FreePlay: eLoader for the PSP Go in the works

Posted Nov 9, 2009 at 2:31AM by Ryan F. Listed in: News, PSP Go Tags: eLoader, Exploit, FreePlay, homebrew community, Sony, YouTube

Here's a piece of good news to the PSP homebrew community. Early last month, as some of you may recall, FreePlay has released a video showing us that he has successfully hacked Sony's latest handheld iteration that got everyone buzzing with excitement. Well, now he's back to give us a status update on his project. According to his YouTube channel post, he is now making progress on the exploit with his NID resolver working flawlessly, and if he can get the eLoader source to work, we may have a PSP Go eLoader soon that will allow us to run our favorite homebrews on the PSP Go.

Developer's note:

PSP Go exploit update: Making progress. My NID resolver is working flawlessly now. If I can get it to work with the eLoader souce, we'll have an eLoader for the Go.

Ok guys, that's all for now. Stay tuned for further updates.

Via YouTube

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Comments

# . — m3rox 2009-11-08 21:19

Sure.

# . — 0m3GA ARS3NAL 2009-11-08 21:26

Sure.

# That good. — sicksider 2009-11-08 21:30

It good to hear that there a hack for PSP Go. But the bad news is, He doesn't share his exploit right? Then how we gonna get his eloader ?

Maybe he will release the exploit soon together with the eloader. *Sony might waiting and looking at it to patch it.* O.o

# . — Matt91 2009-11-08 21:34

Sure.

# Well, — Foolmonkey 2009-11-08 22:00

he said he would release it once there was an actual use for it. Perhaps this could be what he's been waiting for.

# Woohoo — DarkXCloud 2009-11-08 22:08

eLoader = Homebrew!

# i hope — fearlubu 2009-11-08 22:13

its only for homebrew and other stuff of the like......we dont want another pirated PSP...sony will be sad :(

# great news — ov3rkill 2009-11-08 23:22

this is indeed a great news for the homebrew community. i always love playing the emulators especially when i've finished and bored playing with the psp games.

as for piracy, i wouldn't be surprise if someone would be able to load iso/cso sooner or later.

i'm also intrigue at how the exploit is executed and/or what game/s. xD

# Hmm.. — sicksider 2009-11-08 23:23

I agree..Quite true enough..

I miss PSP Homebrew ever since my PSP-2000 broke.

# Hmmm — Acteon 2009-11-08 23:40

Good news indeed, be nice to play PSPRevolution on the Go.

I'm torn on the ISO issue though. I'd like to be able to go back to buying games and playing them digitally again (with a physical product to appease my desire for special editions and the like). I'd also like to play those games that aren't on PSN, like Pangya, not to mention imports like Gundam/Macross.

I know I can do that with my 2000/3000, but the portability of the Go makes the thought appealing.

I don't really want to see it get destroyed by Piracy either :/

Guess it'll be up to the community at large, but whatever, congrats to Freeplay for his usual sterling work :)

# ..... — Silver-Tiger 2009-11-08 23:49

I'm also quite interested how this is gonna work. The only sure way that Sony can't patch is some way of free apps for the Go, like Go!cam software or Skype. You know, Software, that can be shared without the need of the PSN and that runs on every PSP.

# . — Torch 2009-11-09 00:19

Why is a NID resolver required for eLoader. Aren't the user mode NIDs the same?

# No... — squintin 2009-11-09 00:27

Never remark on the "portability" of the PSP Go again.

# . — triac 2009-11-09 00:52

PSP Go Owners will be happy to hear that. Both of them.

# Really? — Acteon 2009-11-09 00:53

Out of morbid curiosity, why not? :)

# hmm — Yuuki_Minoru 2009-11-09 01:06

"An eloader for the Go is proving to be more difficult than I'd imagined. I could likely make one for FW 5.03 or FW 5.50, but until someone cracks the Go's firmware update, it may be a lost cause. I have no way of making my NID resolver work when there are dozens of new functions on the Go that have completely unknown NIDs" - FreePlay

# thats all we need — MitchenX 2009-11-09 01:55

I will purchase a PSP Go for the sole purpose of playing emulators. No kidding.

