Clip: PSPgo Fully Hacked, Running HEN

deadreckoning666 - 42 days 10 hours ago

NOW its worth buying! But id feel damn stupid if the PSP 2 actually does come out next year.

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zslash - 42 days 11 hours ago

What are you getting at, it's running under a custom OS - 6.10 Typoon.

By the sound of it you only consider a system hacked when it can run pirated games. The DRM for PS Store titles has nothing to do with the core of the firmware itself.

Technically, you could accomplish what you're asking for without even fully hacking the system. Kernel level access on the other hand, no.

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cgoodno - 42 days 10 hours ago

No, they updated the XML file to display the firmware as Typhoon, they didn't show any proof of hacking it at all. You can do this with the PS3 since the text displayed is controlled by XML language files. All they did otherwise was run an application off of the firmware.

The most hilarious thing is that people on these sites who have no clue about how to hack or what a hack really is gobble this crap up and act like they know what they're talking about.

Let's put it this way! If they had hacked it to their own firmware... they could have just hidden the MAC Address from the hack. Heck, you can do that now by altering the XML Language file to override the text display to nothing.

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Armyless - 42 days 10 hours ago

Well said ;)

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sulack - 42 days 10 hours ago

You obviously dont know what a hack is. Google it then come back and tell me thats not a hack

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zslash - 42 days 9 hours ago

@cgoodno:

Team Typoon are the same guys that hacked the 3000.. why would they lie? This isn't a bunch of no name kids.

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Redempteur - 42 days 7 hours ago

Hack = possibility to run homebrew software ..

If the psp is running a software not designed then it's been hacked to do so ...

Being able to run emulators "on the go " just like with the others psp is GREAT.. Some people want an iso loader but that's not what hack means ..

Guess what the vid showed an emulator on the psp go ( unofficial )
And it's done by people who already released things similar for the previous psp .. so what's your problem ? really ?

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cgoodno - 42 days 4 hours ago

1. As a programmer, the definition of hack that is to be used is: To gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorization; To use one's skill in computer programming to gain illegal or unauthorized access to a file or network.

Any other use and you muddy the concept of what hacking really means. By the definition you guys are using, hack could mean just changing the background color of the dang thing considering how simple that is.

Hack has never meant the ability to run homebrew applications. If that's the definition, then everything in the world can be hacked from the get go and makes no sense since all you're doing is compiling applications that are designed to work as implemented with the OS. In my world of developing applications, we call that developing an application for the platform. I don't write a shell script in .NET for a Windows NT system and then say I've hacked the Windows OS, it's just silly.

2. People of all types want you to see them 'hack' things for the same reason people post idiotic fanboy remarks in the N4G comments, they want attention in one way or another. They definitely prey on the ignorance of the common person who really doesn't know the difference between a hack and running an application designed to work with the OS of the system. Netflix even preys on the ignorance of people by somehow equating that it's easier to create an executable file that is run from a disc versus creating one that can run off of the HDD of a PS3; the fact is that they take the exact same work and effort since the only difference in the application is the location from which the executable will be read.

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Redempteur - 41 days 23 hours ago

you're going into circles ...

First ..stay on the subject ...no need for PS3 and netflix

second :
"To gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorization"

And you don't think that to run homebrew you need to have acces to some system files to use them illegaly ?
I agree it's less an hack and more a crack but still ... As a programmer to , going for minor details at this point of the psps systems hacks since 3 to 4 years ago is ridiculous ...

Oh and if you think that running an home brew app on a protected ( so far ) system like the pspgo is like using .net to make a exe , how sadly mistaken you are

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cgoodno - 41 days 19 hours ago

1. "you're going into circles ... "

Actually, it's called a tangent. I brought it up because it's eerily familiar to how people are accepting what others are saying at face value, and then when someone who actually is a programmer brings the truth to light they argue as if they know what they're talking about.

2. "And you don't think that to run homebrew you need to have acces to some system files to use them illegaly ? "

Seriously? C'mon, use your noggin.

If you create an application to run on the OS as it's intended, then there is no hacking. Do you say that a game developed to be played on the PSP is a hack? All it takes to make an application for the PSP is a $1000 dev kit or a compiler of your own to make PSP readable compiled programs. Heck, there are thousands of compilers for .NET applications out there, and the same happens with other program types.

Otherwise, all you do is write a C++\C# application that integrates with the OS controls and drivers just like you would for any other Windows application. In this instance, they've created a dumbed down Steam application, a program you run in order to manage and play other game files.

Nothing illegal here other than the possibility of illegal distribution of a game application that hasn't been approved by Sony's QA team.

