Full Support for v2.70/2.71 Firmware

Awsome now I can get some homebrew on my 2.70 PSP. I have played two SNES games on it so far. There is an downgrader, but it is still…uh “buggy.” I don’t want to risk my PSP to bricking.

eLoader Version 0.99 brings us this. Read on.

The major new feature is support for v2.70 and v2.71 firmwares. That’s right, full support for these 2 firmwares is now added, using a new kernel-mode syscall-finding technique (which is why 2.80 support is not yet possible).

As well as support for the v2.7 firmwares, there is also limited kernel mode support on v2.5-v2.71. This means that the .init program section (which contains functions declared with the ‘constructor’ attribute) will be called in kernel-mode for homebrew built with the kernel mode attribute. Note that you cannot create kernel-mode threads from the init functions in this release, due to security checks in the firmware.

The increased kernel access has also allowed us to add a built-in exception handler to eLoader, so that crashes can be caught and debugged more easily, as well as usually preventing the need to reboot.

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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 Gaming Miscellaney

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