First of all, don’t confuse this with “2.0 firmware cracked”, it has not yet but this is a very important stepping stone in order to achieve that goal. So… do not update your PSP’s firmware yet, there is still NO way to run homebrew software on the 2.0 firmware, and please do not blame us if you misread this. Now onto the article.

Yes ladies and gents, the kind folks at psphacks.net have announced that someone has been able to decrypt the DATA.PSP from the EBOOT.PBP.

For those which might be a little sceptical about it, here’s part of the code

msgupdater_error_lowbattery
msgshare_error_content_corrupted_update
msgupdater_remove_umd
msgupdater_versions
msgupdater_dot
msgupdater_%d_%02d
updater_start_update
updater_license_ask
updater_function_list
updater_start_update
updater_license_consent
msgupdater_accept_eula
updater_license_consent_text
updater_license_consent_version_text
mlist_updater_license_ask
msgupdater_start_update_ms
msgupdater_start_update_umd
updater_start_update_text
updater_start_update_version_text
msgupdater_eula
updater_main
updater_updating
updater_main
Ignoring extra png_read_update_info() call; row buffer not reallocated
update_plugin
msgshare_error_content_corrupted_update
msgshare_updateprompt_updateunnecessary
msgupdater_list_add
msgupdater_updating_ms
msgupdater_updating_umd
msgupdater_updated
msgupdater_cancel_update_ask

So we should expect seeing the rebirth of “Hello World!” on the PSP very soon, and then all hell will break lose. I recommend you download the 2.0 updater, in case you already haven’t because the hosting sites might suffer from DOS once software starts appearing.

Once again, there is still no way to run homebrew software on the PSP. I only recommend that you download the file so it will be ready to run once the 2.0 firmware is cracked and you won’t struggle to find it then.

USA Patch – JAP Patch

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