Since its release, the PS3 has put
up a strong wall against hackers. The piracy problems that have plagued other
systems -- including Sony's own PSP -- just haven't been an issue. Now a group
purports to have designed a USB plug-and-play device that defeats Sony's copy
protection.
The PSJailbreak device is
intended not only to allow retail PS3
games (and not Blu-ray movies, DVD movies, or backward-compatible games) to
be played from a hard drive, but can also block Sony's mandatory (and frequent)
firmware updates, effectively protecting itself against obsolescence. For
players with an interest in opening up their consoles for homebrew development,
and not necessarily swashbuckling, it also enables the use of homebrew games and
applications. (Seriously, don't be a pirate.)
At least, that's according to PSX-Scene and OzModchips.com, the latter of
which posted a video of the technology in action (seen after the break). The
technology's effectiveness hasn't been definitively proven and Sony has yet to
provide comment. Perhaps that comment will come in the form of a new PS3
firmware update?
The OzModchips video appears to use a debug PS3 system, which has the
capability to run unsigned code (including code from a USB drive) and load games
from the hard drive without the use of any USB dongle. This doesn't mean that
the claims of PSJailbreak's effectiveness are untrue, but it certainly calls
them into question. Why use a debug system to prove functionality that already
exists in a debug system?
Here's how it might have been done: debug PS3 systems have "BD emulators"
that allow code from connected hard drives to run as Blu-ray disc games. You can
see the relevant menu options in the below pictures.
02-12-2010 om 11:49
geschreven door game2boy 
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