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    by Published on December 4th, 2010 18:30

    The makers of X3MAX claim that they have Jailbroken a v3.50 console, no need for any downgrade! You can read our full review of the X3Max here!

    And this is the third major advance in the world of hack Playstation 3: The jailbreak firmware 3.50 the PS3 by Team X3. After the jailbreak firmware up to 3.41, then downgrade the firmware 3.50, now the X3 team has managed to run homebrew on official firmware 3.50 without downgrading!

    The announcement is important, and Logic-Sunrise has done well to have bet on this team. 2 big questions:

    - Games like Gran Turismo 5 (requires firmware 3.50) work?
    - This update is compatible with the X3max? Is it free?

    We have that kind of information on LS in a few hours, but the feedback I have from them show a free and compatibility with X3max with an update, but I prefer to have confirmation. Until we have more information, a video of the feat.


    Some have questioned if this is the 3.50 Spoof but its not due to date in video and Sony blocking access to PSN. Some have also questioned that this may be a debug unit. There are many assumptions as to how the X3Max team were able to conquer this but my source at X3Max has confirmed that it is indeed LEGIT. We'll have to wait a couple more days for this to be released.

    *UPDATE*
    X3Max has now confirmed it on their Twitter account.

    Source: Logic-Sunrise via PSX-Scene ...
    by Published on December 4th, 2010 13:18




    We got this news from our source and thought we would be the first to share it (site was down). You can also read our full review on the E3 Card Reader here. THIS WILL NOT WORK ON OTHER JAILBREAK DEVICES.

    You can purchase your E3 Card Reader at Acekard.ca (10% off - coupon code 10acekardca), LighTake (10% off - coupon code TJOOS), PriceAngels, VolumeRates and MyGamingMart.

    Dear friends,

    Thank you for using E3card Reader PS3. Today we will bring you a big surprise: the E3-Downgrader for E3card Reader. Yes it's THE downgrader which can turn your 3.5 PS3 down to any version you wanted, i.e. the 3.41. It's no time limit, no PC software need to download, no need to write any emails, no need to wait and after all it's FREE. Yes, it's true. We can even proved that today it's not the day one of you need to go on board of some you know what ships, that of cause because we are Chinese. You can review the videos by click here, download the upgrade file by click here and download the 3.41 FW package by click here.

    Password : iLoveE3
    please note that it's case-sensitive.

    If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

    Best Regards

    E3Diy Group
    E-mail: [email protected]

    How to downgrade firmware 3.42/3.50 or above to firmware 3.41 with E3 Card Reader :
    1. Download and extract "e3downgrade_12.03.rar" to your computer
    2. Insert E3 Card Reader into the USB port of your computer.
    3. On your file browser, open "E3Upgrader"
    4. Drag and drop .bin file from "e3downgrade_12.03.rar" into "E3Upgrader"
    5. Red LED will flash. When you see the blue LED, that means the upgrade is successful and complete.
    6. Remove E3 Card Reader from computer
    7. Insert E3 Card Reader device that has been reprogrammed as downgrader into your console
    8. Turn on the console using the same boot method as all other jailbreaks: Press power then immediately press eject. Your console will turn on and E3 Card Reader will light up red LED followed by blue LED
    9. Turn off system via menu
    10. Remove E3 Card Reader dongle and turn on console to make sure you are in Factory Service Mode. You will see a huge red box on the screen saying Factory Service Mode.
    11. Load any blank FAT32 USB flash drive device with 2 files in the root directory:
      1. Modified 3.41 PUP
      2. Lv2Diag.self (File 1)
    12. These must be the only files on the USB key and must be placed in the main (root) directory.
    13. Insert flash drive into the last USB port to the right — the first USB port in from the right side if you’re facing the console. Turn the PS3 on and you will see black screen but the PS3 HDD light will flash.
    14. The process takes 3-4 minutes for the system to install the old firmware. Towards the end, the power button on the console will start flashing green and then your console will power off.
    15. Remove the flash drive and turn on the console, you will still be in Factory Service Mode. Please verify you have downgraded successfully to version 3.41 by going to "System Information".
    16. (Optional) – If you wish to downgrade to any older firmware you can follow step 4, 5, 6 using any regular firmware PUP. (You do not need to use modified custom firmware now that you are on 3.41).
    17. Insert USB flash drive back into your PC and delete the PUP and Lv2Diag.self file (File 1) and copy the other Lv2Diag.self (File 2) to the root of the flash drive.
    18. Insert USB flash drive back into the same USB port on the PS3 and power on your PS3. After 10 seconds it will power off.
    19. Remove USB flash drive and turn on your console again. You will be out of factory service mode and back in retail mode with your chosen firmware version installed. You will need to go through setting up settings configuration.

