For a few days, the PS3 Dev Wiki was down due to hosting problems and a lot of information seemed to be lost, but thanks to the hard work of the Wiki’s admin defyboy and a backup from a member called TMAnd, only a couple of days work was lost, you can read about it on this thread.

So thank you defyboy and TMAnd for rescuing all those precious edits

I would like to point out, that the PS3 Dev Wiki is a community effort, without the work and dedication of a lot of developers and PS3 enthusiasts, the wiki would be quite empty, so if you are doing work on the PS3, keep it documented on the Wiki

You can visit the Wiki here:
PS3 Dev Wiki

I would like to give thanks to euss, deroad, defyboy, Lady Anne Blunt, sandungas and the many other editors who keep the Wiki alive.

PS3 Developer deank has once again updated his multiMAN app, here is a quote from the changelog:

* Added new display mode (“TMB” – Top Media Bar) to replace “Box-art” mode
* Added new option in Settings – “Top Media Bar Color” to set user-defined color for top and bottom stripes in TMB mode
* Added new background image in the original theme (TMBBG.JPG) for TMB display mode
* Improved speed when copying files
* Optimized memory usage (another 10MB of RAM available for operations)
* Added support for scanning /dev_usb010 to /dev_usb099 for PSX/PS2/PS3/PSP/BD/DVD ISO files
* Added four (4) new colors to SIDE/TMB color setting options and two options in COLOR.INI to set side/tmb colors from themes
* Added function to “Quit to XMB” if [CIRCLE] (or [CROSS] if X/O swap is set in options) button is held pressed
* Added visual slider indication when scrolling trough a lot of entries (XMMB, TMB and XBDM modes + when browsing devices)
* Reminder for BD-Remote colored keys: RED – Quit, GREEN – Screen Saver, YELLOW – Restart, BLUE – To File Manager and back

Source

multiMAN ver 04.02.00 FULL (20120228).rar (163 MB)
multiMAN ver 04.02.00 BASE (20120228).rar ( 22 MB)

multiMAN creator deank has released an application, that will enable you to play your PS3 Backups via DVD or Blu Ray, this is done by installing a PKG onto your PS3, inserting the back up and selecting the game icon, here is a quote from the thread:

Hey there folks!

Here is the promised little tool, which will let you play your backups of original PS3 games when burned on DVD/DVD-RW/BD/BDRE discs.

If you’re familiar with ebootFIX tools you won’t have problems. It will be included in the ebootFIX/MOD package for the next multiMAN FULL version.

The good things that come with this:

* You can now make in-game SCREENSHOTS for all games you play via this method
* You can play music from XMB Music column (background music) while playing the game
* This method doesn’t require payloads of any kind – only CFW/MFW on your PS3

Here is a screenshot I just took: (press {PS} button while in-game, go to Photo column and select “Screenshot”)

Remember: Use this method ONLY with legally owned original PS3 games.

There is no guarantee that this method will work with all games, but if you follow the instructions in this post and generated txt – all should be fine.

Enjoy!

Dean

To download discBOOT, visit deank’s thread here.

deank, has been working hard lately, even more than normal lately, due to PS1 backups running, today he released version 02.09.00 of his awesome application, here is a quote from the change log:

* Improved performance in XMMB display mode
* Backup from PS3 game discs now works as it should
* You can still launch PSX games from XMMB Game Column
* You can still launch PS3 game backups from DVD-R/RW / BD-R/RE
* You cannot create ISO backups or access non-genuine PS3 game discs (unless Direct Disc Access is enabled)
* You will see an animated icon in XMMB Game column, which you can use to launch your PSX backups.
* To keep the same functionality as before you can turn on “Direct Disc Access” from XMMB Settings column.
>>> Press [TRIANGLE] -> Enable Direct Disc Access
>>> When in Direct Disc Access mode you can rip BD movie discs, launch games, but you can’t create backups of PS3 Game Discs.
>>> Do not use “Direct Disc Access Mode” unless you really need it.

Source

multiMAN Thread

multiMAN Help Forum

Download

Download BDEMU2

With the new “break through’s” this week, one of them being PS1 backups running on the PS3, utilizing multiMAN’s filemanager, deank decided to implement this method into the games column of his application, here is the change log, make a note, the changes are the total from 02.07.00 to 02.08.00.

* Added: “Create ISO” option in SIDE menu when BD/DVD is selected in VIDEO column or PLAYSTATION/PLAYSTATION2 is selected in Game column
* Added: “Create ISO” option in File Manager’s context menu when /dev_bdvd is selected
* Added: Creating ISO files bigger than 4GB to USB HDD will result in splitting in segments .iso.0, .iso.1 … .iso.31
* Added: Advanced option in XMMB Settings: “Expand Contents of XMMB media columns”
* Added: SD/SDHC, CF and MS/MSPRO devices to Photo/Music/Video columns
* Added: Standalone Web-Browser application with FTP (BROWSER.SELF) to avoid all memory issues
* Added: Support for launching PSX games from CD-R discs (XMMB Game Column and other display modes)
* Added: Launching directly ps1_emu.self or ps1_netemu.self from file manager will make multiMAN assign your Memory Cards properly, too
* Added: Options to set preferred Video Mode for PAL and NTSC PSX titles (default/480/576/720/1080)
* Added: peeklv1 and pokelv1 commands to control console
* Added: String printout for peekl and peeklv1 control console commands
* Added: Prompt to dump Hypervisor/LV1 after creating GameOS/LV1 memory dump
* Changed: Improved the looks of the old debug font, used in some dialogs and file manager
* Changed: multiMAN starts faster now
* Fixed: Unnecessary auto-refresh/scan for content on each startup
* Fixed: Browsing for ROMS in ZIP format

All features related to PSX discs require firmware 3.55 (kmeaw/rebug).

