Hey guys, it’s me Lonman, incase you have forgotten all about me One reason I have been absent is because I have been so busy with school. The second is the lack of news in the jailbreaking world. I think the main reason for this has been all the cool apps and games (Raging Thunder to name one) that come out everyday on Apple’s much advertised App Store.

Developers who became famous during the installer.app era have quickly realized that they could make a good deal of money actually selling there work through the App Store. This is why the interest in jailbreaking has really dried up.

I will continue to post hacking news when I do see something that is worth writing about. As I have already stated about, there isn’t a lot of this hacking news anymore, so to keep everyone entertained I am going to post about new apps and games released on the App Store. And in this department I can surely say there is much to write about!

This post was originally intended to be a post solely on Raging Thunder, but I felt like I had to explain why I have been absent as of late to all you out there who come back here everyday looking for new news.

OK, sorry for the rambling. Raging Thunder, I know all you guys who had jailbroken iPod Touches back on 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 had this game. I certainly did! During that time, this game was in early development, hence the flashing “Demo” on the screen.

About a week ago, the full game was released on the App Store. It costs $7.99, not a bad price for a full featured 3-D racing game in my opinion. Of course I purchased this game, I just had to have it since I had it back in the day.

For all of you who remember the Raging Thunder installer.app version, you will not be disappointed with the full release. The controls are great and the graphics and game play is much smoother than the demo version. To get a better idea of this game, take a look at the video below.

If you have the $7.99 to spare I would strongly suggest picking this game up. As always please feel free to leave any comments or questions right here or over at the forums.

It feels good to be back!!

Firmware 2.0.2 has been released for the iPod Touch. There really isn’t anything too exciting about this release.

The only note from Apple on the 2.0.2 release is “Bug Fixes”. Usually this means that there were some issues that required immediate attention from Apple, hence the release to fix these “Bugs”.

As of right now it does appear that there are some issues pwning/jailbreaking this new firmware, so I would suggest that all of you hold off until more information on pwning 2.0.2 is released. As always I will keep you all updated so keep checking back for more information on 2.0.2.

Head on over to the forums if you have any questions or comments on the new 2.0.2 firmware that has been released for the iPod Touch.

NES 2.3.0 has been released for the iPod Touch.  If you haven’t already done so, I would strongly recommend doing so for one main reason that I have stated below.

After you update to 2.3.0 just reboot and you will see a new setting ACCELEROMETER! When this setting is enabled you will be able to control NES games by moving the iPod Touch! Imagine playing Mario this way (I haven’t tried this yet, but I have heard it works well with Pacman).

Keep in mind that NES 2.3.0 works very well with the 2.0 firmware.

**ALERT** NES 2.3.0 is currently only available on Cydia, not Installer.

If you have any questions or comments about NES 2.3.0 for the iPod Touch please post them over at the forums.

As expected, following the release of pwnage 2.0, winpwn has now been released. There are a few things you need to know before using it however. First off, below is the release information from their site.

So here we are again! WinPwn 2.0

WinPwn 2.0

- Support for both 1.1.4 and 2.0
- Custom Image Support
- Custom Payload Support
- 3g iPhone support

How to:

- 1) First create a custom IPSW using the IPSW Builder.
- 2) Click “Ipwner” and browse for the custom IPSW that you just created. This will pwn itunes and allow you to flash
Custom IPSW files via DFU mode
- 3) Once you have pwned Itunes, put your phone into DFU mode. If you don’t know how to do this click
Here.
- 4) Once you are in DFU mode Itunes will pop up and then you can hold shift and click restore and browse to your custom IPSW file.

Done!

Thanks again for all those who supported me. WinPwn was made possible by PlanetBeing, Squpix and the dev team ( Especially Wizdaz, MuscleNerd, Gray, Pumpkin, bgm, roxfan ). I will be updating WinPwn with some better features and upgrading the credits and help sections over the next few days.

Important Notes:
Remove Winpwn 1.0 completely if you have it installed. Installing over the top of WinPwn 1.0 will cause problems.

Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes ( Currently 7.7).

Winpwn 2.0 download links:
http://rapidshare.de/files/40068012/winpwn_2.0.0.1_Setup.zip.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/132009636/winpwn_2.0.0.1_Setup.zip

If you have any questions on installing winpwn 2.0 or run into any problems, please post them over at the forums. For those who are waiting on a software jailbreak for 2.0 (using ZiPhone), please check back as I will post any updates at the main site.

The iPhone Dev Team has released version 2.0 of the Pwnage tool for the iPod Touch. This software will give you the ability to jailbreak your iPod Touch on 2.0 and install custom 2.0 firmware. Please remember to keep in mind that Pwnage 2.0 is designed to only work on a Mac, a Windows version hasn’t been released at this time.

I have added a bunch of download links for the software as well as the post from the Dev Team on the Pwnage 2.0 release. Also included in the set of links below is a nicely put together guide from sleepers.net on how to use the software.

List of helpful links:

iPhone Dev Team announcement on Pwnage 2.0

Pwnage 2.0 download link (mirror)

Pwnage 2.0 download link (mirror 2)

Pwnage 2.0 guide

Please keep in mind that it is illegal to post links that allow the 2.0 firmware for the iPod Touch to be downloaded for free, for this reason I can’t post the 2.0 firmware that is needed to be used with Pwnage 2.0. Once you have purchased the 2.0 firmware, you will be able to use Pwnage 2.0 and install all those great installer.app 3rd party applications again.

If you have any questions or run into any problems with Pwnage 2.0 on your iPod Touch please post them over at the forums, that is why they are there.

Since a lot of you are still waiting for the release of the 2.0 firmware for the iPod Touch, I am going to give you a preview of a collection of screenshots from my iPod Touch which is running 2.0 and some of the new apps from the App Store. I think this will give a good explanation for what you all will be in store for soon when 2.0 is released. Click on the photos below to see the full size versions.

**UPDATE** 2.0 has been released on iTunes.

How many of you opened up iTunes this morning and saw that there was an update available to firmware 2.0 on your iPod Touch? Well, it’s been there since 9am EST this morning and you still don’t have the new firmware. What’s the reason for this you ask?

Well basically, Apple is a little bit overwhelmed today and they are having a lot of trouble with there activation servers, which is why you keep getting that “can’t connect to iTunes” message when you try to purchase the update. They have been working on fixing this all day and it is still not working.

User paul over at the forums has posted a thread on how you can manually download the firmware. Since I’m not exactly sure of the legality of downloading this firmware I am not going to post the actual instructions on how to manually do this. I am going to point you over to the actual thread and you can decide for yourself if you want to go this route.

I would expect the official release of the 2.0 firmware for the iPod Touch to come sometime today, I know how painful it is to wait, so if you go ahead and try to download the 2.0 firmware from the thread I posted, post any comments or questions over at the forums.

**UPDATE** The link has been taken down, looks like it is back to a waiting game for 2.0 now.