PS Jailbreak - The first PS3 Modchip

[zant]

I think I might save up for this. Although I'd have to beg my parents to let me use their credit card. Usually they wouldn't mind for a small purchase, but ~$150 is quite a bit.

Son, I am in your situation. But, I'd wait. There is BOUND to be a free release soon. Just wait a little while, and don't update your PS3. By the time this thing actually ships, there will be free ones floating around.

 

[Scott-105]

I think I might save up for this. Although I'd have to beg my parents to let me use their credit card. Usually they wouldn't mind for a small purchase, but ~$150 is quite a bit.

Son, I am in your situation. But, I'd wait. There is BOUND to be a free release soon. Just wait a little while, and don't update your PS3. By the time this thing actually ships, there will be free ones floating around.

I'll wait a while, but I'm not going to wait forever lol.

 

[doyama]

its very funny tht ppl cannot just believe this is true (ie. too good to be true)
considering it being easily hackable then free versions are possible unless sony find a loophole and sue every shop to sell their goods

As Carl Sagan used to say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If you're going to claim that the PS3, which has been unhackable for years, can play backups off a usb drive, using only a USB dongle, then you're going to have to come up with some extraordinary evidence to prove otherwise. People are rightly skeptical of their claims.

Certainly we all might be eating crow in a few weeks. Some reputable retailers have put their reputations on the line saying this is legit. But even smart people can be duped by con artists. In my mind, it's still a 50/50 split.

If true however, then the used PS3 market is going to go INSANE. Just like the Pandora battery market people will start hoarding compatible PS3s

But $170 AUD is kinda steep for what amounts to a USB interface with a ASIC chip. At least with the old consoles you could argue that installing the chip was difficult (the PS2 was a wiring nightmare of doom). Price gouging for a unique product is fine with me though. They're probably making a good $150 profit off each chip while they can. I suspect that cloners will drive the price of this thing WAAAAAAY down. Theoretically it should hit the $30-$50 range if clones come out.

 

[DrFiishy]

hmm ye this could be real but if it takes them this long to ''mod'' the ps3 i think it will be an easy deal for sony to block it

 

[Hyrule2008]

Someone in a German Wii Forum own this Dongle in an German PC Shop

And its real

It worked

 

[zant]

its very funny tht ppl cannot just believe this is true (ie. too good to be true)
considering it being easily hackable then free versions are possible unless sony find a loophole and sue every shop to sell their goods

As Carl Sagan used to say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If you're going to claim that the PS3, which has been unhackable for years, can play backups off a usb drive, using only a USB dongle, then you're going to have to come up with some extraordinary evidence to prove otherwise. People are rightly skeptical of their claims.

Certainly we all might be eating crow in a few weeks. Some reputable retailers have put their reputations on the line saying this is legit. But even smart people can be duped by con artists. In my mind, it's still a 50/50 split.

If true however, then the used PS3 market is going to go INSANE. Just like the Pandora battery market people will start hoarding compatible PS3s

But $170 AUD is kinda steep for what amounts to a USB interface with a ASIC chip. At least with the old consoles you could argue that installing the chip was difficult (the PS2 was a wiring nightmare of doom). Price gouging for a unique product is fine with me though. They're probably making a good $150 profit off each chip while they can. I suspect that cloners will drive the price of this thing WAAAAAAY down. Theoretically it should hit the $30-$50 range if clones come out.

this. there have been dozens of fake PS3 backuploaders, most containing viruses. So, once the distributing begins, then we can know for sure.

also, about the used PS3 Market, the 20/60/Motorstorm80 gb models are going to sell like hotcakes,since they have PS2 ability. I forsee a PS2 backuploader, and then these models (if you have them), are going to up in value.

 

[WiiUBricker]

For all you that still doubt, that this is real, here's a screenshot of the official distributors list from google cache:

http://i38.tinypic.com/350trm1.png

 

[zant]

hmm ye this could be real but if it takes them this long to ''mod'' the ps3 i think it will be an easy deal for sony to block it

if this is a low-level hack, then it may cause quite a hassle for sony to patch, since it will risk bricking the PS3. if its normal user level, then it will get patched quite easily. again, only time will tell.

 

[ModchipCentral]

For all you that still doubt, that this is real, here's a screenshot of the official distributors list from google cache:

http://i38.tinypic.com/350trm1.png

Yes, except the need to fix our link.

It is www.ModchipCentral.com instead of modcentral.com

 

[hamstarr]

I guess it'll be reverse-engineered (too

) and cheap duplicates will arise.

Still, I think its a regular usb device -nothing outside the usb standards- , with a hardware partition switch or something. (or a usb-serial/usb-flash switching type of device)
Anyway, parts-wise it would have to be really cheap to reproduce

Really curious to how this one works....

