could i get a copy from?
    <FOen> from PS2man is going to host the files
    <FOen> but my real ip is *****
    <FOen> im here with proxy so IRC bots cant flood my ip
    <brad666> ok would you like to host it on our site?
    <brad666> so when will we see the beta copy
    <FOen> yeah i will host it on your site
    <brad666> im in the phone brb in 2mins
    <FOen> i will quit with the msg for more info come to psp-hacks.org
    <FOen> psp-scenes.org i mean :p
    <brad666> thanks
    <brad666> brb
    <brad666> can we still play all retail games and movies on the dash?
    <FOen> yeah i played a retail game Spiderman 2 works movies alwase work more codec’s added as well
    <brad666> this sounds too good to be true! icon_smile.gif so sorry to go over things but this bits for the noobs
    <brad666> it works on 1.5x and 2.0
    <FOen> yeah it works on 1.5x jap eur and usa 2.0 tested eur en usa not tested on jap
    <brad666> 1.5x and 2.0 can play homebrew and isos?
    <FOen> yes isos fully working and more than 1 game on ms work great as well
    <brad666> divx works?
    <FOen> yeah xvid 2
    <FOen> btw i will upload the dashboard
    <FOen> to psp-scene.org
    <FOen> im going to add first a list of lamers like psp-hacks.net
    <FOen> than i will give psp-scenes the full credits
    <brad666> now you said once on you cant never upgrade again, is that sony upgrade i take it you will be doing upgrades for the dash? btw i will upload the dashboard to psp-scene.org thanks will we see it 2day?
    <FOen> i hope if not it will be tomorrow and i will fully thx to psp-scene.org for this great interview psp-scenes.org will be the biggest commutie when the dash is fully uploaded
    <brad666> thanks m8 just hope everything works out well for you
    <brad666> so you dont mind if i post this interview
    <FOen> nope feel free to edit some type faults of me
    <FOen> if you want to know more about it add me to msn
    <FOen> foen****@*****.***
    <brad666> will do thanks again brad666 psp-scene.org add me to *******************
    <FOen> oke
    <brad666> any chance of a +v
    <FOen> done
    <FOen> icon_smile.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭ondafly


    so are we now sorted ? or is this yet another y-fronts story with turd polish ?

    divx on the psp would be fantastic. I got my 1 meg memory card last night, and converted an ep. of Bleach anime, took 1 hour on a p4 1.8ghz machine, and only shaved off about 60 meg of the original file size. Rather stuff that hassle and copy divxs directly onto the psp.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    ondafly wrote:
    so are we now sorted ? or is this yet another y-fronts story with turd polish ?

    divx on the psp would be fantastic. I got my 1 meg memory card last night, and converted an ep. of Bleach anime, took 1 hour on a p4 1.8ghz machine, and only shaved off about 60 meg of the original file size. Rather stuff that hassle and copy divxs directly onto the psp.

    i agree....encoding is a pain in the tits.....

    altho i believe that you can dl psp encoded videos from the usual naughty sources.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    Get the beta downgrade http://rapidshare.de/files/5180780/Downgrader_Beta_Repack.rar.html

    Translation-

    Lo all even you up there who again insulted me this morning I salute you.After all this bull**** stories I'm gonna told ya how to downgrade, & as I can't finish it for personal reasons (and alot of wab; (??..) & I'd like to apologize for all this mess, the downgrader makes too much noise.

    he 1st solution with wich we did the vid is simple but stuck the 3rd verification crying.gif .I send U the Eboots directly & will told you how method 2 works.

