Well know Spanish developer jaicrab has posted information on his blog about a new project he is working on, which seems to be a brand new CFW, this firmware will probably only be 3.55, so don’t get excited about a 3.60/3.65 release, some information on JFW:

In the works:

Including:
- Startup Plugins Manager.
- Multi tasking apps/Apps running while doing something else.(For Example: FTP while playing)
- Payload load before entering XMB. Free Cobra Payload…
. . .

Now whilst all that sounds awesome, this was not the most exciting information on the site, jaicrab posted keys, which i asume are the keys belonging to the Cobra Dongle:

Greetings to the Cobra TEAM.

0×500000 7C 08 02 A6 48 00 00 05 7C 68 02 A6 3C 80 00 00
0×500010 38 84 00 08 7C 64 18 51 41 82 00 58 38 C0 00 00
0×500020 64 C6 BA AD 60 C6 CA FE 3C 80 00 01 38 84 98 68
0×500030 3C A0 00 01 38 A5 AE D0 7C A4 28 51 41 82 00 34
0×500040 78 A5 E8 C3 7C A9 03 A6 7C 84 1A 14 E8 A4 00 00
0×500050 78 A7 00 22 7C 07 30 00 40 82 00 10 78 A5 00 20
0×500060 7C A5 1A 14 F8 A4 00 00 38 84 00 08 42 00 FF E0
0×500070 F8 01 00 10 F8 21 FF 81 F8 41 00 28 3C 80 00 01
0×500080 38 84 1D E0 7C 44 1A 14 48 00 0C 39 E8 41 00 28
0×500090 38 21 00 80 E8 01 00 10 7C 08 03 A6 38 60 00 00
Well, you could have at least changed the hash tables from PSGroove.
Keep selling all the SCENERS’ knowledge.

Source
Source Translated To English

Thanks to manster, as always an awesome source of news

Proper translation thanks to jean945

Roberto Bender has updated his NJ Media Server, an open source PS3 UPnP/DLNA Media Server.

Download NJ Media Server – 1.0.6.1

Download NJ Media Server – 1.0.6.1 Plugins
Official Site: https://sites.google.com/site/njmediaserver/

So we all knew that Sony was trying to build an “unhackable” PS3. Well just recently, they announced a new model: CECH-3000B. The external features look exactly the same except the power and eject buttons are tweaked a little bit. They did however tweak some of the hardware which they did not mention.Probably just minor adjustments to stop future custom firmwares to run. The article also says that it will have PS2 compatibility which i kind of find to be doubtful. Heres a quote from the arcticle:

PS2 Compatibility?

Source:
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/s…sted-20110620/

EDIT:
Well it seems that Google Translate, doesn’t like translating properly, forum member kazie said this:

[本製品は、「プレイステーション ２」専用ソフトウェアとの互換性を有しておりません]
Got translated as [“This product, “PlayStation 2″ are having a compatibility with proprietary software.”]

While it should be translated more like:
[This product doesn't possess the compatibility with the "PlayStation 2" exclusive software.]

So it won’t have Playstation 2 compability.

Don’t rely too much on google-translate I would say.

Now this isn’t exactly related to the PS3 system, but it does involve a nifty use with the PS3 DS3 controller. Joshua Noble, an extremely bored person at his work hooked up a DS3 to his printer to play a videogame off it. Noble, and two of his other friends coded a game in openFrameworks and used the thermal receipt printer with a modded white beam to display game and your “car”.

As you probably already guessed the level map is being printed off your printer while you play…wasteful but nonetheless its one of those “wtf…cool” moments

You can see the game Receipt Racer played via video below:

[VIA designboom via undef]

Deank has updated his popular multifunctional tool for the PS3. multiMAN is now at version 2.01.00. You can group content in Game, Favorites and Retro columns in the latest version. Changelog and Downloads are below.

