'HELLO WORLD' for PSP Firmware 2.00 - 2.80

Finally, there's no longer need for Grand Theft Auto to start Homebrew Apps on a PSP running firmware 2.00 to 2.80.

Following the publication of a new proof of concept TIFF vulnerability by NOPx86, a team of PSP developers has been working hard to turn it into an opening for homebrew on the PSP. We're pleased to announce that the wait is over, with the release of a Hello World demo that runs on all PSP firmwares that are capable of viewing TIFF images!

To install, just unpack this ZIP file to your PSP's PHOTO folder, and then attempt to view hello_world.tif. Hello World will launch automatically. You may find that occasionally the full screen doesn't show - this is a known problem, just restart your PSP by holding the power button until it turns off, then open the image again. To quit, hold the power button until the PSP turns off.

So what happens next? This shows that we can run code via this exploit. It won't be too hard to develop an eLoader that can use this exploit on v2.0 - v2.6. v2.7+ will be harder, due to extra security, but will happen a little later. Kernel mode is unavailable on v2.8, but it is likely that a downgrader is possible on all other firmwares. But then, with the possibility of kernel homebrew running without the need for a game UMD, why would you need to downgrade?

Full credit is given in the Hello World, but repeated here: Thanks to NOPx86 for the initial proof of concept on the x86 processor, and psp250, Skylark, Joek2100, CSwindle, JimP and Fanjita for the PSP work. Thanks also to Ditlew, HarleyG and our families for general support during this work.


So you wanna jump on to this train just download the needed file here and enjoy :-)

Newsscource: pspupdates.com

Enjoy the silence

What to do without your electronical baby? No, this isn't supposed to be a How-To guide for whatever you might think... ;-)
No, usually I've played some XBOX360 co-op online matches Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter with Frank alias OrangeFrontman every now and then. But Koteshi's 'toy' is on the way for a new one...
So I found some stuff on my harddisk and maybe you guys can use some of these files.
Its a 'collection of console bootup sounds'.

Found so far:

• 64DD
• Dreamcast
• Gamecube
• Nintendo DS
• Nintendo DS bithday boot up
• Pokemon Mini
• PSOne
• PSP
• PSP game start
• PSTwo
• XBOX360
  

Missing:

• original Gameboy
• dunno if other devices had boot up sounds too...
  

For the whole collection v0.11 click here.
To save these files on you harddrive, just right-click on the links and select 'save to...'.

'Three red lights flash on the Ring of Light'

Who ever reads this headline is part of 2 groups. The one group will think something like 'what the hell is he's talking about?' and members of the second group think 'Oh lord. Poor guy'.

Just to make things clear:
Maybe you noticed that I bought a XBOX360 on the launch day back in the 2nd of Dezember 2005.
Now there have been a few hang ups by the console while playing. It suddenly freezes the screen and after powering off the box and starting it up again, all you see are 3 flashing lights on the ring of light and nothing on the TV screen. Beside losing some gaming progresses and online-matches the problem was the XBOX wasn't able to boot up for several minutes.
The Microsoft Knowledge Base (usually filled with loads of good tips) didn't help so I finally called the XBOX360 support hotline and told 'em to exchange it. The guy, really friendly and supportive one, told me that there can be 3 reasons for the symptoms I've told him:

- hardware defect with the Harddisk
- defect with the power-supply
- defect with the XBOX360 unit

Hope it won't take too long...

Business Trip to Nuremberg

Today the long awaited business trip to Nuremberg will start today and will last till Friday.
My 'mission' there is to setup a Checkpoint VPN-1 Edge and to connect the LAN of the Nuremberg subsidiary to our headquarter LAN in Herne.

Pictures will follow if I'm not too lazy to take some ;-)

*UPDATE*
Pictures are here but do not expect too much. Some pre-Business trip pics are included.

Business Trip to Nuremberg

Funny spoofed PS3 vs WII ad i've found

Looks like the guys at GT-TV 'borrowed' some ideas for their PS3 vs. Wii spot...

If you like to see the PC vs Mac spots just take a look at the following Youtube-links.

Spot1 , Spot2 , Spot3 , Spot4 , Spot5 , Spot6 , Spot7 , Spot8

Daedalus R7 Released

Maybe you guys know this N64 emulator for the PSP. It enables the possibility to play N64 games on your 1.0 / 1.5 firmware PSP at about 15-25 fps.

So, StrmnNrmn has done it again. For further info you can visit his website here :-)

Downloads:
Daedalus R7 for FW 1.0
Daedalus R7 for FW 1.5
Daedalus source code

"The coke side of life"

Well, maybe you know the game Grand Theft Auto / GTA if so you'll laugh about this commercial :o)

Egypt photos online!!!

Heyho,

it took a while but the work is done :-)
Now you can take a look on the 'creme de la creme ' of over 2000 photos that we and some friends (greeting to the young couple Christoph and Tanja) took in the Egypt vacation.

Egypt vacation 2006

Included are pictures of 'Valley of the Kings', 'Karnak-Temple', 'Pyramids of Giza', the 'Sphinx' and many other wonderful things. So, have fun with these pics.