Firmware 5.50 – Standby bug?

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
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Its in German, but you get the Idea. I wasn’t updating to 5.50 to test it ;)

Posted in the dark-alex.org forums. It seems that Sony have removed tiff image file support completely with this new patch. I’m surprised it took Sony so long. Only some 3 years after the first tiff exploits? If you have any tiff files in your Memory stick, it will now show up and incompatible.

** Edit we have learned to they haven’t removed tiff support more of a bug which is present in extra transparency layer support. **

Some users report that standby mode doesn’t work any more on their PSP’s. While others have posted videos on youtube proving it does work….So not all PSP’s are effected by the bug. Proof maybe the firmware update was released early to patch against HEN? So if your wanting to try HEN when its released I suggest you keep away from that Network update button in your PSP’s XMB!

So it looks like we will have Firmware 5.51 soon I guess?

Also its interesting to add from DAX’s website sceners.org 5.50 hasn’t yet been decrypted.

Between those fixes it’s the recent that was found and that it’s still under development, and it seems that there are also some bugs, like one that literally fucks the standby.

What do you think about those “new features”? Have you got any bugs like those or can confirm the standby one?

Edit: Seems like this new update has the encryption tables changed (at least the 1g one), as it can’t be decrypted with latest psardumper. Anyway, won’t be probably a problem.

Source: DarkAlex.org & Sceners.org

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  • Drake

    1st Post :) yeahhhhh Well I guess no more future tiff exploits period. And best not update your psp’s to 5.50 noobz

  • PSPLover

    your a fool if you update your firmware to 5.50 ur making ur life difficult

  • http://it-ride.blogspot.com/ Felix

    Just convert your tiffs to pngs or gifs or whatever you like and stop bitchin’. That is, if you feel like updating to 5.50, for which I see no reason =\

    • http://ravenmac.deviantart.com RavenMac

      you obviously don’t know why they stopped making tiffs compatible do you…

  • mattaus94

    In v5.50 there’s not that many advantages in upgrading so you should stay put.

  • http://www.hallstudios.co.uk James Hall

    I wish SONY would make it absolutly essential to upgrade to the latest firmware to play the latest games to stop piracy. Those who want homebrew, fair enough, but the games should have some actual code checks in place to make sure it is the legit latest version of firmware and CFW. I am all of a sudden against pirace on the PSP, even though I have been there myself.

    • http://ravenmac.deviantart.com RavenMac

      If it was absolutely essential to update, they would start putting crap on the updates. And having a code on the psp to check every game available to see if it is o.k. would take too much memory.

      And if they think that putting the games on cards will work for the new psp’s, just look at the ds then.

  • Hummer

    hea felix you cant just convert the tiff files to pngs of gifs unless if they are regular pictures. if they are the exploit hack it WONT WORK converting the files

  • http://aaronmax.deviantart.com waveofdoom

    well the psp-3000 is going to be hacked sooner or later anyways.
    just stay away from updates.

  • neo1.3

    If Sony would sell downloded games for $5 to $10 then I think a lot of people won’t have to hack their PSP anymore. Buying games for $50 is sick and plain madness.

    • Kenzya

      Why the fuck would anyone sell their games for $5 to $10? That’s no profit what-so-ever. PSP games aren’t $50 either.

      • cause

        5 – 10 $ should do the job. And psp games are about 35$. Well, that is expensive considering I bought my psp for 180$ and 5 games = a BRAND NEW PSP. 5-10$ would cover manufacturing costs and they could make profit by VOLUME. I seriously would never bother with all this if I was not get RIPPED OFF by sony.

  • lol

    It was pretty obvious from the beginning that sony’s new 5.50 Official firmware would implement that security anyway.

  • PLEASE READ

    Site after Site is spreading this FALSE information.
    People don’t bother to check if these claims are true or not.

    SONY did NOT remove TIFF support. TIFFs WORK fine.
    They just blocked our TIFF EXPLOIT.

    I suppose that a fool was using the TIFF EXPLOIT for testing TIFF support, instead of a normal TIFF.
    That’s an understandable mistake since TIFFS are a rarely used format, but this has gotten out of hand.
    “It takes one bad apple to spoil a bunch.”

  • Piracy on the PSP

    I can honestly say that I have never pirated a game on the PSP instead of buying it. The only reason I got a PSP (and I only got mine less than 2 months ago), was for the homebrew. The PSP has the best emulators on it.

    Maybe Sony should consider a new direction and release emulators and sell the old roms for like $1/each or so in the PSN store.

    • epiquestions

      And I suppose you own all the actual games for the ROMS/ISOs you play on your emulator? If you don’t then that is piracy also

  • n00b81

    NO…NO…NO :)

    You may want to edit this post. Many people have got this messed up. They didn’t remove TIFF support, just the extra transparency layer support that had the bug.

    n00b81

  • Hummer

    yea psp games are 40$(the new ones) and practially almost all the others are 20$

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  • neo1.3

    to kenzya. Where I live, a new Hot games (umd) can easily reach over than $50 because rule of the market (supply & demand) is applies. But with downloded game there is no more of that rule and no more costs ( rent, second or third hand profit, etc.) If they can sell older umd games for $15 to $20, I bet they can sell it for $5 or less by download and still make tons of money. If 1000.000 people would buy a new game for $40 think how many people (worldwide) will buy at the rate of $10 by download. Technolgy should make things cheaper not higher.

