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As planned, today PlayStation 4 hacker Marcan of Fail0verflow covered how they reverse-engineered Sony's PS4 console via FreeBSD / Sandbox to install PS4 Linux on it at Chaos Computer Club (CCC) 2016 alongside a Portal 2 Steam (older Demo / Guide) PS4 demonstration video below on Firmware 4.05!

According to @Joonie of Team Rebug, PlayStation 4 developer @flatz got PS4 Linux running on Firmware 4.05 day 1 too!

Here are some of the related Tweets and files / links / videos:

Download: bonaire.rai.txt
Fail0verflow Links:

• https://fail0verflow.com/
• https://twitter.com/fail0verflow
• https://github.com/fail0verflow

Fail0verflow CCC 2016 Slide Links:

• https://fail0verflow.com/media/33c3-slides/#/

https://github.com/fail0verflow/ps4-kexec

• kexec and hardware reconfiguration / "bootloader" code

https://github.com/fail0verflow/ps4-linux

• Kernel tree

https://github.com/fail0verflow/ps4-radeon-patches

• Userspace library patches

https://github.com/fail0verflow/radeon-tools

• f32dis and RAI tools

Livestream vom 33c3 (Saal 1)

• https://media.ccc.de/c/33c3
• https://fail0verflow.com/media/33c3-slides/#/
• https://dellinger.alb.c3voc.de/s1_native_hd.webm

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It's been awhile since we last heard from PlayStation 4 developer @MrNiato, but today he announced the launch of a new site (while still maintaining his Blog, of course) with the collaboration of @Feniix and @JUBAKAB located at PSXHackingNews.com!

To quote from his new site PSXHackingNews: Welcome on PSX Hacking News, a new project of 3 member of the H7K3R Team: MrNiato & Jubakab. Our goal is to bring you news about PlayStation hacks, development tutorials, and some hacks about PlayStation games like Call Of Duty or Grand Theft Auto V.

Don't forget to check the page "About us" to know us! Thanks!

PlayStation 3 developer @PixelButts shared a demonstration video today of his PlayStation 3 Reference Tool booting a PS2 game, as he states that PS3 DECR DevKits don't normally run PS2 nor PS1 games.

Below are some Tweets via his Twitter feed for those interested along with the video demo- enjoy!

Following the previous methods to resign and use someone else's PS3 gamesaves and while Rebug CFW users may already be familiar with it, today PlayStation 3 developer @smhabib made available a FakeSave.pkg for PS3 CFW users that allows you to utilize a similar Fake Save Data Owner function in CEX Custom Firmware.

Download: fakesave.pkg (65.55 KB) / fakesave.pkg (Mirror) / Cobra Payload

To quote from Habib: Fake Save Data Owner on CEX

It will not show caution: fake save message either

Steps:

• Install the pkg.
• Run the App (just black screens and returns to XMB)
• Reboot the Console.
• Fake Save Data Owner on CEX should be installed.

....and merry xmas y'all

(Note: This CEX version does not have this option as the pkg itself toggles the option)

Remove Fake Save Pop-Ups on Debug VSH

Patch Remove fake data notification pop-ups with debug vsh

btw here's some good stuff

Update: From Habib, to quote: hey guys! this is something which many people wanted so i thought that i need to patch this out, its out of beta so here it goes

fake save:
game quit no request event:
fixes the pop up stuff lol
it was....easy to do that but i'm stopping work on the fake save on CEX VSH
this app is only useful to enable the flag on cex qa with dex vsh

via @Joonie

FYI, This is how you should do with PS3MAPI on REX 4.81, and it works.

Today PlayStation 4 developer @RedEyeX32 announced on Twitter that he plans to release some decrypted PS4 Package (PKG) contents soon alongside PSProxy source code for developers to examine!

With 2016 wrapping up soon, here are some more PlayStation 4 decryption articles from this past year to catch everyone up to speed thus far:

• DriveClub Alpha Decrypted RIF Key
• Decrypted Audio Packet in PS4 Firmware
• Fifa 14 Fully Decrypted PS4 Retail Game
• TRSI Seeking PS4 Decryption Method Testers
• Decrypting and Dumping PlayStation 4 UserModules
• Minecraft PlayStation 4 Edition Decrypted
• PS4 ROP SPRX ELF File Archive for Developers
• Decrypting PS4 Game EBOOT & SPRX Files
• PS4 P.T. (Playable Teaser) Decrypted
• Extracting P.T. (Playable Teaser) PS4 Model Data & Textures
• PlayStation VR PS4 Game The Playroom Decrypted

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