PlayStation 2 homebrew running on PS3?

Posted Sep 7, 2007 at 12:20AM by QJ Staff Listed in: PS3 Tags: Europe, PS2, PSOne
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Even though we don't have a blog dedicated for the still-powerful PlayStation 2 console, we still check every now and then certain developments that might interest PlayStation 3 owners. Just like today, several videos popped up claiming that a PS2 homebrew has been made to run on the PS3.

Take note that this is still not confirmed with its legitimacy still being debated by members of the community. Video owner digimomster3 said that this is possible with any PS3 firmware between 1.8 and 1.92 for PAL regions. It was also said that the trick is done using the PS2 demo disc for Europe that became available way back the European PS2 launch.

Some are also saying that this is nothing but a PS3 running in PSOne/PS2 emulation mode. What do you think guys? Watch the videos first and tell us through the comment section below.

Thanks to Pirate for the tip!





 
 
 

Comments

by - 2007-09-07 00:06:17
i wish

i wont buy a ps3 till homebrew, besides the pretty cool linux build is available, homebrewers could make great use and fill in the functionality that the ps3 is missing/working on. all we need is an exploit....too bad sonys threatened to sue anyone who finds one.

by - 2007-09-07 01:00:56
No

That is using Yaroze the Basic Software Development kit for the PS2 launch disc that everyone got with their PS2. It is 'homebrew' in a very limited fashion as it is running only on the PS2 chip (or emulated).

by - 2007-09-07 02:22:39
hope its not fake...

hope its not fake... (3rd comment ;))

by - 2007-09-07 02:39:22
my opinion

I truly hope that homebrew NEVER makes it to the ps3...cuz then the same thing that happened to the PSP will happen to our beloved PS3...ppl are gonna start downloading free games....developers arent making any $$$... therefore we get CRAPPY games... thATS JUST my OPINION

by Swish - 2007-09-07 02:57:23
...

Most PS3 games might be to big to download.

by - 2007-09-07 03:57:07
ps3 hardware change

Sony have changed the ps1 and ps2 hardware inside the new ps3 machines maybe because of this reason, its an expliot that hasent been dicovered by homebrewers yet, so sony changed the ps1/2 hardware chip for emulation software instead!!

by - 2007-09-07 04:00:00
PS3 homebrew

Running homebrew is different from running a program capable of ISO loading. Homebrew is incredible, it shouldnt be stopped. Sony should be working with us to allow homebrew + at the same time, stop the ability to run PS3 game images.

by - 2007-09-07 04:01:45
Well that isn't true

Warhawk is 800 mb, enough other games that also don't use the max of Blu-ray.

by What common sense is really about - 2007-09-07 04:25:01
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PSP is a console that should have been designed for homebrew at the very beginning. The PS3 doesn't need it, since you can get homebrew on your PC.

by - 2007-09-07 04:55:20
Not Net Yaroze!

This is the Yabasic program which was included in the release demo disc with the fat PS2, I've got it, and it basically allows you to do a little bit of coding, I haven't looked at it too much because it didn't interest me :)

by - 2007-09-07 05:03:53
Mic2000

Warhawk is only 800 mb since it is online only. Just like Microsoft bans hacked xbox live accounts Sony can ban people from their PSN network. If homebrew does come to the PS3, developers can just add junk info into the game to fill the disc and make it ridiculous to download.

by - 2007-09-07 06:14:08
more info

more info at ps3hax.net

by exionzero - 2007-09-07 07:21:46
Playstation homecoding history lesson :P

actually net yaroze was the home brew programme for the original Playstation (it had to be specifically ordered, cost a bit more than the regular machine; due in part to being region free, was a groovy black colour instead of grey and various other features.._ Of course, the titles produced by net Yaroze users were playable on regular playstations and were frequently published as a bonus title on the free demo discs on the official playstation magazine cover (my favourite titles probably being hovercar racing, gravitation and a top down shooter similar to Loaded whose name I cannot recall)... This system would be better suited to the PS3... if Sony developed a yaroze style dev kit and dropped it in the PS store for homebrewers to utilise then people would be less tempted to search for exploits. What the PS2 had (which is on display here and was available on the european demo discs (due to being created in a British university prior to the european launch) was a title called "Yabasic" which was a very basic (as the name implies) coding kit... after public interest in yabasic reached it's peak Sony announced a PS2 linux kit, for a significantly larger amount of money than the regular ones... that aside, the Linux PS2 featured a harddrive (the first one to appear on the PS2), network capability (again, prior to the regula network adapter) a keyboard and mouse and the linux software... Thats all I can tell you about that without doing a webb search... so yeah, in a nutshell, the "homebrew" on display here is an unexploited rendition of Yabasic, not Net Yaroze.

