Posted Feb 08, 2007 at 01:59PM by Ryan A. Listed in: PSP Tags: Sony
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PSP - Image 1Sony: Firmware 3.11 out now!
Homebrew Scene: Oh really? What now?
Sony: Why are you not upgrading yet?
Homebrew Scene: Because we are going to crack it, noob!

And indeed, firmware 3.11 has been cracked. Well, not fully but it has been decrypted. After all, this is always the first step. What's more amazing is that, Team C+D didn't even have to come up with a new program. The same decrypter that was used for 3.10 was found to be working as well for the new firmware.

But for the benefit of those who missed the fun the last time around, we listed again the things you need to do. But on second thought, who could have missed it? Because we're telling you, we wouldn't miss it for the world. Anyway, enough chatter, here's the step by step process:

  1. To dump the firmware open up the Eboot with psp brew or PBP unpacker
  2. Extract the DATA.PSAR to the root of your memory stick.
  3. Copy psar_dump2 and psar_dump2% to your GAME150 folder. (Or whatever you kernel is set to)
  4. Launch it from the game menu.
  5. Select what option you wish to have. Then it will dump the contents to the root of your memory stick.
Download: [3.11 Firmware Decrypter by Team C+D]
Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]


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   by roman2k (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » YEAH!

Nice!


   Re: chepu (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » ...

... who didnt see this coming??
next update from sony.... next week?..

   Re: hmmmm (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » well

does any1 else besides me get the feeling that sony hasn't really been bothering to even try blocking hb lately? I mean, 2.01 came out like 5 days after 2.00 Downgrader was released by MPH, and here sony hasn't even come out with any real valid fixes since 3.00

...or is it just getting harder and harder for them to find and patch the exploits?

   Re: benjio (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » come on!

The exact same decrypter was used on 3.11 as 3.10. No change whatsoever. And all that changed to decrypt 3.10 was a simple hex key change from 3.03. Do you all honestly think $ony is actually trying here?

   Re: upliftn (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » :)

P-E-N-I-S

   Re: Chris (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » ;-)

I totally agree. *****
   by OBGC (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » FiRSt

FirSt!, Go Team c n d, pwn sonyz az!

   by Oliver (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » Answer

Hahaha !! Nice Sony Bashing! I love the dialoque :p

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   by Transporter (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » Thank God

Tomorrow there will be 3.11 OE-A!! Ha Ha
What now Sony? 3.12? i dont think so!!
Stop making money and do something to stupid firmwares!!!


   Re: ... (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » ...

Its a company's job to make money, why tell them to stop? They lose money on every PSP and PS3 sale, and Nintendo makes money on every sale. I suggest you tell Nintendo to stop making money if you are going to tell anyone..

   Re: dark_treason (Unregistered) - 2007-02-17
 » I gots a question???? ??

If I have 3.11(US)can I install 3.11 oe-a without bricking my psp I know its not out yet but just wondering.
   by Jelly (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » a

I kinda feel sorry for Sony, then again, they could do better.

   by Cassie (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » :D ownage!

OWNAGE!!!

   by Immature (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » Immature

Really do you want Sony to come up with a new encryption method and a way to slow down the super talented hackers. Not that I don't believe they wouldn't be able to do it but if this site would just lay low and eat a little humble pie maybe Sony would back off. Gloating like this just doesn't do anyone any good.

Great Job Team C + D!


   Re: uhhhh (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » wow..

Ur mom?!

   Re: AlucardZero (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » *****

Dude, "your mom" IS NOT FUNNY, has NEVER been funny, AND ONLY MENTALLY CHALLANGED 11 YEAR OLDS SAY IT. And I am getting sick of that bull*****. SHUT THE ***** UP if you dont have ANYTHING, ANYTHING at all intelligent to say... And fix your goddamn spelling "ur" *****ing lazy *****sucking *****.,

   Re: Jin (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » Yes I agree.

I wish Sony would come out with some spectacular encryption.

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   Re: . (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » .

Alucard's mom is a filthy slut.
True story.

   Re: The Devil (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » Die in a fire

...Die in a fire.

   Re: NovaMan XP (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » Alucard is right.

I agree with what AlucardZero said. Type like you're not mentally retarded.
   by Jeroen (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » owned

Pure pwnage Great work

   by ... (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » ...

couldn't 3.11 be decrypted by the 3.10 app ?...


   Re: Nicko01 (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » ...

Thats EXACTLY what they said!
lol
   by RIK (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » LOL!

