Dark AleX Custom PS3 Firmware possible?

[wraggster]

Im sure many of you who own a PSP and the staggering success of the Custom Firmwares mainly by Dark Alex must wonder like most of us is a PS3 Custom Firmware Doable and can it have the features and more what the PSP version has, imagine a Custom firmware that allows you to play your PSP, PS1 and PS2 games and emulators and homebrew on your PS3.

What are your thoughts on Custom Firmwares on the PS3?

[porchemasi]

Wraggster you asked the question I have been dying to ask others aswell!

I SERIOUSLY HOPE THERE WILL BE A CFW FOR THE PS3

I would personally donate money if I could run homebrew ie. SNES on the PS3... PS3 COULD BE THE EMULATION CONSOLE of our dreams with its 40gb HDD, wifi, six-axis ... i mean just take the current homebrew on the PSP and multiply it by like x50 and you got homebrew on the PS3, blazing fast, internal storage, wifi, 4 player input, adhoc, wowzers!!!!

Besides the annoying Linux way... Linux emus atm are slow and buggy... we need genuine homebrew I hope someone can ask DAX if he can look into it.... im sure all the head emu sites (qj, dcemu, ect) and all his loyal fans could donate him money to buy a PS3 they droped in price soo much .... but i dont think money is an issue for DAX though and theres another reason for him not buying 1....


Only main issue could be PSN fw updats, if ur not on the newest 1 = no online play or PSN .... which could be bad.... this CFW would have to be like done like X360 iXTREME fw (however it is done)

[Illegal Machine]

well, Im not sure if its even possible...


I mean, we know what goes into PSP hacking, and creating a custom firmware..



would it even be possible to accomplish without a valid exploit?


are there any exploits in the 2.10 PS3 firmware? I would love to see it happen.. Id LOVE to be able to play all the PSX games Ive made for the PSP on the PS3 as well...

however.. would that also mean that we would be able to play backups of PS3 games from the XMB?

and would it ALSO mean that anyone can install the playstation store downloads for free?

would you expect to see emulators and other programs that take full advantage of the PS3 hardware? and would you also expect for whatever programming GOD that would accomplish this arduous task to also add in a SDK for developers?




because these are the amenities that the average custom firmware user enjoys on their PSP currently, a goal of COMBINED EFFORT on the part of Humma Kavula, Booster, and DarK_AleX which took the better part of 2 years to perfect... With the help of hundreds of beta testing forum members reporting glitches and making requests...



dont you think its asking a little too much?

[Napalm-Death]

Booo. I clicked thinking that there was actually news of a CFW from DAX for the PS3. =(

[F9zDark]

Doable? Maybe. Will it ever be done? Probably not.

-The PS3 is quite expensive, and to hack it would probably require a hardware modification, making would be hackers hesitant to mess around with something that costs 400+ dollars.

-The Cell has an SPU designated for the purpose of security. Perhaps the Cell wouldn't even allow this to happen to begin with through a software modification.

-Would it be worth it? If hackers made a way to do it, I might buy another PS3 for this purpose, but I wouldn't use my main PS3. No doubt the day when this does happen, Sony may take drastic measures (banning of online accounts, disabling things like Home from working if the firmware is hacked, etc).

This isn't a problem on the PSP which has a very small online presence. But the PS3 is online the instant you turn it on and login as a user. If the security SPU has a way of sending data about what the "BIOS" loads and checks it somehow, Sony may be able to implement a system that disallows PS3 online game access by checking the data the SPU checks/stores.

If it happened I might go for it, but I would seriously think twice about putting it on my main PS3.

[SSaxdude]

If the PS3 does get hacked and gets homebrew, it will probably be due to a modchip. I'm sure Sony will protect the PS3 from hacks as much as they can, to prevent it from being so widespread like with the PSP.

[Napalm-Death]

I just want to play emulators on mine without switching to Linux. Speaking of Linux, I have to install it on my PS3 again, is there a recommended version of Linux for PS3 out there?

[DPyro]

Fedora or Ubuntu Linux are good.

[F9zDark]

Fedora or Ubuntu Linux are good.

I'd stick with Yellow Dog personally. Sony "hired" Terra Soft to make an optimized version for the PS3, that will work right out of the "box", no fuss. And Sony also hired the same company to make a special PS3 Developer Environment for Yellow Dog (it will probably work on other linux distros however).

And, should we ever get 3d acceleration access or other features that benefit linux, it will probably be made for Yellow Dog first (or only).

[porchemasi]

I think the biggest exploit may come straight from either the memory card adaptor and a modified version of memor32 or a simple boot dvd that can write files from sd right to flash

a man can dream? cant he?