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Siggy @ Aug 19, 2010 14:14 | 88 comments

PlayStation 3 has given modders and hackers a run for their money. For nearly fours years hackers have tried to create a working mod that would bypass the PS3 software protection and run homebrew applications and backups. However, there has been no real breakthroughs, until now, if you believe what PS3News has to say.

According to the site, a product called PSJailBreak will allow owners of any version of PS3 to run backups of PS3 games as well as homebrew applications. The $170 mod is a piece of software stored in a USB drive. By inserting the thumb drive to your PS3 you'll be able to install and run the launcher application in seconds without permanently modifying the console or its software.

The PSJailBreak application also includes a backup tool which allows users to backup their game discs to the PS3 hard drive. Movies whether DVD or Blu-ray, or previous generation PlayStation games aren't supported by the tool. The backup manager can also be downloaded for free.

At OzModChips.com the Stock Status says they'll be shipping preorders by the end of the month.

There are couple of YouTube videos (below) and Twitter updates that say it is working. Hopefully we can confirm this in the coming days. However, for now you should probably take it with a grain of salt.

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Comment by: ZippyDSM (Aug 21, 2010 16:27)

Originally posted by KillerBug:

Originally posted by djeazyg:
If this is true and starts the piracy movement for the PS3, I don't think as many people will download PS3 games as they do 360 games. Most people aren't willing to download a 25 to 50 gig game just to try it out. To much bandwidth. This is why you don't see a lot of full copy BluRay movies. Yes you can get them but not nearly as many as BluRay rips. I think the Playstation Store games would take the biggest hit.
Most PS3 games are just ports of 360 games; the image files are usually very close in size. Granted, there are a few monsters that really use up space, but most PS3 games would fit onto a single-layer DVD.

Originally posted by leif24:
Could this allow native playback of my 1080p mkv movies? I'm currently forced to use media server to stream my mkv movies over 4 gigs; the dissadvantage of Ps3 media server is it doesn't support 24 FPS or HD audio
While it would not do so on it's own, if it works, then people can make "homebrew games" that would let you play such files; you would not even need to stream.

Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
So...... I have been reqading and have come to haz new questions. What kind of hardware is on the USB drive to decrypt the PS3 into debug mode?

Everything hedges on that being easily distributable in some fashion....
I have not seen anything specific enough to tell me much at this point, but I have seen a few pics, and here is what I saw:
It appears to be a flash drive with a programmable I/O controller and a diode linking two of the pins on the ic. If this is all there is, then small-scale production should be very easy, resulting in lots of competition and low prices.

Ouch, some PS3 games are ports from the 360 but they have been handled better than PC ports I tell you. The PS3 have 4 layers of games one layer it shares with the 360 explicitly, then it has its own ports(look at some of the Jrpg thats has the full non beta version of the game on it) it also has its own PSN game ports which may or may not be exclusive or different enough to note. Then it has its own games made for it. Then it has port me downs which are about half or maybe 30-70% every other year of the new games that it shares with the 360.

At the end of the day its like anything new media it is good enough, IE it has enough individual content to make it worth the 300$. Frankly I think the WII has slightly better individual content but the WII is built on loose control and I loath the foundation its built on its like the 360s and cheap/shiny actiony games foundation.... god new media sucks.......

Until lobbying is a hanging offense I choose anarchy!
Ah modern gaming its like modern film only the watering down of fiction and characters is replaced with shallow and watered down mechanics, gimmicks and shiny-er "people".
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Comment by: DoomLight (Aug 22, 2010 04:42)

i will only believe it if i see more videos or the darn thing infront of me before i drop as much as it costs to by half a ps3 to get one of these things.

if it was $170 in aussie dollars. it would be like 50 bux american hehe

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Aug 22, 2010 07:34)

Originally posted by miketoo01:
It was already modified to allow Dev consoles to boot games so the code/files are out there being worked on.

Ya but in order to use them you have to tell the hardware via a USB hardware connection that its ok to use them...I wonder if you could spoof usb driver and load them via say Linux or something?

Comment by: xLeD (Aug 22, 2010 13:02)

You guys have got it all wrong, they aren't testing the PSJailbreak on DEV consoles, the PSJailbreak turns your console into a dev console when it is plugged in, wich allows you to run 3rd party sofware on it, aka homebrew.
Then you plug in a normal usb memory that contains the downloaded software-content (The backup manager wich allows you to play copied games) from the PSJailbreak site, then you install this content on the PS3 so you can play backups of games or(illegaly) download games and put on your PS3 to play them.

Comment by: Daniel_1 (Aug 22, 2010 14:10)

PUH-LEAZE...I can already play every PS-PS1-PS2 games on my modified Wii, as well as the Atari games-Atari Jag games-playstation-all nintendo handhelds as well as Comm 64 games and Xbox games. And when this crack/hack comes out and if it does what it says, then I will be able to play all PS3 games on my Nintendo Wii as well. Now before you say you cannot do this, check the net. There are hundreds of thousands of pages that not only say you can, but tell you how to do it as well.