Sony got their ass's whooped again by C+D



good job!

Come on DAX...aka(GOD) It's time for 3.11 OE-A!!!


   Re: dark_treason (Unregistered) - 2007-02-17
 » I agree

I'm sure that dax can crack this 3.11 firmware he will make it look nice. he'll crack it like a nut cracker.
   by geodude (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » old news

old news

   by agafda (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » as*****

***** YEA

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   by Saigon - 2007-02-08
 » Wow

Do these nerds have jobs or do live in their mom's basement hacking 24/7


   Re: karivika (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » both

Maybe they dont have such a flower life, but at least they are happy with hacking sony, and I'm sure they got just a little or more life beside their homebrew scene

   Re: ... (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » ...

It's called a hobby. Calling people nerds because they enjoy to give to the community is just immature.

   Re: Saigon - 2007-02-08
 » .....

I rather be immature than have hacking for a hobby.

decrease my stars, it really hurts my feelings...

   Re: Jin (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » Saigon, ha...

Why bring up the rating system if you don't care about? Nice try though, slick.

   Re: fr@nk (Unregistered) - 2007-02-25
 » ^^^^^^^wow saigon

you dont have to get paid to screw sony over shjt ill do it for free everyday of my life!!!!! ***** just think of the countless games youve bout and cd's that sucked. revenge is sweet
   by karivika (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » features

Oh sony, f*s comeon, why do you keep releasing firmwares, without new features, and a maximum of 2 bugfixes at the time??
Not even a non-homebrew user would mind spending 20mb to download a firmware that contains, well, here it is:
SONY PSP FIRMWARE 3.11
whats changed since 3.10, list:
ONE bugfix that has already been solved in 3.10 OE-A'
... AND THE BEST OF ALL --- NOTHING ELSE.

SONY, simply dont continue to release these crapy firmwares, without any new features.
It makes the PSP realy unworthy, and just a tool wich can be used to ONLY UPDATING, wich sony recommends...

enough said


   Re: karivika (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » next

and by the end of next week, we will have a 3.12 OE-A
And by the end of the year we will maybe have a 4.08 OE-A or something.... ...... ... .. ..

   Re: .... (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » ....

kariw/e ,
how would you like to buy a game, and notice it would freeze all the time. Wouldn't you want sony to release a bugfix for your just bought game, or would you still say:
ah sony *****off with your small updates !

   Re: karivika (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » .... reply

It was only a bugfix for one or two games, wich crashed, but Dark_AleX has already fixed that in 3.10 OE-A'
that makes Dark_AleX and the whole homebrew community bigger than sony.

   Re: incromatical (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » ...

why are you *****s always thinking that you are better than sony?? sony's the one that is releasing the firmwares !!! Not Dark Alex!! He is just coding to add extra features like homebrew and cracks for cheap ass holes! So....
how is the homebrew community better than sony , when sony was the one to make the XMB firmware in the first place? cause u guys can play all the latest illegal isos when the company suffers?
if the company and the developers dont develop games than we dont have great games!!!!

So...
stop thinking u r better than sony just because we can hack it... i mean, do u think sony is actualy trying?
   by feaegfa (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » fqwtq

GA!

   by decky1990 (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » ha ha

fisted lol

   by neocec - 2007-02-08
 » Gotta Love the PSP

Man, no way anyone can have this much excitement with the ghey Nintendo DS! Wooohooo!


   Re: Ethan (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » Hellz yeah

Whats the DS got...annoying second screen and a stylus...yes I always wanted to write outside of school my dream come true...F*** the DS, Sony may not be making big FW updates but at least they're continuing the PSP even though peoples have hacked it!

   Re: incromatical (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » >>Agree

...
   by Default_13 (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » strange

hey doesn't anybody find it strange that they released a firmware with one fix, and It's is able to be downgraded by the old app. for 3.10. I think Sony is purposely doing it because on 3.10 you can no longer use an app. to change your xmb icons you can only hex edit and not everybody knows how to do that. I think Sony is slowly but surely stopping home brew. Just a thought...


   Re: .. (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » ..

or maybe they feel for the people who bought that game that the fix is for ?
never thought about that eh.. >_>
   by loooool (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » looool

muahahahaha sony got AGAIN owned muahahaha sony's devs are noobs muahahahaha they will commit suicide lol hahahahahaha they will never win the homebrew war muahahahaha they are stupids noobs muahahhahaha


   Re: conzie (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » err...

sony's dev teams are not n00bz, otherwise how the f**k wud dey be able to make f**king firmwares?

