ICO and Shadow of the Colossus was leaked a few days early around the net, and it is confirmed to be playable on firmware 3.55/3.41 CFW. Interesting to see how new releases are still finding it around CFW users. Recently Limbo was also reported with a 3.55 CFW fix, you can read about that here.
Release Info
Enter a world of enchantment and wonder, where once was, is nevermore. ICO,
a mysterious boy, has been expelled from his village to an isolated castle.
Within his confines, he begins to have eerie dreams of rescuing a young
princess from the evil spirits that dwell within the fortress. Blurring the
lines between fantasy and reality, ICO embarks on a quest to save the
princess and along the way, discovers his own cryptic fate
Shadow of the Colossus is a majestic journey through ancient lands to seek
out and destroy gigantic mythical beasts. With your trusty horse at your
side, explore the spacious lands and unearth each Colossi. Armed with your
wits, a sword and a bow, use cunning and strategy to topple each behemoth
ICO and Shadow of the Colossus on Single Blu-Ray Disc
Remastered for HD Resolution
Full PlayStation Network Trophy Support
Full 3D Compatible
Notes
PARTY TIME This game works on CFW 3.55 Eboot patch for 3.41 will follow
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Tags: 3.41, 3.55, cfw, eboot, PS3 Hacks, PS3Hax
Discuss in Forums (70)
09-22-2011
07:24 PM
You beat me to it was just about to post about this game. Can someone care to explian how in the world this game works on CFW 3.55/3.41 ?
09-22-2011
07:26 PM
i wonder how sony let this slip by? was it a 3.60+game originally? someone secretly decrypting eboots for tehskeen? im wondering how SotD looks and if its any better than playing the ps2 disc on my BC ps3 upscaling it?
09-22-2011
07:27 PM
Very cool news, moving to front page.
09-22-2011
07:35 PM
Awesome! First post and front page to boot. Ahh only 6 more hours to play.
09-22-2011
07:40 PM
Can't wait to buy this next week. Face both on PS2, great games and very artistic with loads of mysticism.
09-22-2011
07:42 PM
awesome. this is a great sign of things to come.
09-22-2011
07:49 PM
09-22-2011
07:59 PM
i hope the MGS collection is playable on CFW too the hd remake of resident evil 4 that just came out is playable too!!! i didnt wanna post it so sony sees and makes MGS hd collection unplayable lol
09-22-2011
08:37 PM
What is the highest unmodified FW this can be played on?
09-22-2011
09:56 PM
This is the greatest day of my life.
09-22-2011
10:06 PM
09-22-2011
10:12 PM
we win again!!
09-22-2011
10:33 PM
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS GAME FOR SO LONG and its finally here and it is playable on cfw yes yes yes give to me baby suck it sony yeah yeah that feels so good. i need a cig gotta go thanx for the good news.
09-22-2011
10:43 PM
lol " PARTY TIME "
someones using their homebrew enabled console for piracy it seems
09-22-2011
10:44 PM
is someone secretly patching the eboot's if yes thn please patch eboot of god of war origins hd..
if its not the case thn sony screwed their own a**.. they were so busy in writting the new ****ty TOS tht they forgot to sign new games with new keys..
09-22-2011
10:55 PM
this is very good news this should allow the scene some peace of mind for awhie
09-22-2011
10:56 PM
WTF hows that possible
i think it might be because Sony was sleeping
n if someone modified the eboot than nothing could be better than this
09-22-2011
10:57 PM
Wow this is great news I thought I wasn't going to be able to play it!
09-22-2011
11:34 PM
Well this was in development for a while, so maybe Team ICO just signed it with 3.55, what they had at the time, and continued to work on it. Seems plausible IMO.
09-23-2011
12:50 AM
yes i downloaded it yesterday,for Testing Purposes,you dont even have to modify the eboot for 3.55 just put on external and play
09-23-2011
12:57 AM
The game was probably built on 3.55 or lower firmware.
Disc based game eboots are not often encrypted or signed making it possible to modify them.
Its the same Castlevania hack or something entirely new.
Duplex did claim to have 3.60+ keys or someway to decrypt eboots.
3.41 eboot works just fine.
09-23-2011
12:58 AM
i thought it was internal only?
09-23-2011
01:48 AM
people PEOPLE PEOPLEPEOPLE
dark souls is out...would someone care to tell me what are the chances that a cfw will come out until november? ....cuz i LOOVED demon souls...and dark souls looks badass...so i can't w8 anymore for a cfw.....i haven't updated to a ofw for years.....but dark souls is worth it...SO PLEASE!
09-23-2011
01:54 AM
09-23-2011
02:01 AM
This really made my day yesterday. I also thought about posting this info some 12 hours ago but I thought it's too much "piracy related" and I wasn't sure if things like are against new rules so I gave up.
