PS3 Homebrew/Software List

Preamble

Q - "Isn't anything compiled with the leaked SDK illegal because it includes Sony's IP?"

A compiled program is binary, it's bytecode. Sony cannot hold a copyright on the executable format for their system, because there's laws allowing for interoperability from other vendors.

Sony and other companies are normally able to lock their system into only running programs from them because it'll only run signed code, and they refuse to sign code for anybody else... however when something else is made for a system (such as the Gameshark/AR accessories), Sony (or Nintendo, or Sega) has no legal reason to go after them. The unlicensed accessories/code continue to operate and even be sold in stores such as Wal*Mart because they are legally allowed interoperability.

Flash carts and modchips and such are deemed illegal because they are or can be used for piracy, nothing to do with interoperability.

Some PS3 homebrew needs a jailbreak device/method that's been updated with PEEK/POKE, generally called version 1.1.​

• PS3 Homebrew
  • Emulators
    • Snes9x Square/Eisz Build 4
      "Very early port of snes9x to PS3 LV2 OS."
      
    • Sega Saturn Emulator - Yabause v0.1
      "It’s Yabause - the SEGA Saturn emulator - ported to the PS3."
  • Backup-Related
    • NZHawk’s Awesome MountPoint Manager v1.0
      "This Awsome MountPoint Manager is pretty much like the existing backup manager, with one major difference! You can choose any folder on any device on you PS3 to use as the mounted disk."
      
    • USB Firmware Loader
      "Load [customized] PS3 firmware files off a USB stick in a few simple steps"
      
    • Comgenie’s Awesome Filemanager!
      "Allows you to copy/paste from any devices connected to the PS3."
• PC Software

• • PS3 Game Ripper
    "Are you trying to slim down your ps3 games to fit on a DVD-R or just to save some space on your hard drives?"
    
  • Trophy Unlocker
    "An application that unlocks trophies instantly."
    
  • PS3 Registry Editor
    "The registry contains all sorts of interesting options that you can switch on or off or manipulate in some way."
    
  • PS3 System File Editor v0.80
    "Allows you to view, edit, and save PARAM.SFO files."
    
  • Debug PKG Viewer
    "Browse the contents of sony debug .pkg files."

 

DO NOT SAY IT IS ILLEGAL WITHOUT ANY PROOF!

"PROOF" WOULD CONSIST OF THE CODE IN QUESTION AND PROOF OF SONY'S COPYRIGHT OVER IT! THE PROGRAMS IN QUESTION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FIRST POST, ALONG WITH TOOLS TO LOOK INSIDE! IF YOU SAY THE PROGRAMS ARE ILLEGAL YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME PROOF WITH IT!

"PROOF" WOULD CONSIST OF THE CODE IN QUESTION AND PROOF OF SONY'S COPYRIGHT OVER IT! THE PROGRAMS IN QUESTION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FIRST POST, ALONG WITH TOOLS TO LOOK INSIDE! IF YOU SAY THE PROGRAMS ARE ILLEGAL YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME PROOF WITH IT!

"PROOF" WOULD CONSIST OF THE CODE IN QUESTION AND PROOF OF SONY'S COPYRIGHT OVER IT! THE PROGRAMS IN QUESTION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FIRST POST, ALONG WITH TOOLS TO LOOK INSIDE! IF YOU SAY THE PROGRAMS ARE ILLEGAL YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME PROOF WITH IT!

Q - Wow Rydian, do you really need to go to such lengths to get your point across?
A - Yes. Just read this thread to see.

 

Hope someone ports vlc to ps3

 

this thread should be sticky
thx
waiting for 360 emu

 

Ha that's funny!

 

I'm fairly certain homebrew made with Sony's SDK is illegal because even if it isn't binary after it's compiled it still includes algorithms and functions made by Sony's SDK.

Though really it could go either way, if Sony took it to court a judge might have a hard time figuring out what's legal and what's not.

 

It's not a half-assed theory, to get the end result of binary you must use copyrighted functions.

Using those would be like me using a pirated function for a website, it's illegal because I don't have the license to use it. Just as if I reverse engineered a program to get a complex function and used it in my program, I wouldn't be in good legal standing.

Just because I don't have definite proof that drawing a smilie face on the Mona Lisa and calling it all my work is illegal doesn't mean it's a half-assed theory.

Plus you have no proof that it isn't illegal. Oh and most people around the internet are in agreeance that it is illegal to use.

 

Holy shit, I never thought I'd be schooling YOU.
You're tossing out more logical fallacies than most OS fanboys!

"Argumentum ad numerum"
back in 1560 most people thought the world was flat.




If what you say is true, then show me proof!
You're saying the executable contains copywritten code.
THIS GUIDE LINKS TO THE EXECUTABLES!
Go into them AND FIND ME THE COPYWRITTEN CODE, OR FUCKING DROP IT.

I'm tired of this BASELESS ARGUEMENT WITH NO PROOF in every goddamn PS3 development thread!