Got u dere didnt i? muahahahahah

   Re: Arseface (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » settle down

he was just making a joke

   Re: this guy above me is a loser (Unregistered) - 2007-03-03
 » loser

your an idiot do u re-read what u type before u send it make su look less of a loser!
   by zerojay (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » Morons...

Sony released this to fix a problem that was found with R-Types (a game available on the Playstation Store) on 3.10. That's it. That's all.

Sony honestly does not give a ***** about people with hacked firmwares. They don't care about homebrew stuff. There are only two things they care about - protecting the average user from running a malicious program that simply erases the flash and leaves them with a brick and protecting their licensees from having their games pirated. Both of them make sense. So really, all this "OMG, SONY PWND AGAIN" ***** is completely retarded.

This site is nothing but 10 year old children, I swear.


   Re: SyntheticChaos - 2007-02-08
 » No There is More...

Look At: http://www.us.playstation.com/PSP/Downloads/SystemUpdate

It shows they added a [Reset Game] feature and more support for PLAYSTATION Network titles.

   Re: Default_13 (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » Pirating

Home brew actually gives you the ability to pirate games, so technically every time some one gains the ability to have home brew Sony potentially loses money. So now, how exactly is home brew of no concern to them???

   Re: mushroom (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » They're just R3TARDS

I couldn't have put it better myself. Personally, I love all the mature 'Sony pwned' comments. They really add some much needed intelligence to the site. Without Sony they wouldn't even have a PSP, the knobs. I suggest they keep their comments to theirselves and stick to playing the one string banjo in your room in their mothers' house.
(p.s. those marks which look like dismembered smiley faces are actually punctuation.)


   Re: zerojay (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » Morons, Part 2

Default_13, you just proved my last line right.

   Re: TiM (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » Wow

Finally, someone else who gets it!

I'm sure Sony care a little bit, but I love how everyone here really thinks they are totally hacking Sony to bits.

Sony couldn't care less about a small minority of users such as D_A etc. There's always going to be things like that.

If it wasn't software downgradeable/hackable, there'd be modchips.

Would you all be falling over each other as much then? I don't think so.

Well said ZeroJay.

   Re: Arseface (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » Since we're bitcking about grammer....

Saying that the whole :) thing is lame when you spell retards with a 3 instead of an e is retarded

   Re: Nicko01 (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » ...

Have you noticed that almost every time someone says "home brew" they don't use it? most people that use it call it homebrew.
lol, just noticing.
   by Dark alax >>>>> SONY (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » GIVE UP SONY!!

This is so funny it takes about a day to decript a firmware now Lol less most times.

   by Jalezphino (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » Wats goin on

It keeps givin me tha same crap wen i try to use tha psar dumper for it its pissin me off can someone give me a walk through without bein a smart-ass about it because i aint got tyme for internet ***** talkin...so for people who can take me serious can ya'll tell me wat firmware i need to be at to dump this junk...cuz az of now im on 3.10 do i need to be on a custom firmware or 3.11 to do it or wat...give me feed back


   Re: Dom (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » lol

Cant people read.
ONLY USABLE ON OE and 1.5
NO 3.10, IF YOU HAVE 3.10 SHOOT YOURSELF
   by pspfreak101 (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » pwnd

this don't make sense sony is a huge company with lots of money and then they hire sucky coders we'll are little hackers are beating them so you suck sony and thanks c+d team please make dev hook or fix the topmenu problem i loved it and now it don't work with 3.10OE plus i never used dev hook before and i really want to.


   Re: Default_13 (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » see

See what I mean you lose some capabilities when you upgrade...I think it was made to be decrypted easily on purpose.
   by MickMog - 2007-02-08
 » sonys waiting for alexs firmware

sony is waitin for alex to bring new features so they can add it to their next firmware ;-)
am i wrong or does it just look like that?? hehe


   Re: Ethan (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » yeah

That actually makes a lot of sense...maybe they didn't know how to fix the bug so they made it easy to decrypt and alowed Dark_AleX to do it!

