Wednesday, March 31, 2010

PS3 FW 3.21: Unpacking Begins.

I have begun looking in side the new PS3 Firmware package, we will see what happens.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

PS3 3.15 > 2.1x Downgrade Firmware

This is a modified PS3 Firmware image I created for developers. This will NOT boot on the PS3 without some kind of exploit. I wanted to make it easier for devs to downgrade the PS3 firmware. The firmware will report as being 3.15 but is a much earlier version of 2.1x. with the right hack this could be loaded into NAND downgrading the PS3. A good thing would be to decrypt it using GeoHotz memory glitch hack, which I haven't applied because I don't feel like building a Timer board ( now if someone wanted to send me one....). Now that I have this firmware image I will be developing a way to use it, which I have a few ideas on. Anyone that cares to help can Download the Torrent File for it here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5VBRX0Z9 Have Fun!

Das ist Krieg!

Whether or not Sony will remove the "OtherOS" feature of the PS3 will be seen in a couple days ( by those who choose to update). For the moment I am not sure what to think, if a multi-Billion dollar corporation has a sense of humor or if they are serious about removing the Super-cool ability to program with the IBM Cell BE processor and ruin my desire to port the XNU kernel to the PS3. Regardless of this being fact or fiction i think its time to stomp new ground, I for one will be starting work on a PS3 Downgrader ( I may have a few ideas ;) ) . After I have discovered the best way to do this I will then begin working on a Safe Updater. This is not because I think that they are removing the feature, only because they have demonstrated that they CAN remove it. I don't like it when companies push around the very people that pay their salaries.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

GeoHotz Hoax?



Here is my analysis of the above image. I took the image into Photoshop CS4 and rotated it 1 Degree Clock Wise. and laid the Grid over it for reference. This reveals that the text is NOT off path with the other texts and I have zoomed in to make it easier to visualize that the red text plays a trick on the eyes and only APPEARS to be crooked to the naked eye. When the Grid is laid on top of the image the illusion disappears. It is my opinion that this image has not been altered and that the text in question is genuine.