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by isthar
Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:12 pm
Forum: PSP Development
Topic: MPHDowngrader source
Replies: 22
Views: 20771

oh geez, thats it? did mph just take an index.dat (the encrypted version) from a 1.00 psp, drop it in flash (with some tricks), so then the updater runs? am i missing something, but was the only barrier effectively the version number read from index.dat? Of course getting access to the flash on a 2....
by isthar
Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:23 pm
Forum: PSP Development
Topic: MPHDowngrader source
Replies: 22
Views: 20771

mph, good spirit releasing source, very exciting stuff. so this index.dat is like a fat table of the file entries? what exactly lets the updater from sony work after you've a) changed the version and b) messed w/ the index.dat file? [if its ok to ask here, im curious]
by isthar
Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:39 am
Forum: PSP Development
Topic: First cut at PSP buffer overflow loader code.
Replies: 15
Views: 11251

wow really? what a pity. im a programmer myself, hacker at heart; exploring system innards is a hobby for all of us, and finding faults is but one of the things we love to do. I went and read the info there -- pity finding vulnerabiliies in the psp's code was thrown out. Does this mean, in a sense, ...
by isthar
Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:16 am
Forum: PSP Development
Topic: First cut at PSP buffer overflow loader code.
Replies: 15
Views: 11251

Is a thread like this worth reviving in light of information now available, such as http://www.psphacks.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5750 ?