    So, you need 2 MS & don't forget to prepare them with the directories that comes in the RAR file. All on "MemoryStick1" goes to MS1, All on "MemoryStick2" goes to MS2
    here comes the method to brake the 2nd lock of "updater" you gotta run the 1st Eboot on ur PSP 1.51, 1.52 or 2.0 You'll see a blank screen & as the screen turn to black press 3 times "power" the PSP turns to "hibernation mode". take ur time & switch 1st MS by MS2.
    When everything is ready press power to turn off "hibernation mode" the PSP load update correctly & says "update 1.50 ready to run" as if it was launch from firmware 1.00
    There, it's stucked & it's the last check ther is on update. we did well after but rest of the job is secret


    For method 2 it's a MD5 that is in eboot.pbp of update so if U modify any byte of updater it'll be launched but under the psp updater you'll see a nice alert saying "your update is corrupt & couldn't be launched" this MD5 is so big & "flashy" nobody talks bout' it.

    it is located at last line of eboot under "psar" it's for that the updater check that no modification were made to eboot.

    this MD5 isn't in UMD games updater, that's the trick.
    the answer is Sony knows very well that U can't copy UMDs so they didn't add a security to check if psar has been modified.

    I didn't find out how to calculate this MD5 & find what it corresponds to. but it's the answer !

    last thing for the "UMD executable updaters" as 2.0, they are all the same as the one that can be launched from MS but they are signed differently with a special UMD flag so for the PSP it's impossible to launch it from MS.
    Why did I decide to told U how it works ??
    for U can finish the downgrader, I can't keep the job secret it's a free project & I hope you can finish it. thx for ur supports.

    Amicalement Yoshihiro
    best

    i've tested this on my v2.0, my psp is not bricked, it goes to the v1.50 update start screen, but when you start it a message comes up says 'there is no need to update', but it is promising, a little.

    Discuss this on our forums

    Cheers


    discussion here
    http://www.psphacks.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6293


    from psphacks.net


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    update : i think thats before yoshiro left. he left for anyone to finish it.
    damn, downgraders


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    ondafly wrote:
    so are we now sorted ? or is this yet another y-fronts story with turd polish ?

    divx on the psp would be fantastic. I got my 1 meg memory card last night, and converted an ep. of Bleach anime, took 1 hour on a p4 1.8ghz machine, and only shaved off about 60 meg of the original file size. Rather stuff that hassle and copy divxs directly onto the psp.
    we have to assume its BS until we are shown otherwise - been too many false dawns already.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭ondafly


    RuggieBear wrote:
    i agree....encoding is a pain in the tits.....
    altho i believe that you can dl psp encoded videos from the usual naughty sources.

    oh indeed, and I tried a few of them, but then you come back to that pants naming structure, which is annoying :(

    What i did find, was a product which uses PSPvideo9 and bittorent to encode "ondafly" :o as you download, and store them direct to your PSP.

    RE: Downgraders :cool:
    Downgraders are turds, and all of this talk is more turd polish ;) they might look shiney and new for a few seconds, but they still stink :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


    could some one thats has their ear to the ground just give a synopsis of whats been happening particularly regarding the claims of the two downgraders being talked about here?

    thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    Call_me_al wrote:
    could some one thats has their ear to the ground just give a synopsis of whats been happening particularly regarding the claims of the two downgraders being talked about here?

    thanks
    the first downgrader by team wab turned out to be nothing. It was never working nor had any chance of working. They have been widely discredited and come under attack for taking paypal donations and making fake videos.

    The second one FreezePSP - no one know yet if its for real or works. There has seemingly been a comedy of errors trying to get it released (problems uploading it to a server). In theory though it is not a downgrader - instead it installs a "custom" firmware via usb.

