Official Psgroove Payload Updated to Allow Retail PKG Installs

[vettenstein]

Mathieulh has updated the official PSGroove payload to allow for retail PKG installing. Earlier today we reported about Waninkoko‘s payload which accomplished the same thing. However, Mathieulh states that Waninkoko‘s payload is the incorrect way to allow retail pkg installing. Mathieulh also states that issues may come up for certain pkg’s. Therefore, he has patched the payload correctly, giving us a more stable payload to install retail pkg and updated the official PSGroove GIT.

Retail package support was just added to PSGroove GIT
! This patch isn’t the same as Waninkoko’s Hermes v3 !

* Forcing r11 to 1 like Waninkoko did does work but it is not the solution and might bring issues with specific package types.
* The right patch to be done is to put a nop at the beginning of the debug algo decryption which checks for the model flag to be 1
* Also Waninkoko left the original PSJailbreak patch which was not proper either:

ROM:0002ED00 lhz %r9, arg_7A(%sp)
ROM:0002ED04 xori %r9, %r9, 0×80
ROM:0002ED08 addi %r9, %r9, -1
ROM:0002ED0C rldicl %r29, %r9, 1,63
ROM:0002ED10 b loc_2ED20

* They force r29 to 1 which does indeed let you install debug packages,
* But breaks the retail package install because the code will stop at the debug check if r29 is set to 1.
* The right way is to actually kill that check.
* That’s what’s been done by doing a nop to the conditional branch.

News Source: Mathieulh’s twitter and PSGroove

[Xeauron]

Nice, more stable is always a good thing.

[ocat1979]

Reminder to anyone compiling this - the official PSGroove source does not have backups enabled, you have to change a few values in the descriptor.h for backups to work

Cheers

[hulk]

hoping we'll finally be able to install dynamic themes.

[Anony]

Start compiling peoples, with Hermes v3

[haincha]

Just so I am understanding this correctly. This is only for game updates? This will not allow me to upgrade my internal drive and be able to reinstall the PSN content I have, will it?

[darktranq]

This will not allow me to upgrade my internal drive and be able to reinstall the PSN content I have, will it?

no as your PS3 needs to be activated by logging into PSN - which you can't do anymore due to Sony blocking the proxy method.

game updates don't require this.

[evilsperm]

I have patched this for use with backup support, I have also included a long list of boards to select within the make file as well as including the (Blackcat LED fix thanx to ac1d)
This is the source so you can compile it yourself under linux with the Ubuntu VM that was released. You can choose you flavor by going to the usual places =)
I have posted up a new version supporting 3.41 $dk. Older versions 1.92 $dk & No $dk used to compile Hex's only.

Patched Source:
psgroove-psgroove-23b36af-patched.zip


Remember this is the Original PSGroove with patches done that are supposedly cleaner then waninakoko's hermes version. It will more then likely not be used by many because of this. Maybe waninakoko will push these patches into his version in the near future?

~evil

[57413]

I have patched this for use with backup support, I have also included a long list of boards to select within the make file as well as including the (Blackcat LED fix thanx to ac1d)
This is the source so you can compile it yourself under linux with the Ubuntu VM that was released. You can choose you flavor by going to the usual places =)
I have posted up a new version supporting 3.41 $dk. Older versions 1.92 $dk & No $dk used to compile Hex's only.

Patched Source:
psgroove-psgroove-23b36af-patched.zip


~evil

Thanks... Looking for compiled HEX for AVR Key / Teensy 1.0

[iLLNESS]

attached is the teensy2.0++ hex patched for open manager/etc.

this will likely be the only hex i compile as its the only board i have and its not a PIC