# PSP not portable? o.O — DrWho1980 2009-11-09 02:12

I wonder why people keep acting like the PSP is big. My son lost his PSP the other day... and after a big search he found out he was carrying it with him in his pocket the whole day!

If the PSP wasn't portable then he surely would have noticed it. And btw, it was a phat...

# Heh... — Acteon 2009-11-09 03:35

As a bit of a collector I have a load of retro handhelds strewn throughout the office. Anyone who reckons the PSP isn't portable really needs to spend some time with the first Atari Lynx. Now THAT was a chunky (but still much loved by me) handheld ^^

Any PSP is pretty damn portable for the amount of power you can carry with you. It has to be said that the Go does a grand job in making it even smaller though.

# Hmm — Acteon 2009-11-09 03:50

When was that posted if you don't mind me asking?

# That's... — WiiRolled 2009-11-09 05:12

...pretty dumb

# Really? — Acteon 2009-11-09 05:28

I don't think so - all the power of a PSP + Homebrew in a highly compact form factor with a sharp screen? Sounds good to me.

# Monetarily a poor decision — dd409 2009-11-09 05:38

That's a $250 emulator right there my friend. You could probably buy all of the original systems and games you would be emulating for that price.

# ^ — Teivin 2009-11-09 05:44

Well, thats a bit of a lie. Find a copy of Terranigma for less than like 80$.

What you could do for much cheaper is just buy a PXP (Which are fairly solid, I've seen a few) or a whiz or something similar.

# @dd409 — nyr2k2 2009-11-09 05:50

Could I then carry my SNES with me on the train in the morning? Or play my Genesis on the airplane? Would I have to carry 500 NES cartridges with me? Obviously you could buy the systems themselves, but the point is portability.

Also, I don't know how you can justify telling someone else what constitutes a poor monetary decision. If the guy has $250 in excess money laying around, why shouldn't he spend it on something that interests him?

# Not tryna be a pain but... — psp2 2009-11-09 06:03

Emulation funds piracy too, but I know what you meant. At the same time face the facts, emulation funds piracy. If this is completed I would love the chance to play old 1.50 homebrew on the psp go if possible.

# so..- — akshay1 2009-11-09 06:36

Isn't the starting firmware for the go 5.70 ; which is higher than 5.03?Does that mean we can hack the 3000's too?

# FINALLY! — muffinhead 2009-11-09 07:16

This one little piece of news will be directly responsible for me justifying the purchase of this machine.

I agree that better form factor and a sharper screen will always trump crappier form facter and a duller screen. I have always wanted a PSP-GO. Even long before it was released, I was begging for a smaller machine. But, when it showed up at $250 and no way to play the games that I enjoy(Metal Gear Acid anyone?), I was extremely disappointed. Multiply that by me losing all of my emulators and my daily use of Bookr for my .PDF reading, and it was easily a NO SALE situation.

NOW,

+ Emulators (very important as these are all the 'Minis' I will ever need) Particularly for GBA and SNES.

+ Bookr (Because I grow tired of just playing games all the time)

+ PSP-Rhythm

+ PSP.PDA (This should have been built in the GO.

+ PSP-Tube

Yes, I can part with $250 for this.

Comments?

# ... — FreePlay 2009-11-09 07:19

It resolves NIDs to syscalls. The game loads several modules, but it doesn't import all of the functions from those modules. Only the ones that are imported have known syscalls. That's a set of about 189. My NID resolver allows access to all of the syscalls for all of the NIDs in all of the modules loaded by the game, expanding the base set to about 670.

# Last night. — FreePlay 2009-11-09 07:31

I could potentially make this work for any firmware that has been decrypted so far. The problem with the Go is that the DATA.PSAR in the update is a different format from that of the standard PSP, and it can't be decrypted with our current PSAR dumpers. The exploit is also blocked from copying several PRX files from flash0, since they're marked "hidden" and "system". Until I get those files, it's unclear whether or not I'll be able to make this work 100% on the Go. It's incredibly frustrating.

# ... — FreePlay 2009-11-09 07:49

You have an odd definition of 'funds'.

