PS3 finally hacked?

[CentralDogma]

PSFreedom for the Dingoo released http://bit.ly/bcI1Po

By Waninkoko no less.

[_I am Reptar]

Eagerly awaiting the PSP port :)

[rajputwarrior]

if they port this to iphone i'm all over it.

[Unrealistic]

They ported this to Palm Pre....hmmmmmmmm....

Decisions, decisions...

[0nyX]

Eagerly awaiting the PSP port :)

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I sure hope its possible for that to be done :D

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Ported to android phones, Desire included.

Waiting a good few weeks on this though until I see if mass bannings appear. They also need to somehow work around the 4GB limit issue as quite a few 1st party titles have files over that size.

[Richard Hammond]

Ported to android phones, Desire included.

Waiting a good few weeks on this though until I see if mass bannings appear. They also need to somehow work around the 4GB limit issue as quite a few 1st party titles have files over that size.

Wait no longer my good man, NTFS support is coming in the next version of backup loader.

PS2 emulation support is now available for EVERY PS3, not just Fat, that includes slim. That means Sony is a complete sack of s**t removing emulation and then saying its not possible, few weeks and a bunch of hackers later and PS2 support is back.

Backup Manager 1.1 is coming in a few days:

Here are all the changes:

Supports any firmware

Supports NTFS Hard Discs

Supports copying of Blu-Ray Discs

Supports playback of the. Mkv video format

Supports the playback and copying PSX and PS2 games (no matter which PS3 version).

Automatic updating of the stick via PC.

Lets Play online without risk of excommunication.

Here

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Oh wow, PS2 emulation support is now available for EVERY PS3, not just Fat, that includes slim.

Backup Manager 1.1 is coming in a few days:

Here are all the changes:

Supports any firmware

Supports NTFS Hard Discs

Supports copying of Blu-Ray Discs

Supports playback of the. Mkv video format

Supports the playback and copying PSX and PS2 games (no matter which PS3 version).

Automatic updating of the stick via PC.

Lets Play online without risk of excommunication.

Here

Sounds like a load of crap. How can they even guarantee the last one? Not to mention the hardware has been removed from the Slim PS3s to play PS2 games.

"should be possible"

"known to want to bring out"

Yeaaah ....

[Richard Hammond]

Who knows, lets hope its true especially the MKV and PS2 support.

Happy birthday.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

I've waited for these hacks for 3 years and finally they are materializing :D

Fuuuuu Sony :woot:

[Julius Caro]

Sounds like a load of crap. How can they even guarantee the last one? Not to mention the hardware has been removed from the Slim PS3s to play PS2 games.

"should be possible"

"known to want to bring out"

Yeaaah ....

If it's emulation, it's not done by hardware. The fat PS3s backwards compatibility was not emulation, they basically had the ps2 hardware inside too

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

If it's emulation, it's not done by hardware. The fat PS3s backwards compatibility was not emulation, they basically had the ps2 hardware inside too

I find it near impossible to believe anyone has written a fully software enabled PS2 emulator for the CELL processor at this date.

The PS2 is not easy to emulate.

Who knows, lets hope its true especially the MKV and PS2 support.

Happy birthday.

Thanks

[AbandonedTrolley]

Sounds like a load of crap. How can they even guarantee the last one? Not to mention the hardware has been removed from the Slim PS3s to play PS2 games.

"should be possible"

"known to want to bring out"

Yeaaah ....

While I agree it seems a stretch that PS2 games will work, how are we to know that Sony didn't already have emulation software in the firmware updates we are constantly installing, but just never activated it?

Kudos to Sony for having survived this long and will be interesting to see how they combat it, I doubt they will just wave a white flag and accept it's over. The thing is, it's not the hackers that got the better of the machine, it's a person that leaked the key and coding. The hacking community were nowhere near this exploit till the hardware got released.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

While I agree it seems a stretch that PS2 games will work, how are we to know that Sony didn't already have emulation software in the firmware updates we are constantly installing, but just never activated it?

Kudos to Sony for having survived this long and will be interesting to see how they combat it, I doubt they will just wave a white flag and accept it's over. The thing is, it's not the hackers that got the better of the machine, it's a person that leaked the key and coding. The hacking community were nowhere near this exploit till the hardware got released.

As far as I'm aware all that's happened is the abilities of a dev unit have been enabled on a normal PS3. For what you've said to be correct I'd assume the firmware itself would need to have been decrypted and taken apart, which as far as I'm aware has not been done (if it has we'd see custom firmwares by now).

[Jimmy0]

Haven't been following this in the slightest... so does this allow you to pirate games or not? Or is that what people are hoping for in future updates?

OT: Happy birthday AB.

[Richard Hammond]

You already can play backups, copy them to HDD and away you go.

[AbandonedTrolley]

Haven't been following this in the slightest... so does this allow you to pirate games or not? Or is that what people are hoping for in future updates?

OT: Happy birthday AB.

From what I understand you can only play the games that you have physically backed up yourself. Currently meaning that other than borrowing or renting games there is little gain from this until you can get them via other means.

[bobeck]

from what i read i thought you just needed one retail game to run the backup manager then load the games from an external hdd...the usual places i "shop" at have exploded with ps3jailbreak tagged releases in the last 2 weeks

[AbandonedTrolley]

from what i read i thought you just needed one retail game to run the backup manager then load the games from an external hdd...the usual places i "shop" at have exploded with ps3jailbreak tagged releases in the last 2 weeks

Might be true, i've not really looked into it too much just saw the original videos.

[Jimmy0]

Yeah I've just had a look around my usual places, and seen plenty of people posting ps3jailbreak releases.

Enough said about the situation, don't want to push the rules. :)

[Salty Wagyu]

Is there a site that explains things better? It's not clear whether this "usb key" is plugged in, or soldered to the ps3 because of what I've seen it has what looks like board material you'd typically see inside a PC:

And I'm getting a little lost in all these words appearing, such as PS3Jailbreak, PSGroove and PSFreedom, is there a difference between the 3? And why are smartphones getting into the mix, and what do they have to do with it?

[DPyro]

As far as I'm aware all that's happened is the abilities of a dev unit have been enabled on a normal PS3. For what you've said to be correct I'd assume the firmware itself would need to have been decrypted and taken apart, which as far as I'm aware has not been done (if it has we'd see custom firmwares by now).

The firmware has been taken apart and analyzed, its just you can't repackage and sign your own firmware without the master key.

[AbandonedTrolley]

Is there a site that explains things better? It's not clear whether this "usb key" is plugged in, or soldered to the ps3 because of what I've seen it has what looks like board material you'd typically see inside a PC:

And I'm getting a little lost in all these words appearing, such as PS3Jailbreak, PSGroove and PSFreedom, is there a difference between the 3? And why are smartphones getting into the mix, and what do they have to do with it?

People are getting the code to run on smartphones now, meaning that you don't even need to buy a circuit board to run the code. PS3Jailbreak I believe was the name of the original jailbreak that they wanted ?120 for, people have now basically done this code for themselves and you now see PSFreedom and PSGroove.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

The firmware has been taken apart and analyzed, its just you can't repackage and sign your own firmware without the master key.

Well then someone would have mentioned PS2 emulation long before now...

[DPyro]

You obviously haven't been keeping up. There's a emu located at /local_sys0/ps2emu/ps2_softemu.self (also ps2_gxemu.self and ps2_emu.self). There is also a very basic PSP emu located at /dev_flash/pspemu/psp_emulator.self and /dev_flash/pspemu/psp_translator.self