PS3 Hack?

[-TOFU-]

Originally posted by yue
be prepared to pay $30 for one blank blu ray disc

Or you can buy a an external 2TB HDD as what they are using now with the Jailbroken PS3's.

[-TOFU-]

Here is a neat little video on failoverflow PS3 conference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXfgg7otJw

[dr_jared88]

And now geohot has been served....

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/sony-...ge-hotz-75467/

[desi112]

has anyone tried this yet?

[95teetee]

Originally posted by desi112
has anyone tried this yet?

if you mean jailbreaking. I've been doing it for several months. If you mean the newer '0verflow' related stuff- can't be bothered-everything I need the PS3 to do works with the JB on the 3.41 firmware

[aznhavok]

yah see thats awesome that you stuck with 3.41 coz thank god they finally got 3.55 freed

[95teetee]

I haven't really paid attention to the new stuff, but the big difference should be that you don't need a JB device to do it (unless you need one to help write the FW- like I say, I haven't really kept up to how it works).

edit-did a little quick research- no JB device required for the new custom firmwares- just a USB stick.

another edit- figured I should try the new one of the hacked 3.55 firmwares (I'm likely to have people asking me to do it for them lol).

It works, but not as well as the old JB device did on 3.41. Lots of freezeups. Have to wait for the backup managers to get up to speed I guess.

[desi112]

Originally posted by 95teetee
I haven't really paid attention to the new stuff, but the big difference should be that you don't need a JB device to do it (unless you need one to help write the FW- like I say, I haven't really kept up to how it works).

edit-did a little quick research- no JB device required for the new custom firmwares- just a USB stick.

another edit- figured I should try the new one of the hacked 3.55 firmwares (I'm likely to have people asking me to do it for them lol).

It works, but not as well as the old JB device did on 3.41. Lots of freezeups. Have to wait for the backup managers to get up to speed I guess.

hows online play??? no problems???

[beecue]

Online works fine for now but Sony will probably ban soon.

[desi112]

Originally posted by beecue
Online works fine for now but Sony will probably ban soon.

is there a quick method to turn the JB on and off.

I mean to say, can you turn it off for online play (games which are bought) and turn it on to play single player?

[beecue]

No you have switch firmwares. I read everything is logged and sent to Sony so it wouldn't matter if you switched.

[accordboi_02]

Originally posted by beecue
No you have switch firmwares. I read everything is logged and sent to Sony so it wouldn't matter if you switched.

DOes that include if you have only JB the machine?

I.e. I want to do it for Emulators, not playing backups...

[beecue]

Yeah I think so because it would log that you ran an emulator. They might be able to detect that it's not the official firmware too. I guess we will see if a ban happens.

[95teetee]

there's a program you can run that will erase your log so that Sony can't see what you've been running.
But like beecue said, they may be able to detect the CFW (or maybe even the programs that are installed by it, like the .pkg installer).
btw, between 3 different backup managers I've got it running pretty stable. Learned that I have to run a level 2 hack program every time to keep stuff happy (although I'm pretty sure they said it was built into the FW so it wouldn't need it).

edit- maybe this will cause the people who made the jailbreak devices to finally update them to the 3.55 firmware- at least then you can boot without it and not be jailbroken (so there would still be a need for them-as of now, sales won't be too good )

[taemo]

I feel bad for whoever spent money on the USB dongle.
i have multiman and gaia.. either one works.. but I hate the random freezes happening

[tha_bandit]

haha man i remember starting this thread, lol, long time ago....anyways i picked up a fat ps3 from a friend and did the whole 3.55 custom firmware thing, and got gaia manager, but havnt played around with it too much, anyone have gt5 working

[95teetee]

Originally posted by taemo
I feel bad for whoever spent money on the USB dongle.

thanks

Originally posted by tha_bandit
anyone have gt5 working

GT5 works with Rogero 7.8 manager and the kmeaw FW