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PS3 Hacked via USB Dongle

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the dongle-this dept.

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.

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  1. PC gaming on SDTV by tepples · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you can get a $50 video card that can display on an HDTV

    Will it also display on the SDTV that one already owns? Or does one have to buy a $400 HDTV or hope they happen to run into someone who knows about the $40 VGA to SDTV adapter available only through mail order? (I have a Sewell scan converter, and I recommend it for HTPC gaming, but it appears I'm the only person I know who has heard of it.)

  2. HTPCs; imperfect back-compat in Windows by tepples · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Anonymous Coward wrote:

    Just because consoles cannot use keyboard/mouse does not mean PCs cannot use controllers

    I have plugged four controllers into a PC through a USB hub. But just because four USB game controllers Just Work on a PC doesn't mean that A. the median PC has a big enough monitor for four people holding controllers to fit around, or that B. major PC games support multiple controllers. Either major labels fail to anticipate the scenario of gaming on a PC connected to a TV, or they want to sell four copies to four players who play online instead of selling one copy of a game to one home theater PC owner who plays with three IRL friends.

    PCs have the added bonus of not becoming obsolete and unsupported.

    Unless the game you want to play relies on bugs^W unofficial "features" in Windows 95 and Windows 98 and was never updated to run on Windows XP. Or unless the game uses Glide. Or unless the game was designed for DOS or Windows 3.1. No game for DOS or Windows 3.1 works in 64-bit versions of Windows because Microsoft didn't anticipate running wowexec inside wow64. Or I'll see your DOSBox or VirtualBox and raise you a Retrode cartridge reader and Snes9x.