PS3 PS3Xploit Flash Writer (4.90 HFW)

[RoboKing's Cosmos]

Sorry for reviving this thread is there a flash writer 4.92 being worked on ATM?

 

[aldostools]

Sorry for reviving this thread is there a flash writer 4.92 being worked on ATM?

No that I know... use ps3toolset.com

Latest unofficial flash writer only supports OFW 4.82, HFW 4.84, HFW 4.85, HFW 4.90 and HFW 4.91.
http://aldostools.github.io/flashwriter

DISCLAIMER: Use it at your own risk. I do NOT take responsibility of any damage that could be caused by this tool.

 

[NiQ]

No that I know... use ps3toolset.com

Latest unofficial flash writer only supports OFW 4.82, HFW 4.84, HFW 4.85, HFW 4.90 and HFW 4.91.
http://aldostools.github.io/flashwriter

DISCLAIMER: Use it at your own risk. I do NOT take responsibility of any damage that could be caused by this tool.

Sorry for bumping.
Since we have not heard anything from bguerville and there are already a bunch of people who accidentally updated to 4.93 OFW, maybe it's time to revive Flash Writer?
I have a "sacrificial goat" if needed, as well as an E3 flasher.

 

[Coro]

if we haven't heard from him, maybe he's busy working on it...

 

[NiQ]

if we haven't heard from him, maybe he's busy working on it...

I think last time he popped in here just to say he's aware of the new version and will work on it when he has time or something. He never gave any ETAs, which makes sense, but he did confirm he was aware.

 

[Coro]

Sorry for bumping.
Since we have not heard anything from bguerville and there are already a bunch of people who accidentally updated to 4.93 OFW, maybe it's time to revive Flash Writer?
I have a "sacrificial goat" if needed, as well as an E3 flasher.

if it was just changing offsets and testing, we would have all fw versions back to 4.80 (at least) supported easily. the hard part is the making the custom patch. it is not the same as the usual nofsm patch and only a few people know how to make it.

it would take just as long to get it ready as it would to wait for bgtoolset.

 

[NiQ]

if it was just changing offsets and testing, we would have all fw versions back to 4.80 (at least) supported easily. the hard part is the making the custom patch. it is not the same as the usual nofsm patch and only a few people know how to make it.

it would take just as long to get it ready as it would to wait for bgtoolset.

Interesting. Can you explain how it is different than the usual NOFSM patch?

 

[aldostools]

Interesting. Can you explain how it is different than the usual NOFSM patch?

The NOFSM patch is a full patch of 7MB that is applied in the ros area in flash memory.

The patch used by flash writer is only 3MB. If I recall correctly it first requires to patch spu_pkg_rvk_verifier and isoldr modules to support jailbreak (you can borrow the ones from CFW Evilnat 4.93), then pad them with null chars at the end of the files to fit the size of spu_pkg_rvk_verifier and isoldr in HFW 4.93.

Once you have the patched modules, apply them to the ros area of a dumped flash from HFW 4.93 in their respective offsets. Finally you need to extract a 3MB block in the patched flash that contains both modules and finally update the javascript in the flashwriter's html with the offset and size of the extracted block. Maybe I skipped some step, since the last successful patch was made by Joonie.

Additionally it is required to update the flashwriter's gadgets offsets and hashes for vsh and the patch. This is the easier part. Most of the updated gadgets for 4.93 can be found in PS3HEN 3.5.0.

Here is the source code for flashwriter 4.91 if you want to take the challenge.
https://github.com/aldostools/flashwriter/blob/main/491/index.html

The last time that I tried to do this for HFW 4.92, spu_pkg_rvk_verifier and isoldr were stored in a block larger than 3MB. I don't know if 4.93 has the same situation or if flashwriter currently can handle a patch larger than 3MB.