Not the actual HEN 
Loading the TIFF exploit on 5.03 would occasionally corrupt the video buffer for a few seconds
A piece of PSP Hacking history was recently uploaded to github: PSP/Vita Developer Davee (of Infinity and Team molecule fame) has uploaded some “Work in progress” files from ChickHEN R3, the third release of then popular PSP Homebrew Enabler/CFW. Now, this appears to have been uploaded for historical reasons, and Davee has not stated he plans to work more on ChickHEN (also, there probably wouldn’t be any practical reason to).
What is ChickHEN for the PSP
ChickHEN was a Homebrew ENabler (a non-permanent Custom Firmware) for the PSP Firmware 5.03, released by Team Typhoon (Bubbletune and Davee). ChickHEN relied on the TIFF Kernel exploit “Eggsploit” released in April 2009. That was so long ago that at the time Wololo barely talked about console exploits unless they meant more people could play Wagic.
Chickhen was first released on May 6, 2009 but had a bug preventing Homebrew from working properly. A second release, R2, followed shortly the next days to fix the bug. An R3 release was touted, which would bring the following features:
- XMB / Game Version Spoofing
- Photo menu redirections
- Patch Playstation Network
- Hide pic1 (already present on CF)
- NandGuard
- System Settings / MAC Address Spoof Version
- VSH Menu
- Plugins
- High Memory for PSP 2000/3000
But R3 never came. Later on, more Custom Firmwares such as PSP Pro CFW, TN-HEN, ME, Then Davee’s own Infinity, made the need for an old 5.03 Custom Firmware pretty moot.
As such, this code is probably just here for historical reasons, but those of us interested in it can download it below.
Download ChickHEN R3 Source code
You can check the code on Davee’s github here. This was “Work in progress” back in 2009, and I don’t think there’s any guarantee it actually compiles.
old davee was dumb davee who didn’t use source control. the wip is the last remnants of the original chickhen source code
— Davee (@DaveeFTW) February 9, 2022
Source: Thanks to Krystalgamer for the tip!
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