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First hack ever

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BlackSheep

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what is the first hack ever for the psp.
who is the first psp hacker
what is the first homebrew ?????

when did they take place
 
The first hack that I am aware of is the Hello World hack by Nem. It was the first unsigned code to run on the PSP. It only ran on firmware version 1.00 PSPs, which were ones that had been imported from Japan. Later, the swap trick and then kxploit were developed for 1.50 firmwares, then the 2.00 TIFF exploit, the GTA:LCS exploits, more TIFF exploits, the Pandora, and today, another batch of TIFF exploits.

Of course, some of my details may be a little off. Others who are familiar with the scene, feel free to correct me.
 
I know of the GTA for sure. That was for 3.03. Which, for me was the Golden Firmware lol.

First cfw was from Dax tho right?
 
Yes the first CFW was 1.50 POC by Dark-AleX
 
Hardrive said:
The first hack that I am aware of is the Hello World hack by Nem. It was the first unsigned code to run on the PSP. It only ran on firmware version 1.00 PSPs, which were ones that had been imported from Japan. Later, the swap trick and then kxploit were developed for 1.50 firmwares, then the 2.00 TIFF exploit, the GTA:LCS exploits, more TIFF exploits, the Pandora, and today, another batch of TIFF exploits.

Of course, some of my details may be a little off. Others who are familiar with the scene, feel free to correct me.
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I wouldn't really call hello world on 1.00 a hack it was more of a discovery. Sony didn't put any protection in place to stop running unsigned code so there was no hacking needed. Hats off to nem for exposing the flaw though.

GTA: LCS exploit and eloader was the best around. That covered so many different firmwares.

You also forgot the Lumines and Gripshift exploits.
 
twelve said:
I wouldn't really call hello world on 1.00 a hack it was more of a discovery. Sony didn't put any protection in place to stop running unsigned code so there was no hacking needed. Hats off to nem for exposing the flaw though.

GTA: LCS exploit and eloader was the best around. That covered so many different firmwares.

You also forgot the Lumines and Gripshift exploits.
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Ah, I did forget those. Thanks twelve :)
 
Well, even if they did accidentally leave an ELF loader in there, nem needed to figure out how to interface with the hardware, and that probably took some effort.

Also you forgot the shortlived swaploit (before my time, though). I don't really know the details of that one, as it was before my time in the scene.
 
hmm so the tiff images was the source of the mayhem after all... why didnt sony block/disable the tiff like what they did in 5.50 in the first place...

CFW = more money for them i guess LOL
 
Archaemic said:
Also you forgot the shortlived swaploit (before my time, though). I don't really know the details of that one, as it was before my time in the scene.
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No he didn't, he talked about the swap trick which is a laymans term for the swaploit.
It was the predecessor of the kxploit. Quite funny how an extra % sign on the folder name made kxploit what it was
 
irekski said:
hmm so the tiff images was the source of the mayhem after all... why didnt sony block/disable the tiff like what they did in 5.50 in the first place...

CFW = more money for them i guess LOL
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TIFF images weren't the start of exploits. The first TIFF exploit was back for 2.00. You could say it was the first downgrader exploit though.
 
Erland said:
Yes the first CFW was 1.50 POC by Dark-AleX
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I would say Epsilon BIOS actually.

DA's 1.50 POC was the first to release the source.

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Also, before Nem's 1.00 Hello World we had a bunch of Wipeout Pure Web browser hacks. I would also consider the 1.00 Hello World very much a hack, considering the amount of info that had to be worked out.

But even before that we had binaries that people had compiled with the official SDK that semi-ran on 1.00. So it's hard to say what the "first hack" was and who it was that released it. People were tinkering with it from the very first day.

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Adiuvo said:
TIFF images weren't the start of exploits. The first TIFF exploit was back for 2.00. You could say it was the first downgrader exploit though.
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The 2.00 TIFF exploit only allowed unsigned code to run. The 2.00 downgrader exploit used a seperate exploit where the PSP is tricked into thinking it was a 1.00 version (by changing the version.txt), then you could just simply run an ofw 1.50 update to "downgrade" back to 1.50. They promptly fixed both exploits in 2.01 however. Later downgraders were actual downgraders where you had to actually write your own flashing code.
 
Sousanator said:
That's pushing it since you needed the modchip in order for that to work.
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You didn't *need* the modchip, the UP modchip isn't *really* considered a modchip it's just a dual-nand system. They only designed Epsilon to only work on UP to make more money, to be able to sell more UP's (you think they would've given it out for free?). Yes the guy behind Epsilon is the same guy behind UP (and a handful of other console modchip 'teams').

And considering the method DA used for the 1.50 POC is based on the same method used in Epsilon (custom vshmain.prx), I would consider Epsilon very much the first cfw.
 
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