Yeah, the Sony ID thing will kill this - Sony managed to eliminate 3rd party controllers that were using the Sony ID's to be recognized by the system as well. Its part of the "copywritten code" and therefore legally enforceable as a trade secret....
So what? The cat is out of the bag, and now anyone will be able to make their own "jig". There's nothing Sony can do.
I'm very interested in this proposed idea that a modded PSP connected by USB could do the same thing. But there has to be something worth while to do with it to actually bother with it. Still not real sure about if homebrew will take off or not. Bootlegging ps3 games isn't appealing at all to me.
Well hopefully we'll see something a little more useful than the ripper/loader software in the days following people actually getting their hands on one of the many 'Jigsticks'. I'm hoping that we'll see some custom firmware so it's a case of just using a Jigstick/PC software once to enable the loading of CFW to permanently hack the console.
Isn't there laws saying that you can't introduce arbitrary data (which you copyright), who's soul purpose is to simply exclude others from being interoperable with your product based on the fact they would have to brake copyright to do so? Especially in the case where such data provides no useful operation for the actual device itself? The printer cartridge war comes to mind when I think about this. In any case, couldn't the mod chip companies simply claim something unlikely but unprovable, like they incrementally guessed IDs until they found one which was recognized as a device? etc? In the worst case, you could simply ship your product without any software installed. You can't sue someone for shipping a USB pen. But if the software to upgrade that pen to do something else is floating on the Internet, it's not the manufactures fault it does something bad.
As already stated the x3 jailbreak is real and heres more pictures. Apparently it will go on sale next week for as cheap as 49 pounds. Not a bad price. But I'm sure others are gonna be hitting in the next few weeks http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.logic-sunrise.com/news-128668-exclue-ls-logic-sunrise-confirme-la-production-des-x3jailbreak-maj-prix.html
Back to the whole legality deal....its highly unlikely the psjailbreak people even had a sony jig to reverse, and from Mathieulhs comments on twitter - they probably looked at the spm (thanks to geohot's exploit) found the overflow and thought of a way to use it.
I certainly hope it gets cheaper than that. Still pretty pricey. Though like I said, until we see something that shows good homebrew could on the way I'm not sure it's worth it anyway. A port of a popular emulator would really get my attention.
Emulators are cool and all, but I really want a capable Media Center with MKV x264 1080p support. The crippled media support of the PS3 is a joke.
i agree there, and the Cinervia DRM from the ps3 that is affecting some x264 playback is a right bummer :banghead:
Basically I'm thinking like homebrew was on Xbox 1, but newer hardware allowing for more. So yes a media center would be cool. Though I can hookup my PC to my TV if I want to do that, though it would help to have the PS3 to take somewhere else and still play movies and such.
Descrambler over at PS3HaX has used a USB sniffer on his PSJB and posted the results in this forum thread. And yeah, a decent Neo Geo emulator for the PS3 would be great, seeing as SNKP can't be arsed to bring any games to PSN themselves.
SNKP is the "new" SNK after they went bankrupt and sold all the assets away. Part of the problem is that they no longer have the source code, original art assets, etc for the games. They are slowly having people recreate the products, but its much easier to make something new - such as KoFXII. Its going to be a matter of time before they have someone emulate everything, but they have crappy deals with different companies that need to expire before they can start. Sucks, but its whats really going on....
My sources tell me that they were liquidated - and get this....simply discarded... such a crime. :banghead:
As dumb as it is to do such a thing, I can definitely see this happening in the business world. It's a real shame that someone wasn't tipped off or simply watching the dumpster to raid it for goodies. That would have been quite a haul.
It's different: printer carts prices are simply abusive, they are priced artificially higher than friggin' GOLD! Console games on the other hand, you know whats the profit? 7 bucks, for a $60 game. Sure both consoles are printers are subsidized, but ink is dirt cheap to make, games are not. They always do this: a guy got like 40 apple lisas from a dumpster. Those computers were upwards of $10,000 when new.
