How close are we to hacking the PS3?

I do have a spare PS3 I could donate to Dark Alex. But would he work on it or just take advantage of a free PS3... cant trust anyone

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Originally Posted by Eviltaco64

It's usually the less-popular consoles that have a popular homebrew scene.

Dreamcast, Xbox, PSP, Gamecube, with Wii being an exception.

And you don't need BD-RWs for homebrew.. I'm sure that everyone could boot everything they need off the PS3s hard drive (and you can upgrade that HDD to 500GB/1TB, so you're never going to run out of space :P).

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What about the PS1 and PS2, huge homebrew scene too, and I don't think those qualify as less popular.

with the exception of PS3 which other devices have not been modded for homebrew? Saturn? 3DO? I think Sony did something right with their hardware... unfortunately for me. I would really like some accelerated graphics in linux :( and the ability to copy my games from disk to the hard drive would be sweet too... a la HD-Loader.

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Originally Posted by Draco

What about the PS1 and PS2, huge homebrew scene too, and I don't think those qualify as less popular.

with the exception of PS3 which other devices have not been modded for homebrew? Saturn? 3DO? I think Sony did something right with their hardware... unfortunately for me. I would really like some accelerated graphics in linux :( and the ability to copy my games from disk to the hard drive would be sweet too... a la HD-Loader.

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The PS1 and PS2 have both experienced a big homebrew scene... But not one as big as consoles like the Dreamcast, Xbox, Gamecube, and PSP have. That's all I was trying to say.

The Saturn has most definitely been hacked. You can buy a Saturn modchip, burn the homebrew of your choice to a disc, and play it on your Saturn.

The 3DO never had anything like copy protection or region lock, and I believe there is a small Russian 3DO homebrew community. It's open for homebrew, and any day now someone could release something for it that gets a lot of attention and starts a 3DO scene. It did happen for 32X! :)

Oh, and don't bump threads that are nearly one year old. ;)

i think give it a year or 2 and ps3 will be hacked pretty good

Please don't bump old-timey threads.

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