This is a Preview of the upcomming CFW from various spanish developers. It’s going to be awesome

To Quote from the Source (translated)

Here’s a Video of it

[VIA Demonhades]

The latest Debug Firmware 3.66 has been leaked by Consoledev. No, this does not mean CFW, but this hopefully can be useful to devs in establishing the future of CFW. This firmware is only for developers, researchers and this will only work on TEST units.

Our friend and fellow Consoledev give us a little something back to the community DHorg, on this occasion published the 366, PS3 debug firmware.Not like others who keep them and make them public

For users of the street as I do not get much use, but for devs and other researchers that is more space to learn about new protections OFWs 366

The download of you have in the web chat or in the firmware thread debugs

1saludo and thanks from Alejandro (¿?¿?) DHorg and that was that lol

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]

Tons of new PS3 homebrew updates for you this weekend. Catch the latest updates below.

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There are two releases here. The first is a mod to the Open Manager v2.1 I-2, it gives you the ability to launch PS3 games from the XMB, games are displayed as a list on the XMB. You will need to install 30 Open Manager v2.1 I-2 PKG files so that the games can show up on the list. But wait, there is a second release! It is the Open Manager v2.1 J-2, and it includes various fixes!

Warning: This is only for use with 3.41 CFW/Dongles & Waninkoko v2

[Download Open Manager]

[VIA Demonhades]

This is a spanish program created by Alegoría. It is said that this program lets you create PKGs.

We inform this new application is being developed by Allegory to easily create pkgs.
The idea is to convert the physical format games DG HG property to run directly from the HDD without having to undergo any manager games (Multimedia).

I discussed this in beta but from DHorg want to give our support to continue developing and improving this tool that looks great

Might not be useful for some of you, but it was for me.

A new team calling themselves Mega hiper ultra fantastico Team released details on how to use files to ‘re-marry’ a BD drive.

Max1985 at DemonHades has posted a link to the complete package of the previously leaked much needed files along with what seems to be a modded ‘lv2diag.self’ that seems to be able to finally truely ‘re-marry’ a Blu-Ray drive board on a PS3 console!

Here is a short tutorial:

As with all new things, doing this totally at the end-user risk, people have not done any testing on this very risky firmware progress. But a couple of facts are, their may be different models which will NOT work at all, due to the fact some BD Drives are designed for Dual-Eye lasers vs. Single-Eye lasers, and IDE vs. SATA drive hookup. Also this most likely is only designed for the FAT 256mb NAND systems, as the 16mb NOR and Slim’s use a different drive board marriage system. And finally DO NOT TRY THIS ON v3.56 consoles, as YOU CURRENTLY CAN’T EXIT SERVICE MODE!

Download link

-- Lv2diag.self MD5 C48E5EBFC00ABD89094CB73A2B0BEA59
-- manufacturing_updater_for_reset MD5 90168C03B217CE775A7839D87BBFF2A3
-- fdm_spu_module.self MD5 9BDE16660221042A4440ED2C053A139E
-- PS3UPDAT.PUP
cfg (folder) -> standalone.cfg standalone.cfg

Video Proof:

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Very interesting information coming in regarding a possible exploit within Fifa 09 by using a exploit from savestate or shader. (more…)

DemonHades and his team have created a custom PSN store, it is only in beta stages at the moment, only has retail demos, doesn’t have homebrew, here is a translation of what DemonHades says via his blog:

As you know long ago our community was proposed in the Open PStore, a project which I unlink seeing the little / no care of their visual system, that is why we see this new project, I felt comfortable visual menu and care of every detail.

The organization is a remarkable point, the refresh rate and speed of access of content make this new system quick and easy way to have the latest without having to upgrade to 3.50.

We also have to say for the moment only has demos of retail games, not homebrew, so it is still that … a copy of Sony’s PSN.

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PSX Store

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Here is a video i made showing how to download the demo’s straight to your PS3, some of the demo’s give errors, also sorry for the crappy video.

Last month, we posted here about the 1.92 PS3 SDK leak, well now we have 3.41 Toolchain leaked, the Toolchain also the RAF tool, RAF toolls are used to create Dynamic Themes, DemonHades has posted it on his site, here is a badly translated quote from his blog:

Just a while my friend and colleague told us that Bhaal has released the SDK toolchain 3.41, this toolchain also brings a pleasant surprise Tool RAF, the RAF are video files or streams used as background for the dynamic themes

Perhaps this will lead to Dynamic Themes.

Demonhades today has leaked the internal PS3 Jig manuals. The documents outline how configure and setup the Sony software and how to use Sony’s service USB jig. The files obviously are illegal so we won’t like the downloads to you, but you can find the information you desire at the source.

