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December 12th, 2018, 17:24 Posted By: wraggster
If you were a kid in the mid-2000s to the early-2010s, then you surely remember Flash and Shockwave games. Among these games, there was a somewhat popular genre which was that of 3D platformers in which you navigate cubes/cuboids over a grid. Obviously, these 3D platformers didn’t get stuck in Flash/Shockwave land and somebody decided to create one with GameMaker.
This game is Cubic Conundrum, by Eric Wieber (forthw), and it will undoubtedly make some of us nostalgic. As the above suggests, this game is a pretty simple platformer but it has some punch to it which makes it worth playing. Unlike other 3D platformers, this one doesn’t have you going from point A to point B but it makes you have to colour in certain locations on the grid.
Colouring these locations is done by going a colour block, getting on it with a block face (which automatically puts that colour on that side of the cube) and then you have to transport that colour to the appropriate location without touching anything else with the coloured face.
This game has 25 levels, some background music and it accepts input via both the d-pad and analogue stick so you can play it however you like.
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December 12th, 2018, 17:22 Posted By: wraggster
Wasteland Kings, by Vlambeer, is the precursor to Nuclear Throne which is a game that’s available for purchase via PSN. This game is a top-down shooter in which you fight enemies in a nuclear wasteland in order to become its ruler.
Wasteland Kings sounds like a pretty odd game but it’s actually a lot of fun! (Game running on the PSVita)
This game includes:
- A couple of different weapons including a shotgun, grenade launcher, pistol, crossbow and melee weapon
- A leveling system in which you gain EXP by collecting radiation from fallen enemies.
- When you go up a level, you can pick a mutation to make your character better (similar to Borderlands 2)
- The ability to choose between 5 different races which all have all have different mutations you can choose when leveling up
The framerate of this game port sometimes goes down a bit but it’s still good enough to be enjoyable. Sadly, this game was buried under other stuff as its Reddit thread was deleted so the only link provided is its download link.
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December 12th, 2018, 17:21 Posted By: wraggster
Wizard Wizard, by CrateBoy, is an indie game in which you apparently have to save the princess (this wasn’t mentioned on the game’s page but it’s right there on the tutorial stage). In this game, you have to complete levels by jumping around the screen in order to get keys but it isn’t as easy as it sounds. Many keys are in hard to reach locations and you must do tricky jumps while avoiding moving blades/hammers to succeed.
Unfortunately, the game is pretty short as it only has around 30 levels (depending on the version that’s being used) but it ought to keep you intrigued for a while since levels can get pretty difficult later on. It also has a pretty good 8-bit-esque soundtrack by “_THE” so that means there’s quite some incentive for you to go try it out
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December 12th, 2018, 17:20 Posted By: wraggster
UPDATE: Gpghax’s author, Maku, asked me to add some important information. Firstly, gpghax is not meant as the go-to solution for adding PS1 games to your PlayStation Classic and you should use BleemSync instead. Secondly, he (Maku) is the author while the three mentioned below were people who helped him, this wasn’t made clear in the README. Thirldy, this mod doesn’t work on non-EU PlayStation Classic models and again, this wasn’t included in the README when this article was written. Maku would like to remind you that this method has potential to make your PlayStation Classic useless so use with caution.
It seems that Sony made virtually no attempt to secure the PlayStation Classic which led to it being hacked mere days after its release. Now, regular end-users can use these hacks to load any PlayStation 1 game they want with gpghax.
Why load other PS1 games on a PlayStation Classic?
As people have already cracked it open, we know that the PlayStation Classic is just a somewhat cheap ARM mini PC running an open-source emulator and a dodgy UI that doesn’t even incorporate all of the emulator’s features.
Unfortunately, the game selection on the PlayStation Classic isn’t great so without a doubt, people wanted to play other games on this mini-console. Now, this is possible thanks to gpghax which lets you run any PS1 game you want off a USB pen drive!
What is gpghax? How does it work?
gpghax is a software solution that modifies the PlayStation Classic’s game database to allow you to swap out games with other ones. The folks behind it are madmonkey (who found the intial entry point for the payload launcher), DanTheMan827 and skogaby and they’re still actively updating the hack with new features (like auto-backing up the database file on the PlayStation Classic when the hack is run).
