feignfeign wrote:

The playstation 2 had many holes to exploit. Playing games burned from a computer on a playstation 2 was very common. But i have not heard any cracks or tricks that would allow a user to play burned games on playstation 3 yet... Has a proper mod method not been developed yet for the playstation 3? If not, is the development of such mods coming along well now with the recent hike in the popularity of playstation 3? Really curious. cheers mates

Way to search the site. You are the 357,692 person to ask this same question. They have all been answered the same exact way.

Anyways welcome to the forums.

Powerslave wrote:

There will never be a way to play backups on the PS3, and if, IF there is?  It will be at point when no one really cares, as the next generation console will be out.   There are always FAKE developments, and claims, none come to pass.  Sorry to say, they locked this one up tight.  If they can't even hack the optical drive for backups like they did with XB360, then nothing will come to pass with the PS3.  They, with PS3 Slim, have eliminated Linux, so any angle there is gone.  The cost to experiment with the PS3 is also too high; price of BR-Ds, and a burner.   

Blank single layer BR-Ds average about to $2.80 each, while cheap-ish, no where near as cheep as DVD DL discs...  It's gonna be a while...

I think most people have stopped caring anyway. The PS3 game lineups are all pretty boring, and you can revert back to a older revision to get development resources, which if you consider existing Linux development on other fast hardware, would never be used anyway; anyone here use Linux for gaming or 3d design?

Also I pretty much got what I wanted with the PS3 which was learn how they designed their security. They have a loader  in the CBE which uses an SPE and LPAR, and uses a packed cryptography scheme so it can do encryption over top of a changing code base that does signing.

The ARM cores in some newer apples devices have a LPAR system and a secure loader environment supposedly but they are being reversed with shellcode somehow I believe. The thing that sets the PS3 apart from anything anyone cares to mention is the local stores. Which once inhabited are internally controlled with no exception to the rule.

Getting code in that local store means getting code ran while in XMB and not otherOS, and not from HDD(many reasons for this, but no desire to explain in this post.) This is being somewhat naive too, XMB can/should run the XMB applets and even hardware abstraction from another LPAR and totally cock block anything I can think of right now. There is also the option of BRD modification.

PS: I also think making a bare metal game engine, which is being done by the super coders at ps2dev, is naive on multiple levels of consideration. Also I know more than they do on the system and I haven't done a fraction of the work. They should stick to being bobble headed generic thinking software engineers in real life and leave the reversing to the people with genuine imagination+better than thou coding skillz.

Last edited by 0m1kr0n (2009-09-17 22:38:32)