PS3 Now Open, Jailbroken, whatever you want to call it! - Page 6

Originally Posted by moothemagiccow

The best interface would allow me to load my save games from the XMB.
Game > Assassins Creed > Load Save Game #1
No idea why they don't do this. Would be too awesome I guess.

I don't know if anyone wants to read my weird complaints but here:

-I've got no use for the Pictures or Music tabs but they're stuck there.
-Now it boots into the Network tab, which is stupid. It used to be either Video or Games, which are, big surprise, the only ones I ever use.
-Games can't be sorted alphabetically (srsly?).
-I'd like the shoulder buttons to do something like Page Down or Home/End for long lists.

Recriminations will inevitably fly over the hack itself. Plenty of people are already lining up to condemn the hackers who revealed the security flaw, which seems like fairly misdirected anger - investigating and uncovering security problems is a key part of the process which makes security better down the line, and bluntly, it's far better that this kind of issue be revealed by a "white hat" (that is to say, non-destructive and moral) group of hackers than for it to be found and exploited by "black hat" (destructive, profiteering or outright malicious) hackers.

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Because it is, after all, the rest of the industry that will suffer the greatest impact from this security failure. The hackers who follow in Fail0verflow's footsteps and create custom firmware to run pirated games, emulators and so on will be targeting Sony's hardware, but it's third-party publishers and developers who have most right to be outraged. The licence fee they pay to Sony for every piece of software they sell is, in many respects, a fee for security - the price of selling software on a platform where piracy is difficult or damn-near impossible. Now that has been taken away from them, with the PS3 looking set to become the easiest platform to pirate software for - easier even than the Wii, DS or PSP, all notorious piracy targets but all of which require some degree of technical knowledge to get pirated software working.

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On one front, however, it's hard to argue with Fail0verflow's logic. Sony's removal of Linux support from the PS3 Slim and subsequent deletion of OtherOS functionality from the original PS3's firmware was seen as a red flag to a bull within the hacker community, and activity on cracking the console's security unquestionably intensified in the wake of those actions. Many hackers who had never contemplated investigating Sony's security systems and probably never even used PS3 Linux were incensed - here was a system which provably had a working version of Linux, but which had been prevented from running it. This is exactly the kind of challenge which the hacker mindset relishes.

As a consequence, it's quite likely that more talented hacker groups, who had previously ignored the PS3, became interested in the problem. It seems that there's a two-tier system in place in the hacking community - there are the seriously clever, inventive people who investigate security systems and uncover their flaws, and then there are those who take those flaws and build products (mod chips, firmwares and so on) which exploit them for the purposes of piracy. While Sony maintained Linux on the PS3, those in the former group steered clear, for the most part - and those in the latter group simply weren't talented or knowledgeable enough to crack the security on the console.

Originally Posted by FISTfullaVOLTAGE

I couldn't read through all the pages of arguing but the best thing about my jailbroken ps3 the homebrew application called showtime. One of the best media playing applications for ps3 I've come across.

Originally Posted by LVIV73

One of the only media players,lol.
Best thing about it is that now you can yous WebMedia plugin and get over a 100 tv channels!I got Cinemax,Hbo and alot of international chanels.

Originally Posted by jayoldschool

I recently replaced my 60GB YLOD with a slim 320. Fixed the 60 with a reflow, and it is now on duty in my theater room. It will never see a game again. I only use it for movies. Streaming would be good, too. Should I jailbreak it? What is the current status on this? I haven't followed the scene at all.

Originally Posted by jayoldschool

I recently replaced my 60GB YLOD with a slim 320. Fixed the 60 with a reflow, and it is now on duty in my theater room. It will never see a game again. I only use it for movies. Streaming would be good, too. Should I jailbreak it? What is the current status on this? I haven't followed the scene at all.

Originally Posted by TornadoTJ

Are you in the USA?

Originally Posted by Vortex3D

You still need to be able to upgrade to a newer firmware every year even playing Blu-ray movies because of change in the encryption. I kept one of my plat PS3 as Blu-ray player with firmware 3.15 and it can't play some of the newer Pixar Blu-ray movies such as Cars 2 because of incompatible encryption.

Originally Posted by moothemagiccow

I can't even install Final fantasy xiii2 because of some trophy error.

Are there any downsides to hacking?

Can I still use Netflix? It's all I use PS3 for 99% of the time anyway.

Originally Posted by CNPalmer

Possibly a need to JB if you want to run homebrew and customize the console a bit. But as far as straight streaming in concerned, up to you. If you want customized streaming like using the ShowTime homebrew app then I would say go for it.

Current "scene" hasn't changed much in the past few months. Things have matured as far as CFW's are concerned with Rebug and Kmeaw all at a stable release with minor updates. Rogero came out with a new one a few weeks back.

The most progress has been made with the dongle scene stuff and patching eboot's. MultiMan is where it's at now for an all-in-one media manager solution and provides some really fancy front-end customizations.

If you have a need to dabble with homebrew stuff (I like all the old school emulators) then I would say run Rebug for the built-in value-add features like QA flagging etc. Then install MM on top to manage all your homebrew apps and media you install.

Originally Posted by LVIV73

Not on software mod because you can always go back to the way your ps3 was before the jailbreak,and no netflix.

But jailbreak gives you more than netflix.On my Showtime Media Player app i have these channels:Playboy,Cinemax 1/2,HBO 1/2,Hustler,Penthouse,Disney,Discovery just to name a few plus alot of international channels from Britain,France,Russia,Ukraine,Turkey and more.Plus Showtime has a movie channel that has movies added to it every day in 1080/720p,i just watched The Avengers few weeks ago before it hit the theaters.Movie channel has probably about 10000 movies that you can play and ff and rewind.
But yeah my ps3 sees more use than my pc,phone,cable combined.

Originally Posted by DaDeuce

Wait.... You watched "The Avengers" from home on this app? Was it a pirated version or some kind of cam? And it was streaming?

Originally Posted by DaDeuce

Wait.... You watched "The Avengers" from home on this app? Was it a pirated version or some kind of cam? And it was streaming?

Originally Posted by steve-082

yea im also intrested in this, i heard there was a media player project that was supposed to rival xbmc but it dissapeared

Originally Posted by Mike Lang

Guys, remember where you are...

NO PIRACY TALK

Originally Posted by Mike Lang

Guys, remember where you are...

NO PIRACY TALK

Originally Posted by LVIV73


No piracy at all,just homebrew.

Originally Posted by PENDRAG0ON

That Showtime app could be considered piracy, especially if it has a cam rip of the avengers.

Originally Posted by LVIV73


No no my friend,its a Showtime plug-in that needs to be modded to all that.Showtime by itself only plays files on ps3's hd.If you consider that piracy than you have to consider vlc,xbmc and any browser piracy,lol.
You can use it for piracy like you can use vlc player or xmbc to watch free movies-its up to the user weather they want to do that,and 99 percent of them do.