PS3 Hacking Has Begun

"It's kinda funny. This is the most excitement I've seen anyone drum up for the PS3 since the system launch."

Believe it or not, people have already figured out ways to make backup copies of their PS3 games. At this point it only means that the data was successfully moved to another source, but stay tuned, I’m sure there is more to come.

Console hacking enthusiasts have already taken the first steps towards making the PS3 backup friendly, installing LINUX and using it to dump a 7.08GB ISO file from Madden 07 onto an external hard drive. Pool Boy over at PS3News points out that this is exactly how the PSP backup scene got started, and that the PS3 file structure closely resembles the one used in PlayStation Portable games.
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UPDATE (11-26-06): PS3 running.... Windows?

Game On People,
-Gophn

P.S. this was a news post from HardOCP, they are a great source for computer/gaming news.

 

This is why I'll love the PS3. It's more of a PC than a games console. (Not that I'll be buying pirated games, I purchase all my PSP games legit) It's just I'd love to play all my old SNES and Mega Drive games on my PS3.

 

But don't you already have a PC?

 

Or you could save the $600 and play the SNES games on your computer. Super Mario World is the best. I love emulators.

 

My point exactly.

 

Yeah, or save $400, buy a Wii, and play them on there...

 

or give the $600 to me

 

Or save the $600, spend $400 on an Xbox for their better games, save another $50, then buy a Wii so you can have a 360 and a Wii instead of a PS3. Logic is a beautiful thing.

Face it Sony, your only major success in the past 5 years has really only been the PS2, great system. I really feel bad for Sony, I really do. I mean Betamax, UMD, and now Blu-Ray, among other things. If fortunes were made from failures, Sony would be Microsoft...oh wait Microsoft is Microsoft because they know how to make quality things and implement them. Sony you should be taking notes right now...

 

I only have my laptop atm, and unfortunately it doesn't play Killzone, or Final Fantasy XIII. I'll buy the PS3, cause it'll be customisable, and it'll suit itself to whatever task I need it to.

Need to do a bit of work? Sure, I'll plug the keyboard and mouse in, and get to work programming. Want to listen to music, and play SNES games? Sure, the PS3 can do that too. Want to play some FF XIII in high definition? No worries. Want to record some digital TV whilst I'm surfing the net? Plug in a USB TV tuner and away I go. Logic is a beautiful thing...

I can't justify spending $400 on an overclocked gamecube with an (IMHO) uncomfortable controller. The Wii can't do high definition, so it won't look as good on my LCD as a true next gen console. The Wii can only play those SNES games that Nintendo see fit to release (same with Microsoft and their backwards compatibility joke). I can't see Super International Cricket coming out any time soon for download, plus I'll have to pay over $10 for a game I already paid for a decade ago. Unfortunately, whilst the Xbox360 looked promising, I haven't found any games compelling me to overcome my distrust of Microsoft. And until it supports Operation: Flashpoint Elite BC, I won't even consider it.

For me, the PS3 is just so much better value for money. I can't see BOTH an X360 and a Wii doing those things above.

 

Everything you said in your second paragraph can be done on a notebook that you already own, excpt for playing FF XIII. I dont have a PS2, but my roommate does, and he beat that game more then a week ago. Great game, I loved watching him play it, it reminded me of the old days with FF Legend 1,2, and 3, great games. The only game that is PS exclusive that I like is FF, and I can take that hit. Xbox on the other hand has Halo, Gears of War, Halo Wars, the list goes on and on. I just cant pass them up for a $600 system. Yeah you can do alot of really cool things with the PS3, and I really didnt care about $600 I would get one, but for me I have a notebook, and that takes up 99% of what you said you may use your PS3 for. And I have a 360, so im set. Oh and the other game that I was worried about with the PS was GTA, but it seems that this time around GTA4 is going to be released on the 360 and the PS3 at the same time, so yeah the choice is clear for me.

 

umm.... okay. Windows used to be the best option, but it hasn't been for years. They've just got a stranglehold on the market. Windows Mobile is a joke, but again, people want to be able to sync their portable devices with their computer, so they buy that. How many people use much Microsoft software besides Windows and Office? IE is terrible, WMP flops regularly, every online music program they try to implement fails, every iPod contester they introduce fails, every piece of hardware they stamp their name on does average at best... Honestly, Microsoft is Microsoft because people aren't brave enough to deal with the incompatibility problems that comes from not running Windows. Microsoft is only what they are because of Windows, and Windows is what it is because most users don't want to take the time to switch and most developers don't have the time or money to develop for multiple platforms.