To quote:

Well I dedicate this information for some eol aware of that are still believed themselves the lies that this is an exploit, when really jigcard leverages the technology of Sony and its backdoor in the usb port and libusb.

Alert and has long behind it were several people including Mathieulh, geohot and Richdevx and as you see all this coming out of their hands … this debate is what has led to the TeamHades was dissolved by doubting my statements and worst all that I crellesen my own colleagues and friends.

Here you have the PDF of JigCard so you can see with your own eyes have deceived you into believing it is an exploit, save data as the service mode to do this for chapters and no deliveries and so suspicious of them. You have more information at the Research Forum

And since I already communicated that leaves DemonHades investigations; only me to care for the community engages DHorg (the people), help with problems and doubts keep the site up to date … but I withdraw from the research topic.

1saludo and thanks to that if I have believed and supported me and the rest to be happy with this BIG LIE.

[VIA Demonhades]

Yesterday, we reported here, that Spanish PS3 Scene Developer DemonHades had his website compromised and several of the files that resided on his server, were leaked and posted as one of his blog posts, unfortunately the files that were leaked were sensitive Sony files, that were illegal for DH to have, he claims that they weren’t his files, and stated that the hackers uploaded the files, to get him into trouble.
Nobody knows for sure who hacked the DemonHades blog/forum, some claim it was the other scene devs he was publicly blasting and others think it was DH himself, that hacked his own blog, these are all just queses though.
Long time PS3 Scene Dev SKFU(StreetskaterFU) has posted his theory/opinion, on his own blog, this is what it says:

DemonHades – Victim or Offender ?
Recently I talked to DemonHades, about the current situation of his blog and forum. As we all should know right now, it was hacked several times this month, the SQL DB of the forum was spread online and finally SONY internal LV3 documentation files were linked on the frontpage.

Did DemonHades leak those files because he was mad or did the hacker put the files online to lead the community in a wrong direction against DemonHades, to finally let him shut up?

DemonHades personally told me he had nothing to do with the leak. Neither I see a reason why he should do this. The forum/blog will be back as soon as he fixed his server issues.

So why this attacks, which seem to be a private conflict between someone who wants DemonHades to give up and Demonhades himself?

At the moment DH works together with Team Jungle (known in XBOX scene as drive hackers). The most recent conspicuous event was the PSJailbreak, which seems to be a direct enemy of team Jungle’s and DemonHades’ BD Drive Research. Maybe members of the PSJailbreak team are behind the attacks? Imagine your own opinion.

Similar fights were and will always be part of the scene. Not everybody can be friends, I guess.

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These are just one persons thoughts/opinions, they are not fact, so read of it as you may.

These must be the worst few days over at Sony. According to internet reports, a well known Spanish hacker Demonhades had his blog hacked yesterday (about 3 times), and his SQL publicly leaked. The hackers managed to wipe out his entire FTP, forcing his site to be temporarily shutdown (still closed as of now).

The leaked SQL however contained illegally obtained information for the PS3, such as service manuals, various of other documents and information, and programs/SDKs – all now spreading over the internet like a wild fire.

The leak may further hurt Sony as hackers begin to get their hands on this illegal data and may open up more doors for the PS3, especially with PSJailbreak just around the corner.

Files that were leaked:

• sm-bdd-0013e-01-0.rar
• sm-ps3-0013e-02-0.rar
• sm-ps3-0073e-05-0.rar
• sm-ps3-0093e-02-0.rar
• ta085.pdf
• scenefree.rar which contains PS3_Generator-1.20

We liked to remind our community that these files are considered illegal, so do NOT ask for them on these forums, do NOT ask for them via private messages. The issue will be treated like warez, and appropriate action will be taken against violators.

Unless you have been sleeping under the rock for the last 24 hours, you most likely heard about PSJailbreak modchip which allows backups to be booted on PS3. Demonhades and SKFU provide their thoughts on PSJailbreak below:

I just tested the software they uploaded and can confirm it works so far.

I can tell a bit about the backup manager. It seems the software uses bd_emu features to manage the backups. The HDD to use, should have a modified bd emu format, which sets all backups on first position, so the PS3 detects ‘em all. Then you can choose the image to boot via the manager.

To directly copy and boot a game, the software would need to decrypt all layers on the fly. Meaning it decrypts all executables somehow, else it won’t run. Even on a debug unit.

The hardware look like a copy of the original PS3 jigstick, used in SONY service centers to repair broken PlayStation3 SKU’s. Someone internal leaked or sold a stick, so they had the chance to reverse and clone the hardware.

