Playstation classic

[WD_GASTER2]

nah i doubt that. the snes and nes classic could be said to have had NO security whatsoever by comparison. There were some legit roadblocks, password protection and people had to resort to tiny ant soldering to dump and compromise the nand.
this seems like a legit fuck up on par with the 2010 blunder they did.

 

[WD_GASTER2]

kind of pointless now but the key to reliable uart connection is to bridge 2 points under the motherboard nearby the actual usb port. go figure.

 

[ameisenmann]

So is the time right to make a tutorial for at least replacing the games on the PS Classic as Yifan lu did? In his last stream he said that he will not release some encrypted key because credit belongs to someone else. He got it from a japanese guy from Hakchi he said. I think this is needed to gain root access and to rewrite the flash memory as he did with the Crash Bandicot image file? He also said that he will not make software for end users. Next thing he will work on is boot loader in order to reset to default in case you brick your device.
But maybe it is too early and I will wait for a Plug & Play solution.
Does anyone know how they solved the thing with multi discs? Is it multiple bin/img files or all discs in one PBP file? I already have a ton of PBPs for my SNES Mini and would like to re-use them. But since it is also PCSX that I use on SNES Mini I would suggest that they can be loaded on PS Classic, too.

 

[IwearHelmet4Bed]

Wonder why these games are in the instruction manual? https://imgur.com/a/W2Xaw4F

 

[The Frenchman]

At this rate I'd say next week we'll all be ready to do it ourselves.

 

[thegame16]

At this rate I'd say next week we'll all be ready to do it ourselves.

I say this weekend I just saw a video from someone who added tony hawk 2 but he said it was running horrible.

Here is the video:

 

[The Frenchman]

I say this weekend I just saw a video from someone who added tony hawk 2 but he said it was running horrible.

Here is the video:

We need proper integration and a new shortcut for emulator menu and also the ontegration of different emulator cores. Like PCSX rearmed neon.(which runs insanely well already on the SNESC)

We'll see but it's time to buy one, when they are easy to mod this'll be much more popular!

 

[Nepnepy]

Dose madmonkey have a Twitter? When I search I get hotels lol

 

[WD_GASTER2]

finally i got it to boot consistently. stupid bridge on side A of the board.

 

[WD_GASTER2]

btw now that i have caught up with all of the developments with these folks i guess i can offer some answers on where things stand:

can a solderless solution be done? Yes. somebody would need to complile an update data payload with the right signature (which relies on some basic commands and to be honest this is easy to do just maybe a bit tedious. I am sure somebody will compile this, its just trivial at this point.

can you put games on it and play them right now with ease? yes with some soldering and a uart adapter as the current payload script that yifan lu released it allows you to login as root on the console. (cygwin and certain files are needed to be compiled to create this payload)

Can any uart adapter be used at this time to do the shenanigans some youtube folks are doing? no. you will need one that supports a baud rate of 921600 which is pretty high and not all uart to usb adapters works. however you can use something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/MakerSpot-FT230XS-Serial-Adapter-Dongle/dp/B01J9G3OAS/ref=sr_1_1

oh also two points need to be soldered under the motherboard to enable the serial console.

also at this time basic linux command lines knowledge is needed once you have gotten full terminal access.

hope that clarifies where things stand for the newbies.

 

[8bitFlashback]

btw now that i have caught up with all of the developments with these folks i guess i can offer some answers on where things stand:

can a solderless solution be done? Yes. somebody would need to complile an update data payload with the right signature (which relies on some basic commands and to be honest this is easy to do just maybe a bit tedious. I am sure somebody will compile this, its just trivial at this point.

can you put games on it and play them right now with ease? yes with some soldering and a uart adapter as the current payload script that yifan lu released it allows you to login as root on the console. (cygwin and certain files are needed to be compiled to create this payload)

Can any uart adapter be used at this time to do the shenanigans some youtube folks are doing? no. you will need one that supports a baud rate of 921600 which is pretty high and not all uart to usb adapters works. however you can use something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/MakerSpot-FT230XS-Serial-Adapter-Dongle/dp/B01J9G3OAS/ref=sr_1_1

oh also two points need to be soldered under the motherboard to enable the serial console.

also at this time basic linux command lines knowledge is needed once you have gotten full terminal access.

hope that clarifies where things stand for the newbies.

good work do have any photos of all connection&solder points on playstation classic. Thanks in advance

 

[WD_GASTER2]

the uart pinout should be self explanatory.
oh also do not solder the uart 5v line to the motherboard, you can kill it! do not do it. you just need the rx tx and gnd. also the jumper on the uart to usb should be set atleast to 3.3v. you may end up doing damage at 5v.

AS A MATTER OF FACT THIS IS ONLY EASY FOR PEOPLE THAT HAVE LINUX AND UART EXPERIENCE. I DO NOT ADVISE THIS FOR NEWBIES

the bottom pad that needs soldering you can disregard the uart as that can be soldered on top (all you need to solder is the U shape orange wire) :

picture is courtesy of bakueikozo and can be found at this blog here:

http://honeylab.hatenablog.jp

 

[ameisenmann]

Thanks for the update! Since just adding or replacing games does not "fix" this thing (performance still very poor) I will wait for an updated firmware with better running PCSX and maybe Retroarch and other cores.

@WD_GASTER2
Do you plan to make some Plug & Play Software for us noobs?

 

[WD_GASTER2]

nope not me. i am sure someone else will take the task. (many reasons why in this case, from who knows how much of a grey area releasing something like this falls in, to i really suck at documenting stuff and simplifying things for people as i already do it in a consistent basis IRL as part of what i do for a living)


I just wanted to give an easily digestible explanation specially for newbies as there a lot of "can it be h4x3d?" or "whats the status?" or "will i need to solder?" questions going around.

P.S. Performance for the most part is ok with the 60hz stuff if you aske me.

 

[TonyBiH]

I will wait untill whole kernel can be dumped and rewrited without soldering. If you eventualy get access to everything inside not just ability to order command or you make some program that we newbies can put on usb stick and play like POPs Starter

 

[RockRiver]

adding games on USB drive:

 

[MitchBuchanan]

adding games on USB drive:

Wow! Not long now for the rest of us.

 

[TonyBiH]

So what we need ?

 

[RockRiver]

payload file... (I think) and folders names and
structure???

 

[ameisenmann]

Its a good start! Still we have to wait for a USB Hub solution or USB OTG. Or does it already work with USB Hub, 2nd controller and booting games from USB?
No one has created a noob-save tutorial until now have they?!