So the question begs, if the Wii can do all of this, why would you want a PS 3?

Comment by: Oner (Aug 22, 2010 14:57)

Originally posted by Daniel_1:
...And when this crack/hack comes out and if it does what it says, then I will be able to play all PS3 games on my Nintendo Wii as well. Now before you say you cannot do this, check the net. There are hundreds of thousands of pages that not only say you can, but tell you how to do it as well.

So the question begs, if the Wii can do all of this, why would you want a PS 3?

Wow. Simply amazing...I have no words.

Edit: Actually, after going over some of your post history I do ~ Please refrain from posting misinformation that is not relevant to the topic at hand.

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Comment by: Jemborg (Aug 22, 2010 15:13)

Originally posted by Daniel_1:
PUH-LEAZE...I can already play every PS-PS1-PS2 games on my modified Wii, as well as the Atari games-Atari Jag games-playstation-all nintendo handhelds as well as Comm 64 games and Xbox games. And when this crack/hack comes out and if it does what it says, then I will be able to play all PS3 games on my Nintendo Wii as well. Now before you say you cannot do this, check the net. There are hundreds of thousands of pages that not only say you can, but tell you how to do it as well.

So the question begs, if the Wii can do all of this, why would you want a PS 3?

You're back! And still full of crap!

How long before you get suspended this time?

Let the entertainment begin! :D

Its a lot easier being righteous than right.

Comment by: Oner (Aug 22, 2010 15:28)

Originally posted by Jemborg:

Originally posted by Daniel_1:
PUH-LEAZE...I can already play every PS-PS1-PS2 games on my modified Wii, as well as the Atari games-Atari Jag games-playstation-all nintendo handhelds as well as Comm 64 games and Xbox games. And when this crack/hack comes out and if it does what it says, then I will be able to play all PS3 games on my Nintendo Wii as well. Now before you say you cannot do this, check the net. There are hundreds of thousands of pages that not only say you can, but tell you how to do it as well.

So the question begs, if the Wii can do all of this, why would you want a PS 3?
You're back! And still full of crap!

How long before you get suspended this time?

Let the entertainment begin! :D

Please do not instigate the situation any further. It's no better than what an offender/troll does. TY.

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Comment by: Jemborg (Aug 22, 2010 15:59)

Originally posted by Oner:

Originally posted by Jemborg:

Originally posted by Daniel_1:
PUH-LEAZE...I can already play every PS-PS1-PS2 games on my modified Wii, as well as the Atari games-Atari Jag games-playstation-all nintendo handhelds as well as Comm 64 games and Xbox games. And when this crack/hack comes out and if it does what it says, then I will be able to play all PS3 games on my Nintendo Wii as well. Now before you say you cannot do this, check the net. There are hundreds of thousands of pages that not only say you can, but tell you how to do it as well.

So the question begs, if the Wii can do all of this, why would you want a PS 3?
You're back! And still full of crap!

How long before you get suspended this time?

Let the entertainment begin! :D
Please do not instigate the situation any further. It's no better than what an offender/troll does. TY.

You haven't seen enough of his posts then. LOL

Its a lot easier being righteous than right.

Comment by: Daniel_1 (Aug 22, 2010 16:12)

Jemborg You are so full of edited for content that your hair is brown. You got your arse beaten so bad in the last thread that you slunk off with your tail between your legs.

And to beat the snot out of you yet AGAIN in this thread, all you need to do is look here

http://www.google.com/search?q=Turn+your...lient=firefox-a

and you will find over 114,000 DIFFERENT sites all saying the same thing I just have. It must really be magic in your own little reality where you are the only one right and everyone else is wrong because YOU say so.

Comment by: Oner (Aug 22, 2010 16:33)

Originally posted by Daniel_1:
Jemborg You are so full of edited for content that your hair is brown. You got your arse beaten so bad in the last thread that you slunk off with your tail between your legs.

And to beat the snot out of you yet AGAIN in this thread, all you need to do is look here

http://www.google.com/search?q=Turn+your...lient=firefox-a

and you will find over 114,000 DIFFERENT sites all saying the same thing I just have. It must really be magic in your own little reality where you are the only one right and everyone else is wrong because YOU say so.

And now you have 2 Days off (which is EXTREMELY light) for disregarding a warning, arguing, language and spreading misinformation ~

Originally posted by Daniel_1:
And when this crack/hack comes out and if it does what it says, then I will be able to play all PS3 games on my Nintendo Wii as well

You cannot play PS3 Games in/on a Wii no matter what "hack" ever gets released. PERIOD.

Originally posted by Jemborg:
You haven't seen enough of his posts then. LOL

Actually I have, but either way you should also know better than to instigate something that was being addressed by a mod.

