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The year is 2006. Sony is the laughingstock of E3. "Giant enemy crab!". "It's Ridge Racer. Riiiiidge Racer!!". "Nobody wants their controllers to rumble any more. It's an old technology and a thing of the past". "Five hundred and ninety nine US dollars". "You will want to work a second job to get one!" they proclaim to a shocked and stunned audience. "Feh" I say to Sony's stumble as I stroll into a suburban Circuit City to pay the extra $100 for 40 extra gigs, wi-fi, and 2 more USB ports over the 20GB poverty version. "You never know if you will be in a situation where you need to plug a CompactFlash card into your PS3" I mutter to myself while barely considering my options. "That will be $649.48" the clerk says. "Would you like to buy an extended warranty for a paltry $199.98?" he inquires as his manager stares him down, performance review in hand. "Heh." I respond. "There's no way that what I'm going to do with this thing wouldn't make that warranty invalid" I retort with a bemused chuckle. He feverishly checks the employee handbook for the script response to that scenario. There aren't any. I park my Chevy Lumina and lug the brand new PS3 into my dimly-lit domicile (it is a Monday afternoon and no one is home). As tempting as the thought is, I know that opening the prodigious box isn't even an option. I secure it in a closet where even the most seasoned of vagrants or nosy children would never be able to find it. There it sits for several years on its stock firmware. Me, waiting for the day when MaxConsole.net informs me that a hack is available, but you would have had to have been shrewd enough to have not connected it to the internet or updated it at any time in the past 2 years. That day comes, and only those on firmware 3.55 or below can partake in the festivities. An exclusive club with very few members, indeed. I snicker as I get my USB stick ready with PS3UPDATE.PUP and a root beer in hand. I enjoy my hacked PS3 greatly. I simper as I jump from Jumping Flash 3(j).iso to Final Fantasy X.cue to Final Fantasy XII.bin with just the press of a home button; the wireless controllers only adding to the fun. Three generations of consoles spanning 20 years literally at my fingertips. I sit there, wishing people heard my screams of "DON'T UPDATE YOUR PS3!!!!" to no avail. I lay crestfallen during the late hours of the night that my warnings fell on deaf ears. They would never get to experience the joy of opening the MultiMan homebrew app, selecting GTA IV, and having my PS3 incorrectly assume that the DJ Hero disc in the drive was what it said it was. But alas, the day has come. That day being Thanksgiving of 2017 (it's almost poetic in a way). The PS3's firmware can now be downgraded to the coveted 3.55 firmware no matter how recent your PS3 firmware is thanks to your devil may care attitude in regards to updating. You no longer need a degree in arthroscopic surgery to install the 47-pin progskeet downgrader to enjoy what I have been enjoying for several years. Everyone, no matter where they come from, what social class they belong to, and no matter what fugazi television color encoding system your country uses; everyone gets to enjoy a PS3 that can play every PS1, PS2, and PS3 game ever made via the 2TB USB hard drive you will undoubtedly have dangling from one of the front-only USB ports. I am so happy to be able to share this great news with you all. http://www.psx-place.com/threads/ps3xploit-now-install-cfw-from-4-82-ofw-nor-nand-software-flash-writer-nor-dumper-released.15500/ Enjoy. I know I have.
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In Training posted:I also have a PS3 that can play every PS1, 2 and 3 game. A lot of them can do that Not from a hard drive they can't. Until yesterday
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Liquid Drink posted:The year is 2006. Sony is the laughingstock of E3. "Giant enemy crab!". "It's Ridge Racer. Riiiiidge Racer!!". "Nobody wants their controllers to rumble any more. It's an old technology and a thing of the past". "Five hundred and ninety nine US dollars". "You will want to work a second job to get one!" they proclaim to a shocked and stunned audience. what the hell are the odds of that??
