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Team ICE Releases ELF 2 SELF Tools

Posted by greg on February 5, 2008

Update: The TIFF exploit has been tagged useless — it won’t lead anywhere.


Update: The video has been reposted; again, keep in mind — this is not from Team ICE. See my comments concerning the video below.


Update: Just to clarify some things, Team ICE didn’t release the video; sorry if I implied that. Whether or not the video was legit is a different story — like I said, it was quite convincing. We’ll find out in the coming days no doubt. For now, have fun playing with the Team ICE tools.


Update: Unfortunately the video no longer works. Earlier viewers witnessed a very convincing “Hello World” screen called from the PS3’s XMB. I’m sure more updates are ahead…


Baaaaam, peanut butter and jaaaaam! Team ICE has released their ELF 2 SELF converter tool for Windows; alongside documentation, examples, and other related goodies in connection with the Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm (R:FOM/MS) exploits.

Say it ain’t so…

My apologies for my earlier skepticism (see here). I’m thrilled to be proven otherwise. Kudos team.

Download: ICE Package v1.1

- source: ps3hax

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160 Comments »

Comment by truncj
2008-02-05 21:39:25

Wow, that sounds like some good news. Sure did wish I could see the video, but its been taken down on youtube. Great job guys, progress is awesome.

Comment by replied_For_higher_Comment
2008-02-06 15:06:06

Ill make a bunch of avatars and upload for you guys

 
Comment by AhazKun
2008-02-24 18:41:05

My comment has nothing to do with the above comment.

I T S F A K E ! ! !
Don´t mind reading anything below this.

 
 
Comment by ThatOneGuy
2008-02-05 21:40:11

Video doesnt work

 
Comment by Zub
2008-02-05 21:42:35

NOOO vid is down :(
but this is great news!!!!! finally the PS3 has said “Hello” to the world!!!! XD

 
Comment by Bob
2008-02-05 22:00:30

whoevr saw da vid (greg?) can u tell us wat happened?

Comment by iX_StyleZ
2008-02-05 23:10:42

The video showed the person going to the Tiff exploit via the ‘photo’ icon. then the words ‘HELLO WORLD by team ICE’ popped up.

i almost cried.. it was beautiful.. :D

 
 
Comment by Alphamonkey
2008-02-05 23:16:34

TIZIZIGHT!! get the vid up again!

 
Comment by abc
2008-02-05 23:26:00

so this means what?

Comment by wow
2008-02-05 23:36:46

It means that unsigned home written code has been run on the machine theoretically opening the doors for programmers to write code to run on the machine. But, from what ive read, it is very hard to write code to utilize the cell processor, so unless we get a nice development kit leak, it will be another obstacle to figure out the entire infrastructure of the machine and how to make quality programs for it.

peace

 
 
Comment by Tiago
2008-02-05 23:37:05

OMG, if this is true, i will sell my PSP and buy right now a PS3!im dead serious!

Comment by DvdX
2008-02-08 14:28:57

Keep the PSP and get a PS3….I’ve heard the remote play feature is pretty F’n sweet!

 
 
Comment by bull
2008-02-06 00:58:31

bullshit

Comment by PepDawg
2008-02-06 02:26:53

hey…fuck you

 
Comment by bah
2008-02-06 16:28:24

bull you’re bullshit.

 
 
Comment by pRoFiT
2008-02-06 02:47:05

One year later and we have hello world. I guess thats a start. I’ll check back next year for the pong game.

Comment by Mayweather
2008-02-06 04:03:27

LOL, priceless

 
Comment by yeamez
2008-02-07 21:28:36

hey, it took a year to get it on the wii as well. not TOO bad for the ps3s security but then again it sucks compared to how fast the 360 was hacked.

Comment by WeedZ1985
2008-02-10 23:13:26

umm.. the 360 was NEVER hacked. firmware flashing a discdrive=drive mod
running unsigned code (which can’t be done on the 360) = hacked

 
 
 
Comment by idiot
2008-02-06 05:18:45

FU. Why don’t you get off your lazy ass you FUKK an twat and do something besides jerking off.

