Gaming psp hacking

[soulfire]

yo gbatemp

i have a question, seeing that the psp hacking world is a bit falling down with no dark alex and yoshiro rumor that he quits.

i have decided that i want to learn to hack the psp.

i know it's not easy and it takes a lot of learning practice and much more and i am prepared for that.

but i don't know where to start :S

i googled a bit but only founds guides how to put cfw on your psp. i already know that have done that many times

ok the things i basicly want is:

- maybe a team or a partner

- where to start learning to hack

- my ultimate goal is to hack the psp go

sow gbatemp where to start ?

 

[Thoob]

*Looks at sig and realises how often it is true.*

 

[Leo Cantus]

yo gbatemp

i have a question, seeing that the psp hacking world is a bit falling down with no dark alex and yoshiro rumor that he quits.

i have decided that i want to learn to hack the psp.

i know it's not easy and it takes a lot of learning practice and much more and i am prepared for that.

but i don't know where to start :S

i googled a bit but only founds guides how to put cfw on your psp. i already know that have done that many times

ok the things i basicly want is:

- maybe a team or a partner

- where to start learning to hack

- my ultimate goal is to hack the psp go

sow gbatemp where to start ?

You cant hack the PSP Go

 

[soulfire]

yeah the only difference is that i have lots of experience in hardware and software and modding en i really want to do it.

and i didn't asked for opinion whatever i can or can't do it.


to bik75

you never know until you try

and again i asked for where to start.

and i don't really want to hack the go but just the psp

 

[MelodieOctavia]

You might want to show a bit of what you can do before anyone will jump on your bandwagon. no one is going to join a team where the team "leader" doesnt know what the hell hes doing.

 

[soulfire]

You might want to show a bit of what you can do before anyone will jump on your bandwagon. no one is going to join a team where the team "leader" doesnt know what the hell hes doing.

you got a point there but i am not asking for a team mate now

in the future maybe

my question for now it where to start the whole hacking thing.

 

[SifJar]

You might want to show a bit of what you can do before anyone will jump on your bandwagon. no one is going to join a team where the team "leader" doesnt know what the hell hes doing.

you got a point there but i am not asking for a team mate now

in the future maybe

my question for now it where to start the whole hacking thing.

In your original post you did.

Anyway, if you're so experienced, why are you asking us how to hack the PSP Go? If we knew anything, we'd have done it. Duh.

 

[Chaz.]

Find an exploit in the PSP Go. Then you will be loved.

 

[soulfire]

i already found the way to start

i will be learning c++ first then i will continue the psp hacking.

 

[FAST6191]

As you asked

First C++ is OK but it will not make you a hacker "out of the box", on the other hand you can code with it which many will like more. Low level hacking is a different beast. You need not master everything and indeed you can skip to other steps and go back to earlier ones later.

Step 1: Electronics.
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/index.html
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorial_...tutorials_id=57
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engin...ience/index.htm

Too many people get hung up on digital electronics here and omit the basic analogue electronics, good news is that is also applies to the objects you want to hack- so many times have devices fallen because the security is "digital" only.


Step 2: Low level programming.
If you have done 1) you have probably realised that every machine is different, they have however built on the same principles and if you can not transfer knowledge you have no business hacking anything.
http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/language...asmtut/asm3.htm
http://www.securitytube.net/Assembly-Prime...tion-video.aspx
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,2447.0.html


Step 2.5: High level programming, pretty much everything these days is made in high level language which confers some nice advantages.

http://www.cprogramming.com/
http://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/video.htm

It should not be hard to drum up links on this subject.

Step 3: Cryptography and/or security.
http://www.schneier.com/ and his books are considered some of the best here.
Poke around a.b.e-book.technical as well.

Step 4: Hacking proper. Many places to learn this sort of thing, personally I like conferences and example sites to be good here:
http://events.ccc.de/congress/ as an example from links I have open right now, there are loads of others.
Blogs also, there are hundreds of these but this http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/default-key...me-hub-routers/ is the sort of thing you are after.
These sorts of things detail hacks, methods and are a good insight into the mindset required.
http://www.eevblog.com/ is perhaps also of interest- you need not limit yourself to "hacking"- remember that transfer of knowledge comment earlier.

I would not consider it true hacking most of the time but the following sites are somewhat interesting on occasion:
http://hackedgadgets.com/
http://hackaday.com/

Step 5: Pull things apart, anything and everything ever made will fall into this category. From the bookmarks

http://www.gamesx.com/index.php
http://pinouts.ru/pin_Game.shtml
http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/repair/xbox-360-repair.htm
http://octopart.com/
http://www.findchips.com/
http://www.romhacking.net/
http://nocash.emubase.de/gbatek.htm
http://www.ziegler.desaign.de/
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dll_export_viewer.html
http://www.oopsilon.com/The-Smallest-NDS-File
http://www.dependencywalker.com/
http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/families/ARM9EFamily.html
http://doc.kodewerx.org/index.html
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=...ry:Game_Formats
http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/Game_File_Format_Central
http://web2.murraystate.edu/andy.batts/ps/powersupply.htm
http://www.ikalogic.com/scanalogic_home.php
http://www.xboxhacker.net/index.php?topic=12347.0
http://sound.westhost.com/amp-basics2.htm

Good news is that information is free and what once cost several hundred of your chosen currency now probably exists in a USB form on dealextreme or has been relegated to software status.
The dominant piece of advice: to look at a complex system and figure it out instantly is near impossible, every complex device is a combination of parts though so break it down into said components or subsystems.

 

[soulfire]

thank you so much fast6191 for giving this information.

this is the real help that i am used to from gbatemp.
that is why i joined and until you i only got the psp go isn't hackable or reactions like that.

atleast i know where to start and when i am done with all of this i will have a solid basic of information and knowledge of hacking.


and thank you again for the detailed and nice information you gave.

ppl like you keep gbatemp running and make me come here everyday