Posted on June 25, 2007 at 8:29 am
Novus Ordo Seclorum on the PSP
The above latin sentence is always connected the alleged secret society which supposedly controls the world: the Illuminati. The sentence means ‘the new order of things’ or simply ‘new world order’.
Ever since the PSP came out, nifty hackers and programmers have always been trying to find a way to make copies of UMDs - which do not reside on UMDs, if you know what I mean - playable on the device, as you can store data on the memory stick. With the very first Firmware versioned 1.5 this apparently was no problem, but Sony kept on closing loopholes in the code. We are now at version 3.50, in time the firmware has gotten a lot of other features which the device did not have before.
But this comes at a price: You cannot downgrade the firmware, and you cannot play homebrew games on the device, for all loopholes allowing to do so, are closed. Or… so it seemed.
A new exploit has come to light, which fittingly has been named the “Illuminati” exploit. This exploit allows practically anything homebrew to run on the device, even on current firmware 3.50. This is a major boost forward, and will allow for a whole new way of games and applications that can be run on the mobile gaming device.
As of yet, the exploit doesn’t do much except look pretty, but as a start this certainly has proven that the device is still hackable, and can run other things as those Sony intends to.
The Illuminati Exploit running - “Paving the way to another new homebrew era”
Full article is here
