Credit where credit is due (who to thank for the hack)
I thought I'd start a thread to try to capture everybody's contributions to the hack. I apologize in advance for anybody I've missed. Only "first discoveries/successes" please, but feel free to reply with even extremely minor contributions, tangental discoveries, and first-use scenarios like "first rocket cam", "first 3d footage", "first naked gf footage", "first naked 3d gf footage", etc. (if you have the posts to back it up) . When replying it would help if you could roughly approximate where in the list your addition should be. -CVS releases the Saturn -*test*-('")-market cam (model 100), and finally the wide-release Saturn cam (model 200). -First hardware disassembly pictures of the model 200 cam. -Morcheeba is sent a CVS camcorder -Command set scanned, with some interesting hits. -USB commands refined and explored -Chip is pulled and soldered into reader. Flash contents are dumped. First movies are retrieved from flash! -Firmware analysis tools developed, followed by much analysis -USB command names/indexes documented -First success in unlocking camcorder -"last movie download" usb command decyphered, first movies transferred over USB. -Ops and SaturnDownload are released concurrently. -ISDV camcorder software is made to work with the Saturn, and first 640x480 video is captured, proving that the camcorder can capture higher resolutions. -Full schematics for the camcorder are created and released. These play a key part in many hardware hack activities. -"Movie Index" USB commands decyphered. SaturnDownload now can download all movies at once. (Ops to follow shortly after study of SaturnDownload source.) -"Format Storage" USB command decyphered. Ops can now erase the movies after downloading them. (SaturnDownload to follow shortly after study of Ops source.) -"Change Partition" USB command decyphered. -"Get/Set time" USB commands decyphered. -PureRead download program is created. -"Ops for Linux" created. -Ops and libusb are packaged with an easy "quickinstaller" -"Arbitrary File Upload/Download" USB commands are decyphered. Ops can provide access to any file on the camcorder, sometimes to destructive ends. -20 minute recording limit broken with hack. -Limited "Flash Upload/Download" USB commands are decyphered and added to Ops. Partitions can now be downloaded, edited with WinImage/loopback-mount, and restored to the Saturn. -USP.BIN decyphered, allowing changed to resolution, framerate, timelimit, cam ID, ready-to-recycle. -First program to easily change USP.BIN is released. -FSP.BIN, the prototype for USP.BIN is discovered. -First Saturn macro-mod videos made -Hardware attack Version 1 developed, a risky technique for unlocking camcorders without the security hole. -ZbmConvert is created. -"extended pallette" for ZBM files is documented. -"Monitor" USB commands are confirmed and added to Ops. -"Mass Storage mode" monitor command hack. -"Flash Upload/Download" USB commands are hacked to allow complete access to flash. -Movie re-encoding for playback on camcorder perfected. -Hardware attack Version 2 developed. Appears to be safer than version 1! -Hardware attack Version 3 developed. Now the camera doesn't need to be fully disassembled, and all you need is a single strand of wire! -Newer cams get hardened 33.04 firmware and are shipped without reset keys, making the cams no longer vulnerable to Hardware attacks 1-3. Challenges can't even be retrieved! -Flash is desoldered from a 33.04 cam and soldered into a pv2. Firmware is dumped, and new challenge mechanism is analyzed. Ops is updated to now work with the new challenge mechanism. -A pv2 cam is reprogrammed to use a user selected challenge when talking to a processing station, and stores the response told to it. The first 33.04 is unlocked via Ops with the retrieved response. -A new processing station hack is invented. The camcorder is coaxed to stay on despite unplugging from the processing station by applying battery power to the cam's USB circuit. As a result the cam retains it's unlocked status. -"avidownload" camcorder download console app created -USP.BIN modification to display battery/power information discovered -09/08 challenges introduced -Permanent mass storage hack created for 53.xx firmwares

I've updated the list with recent work. Same rules as before - let me know if I've missed your work. Don't be afraid to toot your own horn!

Would it be possible for you to include links to each of these ground-breaking achievements?