Half Byte Loader revision 85

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90 Responses

  1. oliver230791 says:

    Awsome!

    I think you take the right decision of returning to p2, but it is also good idea to see how you can get extra ram from p5.

    You are great guys! ;D

  2. HBL4President says:

    First of all congratulations for this fantastic homebrew loader.

    I want to inform (surely you’re working on this) that hbl does not work in PSP Go 5.70. The only version that loaded was the R51.

    HBL crashes at “test sceIodopen” and PSP shutdown.

    Best wishes. I’m very grateful 🙂

  3. Triompf says:

    I just want to say to all of you!!!

    Thanks, keep te great work going! And of course good luck with your horse race:D

    Greatz Triompf

  4. JunkWarrior says:

    Merci Beaucoup. Thanks alot.

  5. yoshiFail says:

    I love the hbl!!! Thank you all for this great stuff!

  6. Davy Jones says:

    Hey wololo, great release as ever. On the Daedalus forums, Salve posted a modified version of hbl here: http://forums.daedalusx64.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2432 saying that he removed the override of sceCtrlPeekBufferPositive, which made daedalus as fast as it is on custom firmware. Has / will this be implemented in the main release of HBL?
    Thanks again for this awesome piece of software!

  7. popstar00x says:

    Half Byte Loader revision 85
    Chinese Edition:(for chinese visiters)
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    ????????85 79 +??????????80 83 +????
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    ????Wagic??????gpsp????????????
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  8. Cheeze6661 says:

    @Davy Jones: I’ve tried that build. The roms run fast at launch but then it always freezes in less than 5 minutes time. 🙁 I think we should wait until the official HBL can run Daedalus out of the box. Plus that build reintroduces the exiting with home key and sleep mode bug.(its built using r83) I’ve tested it several times with my psp 3001 ofw6.20 and I can’t play any roms without hard-booting my psp every 5 mins. Mario64 froze after entering the castle and again while crossing the bridge to the castle, Mario Party 3 froze as soon as I hit my first mini game on the board. So… with my tests, I consider Daedalus still to be unplayable on HBL.

    @wololo: r85 is great and I’ll be sticking with that. Hoping for a revision that can play Daedalus(newest revisions) out of the box. 🙂

  9. wololo says:

    @Davy Jones: I’ll make this peekBufferPositive thing an override in next version, so that daedalus players can play at full speed if they want, with a hbl config file (like I did for picodrive). Note that there is a drawback, it means this function needs to be estimated, so that’s one additional risk for the game not to run correctly.

  10. Wolfdawg says:

    Ok DSonPSP .01 came out a few days ago can you get it to work on hbl?
    http://pspslimhacks.com/unofficial-dsonpsp-01-released-nintendo-ds-emulator-for-psp/

    Also daedalus x64 alpha revision 502 came out can you get that to work to?
    http://pspslimhacks.com/n64-emulator-daedalusx64-alpha-revision-502/

  11. ScrappyBoy says:

    That’s a very hard work for u man, keep it up , we enjoy your appreciation..
    and your Discovery in Matrix. East or west Wololo and its team is the best..!

  12. adam says:

    wlolo is it possible for someone to come out with a kernal exploit so we can use recovery flasher to downgrade our firmware?

  13. Eldoka says:

    Hello wololo

    I have a question???

    My PSP 3004 ofw 6.20 and your HBL rev. 85.

    Can I play Wagic??? And if like???

    If it has tried out already once, however, then simply goes out the PSP.

    I thank you and your team for the really work you have made. I love your HBL and the emulators I on it can use.

    Excuse for my horrific English allowed to translate it about a programme.

    Love greets from Germany

  14. carlos says:

    eldoka
    to play in HBL WAGIC in 85 only removes Rev mp3, and exception.prx

    (works with me)

  15. revolver says:

    great work bro can you made it compatible with psx emulator?I don`t wanna pay two times my old games

  16. Nick says:

    AHHHHHHHHH!! THIS BRICKED MY PSP!!! I was trying to run homers rin (Which worked) and pressed the playstation button to return to the menu, it said “Loading” for a long time and after i while i used manual shut off, when I turned it back on, im stuck on a grey screen. Ive tried all the buttons, removing mem card, inserting UMD and nothing… ugh…. well at least i think its still insured…

  17. Nick says:

    NVM i removed the battery and put it back in. I guess this made the psp load the menu directly instead of continuing from the last time i shut down.

  18. Minus says:

    dude, I know you said about this question, but will you try to get your patapon exploit go into kernel mode?
    By the way, great work

  19. Cheeze6661 says:

    Anyone asking about kernel access or iso loading, your questions have already been answered several times over. It’s simply “no”! 🙂 The Patapon 2 exploit is strictly user mode and will never gain kernel access. Here is Wololo’s own write up on the issue: http://wololo.net/wagic/2010/05/25/can-half-byte-loader-run-isos/

    Stop asking for the impossible. Technically it can’t be done given the exploit we have now.