Yifan Lu, a prominent PSVita hacker that took considerable interest in hacking the PlayStation Classic,
As of right now, it has the following noticeable issues:
- You have to mess about with a database (SQLite) editor to add custom games which may be a bit difficult
- That being said, you can use SCUS-94426’s folder (21) to inject a single custom game without modifying the database.
- There’s a bug in which your console would refuse to boot if you add a game, navigate to it in the main menu, shut down the console, remove the added game and then boot the console up.
- This happens because it would be trying to load up a database entry that doesn’t exist
To get it on your PlayStation Classic, the instructions roughly have you modifying the database file to add your desired game(s), putting that on a pen drive and copying your desired game(s) to the same pen drive. Unfortunately, the instructions given in the GitHub page are somewhat lacking so you’re better off watching a video tutorial on how to do it.
You can also run your own games without modifying files on the PlayStation Classic itself. This is done by running a modified lolhack.sh file which copies the PlayStation Classic’s files to a pen drive and then runs everything off that. By doing this, you can modify add/remove games without messing around with the files on the internal storage of the PlayStation Classic itself thus removing the chance of you messing up. To read up on this method, check out this Reddit thread.
Conclusion
If you decide to wait a bit longer, something much simpler will most likely be released and you could add games with just a few clicks on your computer. However, if you don’t feel like waiting and want to hack your console now, you should really check a video tutorial on how to do it.
All in all, the PlayStation Classic scene seems to be getting exciting quite quickly and in a short while, we may get homebrew (such as emulators for other systems), the ability to boot other Linux distributions and lots of other stuff!
The video below demonstrates how to add games on the PlayStation Classic. Wololo is in no-way affiliated with “8 Bit Flashback” (the video’s channel) and it’s only being provided due to the written instructions on GitHub not being very clear.
via http://wololo.net/2018/12/09/playsta...onsoles-files/
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December 12th, 2018, 17:17 Posted By: wraggster
Hacker flat_z has added support for OpenGL ES on the PS4, opening the theoretical way for better (understand: hardware accelerated) homebrew on the device, provided you have a hacked PS4.
Flat_z credits Zer0xFF and masterzorag for early attempts at bringing the graphics library to homebrew development on the PS4. He says:
PS4 have an OpenGL ES implementation which is called Piglet and it’s used in shell’s UI rendering and webkit. Zer0xFF and masterzorag were working on making it usable for homebrew applications but then got stucked with native shader compilation. So I’ve decided to give it a try.
However I have experienced other problems as well, which were solved successfully. The porting work was apparently very demanding, and for those interested in the details of how this was implemented, flat_z has a full writeup (which is also mirrored here courtesy of playstationhax for those who don’t want to deal with Mega’s download process).
And for those who want to dive directly into the action, the hacker provides a sample which should get you started, sort of…
As you will see, the sample is only compatible with non-open source SDK, which I assume means you will need to get your hands on the leaked Sony SDK, a legally gray thing to do. Therefore this release unfortunately echoes once again one of the issues of the PS4 scene, which is the lack of a comprehensive series of open tools to create your own homebrews, or at least the right tutorial to get started. If anyone can prove me wrong on this, please do so. I know psxdev at least disagrees
via http://wololo.net/2018/12/10/open-gl...ed-to-the-ps4/
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December 12th, 2018, 17:16 Posted By: wraggster
During the The 35th Chaos Communication Congress conference in Germany this year, developer m0rph3us1987 (known in particular for his release of the “holy Grail” HEN on hacked PS4s) will be making a presentation related to a PS4 hack he has developed. The hack allegedly makes use of Video related apps on the PS4 (The Media Player, maybe?).
His presentation’s abstract, loosely translated, states:
Video Apps on the PS4 are a wonderful thing. In this talk, I’ll show you how to exploit them to run your own unsigned code (regardless of the firmware version installed). Step by step I show what problems I faced at the beginning of my entry into the PS4 scene and how I have solved these, in order to reach the goal. […]
This talk will be about the project with which I set foot in the PS4 underground scene. Step by step we will see what was needed to execute unsigned code on a foreign / unknown system. I will explain the exploit and its steps in as much detail as possible, and thus show that software exploits are not magic but a consequence of logical processes.
It is unclear at the moment what kind of hack we are talking about here, but because the discussion specifically mentions video, this looks more to me like a userland exploit rather than a full exploit or Jailbreak. Nevertheless, because he mentions this is independent of the firmware version, we could be looking at some good news for people on recent firmwares including 6.02, who have been waiting for a hack for quite some time.
