Why The PS3 Still Isn’t Hacked

Hercules · 03-07-2008, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by ps3hax.net

"Why isn't the PS3 broken already?” We hear this every day. Someone somewhere thinks they can write a better media player with HD support. A guy wants to release his game but needs the RSX for the amazing graphics it can generate. Why can't we just tear open the PS3 solder a few wires and be done with it? The answer is both simpler and more complicated than you might expect.

The PSP, the Wii, even the Xbox 360 have all been hacked and can run homebrew applications so everybody thinks "the PS3 should be just as easy.” The PS3 in some ways is as easy, in fact easier. No other console let you install Linux and run anything you want to. Sure Linux on the PS3 is great. You can write your own code and use it. You have the largest collection of applications anywhere (thats right, WAY more than Windows). It's all free (or at a very low cost).

But it's limited. You can't touch the RSX (The very powerful graphics chip in the PS3), you can't use the full hard drive, and nothing is really optimized for the PS3's fantastic Cell processor, this means that what should be fast and easy tends to be slow and cumbersome. In fact, DVD playing which can be done on any modern computer is a monumental task in PS3 Linux."

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i really dont think that the ps3 needs to be hacked...i mean what could you want with it? if its playing old emulators, you can use your psp for that, but newer systems like dreamcast, ds, n64 (i know its out, but its buggy) maybe yeah, but sooner of later when sony puts out a psp-3000, then it may have a better support...there is nothing actually wrong with the ps3, if there is, please tell me, besides that you get limited access in linux (you should have expected this though) i know someone wants the fame and glory, but the ps3 is as perfect is ever, and sony made sure of this by not rushing (unlike M$ and Nintendo) to be stabled, fun, and well the one-in-all machine...

p.s. i know this is a side note, but i read that m$ is working a deal with sony to have blu-ray drives on the 360...you think this is true? also is this for movies or games? if for games, will that increase the sales of the 360 (sorry im a sony fanboy and I LOVE IT)

ctighe · 03-07-2008, 01:29 PM

ha! microsoft wants blu-ray cuz they realize now they invested in the wrong technology. stupid microsoft

pokey8349 · 03-08-2008, 11:16 AM

i think alot of people want the ps3 hacked is to play ISO's...

i may be wrong but thats what other people do on the other consoles

valledor03 · 03-08-2008, 12:46 PM

someday, when i get rich, i'll buy one (ps3).

but today, i'll keep on dreaming. lol.

Canada2113 · 03-08-2008, 04:54 PM

I dont think there is a big movement for cfw on the ps3, its apparently really really hard to do. I guess they got pissed about the psp and pulled all the stops on console security. There was a linux hack a while aog that ave rsx access. They patched it rather quickly though. I would love the rsx in linux, then i would have an awesome console that could play kick-ass pc games too. The thing is, sony will never let us use the rsx and its not entirely their choice. Since the rsx is custom built, one of the investing companies is very opposed to letting anyone else know whats in it and how to use it.

shadyfist · 03-10-2008, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Hercules

p.s. i know this is a side note, but i read that m$ is working a deal with sony to have blu-ray drives on the 360...you think this is true? also is this for movies or games? if for games, will that increase the sales of the 360 (sorry im a sony fanboy and I LOVE IT)

Microsoft is releasing a blu-ray addon in May 2008. It is only for movies, just like the HD-DVD addon. And the reason they are doing this is because Blu-ray won the format wars, HD-DVD's will no longer be made(as movies anyway).

I don't know if it would increase the sales of PS3 because I wouldn't buy it just to play Blu-Ray, Microsoft still has more good games out for 360 as of today. The only thing imho to increase sales of the PS3 is TIME, give it about another year or 2 and there will be a large selection of games for it.

Vampyre · 03-10-2008, 07:13 PM

nice read thanks!

Dathan · 03-10-2008, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by pokey8349

i think alot of people want the ps3 hacked is to play ISO's...

i may be wrong but thats what other people do on the other consoles

+1

Thats all im waiting for, as well as the 360 to play isos off of an upgraded HDD
My goodness. imagine a 500gb hdd running brew and isos.... "It would make George Lucas cream in his.. cream in his.. cream in his pants... in his pants" Cabla Gubla!!!

SAS · 03-16-2008, 03:41 PM

i load is meant to be released today for the ps3 which allows the ps3 to run ps3 & ps1 iso images, im not sure if its fake or not but who knows only time will tell

PS3-Hacks.com / ISO LOADER | EXPLIOT & HACK INFORMATION | ALL CAN BE LOOKED UP HERE

scroll down to the bottom all the info is there

reubybuby · 03-20-2008, 06:25 PM

i think ps3 must not be hacked
theres already theall region games
so

NuMB3Rs · 03-25-2008, 01:16 AM

umm since i cant understand reuby i wont reply to his post BUT i think people are too afraid to brick a ps3... i mean its alot of money.. and (i think ive said it before) what ever stopped the psp from being downgraded (minus pandora battery) was obviously ported to the ps3

Canada2113 · 03-25-2008, 02:32 AM

Sony stepped it up a bit with the ps3. They know that they lost the psp and dont plan on doing the same with the ps3.

benjammin316 · 03-25-2008, 09:37 AM

I had a PS3 last year for about 4 months.

After realising all the games out were better on the 360, i sold it for a profit on ebay.

Orange Box for instance, bad load times and crappy framerate on the PS3, a patch was finally released a few months later.

No bundled headset with the PS3 was also a huge mistake by Sony.

I may re-invest at some point, but right now Games on Blu-Ray are nothing to get excited about.

koharu · 03-25-2008, 10:15 AM

why does anyone want something hacked? so they can go nag about it saying "hey look my (insert system here) is hacked and it can do this and that"

Canada2113 · 03-25-2008, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by benjammin316

I had a PS3 last year for about 4 months.

After realising all the games out were better on the 360, i sold it for a profit on ebay.

Orange Box for instance, bad load times and crappy framerate on the PS3, a patch was finally released a few months later.

No bundled headset with the PS3 was also a huge mistake by Sony.

I may re-invest at some point, but right now Games on Blu-Ray are nothing to get excited about.

The Orange Box sucked because EA did the porting. EA cant handle more than another rehashing of Madden every year. Give them an actual game and they screw it up.

I like that sony didnt include a headset. Most people have a bluetooth headset already, so it makes no sense to add to the cost of the unit. At least ps3 users arent stuck using MS's proprietary headsets, hdd's. and memory cards.