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Potential-but-not-really PSP-3000 exploit found in Phantasy Star Portable

Posted Mar 26, 2009 at 8:00AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Homebrew Development Tags: Exploit, psp homebrews, wololo
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Another possible exploit found in Phantasy star portable demo - Image 1Developer wololo (author of Wagic, the Homebrew?!) put up a very interesting guide on how to find savegame exploits in PSP games, a very valuable thing to find while the quest is still on to hack the 3000.

In his guide, he cited an attempt by a fellow going by the handle yyoossk to find an exploit in Phantasy Star Portable using the same method that was used to find the exploit in GripShift.

While the results weren't spectacular, they're still interesting, if only for a point of discussion. The attempt to exploit Phantasy resulted in crashing the PSP (which is a good thing when looking for exploits), except, it didn't yield any usable results.

So was it a fruitless effort? Wololo explains:

Not exactly [useless], it is a bug, so there might be a way to exploit it, but when a jump is not obvious, youÂ’ll spend less time looking for a crash in another game and try again, really. Looking for a jump that might not even exist is not fun and could take hundreds of hours, itÂ’s just not worth it.


[...] When someone comes with a potential exploit, you can be sure some serious guys will give it a try if it’s worth it. If after a few weeks there is no “serious” discussion on the issue (involving code or “proof of concept”files), you should lower your hopes.


Useless exploit? Only time will tell. For now, budding coders will benefit from taking a look at the guide, which offers a very good look into the world of exploit hunting. Read it after the source link.

Via Wololo



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# Not surprised.FreePlay 2009-03-26 10:15
There are literally dozens of POTENTIALLY-exploitable games out there, if someone bothers to be interested in finding out how to do it.

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# +]GLO13AL_T3RROR 2009-03-26 11:14
probably.

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# _psp slim hacker 2009-03-26 12:30
Ive tried 3 different games and none work :(

but im going to keep trying

ive tried

need for speed carbon

need for speed undercover

and hako pinball

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# ..m3rox 2009-03-26 12:48
*watches as the noobs start buying up Phantasy Star Portable*

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# ...psp slim hacker 2009-03-26 12:55
*watches as noobs download phantasy star portable demo*

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# Its a good articleTPot 2009-03-26 16:32
The source is well done.

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# lolov3rkill 2009-03-26 17:12
*watches as some people hoards phantasy star portable.*

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# ....KylBlz 2009-03-26 17:21
*watches as i buy phantasy star portable because its an awesome game and maybe a exploitable game* .. but i dont care :D i got GripShift for $7 :D !! but im still getting PSP

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# ...psp slim hacker 2009-03-27 10:06
How do you install psp link in windows without cygwin?

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