    To go back to E3 Card Reader jailbreak device, just drag back the normal .bin files. - e3 card reader, new generation ps3 chip with mulit-function

    Files can be downloaded at E3DIY ...
    by Published on December 2nd, 2010 23:24


    Translation:
    shinhalsafar the developer at the origin of the bearing of FCEU (emulator BORN) and VBA (emulator GameBoy, GameBoy Color and GameBoy Advance) continues in its impetus on the bearings of the Nintendo emulators for our greater pleasure. Indeed it has just created a page google code on its new project, the bearing of dolphin a Wii emulator and GameCube on PS3.

    Google Code Site: Dolphin PS3

    Source: Logic-Sunrise forums ...
    by Published on December 2nd, 2010 23:24


    Translation:
    shinhalsafar the developer at the origin of the bearing of FCEU (emulator BORN) and VBA (emulator GameBoy, GameBoy Color and GameBoy Advance) continues in its impetus on the bearings of the Nintendo emulators for our greater pleasure. Indeed it has just created a page google code on its new project, the bearing of dolphin a Wii emulator and GameCube on PS3.

    Google Code Site: Dolphin PS3

    Source: Logic-Sunrise forums ...
    by Published on December 2nd, 2010 23:24


    Translation:
    shinhalsafar the developer at the origin of the bearing of FCEU (emulator BORN) and VBA (emulator GameBoy, GameBoy Color and GameBoy Advance) continues in its impetus on the bearings of the Nintendo emulators for our greater pleasure. Indeed it has just created a page google code on its new project, the bearing of dolphin a Wii emulator and GameCube on PS3.

    Google Code Site: Dolphin PS3

    Source: Logic-Sunrise forums ...
    by Published on December 2nd, 2010 23:24


    Translation:
    shinhalsafar the developer at the origin of the bearing of FCEU (emulator BORN) and VBA (emulator GameBoy, GameBoy Color and GameBoy Advance) continues in its impetus on the bearings of the Nintendo emulators for our greater pleasure. Indeed it has just created a page google code on its new project, the bearing of dolphin a Wii emulator and GameCube on PS3.

    Google Code Site: Dolphin PS3

    Source: Logic-Sunrise forums ...
    by Published on December 1st, 2010 18:35


    A valued member at PSGroove, halsafar, has released his port of a VBA emulator!

    I am pleased to finally release my teams port of VBA (Visual Boy Advance) to the public. It is a clean port of the most recent VBA-M emulator, that is fully functional, equal to our teams SNES9X-PS3 and FCEU-PS3 releases.

    We spent some time optimizing it. The VBA-M source is not conducive to being run on the PPU. After applying many small optimizations we have obtained 60fps in all the important games.

    Enjoy GB and GBA with shaders!

    Vba 0.99 (3.41 only, 1.92 coming soon)

    Download VBA 0.99 (Mediafire)

    Report bugs, slow games or feature requests to the google code issue tracker:

    https://code.google.com/p/vba-ps3/

    Here is part of the readme file:

    This is an application for the PlayStation3 that makes it possible to play Game Boy Classic / Game Boy Color / Game Boy Advance games on your jailbroken PlayStation3. It is based on an up-to-date version of the popular PC emulator, VBA-M.

    1. CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTED VBA-M FUNCTIONS
    * Saving/loading of SRAM
    * Savestate loading/saving support
    – Savestate slot selectable in-game
    – Up to 10 saveslots

    2.1.1 CONTROLS IN ROM MENU
    Up - Go up
    Down - Go down
    Left - Go back five file entries
    Right - Go forward five file entries
    L1 - Go back one page
    R1 - Go forward one page
    Cross - (If directory selected) enter directory/ (if ROM selected) start ROM
    Triangle - (If ROM selected) start ROM with multitap support
    Circle - (If not in root directory) Go back to previous directory
    L2 + R2 - (If you previously exited a ROM) return to game
    Select - Go to settings menu (see ‘CONTROLS IN SETTINGS MENU’ section)

    2.1.2 CONTROLS IN SETTINGS MENU
    Up - Go up one setting.
    Down - Go down one setting.
    Left - Change setting to the left.
    Right - Change setting to the right.
    Circle - Go back to ROM menu/Go back to previous Settings screen
    Start - Reset the setting back to the default value.
    R1 - Go to the next Settings screen
    L1 - Go to the previous Settings screen
    L3 + R3 - Return back to game (if a ROM is loaded)

    2.1.3 CONTROLS IN-GAME
    Nothing worth really explaining here –

    R3 + L3 - Press these two buttons together while in-game to go back to the ROM browser menu.
    R3 + R2 - Save to currently selected save state slot
    L3 + L2 - Load from currently selected save state slot
    Right analog stick – Left - Move current savestate slot one slot backwards
    Right analog stick – Right - Move current savestate slot one slot forward

    To play a game with a USB controller as Player 1, start up your PS3 and rather than using the Sixaxis, DualShock3, plug in an USB port before connecting the controller to the PS3 – your USB pad should then become Controller 1.