    • tbone

      Things that sony should do to reduce piracy:
      1)neo1.3 is absolutely right..the games should be made cheaper so more ppl will buy them leading to more profits and less piracy..why would anybody play a pirated copy of ,say, killzone or god of war if the original is available for only 10D?the present cost of these games is 20D(platinum editions).

      2)latest firmware must be made essential to play new games(already implemented in the playstation store, u need the latest firmware to download games)

      3)homebrew should be enabled by sony in the upcoming firmwares and only pirated games should be fought against… doing this will mean a lot of hackers like DarK AleX and davee will stop working to crack the psp.. because nobody supports pirated ISO’s as much as homebrew..so the intensity and the attention given to hack a psp will be greately reduced

      and your own views if u got any..

      • Rasha’Yad

        1) People pirate for more than simply saving money. If there is a supply for free items, there will be a demand. There has to be incentive to purchasing a game to stop piracy, same with the music industry.

        2) This would be a good way to stop people from playing new games, but if someone already has the library on .iso it wouldn’t really matter. I am sure it would force some people to purchase games they would have otherwise downloaded, but it wouldn’t change much at this point.

        3) Homebrew and piracy go hand in hand. If you offer the ability to do one, someone will find a way to do the other. I am not trying to say that DA or Davee do it simply for piracy, but even if they cracked the 3000 w/o .iso support, someone would come along with an app that did it anyway.

      • Neil

        Homebrew support includes emulators, though. Sony probably figures that being able to play any game from NES to PSX reduces anyone’s incentive to buy new games. Plus it means nobody could sell games like “Genesis Collection”, “Street Fighter Alpha3″, etc. It might help the PSP/PSP2 overall, but I doubt Sony sees it that way.

  • amack444

    Hahahahahahahahah Thats what sony gets for being mean

  • Playstation

    “Homebrew support includes emulators, though. Sony probably figures that being able to play any game from NES to PSX reduces anyone’s incentive to buy new games. ”

    Exactly! The quality of most PSP games is so poor that they aren’t even worth pirating.

    If they can come up with something better that incorporates porting the non-working Playstation games to the psp, the demand would be much greater and sales would increase. This same logic would apply to putting movies onto UMD discs and selling them in game stores. If they can make more money from it why not?

    The name Sony Playstation Portable is named “Playstation” for a very good reason.

    Here’s a compatibility list for Sony to consider:
    http://www.gamerspress.com/index.php?title=PSX_on_PSP_Compatibility_List

  • http://www.myspace.com/djmidd DARIUS

    to late but will pandora still work

  • Kevin

    Pandora battery does not work for the PSP 3000 series. A TIFF exploit was discovered, which now is a open door for PSP 3000 owners. (Such as myself! =D)

  • Kevin

    Also, screw the new update anyway. FW 5.03 is staying on my PSP till Dave or DarkAlex releases HEN.

  • http://www.bringvictory.com Progress

    The Hen is almost done. source is in my name. WAY TO GO DAVEE W00T!!!111!

  • Marshal Rommel

    I don’t know why people really interested in buying shit psp games which doesn’t even worth wasting your time pirating it !!!!!!!!!! The games are really crap , I dont’ understand why they produce such crap?!?!?!

    I myself run on M33-6 and have never ever bought a game , if sony accepts the defeat a makes homebrew as a default with it’s firmware , I’ll support.

    But bloody bastards only think about their profit and don’t even give a …. about what customer (us) think.

  • http://www.bebo.com/R_Rhino Rhino

    Who thinks Sony should do a firmware which can let us play homebrews and emulators =D

  • http://360.yahoo.com.vn/pham_duc_1995 Steven

    @#23: Sony did at the very beginning of PSP, but they felt it was benefitless so they created UMD. Damn Sony headquarters…T_T

  • dark

    Try to find another way to hack the PSP-3000.

  • PSP3000

    best psp site check it out—-http://psp3kupdates.weebly.com/

  • Berat

    Hej guys can some one help my that what he does
    is the same by my psp i have Systeemsoftware Versie 5.02
    and i cant do anything with it no emulators or games can some one help my pls
    sen my a masage

    berattyuksel@hotmail.com <<<< This is my email Pls masage my
    bye bye

    Berat

  • Topassassin

    Hey I upgraded to 5.50, I can still see the images, I hate myself for upgrading I knew nothing of ChickHen. Good thing that I know they are releasing a ChickHen for 5.50, I read it on a post by one of the people that made ChickHen. I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • cheesehead

    the chickHEN thing was blocked by turning the photo folder into picture folder

  • Lknight

    i could care less about the psp game costs….i only want to use it to play old console games (nes, snes, genesis and such.) why not offer download like the wii does for that stuff? then i wouldn’t have to try and hack my damn psp…