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.

28-12-2010 om 10:26 geschreven door game2boy  

    The R4DS Card opens up a whole new world of options for Nintendo DSi flashcard  and DSi owners. Homebrew developers are desiging, coding and releasing a plethora of applications and games that you can't play without your R4DS Card for the Nintendo DS.

    I stumbled accross ds  Drum Machine as I was searching for some beat style games, similar to Guitar Hero or DJ Hero. What I found instead was the DS Drum Machine for the R4DS.

    With the DSi Flash credit cards  Drum equipment you could create, conserve and hold out any quantity of your respective outstanding customized beats. These essential appears and examples are intensely in use in trane and techno tunes even today, and all you will really need to produce into within a positioning to try to do your outstanding person beats is your R4DS and DS Drum Machine.??

    Check out some within the Features: ??909 and 808 sample sets included, 16th be aware resolution, variable drum volume, adjustable BPM, FL Studio-like loop editor, essential pattern support, interactive TR-909 graphical person interface designed by headspin, touch screen support.

    So go on, get your beat on, and pump up the jam using the ultimate drum equipment using the Nintendo DS and ds s. It's a should have product of homebrew software. And it's completely free for the R4DS Card! even although there are lots of rythm film games out there, there are not only a complete whole large amount of genuinely audio tracks making software programs or games. getting in a placement to produce a unique development and turning your Nintendo DS or DSi right into a complete blown drum equipment is on the way to be the method to go. It remind me really an ideal offer inside the KORG ds game, in which you in actuality experienced in top of you, in electronic type - the KORG synthesizer. permitting that you genuinely make and produce your non-public custom made audio tracks and beats.

    Add your acquaintances ds  all this incredible drum equipment app, and who knows, you could probably be the worlds subsequent electronic DJ's. graphic the cheers and amazement as you'd probably probably produce every one of yout hits on almost nothing much in extra of several Nintendo DS or DSi method as well as your R4 DS bank cards or R4i SDHC Cards, and still have it appears like you have been seated with a complete blown keyboard.

28-12-2010 om 10:25 geschreven door game2boy