Download multiMAN 2.01.00 FULL (68.71 MB)

BDEMU2

The group known as The Anonymous Data Protection Officers, who released this PDF on the lack of PSN security back in January, have have released a program that would let you anonymously register on PSN. All it simply does is make the process simpler to register while signing up on the PSN. here is a quote from the source.

It seems that the Cobra usb dongle has now been upgraded to add PS2 ISO support for backwards compatible models. Earlier it was reported that PS1 games were fully supported by the dongle on all models of the PS3. Here is a quote regarding from the website

The necessary download files can be found at the source.

Source:

http://www.cobra-usb.com/index.html

Updates follow at read more. PS3 Dev deank has updated his awesome multiMan once again, here is the change log:

02.00.05 -

* Changed: Coverflow mode completely rewritten to use XMMB engine
* Changed: Coverflow shows covers in perspective
* Changed: Better memory management
* Changed: XMMB display mode visualization
* Changed: Caching only of Photo, Music and Retro XMMB columns with their actual size (faster boot and exit/restart) (16MB HDD space freed)
* Added: Option in XMMB Settings column “XMMB Game Icon Swap” to select mode for covers/icons for Game column
* Added: Options in XMMB Settings column “Key Repeat Delay” and “Key Repeat Speed”
* Added: Launch .zip ROMs from File Manager (from emulator folders or dev_hdd0 or dev_usb00* ./ROMS/[emulator])
* Added: Support for FBA Next emulator (port mods by squarepusher2)
* Fixed: PPU crashreport about MultiStream on exit (thanks to an0nymous for the backtrace log)
* Fixed: Minor issues when applying themes
* Fixed: Minor issues/garbage with boot screen on rare occasions
* Removed: Use of virtual memory

MP3/Audio related:
* Changed: MP3 playback requires 384KB of RAM (was 24MB before) and now MP3 file size is unlimited (4MB ram freed)
* Added: Fade-in / fade-out for mp3 playback
* Added: Indication of which mp3 title is currently playing/paused in XMMB mode
* Added: multiMAN mp3 playback will pause if you play music from PS3 XMB Music column
Extended support for BD Remote Controller:
* BD Remote: [ENTER] and [PLAY] keys will act as [X] (much easier to navigate)
* BD Remote: [PAUSE] will pause music playback
* BD Remote: [PREV]/[NEXT] will skip to previous/next audio track
* BD Remote: [STOP] will stop music playback

(more…)

It has been quite a while since we have heard of the awesome PS3 Developer, graf_chokolo, yesterday he posted this on his blog:

Hi guys, no money left anymore. Going to jail soon probably because i cannot pay court costs.
But i’m ready to stand up for everything i said and go to jail for that too. It’s not important to win, more important is to show them that we are ready to fight, that they cannot scare me off easily. Yeah, i’m ready to go to jail for my believes and my principles.
Most of people probably think that all computer and kernel hackers are weak kids, hiding in a cellar, eating pizza whole day, writing software and looking for attention Maybe, but that’s NOT me. And i will get out eventually and continue my work. My work means very much to me.

Source

Robo Hobo has released something that has been long awaited by many. A Working MAME emulator. This just a PREVIEW. Any ways on to the good stuff

Robo Hobo quoted below

MAME – ‘Preview’ Release

Attached is a preview release of MAME 0.142. It’s still a little rough around the edges, but it is usable. I hope to improve it greatly over the next couple of weeks, so please post any issues, feature requests, or complaints to the issue tracker on the google code page.

Due to the large file size a version run through package-finalize is not provided. If you use a CFW where this is required you will need to run it yourself.

PS3-MAME

Unofficial MAME 0.142 PS3 GameOS port

http://code.google.com/p/psmame/

Installing:
  Install the psmame package onto your jailbroken PS3 using normal means.
  By default all data paths for mame are located under /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame_data.
  ROMS themselves can be placed anywhere and their location chosen with the frontend. The recommended path is /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame.

Default controls:
  As of right now the only defined controls are R3 to open the MAME config menu, Select for coin, and Start for starting the game.
  Further control changes can be made in the MAME config menu as needed.
  Up to four controllers can be used at one time.

