http://www.haxnetwork.net Playstation 3 (PS3) and Xbox 360 Hacking Community Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:18:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en C4E’s LT DVD firmware for BENQ drives has been released: C4E’s iXtreme Lite Touch (LT) in association with Team Jungle & Team Xecuter After a long development and testing process we give you the first official release of the iXtreme LT - Supports all BenQ Drives (62430C, 64930C) - Supports all Liteon Drives (74850, ... http://www.haxnetwork.net/2010/03/c4e%e2%80%99s-benq-ixtreme-lite-touch-lt/ Remember the rumor a few days ago that Sony may remove the OtherOS feature on non-slim PS3's in future firmware update? Well Geoff Levand, PS3-Linux maintainer, has gotten confirmation from SCE that the feature will NOT be removed in future firmware updates, and Sony will continue to support it. ... http://www.haxnetwork.net/2010/03/otheros-will-not-be-removed-from-phat-ps3s/ Xorloser has released his complete the PS3 exploit toolkit software called XorHack. XorHack allows you to call lv1 syscalls (level 1 system calls) from a normal (userspace) program. It also lets you run the software required when triggering the PS3 exploit from a normal userspace program. To quote: I finally found the ... http://www.haxnetwork.net/2010/03/xorhack-the-ps3-exploit-toolkit-released/ Demonhades has posted today progress/findings of the PS3 hypervisor and boostrap (lvl0/level1). To quote: For those who bear on our community and this study shall know the hypervisor and bootstrap, but for new and newcomers who want to know about the safety features on ps3, and is protected as it manages the ... http://www.haxnetwork.net/2010/03/ps3-hypervisor-and-bootstrap-lv01-examined-by-demonhades/ A widespread crash has occured today for "phat"  PS3 users resulting in a "8001050F" error. Here are the symptoms to this problem: Can not connect to PSN "Hardware failure. Cannot update Firmware or connect to Internet" Cannot enter any BR games (Trophy errors, kicks you out; "Can't register trophy information. The game will now ... http://www.haxnetwork.net/2010/02/psn-error-8001050f/ xorloser has released his PS3 HV Dump setup script for IDA which "setups function tables including the hypercall (syscall) table, mmcall table, OPD, TOC, GOT. It will find common functions such as puts and printf and very importantly it will fixup all rtoc references which are used to access global ... http://www.haxnetwork.net/2010/02/ps3-hv-dump-setup-script-for-ida/ Now this is a nasty rumor to be awoken to, just as the scene finally broke down the hypervisor security, we now hear rumors that Sony is planning to block OtherOS support via next PS3 firmware update. Owen Stampflee Linux Product Manager for Fixstars Corporation made the following post in the ... http://www.haxnetwork.net/2010/02/rumor-sony-to-block-otheros-support-next-firmware-update/ A Genesis/Megadrive emulator was made for homebrewed xbox 360's: Features: - Graphics/Sound - Achievements (don't be a dumbass and use this on live, your console will be banned) - Favorites Support - XUI user interface - SRAM save support linked to a user profile - SaveState support (currently 1 per rom) - Regular and Enhanced Graphics Filters - Sound ... http://www.haxnetwork.net/2010/02/genesis-plus-360-v012-beta/ SKFU has stumbled across a new patent for a method to protect against encrypted section attacks To quote from SKFU blog and patent below: Recently a new patent by a SONY employee was published on the patent site at faqs.org. It seems it is SONY's answer for Geohot's progress. Take a look ... http://www.haxnetwork.net/2010/02/anti-geohot-ps3-hack-patent/ Used to unlock arcade games and DLC, XM360 is essential to any jtagged xbox >> Team XeDev released a bugfix version of XM360. What's new/fixed (since v0.8): * fixed bug where Japanese DLC would prevent DLC scene from working (causing a 360 hang) (v0.8b) * fixed bug where launching XBLA from the first screen ... http://www.haxnetwork.net/2010/02/xm360-v08c/