ChickHEN Homebrew Enabler R2: now supports homebrew

Posted May 6, 2009 at 4:49PM by Karl B. Listed in: Homebrew Applications, Homebrew Development Tags: Davee, Team Typhoon, TIFF

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Let's try this again, shall we? Team Typhoon has released R2 of their ChickHEN Homebrew Enabler. If you'll recall, the release we got yesterday only booted to a HEN environment but didn't really let you run homebrew. This one does. Here's the changelog:

Now supports homebrew
Homebrew Support enhanced
Tiff image blocking in HEN (displays unsupported)

This homebrew enabler will work on all PSP models -- 1000, 2000, and 3000 -- as well as those with the previously unhackable TA-088v3 motherboard. Read the readme for more info.

Download: ChickHEN Homebrew Enabler R2

Via Davee's DevSite

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Comments

# ... — Chronos15 2009-05-06 11:36

Now that's what we want! Next time test it more before you release ;) but great job. Now someone needs to make a homebrew app that lets you load backups and then everything's fine. I'll then sell my psp slim and get the 3000

# ... — Chronos15 2009-05-06 11:43

Oh and my other name is Lelouch15, I help ardatan develop Netfront beta 4. Could someone with a PSP 3000 please test if beta 3 works?

# Coolio. — crait 2009-05-06 11:43

Now it's going to be easier to mod PSP's!!

No more Pandora!

# works ^_^ — deadlyangel91792 2009-05-06 11:49

yup just tried it on my friends 3000 boots homebrew perfectly now all we need is a iso/cso loader

# Hmmm.... — kevinlayne 2009-05-06 11:50

Still just crashes my psp slim 3000 with a thud....tried many times....just freezes and then shuts off with a hard click from the speaker....???????

# YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! !! — unknown_knight 2009-05-06 11:50

alright, the world of homebrew is expanding. Up next is you know what...

# No — akadewboy 2009-05-06 11:55

CFW will always be better than this, and this wont help with installing CFW.

# Takes time... — unknown_knight 2009-05-06 11:59

you have to try it more than once... i try like 10 times and finally work on my TA-88v2 or was it TA-90??...anyways just try again

# yeh... — kevinlayne 2009-05-06 12:06

Woo hoo Super Mario World here i come....worked after a few tries....

# Eh? — crait 2009-05-06 12:09

I never really said that CFW sucks or anything. You're very off-topic.

But yes, this will help install CFW because you'll be able to load up some kernal that isn't available just through TIFF alone. HEN always came before CFW. It's just a fact. Without it, we wouldn't have CFW.

# fyi... — ov3rkill 2009-05-06 12:56

it's a hit and miss. so, if it doesn't work the first time try it again and again until it loads. hopefully, we get to homebrew heaven with this one. :)

# yay! — DarkXCloud 2009-05-06 13:19

Time to play some homebrew with my bro... he's got slim ta 88v3

# . — p0op 2009-05-06 14:41

Is that really all that matters to you people anymore? Just loading up your downloaded CSOs and ISOs? The scene has gone to *****.

# no doubt — PimpFriedRice 2009-05-06 15:05

whenever there's news on this exploit all we ever read about is people wanting a gotdamn backup loader. BUY YOUR GAMES!

p0op said it best!

# Quick How-to for those with trouble — Spottednigel 2009-05-06 15:42

A couple of tips for those having trouble:

Go to System>System Default Settings and go through with it. You can change stuff back later.

Put the ChickHEN Tiff Folder in PSP/PHOTO. Putting it in PICTURES may work, but I'm going off of what worked quick for me.

Put the H.bin file on the root of the memory card... yep, right next to PSP, VIDEO, PICTURES etc. folders. NOT in MP_ROOT and please don't make a MS_ROOT folder.

Now, go to the PHOTO tab, look inside the ChickHEN folder, wait, and most likely the system will freeze, go to a blank screen and the speakers will make a popping noise. This means it hasn't worked yet. Turn the system on again, try it again, and it SHOULD work. It'll freeze like last time, but it will look all garbled and stuff, then a Green screen and then it will reboot itself. Check the system info and it now should say ChickHEN 5.03.

Good luck!

# hit and miss — Captain Planet 2009-05-06 16:15

It may be a hit or miss but I've missed quite the number of times so far.

# hit and miss — Captain Planet 2009-05-06 16:25

It may be a hit or miss but I've missed quite the number of times so far.

# oh yeah — 78211carlos 2009-05-06 16:30

i can use this to run os pandora battery tool,

it converts my battery to pandora

and i can install m33 firmware into my psp phat

# no photo is picture — wildboyyang 2009-05-06 17:07

readme bug

# O yeah — coop086 2009-05-06 17:08

yes you can!!!