In any case, this could be an interesting presentation, for those of you who speak German (the hacker has precised the presentation will be in German) and are interested in PS4 hacks. The video will most likely be made available online at some point, and hopefully someone will be able to translate the interesting bits for those of us who forgot their 11 years of German classes the day they moved to Japan. <– That’s me.
The presentation itself will be on December 28th.
Source: m0rph3us1897
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December 12th, 2018, 17:14 Posted By: wraggster
Hacker Vultra has shared a proof of concept of a semi-recent webkit vulnerability, which seems to impact the latest PS4 firmware 6.02.
More precisely, the bug impacts recent versions of the Webkit engine on PS4 6.00 and above, up to the 6.10 Beta. Firmwares 5.xx and below are apparently not vulnerable, possibly because their version of Webkit doesn’t have the vulnerable function.
The vulnerability itself (a bug in JSC::arrayProtoPrivateFuncConcatMemcpy) was first detailed on externalist’s github about 4 months ago. It is assigned CVE Number CVE-2018-4538, and another detailed writeup (from September) on the vulnerability and how it is exploitable in Safari can be found here.
The vulnerability has been fixed in Webkit several months ago, but it seems the patch might not have made it to the PS4 yet.
There is no doubt that Sony will ultimately bring the fix to their Webkit implementation. Additionally, user exploits such as webkit exploits are historically not useful “as is” on modern consoles*, where they are typically just used as entry points for privilege escalation (kernel exploits or Jailbreaks). Therefore, the chances of this becoming more than a proof of concept are very slim.
With that being said, if you are running on PS4 6.00 or above, you can give a try to the proof of concept by pointing your PS4 browser to https://c0rpvultra.github.io/PS4_jsc_ConcatMemcpy_POC/.
Source: Vultra
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December 12th, 2018, 17:10 Posted By: wraggster
Zecoxao has announced that a “method” for “games” is coming soon for PS4 6.02.
Although the tweets are pretty ambiguous, reading between the lines we can assume he is talking about a method to pirate games on the latest firmware.
Specifically, Zecoxao has precised that this is not a hack, rather a “method”, and that once it is disclosed, Sony will patch it. He’s also clarified that this will only be useful for games, which I interpret as: “you’ll get piracy, not homebrew”.
Sometimes the most clever techniques to run unsigned code on Sony’s consoles have emerged from “glitches” that were barely considered as hacks, and this could become one of those.
via http://wololo.net/2018/12/12/ps4-hac...firmware-6-02/
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December 12th, 2018, 17:09 Posted By: wraggster
Sony have just released firmware update 6.20 for the PS4, which was a bit surprising given that 6.10 was the next update to be expected after going through extensive beta in November.
As always for these minor updates, the changelog is intentionally vague and simply states that “This system software update improves system performance”. In other words, this could be anything from a minor patch for some specific game, to some critical vulnerability fix.
Should I update my PS4 to 6.20?
You know the drill: if you expect your PS4 to be hacked, we usually don’t recommend you update your console.
In particular, this update comes as 3 different “exploits” have been recently announced for the PS4 (although none of them confirmed to be a massive game changer at this point). Zecoxao’s upcoming “super secret method” in particular, seems to specifically target firmware 6.02, and there is no word at this point whether it works on the latest firmware 6.20 or not.
via http://wololo.net/2018/12/12/ps4-firmware-update-6-20/
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December 12th, 2018, 17:01 Posted By: wraggster
Yifan Lu and madmonkey1907 managed to dump the PlayStation Classic MTK boot ROM via serial interface and then realized the key Sony used to encrypt areas of the system was the shared public key as opposed to using a private key kept secret as it should be in this case. In other words Sony failed to secure the device by mistakes in the encryption signing process, and it's not the first time that happens. You can use this search to find the related releases so far in the download section for this hack. News spread around quickly on Twitter so mainstream outlets like arstechnica.com and hackaday.com picked up the story. Thanks goes to GaryOPA for letting me know about the BleemSync tool.
via http://www.eurasia.nu/modules.php?na...ticle&sid=3723
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November 28th, 2018, 20:54 Posted By: wraggster
Next month's PlayStation Plus lineup has been revealed. Those who subscribe to the service will be getting six new games to play for free, with December's headline titles being SOMA and Onrush. For PlayStation 3 players, you'll have access to Steins;Gate and Steredenn, while those that still have a PlayStation Vita will get Iconoclasts (PS4 Crossplay) and Papers, Please. SOMA is known for its mix of sci-fi and horror elements while Onrush is an entirely different experience, being an over-the-top arcade racer.
