[GregoryRasputin]

jiXo from the Spanish forum Elotrolado, has made a post stating that he received an Open Source Back Up manager from a person who wishes to stay anonymous, here is what it says:

Open Manager v1.0 ----------------- This application has been made by an anonymous person non seeking fame, profit or benefit. I dont want to cause any damage to the video game industry, but it is not reasonable that these consoles (expensive cost) are constructed like butter and we can not do anything to preserve the health of the lens of our readers (my console model cannot be repaired), While Sony is rubbing his hands when you send to repair a console and them are dedicated to eliminating original features of the console, as PS3 Other OS and Linux, relying on what they think best for your business and not caring a or the feelings of their users or their acquired rights as users and owners of their consoles. The videogame industry only wants control, oligopoly, money, pursuit of anything that does not benefit their interests and if it is possible, force legal changes using their influence and power while we're just anonymous people we have to endure all the crap on hardware that is passed through a computer, just to avoid taxes. So I decided to do an experiment: I decided to see if I can make a BACKUP and Homebrew purpose loader (legal in my country), release the source code and waits to see what happens. Maybe someone has the Sony SDK 1.92 and wants to compile, it but that's not my problem. Obviously, is 'illegal' to build things with the SONY SDK unlicensed but this is only source code FEATURES -------- Open Manager has the next features: - Supports up to 512 items from two USB devices, internal hdd and bluray - Ability to copy games from bdvd to hdd0 or USB's, from hdd0 to USB's or from USB's to hdd0. It is done asking to you the destination device. It use uses asynchronous reading and writing for fast copy. - Special support for big files in FAT: it splits files >= 4GB using .666xx fragments (if the file is name.ext, the file splits as name.ext.66600, name.ext.66601,...). This file is not bootable and it is marked using '_' as folder prefix. The file is joining when you copy it to hdd0 device - Automatically finds the path of the games and asks to you about it. In other case, if the Open Manager is installed in the hdd0 creates one. You can change it pressing L2+START later. - Including checking game option (pressing L1). It displays information about the files, size, splits or big files, if it have one. - Support for Homebrew: you can creates "homebrew" folder in root USB FAT device and put here others folders with an EBOOT.BIN (.self format) and one ICON0.PNG. Also you can use the internal hdd0. Homebrew is launched directly and receive the path in argv[0]. - FTP support to upload homebrew: open_manager uses "OMAN46756" as user, by default. I recommend flashfxp to use it, because FTP support is not very good... NOTE: Open Manager works with Hermes payload update. So,if you return from game list, apps_home can launch gamaes without one disc (some games dont work without any disc), but if you return from Homebrew, apps_home works from usb000 NOTE2: You can modify the program as you want, but please, make public the source code

Download And Source

Images thanks to bubba
YouTube - PS3 Open Source Backup Manager Mod
Video thanks to Jurai

[japsander]

well if i met this guy i would buy him a nice cold beer...

[jjnovoa]

Awesome, this is one of the first steps towards PS3MC! like old XBMC for xbox, open source is the way to go here, that way things will go much faster!!! Congrats and thanks again!

[SubZero]

you know what makes great teams SUPPORT!, an its good were getting mor of it. This is what we NEED MORE OF. whatchu guys think of him staying anon though, anyway lets keep it coming

[japsander]

staying anonymous just shows hes in it for the right reasons i think...

(safer for him too!!!)

i think we will see more anon releases with the current stance sony are taking..

[roseysdaddy]

so that makes games with >4gb files possible on fat drives, by splitting them, right?

[$n!pR]

http://www.multiupload.com/NKLAE3JH94

[mupet0000]

Originally Posted by roseysdaddy so that makes games with >4gb files possible on fat drives, by splitting them, right?

No, it says split files are not bootable, they get combined if you put them on the internal.

[ZanderCross]

Originally Posted by roseysdaddy so that makes games with >4gb files possible on fat drives, by splitting them, right?

What's the point of having an account on this site if you don't read?

- Special support for big files in FAT: it splits files >= 4GB using .666xx fragments (if the file is name.ext, the file splits as name.ext.66600, name.ext.66601,...). This file is not bootable and it is marked using '_' as folder prefix. The file is joining when you copy it to hdd0 device

This was in the original post... So no you can't play them on FAT32 HDD's but you can transfer them to your internal hdd and they will join. Please read next time before posting...

[Ssseth]

PS3 needs a place like xbins for this kind of thing.

Nice development though, as already mentioned open source is the way to go! No way Sony can stop this now.