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Comment by: ZippyDSM (Aug 22, 2010 17:00)

Originally posted by xLeD:
You guys have got it all wrong, they aren't testing the PSJailbreak on DEV consoles, the PSJailbreak turns your console into a dev console when it is plugged in, wich allows you to run 3rd party sofware on it, aka homebrew.
Then you plug in a normal usb memory that contains the downloaded software-content (The backup manager wich allows you to play copied games) from the PSJailbreak site, then you install this content on the PS3 so you can play backups of games or(illegaly) download games and put on your PS3 to play them.

Its not normal USB thats the point, and yes it turns any PS3 into a dev console.

Comment by: Jemborg (Aug 22, 2010 17:02)

Originally posted by Oner:

Originally posted by Jemborg:
You haven't seen enough of his posts then. LOL
Actually I have, but either way you should also know better than to instigate something that was being addressed by a mod.

In that case then you would see that he doesn't need any help from anyone much less myself oner.

Regardless, I had no intention of adding any further remarks anyway.

Its a lot easier being righteous than right.

Comment by: Oner (Aug 22, 2010 17:25)

Originally posted by Jemborg:

Originally posted by Oner:

Originally posted by Jemborg:
You haven't seen enough of his posts then. LOL
Actually I have, but either way you should also know better than to instigate something that was being addressed by a mod.
In that case then you would see that he doesn't need any help from anyone much less myself oner.

Regardless, I had no intention of adding any further remarks anyway.

He does need help...just not any that aD can offer, maybe a doctor perhaps? But anyway, next time just bring it to the attention of any one of us mods and we'll handle it quickly to avoid things getting out of hand. TY.

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Comment by: ZippyDSM (Aug 22, 2010 17:29)

Originally posted by Oner:

Originally posted by Jemborg:

Originally posted by Oner:

Originally posted by Jemborg:
You haven't seen enough of his posts then. LOL
Actually I have, but either way you should also know better than to instigate something that was being addressed by a mod.
In that case then you would see that he doesn't need any help from anyone much less myself oner.

Regardless, I had no intention of adding any further remarks anyway.
He does need help...just not any that aD can offer, maybe a doctor perhaps? But anyway, next time just bring it to the attention of any one of us mods and we'll handle it quickly to avoid things getting out of hand. TY.

I dunno he needs to learn to snipe with his comments like zippy dose, less is more when a heavy helping of self smoking poo gas and I know everything there is to know and everyone is wrong.

Anyway my head hurts and I have less energy to be right all the time. *yawns*

Comment by: Anonymous User (Aug 22, 2010 17:44)

So, This pendrive is gonna jailbreak the PS3? If i had the money i would use it, but unfortunately i don't. Hope the Freeware version comes out soon so we can use it ourselves. And it seems there's some speculation about it anyway, so I'll see what unfolds. :)

Comment by: Jemborg (Aug 22, 2010 17:53)

@ Zippy... "poo gas"...?!?

LOL

PS: I'm not surprised your head hurts... take two aspirin suppositories and call me in the morning.

Its a lot easier being righteous than right.

Comment by: Oner (Aug 22, 2010 18:31)

Originally posted by Jemborg:
@ Zippy... "poo gas"...?!?

LOL

I LoL'ed as well...damned Zippyisms.

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Comment by: ZippyDSM (Aug 22, 2010 18:37)

Originally posted by Jemborg:
@ Zippy... "poo gas"...?!?

LOL

PS: I'm not surprised your head hurts... take two aspirin suppositories and call me in the morning.

What other fumes do egotistical and or arrogant people huff on?
:P

Also to much freakazoid in my youth.

Comment by: Jemborg (Aug 22, 2010 18:52)

@ Zip

Well, since you put it like that...

Btw, how much poo gas does a "Zippy dose" constitute? Less being more and all...

Its a lot easier being righteous than right.

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Aug 22, 2010 19:24)

Originally posted by Jemborg:
@ Zip

Well, since you put it like that...

Btw, how much poo gas does a "Zippy dose" constitute? Less being more and all...

Less being more only counts for posting...mostly... other wise I am trolling sitting in da pew looking for soemone whos wrong in the land of a series of tubes.

LOL

Comment by: TBandit (Aug 22, 2010 19:41)

Yes, it is sony's turn to have something as easy as the xbox's soft mod. Asking for 170$ is a joke.

Comment by: dEwMe (Aug 27, 2010 19:04)

BAD NEWS?

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/...f-inventory.ars

Just my $0.02,

dEwMe

Comment by: pirkster (Aug 27, 2010 20:12)

Originally posted by dEwMe:
BAD NEWS?

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/...f-inventory.ars

Sounds like it.

Looks like the PS3 News message board has been down for the last 9 hours or so.

Related???...

I wouldn't be surprised if PS3News didn't voluntarily take down the boards to protect some of the members and discussion that was going on there.

Regardless, there are still early models in existence. It all depends on how many of those working ones still exist (ones that haven't been dismantled in order to reverse engineer) that can be left to continue software cloning.

Comment by: Anonymous User (Jan 19, 2011 23:46)

hell yeah thats true my m8 allreay has got a torrent and downloaded jailbraking crap lol but he also downloaded something were u can play games from ya harddrive but the not wont tell me were he got it from hahahahaa