# @wildboyyang — WilLoW :--) 2009-05-06 17:11

pictures work with either ms0:/PICTURES or ms0:/PSP/PHOTO

# as 2.71 hen — wildboyyang 2009-05-06 21:08

tiff！！ devhook long time ago to use！

# calm down — deadlyangel91792 2009-05-06 23:43

jesus guys no need to flame me im just saying thats whats missing and i bareley play my psp so chillax with the buy your own games thing

# calm down — deadlyangel91792 2009-05-06 23:45

jesus guys no need to flame me im just saying thats whats missing and i bareley play my psp so chillax with the buy your own games thing

# if only... — TalesXIII 2009-05-07 03:00

iso/cso would be supported! davee, davee, davee... why are u doing this to me?! if no dev is going to make an iso loader for this psp 3004 ill make a video of smashing a brandnew PSP 3004 Radiant Red Carnival on the wall and smashing it again on the ground and put it on youtube!

# ISO CSO — nik138 2009-05-07 03:09

Ohh man cant wait for them to release a iso cso loader .But im sure they are far from it .The umd drive sucks i wish sony never made it .

# ... — Chronos15 2009-05-07 03:29

DO IT!!!!!!!

# I hope the ISO/CSO is not released. — locobrown 2009-05-07 03:47

Anyone who needs the ISO/CSO loader should try to mod previous releases of devhook. The coders have done enough for us by allowing us to boot into a HEN environment. Releasing an ISO loader now will further increase piracy because a pandora battery is no longer need and its effortless to boot a 3000 into the HEN environment. I say don't release it, piracy has really hurt the quality and the quantity of games for our beloved PSP. Most people do own the actual UMD disc, but only a certain few ruin it for the rest who really do respect piracy governing laws.

# changing ofw — silk_threads 2009-05-07 03:58

i just wanted to know, is it safe to change the ofw to 5.03, what if dax comes out with a m33 for psp 3000 and i've messed the chances of hacking my psp then, just a doubt plus i dont want to brick my psp,,,,,,,

i am hoping for cfw,,,,, go ahead and flame me i dont care, truth be told if i knew that psp could not be hacked i would have never have bought it, sony has just made a profit of me, cause its like an expensive paper weight for me. even to just to watch movies on it i have to do piracy (converting of movies to psp format is also voilating the law, copies of movies should not be made but heck you guys dont consider it piracy right) and i dont think its actually worth buying umd movies. and please dont tell buy your games, i've had enough of hypocrtic anti pirates

# why — Portable 2009-05-07 04:03

Dude making a crappy loader is trash, its all about DA getting CFW install on the 3k.

It should be only a matter of weeks or months, I remember when DA release CFW and then letting us play PS1 games it was exactly during Christmas, maybe till then but Im just looking forward to the new PSP model rumor.

# umm — Portable 2009-05-07 04:06

WTF are you doing in the PSP Scene then, everyone that knows about hacking a PSP has one that runs backups so STFU already you freaking hypocrites. What good can a PSP do if it doesn't run backups nothing really, and compare to how many PSP are sold only a few know about CFW i doubt we have millions of PSP users on this site.

# Hey... — HIMFan 2009-05-07 06:20

Everybody who wants an iso loader, just do what we did back in the day before custom firmwares when all we had was a HEN...use DEVHOOK. It should still be in the downloads section of QJ somewhere. But if I remember correctly, I think it only supports .iso and .dax files. I'm not entirely sure that .cso files are supported, I don't remember when they came along.

# Hmmm — Scudreloaded 2009-05-07 12:01

This is cool as im finally glad to be able to easily hack a new psp. I've been putting off getting a new one for this reason.

You have to determine what your going to use your hacked psp for. to play backed up games you should prolly look at a older slim or a phat.

I backed up all my games and sold them back a while ago after i lost work. But i would like to see cfw come to the new psp's again. plugin support was amazing. and playing psx games was worth it. so just keep your fingers crossed

# at Portable — danielakadanny 2009-05-07 12:22

but do u doubt that a lot of people go on team Noobz or DAX's website

P.S. not tring to throw flames but there are several websites that give homebrew not just this 1

# Hmmm — Scudreloaded 2009-05-07 12:24

It looks like theres wi-fi trouble on a couple apps.

but can anyone confirm that picodrive, gpsp and a version of the snes emu work?

# YEAH! — Pyrodogg 2009-05-07 15:06

Picodrive and Gpsp work freaking perfectly, although some games will cause the psp to freeze and turn completely off, then you have to redo the chickHEN. Which sucks.

# Cool — Scudreloaded 2009-05-10 06:03

Those are the main programs i intend on using so :)

still thinking about getting a psp 2000 tho so i have ISO/CSO support. but hopefully news will run our way reguarding this

# :) — lovehate 2009-05-26 10:41

USBLOADER loads and maps usb path, running psphost on pc.

Game Backups don't load but you can see the list of them.

Sweet almost there.

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