Shadow of the colossus is in my top 5 favorite games of all time so I'm downloading it now because I can't wait for my preorder (if any games deserve to be bought it's these two).
Anyway, I'll share a video or two with you to get you all warmed up, this is from the original SotC viral marketing campaign (and probably one of the best game promotions of all time), maybe somebody remembers it - people were finding giants in different places of the world, it was a colossal mystery (hahaha) there were articles and reports in the news, websites, etc etc. Enjoy.
Shadow of the colossus argus hoax / tsunami giant - YouTube
Giantology: Siberian Ice Giant - YouTube
Shadow of the Colossus: Gaius Viral Video - Giant Inca Statue - YouTube
09-23-2011
02:24 AM
it dosent matter who , how or why we people got it , the point is you got it somehow it , some people moan cos nothink gets released anonymous well here you got. you got a game should only work on above 3.55 fw . cant you just accept you got a extra game and pirates u got a free game wow . who knows maybe more will come or other stuff may be it wont
09-23-2011
02:55 AM
The big thing here is that game isn't scheduled to be released here in the US until: September 27, 2011.
That is always a big deal.
After buying the game and looking at the guaranteed retail eboot on the disk we will know if its encrypted or not and or uses the 3.56+ keys or not.
Until then its all speculation.
It could very well be just another clever Castlevania style hack.
No disrespect intended towards Duplex...
Nothing in the nfo suggests this is another 3.56+ key hack.
09-23-2011
03:09 AM
No chance that this is actually the first gush of the Wind of Change that's starting to blow?
09-23-2011
03:31 AM
guys if this was really a sign that the 3.60+keys are reversed then all the unplayable games would be fixed already too (portal2 example) i think a unencrypted debug update eboot was found and why this game works even before a official street date release
09-23-2011
03:44 AM
this is just great news!
09-23-2011
05:27 AM
It was supposed to come out last spring but was delayed. That is why it is 3.55.
Same thing as with El Shaddai Ascension of The Metatron.
09-23-2011
05:31 AM
I'm actually pretty sure that they do have indeed something we don't know and not just them. I smell something like a full 3.65/3.66 SDK making the rounds...
Resident Evil Revival Collection has aswell (on the unmodified disc) an EBOOT with keys that haven't leaked that nobody mentioned and I guess this is the reason why it didn;t got posted here...
09-23-2011
05:56 AM
09-23-2011
06:23 AM
They only claimed to have defeated NPDRM.
Many assumed that this meant having the keys needed to decrypt.
However they don't necessarily need the keys to achieve decryption do they...
This would fly in the face of some extremely long rants regarding the assumption
that they are some of the players holding back in essence the entire scene.
09-23-2011
06:36 AM
SDK does not sign eboots. Sony does. It says directly in the SDK that all you can do with SDK is create unsigned master disks for debug units, and then you send them to Sony to be finalized (signed)
.....and Duplex made an announcement a few months back about having obtained 3.60 keys....but it was obviously bull****, because we haven't had any 3.60+ decrypted eboots appear.
This is just another eboot to slip through the cracks unsigned
09-23-2011
07:21 AM
THE DISK'S WHERE PRESSED LAST SPRING. There is no mystery here. The game was delayed and instead of pressing new disk's. They just released the ones they had in stock.
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Las...yed-31444.html
09-23-2011
07:42 AM
thanks for clarifying warning makes sense to me i mean cmon how long could this have taken though the title screen is kinda spiffy...
for those wondering quality in my view way better than upscaling via ps2 iso...this was a real nice surprise...
09-23-2011
07:45 AM
I must agree with these fellows here that claim they have nothing new..
09-23-2011
07:48 AM
It would be difficult to finish the game/qa after the game was pressed unless an update/patch was released, and there is none right now. The link you refer to even states that the game was delayed due to it simply not being finished at the time of the article. Please explain what you mean by your statement.
09-23-2011
08:14 AM
Ps3 Merlin waved his magic wand at the ps3 game distribution plant and made this game 3.55
The last Guardian is still being worked on and was to be the big seasonal hit. Not wanting to lose out on the end of year profits they delayed ico and shadow of the colossus to cash in.
09-23-2011
08:39 AM
Its the same Castlevania hack.
09-23-2011
09:05 AM
09-23-2011
09:12 AM
09-23-2011
10:08 AM
Does shadow of colossus work for anyone on 3.55 all i get is a black screen ... its on internal hdd... ICO works fine though...
09-23-2011
10:40 AM
09-23-2011
10:58 AM
This is strange that its playable on 3.55 but I'm not complaining too much!
I was able to get them both (ICO & Colossus) working using the external, MM cached split file method with BD Mirror off. oh yeah! For some reason when I only used BD Mirror in MM it did black screen with Shadow of Colossus.
