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PS3 With 3.50 Firmware Jailbroken Without Downgrade

Posted by timothy on from the next-is-home-distilling dept.

Khyber writes "Hackers: 2 Sony: 0 — that's the current standing score now that the X3 team have successfully performed a jailbreak on the official 3.50 PS3 firmware, allowing homebrew applications and more to be enabled. Here's a video of the jailbreak in action."

2 of 195 comments (clear)

  1. Not confirmed by neokushan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is largely unconfirmed and most likely fake - and I'll tell you why.

    Check out the very end of the video, the "game" exits and a message is displayed in the top right corner. See that message? Retail consoles don't display that, but Debug/TEST consoles do. Any Debug unit can be upgraded to debug Firmware 3.50 and play all the homebrew out there.

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    +1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
  2. Re:ok .. by hedwards · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Do you have a better theory as to why the hacks only started about the time that Sony took that feature away? I know there was that one guy that claimed to have gained root. But he refused to actually release it and Sony reacted by taking away the Other OS feature and updating firmwares to fight the efforts.

    It seems a bit much that it took this long for the first successful crack to appear and now they're coming out so quickly.