Calc Guru "Brandon Wilson" Returns: Updates his TI84 port with new features!

[garyopa]

Finally, the already famous TI Calc Guru Brandon Wilson has returned to the PS3 scene, and has updated his now world-wide famous TI-84 Calc PSGroove port with a bunch of new fancy features for those using his work to Jailbreak their PS3 consoles.

PS3JB is a FLASH application for the TI-84 Plus and TI-84 Plus Silver Edition that implements the PSGroove exploit for the Playstation 3 console. By connecting a USB cable between a PS3 and your calculator and running the application, you can trigger the PSGroove exploit from your graphing calculator.

The latest version brings about several improvements:

* Current status is displayed at the bottom of the LCD:

* In addition to the usual jailbreak method, you can now install and uninstall a "hook" that allows the jailbreak to work at any point in the calculator's OS:

This even works when the calculator is off; the PS3 will turn it on as it enumerates USB devices, and the calculator will shut off after about 5 minutes of inactivity (through the calculators' existing Automatic Power Down feature).

Now you can shove the calculator and the USB cable behind the PS3 and forget it's there.

* External payloads are now supported. This means you don't have to re-assemble the application to use a payload different from the official PSGroove one.

These payloads are stored as calculator AppVars and selected through PS3JB's options menu:

These options are stored in an AppVar called PS3JBOPT, which can be archived to keep it safe from RAM resets.

To convert from a binary file containing the payload data to an AppVar, you can use To8XV (a VB.NET 2.0 program) found here, or you can create your own.

* AsbestOS is now supported.

The stage 1 and stage 2 payloads are specified in the options menu as above. To use the standard jailbreak exploit, select "None" as the stage 2 payload (which is the default).

I attached all the newest files for you including a pre-converted Hermes v2 payload which is the best since it fixes some controller sync issues and works great with Open Manager v1.14.2 whereas by default Brandon Wilson payloads don't support the backup managers.

News Source: http://brandonw.net/ps3jb/

UPDATE: Now Attached is the latest v3 Hermes converted payload, thanks to RemainNameless

[Heoki]

Doesn't the Hermes v2 payload have issues?

[arrakis31]

Can you post a simple BM enable version of the port ?
Hermes v2 is just trouble if not use directly by openbackup manager
thanks

[remainnameless]

Cool. Will try when I get home from work.

Thanks Brandon and Gary.

[haincha]

Does this need to be edited at all to allow bdvd emulation? Or does switching the payload handle that issue now?

[ti83programmer]

Switching the payload handles that now, but it seems people haven't caught on to that yet.

[remainnameless]

Switching the payload handles that now, but it seems people haven't caught on to that yet.

I think this is one of the coolest releases that has come out yet. Now I may be partial seeing as I own a TI-84, but the ability to choose a payload is very cool.

[arrakis31]

Just looking for a BM enable payload that does not comes with Hermes stuff and no bluray emulation that is no very compatible with most games

[haincha]

That is what I thought was going on. But, I figured I would ask before I start breaking my stuff.

Not sure what the deal is, but I can not load the Hermes 2 payload onto my calculator. I have the new version installed fine, but the payload wont transfer, I am getting errors.

I am on a mac if it makes any difference.

[ti83programmer]

You can't just transfer a payload to it, it must be converted to a TI-84 Plus AppVar using the To8XV converter mentioned on brandonw.net/ps3jb.

To do this, the payload needs to be in a binary file.

The main payload used by the exploit is what I'm calling "stage 1". This is basically the device 1 descriptor. So, get the device 1 descriptor from wherever and make a BIN file of it (where the first 20 or so bytes are the start of a descriptor and then the payload data), and then you can run that through To8XV to produce a .8xv file you can send to your calculator.

Once it's on your calculator, you can go into the application's options and set it as the stage 1 payload.

I should probably document this somewhere, but this is how you'd produce a payload usable by the application.