Am I the only one who's really, really interested in seeing how Sony will react to all of this? Will they just put out one Firmware after another? Maybe they even actually have (or will have) a way to prevent us from using custom firmware? Will they try to deliver as many features as possible in a short amount of time to get us to constantly update to the newest Firmware? I don't know much about the details, but it just seems so crazy to think that Sony can do absolutely nothing to stop anyone from using a custom Firmware.
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Playstation 3 CFW & Homebrew Technical Help Thread -- morality arguments elsewhere
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Well, the updates sucked for everyone who's only interested in Gaming/Blu-Ray. The last good thing was the introduction of Trophies. We've not seen any improvements on the gaming side since then, have we? A custom firmware might finally be able to change that... to enhance my gaming experience.//B1G said:
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Diablohead said:
Right now we're getting quick and dirty updates on existing homebrew that was originally created for the Jailbreak dongle. Now that the doors are wide open, i can imagine more coders will jump on board and start doing original projects.
The PSP scene I think will serve as a template for how this will pan out. Emulators and simple programs came first, then we had Youtube and video software, replacement web browsers and wider media support. The PS3 has more features and abilities than the PSP and much more potential.
I imagine the homebrew wishlist posted in the thread here is already under consideration by folks able to bring them to the scene.
Exciting times.
BigBadShamoo
Banned
They'll probably react the same way they did with the PSP. Release some cool firmware enabled feature. Like back in the day when 1.50 FW on the PSP was the SHIT, sony tried to convince people to update by making FW 2.00 seem viable by adding a Web Browser anndd by forcing it as an install for GTA: Liberty City Stories. It worked for a while.
But once people are underneath, there will always be a way to resurface.
But once people are underneath, there will always be a way to resurface.
badcrumble
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What sort of debug options are there, exactly?MMaRsu said:
darkjedi187
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Playing GBA/SNES game in 720p will be so awesome. now my Wii really won't get used. 
Genesis Knight
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Unfortunately until a rock-solid 64, DC, or Saturn emu comes out there's nothing the PS3 can do that my oXbox can't. Except for maybe PS1 - PS3 can play PS1 games, right? But can it run backups? No one is touching my FF originals, even myself. :lol
darkjedi187 said:Playing GBA/SNES game sin 720p will be so awesome. now my Wii really won't get used.
This are either moving too fast or I'm incredibly slow. I just got the Wii to run snes9x and now the PS3 is running them in 1080p.
I am very excited about FBA Next and potential DC emulation
What I would like in future versions of these emulators (if improved upon) is something similar to Wiiflow and CFG USB Loader. I would like to cycle through a nice catalog instead of a file list.
snap0212 said:
No you're not the only one.
I can't believe that during development of the PS3 they didn't discuss various doomsday scenarios like the one that has transpired and how it would be combated.
As far as I'm aware there are 2 levels of security that haven't been broken yet with one being the hardware encrypted SPU on the cell. I don't think the hackers will ever break this unless IBM or Sony leak the key. I'm wondering if the next update will be an update within a update with encrypted code payload that can only be run on the secure SPU which will install a freshly encrypted firmware with keys done right for future games.
All consoles and previous games that don't update will be lost to homebrew heaven, but going forward PSN and future games could be secure.
Saying that Sony appear to be mentally retarded, so I wouldn't be surprised if they'd all just sat round drinking tea instead of thinking about doomsday scenarios.
If I was Sony I'd be knocking on Geohots door with a blank cheque saying "make it stop, and show me how this will never happen again." He clearly is much more intelligent than their brightest techs.
I would then present him with a second blank cheque and tell him he can cash it when the console gets to the end of its life unhacked.
PS4 should just embrace the homebrewers and ship with a virtual machine that they can mess around with homebrew without compromising the consoles kernel.
Keyser Soze
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FBA has beaten me... I just do not know
Genesis Knight
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Keyser Soze said:
With most of these arcade emus the roms have to have a specific name that matches the ROMList as well. And usually you have to refresh the list after adding ROMS. And they might show up only if the package has the BIOS for the arcade board you're trying to run. I know nothing about this PS3 build of FBA, just how the FB family has operated in the past.
