We just got word from Davee that two official updates are coming to ChickHEN. After releasing it last night with an unforeseen bug the team will be releasing an update today that will allow users to successfully boot homebrew and fix the wlan and mediasync issues. For those careful readers, revision is plural in the title. Another update will come at a later date which would add plugin support and test the network update.

Shortly after the news broke out about the unofficial fix Davee came online and informed everyone in our chat channel that he would not be releasing an update. The community was not satisfied with the quick fix and rallied together behind Davee to encourage him to work on an official update from Team Typhoon. It's thanks to the community who replied to the request for Davee to release it that we can bring you this great news.

[Update: HEN currently does not run any homebrew but can load up into the HEN environment. As a result we are left with BrokHEN (coined by GinoD!) with a new version coming out tomorrow to fix the issues.]

Just a few moments ago Team Typhoon released a homebrew enabler for the Playstation Portable. This HEN (labeled as “ChickHEN”) will allow PSP owners to execute homebrew code on their PSP so long as they are not on the latest PSP firmware (5.50). You will need firmware 5.03 to run HEN (lower firmwares will not work). So if you are on anything lower than 5.03 you will need to update to 5.03.

Davee, along with Bubbletune and other PSP developers have been working hard and long to get this development out to the community and the day has finally come. You can check out how to run HEN on your PSP after the break as well as what HEN is incapable of doing.

Download: [ChickHEN]

Source: [Davee]

Just a few moments ago Granite released a video showing homebrew running on the PSP-3000 using MatiAz’s TIFF exploit and Davee’s HEN. Davee is the one who recorded the video while Granite was the user responsible for the editing.

The video clearly shows Davee’s PSP running 5.03 OFW, launching HEN and then booting up into the HEN environment. From here he launched a popular PSP homebrew game, Jelly Car, as well as DGEN, a Sega Genesis emulator. We have no solid release date at this time for HEN’s release, however we are expecting it soon.

You can check out the video after the break!

It has been a little more than two weeks since MaTiAz made public the 5.03 Tiff Exploit that got many PSP users attention by running a “Hello World” proof of concept via that exploit. Fast forward to today and Davee and Team Typhoon have been hard at work pushing closer to what every PSP owner with official 5.03 firmware wants, a Homebrew Enabler, or HEN. The above video shows you an official 5.03 firmware PSP 2003 running the Tiff Exploit and booting into a HEN environment. Here are some more details on the video:

The video proves that the code survives a reboot and the system software and MAC address can be changed. This is something that that can only be done with a kernel exploit. A video launching homebrew will be posted later.

Credits:
Homebrew Enabler - (Davee) Team Typhoon
5.03 Tiff Exploit - MaTiAz
Video - Granite
The Community - All your support.

So there you have it. Congrats on the outstanding accomplishment to all involved!