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We've reported on Reverse-Engineering PS VR and a C Library for Morpheus called LibPSVR, and today PlayStation developer BigBoss tweeted that Sony has made available the sources for Morpheus 2.50 for PS4 developers to examine.

Download: morpheus_bridge-PSVR-01.500.tar.bz2 / morpheus_bridge-PSVR-02.000.tar.bz2 / morpheus_bridge-PSVR-02.500.tar.bz2

For a list of other open source software used in PlayStation VR see HERE or the listing below.

Open Source Software Used in PlayStation VR

• The Android Open Source Project
• bsdiff
• busybox
• bzip2
• CLAPACK
• cryptsetup
• e2fsprogs
• EGLIBC
• FFTS -- The Fastest Fourier Transform in the South
• libcap-ng
• libdevmapper
• libfdt - Flat Device Tree manipulation
• libgcrypt
• libgpg-error...

As we await word on the PS4 v4.50 Development Poll Results, following their ROP Tool and PS4 Kexec Syscall Implementation today PlayStation 4 developer 5lipper of Chaitin Tech was added to Zer0Con's schedule as a speaker on PS4 hacking!

Zer0Con is a a conference for exploit developers and bug hunters that is being held April 13-14th in Seoul, Korea with registration now open through March 20th, 2017.

About Zer0Con: Zer0Con is POC’s NEW ‘CLOSED’ international security conference. It focuses on finding, analyzing, and exploiting vulnerabilities. Zer0Con aims to have high-level technical presentations but avoids the commercial ones. Zer0Con doesn’t pursue money, same as POC conference.

From the Speaker Section, to quote: PS4 Hacking

Game console is always an interesting target for hackers. Sony PlayStation 4, the most popular video game console, has sold more than 53 million units all over the world.

The last public PS4 jailbreak was targeting to version 1.76, which has been released more than two years.

However, Sony didn’t stop hardening the PS4 system. As more mitigation is introduced, PS4 jailbreaking is much more challenging.

In GeekPWN 2016, I have demonstrated booting a Linux system on latest PS4 console by exploiting multiple vulnerabilities through webkit to kernel.

In this talk, I'd like to...

Previously we covered Setting Up a USB 3.0 PS4 HDD, and now Sony's Rhys Sutheran followed-up with a guide on how to download and store PS4 games and apps to an external HDD for those on PS4 System Software 4.50.

To quote: Minimum HDD spec

The most important thing to remember before you buy a new storage device – or try to use one you already own – is to make sure it meets the minimum requirements for use with your PS4:

• Connection: USB 3.0 or later
• Storage: 250GB (min) – 8TB (max)

Note: There is no guarantee that all USB storage devices are compatible with your system.

Format your external HDD

Most storage devices will be a specific format out-of-the-box (usually FAT32/exFAT/NTFS/HFS). To prepare it for use with your PS4 you’ll need to format it to a special type to ensure it will work:

• Go to the Settings menu from your PS4 home screen.
• Scroll down to the Devices menu.
• Choose ‘USB Storage Devices’.
• Select your external HDD, then choose “Format as extended storage”.

You’ll see a number of warnings that formatting your device will remove any previously installed data, so before you hit ‘OK’, make sure that there’s nothing stored on the device that you don’t want to lose.

It’s also important to note that once you’ve formatted your external HDD to this specific PS4 format, you can only use it for PS4 games and apps – you won’t be able to store screenshots and video clips, saved data, Themes or any other types of media, documents, pictures on it, without re-formatting to its original state.

Once formatting is complete, you’ll see a message confirming that it’s been successful and a small green light will appear next to the device’s name, letting you know it’s activated as the main storage location.

Installing games and apps (and adds-on) to your external HDD/internal storage

Once formatted, your external HDD will be set as the default download location as long as it remains plugged in.

If you want to switch back to your PS4 internal storage for downloads (and back again to the external HDD), that’s easy too:

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Explore alone or in co-op with a friend as you sneak past and assassinate enemies in Styx: Shards of Darkness on PS4 as part of the new PlayStation Games coming to PlayStation Store next week.

Here's a summary of what's new courtesy Sony Social Media Senior Specialist Ryan Clements:

New Releases: Week of March 14, 2017

• #killallzombies - PS3 — Digital (Out 3/16)
• ACA NeoGeo Sengoku - PS4 — Digital (Out 3/16)
• Blue-Collar Astronaut - PS4, PS3, PS Vita — Digital (Cross Buy)
• Chaos Code -New Sign of Catastrophe- - PS4 — Digital (Out 3/15)
• Danganronpa 1-2 Reload - PS4 — Digital, Retail
• Death Squared - PS4 — Digital
• Dying: Reborn - PS Vita — Digital
• Eekeemoo — Splinters of the Dark Shard - PS4 — Digital
• Kona - PS4 — Digital (Out 3/17)
• Leave the Nest - PS VR — Digital
• Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight - PS4 — Digital (Out 3/16)
• NeuroVoider - PS4 — Digital
• Siralim 2 - PS4, PS Vita — Digital (Cross Buy)
• Styx: Shards of Darkness - PS4 — Digital, Retail
• Trove - PS4 — Digital

PlayStation Music

• Beauty and the Beast Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• Bush – Black And White Rainbows
• The Shins – Heartworms

PlayStation Video

• Why Him?
• Silence
• A Monster Calls

PlayStation Vue

• Conan- March 12 at 11/10c (TBS)
• Hap and Leonard- March 15 at 10/9c (SundanceTV)
• Impractical Jokers- March 16 at 10/9c (truTV)

The information above is subject to change without notice.

Shortly after the Sasuke 4.50 PS4 Firmware release, Sony updated their on-console video editor Sharefactory to version 2.50 which now includes the ability to import your own video and images.

Below is what else is new in this latest Sharefactory update courtesy of Sony Interactive Entertainment Senior Producer Stuart Platt, to quote:

Today we are releasing a new update to Sharefactory that includes our biggest feature as requested by the community, including user imported content, Clone Clip, editing from the Capture Gallery, plus much more.

We’re extremely happy to be able to allow users to import video and images into Sharefactory, as our community have been requesting this feature since launch. Using content from a USB drive, you can import your own videos and images to be used as your custom intro, title and outro clips as well as use your own artwork as stickers. It has never been easier to personalize your Sharefactory videos to share to the world.

The new update also adds the Clone Clip feature. This addition allows you to easily duplicate any clip being used in your project and retain all of the existing filters, stickers, text as well as the clip duration. This enables much quicker editing when using the same video and effects throughout your edits to share your gameplay experiences.

Additionally, Sharefactory’s 2.50 update allows you to select up to 16 video clips or screenshots from your Capture Gallery and launch directly into Sharefactory for editing. This feature will quickly create a project using the content that is selected in the Capture Gallery – making creating and sharing a video easier than it ever was before.

Other features in this update include:

• Added over 30 textures you can use to personalize your text as well as the ability to freely scale your text
• New Infomercial Sharefactory Theme
• New Photo Mode collages with support for up to 16 images
• New Photo Mode Templates
• New stickers
• Contextual Help has now been added throughout Sharefactory
• Updates to the UI

The feedback we receive from our users is very important to the team. Please continue to reach out and show us your Sharefactory creations. We love to see them!

We’re looking forward to seeing the new content...