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Fanjita's slice of homebrew heaven - PSP firmware 3.50 Downgrader out NOW!!!

Posted Jun 26, 2007 at 04:51PM by Tim Y. Listed in: Hacks & Exploits, Homebrew Development Tags: Fanjita, Sony, homebrew community, Noobz, Archaemic

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Just a few days after announcing that they managed to sniff out the Illuminati exploit for PSP firmware 3.50, the Noobz team is letting the community know they've hit pay dirt - the firmware 3.50 firmware downgrader is here! Now we can all have a slice of homebrew-heaven as this'll allow all commercial Sony firmwares to be downgradable back to firmware 1.50 - the gateway to Dark Alex's Custom Firmwares.

The team further notes that the downgrader is for firmware 3.50 - which means those wanting to downgrade must upgrade to the said firmware first. Fanjita's downgrader includes a port of Homebrew ENabler (HEN) for firmware 3.50 which will automatically detect existing PSP motherboards, and will take the proper steps for the downgrade. As a recap, the Noobz team advises users to have the following ready:

A PSP, upgraded to the official Sony v3.50 firmware. You should also set your language settings to "English".
A legal Lumines UMD, either the EU (ULES00043) or US (ULUS10002) version. The original, Platinum, or Greatest Hits versions are all fine. Support for the Japanese version will come soon.
Sufficient intelligence and english language skills to be able to carefully and thoroughly read the instructions.
It would also help if you've previously run the Illuminati Hello World, so that you're familiar with how to run the Illuminati exploit.

Of course, considering it's still in its early stage of development, risks can't be avoided. So Fanjita and his Noobz team issue these warnings:

Any downgrader carries some risk of permanently damaging your PSP. We've done everything we can to remove as much danger as possible, but if you choose to use this downgrader, you are accepting all of the risk involved. Nobody else will be held responsible for any damage to your PSP, howsoever caused.
Recent Sony official firmwares (3.30 onwards) have included checks that block upgrade from previously-downgraded PSPs with TA-082 or later motherboards. If you use this downgrader on such a PSP, you will lock yourself out of official firmware updates - although you will still be able to use new OE firmwares when they are released. We intend to release a tool to allow a return to official firmwares in the future.
This software is provided free of charge, so that you can use legitimate homebrew on your PSP. You are explicitly prohibited from selling it, or using it to pirate commercial games or applications. If you want to play a commercial game, do the decent thing and support the developers by buying it. If you don't, then YOU are contributing to the death of the PSP software industry.

Full installation and usage instructions should be available in the bundle Downgrader_HOWTO.txt file - we strongly advise users to read that very carefully before doing anything else. Another thing to note is that this exploit is a "secret" kernel mode that, according to Fanjita, they've been hanging on to.

Also, this groundbreaking exploit was made possible thru the aid of many figures in the PSP homebrew scene. Fanjita wishes to give credit to the following:

Everyone who has contributed to the ps2dev.org toolchain, without which none of the Noobz software would ever have been possible
Archaemic for his original input into the Illuminati exploit
Dark_AleX and Mathieulh, for their work on custom firmwares, HEN and the downgrader core
The various websites who continue to develop and support the homebrew community. You know who you are, and we're not going to stir up site politics by mentioning any specific sites.

That's it for the moment, although the Noobz team's other future projects include a fix for guys stuck on PSP fw 3.10 or 3.11, and an eLoader for v3.50 HEN.

Download: PSP 3.50 Downgrader (package)
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by FIRST (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» POST

FIRST POST! YEAHH1

Re: ManiacX (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» -

Great job, noobz team!

Welcome to the new people in the homebrew community!

Pls don't ask noob questions without researching first :P

Re: Ferod (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» Wow

Worked perfectly on my friends psp, he was on 3.10, updated to 3.50 and downgraded perfectly!!!

Ty

Re: Tony Almeida (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» Question

what is the difference between DevHook Supported 1.62 IE-D Update2 and Custom Firmware 3.40 OE. ANd what is HEN?

Re: ManiacX (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» -

HEN + Homebrew Enabler

QJ.net staff, i suggest you close comments on this post because of spam and advertising comments that are bound to happen.

Re: Tatsuya (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» Great!

I'm PSP user in Japan.
It might be a thing to have expected this day months of days how many unpleasant how many.
Though it is a thing in Japanese version UMD
Not only I but also a lot of Japanese are assisting.

Re: CheWu (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» WOOP WOOP

WoWoWoW! noobz are making cracks like theres no tommrow.

Re: Aleshy (Unregistered) - 2007-06-27

» OMFG

This mourning I woke up and not expecting anything but I just checked because I have nothing else of interest to do. OMFG well done n00bz and co. Im just waiting for my battery to recharge to 75% its at 74% I will be dowgrading to day!!

