[Pirate]

Sephirothff has found a way to launch Swap Magic 3.8 3.6 on his European v1.90 PS3 (no emotion engine). Although no PS2 ISO's are playable its a pretty cool discovery but don't get your hopes just yet, it's still only a small discovery, but its also a small step to MAYBE something big.

Props to Xfab29 for his video showing the method:

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And for those interested this is how it is done:[*] Create on a USB/Flash drive a folder named SWAPMAGIC[*] Place the .ELF file (of choice) in the SWAPMAGIC folder on USB/Flash drive, and RENAMEthe ELF file you just inserted to SMBOOT0.ELF.[*] Insert the USB/Flash drive in your PS3 USB port. [*] Insert your SWAP MAGIC CODER 3.8 3.6 CD, when it launches go to SMBOOT in the menu, and select SMBOOT 0 to run the .ELF.

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EDIT: it is not 3.8, if u look at the  video it is 3.6, just wanted to clear that up! sorry.

[phil3627]

I use LaunchELF to Launch .elf files this is how I Launch Swap Magic 3.8 but the disc keeeps spinning so I can't swap disc

[xera22xc]

tell me if im wrong
ive hardly used the swapmagic
but isnt there an option to boot off externam drive or USB?
like i said i could br wrong and maybe boot an iso image via that
then again if this ws the case im sure someone has already tried

[Heinejuku]

Correct me if i`m wrong. Swap magic 2.6 Plus edition is Version 2.8?
And how would you ever play a ps2 game with the Swap Magic CD instead of the DVD.
Or offcourse its a ps2 game on a cd :D

[Krack3n]

Originally Posted by Heinejuku Correct me if i`m wrong. Swap magic 2.6 Plus edition is Version 2.8? And how would you ever play a ps2 game with the Swap Magic CD instead of the DVD. Or offcourse its a ps2 game on a cd :D

You could use the SM CD to boot home brew CD discs or PS2 CD back-ups. And sorry your wrong about the version numbers.

[viktoruelo]

If woy know spanish, you can visit this site: http://www.elotrolado.net/showthread...hreadid=829716 where you can find solutions to your problems, because they have discovered more things.

Viktoruelo

[aries2k]

Originally Posted by Heinejuku Correct me if i`m wrong. Swap magic 2.6 Plus edition is Version 2.8? And how would you ever play a ps2 game with the Swap Magic CD instead of the DVD. Or offcourse its a ps2 game on a cd :D

Well if you boot Swapmagic cd, you can then eject the cd. it asks you to put in a bigger TOC disk. you can then put an ORIGINAL Dvd game in and it will boot up.
Now we just need a way for it to boot backups ;D

This is a pretty interesting discovery. Good job. I had never actually seen the video.

[JackNL]

Maybe a stupid question but i'm not very into the ps3 hacking scene, but what is and .ELF file and what does it help us to play back-up?

Im just curious because i'm checking this site every day in the hope for a way of playing back ups.

[xjason]

Originally Posted by JackNL Maybe a stupid question but i'm not very into the ps3 hacking scene, but what is and .ELF file and what does it help us to play back-up? Im just curious because i'm checking this site every day in the hope for a way of playing back ups.

Welcome! Your question is not stupid.. lot's of people don't know anything about the ELF filetype. and everyone else here is waiting for a way to play backups too!

You'll find everything you want to know about ELF's in this article from wikipedia.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executa...inkable_Format

Here's all the good stuff:


Executable and Linkable Format
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computing, the Executable and Linking Format (ELF, formerly called Extensible Linking Format) is a common standard file format for executables, object code, shared libraries, and core dumps. First published in the System V Application Binary Interface specification, and later in the Tool Interface Standard, it was quickly accepted among different vendors of Unix systems. In 1999 it was chosen as the standard binary file format for Unix and Unix-like systems by the 86open project.

Today the ELF format has replaced executable formats such as a.out and COFF in the Linux, Solaris, IRIX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD operating systems (DragonFly BSD was forked from FreeBSD after the switch to ELF). Because other formats are proprietary, platform-specific, or less extensible than ELF, some users hold that ELF outperforms other formats, whereas others may consider it a competitor to the other formats. ELF is also used in the Itanium version of OpenVMS, a non-UNIX-based operating system, as well as replacing the Portable Executable on BeOS Revision 4 and later for x86 based computers (PPC computers stayed with Preferred Executable Format, having never used Portable Executable), which are also not UNIX-based. The PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 consoles also use ELF as their executable file format.