    5.1 GENERAL NOTES
    * For people running this on HDTVs complaining about input lag:
    - Turn off all post-processing filters you may have running - on Sony Bravia HDTVs, display Motion Flow (this also causes input lags with most games in general, not just this application. If your HDTV has a 'Game' mode or something of the sort, select that as well.

    5.2 PERFORMANCE NOTES
    This emulator has been optimized to run most games at full-speed (at any resolution - 480p/720p/1080p).

    Some of the games that are guaranteed to run at fullspeed (without frameskipping) are games like:

    Advance Wars / Astro Boy / Castlevania: Circle Of The Moon / Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance / F-Zero: Maximum Velocity / Final Fantasy Tactics Advance / Golden Sun / Kuru Kuru Kururin / Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past / Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap / Mario Kart: Super Circuit / Mega Man Battle Network / Metroid Fusion / Metroid Zero Mission / Mother 3 / Super Mario Advance / Super Mario Advance 2 / Super Mario Advance 3 / Sword of Mana / Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis / Wario Land 4 / Wario Ware Inc

    As ever, your mileage may vary. Please notify us of games that won't run

    8. CREDITS
    Lantus - Optimizations from VBA 360 0.03
    Grandy - Special Thanks/Testing
    Orioto - PIC1.PNG (http://orioto.deviantart.com/art/Bir...Time-147870358)

    You can download file via source

    Source: PSGroove ...
    by Published on December 1st, 2010 18:35


    A valued member at PSGroove, halsafar, has released his port of a VBA emulator!

    I am pleased to finally release my teams port of VBA (Visual Boy Advance) to the public. It is a clean port of the most recent VBA-M emulator, that is fully functional, equal to our teams SNES9X-PS3 and FCEU-PS3 releases.

    We spent some time optimizing it. The VBA-M source is not conducive to being run on the PPU. After applying many small optimizations we have obtained 60fps in all the important games.

    Enjoy GB and GBA with shaders!

    Vba 0.99 (3.41 only, 1.92 coming soon)

    Download VBA 0.99 (Mediafire)

    Report bugs, slow games or feature requests to the google code issue tracker:

    https://code.google.com/p/vba-ps3/

    Here is part of the readme file:

    This is an application for the PlayStation3 that makes it possible to play Game Boy Classic / Game Boy Color / Game Boy Advance games on your jailbroken PlayStation3. It is based on an up-to-date version of the popular PC emulator, VBA-M.

    1. CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTED VBA-M FUNCTIONS
    * Saving/loading of SRAM
    * Savestate loading/saving support
    – Savestate slot selectable in-game
    – Up to 10 saveslots

    2.1.1 CONTROLS IN ROM MENU
    Up - Go up
    Down - Go down
    Left - Go back five file entries
    Right - Go forward five file entries
    L1 - Go back one page
    R1 - Go forward one page
    Cross - (If directory selected) enter directory/ (if ROM selected) start ROM
    Triangle - (If ROM selected) start ROM with multitap support
    Circle - (If not in root directory) Go back to previous directory
    L2 + R2 - (If you previously exited a ROM) return to game
    Select - Go to settings menu (see ‘CONTROLS IN SETTINGS MENU’ section)

    2.1.2 CONTROLS IN SETTINGS MENU
    Up - Go up one setting.
    Down - Go down one setting.
    Left - Change setting to the left.
    Right - Change setting to the right.
    Circle - Go back to ROM menu/Go back to previous Settings screen
    Start - Reset the setting back to the default value.
    R1 - Go to the next Settings screen
    L1 - Go to the previous Settings screen
    L3 + R3 - Return back to game (if a ROM is loaded)

    2.1.3 CONTROLS IN-GAME
    Nothing worth really explaining here –

    R3 + L3 - Press these two buttons together while in-game to go back to the ROM browser menu.
    R3 + R2 - Save to currently selected save state slot
    L3 + L2 - Load from currently selected save state slot
    Right analog stick – Left - Move current savestate slot one slot backwards
    Right analog stick – Right - Move current savestate slot one slot forward

    To play a game with a USB controller as Player 1, start up your PS3 and rather than using the Sixaxis, DualShock3, plug in an USB port before connecting the controller to the PS3 – your USB pad should then become Controller 1.