Keyser Soze
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sajj316 said:
I honestly tried everything, and nothing works. Tried roms on USB, roms on the hard drive via FTP. Multiple location... any combo I found on the web or thanks to helpful folk on here. I even tried hunting about in FTP, deleting all the rouge files/folders created, completely wiping any existence that FCA was even on my PS3, and reinstalling it again, and that will not work.
:/
Slightly Live
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ismaboof said:
Maybe. Maybe not. No one knows.
Genesis Knight
Member
From the looks of it there's no way to get PSX backups running on PS3 right now.
Keyser Soze
Member
angelfly said:
I think I did that earlier, but I have not since I cleared up all the extra file/folders I created. I will try that now. Thanks!
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f118/ps3-3-55-cfw-peek-poke-backup-managers-can-work-;-75199/
Seems that this is basically 3.55 full firmware + peek/poke patch + geohot jailbreak for pkg install. Will see if backup managers work on it. Also, backup managers such as multiMAN should allow you to back your disks up. Hesitant to test myself until I know a backup manager signed works on it as expected.
Hypereides
Member
All of this sounds fascinating and great... but Im too afraid to risk getting my PS3 banned from the network if it gets detected.
kyo_daikun
Member
//B1G said:
Unless they just go for the straight ban on accounts that use custom firmware, gonna be a lot of work on their part tho.
dope4goldrope
Member
I hope there is a Webkit port incoming. I wish Netflix open sourced their Webkit PS3 port.
Keyser Soze
Member
Oh my, I just got FBANext to recognize roms, although now I am getting hit with a "There was an error loading this game. Please check your ROM set" message for every rom. Also, It does not recognize every rom I have in the folder.. only 3 out 5 show.
Well, at least I have made some headway, thanks everyone!
Well, at least I have made some headway, thanks everyone!
gregor7777
Banned
Wii CFG USB Loader
That's what I'm going to be looking for here. If they can come near the quality of CFG I'll be a happy guy when I get another PS3.
That's what I'm going to be looking for here. If they can come near the quality of CFG I'll be a happy guy when I get another PS3.
Keyser Soze
Member
Fixed it!
I had no closing "/" after roms /dev_hdd0/game/FBAN00000/USRDIR/roms/ <---this thing
Thanks everyone for all the help
I had no closing "/" after roms /dev_hdd0/game/FBAN00000/USRDIR/roms/ <---this thing
Thanks everyone for all the help
Genesis Knight
Member
Keyser Soze said:
Your ROMs are badly dumped and also misnamed. Rename them to the proper naming convention to get them to show up (assuming they are supported by FBANext - does this emu have a whitelist?). Also find better, more complete dumps.
EDIT: Looks like you got it.
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
I just spent £200 on a new media server box because my PS3 couldn't play .MKVs properly over the network with PSMS
Now I read this...FML
I even had the damn PS3 BR remote!
Now I read this...FML
I even had the damn PS3 BR remote!
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Until it's proven that this does nothing to mess up your upstanding record (I've bought easily over 2k in PSN content) then I will put this right on my PS3. At this time it's simply not worth doing any of this for emulators and such. I can't justify spending another potential 300 (I would want to buy a new one) at this time. But it is rather exciting for everything except backup support. I don't want to worry about buying a 2TB HDD or something similar, just for PS3 backups.
Keyser Soze
Member
thuway said:I can't get Final Burn Alpha to work
I could help here... what exactly is wrong, "No Rom" message?
gregor7777
Banned
LiquidMetal14 said:
Don't knock it until you've tried i man. Rolling though your collection of 3d Wii game boxes on a HDD is so so nice. I never have to worry about the kids messing up a disc again. Don't have to get up to switch games, game metadata and such. Themes...
HDDs are cheap these days, and using CFG is quite easy.
http://computer.yourdictionary.com/peek-pokeKAL2006 said:
Essentially lets the backup managers do stuff.
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