# ... — Serosis 2009-11-09 08:05

Honestly i hope the hack never get's released now...

# lol — psp2 2009-11-09 08:22

Figure of speech.

# What is the big deal..... — Atownaction 2009-11-09 09:19

Here we are talking about justifying 250 dollars to play emulators on the PSP Go and well Im no smart guy or anything but doesnt the PSP Go has the same power as the PSP Slim 2000 model so well if you play emulators on the PSP go arent you going to get the same effect with the PSP slim I mean if the emulators play the same on the slim isnt it going to play on the go the same way so there is no ground breaking news there I mean the only thing I see is someone finally hacked the damn thing which is great but if you already have a slim and you know how the emulators play why buy the PSP Go???

# Ah... — Acteon 2009-11-09 09:27

Sounds like Sony has done their homework for a change. Appreciate the reply by the way, so I'll take the opportunity to say thanks for all your hard work/updates and wish you luck from all us chaps in England :)

# .... — Silver-Tiger 2009-11-09 09:53

Well, all we can do is press all our thumbs that FreePlay makes it. Since my PSP-1000 broke, I've been missing my PSP a bit.

good luck, FreePlay, our hopes are with you, JUST DON'T GIVE UP. YOU CAN DO IT!

# ... — symbal 2009-11-09 10:17

I'm no fan of the Psp go but the benefits over Psp 2000 are it's genuinely pocket sized and has bluetooth, so ignore the s***ty unreplacable battery etc and it is more practical for some people.

# you should think about what you are saying.... — cboushell75 2009-11-09 10:27

You make anti-piracy statements then go on to say that you love playing with emulators, I doubt you own a physical copy of every game you are playing with your emulators, so that is PIRACY. No matter how you try and justify it, it is PIRACY!

# why are you re-wording what i wrote? — psp2 2009-11-09 11:21

thats if you were replying to me cboushell75.

either way my fact is clear. Im assuming you didnt catch on to it. Its not about me, otherwise i would not have wrote it. It is for users who feel like emulation is not a form of piracy. Well it is, nuff said :)

oyea i know i pirate and own tons of hard copies, why? Duh im a game-a-holic. Video games for life, but at the same time im just stating a fact.

off subject

i just downloaded the bootleg version of Saw6 Yay mee :) hows that for piracy

# No one.... — Bountyhunter53 2009-11-09 13:08

No one said the thing thats meant to be said......

PSP Go got OWNED! Hackers 5 - Sony 0

# Huge portables. — ShinseiTom 2009-11-09 13:45

Gamegear was dang near un-portable. 6AA batteries for ~2 hourse of play? And huge to boot! The PSP in all forms is miniscule compared to it.

# Because... — ShinseiTom 2009-11-09 13:52

He could get a good 1000 or 2000, it would be cheaper, a larger screen, and could play UMD games if he ever found one he wanted to play for cheap used along with all the emulators? And have money left over for other things that interest him.

I agree on the point that old games + systems are NOT cheap. I have a roommate who likes buying old games (in fact, just recently bought Terranigma), and the good old games often go for more than they were sold for originally in-store.

# The big question — Rolen47 2009-11-09 13:56

So would this get released to the public or are you just teasing us with something that will never be released?

# . — m3rox 2009-11-09 14:54

He's just teasing you with a fake eLoader. Freeplay is all about getting attention, that's what gets him off. That's why he constantly submits news to qj about things that don't get released to the public because *insert asinine excuse*.

# huh? — iluvfuz 2009-11-09 16:20

Don't you mean 4-0?

# fdaf — Andershizzle 2009-11-09 17:04

Someone's mad ^^

# ... — Torch 2009-11-09 18:46

Oh you mean its for importing the unlinked syscalls and not for mapping the 3.5x NID to the randomized NID (since syscalls can't randomized either)?

Though "NID resolver" is still an apt name, you should have called it something else as people would confuse it with the kernel NID resolver.

"NID Linker" ?