Comment by rein
2008-02-24 08:38:29

youre name suits you idiot

Comment by Guardian_Demon
2008-03-04 06:32:12

agreed he forgot the CK .

 
 
 
Comment by Mentality
2008-02-06 08:13:11

May all the none believers eat their words :D

 
Comment by monkey
2008-02-06 08:25:40

*yawns* has a wank

 
Comment by gary
2008-02-06 09:34:30

great work

 
Comment by sparky
2008-02-06 10:36:11

No faith ’til Brooklyn.

 
Comment by mm_
2008-02-06 11:00:13

Everyone has some *basic* knowledge of SELF format and have read source code of elf2self knows that it can’t work. For many reasons.. The most import: Sha1 (checksum) of self isn’t recomputed (and can’t be recomputed without having all elf in cleartext). Bad checksum means that executable can’t pass any authentication on ps3.. so black screen means only the gameos can’t manage elf2self output, ’cause ps3 thinks is corrupted (and it is :P ). That code proved one thing. Ice Team is really far, not only to break ps3, but even to understrand how really it works.

 
Comment by mm_
2008-02-06 11:32:54

I’ve put in uri - the evidence on using of sha1. it’s based on alanysis done on a cleartext warhawk self by gigi and ralferoo on ps2dev forum.

 
Comment by Alphamonkey
2008-02-06 12:12:42

ok seriously….how has noone put up a new vid yet?

 
Comment by MC Cullah
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Comment by goukifafa
2008-02-06 12:49:02

is anyone working on this to produce emulators right now? or is it just team ice? someone produce a emulator or some kind of homebrew please.

 
Comment by serkanmy
2008-02-06 13:12:37

Video doesnt work

 
Comment by LastmanOut
2008-02-06 16:10:22

Well if this does work then we’ll have to stop upgrading since the next official would probably patch this exploit to prevent any further development from it.

 
Comment by nakanano
2008-02-06 16:46:33

Quello che dicono di aver fatto gli ICE è un tool che cripta gli ELF in SELF ma in realtà non fa una cippa, prova per credere, l’ELF rimane tale e quale, solo con un header di SELF …………..mah puo essere indicativo per il futuro ma secondo me siamo ancora lontani!!!!

Comment by none
2008-02-08 13:14:05

why not in english :(
i just understand the half of what you want to say. and i think i’m not alone. it’s really sad that even speakin 4 languages isn’t enough.
think i’m goin to learn portuguese so i can understand more spanish

but great! homebres IS comming to us :)
HELLO HOMEBREW XD

 
Comment by alex
2008-02-09 00:23:50

ma… dimi una cosa.. perche tuti qesti cretini voglono che parli inglese..

Comment by alex
2008-02-09 00:25:12

its italian not portuguese.

Comment by YoPintoTuPintas
2008-02-10 00:52:31

lmfao its not portuguese or spanish… dumbass

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Comment by alex
2008-02-09 00:29:12

speriamo di no.. chista cualcuno che fa stecoze in italia??

 
 
Comment by Quake
2008-02-06 16:56:42

Sweet! Looks like I’m getting my PS3 in time before they send out patched PS3’s. In 2 weeks I’ll be sporting me one. Waits for further dev’

Quake

 
Comment by sumdude
2008-02-06 17:28:53

woo! soon can dump firmware to memory stick and make custom firmware to run backups on hard drive!

 
Comment by 0xBADCAB1E
2008-02-06 17:35:35

i’m sceptic about this… seems to be an image file… of course i hope this is real

 
Comment by koolkat
2008-02-06 18:48:58

so does the mean we can play back ups?

 
Comment by Barr0w
2008-02-06 18:49:08

just wanted to no if anyone els thinks that it is possible that he just switches the input so it is displaying it from sumting such as a dvd of his laptop. also cudnt it just be an image file ??? lol soz if i am wrong and this is not possible just wanted othe ppls opinion

Comment by Barr0w
2008-02-06 18:51:29

also just wanted to add that it does look like a dvd player is turned on under his tv stand.

Comment by d4nk42o
2008-02-06 20:37:31

he never switches video sources or else you would see it flash to a different source like video1, 2 etc..