Frontend:
  The frontend can display screenshots of games, these should be placed in /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame_data/snaps. You can find a full set at http://www.progettosnaps.net/snaps_en.html

Paths:
  Under /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame_data
    hash:	path to hash files
    samples:	path to samplesets
    artwork:	path to artwork files
    ctrlr:	path to controller definitions
    ini:	path to ini files
    font:	path to font files
    cheat:	path to cheat files
    crosshair:	path to crosshair files
    snaps:	path to screenshots for frontend

  Under /dev_hdd0/game/MAME90000/USRDIR/data
    cfg:	directory to save configurations
    nvram:	directory to save nvram contents,
    memcard:	directory to save memory card contents
    inp:	directory to save input device logs
    sta:	directory to save states
    snap:	directory to save screenshots
    diff:	directory to save hard drive image difference files
    comments:	directory to save debugger comments

Known issues
  When adding ROMs into your ROM dir, you must tell the frontend to rescan them. This can be done in the R3 menu.
  The display currently only supports scaling by pixel aspect ratio. Future versions will support various aspect correction modes.
  Changing video settings in the menu may crash MAME, they don't work anyway so don't bother.
  Games which require a recompiler will not run.
  Games which have high memory requirements will not run, the PS3 only has a little of 220MB of RAM available.
  The default controls will need to be tweaked by the user.

well there you have it folks. I am sure some many people will enjoy this. Remember this is just a PREVIEW

Source PSX Scene

Download

EDIT
PSMAME Compatibility List
Source

Thanks to Irvysan for the tip via Twitter.

The guys at gitbrew have released OpenCLit PS3 Dev Tools.

Source Twitter

The dev of FBA emulator, CaptainCPS-X, has released an update to MultiMan Retro ‘Tools’ for Windows. For those of you who don’t know this program allows you to manage all your ROMs, and brings a wealth of new features since the last update.

Changelog v0.07

• – Added feature to Browse / Manage ROMs without using Windows shell.
• – Fixed a bug that was changing the application working directory (root).
• – Fixed some issues with the new list Indexing feature, this was
• causing problems when Adding, Deleting, Clearing items in the list.
• – Fixed memory buffer overflow when the selected directory to unpack
• a PKG file was very long.
• – Some other small fixes.
• – Made a new placeholder image for the application.
• – Added Multi-Threading feature to handle processing of Covers, ROMs
• and when executing the Renaming Job.
• – Fixed menu item ‘Save As…’, for some odd reason it was not working.

For a full list of offered features, you can read about it at the download page below:

[Download multiMAN Retro Tools]

[VIA PSX-Scene] – Thanks for angeldemon for the news tip

While various scene sites are selling out, I figured its time to go through another round of updates and improvements here at PS3Hax. So I am asking you guys what changes you would like to see made around PS3Hax, what features do you want PS3Hax to offer, or remove, or change. Do you want a VIP usergroup, maybe a member arcade system. or do you want to see more PSP news…all suggestions are welcomed and will be taken into consideration.

Please keep your suggestions constructive and post them via reply below, I am committed and making PS3Hax.net the best source for your PS3 Hacking needs

“Just me, a laptop, a ps3 and the internet.. and look at the hubbub i cause XD”-Samson

After His two excellent releases of windos 3.1. I finally got a chance to peek inside ps3hax.net’s member Samson’s head a bit and poke around. Well not really but I did get some questions answered!! Now we can find out what makes this man tick.

Without further ramblings from me, here is the Q&A with Samson:

Q: Any thoughts about your work you would like to share?

A: I am a humble man i enjoy the ride, using my head to create simple usable apps and doing my little bit to help others and the scene, to me a GUI/OS that people can get on with is the next logical step for dosbox. I know WinDos is still a bit messy but it works and i promise to try and polish it off for a final release in a few weeks.

Q: As a developer what is your motivation?

