[sonicjam]

Ugh took me forever to post this reply dumb internal pop ups... well anyways i just thought of this i think any usb device can clone it even a thumbdrive. remember SKFU's Dynamic Theme POC hack he can clone the PSJailbreak with that .fu file.

[0amadeus0]

Originally Posted by GregoryRasputin Plenty of reference to that in a few of the PS Jailbreak thread, the best looking ways are the xecutor HDXT Harddrive Extender or this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PS3-HD-Hard-Di...pt=Video_Games

Cheers for the advise mate.

Top tip on the PHE-02, picked one up along with a 1TB drive (note: PHE-02 needs certain drives according to the ebay page).
Just need to wait for the parcels to come in and i'm good to go for homebrew
All in all, for under the price of a jailbreak I got everything I need plus 1TB storage. result!

Sorry if all this was off topic btw.

[yoshi314]

Originally Posted by sonicjam Ugh took me forever to post this reply dumb internal pop ups... well anyways i just thought of this i think any usb device can clone it even a thumbdrive. remember SKFU's Dynamic Theme POC hack he can clone the PSJailbreak with that .fu file.

:musicus:

theme hack is quite different. it's a xmb hack, an probably exploits some theme parsing vulnerability.

ps jailbreak exploits a usb vulnerability, on entirely different end of the system.

this hack involves simulating a usb hub, and a jig connection. you cannot program a generic usb storage device to do this.

usb storage devices can be programmed to alter their capacity or usb id, depending on the chip inside of them (that's how many of those fake 64GB pendrives are made, you might see them on e.g. ebay). you just cannot do much more than this with a typical usb storage device.

i think psp could be programmed to do this, assuming its usb stack is programmable.

[domatas]

Originally Posted by yoshi314 :musicus: theme hack is quite different. it's a xmb hack, an probably exploits some theme parsing vulnerability. ps jailbreak exploits a usb vulnerability, on entirely different end of the system. this hack involves simulating a usb hub, and a jig connection. you cannot program a generic usb storage device to do this. usb storage devices can be programmed to alter their capacity or usb id, depending on the chip inside of them (that's how many of those fake 64GB pendrives are made, you might see them on e.g. ebay). you just cannot do much more than this with a typical usb storage device. i think psp could be programmed to do this, assuming its usb stack is programmable.

Nice, but why should we have waited so long for this to be discovered!?

[Pockets69]

Because finding a hole in a system is not something easy like taking advantage of it!!!
finding a hole in the system might take years (ps3) of course we know where to look cause we know well... they are usually here and there, but if they aren't (like the ps3) if we find its because we stumbled upon it, not because we knew it was there, this was probably the same, that is why it took so long.

[$n!pR]

If anyone's counting on using the hack from Mathieulhs team, don't plan on running game backups or connecting to PSN (at least for awhile until someone else patches it).

[Pockets69]

I sincerely hope so Sniper (that no one patches it i mean)

[$n!pR]

Originally Posted by Pockets69 I sincerely hope so Sniper (that no one patches it i mean)

Don't count on it, Bushing from the Wii scene did his best to avoid piracy and people still made all sorts of backup launchers.

[yoshi314]

Originally Posted by $n!pR If anyone's counting on using the hack from Mathieulhs team, don't plan on running game backups or connecting to PSN (at least for awhile until someone else patches it).

i don't really care about backups or online play much. i hope we will be able to restore otheros loader through this and get some real homebrew on the ps3 going.

it's just too bad that the ps3sdk is not really ready yet. but there is a chance that its development will pick up quickly, if we get an affordable DIY softmod solution.

obviously people are bound to use it for piracy. and that should bring game prices a bit down - xbox360 games are almost twice as cheap on second-hand market than their ps3 versions. not sure about the first hand discs.

[japsander]

ive had a look but cant seem to find any good uk supplier for the teensy++ boards, does anyone know of one?

the AT90USBKEY seems easy enough to find though, and at around £25 a very nice price (good for relations xmas presents)

i would be interested in modding a ps3 to have it internal and still keep my ports free. should be simple enough i think.