PS3 Firmware v2.40 Preview

Forum:PS3 Community News Posted by: slicer74 @ Wed Jul 2 15:02:29 CDT 2008

It will have a in-game XMB support !!!

Not all of the XMB options will be available in game, but most of it is there including the all-important friend features.

Developers will also have the option to allow players to play music saved on the hard disk in game. However, you won't be able to stream background music direct from a USB device.



The other major addition in 2.40 is a new trophy system, Sony's answer to Microsoft's achievement points. PS3 games will have bronze, silver...

Free McBoot 1.5 released

Forum:PS2 Community News Posted by: JNABK @ Mon Jun 30 16:11:05 CDT 2008

Free MC Boot is an 'exploit' that allows a user to install it on official 8MB Sony MC's as well as 3rd party cards. (with the exception of those needing a boot disc to be recognized or cloned Chinese cards)


1.5

Loader side :
- OSDSYS Hack, by Neme (You can reload FMCB from OSDSYS, great work Neme ).
- Added Rescue loading (tries before all things to boot "mass0:/RESCUE.ELF", "mc?:/RESCUE.ELF", passing to another if the previous is not found)
- Added third entry (LK_???...

[Updates] ESR

Forum:PS2 Community News Posted by: McBeth @ Wed Jun 25 1:32:23 CDT 2008

Big Thanks to [COLOR=Red][B]ffgriever

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this app boots specially patched backups without the use of a modchip/swapmagic+slidecard and similar stuff


Check out Free McBoot and the [URL="http://www.console-exploits.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14459"]ESR tutorial
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[QUOTE]ESR public beta, revision 8a
* changes in IOP reset procedure - should help with some games
* fixed IOP side initialization for dvdv - should help with some games (SSX:OT should ...

Free Vast has become a reality...

Forum:PS2 Community News Posted by: bootlegninja @ Sun May 18 21:44:57 CDT 2008

Free MC Boot is an 'exploit' that allows a user to install it on official 8MB Sony MC's as well as 3rd party cards. (with the exception of those needing a boot disc to be recognized or cloned Chinese cards)



Update with the latest release:

1.4

1.3 beta
- CD/DVD + language Fix 1.1a by ffgriever
- DVDELF Inject 1.2R1 by Neme (Compatibility with many regions)
- New design by JNABK
- New mcID generator by jimmikaelkael

It creates only your osdxxx.elf file and an empty BOOT folder on...

Grand Theft Auto IV Multiplayer Online!...

Forum:PS3 Community News Posted by: JNABK @ Tue Apr 8 20:16:03 CDT 2008

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When you finally explore Liberty City on April 29, you won't have to do it alone. Grand Theft Auto IV will be the first game in the series to ship with a complete online multiplayer component, supporting up to 16 players on both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. Little information has been released about how this aspect of the game will work, other than the subtle h...

PSP Firmware 3.95

Forum:PSP Community News Posted by: JNABK @ Tue Apr 8 19:26:14 CDT 2008

Update: PSP firmware 3.95 is now available on Network Update. We’ve added a direct link below in case you wish to download the update manually.

PlayStation Network head Eric Lempel has revealed that a new PSP firmware is coming and will be “available shortly.” Firmware 3.95 will introduce two new features, the first of which is the ability to customize control settings in PSP PSOne settings. The second is a more PlayStation 3 centric feature, allowing PSP owners to ...

PSPTI99 : A TI-99/4 Emulator for PSP v1.0.3...

Forum:PSP Community News Posted by: JNABK @ Wed Mar 19 8:17:49 CDT 2008

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TI99Sim is a very good emulator of Texas Instruments
TI99 home computer running on Windows and Unix.
The emulator faithfully imitates the TI99/4 model
(see http://www.mrousseau.org/programs/ti99sim/ )

PSPTI99 is a port on PSP of the version 0.1.0 of TI99Sim.

What's new then in this version ?

- Speed improvements
- Add vsync and autofire options
- Add several new hotkeys :
. settings such as fps, render mode, auto fire speed
can no...

Rumor: Leaked PSN List for spring...

Forum:PS3 Community News Posted by: JNABK @ Wed Mar 19 8:16:36 CDT 2008

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This interesting document has been circulating the internet recently, showing a variety of big releases supposedly scheduled for the PlayStation Network. The image, allegedly leaked from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, drops release dates for several confirmed and several as-of-yet unannounced titles and downloadable content packs.

According to the list, April will see add-ons for Super St...

Twilight Hack 0.1alpha3, new version of the Twilight Hack...

Forum:Wii Community News Posted by: cman1783 @ Fri Mar 14 7:59:15 CDT 2008

This is incredible! The Twilight Princess exploit can now run off internal SD slot!

Changelog:
[QUOTE]Front SD slot is now supported; SDGecko slot support has been removed.
FAT16 is now supported; you should save your ELF executable on your SD card as "boot.elf".
RZDJ is now supported
Added support for Geckoloader stub: If you have a USBGecko installed and have already run the Geckoloader program to install into flash, then the Twilight Hack will try to load that stub if it does not detect an SD card.[/QUOTE]

Instructions:
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PS3 - Firmware Update (v2.17)

Forum:PS3 Community News Posted by: JNABK @ Thu Mar 13 1:35:33 CDT 2008

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If you’ve signed in to the PLAYSTATION Network tonight on your PS3, you probably noticed that you were prompted to upgrade the system’s firmware to v2.17. In case you were wondering what it’s all about (and a quick Google search indicates that yes, you are) the operating stability of some online PS3 titles has been improved.

Hope that clears things up!