# sucks.... — 0genmu0 2009-11-09 19:22

the first thing that came to my mind was "oh... iso loader already on it's way" but wait... it doesn't need it anymore since it's all internal now right? Ironic really. Kind of funny how people were sh1ttin on the psp umds (of how unportable and slow loading it was) and now that they have GOT what they want, a legit no umd/internal loading psp.

I'm rather in the "YaY but no thanks" feeling as this is bound to go the wrong direction.

# LOL — animebuster 2009-11-09 19:58

freeplay posted on his youtube profile

http://www.youtube.com/user/FreePlay

1 day ago he posted an update i do not know how you didnt see it when you wrote this article

anyway here it is

An eloader for the Go is proving to be more difficult than I'd imagined. I could likely make one for FW 5.03 or FW 5.50, but until someone cracks the Go's firmware update, it may be a lost cause. I have no way of making my NID resolver work when there are dozens of new functions on the Go that have completely unknown NIDs.

# freeplay — animebuster 2009-11-09 23:02

so the DATA.PSAR from the pspGos needs to be decrypted and you need to find out how to somehow un-hide certain files in the flash0

are those the only problem as of now?

well lets hope you or someone else manages to somehow create a psar dumper for the pspgo

# great news :) — NakedFaerie 2009-11-09 23:39

As being a PSP GO owner I can say this is great news.

I miss my emulators and all the other homebrew that comes with a usermode hack.

If a kernelmode hack is found and ISO/CSOs are playable on the GO then that will be awesome. I will donate to the dev who creates that hack whoever it is.

I have brought a heap of overly expensive games from the PSN and I have a heap of UMDs that I don't want to pay for AGAIN so a ISO/CSO loader will be the best.

Yea, I have a few ISOs that I don't own only coz I cant buy them in this country as they are banned. (Manhunt 2 in Aus)

People saying the GO is crap its actually faster than the 1000 and 2000. Games do actually run faster and saving is about half a second where on the 2000 running ISOs still save in about 2-5 seconds.

The screen is better than the 1k/2k models too. Might be smaller but its a better picture.

And when you think the screen or the unit itself is too small then just connect a PS3 controller via bluetooth and connect it to the TV and you now have the smallest console on your TV. :)

# Agreed — Acteon 2009-11-10 01:53

I use the US PSN now, as it's half (if not more) the price of the UK store. The exchange rate is also improving ($1.67 to the £1 at time of writing).

The NIS sale was so awesome I almost cried, but I still don't like having to pay for games I've already purchased once, so an ISO loader would be fantastic. We're a long way off that though, if it ever happens at all.

Still, nowt wrong with a hacked earlier model after all :)

# Oh, you silly child. — FreePlay 2009-11-10 06:42

I never once submitted any of those news tips.

# The Great ... — Humpfreey 2009-11-10 10:55

... Wyte Hope !

Thank God we have Freeplay, what would we do without it ?

# @DrWho1980 — nate443556 2009-11-10 15:09

...your son is a god damned idiot.

# Good news about PSP Go Hacking — Erique555 2009-11-11 13:05

Guys good news!!!!!!!!! Freeplay the so called " first person to hack go" is NOT the first one. Chickhen is now able to get loaded on the PSP Go 6.10. Proof of concept video: /watch?v=9lVCV1LGHiA

# Erique555 wtf — animebuster 2009-11-11 19:31

what difference does that make? the creater of the new chickhen for pspgo has stated that he will NEVER release it so let me ask how is this good news?

the good news is that Freeplay is still working on his Hack and will release it when its done

# Quick question to all dev's.. — demologik 2009-11-15 15:00

Has the encryption technology of SONY's proprietary DNAS been hacked?

If so, why can't the devs clone the ps store and upload the game to their own servers and then use a link similar to SONY's PS store from our PSP browsers to download the game that is required in order to hack our PSP go's? That way, the game can never be updated since the copy that contains the exploit is saved on a server other than SONY's! It's a win win solution.

# because... — iluvfuz 2009-11-19 20:16

It makes a difference because you're not looking at the larger picture. The point is that the PSPgo is being hacked and there are multiple people working on it. Even if they won't release it, it's still being developed into something much bigger and better. That's how it's good news... Everything isn't about coming sooner.

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