171w ago - Today the PS3 hack exploit SX28 hardware arrived, so we can begin work on dumping the PlayStation 3 Hypervisor to examine!
Up to now, both
GeoHot and
xorloser have successfully performed the PS3 hack while
a few others simply obtained
GeoHot's PS3 Hypervisor dump to study privately.
Needless to say, the rest of the PS3 scene including most of us here, have been waiting to take a peek at the unencrypted bootloader and Hypervisor lv0 and lv1 dumps.
We started by writing a
Ubuntu Guide (as did
titanmkd HERE) and attempted to use a
555 timer to obtain the 40ns pulse required to trigger the exploit, but like many others who attempted this we too had no such luck!
Luckily
xorloser shared some
propered code to trigger a 40ns pulse using an SX28 chip. They are a bit harder to find, and a little more expensive (as you need a programmer) but the method is sound.
That brings us to today, and our SX28 chips and programmer arrived - so we will be recreating the hardware, and giving this a go soon!
If the ps3 is still on 3.55 put it in service mode and go through the last part of the downgrade. If it is not on 3.55 then flash the downgrade bin to...
Yeah, namely xorloser made some nice easy to use code to flash right to the SX28 - it works, why mess with what works? I'm SURE it can be done much cheaper, much easier. Can probably be done on a 18F PIC (if I recall it may be fast enough). But, xorloser made code, and it works!
It started out that way, but last night as CJPC posted HERE they got it working properly with new dump code.
CJPC plans to post an update in the Site News either tonight or tomorrow with the details, and also the dump code will be released then in case others wish to dump their own once they successfully trigger the exploit.
You will soon be amazed - I promise you. Maybe not with lv2 exploits leading to loaders and such but other things that will surface. Rest assured - progress is being made as I write this.
That's what we've all been hoping for.
Anyway, I wanted to ask how much has been dumped so far. I thought it could all be done at once but we were only shown bits and there has been no announcement that the entire hypervisor has been dumped by the Devs so is it safe to assume that means it's being done a piece at a time? Forgive the crappy question but I have no knowledge on the topic.