(Help) How to add Icons to HDLoader/KERMIT Games on PS2 HDD-OSD

The DVD player is smart enough to figure out that it's running on a EU or USA machine and will fix the path "automagically".

Just put the 3.04J files I gave you at "BEEXEC-DVDPLAYER" properly bound to your MC. No hacking required.

 

Are you really sure about that? I haven't found any code within it that adjusts the system folder path like within rom0:OSDSYS. :/

The reason why I left BIEXEC-SYSTEM on my memory card was because the v3.04J DVD player would just bail out on my SCPH-39006 when launched directly without that (Probably because it can't load the updater). With the BIEXEC-SYSTEM folder, it just freezes.

 

You sure ? I've tested the 2 dvdplayer.elf in BEEXEC and both required the irx to be placed in BIEXEC. I've never seen a DVD Player firmware capable of adapting the irx path according to the system region or the dvdplayer.elf boot path. Zony would have been silly for doing this, as all DVD Player FWs are meant to be MG region locked. sceSifIopReset paths are static in all DVD Players AFAIK.
Maybe I'm wrong and failed at testing... ...but here are patches just in case :
http://ddata.over-blog.com/1/06/19/78/PS2DVDSTUFF/3.04J_BREXEC.ZIP

EDIT : Oops sorry, I just saw SP193's post. Enjoy the patches.
That one was easy to corrupt. If other FWs are that easy to patch, I'll pop out moar PPFs...

 

I was able to have it running on my US and PAL PS2sbut then I had duplicate folders ... Maybe it worked due to the fact that BIEXEC-DVDPLAYER folder exists as well on my test MC lol

You won that one too.


Edit: And finally that explains lots of odd glitches I had in the past with these experiences with cross region DVD player execution.

 

The SCPH-5X000 series has a different EEPROM layout from the whole SCPH-3X000 series. That's why if you want to modify anything on the PS2, please use the right API calls instead of a HEX editor unless you know where to look (And just want to make the fix for only one console).

That's also the same reasion why Sony changed the MECHACON - hackers were changing the i.Link and console IDs like nobody's business.

On the 50K and 70K units, the i.Link and console IDs cannot be modified by CDVDMAN anymore. It seems like they have included a checksum field at the end of those IDs. (But how to calculate that checksum?)

 

More than that, mecha won't let you change it using the CDVDMAN commands, you can only mess with the IDs and region stuff through the serial port, while the ps2 is on service mode.

 

Before I go to bed, I'm giving a try at patching regional playback control shit with my corruption tool.
The GetDVDzone function and the sabotage RPC call locations are very low. The alteration of packed data at such low location generally leads to a wide waste... Results as soon as the brute force attack is over.

 

Give a try at DVD 1.00 on your PAL console. I know FOR SURE that it's either KBIT/KC or both are banned on all JP consoles but the original launch SCPH-10000 at MECHACON FW level. Meaning that if you take a MC with DVD player 1.00 installed on it and try on such a PS2 you will get a message that the DVD player is not installed.

 

ROFL, when I tried to get my CARD signature :
SecrDownloadFile : Cannot download header
Rather explicit.

EDIT : It was the 1.00 dvdplayer.elf (DISK sig in Pastie #6114172)
EDIT2: 1.01 has the same sig. I'm gonna test it...
EDIT3 : The f*ck ? Apparently I could get my CARD sig. Will try to boot that...
EDIT4 : 1.00 = DVD Player is not set up
EDIT5 : 1.01 = Black screen (probably searching for the irx).

 

1.01 worked on a USA console when I tested... I will test 1.00 tomorrow (I have a feeling that it will NOT work even on non Japanese consoles lol)

And I should have said "File key", not "KC/KBIT" I suppose.

 

I noticed in the original SCPH-50004 eeprom dump the model version checksum is invalid.
Have the mechacon changes you described something to do with it?



Rgds.

 

Yep, as 1.00 and 1.01 have the same sig, it smells like a FileKey ban.

EDIT : Well, the bruteforce attack didn't finish yet. AM 05:38 here, I'm tired, goin' to sleep

 

Over 9000! I got to try this out!

I got to try this out!, thanks for post some info on it.
Is this on the HDD or a type of RAM? Just need to know what I'm going to hex edit. Thnaks

 

Non volatile memory.

Use extreme caution. Such mod is for advanced users only, as you may be at risk of ruining stuff at MECHA level (including and not limited to the CDVD drive)...

 

Soooooo... 1.00 KELF/KIRX is blacklisted on ALL PS2 consoles then ?

 

How does one start this mod if its on "Non volatile memory", I'm not sure what I'm looking for at it's not on the HDD... but the PS2? Thanks.

 

nono it should work on the most early PS2's because remember there was a recall because 1.00 would allow DVDs to be played in RGB no macrovishion

 

Well yep it seems .
Something like this as decrypted filekey and this as encrypted DISK signature, along with header and bit rehash should to teh trick; in case you won't repack/resign the whole shit.

 

You sir, have no idea what we're talking about ...

Edit:
Jokes apart, that it works on the consoles it came bundled with was not the subject of my talk with KrHACKen.
We're talking about measures SONY took to prevent it from running on any PS2 console released after DVD player version 1.01.

Edit2:
We're amused by the fact that SONY actually blacklisted the DVD driver 1.00 on ALL consoles, regardless of the effect region blocks would have in it to begin with.

 

They only want to get sure to get no problems at this point and later.
The ps2 was not only sold as a console. As hq dvd player, too.


Rgds.