Younesss Alaoui took a small break back in November from his work for making a new jailbreak mod for the PS3 and despite his day job as a VoIP researcher Youness will be returning to the scene as he announced on his blog recently. For those who don't know Alaoui, he made some real leaps with 3.73 firmware for the PS3, as well as with 4.00.  The modder said his work is ongoing and at the moment his latest mod will be released eventually but at the moment is hard to date.

Alaoui said that he has "not been slacking off" but just on a break. The guys working on the mod are a group of "10 developers working together for the last 2 months...sometimes 15 hours everyday in order to bring back homebrew support to the latest version for the PS3."

Homebrew fans hit an obstacle sometime last year in late October when PS3 dev Mathieulh slowed the progress of jailbreaking after as some people put it misrepresenting his efforts. Alaoui said outright that "Mathieulh kept tossing his usual riddles which he thinks are 'very helpful to those who have a brain', and which pisses off anyone who actually does...so he told us that the solution to all our problems was to look in appldr (application directory) of the 3.65 firmware and that it was something lv1  was sending appldr which made the 'hash check' verified or not...so we spent one month and a lot of weat and after killing a few of our brain cells out of exhaustion, we finally concluded that it was all bullshit."

Alaoui and Mathieulh had a very verbose Twitter fight in the weeks following their trials with the firmware and eventually lead to Al getting the first part of the process down pat with the installation of packages to the console. It was the next phase of the homebrew which posed the larger problem to the 10-man dev team. Alaoui says the hard part is getting the "apps to run" and is one of the "major issues."   Alaoui said that the final stretch of the project will be "a surprise" so hopefully him and his team will have some tricks up his sleeve. He does say that it will not be back-up support but a piracy-free solution for the PS3.

I wish Alaoui and his team the best of luck and I give the same advice he gives at the end of his post saying, stop asking for "a release date"  on the homebrew project.

Via [MyCE.com]

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