CPS3 suicide free a step closer.

[massimiliano]

He says he was able to re-program (flash) a 2nd Impact dead cart.

Most exciting news in 2012 (and probably 2013 as well)



Edit:

he was able to play with a 2dn Impact cart, but it seems there are 4 types of chip inside carts, so he can't move on other titles, without access to other cart models... time to contribute folks!

http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=21688&start=100#p283771

 

[dragonpt]

He says he was able to re-program (flash) a 2nd Impact dead cart.

Most exciting news in 2012 (and probably 2013 as well)



Edit:

he was able to play with a 2dn Impact cart, but it seems there are 4 types of chip inside carts, so he can't move on other titles, without access to other cart models... time to contribute folks!

http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=21688&start=100#p283771

i love this part:

(...)
I surely have some ideas on how to build an device to reprogram the keys without opening the carts but, flashing the exact same 8 byte sequence CAPCOM feeds the SH2 chip to set the key at the flashrom inside the cart (0x7FF00) and removing the battery will cause it to restore itself every time it's powered on.

Effectively making it battery free.

 

[Professor Plum]

I did it!!! I revived a dead cart to work with NO battery!!! It wasn't EASY and it wasn't HARD. HUGE THANKS TO leonardoliveira & Idc over at Arcade Otaku!!!!

Here are the pics!!! NOTICE NO BATTERY!!!! It was a dead New Generation Cart that was made into a 2nd Impact! No need for battery!
Excuse all the exclamation points but I just did this not 10 minutes ago!

Added better pics

 

[ReplicaX]

Can we get a procedure please? Got a spare dead 3S I'd like to turn into something else.

 

[Professor Plum]

I need to say that I am not sure if leonardoliveira & Idc over at Arcade Otaku have publicly released the method on how to do it. And I don't want to step on their toes since it is their work that did it.
I am not sure how much is private or what yet...... so I really can't say until after they do. Once they release everything I don't mind answering questions.

 

[KaPH33n]

f'yeah

 

[Xian Xi]

Nice one dude.

 

[Tyranix95]

Good work Professor.

 

[Scott]

Wow I can't believe this day is finally here! I know you can't be too specific about the procedure just yet, but is this something most people can do, or does it require un-soldering that SH2?

 

[dragonpt]

Some jumpers .... re wired some things ....

Lets wait for the public release

what an Nice DAY

 

[BIGTIME]

Wow I can't believe this day is finally here! I know you can't be too specific about the procedure just yet, but is this something most people can do, or does it require un-soldering that SH2?

No the procedure is really simple the only soldering required is to desolder the battery

 

[Professor Plum]

No the procedure is really simple the only soldering required is to desolder the battery

I think there was a quote somewhere that made it seem like anyone can do it.... That is very misleading...
I will say that not everyone will be able to do it on their own unless there is a totally different way to do it that I don't know. The way I did it takes advanced solder skills or in my case medium solder skills and lots of luck! LOL

 

[scgon]

And I've removed the batteries from my 3 dead carts!

 

[BIGTIME]

I think there was a quote somewhere that made it seem like anyone can do it.... That is very misleading...
I will say that not everyone will be able to do it on their own unless there is a totally different way to do it that I don't know. The way I did it takes advanced solder skills or in my case medium solder skills and lots of luck! LOL

I just got my burner in the mail a few days ago so once I get this artwork sorted out I will have a go at it. What I am thinking is that one of the 4 chips needs to be reprogrammed witch can be easily removed through the use of hot air tools. Still I wont know for sure til I actually have time to sit down and do it. Obviously before desoldering anything I will test a few theories I have. I will report my findings when I am done but I might not get around to it for a week or so. Nice work though Mat you successfully decrypted dudes message

 

[Professor Plum]

No the procedure is really simple the only soldering required is to desolder the battery

I was just saying that there is way more soldering required than just to desolder the battery. Unless there is some other way to make it work.

I just got my burner in the mail a few days ago so once I get this artwork sorted out I will have a go at it....witch can be easily removed through the use of hot air tools

What burner did you end up getting? Dude you got hot air tools? I want to get a nice rework station. All I have now is radio shack soldering iron and lots of patience.

 

[ReplicaX]

From the way it sounds over on AO doesn't seem like a programmer is needed unless you wanna switch titles? However, I am out of the loop. My guess since the key is on the flash and has to goto an address on the SH2 is part of the jumper requirements.

 

[dragonpt]

From the way it sounds over on AO doesn't seem like a programmer is needed unless you wanna switch titles? However, I am out of the loop. My guess since the key is on the flash and has to goto an address on the SH2 is part of the jumper requirements.

^^

JUMPERS


you dont need to flash if your planing to use the same cart for the same game.

The systems still holds the key, you just need to know "where" ...

At least this was what someone told me on an PM ...

cant wait to try .

 

[Mugicha]

this is great news, I don't own a cps3, and I'm not in the market either, but I'm curious, does this only work for 2i right now? also plum congrats on pulling it off yourself too!

 

[Professor Plum]

From the way it sounds over on AO doesn't seem like a programmer is needed unless you wanna switch titles?

Yeah I only know one way of reviving certain cps3 carts (conversion method) and there are probably a few ways to do it. Possibly easier ways.

 

[ReplicaX]

^^

JUMPERS


you dont need to flash if your planing to use the same cart for the same game.

The systems still holds the key, you just need to know "where" ...

Groovy, I'll wait for the official announcement then. Glad I've held onto my dead setup all these years.

 

[BIGTIME]

I was just saying that there is way more soldering required than just to desolder the battery. Unless there is some other way to make it work.


What burner did you end up getting? Dude you got hot air tools? I want to get a nice rework station. All I have now is radio shack soldering iron and lots of patience.

Yeah I actually bought a heat gun a while back and made some adapters for it, nothing to professional but it makes desoldering things with multiple contacts a hell of a lot easier. And I hear you man I rocked the radioshack special for years. I went with a cheapy gq-4x. They aren't the fastest but you can pretty much burn anything with all the adapters they offer. The funny thing is I got it just so I could burn netboot pics and do a few cp2 conversions, I had no idea I would be this fortunate.

 

[ReplicaX]

I went with a cheapy gq-4x. They aren't the fastest but you can pretty much burn anything with all the adapters they offer. The funny thing is I got it just so I could burn netboot pics and do a few cp2 conversions, I had no idea I would be this fortunate.

I love my GQ-4x, however my 16-bit adapter took a shit and I'm waiting on word back for a replacement. Regardless, it gets the job done.

 

[BIGTIME]

since you can now boot any game with any cart less 2i I don't even see the need to convert a cart...unless you really like 2i or wanted to play the other games and only had a 2i cart

 

[BIGTIME]

I love my GQ-4x, however my 16-bit adapter took a shit and I'm waiting on word back for a replacement. Regardless, it gets the job done.

Yeah I hear they are solid machines, sorry to hear about you adapter how long did it work before it crapped?

 

[dragonpt]

Groovy, I'll wait for the official announcement then. Glad I've held onto my dead setup all these years.

you can try this:

- Take the batt out of the cart
- Boot up the system with the CDrom unpluged
- with the system ON, it will tell you the CD drive is not connected
- Plug in the Cd-drive, it will tell you a new CD rom drive has been inserted,
load the Cdrom/ it will erase the old memory and rewrite a new one

test and post results


I did not test this, but someone ..... got very good results, the rest is easy to guess... i think