 

And nothing I said in there could be done on an X360 or Wii, which was my point. I don't own an X360, and Gears of War (from what I played) was an incredibly dull game. Nice graphics, sure, but no originality or gameplay spark.

Halo 2 was the same, even online multiplayer couldn't revive that. You like the Xbox, congrats, you have to spend about $200 less than I do. But I'll be using my PS3 a lot more than you'll be using your Xbox, because it's an all in one system. It's more than just a console, it'll be my desktop PC aswell. Laptop for on the move, PS3 for games and other hard stuff.

 

Umm, FFXIII is not out yet, when it comes out, it will be exclusively on the PS3.

I think you were confusing it with the last FF game for PS2, which is FFXII.

PS3 has so much potential that it has yet to be tapped. When I was playing it at this year's E3, only Resistance: Fall of Man & Heavenly Sword seemed to be next-gen. The trailers of Metal Gear Solid 4 and FFXIII was freakin awesome on a 200" HD screen... and they were in game graphics and not pre-rendered stuff.

Wait a freaking minute... I totally forgot about the Unreal Tournament 2007 live demo... freakin awesome graphics engine and physics engine, definitely going to show to hardware limitations between the XBox360 and the PS3.... since PS3 has a built in PPU (Physics Processing Unit) its going to get much better performance.

The PS3 is a supercomputer for the price of an entry level one.

 

without a blue ray burner device how could you make a back up of the game?

You mean they have the data ready to go and as soon as a blue ray burner is for sale they will be ready to roll?

A blue ray player costs consumers over $1000.

Thats a big big unselling point on the ps3 for computer users.

You can already copy your xbox 360 games.

Sony has months if not a year of completely unpirateable games.

 

The ps3 just costs way to much!

 

I have a alternate suggestion. Do not buy any of the 3 game consoles, and take up an instrument! Personally I already play the piano but I'd love to look into playing the flute, or cello, with $1000 you can do alot. Or go audiophile and download 1000 songs.

 

I've been playing guitar for 6 years and have gone beyond any of my instructors' teachings, so I'm all good there. And I try not to listen to 1000 songs ever. It doesn't make any of them stand out in my opinion. Gaming is just a recreational hobby for me.

What I like about the PS3 is that it is basically a Linux computer with gaming capabilities. If it weren't for gaming (and that crappy MATLAB... ugh) I'd be pretty much Linux all the time. The PS3 could make that a near reality.

 

You try not to listen to 1,000 songs ever?

Ah, because having eclectic taste in music is just terrible, I know very few kids who actually like, and play music, who have fever than 1000-1500 tracks they listen to in their libraries, I have 2,600. of which I know lyrics/etc to like half of 'em.

Zomg I wish I played guitar far past my teachers abilities.

 

I'm not saying that I haven't listened to 1000 songs in my lifetime. I have. What I was trying to say is that I tend to buy a CD and listen to it for several months, then start switching out with a few other CDs until I buy a new one. But this does not add up to 1000 songs, and I rarely listen to music that I've had for longer than 6-9 months. Therefore, my point was, why would I buy music that, while I like and listened to all the time at some point, I never listen to anymore?

 

Must...contain...urge...to...bash...post...

Arrrggghhh....

*vomitus maximus*

 

Agree totally!

Oh, buyin the wii may cost more than the ps3 coz of the breakaway straps thus breaking ur sweet tv... just joking!

 

UPDATE: PS3 running... Windows? (from Engadget)


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By now you've no doubt heard about (or possibly even attempted) installing PowerPC builds of Linux on your PlayStation 3, namely Yellow Dog and Fedora. Well, it would appear some clever devil in Japan has managed to shoehorn QEMU (a virtual machine and processor emulator) onto the PS3 as well, resulting in a rather sluggish but no less functional version of PlayStation 3 Windows. Oh, and just in case you're feeling a bit skeptical today, at about 15:00 is where dude boots out of Linux and back into the the PS3 XMB (not that that really proves anything).