Comment by YoPintoTuPintas
2008-02-10 00:54:22

depends on what tv
he could have disabled it

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Comment by scbond
2008-02-06 20:58:35

WOW! Anybody can make a blank image file with some words at the top. You can’t even see the image type and the image opens straightaway…normally when you open a TIFF to do an exploit the screen goes blank for ages. This just looks like a picture being displayed!

Comment by 0xBADCAB1E
2008-02-06 21:33:26

i think so too… the long pause time must be made of a laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarge file

Comment by MC Cullah
2008-02-07 09:03:52

some say high resolution image will do the same effect. I will trythis tonight

 
 
 
Comment by bobk
2008-02-06 22:28:29

Well at least there is some news. I hope its true, but even if its not at least it pumped a little life into the community.

 
Comment by monsterlog
2008-02-07 00:43:06

i agree with scbond and 0xBADCAB1E. it could very well be a large (uncompressed) tiff image with a black background and the worlds ‘hello world’ which would require some time to load. in my opinion, this video proves nothing. it’s likely a F*** you to ps3news.com (the end of the video says ps3news suck) whether or not it was released by team ice or someone else. ps3news has been somewhat bashing team ice’s ‘discoveries’ in the past few weeks.

Comment by Xthlon
2008-02-07 13:19:58

I agree, i though exactly the same. unless there was some form of animation, or even a code showing position of the sixaxis i will still not beleive this

 
 
Comment by monsterlog
2008-02-07 00:52:13

this is probably the article that got them pissed off… http://www.ps3news.com/PlayStation3/ICE_ICE_Baby_Source_Code_debunked_Old_IBM_Code/

 
Comment by sparkps3
2008-02-07 03:07:32

has anyone noticed that in the video, when he’s going through the folders and gets to the “tiff” file, there are 3 icons that show up, and as he starts to scroll down, a 4th icon appears and then disappears? also, the text beside the icons flickers from small to large. and lastly the waves in the background also jump in position when he gets to his “tiff” file. the video is obviously edited. i also tried opening up a large tiff file with the words hello world on the ps3. i get pretty much the same results. it waits awhile to load and then pops up. from my tests, the ps3 won’t read image files over 40 megs but requires a several seconds to open it. in order to make the file not show a preview pic, all you need to do is make the tiff file layered (when reading the file from memory card). it won’t show a preview of the pic and instead will show the default photo icon. i pretty much achieved what he did. this is totally bogus.

 
Comment by ps3
2008-02-07 04:40:33

no questions about it, this is the shittest video I ever saw and complete fake. if team-ice truly did do this then they are all cocksucking noobs

Comment by DVC
2008-02-07 08:30:18

No one said Team ICE had anything to do with the video. If you read the article it clearly states that the person who made the video has nothing to do with Team ICE.

99% of me is pretty much certain it’s a fake. It’s hard to tell because of the extremely poor quality of the video. There is still 1% of me hoping something can come out of it, though.

 
 
Comment by Hellas Adrian
2008-02-07 11:04:09

please do something with this mf PS3 because the games are to expansive :(((

Comment by Jeff
2008-02-08 11:27:56

Tough shit, get a fucking job

Comment by none
2008-02-08 13:17:56

he could be a student. and they are really to expensive. i don’t know how much you pay for it, but her they cost 60-75 euros.

Comment by bobk
2008-02-08 17:58:20

probably shouldn’t be buying the system then

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Comment by hubjub
2008-02-07 12:14:02

hellas adrian ..props guy ..too fukn expensive ..i bought one and never played my own type games cause cant fucken buy them …bs.. sony is a hater**

 
Comment by b
2008-02-07 15:23:35

you cant see that mutch this is a poor video he could be just opening up a picture that he made in photoshop

 
Comment by indahood3
2008-02-07 15:28:44

Kann niemand einen iso-loader proggen,
oda wie gehtn das überhaupt??ß

Comment by none
2008-02-08 13:19:08

LOL find it out and release your own.

 
 
Comment by MC Cullah
2008-02-07 17:03:31

i tried loading really high resoultion images on my ps3 and it doesnt work. The PS3 doesn’t even recognize it exists

Comment by sparkps3
2008-02-07 17:17:20

as i stated earlier, the ps3 has problems reading image files over 40 megs. i made a tiff file that was 38.5 megs (4500×2531). loaded it onto a memory card. it took about 9 seconds before the file would load up.