    5.1 GENERAL NOTES
    * For people running this on HDTVs complaining about input lag:
    - Turn off all post-processing filters you may have running - on Sony Bravia HDTVs, display Motion Flow (this also causes input lags with most games in general, not just this application. If your HDTV has a 'Game' mode or something of the sort, select that as well.

    5.2 PERFORMANCE NOTES
    This emulator has been optimized to run most games at full-speed (at any resolution - 480p/720p/1080p).

    Some of the games that are guaranteed to run at fullspeed (without frameskipping) are games like:

    Advance Wars / Astro Boy / Castlevania: Circle Of The Moon / Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance / F-Zero: Maximum Velocity / Final Fantasy Tactics Advance / Golden Sun / Kuru Kuru Kururin / Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past / Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap / Mario Kart: Super Circuit / Mega Man Battle Network / Metroid Fusion / Metroid Zero Mission / Mother 3 / Super Mario Advance / Super Mario Advance 2 / Super Mario Advance 3 / Sword of Mana / Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis / Wario Land 4 / Wario Ware Inc

    As ever, your mileage may vary. Please notify us of games that won't run

    8. CREDITS
    Lantus - Optimizations from VBA 360 0.03
    Grandy - Special Thanks/Testing
    Orioto - PIC1.PNG (http://orioto.deviantart.com/art/Bir...Time-147870358)

    You can download file via source

    Source: PSGroove ...
    by Published on November 30th, 2010 16:26


    DCEmu Reviews has another EXCLUSIVE first look at XCM's newest products to be released real soon, XCM HDMI Capsule.

    XCM HDMI Capsule (HDMI Splitter) is unlike similar HDMI splitter products on the market (most of them are black or grey color). XCM HDMI Capsule is a frosted white color with a built-in 4 set LED for different HDMI ports. Each set of LEDs has its own color and light up when in use. It is in small size and looks cool. You can plug in for 4 different kinds of consoles, simultaneously. You can assign which HDMI cable goes to which color for your console; green LED for Xbox 360™, blue LED for PlayStation 3™, red LED for Wii™, Yellow LED for DVD player or however you like it. Enjoy!


    XCM HDMI Capsule Splitter will be released soon and can be found at Play-Asia, ConsoleSource and Divineo China.

    Images via comments ...
    by Published on November 30th, 2010 00:47


    An anonymous source has contacted us with some exciting, exclusive news. He has released a PSX emulator for PS3, entitled PS3SX. The emu is a port of PCSX to the PS3. It runs at full speed, full screen, and supports CDDA and XA audio. This pre-release also features 2 player support, saving, and iso formats *.iso *.bin *.mds *.img.

    Currently the source code has not been released, but it will be once the emu is completely ported using just the PSL1GHT SDK. PS3SX will run on all retail 3.41 units (fat and slim). Currently it is untested on older firmwares and does not work on debug units (PS3 Test units).

    Instructions: Install PKG file on PS3. Either use the folders from the rar file, or make "bios" "MC" and "psxrom" folders in the root of a USB drive. Download PSX bios file below, and place it in "bios" folder. Place legally owned PSX backup ISO's in the "psxrom" folder. Run emulator and play!

    Please note there is currently a bug with this pre-release. You can only quit the emulator when running a game. If you attempt to exit to XMB at the rom menu, the emulator will freeze.

    ================================================== ==========================
    PRE - RELEASE PS3SX 29/11/2010
    ================================================== ==========================

    PS3SX PCSX port on PS3 using PS3 SDK and psl1ght it's a hybrid for the pre-release.
    No source code will be available only when i completely port the emulator to psl1ght.
    Before xmas i will update it with a new GUI, save state, and cheat code .

    this emulator can only work on 3.41 retail not tried yet on older version.

    Support in this pre-release version :
    • 2 Players
    • All iso formats *.iso *.bin *.mds *.img
    • psx homebrew *.psx and *.exe
    • Save works for player 1 & 2
    • Sound support CDDA and XA
    • Full screen
    • Full Speed

    I'm using PCSX-DF core with the ppc dynarec the dyanrec work already on this version of ps3sx with libkammy god bless AerialX for the libkammy and i'm using the cellframework for sound only.

    My thanks go to AerialX , drk||Raziel , pcsx Team and pcsx-df team for the original source code , psxgroovy at www.psxgroovy.com for the dongle sample PEOPS for this good plugin and Mathieulh .

    all plugins come from PEOPS


    With luv Anonymous
    Since this was compiled with Sony SDK, we will not link or upload the files. You can however get the files via source link below. Once its been compiled with PSL1GHT SDK, we'll provide the download file.

    Source: PSGroove

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