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Redempteur - 41 days 6 hours ago

ok you're completly lost ... you're into your own world and i don't think you want to get out .

These apps runs ONLY on custom PSP firmwares . ONly .
If they run , it means that the locks sony put in place have been hacked or cracked ( whatever suit your taste ) ..
Hen is one of the psp modules created by people who modify the psp os To do that ...
In order for HEn to work on psp go , they have to HACK the system ...

This is obviously an exploit that allow this to happen , so please learn to understand this tiny part before trying to teach someone else .
You are complaining but you don't seem to even understand why yourself .

THE POINT IS NOT the App .. it's the fact that the apps work on the psp go ...

Buy a psp and try it yourself !!! These Emulators don't work ( the only one working is the psone official one ) .. unless you have HEN or a custom firmware of some sort ..ect ect .

It's the first time i've seen someone wanting to teach something he don't understand ... quite a sight...

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cgoodno - 40 days 19 hours ago

*facepalm*

I swear people who don't understand technology but really act like they do are so stubborn.

HEN isn't a firmware hack, it's an application designed to run on the PSP firmware. It's just like any other emulator, it's a regular application. Typhoon says that they hack the kernel to change the MAC address. Guess what, it's not true. How do I know, because I've tested it with my MAC filtered router. I set the PSP to connect to my router wirelessly with it's native MAC address. Then I change it through HEN. Guess what, it can still connect because the MAC address was never changed, only made to seem like it was changed by altering the XML Language file, removing the script reference to call the MAC address data and transplanted with a hard-coded equivalent. It didn't change the hardware firmware, it just masked it. If it had changed, I wouldn't have been able to connect because its new MAC address wouldn't be allowed by my router.

All HEN is is an application for interfacing with emulators and similar programs built to work with a specific version of the PSP firmware. The reason for the firmware limitation is because what they are doing is illegal and preventive measures are taken to continue to disable the possibility with each firmware release.

I've also installed multiple emulators on a PSP before. I know what they are. I've even repackaged some old NES games from one PC-based emulator to the PSP emulator.

Look, I get it, you read on the Web about someone hacking, everyone clamors around it and talks about how it'll be no time until they do even more. But, guess what, they don't do anything else because there isn't anything else to do. All they do is try to update the application with a later firmware version, fix bugs with various emulator issues, and that's all.

It's a standard app running on the firmware, not a hack of the firmware. It's great that these guys are able to do that, but them saying it's a hack is just bull, and they know it. That's why they call their programs homebrews and emulators, not hacks.

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Redempteur - 40 days 13 hours ago

nOw please stop ..

you're ridiculous ... seriously .

Are we talking about HEN ? or the fact that the psp go can run HEN ?
HEn is one of the multiple programs added to the official sony firmware . And the package becames a custom firmware ... i 'm SURE .. by that i mean certain that getting past the obstacles sony put in each psp since the later psps 2000 isn't an easy task ...

it's not just a program you do with .net and it's done .. you have to bypass quite some securities in order for HEN to work ..and not just HEN , many other plug-ins inclued with it ...

so please .. For THE LAST TIME the news is not HEN running ..as it's a perfectly normal psp app .

It's the fact that the psp go is running a homebrew emulator with HEN .

Why don't you do the same if it's THAT easy ? Oh that's right ...you can't do the same ...!!!!!!

Stop downgrading someone else work ... it's pathetic .

PS: and stop believing you're the only here who knows about programing
PS2: you're like " you just have to remove some files or edit them it's easy .." But what allowed you to acces the Xmls and Flash 1 and flash 0 files in the first place ? think about it

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sikbeta - 42 days 10 hours ago

This hack only shows a kind of OS or emulator or whatever, but you still have to pay for download games or is something that I missing, because for me Hacked was only to play pirated games, I'm not into the homebrew stuff

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Mr Logic - 42 days 11 hours ago

Yeah but at 1gb in size I wonder how long it would take.

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Redempteur - 42 days 10 hours ago

not to mention how much battery life it will need

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Close_Second - 42 days 4 hours ago

...students who don't resort to crime. Sell it any way you want, you're still a thief.

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KezraPlanes - 42 days 9 hours ago

He said this is a Proof of Concept, meaning that it's not complete. That's why he must have covered the MAC with whatever he did.

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kapedkrusader - 42 days 12 hours ago

Dude, I'm a PS3 owner, I don't own a 360. Just stop it already.

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Shadow Man - 42 days 11 hours ago

Are you acting out because 4point7BillionLoss comments hurt your feelings?

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