 
 
Comment by LastmanOut
2008-02-07 19:02:09

Has anyone actually run anything using these elf 2 self tools to prove that this actually works or does anything? Anyone?

 
Comment by anhyeugame
2008-02-08 11:45:27

so… wheres the hack, i only saw some noob change his wall paper.

 
Comment by Assaar
2008-02-08 12:16:28

There is no HACK! thats al FAKE and CRAP!!! just children post some shit more not.TEAM ICE IS SHIT and can nothing dont know why everybody crys about that shit

Comment by bobk
2008-02-08 17:57:47

nothing to do with team ice…. try reading more than the headline sometime….

 
 
Comment by ceg
2008-02-08 13:28:47

@ none:2008-02-08 13:14:05
he wrote in italian not spanish or portugese
i would also appreciate that everyone writes in english although i can read it. i’m also austrian and think that in a international forum its better to communicate and not always use translators to get the meaning

Comment by ceg
2008-02-08 13:29:24

mean in english :-) lol, forgot it

 
 
Comment by Jeremy
2008-02-08 17:20:57

*sigh* another BS “hack”.
where’s the good stuff?…

 
Comment by Tom
2008-02-08 23:01:31

I’m not exactly sure on files near 30 or 40 megs… however I am converting some of my dads old slides into JPG format, and they are 12 to 15 megs a peice. When on the hard drive, the PS3 can rotate them in circles in real-time..no joke. It takes my computer 20-25 seconds to just rotate it to the side… and another 20 secs to rotate it again. Rotating the same picture on the PS3 takes less than 1/2 a second. Ever since I saw that…i am just in Awe of how powerful the PS3 actualy is… and to think…its a year old!

 
Comment by nakanano
2008-02-09 06:30:34

ma ancora con sto fake!!!!!fare i seri toglietelo!!!!

 
Comment by G
2008-02-09 08:03:10

Ola! Now Give me some head. Muchos gratias…

 
Comment by DARKMAN
2008-02-09 11:12:09

COOL I GOT TWO BACKUP GAMES WORKING THANK YOU TEAM ICE SO MUCH KEEP THE GOOD WORK UP……FW 2.10

Comment by RiPPERD
2008-02-09 12:26:13

well u didnt coz its proven that this doesnt work… so u just as bad bullshitter as TEAM ICE!

Comment by gary
2008-02-09 14:52:04

it has been tagged useless, but dont say team ice is bs, cuz they’re better than u

 
Comment by nick
2008-02-09 15:12:34

team ice had nothing to do with the video

 
 
Comment by Guardian_Demon
2008-03-04 06:47:31

Thats BS . shut the fu<k. seriosly.

 
 
Comment by whoop dee shit
2008-02-09 21:16:59

hey awesome they found a tiff exploit, thats about as usefull as a girlfriend with AIDS, whoop dee fuckign shit a tiff is no different then a gif

Comment by dart
2008-02-14 01:39:23

fuck your stupid.

 
 
Comment by whoop dee shit
2008-02-09 21:24:30

all he did was make a extremely huge wallpaper lol

 
Comment by RiPPERD
2008-02-09 22:46:34

ok so video not from “TEAM ICE” but they “MADE” the program… that doesnt bloody work! what the point in this shit… we need CFW for PS3!!!

 
Comment by rrelmy
2008-02-10 16:18:45

The Exploit works (1.94)

But it wont lead to Homebrew or something else.
The Hypervisor ;) he sucks…

It’s something, it could be helping for further infos about the Hypervisor and the FW…

 
Comment by XXXX
2008-02-11 03:11:33

keep dreming……………

 
Comment by bens
2008-02-11 13:18:18

ice?xbox360 ve li ricordate? ho loccato il loro sito sono sempre quei buffoni della xbox360

 
Comment by bens
2008-02-11 13:20:25

team ice ,sono sempre gli stessi,basta vedere nyl mondo hack,non li conosce nessuno,come non hanno mai rellato nulla da nessuna parte sono sempre gli stessi americani fumati