The ProgSkeet is gaining quite a bit of steam over the last few days, and many of you might have ignored it due to the some what intensive solder job required for the install. Well noobs have no fear, it seems a solderless version is in the works, and a video has been posted below:
As a reminder ProgSkeet primarily can be used for downgrading/fixing brick consoles and in the future will most likely be the key to bringing custom firmware support on newer offical firmwares. The video above shows a 360 motherboard, but the chip is universal for consoles so you can pretend that the picture is a PS3 and serves the same purpose 
To quote:
I would like to add one thing, in case you haven’t noticed: it’s not about the speed, that train’s long gone.
no, this time around we have the SOLDERLESS CLIP attached to the NAND.
sure, it has wires soldered to it but this is just because there is flex pcb yet to connect to progskeet
once it’s all tested and flex pcb is designed, this will be 100% solderless
And also there are more diagram, and program changes – to quote:
DIAGRAM Changes:
03/08/2011
- Removed DualNandNew.bmp (this is for prototype, sorry)
- Added Dual NAND diagram (with the switch), read below for instructions.02/08/2011
- Added new NAND/Dual NAND diagram. Power up the console with the switch set to “off”. When the console is on, you can switch it to “on”.FLASHER Changes:
110802
- Added more selections to Block Count (bigger NANDs)110803
- Fixed: issue with “Test Shorts” – ONLY USE THIS WHEN PROGSKEET IS NOT CONNECTED TO ANY DEVICE!!! OTHERWISE IT GIVES FALSE POSITIVE!!!yours truly,
uf6667
[VIA Twitter, VIA ProgSkeet Website, VIA PS3Crunch]
08-04-2011
02:42 AM
Sweet, We knew this was coming, solderless
08-04-2011
02:47 AM
lol, its great no doubt....but how many people are gonna be kickin their own asses when the new keys are shared? Or when we get the new CFW
08-04-2011
02:53 AM
Everyone should buy one of these even if the keys are released. Always a good idea to have a hard mod installed regardless of the situation.
08-04-2011
02:57 AM
As a victim of Waninko's, I'm very happy to see this is going to be solderless. I might get my fat ps3 back! Yay!
08-04-2011
03:08 AM
No complete CFW
No way of returning from a brick
Then we get some sort of hardmod
A couple months later we get a new CFW, or a brick fix, look at the PS2, 360, WII, and PSP timelines
08-04-2011
03:08 AM
This motherboard say XBOX 360. on the chipset.!!!
why?
08-04-2011
03:10 AM
08-04-2011
03:24 AM
good news.
08-04-2011
03:48 AM
I'll probably buy one when they make a plug-n-play version that works with NOR systems.
08-04-2011
04:40 AM
YEY! I might actually get one if ever i get my ps3 brick hehe
08-04-2011
06:28 AM
i'm thinking of getting one if its solderless, one question, is downgrade via this method patchable?
08-04-2011
08:35 AM
08-04-2011
09:28 AM
Yes, it's becoming soderless.
Now I won't have to have someone do the dump and flash for me (Hopefully, I hope the thing will be somewhat newb friendly)
08-04-2011
10:47 AM
My kudos for Pirate and posting this news. and my kudos to uf6667, im going to buy the solderless version when comes out. But i dunno which chip/mod website trust to place the order, cause i live in Argentina and some sites ships worlwide but i've seen some negative review.
Any advice on wich site i should buy? Sorry for the offtopic. (Shipping overseas, just my bad luck for live in the other side of the world).
Thanks
08-04-2011
10:55 AM
I'm sure ps3hax will have a list of trusted vendors once it becomes available. This is the best news for me yet. I'll have lots to play with
08-04-2011
10:56 AM
08-04-2011
10:59 AM
Great News! Thanks all
08-04-2011
11:22 AM
so does this mean we can switch between cfw and ofw without soldering?
08-04-2011
11:39 AM
can someone confirm if im right or wrong please?
08-04-2011
12:32 PM
Really looking forward to the solderless version.
08-04-2011
04:15 PM
Already checked mate, on the official site the list, just saying if anyone from South America have any experience to tell about buying on certain website or what site it's more effective cause one thing is send the package to France or Italy and other thing it's send it to South America. I think im gonna buy it on = Chipmod central when come out the Progskeet the solderless version and will bought the solderversion too.
(Sorry for the offtopic)
08-04-2011
04:39 PM
im new to the scene and this might be a noobish question but assuming i already have this chip soldered an everything, how would i go about running dual fw? Is there some kind of tutorial out? is it still in development?
08-04-2011
04:41 PM
08-04-2011
04:41 PM
i believe running a dual fw is a whole different setup alltogether.
anyways this is awesome news.
08-04-2011
05:09 PM
this is for big PS3s right? I hate having a slim...
08-04-2011
05:27 PM
Am glad of this, i know the solder less version is coming out but the "i want this boys" are not going to open there ps3's up because there mummy's wont allow it. Well FUUUUUUUUU try it.... what the worst that could happen?(dr pepper lol) the devs do it all the time :D
Well getting this done. If it destroy the nand chip, fine am cool with that because its on me upgrading and downgrading. and ebay is my friend lol
08-04-2011
08:32 PM
It's for boys who know how to open a PS3 and do some research about it, by curiosity or just for have some fun and learn about it.
Big/Slim it's the same, If you don't want to risk anything you will gain nothing.
08-05-2011
11:08 AM
Does it mean a solderless JTAG can made possible?
08-05-2011
11:10 AM
grande maestro forza italia!!
08-06-2011
04:32 AM
hello all, i'm new in this forum
just wondering, if we can erase the nor chip, we can also write it, right?
i have my slim laying around with corrupted fw,rsod,bricked. all i need is just erase and rewrite the nor. but where can i find dumped files to write?
i dont think my friend would allow me to open their machine and mess up with it just to have the correct files.
i think the developer for this Progskeet should upload the necessery files for it
just my 2 cents....
08-07-2011
11:03 AM
Read the NOR of your chip and manually edit it so you can at least get to the recovery menu.
08-08-2011
06:31 AM
absolutely i can't just downgraded without hardware flashing
08-15-2011
12:50 PM
Picture of the solderless attachment:
08-15-2011
03:16 PM
08-15-2011
03:36 PM
Thank you for informing me, Kamel. Fixed.
08-15-2011
04:04 PM
im just wondering how this will be of any use once the nand / nor dumper pkg from gitbrew has been released?
08-15-2011
04:22 PM
08-15-2011
05:00 PM
tru, how stupid of me lol. i did try to delete my post after i realized what i wrote, but there is no delete post button.
08-15-2011
05:01 PM
you can always edit your post and change what you said.
08-26-2011
09:41 AM
I would like to take this skeet reliable solder Prog Have a site suggestion? turkey cargo
08-29-2011
08:14 PM
does anyone have a time frame for the release of this sweet device. Month, Week? Just a rough date?