PS3 "Cracked"

[The Jackal]

Even if it is "real", who's to say Sony don't just upgrade the firmware to stop it working?

[TmEE]

"wait and see mode"...*HDD grinding*...."engaged"

[mrbigreddog]

Don't upgrade your firmware for a while, and just use the proxy to download demos and play online! As of NOW it works with the newest firmware!

[Xeniczone]

Don't upgrade your firmware for a while, and just use the proxy to download demos and play online! As of NOW it works with the newest firmware!

Way ahead of you! We moved and no longer have an option of high speed internet. Now we have satellite internet! Which sucks ass! I used to have fiber optic internet that ran at 15mb/s, now I have suck ass satellite internet that barley runs at 1mb/s and has a latency of 1500ms.

So I stopped updating firmware and everything a while ago.

[gamevet]

The PS3 has finaly been cracked. Using a USB device called "PS Jailbreak", you can copy your PS3 games to the PS3 itself and also load homebrew apps.

Read more about it here: http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/08/19...eaks-your-ps3/

You'd need quite a large HDD to have more than 5 or 6 titles running from the HDD.

[GohanX]

I was poking around at www.psx-scene.com and it seems that they have confirmed that it is real. The only downside seems to be that it takes forever to install a game, but that's to be expected of something the size of a bluray.

[Lastcallhall]

You'd need quite a large HDD to have more than 5 or 6 titles running from the HDD.

I wonder if there's a way to strip the image down, kind of like what the WBFS loader does for Wii games...

[Elliotw2]

I wonder if there's a way to strip the image down, kind of like what the WBFS loader does for Wii games...

You can, pirate groups have been doing it for years with the shared versions already on torrent trackers. They games are still pretty big though, since they have uncompressed audio and cutscenes and such.

[Lastcallhall]

You can, pirate groups have been doing it for years with the shared versions already on torrent trackers. They games are still pretty big though, since they have uncompressed audio and cutscenes and such.

See, these are the things I don't know, cause I don't have a PS3... yet.

[mrbigreddog]

You'd need quite a large HDD to have more than 5 or 6 titles running from the HDD.

Large 2.5 HDD are coming down in price!!

$41.99 for a 250gig

[Knuckle Duster]

This now runs from a number of Android based smart phones.

http://phandroid.com/2010/09/06/use-...playstation-3/

[gamevet]

Large 2.5 HDD are coming down in price!!

$41.99 for a 250gig

That's not very large. I have a 250gig HDD in my PS3, but in reality it's only about 215 to 220gigs after formatting.

Still, a game like Uncharted 2 (that spools texture data from the Blu-Ray) uses a ton of disc space. You'd be lucky to get more than 6 games stored on that HDD.

[Xeniczone]

That's not very large. I have a 250gig HDD in my PS3, but in reality it's only about 215 to 220gigs after formatting.

Still, a game like Uncharted 2 (that spools texture data from the Blu-Ray) uses a ton of disc space. You'd be lucky to get more than 6 games stored on that HDD.

Thats true, if your using a hard drive to store games then 250 gigs isn't a lot, especially when blu-rays are 25-50gigs, but you don't "need" a 2.5in drive, If you got a F-M sATA cable you could hook up a 3.5in drive. This will help curb the cost and you get get a much larger drive.

[Chilly Willy]

Internal drives for the PS3 will always be more expensive in general because they are the less common 2.5" drives (found mainly in laptops). While prices for laptop drives have become more competitive, they will always remain behind desktop drives due to volume (both physical volume, and volume of drives shipped).

[TmEE]

one could always have some desktop drive taped on the PS3 :P