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I.N.R.I posted:it runs a ps2 emulator? im specifically interested in that cos of stuff like suikoden 5 and other rare games and i dont have the old style one. It depends. Some of the 80GB PS3s got rid of the emotion engine that the PS2 used. So only some of the PS2 games will work. All 20 GB and 60 GB PS3 systems have full PS2 hardware inside of them (if they are the US or Japanese versions) so they will play every single PS2 game. No emulation. there are no 40 GB PS3 systems that will play PS2 games. Also, there are some 80GB PS3 systems that won't play PS2 games either (those came with Metal Gear Solid). So if you want to be 100% sure you can play all PS2 games, get a 20 GB or 60 GB Japanese or US ps3 fat. If you need any help let me know, I will give you a hand
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I.N.R.I posted:seems like u can do this even on a 500gb slim ... i wonder if i can decode the insane language of the home brew culture enough to install it without causing a small fire the trick does not work on the slim just yet. You might need to wait a few days for them to port the trick to it. the ps3 slim would use 100% emulation for PS2 games. as long as you are OK with things not being 100% (and some games not working at all) you definitely can go that route if you like
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elf help book posted:the op's wife left him after he bought 200 super nintendos in an attempt to track down a graphical error no one else could see I bought 18 SNES console and actually solved the vertical line issue that had been plaguing the internet for 20 years thank you very much Also I made sure I paid no more than $25 for each one of those systems and I recently sold them for $100 each because SNES console prices skyrocketed in a measly 3 years also for some reason my wife is still with me In Training posted:I want Sony to abandon the Vita so I can use emulators on it the Vita has been hacked to hell and back. it's pretty cool, there is even a way (with something called Vitamin) that makes it turn into an actual PSP with the PSP menu and everything people have also just recently made Sony Vita memory card to micro SD converters!
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I.N.R.I posted:id walk over hot coals to play devil summoner (eu) without paying an ebay scalper :-] any reason you are specific to the EU version? let me know if you need help modding your ps3. if it's a slim one, I would wait a few days even though a (very) few slims can be modded with this method In Training posted:Yeah but there's no way to revert firmware. Also lol I thought elf was joking. if you buy a new one I doubt it's going to come with the most recent firmware, is it?
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I.N.R.I posted:i mean i live in europe, the eu psn doesnt sell devil summoner or i'd just buy it. i'll wait thank you no problem. i will look for devil summoner in the meantime for you. you might be able to play the US version because then you'd get 60fps instead of 50 fps (unless that wasn't a thing on euro PS3s) i will make sure you play this game
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Nov 25, 2017 03:35
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I made a 300% profit on all of them 
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That kind of return on investment (ROI) would make Bernie Madoff blush Securing my children's future much??
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I.N.R.I posted:its that simple? ill buy it then. i still wanna play games like suikoden 5 so thank you for the thread nintendo uncle. You are very welcome Feel free to post any questions if you need my help
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this is literally what it was like if you wanted to mod a ps3 48 hours ago
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In Training posted:I need to mod my PS2 someday to load games off a SD card or something because the laser is starting to go if it's a fat model you can put in an IDE hard drive or even a SATA drive and rip your games. no modchip needed. all you need to do is get a memory card called Free McBoot. You can make the memory card yourself or just get one on ebay
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Kongming posted:Will doing this let me play Forbidden Siren 2 without the sightjack bug that plagues PCSX2. I've been looking for a method to play it for 5 years now. Yep. There's only like 4 PS2 games not compatible with the 20 and 60 GB US/Japan models and Forbidden Siren 2 is not one of them so it will work just fine
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I am going to do this hack to an 80gb partial backwards compatible system tonight. I will report back with how easy or not easy it is [insert mom joke here]
