New Firmware Coming Very Soon!? Possibly..

Im sure some of you remember the prestaged update site from before 2.00. It had the prereday page for the new firmware, a day before the firmware was released. The page then got password protected. Anyways, after a firmware is released the page has the password protection remove. I just tried to go to it, and guess what...it is password protected again. Here's a link:

http://stage-us.playstation.com/psp.aspx?id=SoftwareUpdate

Update 1: Taken from psp boards:

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sarah spent (i'm guessing a lot) some time on it and she found out that the username is pspbeta01 but the password is randomly generated.

credit of coarse goes to SarahPSPIRCOP. thanks Sarah....maybe someone else continue your work and find out the random password...(like the could find a pattern or something.

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Font Exploit on Wikipedia

I quickly created a Wikipedia article about the font exploit. Feel free to add to it, and im sure I will later. You can access it here

True Type Fonts Now

Freeplay and Skylark have been hard at work, and have released a converter to turn standard TrueType Fonts(TTF) to a PSP compatible pgf file. You can download the windows binary right here.
Thanks to them, you now have access to thousands of fonts. Next step, is to get to work on finding an actual exploit..but for now, enjoy your customized PSP!

Amazing Support

Wow! Over 4000 hits today...that is truly amazing..i never believed my blog would get that many hits, and it is truly amazing to see such support from the community, so thanks a lot guys!

Anyways, recently i have seen a lot of people thanking me and giving me credit for this. It is appreciated, but please remember to thank FreePlay and Skylark as well. Without them, none of this would have been possible.

Finally, PSPUpdates has made a great tutorial and package for this so check it out!

Custom Fonts..Welcome!!!

Welcome to the world of custom fonts. I have made a font pack for an awesome look, using Sony`s fonts. It is an awesome mod and you can check it out on the last page Here

Thanks

I just wanted to thank everyone for the support! In less than a week since I added the counter my blog has gotten 1000+ hits. So once again thanks for all the support and I hope that we can provide you guys with an awesome exploit!

ParseDreg3

For those of you who havent seen it yet, Parse/FixupDreg version 3 has been released. For the download and more info, visit the reg study site here

WTF

Ya somehow i got banned from pspu for no reason..so unless they make it up to me somehow, then i do NOT give pspupdates the right to post ANY news about this exploit! I am so pissed right now!!!

Edit: I have been unbanned

Researching

Right now we are into the font research stage, and just trying to see what they are made of and how they can be edited. This means that it may be a while, before any new news is posted. Anyways, for the good part, there seems to be no encryption, protection, or checksum, meaning it can be freely edited!

Guide Up

I have quickly made a detailed guide on how to run fonts off the memory stick and put it on my filefront. Let me know of any errors. BTW, after doing so there may be strange glitches, bugs, or crashes. Please report them to me to PSPFrenzy@gmail.com, and i will then submit it to Skylark and Freeplay as well.

w00t

I just used the fixupdreg2 tool and edited my registry. I managed to change my nickname, swap buttons, and i am now running fonts of my memory stick. This is a breakthrough, so screw all the haters that said it wouldn't be possible!

Documentation

Skylark has been very helpful through all of this, and has put together some documentation of what is known and what is going on so far. This can be seen here: http://mirror.toc2rta.com/index.php/PspReg

A Note to All Fakers

I am getting so fed up with the PSP scene and all the fakers, flamers, and attention whores. The psp scene is becomming a mess with all these people and their downgraders and crap. 99% of these people dont know the first thing about hacking or anything. They just release a crappy faked video instead of files. Notice whenever myself or Freeplay has discovered something we released the files. All I can say is that its pretty rough being a dev right now in this crappy scene

QJ Forums Discussion

I have recreated the system.dreg/font thread in the development section over at PSPUpdates. Please keep it to serious discussion and do not spam the thread!

PSP Registry Parser

Freeplay sent this information to me to help with the exploit:

PSP Registry Parser by Skylark (with minimal help from FreePlay :-P)
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ABOUT
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This is a command-line program that you can use to view the contents of your SYSTEM.DREG/SYSTEM.IREG files, which are the PSP's system registry. These files contain all sorts of information about system settings, network connection setup, etc.

