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    PS5 Disc Drive Pairing Explained

    From what I’ve been told it’s never been tested if it restores correctly
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    Nintendo fined 35 million euros by the French government due to Switch 1 Joycon malfunctions

    Joyconartists
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    How To Dump, Fakesign, & Run PS5 Game Backups (Working On FW 12.70)

    Updated guide: * Added notes about how your dump will include all game updates that you have installed. * Added notes about how to use Dump Runner to fakesign. * Added notes on how to clear ShadowMountPlus configs. * Added notes on how to install games into internal drive.
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    PS5 Disc Drive Pairing Explained

    Fat never becomes garbage. SLim Disc Edition FW 8.0+ never really does either unless you reinstall os via pup or update via pup in that sitch
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    PS5 Disc Drive Pairing Explained

    Fair. My understanding is: 1) PSN servers generate a unique key based on the drive that the console accepts. The console can not generate this key on it's own by design. 2) Not sure if this is known or documented anywhere publicly anyways yet. I hear people are working on reverse engineering it...
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    PS5 Disc Drive Pairing Explained

    Everything you ever wanted to know about PS5 disc drive pairing (and what would cause you to loose it) https://alex-free.github.io/ps5-disc-drive-pairing-explained/.
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    PS5 FW 12.70 Jailbreak Tutorial

    Glad you enjoy it. Be the change I say. Y2JB only works up to 12.40 AFAIK. We can now use BD-UN-JB on 12.70, but still it's using the same P2JB exploit the guide does with the LUA game (so no real time savings, the advantage would be the ability of using an auto-loader I think but haven't...
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    PS1/2 Do modern burners/CD's make lower quality PS1 backups?

    R.I.P Plextor PX-708A. You served me well. It fell off the shelf (well the whole shelf broke and fell) it was on and it won't spin up any discs... I am thinking, since these are getting more pricy, about trying the Plextor PX-708UF: Seems like it may be essentially the same thing, but avoid...
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    Hacking backup for ps5 with activated psn Fake Account

    I think you can restore a backup with an activated account. Edit: seems it has to be your own backup tied to your console, hmm.
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    PS5 FW 12.70 Jailbreak Tutorial

    Since text tutorials are apparently dead, we are all supposed to watch 3 different YouTube videos weeks apart to figure out what to do, and this is still cutting edge stuff, I figured I’d put together a tutorial on how I’m successfully Jailbreaking my PS5 on 12.70 FW. I’ve been: Watching...
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    How To Dump, Fakesign, & Run PS5 Game Backups (Working On FW 12.70)

    https://alex-free.github.io/ps5-game-backups-guide/ This tutorial will cover how to dump, fake sign (allowing any console including your own to run the backup), and test (without deleting anything before you know the game can even be ran as a dumped folder!) PS5 games and apps up to the latest...
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    Hardware Misc USB Dual Band Wireless N 5GHZ Vs Built In Slim/E WiFi Performance Benchmarks

    Great question. If I end up testing that I’ll post it here but my router can only be plugged into literally the worst area possible for anything, I even bought a 20 foot coax cable to try to get it to the center of the apartment closer to the bedroom. I just moved the 360 back into the bedroom...
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    Hardware Misc USB Dual Band Wireless N 5GHZ Vs Built In Slim/E WiFi Performance Benchmarks

    Long time ago I asked here and someone confirmed that you can in fact use the USB WiFi adapters meant for the phat consoles with the slim and E models that already have WiFi built in. At first you may be asking, if a slim or E console already has WiFi, why would you do this? To “upgrade” to...
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    Xbox 360 Media Center

    Version 1.0.1 (5/8/2026) Changes: Fixes permissions for yt-dlp. Revert format audio format 240 to format 140 for audio to fix format not available with just denvo in modern bundled yt-dlp. Converted ffmpeg-static to ffmpeg-pled with proprietary codec support. Removed ``-yl' and '-yh` options...
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    Misc Others Xbox 360 Hack Pack - Everything You Need In One Download

    ABadAvatar has arrived, any wow did I wait. Turn on console with ext usb HDD or flash drive containing the 360 Hack Pack v1.0.5, wait 30 seconds to a minute, and boom! Version 1.0.5 (4/29/2026) Changes: Replaced BadUpdate with ABadAvatar. Thanks @Lost-Entrepreneur439 for finally pushing me to...
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