A: It’s a cool hobby for me, i think its the love of the learning curve and doing things that should be made available on the ps3, also the beauty of simplicity.. homebrew and any program should be respected.. they grow from ideas , a hint .. some evolve from other peoples ideas and use other homebrew i think that’s kinda cool.

I’ve got no master plan i do stuff for the fun, i get in to the doing side of things a bit too much.

Q:Tell us about some of the most rewarding times with this project?

A: I am really enjoying it a lot, just seeing it grow from the default program manager finding some cool old software tweaking it, installing better drivers and finding games that played well, missile command being on of my most memorable games from my youth, all this from other very talented Dev’s and programmers some from over 10 years ago bringing their hard work back to life on a ps3 is well worth it.

Q:What are your plans for windos 3.1 in the coming months?

A:Finding the sweet spot so 3d shooters run nice, getting it to 486 speed stripping it from all the bulk and a better mouse driver, and try again to get all win32s programs working, and midi .. not to sure about internet, networking and ftp they could be a tad hard to setup.

Q: Any future projects you plan on surprising us with?

A: Yes , hopefully porting open windows (OpenWinDos) and keeping it stripped back, no games or fun a base OS with the best programs from WinDos and i don’t even think i am done with dosbox after that… to much stuff begging to be ported, look out for a stand alone .mod player that’s just for starters… maybe I’ll even have a crack at windows 95 or 98.

Q: So is there anything you would like to say to the scene?

A: Yes, Please EVERYONE just stop with all the pointless hate, humorous insults and the ‘better than you’ ego’s, we all want the same thing to be able to use our property the way we want to without question, and if we all help each other and work together without anger everything will happen a little sooner and will be a lot more painless.

Lets make this the best pyramid ever, after all we do have a well made base that’s growing all the time and being nice costs nothing.

Thanks again for taking the time to answer those questions Samson. Well there you have it folks. I hope you found this enlightening and know you know there is plenty we can look forward too.

PS3 Hardware Modifier and fellow PS3HaX member Killerbug has released an easier version of his fan controller mod, this new version allows you to control fan speed, without opening your console:

Source Killerbug’s Blog

The most popular media server for the PS3 has been once again updated, twice in less than a week, here is the change log:

Changelog:

• Overscan compensation feature added for MEncoder
• Return of the official OS X build, thanks for your patience!
• MEncoder no longer crashes when using more then 8 cores
• New build script for OS X that builds all dependencies (big thanks to Raptor399)
• French translation fixed

Upgrade Notes:

For versions prior to 1.23.0:

• To retain your old settings you may have to copy your old config file/s to a new directory.
  To find out where the new directory is on your computer, run the program and go to the Traces tab and look on the 14th line, the line that says “Profile directory:”, that is the folder your config files should be saved now.
• If you use the “media library / cache” option you should reset it.

Source Official Forum

Download Windows Version

Download Linux Version

Download MacOS Version

Thanks to Antonis3d for the tip.

scognito, a homebrew dev, has released Scogger is a simple puzzle style homebrew game that has been created on various platforms such as PSP, DS, Wii, Gamecube, mobile phones and now your lovely hacked PS3.

[Download Scogger HD]

[VIA scognito's blog] - Thanks to samson for news tip.

Various firmware updates (3.50-3.60) were leaked today by ConsoleDev over @ Demonhades blog, the latest being at firmware 3.60.

To quote (translated):

Our friend and colleague ConsoleDev leaves us in the web chat several FW Debug from version 3.50 to 3.60, so can further investigate and find a possible solution to exchange keys

Other quotes of interest (by ConsoleDev):

My PS3 Debug Firmware Updates Are genuine Because They Come from an official source

Debug PS3 Firmware Update 3.65 is fake, is a Retail Update

No this does not mean CFW , but this hopefully can be useful to devs in establishing future CFW.

You can grab the leaked debug firmwares in the webchat @ source below. No linking to debug links.

[VIA Demonhades]