 

[WiiUBricker]

Anyone knows if Sony is already aware of that Dongle? I dont visit the Sony forums often.

 

[zant]

Anyone knows if Sony is already aware of that Dongle? I dont visit the Sony forums often.

As of right now, nothing has been posted in the Sony forums, except one thread
http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/PlaySta...d/td-p/46084199

that got shut down rather quickly.


hmmm

 

[WiiUBricker]

Anyone knows if Sony is already aware of that Dongle? I dont visit the Sony forums often.

As of right now, nothing has been posted in the Sony forums, except one thread
http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/PlaySta...d/td-p/46084199

that got shut down rather quickly.


hmmm

Thanks, I wonder why they did not delete this thread

Maybe they are sure they can fix that thing quickly or use it to advertise the PS3?

 

[Scott-105]

I hope it doesn't get fixed. I also hope newer games won't have the fix on them.

Another side note, since this is out, won't other people be able to clone it? Kinda similar to how R4 was cloned?

 

[Lakerfanalways]

I dont doubt this is real..and I am very excited for it to officially come out, but what worries me is if this thing will work for ALL games, not just games that are out now, but games that will be coming out a month from now, two months from now..etc..I was reading something about if a single file is over 4 gig it will not work and I am really not understanding what that means..it would be stupid to pay 129 bucks now(Which is not a bad price considering what this thing does) but to have it not work after a month or so because the new games dont allow for backup

 

[MelodieOctavia]

Anyone knows if Sony is already aware of that Dongle? I dont visit the Sony forums often.

As of right now, nothing has been posted in the Sony forums, except one thread
http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/PlaySta...d/td-p/46084199

that got shut down rather quickly.


hmmm

The official Playstation Forums is not the place to discuss that sort of thing. lol.
For one it's full of White Knight dumbshits that equate emulation to piracy, even though those games are not made anymore. Not only that but the sony police shut that shit down rather fast too.

 

[Zetta_x]

Anyone knows if Sony is already aware of that Dongle? I dont visit the Sony forums often.

As of right now, nothing has been posted in the Sony forums, except one thread
http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/PlaySta...d/td-p/46084199

that got shut down rather quickly.


hmmm

Thanks, I wonder why they did not delete this thread

Maybe they are sure they can fix that thing quickly or use it to advertise the PS3?

I still think it would be awesome if Sony was part in the making of this modchip to advertise the PS3. I don't know about you, but I have been really inclined to buy a PS3 since this thread started.

The worst case scenario is that Sony releases an update in a week to block the exploit, people who are still on 3.41 will have advantage and everyone else will miss out on the train and Sony can walk away with their earnings.

Edit: kind of a coincidence a bigger harddrive for PS3's are being released soon =P

 

[monkat]

I still think it would be awesome if Sony was part in the making of this modchip to advertise the PS3. I don't know about you, but I have been really inclined to buy a PS3 since this thread started.

Yeah, but that would mean that pirates are more profitable than honest buyers.

Also, Sony JUST started making money on the actual console - up until recently, it cost them more to make the PS3 than they sold it for. They're not gonna give up the game sales that have been sustaining them so that they can move to the tiny margin of profit on the PS3

 

[Zetta_x]

I still think it would be awesome if Sony was part in the making of this modchip to advertise the PS3. I don't know about you, but I have been really inclined to buy a PS3 since this thread started.

Yeah, but that would mean that pirates are more profitable than honest buyers.

Also, Sony JUST started making money on the actual console - up until recently, it cost them more to make the PS3 than they sold it for. They're not gonna give up the game sales that have been sustaining them so that they can move to the tiny margin of profit on the PS3

Well, if I bought a PS3, I'd probably dive into the playstation store and make some purchases and if I missed out on the debug train, I'd probably not let my money go to waste and buy some hot titles.

Not only that, but lets give a random assumption they did have part in this modchip, then most likely take a share of what income they get.

So someone like me who had no interest in buying a PS3 at all, actually buys a PS3, probably some playstation games from the store, and a dongle worth over $100. You multiply that with everyone that shares the same scenario as me (where they had no plans to buy a PS3 but now they did), it's a good way for people to jump on the Sony bandwagon. Imagine if I actually liked the PS3 (I don't really like it that much), I may purchase the next generation console. They may be looking into the long run.

I don't really know what happened with this or how this modchip came into place. But I just like speculating, which I am done doing =P

 

[WiiUBricker]

I doubt Sony has anything to do with that device since it enables Debug Mode which is supposed to be used only for developers. Imagine, in Debug Mode, you can even hack Games and make Cheats and such.