    To be honest - sounds too good to be true, in other words bullcrap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭ondafly


    below is copy/paste from pspscene

    a demo ver will come out first for you all to try
    it will let you play 1 iso on all ver of psp and will let you play xvid and divx but only for 20secs

    heres abit of what foen had to say

    <FOen> oke we are going to do it this way
    <FOen> we are release a demo for the ppl that think its fake
    <FOen> you can install see a preview but only one game works
    <FOen> and xvid works only 20 sec
    <FOen> we are working on the demo right now
    <FOen> its working for all version
    <FOen> 1.5x and 2.0
    <FOen> it repatch you can unstall the firmware
    <SystemX__> so it installs back to the version you had ?
    <FOen> if you have 2.0 and you unstall it you will take 2.0 back
    <FOen> i hope we finish it today icon_smile.gif coz i want to see ppl bagging for a full version release

    i will let you know more as i get news

    brad666
    mirc psp-scene
    please no flamming on this site


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭TinCool


    ondafly wrote:
    below is copy/paste from pspscene

    a demo ver will come out first for you all to try
    it will let you play 1 iso on all ver of psp and will let you play xvid and divx but only for 20secs

    heres abit of what foen had to say

    <FOen> oke we are going to do it this way
    <FOen> we are release a demo for the ppl that think its fake
    <FOen> you can install see a preview but only one game works
    <FOen> and xvid works only 20 sec
    <FOen> we are working on the demo right now
    <FOen> its working for all version
    <FOen> 1.5x and 2.0
    <FOen> it repatch you can unstall the firmware
    <SystemX__> so it installs back to the version you had ?
    <FOen> if you have 2.0 and you unstall it you will take 2.0 back
    <FOen> i hope we finish it today icon_smile.gif coz i want to see ppl bagging for a full version release

    i will let you know more as i get news

    brad666
    mirc psp-scene
    please no flamming on this site


    What bull$hit, the amount of effort to code for want, a working version that has parts of it disabled. It's total cr@p. They don't have a working downgrader.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,726 ✭✭✭kaisersose77


    Just dont read pspupdates etc and you wont see any of this crap, announcing it before its out usually means its 99.99999999% fake going by recent psp news. There all attention seeking ******


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,525 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    TinCool wrote:
    They don't have a working downgrader.
    No, and they never claimed to ;) It's a new interface/OS (apparently).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    RE*AC*TOR wrote:
    the first downgrader by team wab turned out to be nothing. It was never working nor had any chance of working. They have been widely discredited and come under attack for taking paypal donations and making fake videos.

    They never did finish it. What you saw was Sergent007 who is in fact only a 14 years old child who uses the swap exploit found by PSP DEV Team to hack psp 1.5.

    Contribuido por PSP-Dev Team 16.09.2005

    This message is about some rumours involved the money of donations. Wab managed their donations and was his responsability. We (psp-dev) recieved from july only 17,72 euros (Thx to Steve P., Stefano S., Francisco Javier E. S. and Rafael R. C.). We want to clarify how the teams works.

    Any time we speak about the date of release or if the downgrader was finished, we tried to clarify this situation because it was only a project and can be cancelled at any time. The videos tried to show the progress done at that moment and we never showed a full downgrade.

    PsP-Dev never works for money, we could make a lot of money and we refused it to keep our work free.

    Thx to all supporters that belive in us.
    =-=
    Contribuido por PSP-Dev Team 16.09.2005

    We want to announce that the colaboration between the two groups has been completly finished without success. We also want to announce that WAB has been disolved. The relatioship between the two groups were vanishing days ago (some of our members were banned from their server) and there is no progress with the colaboration.

    In addition, the downgrader project (never finished) is immediatelly cancelled (it is not an excuse, we can't explain our reasons, but are enough to do this).
    =-=
    Contribuido por PaWsTick 11.09.2005

    We have seen a lot of expectation after watching the video "downgrader_v09_hiresa.avi", and we have to say this video is a fake, never done by a WAB or a PSP-Dev Team member (****ing reggaeton, we won't never use that kind of crap). There are a lot of evidences to know that it's a fake (the backpic cut from our official videos, the color of the PSP Update v1.5 is different from the bios color because is a image, short time to flash, the error from the tetris game and the video say itself is a FAKE...).