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mysterious loyall X posted:think you can find my ultimate glitch. i left it on "that" system. -- satoru iwata's dying words. You are confusing it with the virtual boy, Gunpai-san, and the mysterious car that intentionally drove into him after the Virtual Boy flopped Plutonis posted:I'm a brazilian therefore my ps3 was already hacked for ages OP It will never not be incredible to me that the Master System is so popular in Brazil that this actually got released  Liquid Drink posted:Write down the steps for me for a 60gb in non insane modder faggotry language please OK I will do this for you ❤️
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OK so Liquid Drink and I.N.R.I wanted me to write up a guide because the one linked in the OP is a bit wordy, so I right now am hacking my 80GB partial-BC PS3 on a 4.x firmware and here are the steps as I do them: Do not do this to any slim model with a model number of 3XXX or above. This will only work on fat PS3s or the Slim 2xxx model. If you try this on any other slim model, your PS3 will be useless! OK so here is what I did first: 1) I updated the PS3 to the 4.82 firmware. Here is the US version of the firmware if you need it: http://dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/image/us/2017_1113_152d950c365ede4130c53ceb18dcd43b/PS3UPDAT.PUP I don't think there are different firmware updates for Europe so I.N.R.I could probably use this, but just to be safe you can just update from within the PS3 itself. 2) I plugged my USB drive into my laptop and made the folder PS3/UPDATE and placed PS3UPDAT.PUP in the update folder. 3) I plugged the USB drive into rightmost USB port on the PS3 (if your PS3 is vertical this will be the top USB port). This actually matters for some reason. 4) I followed Sony's instructions on updating the PS3 via USB: quote:Turn off the PlayStation 3 by holding the Power button on the front of the unit till the Power light is red. 5) I downloaded the NOR/NAND writer software here: http://www.psx-place.com/threads/ps3xploit-now-install-cfw-from-4-82-ofw-nor-nand-software-flash-writer-nor-dumper-released.15500/ (scroll down to the bottom of the page to see it). 6) I plugged my USB thumb drive back into my laptop and placed the flsh.hex file from that software to the root of the USB thumb drive 7) I plugged the USB drive into rightmost USB port on the PS3 (if your PS3 is vertical this will be the top USB port). This actually matters for some reason. 8) I booted up the PS3 and went to the internet browser. I pressed triangle and then clicked on tools and changed the homepage to "use blank page". 9) Now back at the web browser I went to http://redthetrainer.com/ps3/. Then I clicked on PS3 4.xx NOR NAND WRITER. I bookmarked that page and then exited the browser. 10) I re-opened the browser, pressed select to open favorites, went to the exploit site I favorited, and clicked NAND 4.82. You have to check your exact PS3 model number before selecting either NOR or NAND here. Don't pick the wrong one! The few slims that work would have to pick NOR 4.82 here instead. 11) I removed my PS3 controller from the USB port because this can mess with it somehow. 12) I clicked Write to Flash memory. It kept failing so I turned off the PS3, turned it on again, and tried again and it worked on the first try. You will see "Success!" on the screen for a brief moment and it will shut down. If you see the word "success" and the system never shuts down, it didn't work despite it saying it did. Keep trying until it shuts down on its own afterwards. 13) I turned the system back on and it warned me that it was shut down improperly (this is what it should do). I waited as it checked the files. 14) I put this: https://mega.nz/#!wd9xzKaD!qgciU6MQpetWYoWHsBb-k8_WdUjkU8UPT494yXFT6V8 on my USB drive the same way I put the official firmware update on my USB thumb drive. Rename the CEXFERROX482_100.PUP to PS3UPDAT.PUP and make sure it is in the PS3/UPDATE folder on your USB thumb drive. This is a custom firmware that you must use for this step. You cannot replace it with your favorite CFW (custom firmware) just yet. 15) I placed the USB thumb drive into my PS3 (in the rightmost, or "top" USB port if vertical) and updated the firmware the same way Sony tells you to update from a USB stick: quote:Turn off the PlayStation 3 by holding the Power button on the front of the unit till the Power light is red. 16) After the update was completed, I downloaded something called QA_Toggle here: http://store.brewology.com/get/homebrew.php?id=276&fid=1654 17) When the update was complete, I plugged my USB thumb drive back into my laptop and placed the QA_Toggle pkg file in the root of my USB thumb drive/stick. 