   Re: conzie (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » but...

how would they know that there was a bug until D_A fixed it?
   by supa_sick (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » custom 3.11

im figuring since its nothing different but an fix for a ps game. you could use the 3.10 OE-A dxar maker with this 3.11... im not sure on this but i bet it would work


   Re: Aces In The Palm - 2007-02-08
 » nice

dude im trying that right now
but as previously mentioned
D_A fixed rtype bug 3.10oe-a rev2
still though. i'll post if it works

   Re: Aces In The Palm - 2007-02-08
 » damn

no go
i renamed 3.11 eboot 310.pbp
came up invalid 310.pbp

   Re: Me (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » 311.pbp

It's not actually very surprising that a 311.pbp renamed to 310.pbp would show up as invalid in the upgrader. D_A (and other non-stupid developers) would surely *at least* check the hash of an eboot before flashing it.
   by bonzai10 - 2007-02-08
 » Now sony won't be adding new features?

Let's see... in last few weeks Sony released 3 new versions... what did they have new ?... YES EXACTLY!! NOTHING AT ALL!!! Now Sony focuses on making new encryption method and tries to stop something unstoppable... Dark_Alex and Team C+D will always decrypt latest firmware, if they won't then Noobz will, there are a lot of talented programmers, they are good at it and they are doing it for free!! It's like charity :> but i got off topic a bit.

No matter the firmware, someone will crack it sooner or later.
If sony just let it go... i mean why do they keep updating flaws in their PSP when every one is cracked ?


   Re: conzie (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » hang on...

i Believe that there was some, hmmm.. dynamic volume thing... dats bout it... does any1 think that it takes 2 bloody firmwares in a month (this was added in 3.10) just to do THAT?! 4 f**ks sake..
   by Resso (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » SONY...

GIVe UP SONY

   by Uber0ne (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » .

Has anyone even thought that maybe sony doesn't really care anymore?


   Re: Steven (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » yes they do

with devhook u get free games they lose money thus making them lose money they do care believe me

   Re: mike (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » they care

if they didnt their would't be any updates
trust me sony hates dax and booster and the only reason sony updates the psp firmware is to f__u___c__k with those 2

dax and booster mad respect for both of u
   by aliasneo - 2007-02-08
 » Not exactly "pwned"

If it can be decrypted using the same decryptor, then it seems that Sony didnt even attempt to add new security features.

I know its highly unlikely, but maybe Sony's beginning to accept the homebrew scene for what it is. Or maybe Sony fixed the bug there was on one of their ps1 games which is also a good thing because it shows that Sony cares about fixing up and adding new features as opposed to trying to stop homebrew.

   by /. (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » damn n00bz

Yes thats me, a freakin noob! I think that C + D is doing one hell of a good job, but *****, all i wanna do is play zelda, metroid and excitebike (awesome game) and a few other select titles. does anyone have instructions on how to take my 3.11 (yes, i know i f***** up with the sony update) 1001PSP and make it so that I can play some damn emulators on it? Step by steps and detailed walkthroughs appreciated. URL's to these and/or DL programs that might even do it for me would be great. If there is anyone who is willing to help please repost on here with info (not only for me but for the rest of the morons like me that are trying to figure this whole flashing thing out for the first time ... remember, you were new to this at one time too :) ). Thanks.


   Re: jigyaku (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » cmon.

3.11? jeez.

sorry, but there's nothing you can do now. just sit and wait for awhile for a downgrader.

   Re: lolz (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » .

are you serious? if you pay the slightest bit of attention to the homebrew community and know who C + D is, you should have known to not upgrade. You probably won't be too long of a wait for a decent downgrader. but you are stuck for now

   Re: josh (Unregistered) - 2007-02-08
 » fw

u stupid n00b

   Re: boboman (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » omg

very stupid n00b u mean!!lol

   Re: lol (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » n00b

YOU UPGRADED TO 3.11?????????!!!!??!!!?!?!?!?! WHY????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

   Re: NovaMan XP (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » ...

Why did you update...

Why did you even download it to your PSP? o_O

   Re: boboman (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » because

he is a very very very stupid n00bie caveman

   Re: Arseface (Unregistered) - 2007-02-09
 » Shows he's human

People make mistakes. He acknowledges it. Why the flames?

   Re: gottaluvit (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » To err is human

I UGed to 3.1 before I knew about the 3.03 DGer. My bad I know, but i also didnt have GTA:LCS so was it so bad. After seeing the DGer I kicked myself then got on e-bay and found the 2.00 Version of GTA needed. As soon as I receive it, I will have the "Gloden Ticket". Until then I will sit on my 3.1 and just have to wait till the next DGer comes out, hopfully. But Live and learn. One day I too will enjoy the world of homebrew, but not today.


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