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Re: Video on Youtube (Unregistered) - 2007-06-27

» Video on youtube

watch me downgrade my 3.50 check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v+-hPTkegVo5w

Re: Luscher (Unregistered) - 2007-06-27

» Too bad

Too bad I don't need this cause i already downgraded from 3.03 and have 3.03 OE-C

Re: noobiwe (Unregistered) - 2007-06-27

» LUMINES

hy do we need 'Lumines' the game?? coz apparently u need it to install this downgrada...............

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» a

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Re: BARRONI1977 (Unregistered) - 2007-06-28

» PSP

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v+i7c2r84AXyk

Re: Jomann (Unregistered) - 2007-06-28

» nice

if any1 wants to shut an iso site down pm me, i dont have the power to so i dont know who to talk to

Re: ZUBERUMUC (Unregistered) - 2007-07-19

» GEEZ GEEZ

w00T!

by Ievel (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» NICE

Thanks again

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Re: HumanIce (Unregistered) - 2007-06-27

» awesome

hell yeah noobz team!!! you rock!
this is awesome, now I can finally downgrade my friend's psp! and another friend that also has a psp.. dam this is gonna be awesome..

by Compozitor (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» Second ^))

Guys you ROCK!!!!! You are the best! We all love you!
Keep it up!

Re: harry balsaq (Unregistered) - 2007-06-27

» haha

hahahahahah u love a guy omg omg omg omg omg wen i saw this a strange white liquid came out of my peni$ idk wat it is sumone please tell me wat it is

Re: harry balsaq is a ***** up (Unregistered) - 2007-06-27

» you are queer

you are a c.ock sucker

by Mr. Chaos (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» Cool

Good job Noobz team.

First?

by WTF (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» FIRST

LMFAO F U

by Joshua Auger (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» FIRST

GOING TO GET LUMINES NOW LIKE ASAP!!!!!!!

by Korlithiel - 2007-06-26

» Ah yeah

Last time I missed out on cashing in on the exploit, so many copies of GTA sold and I missed it.

Anyways I'm glad for this exploit, people can now buy a new PSP and end up with a completely homebrew compatible one.

Re: Korlithiel - 2007-06-26

» Forgot to mention earlier

On the Noobz website they wanted all news articles to link to the donation thing so they can be paid for their work by those willing since it seems to be forgotten I figured I should mention it.

Re: DJ (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» QJ!! QJ!! QJ!! READ Korlithiel's post!!!!

BTW, WAY TO GO!! IM FREAKIN SHOCKED AT HOW SIMPLE AND EASY TO GET A GAME. the game is rated E to that way everyone can downgrade unlike the m ratings which lmited some people. plus its a win-win situation. we get downgrades and homebrew and the devs of the game get sales increase. nothing to lose....yet.

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by nice job yet again (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» homebrew just keeps going and going and going

not that i or anyone i know can use this (i've switched everyone i know's psp to custom firmware), i heartily congratulate the devs for their stunning work. keep sticking it to the S-ny man!

Re: nobody (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» kewl

time to go buy a copy of lumines!

Re: bc (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» this is it!!

It is here. Enjoy it everybody!!

by Kamesen (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» VERY NICE

thanks much. sooo... whens CFW 3.50 comin out? =p

Re: Whaa?! (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» soon

and even sooner will 3.51 come out

Re: OMG (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» OMG

Wow... after all this time... finally out!!! amazing... now I can go buy another PSP!!

Re: blackhowling (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» nice work guys

got a paypal i can donate to for your continuing work over the past year ?
i've known about homebrew since the start so i'm safe :)
also 3.50CFW is only 5% complete so far due to changing in the prx's or so i read

Re: Mibu K. (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» Thanks

Sweetness..... Now I can buy another slick PSP and downgrade.

Re: Fanjita - 2007-06-27

» Paypal for donations

The donations link in the article above is now fixed, or you can paypal directly to donations@noobz.eu

by . (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» .

noobz.eu is down

Re: D (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» noobz

it shouldn't be, I'm on

by james2150 (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» ...

watever

Re: Xairu (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» Great Job

I'm still waiting for people to stop upgrading their older PSPs.. less people want downgrader, more room for devs to develop other hacks and such. :)

Gratz to noobz and company. :3

by GJ (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» cant wait for 3.50 OE-A to come out now lol

YAaa good for all you 3.50 ers

by james2150 (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» ...

is this the first time a downgrader has come out before cfw? YAY NOOBZ!

Re: Squake (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» Awesome

3.50 downgrader. I've been denying it forever. Never knew it was possible. ^_^

Great job noobz!

by XxBigP123xX - 2007-06-26

» i pwn noobz

i pwn noobz

Re: zen (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» cool

that's pretty cool for new holders

by 1 (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» 2

Any chance of PSP sales sky-rocketing now?

Re: gregerson316 (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» Maybe

The psp's might sell more but the games will lower.

Re: Ricardo (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26

» But...

But the Lumines sales will increase :P

Re: no (Unregistered) - 2007-06-27

» no

no but sales on doing ur mom in her pu$$y will ooooo0o snap

Re: yes sir (Unregistered) - 2007-06-27

» yes sir

yes sirr

by fj4 (Unregistered) - 2007-06-26