To be fair I capitulated to your view and I do understand why you need an unsigned device. I treated you like a pirate, which was wrong, but it's hard to separate the raging software theives from the deserving users, and I put you in the former camp initially.
Fact is, though, the people that have legitimate reasons for that stuff are the minority, and always were, but there was a lot of people that made a big fuss about this stuff and they always focused on Linux.
Has anyone done the jailbreak on the official firmware 3.56? All I want to do is back up 2 darn games. Little big planet 2 and mod nation racers are the only games I want to do.
I was hoping to get the info from someone on here compared to just using google and getting some bogus info and messing something up. Thanks anyways
I was hoping to get the info from someone on here compared to just using google and getting some bogus info and messing something up. Thanks anyways
And I also understand why the cheaters, griefers, and to a lesser extent the pirates piss you off. They can completely wreck a game which you paid for with the only intent of playing online, thus wasting your money and time. I just think it's unfair that anyone with interest in hacking immediately falls into that camp until they prove innocence.
Just comes from personal anecdotal evidence.
How many people have I met that are interested in hacking the PS3 to pirate/cheat/etc? Hundreds.
How many do I know want to hack the PS3 for uses like research and simple greater flexibility from their hardware? One if I count you.
Sure, this isn't a real poll or anything, but personal experience is always quite influential in forming opinions about populations.
Just an FYI for those who did this/thinking about it. If you backup games that normally have to install data to play, it'll still do that. I mean it's no surprise as the backups just emulate the disc being in the drive, but with the HDD jumping between the "disc data" and the "installed data" it might be excessively hard on the drive.
Now you have met two...well when I had a ps3, I sold mine after they removed linux.
Wait, you hacked the ps3, yet sold it after they removed OtherOS?
Did you write your own hack??
Wow, that is amazingly lazy.I feel ya. That is the only feature i truly want. I would actually play a varity of games just cause i wouldnt have to change the discs. Right now its pretty much ill play whatever is in the ps3 for a few days before i remember/feel like changing the disc.
Just comes from personal anecdotal evidence.
How many people have I met that are interested in hacking the PS3 to pirate/cheat/etc? Hundreds.
How many do I know want to hack the PS3 for uses like research and simple greater flexibility from their hardware? One if I count you.
Sure, this isn't a real poll or anything, but personal experience is always quite influential in forming opinions about populations.
Wait, you hacked the ps3, yet sold it after they removed OtherOS?
Did you write your own hack??
Right here. I've said at least once or twice in this thread that I'd love to be able to run XBMC on my PS3. That's all I want to do with it. I have no problem with paying for games. I have no problem giving up access to PSN to do it, and I hope they ban everyone who hacks their PS3. I just want me some XBMC on PS3, as long as it doesn't take away resources from development of XBMC on Apple TV.
Last I heard, the XBMC team said they weren't going to port it. Although, that certainly doesn't mean that someone else won't do it.
It seems like such an obvious and desirable thing to do that itll probably happen eventually. XBMC started on a modded console, I dont see why it wouldnt spread to the most powerful modded console of its day.
I would have said the biggest roadblock would be that the cell isnt x86, but if they can get the code to run on the ARM processors of the Apple chips, they can get it to run on the cell architecture.
Still, porting it to yet another architecture would probably be a massive undertaking, so I wouldnt hold my breath, but I'm thinking 6-12 months there might be something out there.
That being said, theyll probably be able to shoehorn .mkv support into either the base PS3 XMB or into Multiman. The cell can obviously already decode h.264 if it can play blu-rays. If there's some sort of API or library for doing so already in the firmware, then even easier.
But I'm sure it will happen. No console has ever been this wide open and not been hacked into a really great media player. Especially one already targeted at that exact thing.
No I ran linux on my ps3 and used it to play games. When sony made me choose, I chose to stop buying sony.