[Squarepusher2]

Originally Posted by jennys @grego ry Per say this method has been known by developers and now shared due to their distaste in warez then one should weigh the amount of pirating the Dongles allow and the amount this supposed method would allow. I highly doubt their only motivation was to keep the Dongles in business (I'm speaking of dev's not involved in that and other Dongle projects). Keeping the Dongles around could of merely been a side effect of not sharing how to run unsigned code on higher firmwares. Due to being stuck on 3.55 and relying on Dongles to play a limited amount of games (or not playing them at all) if this DEX thing works out there will be a surge in piracy like none has seen before - something that ethical hackers don't want to be a part of. Of course, like you're comment my statement is pure speculation in response to your's.

These 'ethical hackers' didn't let their 'distaste of warez' get in the way of them obtaining debug eboots (such as Portal 2 for instance) from Sony servers for personal usage - to which they obviously have no business even connecting to, since they're not 'real licensees'. So I don't think I'll listen to any musings about 'ethical hackers' anytime soon.

Let's not talk about PSL1GHT either - for fun I've ported RetroArch to it as well. Let's just say that if Sony were to compare the PS3 SDK and PSL1GHT SDK, it would be impossible for the PSL1GHT devs to prove in court this could have been written without having obtained and looked at the PS3 SDK. Thus, it's still illegal - clean reverse engineering is not 'I looked at copyrighted SDK, changed around some function names and that's that - legal homebrew SDK' - clean reverse engineering is also not hooking into SPRX stub functions - it means 'from scratch, using zero copyrighted documentation/information'.

Something like bSNES is indeed 'clean reverse engineering' - PSL1GHT not so much.

You can check for yourself how much the two SDKs are alike by looking at my port code - I can get by targeting both the PS3 SDK and PSL1GHT by just changing around some macros -obviously, this is not 'coincidence' and it's fairly obvious what they modelled it after.

https://github.com/Themaister/RetroA.../sdk_defines.h

[GraVoX959]

Originally Posted by BobbyBangin I'm asking because you seem to be in the know. If you don't know something you say so. I'm actually moving to Australia soon so you can use mine...so long as you promise not to break it. I was hoping the same thing. I don't really care about new games so much as I would like to play ps2 backups and get some better emulators. Internet radio would be nice.

Well I know 4 people who had done by themselves prior so its definitely possible
Drop in for a beer when ya get here


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[TheFrenchy]

Hi all.
i created an account only to get informations.
i'm not sur i understood this news.

i understood this can convert retail to dev ps3, but why everyone say this is a good news?
what are we able to do with dev ps3, find root key, load ALL ps3 games without any firmware troubles ?

is one of you could explain everything to me it will be helpfull.

thx guys

[Cheesethief]

Originally Posted by TheFrenchy Hi all. i created an account only to get informations. i'm not sur i understood this news. i understood this can convert retail to dev ps3, but why everyone say this is a good news? what are we able to do with dev ps3, find root key, load ALL ps3 games without any firmware troubles ? is one of you could explain everything to me it will be helpfull. thx guys

For now, this means nothing to the average cfw user.

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[TheFrenchy]

yes i know avout 'end-users" but :

1 - why everyone say this is a good news?
2 - what are DEVS able to do with this , find root key, find a way yo load ALL ps3 games without any firmware troubles ?

thx

[GraVoX959]

Originally Posted by TheFrenchy yes i know avout 'end-users" but : 1 - why everyone say this is a good news? 2 - what are DEVS able to do with this , find root key, find a way yo load ALL ps3 games without any firmware troubles ? thx

Well for 1 it makes it easier to debug homebrew. Which in itself may draw more devs into the scene.
Can also take a good look at the TB eboots (remember Batman disc was done on a dex)

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[Ayes]

I'm guessing us on 4.11 are f*cked?

[harryoke]

Originally Posted by GraVoX959 Well for 1 it makes it easier to debug homebrew. Which in itself may draw more devs into the scene. Can also take a good look at the TB eboots (remember Batman disc was done on a dex) Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2

i like the cut of your jib....TB eboots ...decrypt ..sign with 3.55 keys

[EiKi]

no wait,
a dex fw cant "mount" games, it might be able to launch MM but it doesent have the required lv1/lv2 patches to mount games afaik 3.55 dex does but higher still cant be patched afaik, so if iam right this is no way to pirate games (for now) you could play disc games i guess, dex let you go up and down to any fw

[harryoke]

Originally Posted by EiKi no wait, a dex fw cant "mount" games, it might be able to launch MM but it doesent have the required lv1/lv2 patches to mount games afaik 3.55 dex does but higher still cant be patched afaik, so if iam right this is no way to pirate games (for now) you could play disc games i guess, dex let you go up and down to any fw

didnt deank release a MM version for dex consoles a while back with L1/L2 patches