Custom Firmware on PS3?


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Awesome strides towards getting emulators running on the PS3 too :)

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the thing is though is that he made a CFW... that's a HUGE starting point for things down the road. sony is probably ****ting bricks right now... good thing i didn't update my slim :)

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Those saying about being out of luck if you have upgraded firmware. Don't forget that the firmware is on the HDD. When you insert a new HDD it gets wiped and asks you to reinstall FW before continuing. My guess is at this point you could also install CFW.

Incorrect. The firmware is NOT stored on the HDD. It is stored inside the console. Even switching the HDD will not revert your PS3.

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that would be me... but i was talking about pirated games on the system, not just restore other OS

but does this actually do anything (like playing pirated games) or does this just restore the other OS? And adding this to the slims would be cool (other OS) would never use it though...

Hehe I know it was you, I was just playing :p

But yeah right now this doesn't do anything - but it opens plenty of doors. Before Geo just found the exploit & left it to the community to come up with the homebrew. Now that Sony actively pursued his work, he took it upon himself to create the firmware.

Ironically, if Sony didn't bother to remove OS support, it would probably have taken a very long time for someone to make use of Geo's exploit. Seeing as he didn't have any interest in working on it until they responded - the guy is miles ahead of everyone in the scene. Sony would have been better letting it go & right now they'd have nothing to worry about.

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I'm not sure it does open many doors. Yes, he has managed to re-activate the OtherOS feature but only because it wasn't fully removed from the system. He still hasn't been able to run any homebrew on the system and he has been trying for a while - even though he suggests he hasn't.

Nobody has been able to hack it and I expect if a hack does come for homebrew it won't be a simple process. The reason the 360/PSP/Wii are hacked so often is down to just how easy it is to do.

Obviously I could be wrong, but time will tell.

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Those saying about being out of luck if you have upgraded firmware. Don't forget that the firmware is on the HDD. When you insert a new HDD it gets wiped and asks you to reinstall FW before continuing. My guess is at this point you could also install CFW.
I literally just changed drives about 3 days ago and I didnt reinstall my FW.
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Incorrect. The firmware is NOT stored on the HDD. It is stored inside the console. Even switching the HDD will not revert your PS3.

Depending on the model (and the firmware revision), part of the firmware may be stored on the hard drive. This started around version 2.25 if I'm not mistaken.

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I literally just changed drives about 3 days ago and I didnt reinstall my FW.

Yeah, he was wrong.

Depending on the model (and the firmware revision), part of the firmware may be stored on the hard drive. This started around version 2.25 if I'm not mistaken.

It might be, but the actual firmware itself won't change when you swap the HDD.

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If a hack does come, it will be no harder than installing a D2CKey or a matrix infinity...

In fact, you likely will not even have to open the unit up. It will be as simple as installing a CFW actually :)

Now that someone has found a way in, I am sure there will be software holes found all over the place...

Of course chip developers will not have this and insist on circuitry to make $$$. Of course this will be a glitch device (3 wire) with NAND override (20 wire?) and OtherOS USB device to boot it.

They can't however prevent the knowledge seeking public from disclosing the holes, which will kill the chips.

I find it funny how chip devs can break the security of a billion dollar company system but somehow think their chip is secure from being R&D and copied??

The best thing we can hope for is software holes and homebrew, and otherOS fully unlocked - like individually coded RSX support. Then we can actually use a good distro of unix, and the PS3 as a desktop system with plenty of power.

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It might be, but the actual firmware itself won't change when you swap the HDD.

There's no "might be" to it. When upgrading the HDD, you are now required to reinstall the system software. In some of the earlier system software versions this step wasn't required because the entire firmware fit in the flash memory of the PS3. This started somewhere in the 2.xx series of firmware.

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I love the guy in the video..

"Other Ohsss"

Oh-Ess.

For petes sake if you're going to show something at least know how to speak the language.

Or at least say OPERATING SYSTEM.

I hope you are just joking or sarcastic, because if you truly believe this, man, you are seriously out of the loop

now moving on, this is great, I am waiting for that FW that will make the PS3 the next PS2/1 ... I would buy one, hell, with the money saved I might even get a 360 .... then again, remains to be seen, PS3 is a tough cookie, delicious but tough

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There's no "might be" to it. When upgrading the HDD, you are now required to reinstall the system software. In some of the earlier system software versions this step wasn't required because the entire firmware fit in the flash memory of the PS3. This started somewhere in the 2.xx series of firmware.

Really? The Slim I upgraded for my bro didn't ask for this. Just swapped the HDD and away he went. No install required as the firmware (whatever it was out of the box) was already on.

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There's no "might be" to it. When upgrading the HDD, you are now required to reinstall the system software. In some of the earlier system software versions this step wasn't required because the entire firmware fit in the flash memory of the PS3. This started somewhere in the 2.xx series of firmware.

firmware is stored on the hardware, kinda like the bios on a computer... swapping HD's will not affect the firmware version. Reinstalling the system software would be just reinstalling wnidows after you swap HD's in a computer..

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Really? The Slim I upgraded for my bro didn't ask for this. Just swapped the HDD and away he went. No install required as the firmware (whatever it was out of the box) was already on.

The slim models likely have a larger flash memory for the firmware then. I was only talking about the fat models.

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firmware is stored on the hardware, kinda like the bios on a computer... swapping HD's will not affect the firmware version. Reinstalling the system software would be just reinstalling wnidows after you swap HD's in a computer..

:rolleyes:

The system software IS the firmware, they are not separate. On the older fat models, part of it is stored in flash, part on the hard drive (beginning somewhere in the 2.xx versions; before that it was all stored in flash). I never said swapping the hard drive would affect the firmware version, but it DOES require a reinstall of the firmware because the part of the firmware that was stored on the hard drive would then be missing. That's why Sony's documentation for swapping the hard drive on those models specifically tells you to reinstall the system software.

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It never requires me to reinstall firmware when I swapped my hdd. That was with 3.15 on a 40gb UK fatty.

I'm not one who constantly uses the Linux feature, but it's there and installed for when I do want it. Looking forward to this from geohot!

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It never requires me to reinstall firmware when I swapped my hdd. That was with 3.15 on a 40gb UK fatty.

I can't speak for the UK models, but the US models do require a firmware reinstall.

Read the documentation on the Playstation site if you don't believe me: http://us.playstation.com/support/answer/index.htm?a_id=362

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Until someone can run unsigned code, no pirating for anyone :p That's the big step, unsigned code, not reinstating Linux. I wouldn't risk getting banned to keep that POS on your PS3 :laugh:

I'm still a little sceptical until he proves more, such as going on PSN or something.

As someone said on another board,

Hopefully it's not a fake. If he can edit RCO files on the system then editing Version information shouldn't be too difficult. Considering what he has done in the past though it's unlikely he would fake this.

You all may recall this is simple to do on the PSP, you can edit the system information build to anything you want - Lots of fake custom firmwares were made on the PSP back in the day.

I'm not here to argue why GeoHot would lie, I don't know the guy, he's arrogant and seemingly butthurt Sony are showing resistance, so I don't see him as someone to put blind faith in, I'll wait for hands-on results for proof.

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