SETUP
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Installation is simple; just copy all of the files in this ZIP file to a folder somewhere on your computer. It doesn't matter where, so long as you copy all of them.

To set the program up, you'll need to use something like FileAssistant to copy the two files from flash1:/REGISTRY into the same folder as this program. FileAssistant v0.4 works on any PSP up to v2.60, and you can get that from http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/fileasistant.shtml .

To copy flash1 using that program, press L until "Disk" is highlighted at the bottom, then press R, then pick Flash 1, then press O. Then Press L until "Copy" is highlighted, then press [] to highlight the SYSTEM.DREG and SYSTEM.IREG files, then press R to copy them to the MS.

USING
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There are two main ways of running the program:

1. Display-only mode. Open up a command prompt, change over to the folder that has the programs in it, and just type "parsedreg". It should spit out an XML-formatted file to the console.

2. File output mode. Performed exactly as #1, but you instead type "parsedreg > insert_a_filename_here.xm l". It'll save the file to whatever name you put into 'insert_a_filename_here'.

There's not really much to do with this yet, but we obsessed over it for a few days on Fanjita's IRC channel

HELP!
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If you have any questions about this, I'm sure one of us will be online. Go to www.fanjita.org and click "Live Chat", or use your favorite IRC client to connect to irc.toc2rta.com , channel #fanjita. You can also e-mail FreePlay at FreePlayPSP@gmail.com . He's a bit addicted to the IRC channel :P

NOTES
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There's something in the "pspreghtmlizer" folder that can turn the XML output into a nicely-formatted web page. Check it out.

The "src" folder contains the source code, for those of you on who are on Linux or who just want to modify the program.



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Update: Added the file to my FileFront

QJ Forums Thread Locked

Due to the annoyance at all the people who were just asking any progress and when it is going to be out, the discussion over at forums.qj.net has been locked upon my request. You will have to settle to AIM, MSN, email, or IRC to talk with me.

System.Dreg Info

Freeplay who is a researcher had an interesting discussion about the system.dreg. You can read the log here

Looping BSOD

I have managed to get a strange looping blue screen effect when modifying a set of bytes. After doing this the blue screen will appear, attempt to repair, and then the blue screen reappears. This effect continues until the PSP is rebooted. I am hoping we can insert code in that loop. I have added a guide to my FileFront on how to achieve this.

Testers

Here it is the list of testers:

Testers List:
US 2.01-Espresso, PSPunk
EU 2.01-matt1697, jcxhacker

US 2.50-Zechs6437
EU 2.50-pacopad

US 2.60-Me, PSProdigy
EU 2.60-Paradox.psp

Tester Sign-Up

Testers are now open to apply. Please visit forums.qj.net. Then click on PSPUpdates-Speculation-Font Exploit Possible? and look on page 23 for info on how to apply.

Blue Screen Free

I have finally gotten around the annoying blue screen error after modding the system.dreg. I do get an error when i go to some things. You can get the video in the download section.

Download Section Up

I have a Filefront where you can download any important files i have made. Some of the files are old. The only two new ones are just dumps. You can access my files Here

Update: For some reason directly linking to my FileFront is not working. I am looking into this.

Update 2: Bug fixed. Link should now work.

Details About Possible Font Exploit

I have decided to post here some details about the font exploit. I was looking through the flash1 that i had dumped using the BrownAle loader. I discovered the system.dreg and decided to look at it in a hex editor. I discovered that it had a path to load the fonts from flash0. I quickly dumped the fonts to my memory stick. I then changed the path to ms0:/fontmod where the newly placed fonts were. I used FileAssistant and quickly changed it. I got to browse for a little and then got corrupt settings. What I am going to attempt to do, is make a font exploit from this similar to the XBOX font exploit. I am currently researching variables and things trying to figure out what is corrupting the Flash1. Keep checking back for more details!

Hello All

I have just set up this blog quickly to detail all of my hacaking adventures. The main news will most likely be about a possible font exploit i have discovered in ALL firmware versions of the PSP system.