Fanjita, Noobz to undo recent PSP bricks soon

Renowned homebrew developer Fanjita wrote an article over at the Noobz team website regarding the recent PSP brickings involving a “broken version of the latest M33 custom firmware, deliberately distributed by a certain disreputable piracy site.”

This is not just some random post, mind you, as Fanjita noted that they are working on a way to fix the broken PSPs. According to Fanjita, the bricks occurred due to a “a delicate decryption algorithm” in the program.

The developer further explained, “that algorithm was tied to the contents of the installer program, which had the side effect that if the installer was modified in any way, then the data being flashed to the PSP would be corrupt, and so a brick would result”.

But the good thing is that Fanjita and the rest of Noobz team believe that there’s a way to undo the damage the algorithm caused. The developer mentioned that they’ve been studying Team M33‘s code and are currently working on a project regarding this. Fanjita wrote:

We hope to be able to develop a way to fix those bricks in the near future. At this time, this is just for the M33 bricks. I can’t predict exactly when this might be ready (it should be very soon), but maybe it will save some of you the hassle and expense of sending your PSP off to be repaired.

We have to say that QJ.NET really commends this move from Fanjita and Noobz team because a lot of innocent PSP owners were really affected by what happened. It’s really heart-warming to see some of the PSP community’s developers spending time to rescue not only those who are locked out of homebrew, but those who were victims of PSP bricks as well.

Via Noobz

Renowned homebrew developer Fanjita wrote an article over at the Noobz team website regarding the recent PSP brickings involving a “broken version of the latest M33 custom firmware, deliberately distributed by a certain disreputable piracy site.”

This is not just some random post, mind you, as Fanjita noted that they are working on a way to fix the broken PSPs. According to Fanjita, the bricks occurred due to a “a delicate decryption algorithm” in the program.

The developer further explained, “that algorithm was tied to the contents of the installer program, which had the side effect that if the installer was modified in any way, then the data being flashed to the PSP would be corrupt, and so a brick would result”.

But the good thing is that Fanjita and the rest of Noobz team believe that there’s a way to undo the damage the algorithm caused. The developer mentioned that they’ve been studying Team M33‘s code and are currently working on a project regarding this. Fanjita wrote:

We hope to be able to develop a way to fix those bricks in the near future. At this time, this is just for the M33 bricks. I can’t predict exactly when this might be ready (it should be very soon), but maybe it will save some of you the hassle and expense of sending your PSP off to be repaired.

We have to say that QJ.NET really commends this move from Fanjita and Noobz team because a lot of innocent PSP owners were really affected by what happened. It’s really heart-warming to see some of the PSP community’s developers spending time to rescue not only those who are locked out of homebrew, but those who were victims of PSP bricks as well.

Via Noobz