Important updates follow this story below. PS3HaX member moogie (There seems to be debate on who actually released this, but from the general idea it was kept underground and moogie leaked it to public- I dont know why there is a fuss, but if your more interested about “epeen” you can read about that here)  has released an eboot fix for those of you wanting to buy and play Uncharted 3 on your CFW machines, here is a quote from the read me:

(1) Install Uncharted 3 onto the PS3
(2) delete camera.txt from dev_hdd0/GAMES/BCES01175/PS3_GAME/USRDIR/build/main/movies1/
(3) Replace the EBOOT.BIN in dev_hdd0/GAMES/BCES01175/PS3_GAME/USRDIR/ with the one included in the RAR
(4) Launch Game
(5) PROFIT

NOTE: GOING TO DRAKE’S JOURNAL FREEZES GAME. UPDATE 1.01 FIXES THIS BUG, BUT IS ENCRYPTED. DO NOT UPDATE THE GAME, IT WILL BECOME UNPLAYABLE ON 3.55.

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Source moogies Twitter
Secondary source Tortuga Cove

PS3HaX IRC if anyone is interested

UPDATE 1:
Download For 3.41

UPDATE #2:

Please know that bugs are present in this eboot, please read the thread (“discuss in forums” link) to find possible solutions to problems people are experiencing.

PS3Hax member HeroX has also posted a tutorial on how you can play Uncharted 3 online, you can read that HERE.

UPDATE #3:
A fix for the freezing journal has been found. You can read about the fix, and download it right HERE.

UPDATE #4:

Even better version here.

The team known as Duplex, well known  for releasing PSN games, has released a 3.55 patch for Battlefield 3 (a FW 3.72 game)! With Uncharted 3 playable only a few hours ago, its definitely been a great weekend for PS3 owners.

UPDATE: But besides the fix for BF3 (note the Uncharted 3 fix is not the same “method” as the BF3 one), there is more good news that comes out of this release. We can’t say much about it right now, but I just received word that there is a VERY good chance that all the games coming this holiday season and pre-existing unplayable games will soon be playable on CFW PS3s!

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Stay tuned for more breaking news only at PS3Hax.

ICO and Shadow of the Colossus was leaked a few days early around the net, and it is confirmed to be playable on firmware 3.55/3.41 CFW. Interesting to see how new releases are still finding it around CFW users. Recently Limbo was also reported with a 3.55 CFW fix, you can read about that here.

Since all doing this modifications on EBOOT.elf files i have released simple application which will do the editing part for you.

Future Features : Auto creating of pkg and make ppl live easier

Download:

http://loadfiles.in/g8qmfvpcwwvl/ELF_Auto_Modifier.rar

While most people are eagerly waiting for a backup manager to accompany the Geohot CFW, it seems that Riku.kh3 has managed to boot PS3 game backup (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow) WITHOUT the need of a BM. What he did was essentially trick the PS3 into thinking that the game backup is actually a PSN game (by patching EBOOT.BIN).

So how do you patch your own EBOOT? Well Riku.kh3 has posted a small guide below, it by no means is newb friendly and requires you to know what you are doing, to quote:

1) Download and compile latest tools from git.fail0verflow.com Git (old versions of unself produce incorrect ELF)
2) Extract ELF from SELF
3) Hexedit ELF, find and replace dev_bdvd to correct path on dev_hdd0 (not all, but most games require this step)
4) Build NPDRM SELF using Geohot’s tools
5) Build package using psn_package_npdrm
6) Patch your builded package using Geohot’s tool (only for 3.55 firmware)

That’s it. If you can’t follow this guide, more detailed guide won’t help you.

//RikuKH3

And here is the modified EBOOT for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow:

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (BLES01047) signed&packed EBOOT (33.5MB)

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1) Install PKG file.
2) Transfer contents of USRDIR folder, EXCEPT EBOOT.BIN, to /devhdd0/game/BLES01047/USRDIR/

Thats all! Tested! The game will work from XMB on retail nonJB 3.41, 3.55 and future versions.

Let us know your results with other games.

[VIA PSX-SCENE] – Thanks to StevieD and SaveU for the news tip!

With the 3.50 appldr keys being released, it wouldn’t be long before someone got to work on getting games that required firmware 3.50 working.

The GT5 eboot has been apparently released.
If anyone can confirm it working.

source: http://psx-scene.com/forums/645611-post400.html
Also check here for updates and other games.

EDIT
Video Proof, thanks to ffffurage on IRC

What a booming weekend for the PS3 scene, Graf_Chokolo has just announced that he is now able to decrypt EBOOT.BIN.

To quote:

Guys, i’m able now to decrypt games, EBOOT.bins
I will make my findings public very soon

Here is a snippet of a game i decrypted: #1347337 – Pastie

Guys, how can I install NP-DRMs on my PS3, I have no clue!

However other sites are reporting that this is the decrypted Eboot for Sonic 4 which is not the case it is actually the eboot from Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection which is old (around FW 2.x) and really has nothing to do with playing FW 3.50 games on FW 3.41.

[VIA]

The new and first game to require firmware 3.42 is the Medal of Honor game, many thought that by patching the PARAM.SFO we could trick the PS3 into bypassing the update – however after testing it does not work…why? Mathieulh has posted on his twitter, that:

By the way, new game keys were added in the 3.42 appldr, if you get a 0×80010019 error that means the self/sprx can’t decrypt.

In laymans terms, in the 3.42 FW update, Sony added NEW encryption keys to the new era of PS3 games being released, the older PS3 firmwares (3.41) does not contain these encryption keys, so the PS3 fails to decrypt the games when ran resulting in error (80010019).

So what next? Well now we have to figure out how to decrypt the EBOOT.BIN for newer PS3 games, allowing us to then redistribute the new encrypted keys…but of course as you can imagine this will take a while to achieve.

[VIA Mathieulh Twitter]
[News Source via PSGroove]

Thanks to condorstrike for the news tip.