It's also worth noting that by March 2019, both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita titles will no longer be included as part of a PlayStation Plus membership.
You can start playing these games on December 4th.
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2018...-for-december/
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November 27th, 2018, 16:51 Posted By: wraggster
Team PS4NoBd, led by developer CelesteBlue, have released PS4Brew 4.74, a port of the 5.05 Jailbreak, for firmware 4.74. The hacker credits a huge chunk of the work to famous PS4 developer SpecterDev (4.74 JOP chain + ROP Kdumper), as well as from Zecoxao (code + 4.74 patches implementation).
If you’re familiar with the PS4 scene, you already know that the latest exploitable firmware is firmware 5.05. In general, at this point we recommend users on a firmware below that to simply upgrade to 5.05, and Jailbreak the PS4 from there.
But it turns out that folks with a broken BluRay drive cannot upgrade past their current firmware (in this case, 4.74). Error code CE-35888-2 has been mentioned as one of the errors you can get that indicates a broken (or improperly “married”) Blu Ray drive.
PS4Brew 4.74 is therefore here to help these folks enjoy the kernel exploit nonetheless.
If you are on an already hackable firmware such as 4.55, or 5.05, CelesteBlue recommends staying on your current firmware.
The hacker also hinted at more features to come for people with BD drive issues.
If you have a 4.74 PS4 with a broken BD drive that’s preventing you from upgrading, you can now Jailbreak your console: point your PS4’s browser to http://celesteblue.nopsn.com/PS4/474/ or to http://www.pearlxcore.net/ and you’ll run the exploit. As to how to use the exploit once it’s loaded, you can check details on our PS4 Jailbreak page.
Sources will follow shortly, according to CelesteBlue.
Please note that I do not have a PS4 running 4.74 and I haven’t tested this release.
Source: CelesteBlue
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November 27th, 2018, 16:49 Posted By: wraggster
UniPCEmu, by ‘Superfury’, is an x86 emulator that was originally made for the PSP but later on, it got ported to Windows and Android. This emulator apparently lets you emulate a whole slew of different hardware configurations, from an IBM PC with an 8086 to a Compaq Deskpro 386 with an 80486.
UniPCEmu has a whole slew of options you can fiddle with it but it’s a little complex to set up!
Unlike the other two pieces of homebrew mentioned in this article, there isn’t much of a story relating to the PSP version but I could come up with the following conclusions after loading it up on my PSVita:
- It has a whole slew of options to configure which hints that it values compatibility and accuracy over other emulators
- The menu is similar to that found in DaedalusX64 with the L/R triggers to navigate between pages
- The EBOOT takes a long time to load but it eventually works
- According to its developer, performance isn’t the best but you should try it anyway if you want to play some old DOS games on your PSP
For more information, check out the website linked above or its Wololo /talk thread.
via http://wololo.net/2018/11/23/overloo...-and-unipcemu/
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November 27th, 2018, 16:48 Posted By: wraggster
If you were around a couple of years ago, then you may have head of a homebrew called CyanogenPSP. This homebrew provided your PSP with an Android-esque interface and it had numerous features including:
- A launcher for homebrew, PS1 games and PSP games
- A picture viewer and music playerCMFileManager PSP is probably the best PSP file manager out there even though it’s a little late to the game
- Support for custom wallpapers and fonts among other features
While it included a lot of features and looked quite nice, its developer, Joel16, says that its code was quite a mess and the file manager barely worked. To ‘remedy’ this, he decided to give the PSP scene one final contribution and that was the release of CMFileManagerPSP which, obviously, contains much better coding than CyanogenPSP as Joel16 has learned a lot during his Computer Engineering course.
CMFileManagerPSP looks very similar to NXShell and provides the following features:
- Ability to copy/move/paste/delete and rename files and folders. You may also create folders
- Option to browse flash0 and flash1 although you should be careful not to mess around with anything here unless you know what you’re doing
- An image viewer (which didn’t work properly on the images I tried)
- A dark theme although I prefer the lighter one
- It can launch ISOs and homebrew
- Many other features including auto USB mounting and a nice looking status bar
To grab CMFileManagerPSP, follow this link to its Wololo /talk page. If you had already downloaded it a short while back, note that version 1.01 was made available a week ago!
