Skyline969 said:No. It's a softmod through and through, but a temporary one. Temporary, of course, in the sense that it must be applied every time the PS3 is powered on.doyama said:Bladexdsl said:Giga_Gaia said:Not only are they thieves, they take people's money out of it. Also, jailbreak should be free, asking people to pay for this is simply unacceptable. It's only a softmod, it's not even a real mod.exactly and all softmods should remain FREE
I'm not sure if this technically qualifies as a softmod. My impressions from the video are that you have to activate the debug mode everytime you want to play your backups. Thus the dongle isn't just a temporary boot strap to get unsigned code onto the console after which you're home free. It's just a hardware mod that doesn't require you to open up the device. Am I incorrect in this assessment?
EDIT: No, I take that back. I think it's a hybrid. A hardmod because you're using additional hardware regardless of opening the PS3. However, a softmod because said hardmod uses some special software to modify the PS3 on boot to run unsigned code.
I guess it's a matter of semantics. For me the demarcation line is whether getting to your desired 'state' on a consistent basis, it absolutely require dedicated hardware. On the one side, the Pandora battery is a 'softmod'. While you do need a physical device, the battery,it is only used as a bootstrap to get to your desired state at which point you no longer need it. Stuff like the PS3Jailbreak and NDS flashcarts, to me are just over that demarcation line into hard mod, since again you need the physical hardware to get to your desired state.
Maybe at the end of the day it really is just semantics