PSP NBA uses the Medius Game Communications library

steddy · Post by **steddy** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:50 am

I don't know if this could provide an attack vector, but the Sony NBA game uses the Medius Game Communications Library as described in this link:-

http://www.research.scea.com/research/p ... tation.pdf

I have extracted the main BOOT.BIN from my copy and this library and function names are all over it.

Oddly enough it also contains around 50k of the most obscense list of bad language I have ever seen. Guaranteed to offend everyone on the planet multiple times. Some of it is quite funny too. Not just individual words but entire phrases.

Steddy

djhuevo · Post by **djhuevo** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:14 am

Try to anticipate the worst
– Because the reality will be much worse
than what you can anticipate
• Cheating
• Exploits
• Rude behavior
• Spamming

hmm.... they are anticipated to exploits :P

fashidus · Post by **fashidus** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:37 am

i hope the bad language is in there for some sort of filter for netplay ;)

steddy · Post by **steddy** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:57 am

I don't think thats it, though its possible. 50k is a massive amount of bad language, and like I said some of them are more than one word and very odd.

For example:-

rug eater???
goat blower
f*sting videos

Apologies if this offends... feel free to take it out admins.

Steddy

Post by **ooPo** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:58 am

Its ok. We're all uncle fucke... er, adults here.

Post by **Drakonite** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:47 am

BLAME CANADA!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 1:12 pm

steddy wrote:.. some of them are more than one word and very odd.

For example:-

[not repeated]

Steddy

Perhaps you need more education. Time to arrange an appointment with Tubby...

steddy · Post by **steddy** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:25 pm

gorim wrote:Perhaps you need more education. Time to arrange an appointment with Tubby...

Hehe... not sure who tubby is but don't worry I do know 98% of the ones in the file.

My statement about them being odd is I can't imagine Sony expecting to type in a 2 or 3 word string that is then refused as obscene.

Maybe I should play the game online and find out. Purely in the cause of research of course.

numchuckskills · Post by **numchuckskills** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 7:03 pm

noob question, sorry. what did you do to see this list of bad language? i'm burning with curiosity...

steddy · Post by **steddy** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 8:11 pm

numchuckskills wrote:noob question, sorry. what did you do to see this list of bad language? i'm burning with curiosity...

I dumped my UMD to a memory stick then open the BOOT.BIN in WinHex. You can also use STRINGS to output all the strings it contains.

Steddy

ice-master · Post by **ice-master** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 9:18 pm

It's exactly the same for Gretzky NHL 2k5

urchin · Post by **urchin** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:03 pm

please post some more from that list... :)

MarfPSP · Post by **MarfPSP** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:06 am

Please post the entire list, I could do with some new insults ! :D

steddy · Post by **steddy** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:29 am

I would love to but can't for two reasons.

1. Its copyright material
2. It would take about 1000 pages on the forums its that massive.

Steddy

urchin · Post by **urchin** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:26 am

holy f*ck!... :)

sq377 · Post by **sq377** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 12:12 am

"i hope the bad language is in there for some sort of filter for netplay ;)"

or better yet, maybe its an autocomplete for online dialog ^_^