18) I put the USB thumb drive back in the PS3 in the rightmost/top (if you are standing it vertically) USB port and in the PS3 main menu (also known as the XMB for Xross Media Bar) I went to the Games menu and then I went into the newly-available "install package file" menu. 19) I clicked on the QA_Toggle pkg. After it installed, I clicked on the TOGGLE QA FLAG program that now shows up in my game menu. The screen goes black for a few seconds, and then brings you back to the main menu of the PS3. That is what is supposed to happen. 20) I restarted the PS3 and then shut it down. 21) I took the USB thumb drive out of my PS3 and put it back into my laptop. I downloaded this CFW (custom firmware): http://playstationscenefiles.com/rebug/REBUG_4.81.2_REX_91c2d41c0629445839f5addd6a52f869_PS3UPDAT.PUP This is REBUG 4.81.2 REX EDITION. You don't want the DEX edition because that's for developer consoles. 22) I placed the REBUG 4.81.2 REX EDITION in the PS3/UPDATE folder of my USB drive and renamed it PS3UPDAT.PUP. 23) I took the USB thumb drive out of my laptop and put it in the rightmost (or upper USB port if you have your system vertical) USB port. I updated it the same way Sony tells you to update their firmware over USB: quote:Turn off the PlayStation 3 by holding the Power button on the front of the unit till the Power light is red. And that's it! Get a PKG called MultiMan and webMAN and you will be playing whatever the hell you want. Luckily cyber monday is coming up so you can get a nice 1TB internal laptop drive for your PS1 and PS2 games and a 2TB (or more) USB external drive for your PS3 games for deep discounts. I hope this helped you all, and I hope it made up for my terrible OP! Also I know I.N.R.I wanted to play PS2 games on his slim so here is a guide to make that possible once the PS3 is hacked: https://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/tutorial-how-to-play-ps2-games-on-all-ps3-slim-models.1159103/ I hope these instructions were easier than reading that hacking site! Enjoy! Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Nov 26, 2017 |
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I.N.R.I posted:youre epic, thank you so much :-] You are very welcome. Let me know if you have any more questions! you will be running that PS2 game and Suikoden 5 in no time :O)
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Spoderman posted:I'm away from my Slim PS3 and I can't remember if it's a 2XXX or a 3XXX and it's left me completely distraught log into your credit card or amazon or wherever you bought it to see if you can determine the date you bought it we can work from there
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Spoderman posted:It's a 3001... oh well. I already have most of the PS3 games I want to play Don't worry, the hack for that should be out in under a month
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Kongming posted:So I got Forbidden Siren 2 running on my hacked slim but since it still uses emulation there is a weird graphical glitch involving polygons stretching out across the screen. Still playable but some maps have it really bad. Reading up there is some way to edit the emulator config to fix this and this site actually has the code you need to fix it: http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/PS2_Emulation#Config_file_examples_.28for_netemu.29_.28unofficial.29. Just search the page for Forbidden Siren 2. I am not familiar with this because my Ps3 has full PS2 BC but it seems like you rip the PS2 game to your PS3 and then edit the file in a hex editing program (HxD is a good free one for windows) and on these lines you just make these changes: code:
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Mine is like me too. A fat model that overheats easily and plays old games
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I.N.R.I posted:id walk over hot coals to play devil summoner (eu) without paying an ebay scalper :-] Let me know if you never find it. I just opened up a Gamefly account so I can rent it for you. No clue how to send you a 7gb iso but I am sure we can figure it out. ChazTurbo posted:Any word on this working on super slims? Also replace the thermal paste on your fats. They're time bombs. Yeah I did the thermal replacement. The job Sony did on those was awful. However I am still worried it will die someday. I have read the best fix is to remove the PSU and leave it external but I have never found a good guide for it. The PSU gets so hot that you can literally cook an egg on it (burned my finger on one). I just wish some mod site released an easy external PSU fix. The other thing I noticed inside was they went with that stupid design similar to the XBox 360s x-clamps. The clamps on the PS3 that hold the heatsinks in place are so loving tight that you can see the motherboard flexing without even trying to see it. This obviously contributes to the CPU/GPU detaching; just like the 360. While the XBox 360 x-clamp replacement guides are awesome (they give you exact part numbers to get at Lowe's), there really isn't a good guide for the PS3 fats.
