Released: Hellcat's Recovery Flasher

Lionheart89 · 5 Agosto 2008

Gradita sorpresa da parte del mondo hacking psp. Il noto coder Hellcat rilascia agli amanti della piccola console
un tool di ripristino firmware in caso la nostra console ricada nello stato di semi-brick.
L'homebrew in questione prende in nome di Recovery Flasher. Il tool ha lo scopo di installare su una
console danneggiata il custom firmware 3.71M33 a partire da qualunque stato in cui versiamo.
Questo programma è stato testato con successo nei seguenti firmware:

3.02-OE --> Fat PSP
3.40-OE --> TimeMachine Fat PSP
3.60-M33 --> TimeMachine Slim PSP
3.71-M33 --> Fat e Slim PSP
4.01-M33 --> Fat e Slim PSP

Scopo del programma quindi è quello di fare un downgrade ad un firmware piu basso (3.71M33) per poi aggiornare la console ad un firmware più alto (se lo riteniamo essenziale). Inoltre consente di poter attuare un backup delle locazioni flash, Ripristino varie parti del FW in flash (VSH / XMB tema, le impostazioni, PSN negozio di attivazione ....) Il tool non richiede pandora battery.

Ecco il readme ufficiale:

H E L L C A T s R e c o v e r y F l a s h e r
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* recover semi-bricks * up-/downgrade your CFW *
* flash *ANY* CFW directely to 3.71-M33 *
all without Pandora
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What is this? And why?
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Short version:
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- Flashes a fresh 3.71-M33 - for recovering semi-bricks or to
up-/downgrade CFW
- does not use Pandora, runns from the recovery menu or the XMB
- does not use (as in launch) the original Sony Updater (only extracts
all required files from the original .PBP)
- runns fine on CFWs lower than 3.52-M33-3 - handy for upgrading older
FWs w/o the "need to go 3.52, then 3.52-3, then higher" odyssey
- runns fine from TimeMachine (3.40-OE on Fat and 3.60-M33 on Slim)
- can backup the FW flash and restore selected parts (XMB theme,
settings, PSN activation)

Long version:
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Back in the 1.50 based CFW days (up to 3.52-M33) the option "Launch
EBOOT at /PSP/GAME/RECOVERY/" was a very handy thing for recovering
semi-bricks or downgrading your PSP - in short, to repair or
completely re-flash your PSP.

Since the 3.xx (or higher) based CFWs this option became obsolete due
to missing apps that could run and do their job from there.

Here comes the rescue ;-)

Designed as a native 3.xx+ app, to run from the recovery menu's option
from recent CFWs on Fat and Slim PSPs - however, you can perfectly run it
from the XMB as well.
On 1.50 based CFWs (3.52 and lower) you must run it from the XMB,
since the recovery menu on those CFWs launches the EBOOT in 1.50 kernel,
but it uses systen calls not available from there.

You can perform the following actions:

- Flash a fresh 3.71-M33 (-1) to recover a semi-brick or to downgrade.
- Make a backup of all FW related flash content (filewise, flash0-3,
i.e. FW, settings, PSN store activation, e.t.c., it's not a NAND dump!)
- Restore various parts of the FW flash (VSH/XMB theme, settings, PSN
store activation....)

When installing a fresh 3.71 you can choose to reset all settings as
well, or to keep them if you know there's nothing wrong with them.
So the recovered/downgraded PSP can still have all your settings!

All of theese functions also work from a 3.60 booted via TimeMachine!
NOT from a 3.40-OE though.... (that also counts for any FW bellow 3.52-
M33-3 installed in the NAND)

Why 3.71? Why not a lower or higher FW?
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One purpose of this app is to downgrade the CFW of the PSP.
I define downgrading much as "go as low as you can" and 3.71 is the
lowest firmware that runns on both PSPs, Fat and Slim.

From there then, you have the freedom of upgrading to any other FW
you desire - thus no higher one for this.