  20. Wolfdawg says:

    RE:thatguy
    Im not demanding that he do this Im ASKING and why not ask him to get an emulator to work? Thats what hes trying to do

  21. wololo says:

    @Nick: you can’t brick your psp with the eLoader because it is a user mode exploit. Don’t be afraid.

    @revolver: you can’t run psx games with the eLoader directly because it is a user mode exploit. There is a PSX emulator but I believe it is quite slow.

    @eldoka: See carlos’s answer 🙂

  22. majikal says:

    Great job! I love that I can run homebrew on my 3000 finally!

    One question: Is it possible to get snes9x Euphoria to work with hbl? I’ve tried several times and it gets as far as the HBL loop message before hard powering down my system. No rush or anything, I’m very happy with it regardless.

    Keep up the excellent work!

  23. svenn says:

    Great job Wololo, keep homebrew up and not piracy!

  24. ExisteRcz says:

    Please bring up the HBL FuSaGaMePaD

  25. Nickolas says:

    Wololo you are the best.You are even better than Dark Alex.He hacked a simple-to-hack psp but you hacked what Sony considered unhackable!You are
    the BEST man!Goooooooood work.But I have some questions.First what is kernel and user mode?Second how old are you?(Just out of curiosity).Third how long were you working on HBL?Fourth how did Malloxis gain access to your exploit since you did not want it to leak?Was he a tester?A developer maybe?

    Greetings from Greece,
    We all love you here! 😉
    Nickolas

  26. dayron_1379 says:

    great job!!!

    running on psp 2001 firmware 5.50

  27. Roxaxis says:

    You’re the BEST Wololo.:)

  28. Xianten says:

    good luck with that horse race… im never playing that game again… a random cougar killed my good horse >.<

  29. oxmudxo says:

    lol,
    Am I the only one that is misses the Wagic updates.?
    This is a awesome project wololo but I’m dieing for some new Wagic.

    You’re the $#!t….!

    Thank You, for everything you do. 🙂

  30. Westwood college says:

    Tighten up the graphics on level 3

  31. Nickolas says:

    wololo i have a question i completely understand the reasons not to reveal a user mode exploit i may have found but what about a kernel mode exploit?

    p.s. i have found nothing but am curious
    pspGo owners don’t get happy 🙂

  32. adam says:

    wololo why dont you team up with team ELD and team projectxx, if you put all your ideas together you can make alot of progress and three heads are better than 1

  33. hmm says:

    Tried all the versions available here, none of them work. 🙁
    PSP crashes/shuts down every time after pressing”R”. PSP 3004, OFW 5.70. Any ideas?

  34. wololo says:

    @Nickolas:
    1) For the difference between kernel and user, use google or wikipedia.
    2) I’m 28
    3) The first version of HBL was released in november 2009. ( see http://wololo.net/wagic/2009/11/29/mooh-exploit-m0skit0s-eloader-alpha-release-devs-only/ ). I myself joined the project in february when the patapon exploit was discovered, so I’ve been personally working on it for 4 months, but m0skit0 and ab5000 have been working on this project for roughly 9 months I’d say
    4) Malloxis is the guy who found the crash in patapon 2 and let N00b81 and myself know (sort of, he never told us the name of the game and we had to figure out by ourself since he didn’t want us to steal his “fame”). Since he basically found the crash (although he didn’t know how to exploit it, and didn’t realize the exploit was also in the demo), we included him in the early works on hack. Since we were afraid he would leak the name of the game, and to show we trusted him, I sent him an early version of the hello world. That’s how the leak happened, I shouldn’t have trusted him, and I learnt it the hard way…

    @adam: There are already 4 “heads” working on HBL. If people want to join us they are welcome to do so since the project is open source. Regarding these “teams” you mention, I have never heard of them and they have never approached us with offers for help. Other than that I won’t work with people I don’t trust, and that list is quite restricted 🙂

  35. Nickolas says:

    @Wololo wow 28!thats why you have such skills;)I am 14 and i have coded minor programms for pc but at psp programming i totalu suck

  36. oxmudxo says:

    lol, I’m 31 and I can only dream of having his skills.:)

  37. Eldoka says:

    I have a question again.

    I have ScummVM 1.1.1 and it does not go with my PSP.

    What must I make with it it goes???

    Excuse for my horrific English allowed to translate it about a programme.

    Love greets from Germany

  38. wololo says:

    The version of scummvm I’m using is apparently a bit old, I think it is version 0.10.0 (not entirely sure, and no access to my psp for a few days). So try older versions.

  39. Eldoka says:

    ScummVM version 1.0.0rc1 goes without problems, still thank you for the fast answer always. ^^

    …..you are the best wololo

    Love greets from Germany

  40. Wolfdawg says:

    @wololo
    Sorry to repost but I forgot to do the @ thing idk if that works though :/
    or if wolo read my comment
    Ok DSonPSP .01 came out a few days ago can you get it to work on hbl?
    http://pspslimhacks.com/unofficial-dsonpsp-01-released-nintendo-ds-emulator-for-psp/

    Also daedalus x64 alpha revision 502 came out can you get that to work to?
    http://pspslimhacks.com/n64-emulator-daedalusx64-alpha-revision-502/