    Obviusly it wasn't stolen from anyone of us, like we read in some webs.
    =-=
    Contribuido por PaWsTick 07.09.2005

    We have just make another similar video, but in a better resolution, using a v2.0 PSP. And please be patient, a project like this can't be done in two days.

    You can download it using one of this mirrors;

    Mirror1 Mirror2
    Mirror3



    It seems that www.wab.com is down, so here is some Yoshihiro words to all people:

    "Hello everybody, I know that you are expecting our downgrader with a lot of impatience but we are still working on it. I want say that all bull**** talking about me that i can see make me laugh and show that you only have time to waste. I want also add , I'm not Sergent007 who is in fact only a 14 years old child who uses the swap exploit found by PSP DEV Team to hack psp 1.5 so why talk about this? I hope these trailers will be appreciated by you because me and PSP Dev Team have worked hard on them."

    =-=

    All quotes taken from http://psp-dev.1emulation.com/

    They never said it was finished.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭fifth


    LOL. I've been moderating those freezePSP channels for the last two days.

    #freezepspfirm.backup drop in.

    Nothing going on think fOen has done a runner.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭Cabelo


    What a mighty surprise.

    One has to wonder if it was anything to do with his outlandish and ridiculous claims... Oh, what's that smell? Bull's poo!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    Anyway - looks as though this is well and truly a load of crap. Turning into a repeat of the whole Wab incident.

    On a brighter note, a buffer overflow exploit in libtiff on 2.0 firmware is found and shown to be working (pspupdates front page). Work seems to be progressing at a good pace and hopefully will lead to homebrew on 2.0


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,525 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    #pspchat are a bunch of sellouts.
    That is all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    working downgrader... apparently

    http://www.psphacks.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6963 (site seems to be gone down).

    Made by a guy called MPH - who's quite well respected.
    MPH wrote:
    Download at :

    http://rapidshare.de/files/5607151/MPHDowngrader.zip.html


    -> This is has been tested by me Wink <-

    -> I AM NOT RESPONSABLE FOR EVENTUALS DAMAGES <-


    Downgrading 2.00 -> 1.50 method

    Requires :

    - PSP 2.00 (if you have an 1.51 or 1.52, update to 2.00)
    - The 1.50 EBOOT.PBP update (http://shockzone.free.fr/PSP/Tool/EBOOT_1.50.zip)
    - MPHDowngrader (http://rapidshare.de/files/5607151/MPHDowngrader.zip.html)



    Installation :

    - Create a UPDATE folder in PSP/GAME/ folder of your memory stick
    - Copy EBOOT.PBP (update 1.50) in UPDATE folder
    - Unpack MPHDowngrader.zip
    - Copy overflow.tif in your PSP/PHOTO/ folder of your memory stick
    - Copy h.bin in root of your memory stick
    - Copy index.dat in root of your memory stick
    - Plug the AC adaptor


    Then, enter in VSHELL PHOTO MENU, this will launch Version Changer.

    Create an USB connection and if the Version Changer has been installed, a new file is created in your root of your memory stick (ms0:/index.dat.bak).

    Then go to VSHELL GAME MENU and launch 1.50 update.

    Follow the instructions ...


    The installation will stop at 99% but it's normal, continue follow the instruction

    MPH


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    hmmm did that topic have people saying it worked?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    it did - but obviously i wouldn't recommend for anyone to do this until its seriously confirmed - you never can tell with internet folk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    true, good find anyway, bit sudden, never heard of this chap before, will have to wait and see.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    so anyone want to try it :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,942 ✭✭✭Mac daddy


    I'm waiting on a couple more people to try it first seen a couple of people on psphacks and it did not work for them they are getting error codes.....

    But there are several claims it does work.Linky for the psphacks thread


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    I want someone to say it works on Eur2.0 firmware (are the firmwares the same?)

    people have definetly said it works on jap2.0

    i have all the files on my psp now, not sure i want to run it yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    ah go on.... :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    maybe i should go find my receipt....


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