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November 27th, 2018, 16:47 Posted By: wraggster
Sometime in 2016/7, an anonymous user on 4chan apparently worked on porting Hydra Castle Labyrinth to the Nintendo 3DS. Then, in March 2017, a GBATemp found this user’s work and brought it some visibility. Shortly after, the 3DS’ port source code was uploaded to GitHub and it turned out that it contained a nearly complete PSP port!
Hydra Castle Labyrinth for the PSP works quite well and it’s on-par with the PSVita port!
Fast forwarding a little under a year, in February 2018, Wololo /talk user “carstene1ns”, with the help “ptitSeb”, was able to polish up and fix up the PSP port enough so that it could enjoy by the public. I personally tested it on my PSVita via Adrenaline and these are my observations:
- Sound and music work
- Performance is quite good and I didn’t notice any stutters in my short play session
- Both the d-pad and the analogue stick can be used for movement
- There’s an option to use 1:1 scaling, to fill the screen while keeping the game’s aspect ratio (4:3) and to stretch the game to 16:9
- There’s a blur mode which you can enable for smoother graphics
To get this homebrew game, follow this link to its Wololo /talk thread. If you have a PSVita, you can get a native port of HCL for it via VHBB.
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November 26th, 2018, 17:38 Posted By: wraggster
We are closing in fast to the end of our current console cycle, and rumors are flying around fast these days, first with a possible Switch Pro in March 2019, and now more recently Microsoft rumored to be launching an disc-less Xbox One in Spring 2019, and today the news was announced that now Sony besides not doing their own PSX event this holiday season in 2018 they are now will be also skipping the E3 in 2019, which means come December 2019 we could see an special PSX event just for launching their PS5.
With the PS4 turning five this year, it's safe to say that Sony's PS5 is in active development. More so when you consider that development kits for the console are already out in the wild.
"As the industry evolves, Sony Interactive Entertainment continues to look for inventive opportunities to engage the community," said Sony in a statement. "PlayStation fans mean the world to us and we always want to innovate, think differently and experiment with new ways to delight gamers. As a result, we have decided not to participate in E3 in 2019. We are exploring new and familiar ways to engage our community in 2019 and can't wait to share our plans with you."
And while Sony won't have its own event around or during E3 like EA tends to do, some speculate that it's to focus on the PS5.
"Based on conversations with developers across the industry, I expect the PlayStation 5 to be released in 2020, and the publisher skipping E3 2019 certainly points to that," claims Kotaku's Jason Schreier who has a solid track record when it comes to industry happenings of the more nebulous variety, such as a yet to be announced console.
The PS5 may have a 2020 release date and it will be using AMD's Navi GPU. Previously it was suggested that the PS5 would also be using AMD's Ryzen CPU tech and it seems that AMD will have a hand in the PS5's GPU as well. This is according to a report from WCCFtech citing "sources intimately familiar with the entire situation". In addition to letting slip when we could expect the PS5, it delves deeper into the reasoning for AMD not announcing a new GPU at Computex 2018 - it has found the custom-applications space more lucrative.
Click to expand... NEWS SOURCE: Sony Skipping E3 2019, Possibly to Prepare for PS5 Launch (via) Gadgets360
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November 26th, 2018, 16:20 Posted By: wraggster
Sony has found itself under investigation in Turkey this week following complaints that certain games on the PS Store were priced far too high, particularly in the wake of the country's current high inflation and the Turkish lira's lowering value against the dollar.
The Turkish edition of our sister site VG247 has reported the investigation, which appears (via Google Translate) to be concerned with the high prices on certain games sold on the PS Store. Though many games on the store appear to be valued similarly in lira as they do in USD, others appear to have their base prices far higher.
For example, Red Dead Redemption 2 is currently selling for 469,00 TL, or about $88. Other games around that price include Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, FIFA 19, Spider-Man, NBA 2K19, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, NHL 19, and WWE 2K19. However, it is worth noting that all of these games with the exception of Red Dead Redemption 2 were currently on sale at the time of this piece, with discounted costs ranging from 328,80 TL ($61) for Call of Duty all the way down to 159,00 TL ($30) for Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...rice-increases
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