Installation
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Painless and easy:
Copy the RECOVERY folder from the archive to /PSP/GAME/ on your
memstick, so that you get a /PSP/GAME/RECOVERY/ folder containing the
apps EBOOT on your stick.
Now copy the official Sony 3.71 Update EBOOT, renamed as 371.PBP, into
the RECOVERY folder as well.

Done

Usage
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After launching the app, either from the recovery menu or via the XMB
you'll eventually get into the mainmenu.

Everything should be pretty selfexplanatory, you can flash a new
firmware, make a complete flash0 to flash2 backup or restore certain
things from your backup.

What else?
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Well, that's pretty much it.

Here's some additional credits that should be noted:

- PSAR extraction is based on the M33 NEWPSARDumper - with lots of
modifications though.... (libpsardumper.prx and pspdecrypt.prx are
used for the actual extraction and crypto parts)

- IPL flashing routines are currently by DAX (iplupdate.prx)
(planning on getting my own code working for that part....)

- I have to thank the following people VERY MUCH for their hints, help
and patient answers to all my questions - without those, the creation
of this program would have taken a year longer (or two ;-)):
* JumpR * cory1492 * jas0nuk * all the other devs on LAN.ST *

I hope you enjoy using this as much as I did making it

Leave comments, bug reports, or whatever in the release threads at
either eXophase.com or the qj.net forums.

This program has been tested by myself to successfully flash
a fresh 3.71-M33 on the following setups:

3.02-OE *) on Fat PSP
3.40-OE via TimeMachine on Fat PSP
3.60-M33 via TimeMachine on Slim PSP
3.71-M33 on Fat and Slim PSP
4.01-M33 on Fat and Slim PSP

*) Note: On lower CFWs (early OEs, mostly) you may get warnings during
3.71 installation regaring assignments of flash1:
This is normal under theese FW versions, no need to worry.
The program will disable formatting flash1 in that case, so
everything should be fine.
Clicca per allargare...

Per l'installazione e avvio del hb, posizionare la cartella RECOVERY in ms0:/PSP/GAME/
quindi scaricare il firmware ufficiale sony 3.71 e infine rinominarlo in 371.pbp e posizionarlo in ms0:/PSP/GAME/RECOVERY/
l'applicativo si avvia dalla recovery, nell'apposita funzione "Launch EBOOT at /PSP/GAME/RECOVERY/"

Download

Enjoy...

bertoku · 5 Agosto 2008

certo che se non va la recovery, l'unica soluzione rimane sempre la pandora

Lollo96 · 5 Agosto 2008

Bell'hb ma per fortuna ho ancora la psp sana e vegeta...

ne0h · 5 Agosto 2008

Grande Hellcat, era da molto tempo che ci lavorava!

abarth83 · 5 Agosto 2008

bertoku ha scritto: ↑

certo che se non va la recovery, l'unica soluzione rimane sempre la pandora
Clicca per allargare...

si infatti ha parlato di semi-brick... diciamo che la pandora serve sempre però moolto utile in coaso di semi brick..

Lionheart89 · 5 Agosto 2008

più che altro l'utilità è che se avete installato un firmware minore del 3.52m33 potrete
aggiornare direttamente al 3.71m33, senza ricorrere ad aggiornamenti intermedi
a patto che siate nella condizione di un cfw maggiore o uguale 3.02-OE

IO ME MEDESIMO · 5 Agosto 2008

si ritorna al vecchio modo per sbriccare i semibrick su cf quanti ricordi

ne0h · 5 Agosto 2008

bah, se è un semi-brick puoi accedere alla recovery, quindi la pandora è innutile!

zixnet · 5 Agosto 2008

caspiterina è propio quello che mi ci voleva ... è una settimana che cercava una soluzione al semibrick che avevo creato...ghgh, Questa sera lo provo e speriamo bene

therazor · 5 Agosto 2008

bel tool....mitico hellcat

azoto89 · 7 Agosto 2008

finalmente un bel recovery per la psp, molto serio già provato e funziona perfettamente

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