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R. Guyovich posted:the posting pendulum on this guy swung back nicely my OP was that bad, huh? 
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net cafe scandal posted:The posters in the first two pages of this thread ought to be ashamed of themselves, OP not included of coruse. thank you :O)
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net cafe scandal posted:Does the fan translated PS3 Tales of Vesperia work on the hacked PS3? What do I need for this patch? A PS3 that has not been updated beyond official firmware version 3.55 and/or can run homebrew. A retail copy of Tales of Vesperia for the PS3. A Windows PC to run the patching tool.
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net cafe scandal posted:This is so epic. Thank you Uncle. you're very welcome. Let me know if you run into any trouble and I will try to lend a hand.
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Plutonis posted:my ps3 is a 2500 and i accidentaly upgraded it to 4.82 can i use this crap to run homebrew on it again You can if at any point in its life it had firmware 3.56 on it (this is why it's not working with newer slims yet). You should be OK, but you have to do this to check: download this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dex0jnklx4knj1u/MinVerChk.rar 1: extract the .pup file 2: Put the PS3UPDAT.PUP onto the USB Flash Drive in a PS3/UPDATE/ folder. 3: Power on your PS3 and navigate to the "System Update" option in the settings 4: Choose "Update Via Media Storage" 5: Let the PS3 search for the update, once it's found it it will ask you if you'd like to run it. Hit "OK" 6: It should only take a few seconds, a message will pop up telling you what the lowest version firmware your PS3 can use If it says 3.56 or lower, you can do the hack
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Plutonis posted:How do I emulate Ps2 in that I was gonna say very carefully but I'm trying to be useful around here https://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/tutorial-how-to-play-ps2-games-on-all-ps3-slim-models.1159103/
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Frenz posted:This must be what happened to mine . I think all the power cycles trying to get the flash exploit to work and install the cfw finally did it in. Oh wow, you weren't joking? I can't imagine five or six times would destroy the system. Obviously it was on its last legs anyway. Is it giving the yellow light of death? Lets see if we can fix this
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Frenz posted:Yeah it's the ylod. There weren't any signs of it overheating while I was using it--the fan speed sounded normal for just browsing the xmb. I took the case off and cleaned a little bit of dust out but of course that didn't fix it. I'm thinking one of the chips just detached or possibly the hdd died? I tried booting it without the hdd but still get the ylod. I found the guy's site: http://www.ps3specialist.com/playstation3-gpu-reballing-service/ I bought a spare 60 gig from him. It will never die
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The PS4 was just hacked. You have to be on firmware 4.05, which is from a year ago, proving that my keeping consoles in a closet unused is NOT a mental illness (I hosed up this time and never got a PS4 )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_JGWokiIjA edit: PS4s still on this firmware go for over $450 now lol: https://www.ebay.com/itm/PlayStation-4-Launch-Edition-firmware-1-76-for-jailbreak/162831763838 Bernie Madoff levels of ROI Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Jan 28, 2018 |
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it's a hacked firmware in the way that you pay $0 for games
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sector_corrector posted:i understand that. but, i was curious if people got at Bloodborne's deleted content through the firmware hack. oops I read your post as "is it a hacked firmware that in the way that you can get to Bloodborne's deleted content?". sorry 
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Cobalt Viper posted:You got me all excited and I booted up my PS4 after like 8 months and it's on 4.50 somehow. Keep at at that, supposedly there is another hack coming soon for people below 4.9 or something
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I only buy any non Nintendo games used so really the only person I'm screwing out of money is Meg Whitman so it's like a double win
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