Source

At the moment, the update is online via PS3 only, the full version will be uploaded here.

To play PS1 discs you must be on 3.55CFW and use PS1 backup burned to CD-R disc (using bin+cue as source in IMAGE BURNING mode). It doesn’t work for PS2 games. It doesn’t work for PSP games. You can’t mount an ISO from the HDD.

UPDATE 1:

Another quick update to multiMAN:

* Improved detection of PSX discs (reading one sector to verify region/type)
* Detection of possible user-errors when editing options.ini
* Removed copying options.ini/options_default.ini from connected usb drives during startup

[Download Here]

Solar, an awesome screen saver & FTP server has been updated by condorstrike to add support to Rogero Backup Manager and multiMAN.

Download Solar – Rogero Edition

Download Solar v2.2 – multiMAN Edition

Source: Tortuga-Cove

We all know deank is probably the most dedicated PS3 Developer there is on the PS3 Scene, whether it be big updates, or minor updates, he is always working on multiMAN, today he releases version 02.07.00 which is a huge update, here is a quote from the change log:

* Added: LV2 access rights to use LV1 Storage Manager (syscall 864)
* Added: LV1 patch for user access to sys_storage functions (syscalls 600 to 623)

* The above two for regular users mean:

* Thanks to graf_chokolo and the SACD-Ripper guys!

* -> Access to all types of optical discs inside multiMAN (file/folder mode):
* -> Copy/Backup of Blu-ray Movie Discs (decryption may be required on PC) (previously possible only via OtherOS)
* -> Copy/Backup of DVD-Video discs (decryption may be required on PC)
* -> Copy/Backup of PSX and Playstation 2 Discs
* -> Access to AACSMKB_RO.inf on a Blu-ray movie disc to restore lost DRL1/DRL2
* -> Direct playback of movies/music (avi, mkv, etc) from BD-R/BD-RE/DVD-R/DVD-RW via Showtime for multiMAN

That’s about it. In short it means that you can now access and copy files/folders from any optical disc (be it to rip a blu-ray movie or transfer a backup of PS3 game from DVD or BDR to your ps3, watch videos in Showtime, etc)

The download is yet not available, but will be released later today.

Source

Official multiMAN Thread

UPDATE 1:

Please update to 02.07.01 if you installed 02.07.00.

The link below will take you to the updated with links to 02.07.01 UPD/BASE/FULL.

There was an issue, which caused some games to error out with weird messages (because of the storage manager intervention). Sorry about that.

You can also update online to 02.07.01.

http://www.ps3hax.net/showthread.php?t=24701

Official multiMAN Help Forum

Those of you who enjoy multiMAN, can show deank a little support, by donating here

Deank as always, is working hard on bringing improvements to his awesome piece of Homebrew, this minor update, removes the old FTP sever and implements jjolano’s OpenPS3FTP, here is a quote from the source:

* Changed: Implemented OpenPS3FTP by jjolano and removed the old buggy FTP server (faster transfer speeds and no path/file length limitations)

This should clear most of the FTP problems multiMAN had. Transfer speed is now faster, you can use 8-16 simultaneous file transfers, and the problem with long path and file names is gone now.

The implementation of openps3ftp is based on older version from jjolano, but still is much much better than what multiMAN had until now, so big thanks to him!

Source And Download

Remember to visit the multiMAN section of the forum, for MM related help and themes, you can find it here.

And of course the official multiMAN thread.

deank has just updated multiMAN, to version 02.06.00, with many cool additions, here is a quote from the Change Log:

* Added: Support for 7 connected controllers to be used simultaneously
* Added: Animation/slide effect when browsing USB/PS3HDD devices in XMMB mode
* Added: BD Remote controller buttons: YELLOW BUTTON = Restart, RED BUTTON = QUIT
* Added: Experimental motion/movie background support: If wave.divx is present in multiMAN’s USRDIR folder you can enable motion background with SELECT+TRIANGLE.
* Added: REFRESH option in SIDE menu for photo/music/video/retro columns when USB/PS3HDD entries are selected
* Added: Quit and Restart options in SIDE menu for Settings column
* Added: Quick access options in SIDE menu for XMMB Game and Favorites columns
* Added: A small touch to the SIDE menu: it will ZOOM in the current entry much like the real XMB
* Added: Increasing/Decreasing MP3 playback volume will make the pop-up box display in the lower left corner (thanks to chitalov for the reminder)
* Added: If multiMAN is started via Remote Play, TV Overscan will be automatically set to 10%
* Changed: Color labels when selecting the color for the SIDE menu
* Changed: Browsing USB devices in XMMB will behave like real XMB (i.e. will first open /VIDEO or /MUSIC or /PICTURE folders to look for content)
* Changed: If non-English GUI language is selected in conjunction with User Font, proper User Font will be restored after restart
* Fixed: Setting wallpaper after PNG file was used as wallpaper
* Fixed: Sorting order in XMMB for PS3 HDD and USB device icons.
* Fixed: MP3 playback (when sometimes audio plays in wrong frequency)
* Fixed: Freezing in coverflow when fast-browsing over 100 titles
* Performance check: multiMAN does ~122fps @ 1920x1080p 59.94Hz
* Showtime 3.1.241 available via online update and included in BASE/FULL versions

Source And Download

The Official multiMAN Help Forum

Video courtesy of manster(follow him on youtube if you want )

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