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PS3 Hacked via USB Dongle
dlove67 writes "PSX-scene.com reports that the first PS3 modchip has been tested and confirmed to be working. Running off of a USB dongle, it appears to be relatively user friendly and claims to not void your warranty. Online gameplay works (at least for the time being). It's been a long time coming; cheers to the PS Jailbreak Guys." The video is attached below if you're curious. Can't help but point out that this wouldn't have happened if Sony hadn't decided to yank the Boot Other OS option.
the recent push to "crack" the PS3 OS was due to the removal of that function, which Sony did to try to prevent the cracking of their OS. Oh, the circular eddies of irony that feed our world :D
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sony claimed that they removed the Boot Other OS options to prevent this type of hacking.
~ Mooga
You realize the xbox 360 has a thriving indie game scene, right?
I am aware of Indie Games. However, I am also aware of these four issues:
What's the advantage of a console over a PC for people who develop or play indie games?
As seen in the psx-scene forums, it seems to turn the PS3 into a debug-mode.
I think most of you are missing the fact that this is running on a debug unit which already has the capability to run unsigned code and code off of hard drives with no restrictions. The USB dongle has nothing to do with that, until this can be show running on a non-debug unit this is very bogus.
This was done on a Debug Console. If you look at 0:44 on the video, you can see the "Install Packages..." option at the top of the list in the XMB. ...so in other words, nothing unusual, folks. This type of thing could always be done on a Debug Console...
Except that the only reason that people by these mod chips is to play burned games. To claim this has anything to do with homebrew or being able to install Linux is naïveté to the highest degree.
Because there's no way someone would modchip a Wii (before software homebrew was refined to its current pretty-damn-easy standard) in order to plug a mass-storage USB device in and use their console as both a home media center and a game machine. That could never, ever happen. It's inconceivable.
Oh, wait. A simple Google search returns a bunch of sites that want to sell you the (free) homebrew software (in violation of copyright--yes, Team Twiizers' homebrew software is original, not stolen from Nintendo, so they technically hold copyright), and they tout being able to use your Wii to play back pretty much any type of video or sound file VLC can understand. You lose. Player 1 insert coin.
Every console sent to be repaired will have their save games erased.
That is already the case and always has been. Sony do not repair the units, they just send you a refurbished unit with no effort to salvage your data. Herein lies a sticky issue. Those of us with the good original fat models are in for problems when they fail. Sony have run out of them and will send a later model. Sounds good? Not when you consider the original machines had back compatibility, SACD support, more card slots etc, that the new models do not. The PS3 is a machine that gets less functionality with each incarnation.
It's generally referred to as the JTAG hack. It requires minor soldering and modification of the 360. It does not work on every revision of the 360 currently. Frankly, if you are not savvy enough to find the info with Google, you are better off not bothering or paying someone else to do it.
Yes, by one wire, the Playstation required a piece of steel wire, AKA a spring to hold the "door closed" button down when the door was open. The more invasive method would be to take a copper wire and solder the circuit closed instead of using the spring.
Load a "legit" game and pull the disc out, and stick in your burned copy of another game, and voila! The burned copy runs. You never even needed a modchip to begin with.
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That's what OtherOS was, indeed.