09-23-2011
12:10 PM
I just tried SotC and it's actually way nicer than I remember it on PS2 and my old CRT TV. The controls are still a bit messy just like in the original and "tweaking" them a bit would've been nice but I'm not complaining. I also noticed Shadow of the Colossus has it's original name in the file list, I thought it was cute (nico.psarc - "Nico" was later changed to "SotC" as many other things, the first trailers feature several characters with horns just like Ico taking down a colossus instead of Wander, etc etc).
09-23-2011
03:18 PM
I agree with Warning , mainly because this had a release date for April , ,here in the U.S. I had ico collection and last guardian preordered in gamestop. If you are True fan of these games then you would know , been following this for years. This game was NOT cracked by nobody . It was made for 3.55 originally , nothing changed. So stop getting your hopes up, stop speculating and stop sounding so noobish.
09-23-2011
03:40 PM
/thread
09-23-2011
05:09 PM
thanx..............gud work
09-23-2011
08:31 PM
This is great! Grabbing it now!
09-23-2011
11:58 PM
this is a little bit off topic but i tried to google it and found nothing.
what is this castlevania hack a few of u spoke of? i have castlevania and don't remember having to do anything special to be able to play it.
also, i think it's much more impressive that someone got that limbo game working seeing as shadow of the colossus is prob 3.55 or anyways. i hope it was a step towards more psn games being playable on cfw.
09-24-2011
01:30 AM
First PS3 Game Backup working on Geohot CFW 3.55
http://www.ps3hax.net/2011/01/first-...ohot-cfw-3-55/
Basically what was found is that Disc based eboots are often not NPDRM encrypted
They can be converted into ELF's, edited in various ways, and then converted back into SELFs (bootable eboot.bin's)
As opposed to discless PSN games which almost always have encrypted eboots.
Almost all PSN games to date where hacked out using Debug eboots (not encrypted)
Sony has closed the door to the Debugs and long before that started removing Debug packages from their servers.
My guess is that they had no house keeping cleanup procedures for their devs
and didn't expect the public to ever find these "publicly accessible" links or make use of them.
P S 3 N E W S hosts many direct links to these Debug packages. (no longer accessible)
Before there were any PSN "update crawlers" this was the primary way to find new debug packages.
This age of discovery and relatively easy discless PSN game hacking is over.
I really have no idea how or why Limbo is working.
I am starting to think its a one off glitch, but no one is talking about it.
I have tried to reproduce the work with other potential candidates but have failed.
More than likely ICO and SoC has a 3.55 NPDRM free eboot on the disc.
The big news is that its an early release, which is always a huge winner for any warez.
I will buying be mine. The games are just to good, especially now that a HD finish has been put on them.
The big fear and problem with 3.60+ compiled games isn't necessarily NPDRM eboots,
its that they where made to run using firmware modules that don't exist in lower firmwares.
Even if the eboot can be "patched" to ignore firmware version or point to lower firmware modules
it does not mean it will run and if it does run, if it will be stable or not.
09-24-2011
05:24 AM
anyone try the psarc folder trick on the 6 gb nico.psarc so u can ply it externally
09-24-2011
08:15 AM
i still cant get it working and its driving me crazy, tried it internally and externally now on 3.55 and it either freezes or black screen
09-24-2011
10:51 AM
09-24-2011
11:44 AM
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09-24-2011
12:41 PM
These just make me want last guardian even more
Thx! btw, had to ftp this game to internal cuz of 6gb file, but working fine now!
09-24-2011
12:49 PM
09-24-2011
01:27 PM
09-25-2011
01:28 PM
Attention
Stop promoting warez, next ban will bee permanent
09-25-2011
03:31 PM
09-26-2011
05:11 PM
I had the same problem, Ico working perfectly but blank screen/spinning dots on SOTC. Think it was to do with splitting the file. Even copying over from ext to int via multiman (which, as I understand, auto joins split files together) didn't fix it, used an untouched copy of it, FTP'd and used select + x and it's working perfectly now.
09-26-2011
06:42 PM
09-30-2011
04:36 PM
i have the actual game, i've been trying to run it but keep getting an 800 error code. im using kmeaws cfw 3.55 and a fresh install of multiman
09-30-2011
07:52 PM
10-02-2011
08:49 AM
same here i tried installing it with multiman but then was told to update to 3.70, i then went back into multiman and did the select + X then i get the 800 error
10-02-2011
10:48 AM
It does not work via split files, transfer it VIA FTP.
10-02-2011
03:04 PM
I have the retail version and ripped it to the internal. Kmeaw asked me if I wanted it in 3.55, I booted it from multiman, and I get the error message every time. I fixed permissions as well.
10-09-2011
07:41 AM
PS3 Backup Compatibility list shows {Game ID BCES01097} My retail copy shows BCUS98259. Do I need to change the game region for it to work? What is the Game ID of those who have it working and those who do not?