PSP firmware 3.90 cracked (yes, already)

by Kyle Orland { Feb 1st 2008 at 3:00PM }

Well that was fast. Here we are, not more than two days after the Skype-granting PSP 3.90 firmware was released, and a new custom firmware comes along to let PSP owners run homebrew and/or pirated programs yet again.

While there aren't many exciting new features for this quick and dirty custom firmware upgrade, we should note that the M33 line of hacks now has the ability to download updates directly from the internet via Wi-Fi using the PSP's built-in Network Update tool. When PSP users don't even have to be tethered to a computer to break Sony's copy-protection, what chance does Sony really have of stopping them?

[Via PSP Fanboy]

Tags: 3.90, crack, custom-firmware, dark-alex, firmware, hack, m33

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Shimrra @ Feb 1st 2008 3:06PM

Come on these people working on these hacks are experts at this so how is this surprising at all.

Fernando Rocker @ Feb 1st 2008 3:09PM

Your avatar looks like a real Mr. Satan.

C4PTAIN AWE5OME @ Feb 1st 2008 3:14PM

No Kidding, Sony should hire some of these guys to crack the PS3 and create a patch that would allow developers to actually program games for it.

Mr Khan @ Feb 1st 2008 3:51PM

Hell, Sony should just find these guys and hire 'em, then make them stop their own creations

You would need haxzors to stop haxzors

FidliousWong @ Feb 1st 2008 4:00PM

Fernando, you should really update your idea of Old Scratch. You forget, he was the most beautiful and smartest of the Seraphs. Do you really think he would suddenly lose all that as he fell? Do you really think he would be able to tempt and twist the hearts and souls of men if he showed up with huge black wings, devilish goatee, and eyeballs running up his cock?

The Morningstar, if the whole deal was real, would likely be a very attractive man with an almost regal appearance. After all, isn't his son, the antichrist, supposed to somehow fool the entire of mankind of being the second coming of christ? Can't do that if you look like the lead singer from Pantera...

StrangeBum @ Feb 1st 2008 4:09PM

@Fidlious

Not sure if that was sarcasm or not, but I believe our good friend Fernando was referring to Mr. Satan, from Dragonball Z fame.

Or I could be totally wrong.

Fernando Rocker @ Feb 1st 2008 4:14PM

Mr. Satan is a Dragon Ball Z character =(

I'm not talking about Satan... I'm talking about Mr. Satan. Does it have a different name in English?

http://www.emulationgalaxy.co.yu/images/manga/DBZ/Mr.%20Satan.jpg

Shimrra @ Feb 1st 2008 4:14PM

In the US DBZ universe he reffered as Hercule.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Feb 1st 2008 4:20PM

Only in the cut version. Uncut english calls him Satan. Hercule Satan, but they still say "Mr Satan"

FidliousWong @ Feb 1st 2008 4:46PM

Wow, umm... a DBZ reference... no wonder I missed it. I tried to get into it (I liked the original Dragonball) but could never quite gel with Z.

Now if we were talking Universal Century, then I'd likely get every reference. SIEG ZEON!

Trickob @ Feb 1st 2008 5:32PM

i have to say that i agree with fernando except that i think shimrra's avatar looks like a cross between mr. satan/hercule and david hasselhoff (sp?)

guess we know who should play who in the upcoming live-action db film.

Trickob @ Feb 1st 2008 3:06PM

i was momentarily upset when i first saw the picture of the broken psp screen. very traumatic...

anywho, kudos to the homebrewers!

Floyd @ Feb 1st 2008 3:07PM

1st post ftw.
how do i hack it?

Shimrra @ Feb 1st 2008 3:12PM

Shouldnt be hard to do at all best thing to do is google the firmware and you should find a large number of sites guiding you to properly hack your psp.

Curtis @ Feb 1st 2008 3:32PM

Actually your 3rd post FTL...learn how to count next time.

Floyd @ Feb 1st 2008 3:39PM

actually i posted the comment when this article was originally posted. i stepped away and activated it. when i came back it posted under 3

Fernando Rocker @ Feb 1st 2008 3:47PM

Why don't you use a password? Its easier and quicker... you don't need to activate every comment.

Drunkard @ Feb 1st 2008 3:08PM

...not so firm is it?

Undead Priest @ Feb 1st 2008 3:13PM

Yeah, it's called Flaccidware.

Trickob @ Feb 1st 2008 5:26PM

*lawlz*

JodyAnthony (death by snoo-snoo) @ Feb 1st 2008 3:18PM

i gave the network update a shot last night and it worked like a dream

deaftly @ Feb 1st 2008 3:19PM

I LOVE the new auto update feature, dark alex is the man

StrangeBum @ Feb 1st 2008 4:10PM

I thougth Dark Alex dropped out of the PSP hacking scene due to legal threats from Sony. He was always the best before, but is it still him doing this?

StrangeBum @ Feb 1st 2008 4:12PM

After clicking the read link, I take back my previous comment.

Ignore that, vote it down, invisibilify it or whatever. My bad.

Noshino @ Feb 1st 2008 4:20PM

invisibilify

wow...I swear I didn't look it up...

Trev @ Feb 1st 2008 4:25PM

He fixed it by not redistributing Sony code. You now download the official firmware from Sony as normal and a separate update from DA that just overwrites the parts necessary. No one can go after him for distributing code he wrote.

BPM @ Feb 1st 2008 3:30PM

Way to go, Dark Alex. That was much quicker than I expected!

Boostjunkie @ Feb 1st 2008 3:42PM

Joystiq makes it sound like putting this hacked firmware is an easy matter. It's not at all, it requires someone with a old hacked PSP, a hacked battery, and a lot of work. This is not something that the majority of people would ever be able to use.

nerrrrrrd @ Feb 1st 2008 3:56PM

it's easy for a nerrrrrrd!

catfish24 @ Feb 1st 2008 4:01PM

Wow, if you think that's hard work you have problems lol. No offense or anything, but it's so easy to hack the psp.

deaftly @ Feb 1st 2008 4:29PM

I bought a old copy of gta with the exploit off ebay for 30 bucks and hacked the psp, i wouldnt really call that rocket science. Hell, the offical ps forums had a great guide to do it of all places.

LesbianHam @ Feb 2nd 2008 10:56AM

You dont need an already hacked psp, just a pre-made pandora battery, an MS-PRO DUO and a pc with a card reader.

Hell you don't even need a pre-made pandora battery, do what I did just a coupla weeks ago and get a tool to convert your battery into a pandora battery and the press of a button, then back with the same - it's an unbelievably cool tool, powered by the battery you put in! The name escapes me, but it's something along the lines of "battery service tool" and IMO is greatly under appreciated.

Geist @ Feb 1st 2008 3:45PM

Why does Sony even try anymore? They could make a firmware that could shoot lasers whenever you tried to touch the files, and a hacker would be all "Zip bang, cracked."

upz @ Feb 1st 2008 4:33PM

Would he dodge the lasers like Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil 4 or more like Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment?

Trev @ Feb 1st 2008 3:48PM

Downloaded and installed well before this story came up. Skype is ok, but I wish it stayed signed in while it wasn't selected on the XMB.

I wasn't much for hacked firmware until I could rip and play my old PS1 games instead of waiting for them to show up on PSN. That's really the only benefit I'm getting from it.