The stick should boot before the normal firmware does, so it’s hard to patch it. Maybe SONY could update the bootcode to prevent it, set it to a revoke list.

By the way, in all videos they use debug PS3′s to run the software. There is no video showing the actual process booting on a retail PS3 afaik. So I do not confirm that this is true, yet!

If it’s as true as it looks this time, good job guys!

Demonhades(via Blog)

Well I see that recently raised a stir is mounted by a chip of course to load backups from a pendrive, at first glance one might say it’s fake if we did not know of studies conducted years ago and let us see many more hidden things that not all users can understand, in this case we speak of the card jig, the jig is used by the card sony sat for maintenance and restoration in ps3.

In short, this jig card has been removed from the payment sony sat.. so now try to expand the money spent only and once recovered the money spent in obtaining this device the reproduction and cloning of the device will be imminent.

When I saw the body of the above, first I noticed that the sample vsh known and used parts of a debug.. and of course if one is launching retail which does not make much sense, could only think one way quickly- THE CONVERTER RETAIL TO DEBUG.

This converter is thought to sony and service for devs have this jig card (aka USB dongle), allowing this USB is that:

Releasing the boot ini dev_usb0 and a sequence of buttons that change the state of syscon as we launch the initial boot usb dongle, then interprets the bootstrap and load the necessary files from the dongle itself temporarily leaving the ram doing a false reboot.

According to the store have told the seller, no residue on the PS3.. so it fits the above description.

The idea is quite clear gentlemen, emulates the fw of trm syscon and we have a debug interprets loading the kernel debug and providing all the features to debug vshmain time, this results in loading unsigned code.

This allows us as I mentioned months ago to launch pkgs from ubs, since it has a browser for managing them.

The official BDEMU disk loading before you activate the mediatype BD and then run the loader to the channel of communication with the real reader would be closed and only would use the BD-emu, emu and the bd can not share the same channel communication.

In this case to remove the layer is used to extract cellftp to an external source of filesystems without pre-decoded and converted to debug layer.

Executables can be created with the sdk, and generated their own loader which removes the layer of encryption (this if it will extract the discs, not linux), then the PS3Gen (published as a matter of 1 month) can be create iso patched with valid soft.esto itself mean that everything is made in the PS3 SDK (emulators, applications, etc) will be loaded without problems, as we are doing the same as the 360 with jtag hack it uses a core debug.

The loader is loaded by the execution path that recognizes the actual application manager, loaded via app.

TRUE GENTLEMEN OF THE NEWS WOULD BE A GREAT TIME AND NEWS bad news… Let me explain:

1. NO SERIOUS WORK DONE BY HACKERS OR RESEARCHERS.

2. MATERIAL IS MADE LIKE THE MAGIC BATTERY FOR PSP WITH SONY TOOLS.

In short, PS3 has fallen to the very tools you use in your SAT Sony… that if Sony can plug it into the next update.. just have to cancel the initial boot usb to close the bar, because the boss is syscon.

As we mentioned here, here and here, TeamHades were working on the PS3′s BD Drive, they had managed to connect both fat and slim drives up to a PC and they also managed to find out how to grab the firmware of the drives, now it emerges, that the well known Xbox 360 DVD Drive circumventers TeamJungle, are helping TeamHades with their project, here is a translated quote from TeamHades blog:

As you read in the title of this entry, the TeamJungle is working in collaboration with the TeamHades in the Reader-DB Playstation3 undoubtedly good news for the community of DHorg and his followers.

c4eva is delighted to partner with our team and finally the ps3 reader fall.

For those who do not know the TeamJungle, I can only say that they are responsible for the hacks of the reader of the xbox360, as a result xbox360 users have for years been playing their backups.

Any new comment you are DHorg community

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As we reported here and here and here , DemonHades and his team had manged to get a PS3 Blu Ray drive running on a PC, they have done it again, this time with a newer model of drive, which is present on the slim PS3, they have also stated that they have found a method of extracting the firmware, here is a translated quote from the blog:

Well, I just woke up with this news, our mail Calimba has managed to connect the 304R model is one of the newest, and also ensures better to connect the ps3 slim.
The way forward has been entirely empirical, so we do not try it because it does not show any information on the Internet.

Moreover, the good news is that we know to extract and decrypt the FW.
I think that people who criticized us so much, it’s time to bend the ears, and finally admit what this team and this website are doing for the scene …

I leave the new reader catches recognized by the pc

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DemonHades has released more details on his blog, regarding his PS3 Blu Ray drive to PC connection.

Translated quote from DemonHades blog:

Well more information from the recent work done by the HadesTeam and Calimba, this time show photos of the connection and also how Windows shows the drive contents PlayStation3.

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