by - 2007-09-07 08:33:59
to weapon

I hate people like you who wait till stuff can be hacked so wen you buy it you can just download the games for free. called bein cheap

by - 2007-09-07 09:00:31
dont worry

thats never going to hapen, the ps3, dont need to run homebrew, and also, if the case the make it hapen, its goin to be pointles, and about the isos remember what hapen on the ps2, and today its one of most sale console in history and have the best games ever

by - 2007-09-07 09:43:58
Damn Europeans

Its not pronounced GIDEN its pronounced GAYDEN man damn!! i hate the game now

by - 2007-09-07 10:34:29
//

welll im from england, that is no english accent, and i doubt from any other european country because that was very fluent english... and he said "ninja gaiden"

by - 2007-09-07 10:36:59
PS3 already have homebrew

with linux in ps3 there are already homebrew(and a lot) music players video players(even hd movies run smooth) emulators(mame,snes,genesis etc) games(linux natives, and others) internet browsers office compilers(you can even make homebrew for psp) 2d and 3d design programs even p2p and you can even run those apps at the same time ps3 have even more homebrew apps than psp or even more than any other game system, and you dont need xploits or mess with the firmware 3d aceleration issues with linux?, yes but you still have a lot more power than the whole psp, nobody complain about psp power and most homebrew dont use all the power of psp (because libraries) opengl? it can run some apps at an almost decen speed, and using only one core for both linux and the app why not ask community to change mesa and other 3d libraries so they use the other cores(they are free) to process 3d data?, IBM already showed that and the cell sdk, compilers and even some tutorials are free available why the people ask for homebrew then? yes!, they want iso loaders! game size is not a big problem, simply compress sound and movies, put in a rar and you got a +/- 9 GB file ready to burn bigger than 9 GB?, no problem just copy to hdd and ready to go stop Hypocrisy if you want an iso loader, say it!, nobody have the right to blame you (maybe you can't afford games), but dont hide your intentions asking for something you already have, that gives homebrew community a bad name

by - 2007-09-07 10:39:48
I forgot

"opengl? it can run some apps at an almost decen speed, and using only one core for both linux and the app" with this I refer to heavy opengl apps like quake3

by - 2007-09-07 11:38:26
to "me"

The PS3 has way too much security to keep homebrew from being very useful on it. Also are you implying the games released so far aren't crappy?

by - 2007-09-07 13:03:02
Linus torvals

i have to agree with this guy/girl!!! although the iso loader will only be any use by external hard drives until blueray writers for your pc become widely available in order to play or transfer games, unless you are talking about psn games!!! i used to do alot of game pirating but its harder to get off the net without getting caught and also alot more data to download due to games getting bigger. i can't see why you would want to bother!! just download the linux for ps3 and play with that. it makes more sense than hacking ur ps3!!!

by - 2007-09-07 15:25:28
I think it's great actually

That Sony said that they will sue anybody who finds an exploit on the PS3. That's what they should have done with the PSP in the first place. And I agree with average deadbeats like weapon deserve to get shot in the face.

by - 2007-09-07 15:26:37
@average:

You have no idea about the topic of homebrew, do you? Have you ever played SNES on the PS3? NO, BECAUSE IT ISNT REALLY POSSIBLE! You know why? Linux on PS3 suxx! No hardware-support! Framebuffer only working through the CPU... even my old PII 233Mhz with 32MB ram was able to display SNES on a constant framerate! - The PS3 isn't capable of doing that!

by - 2007-09-07 15:47:33
hi

hi everybody

by - 2007-09-07 15:51:06
Stop calling linux homebrew

Stop calling linux homebrew, its not linux is an operating system, the things that run on linux are called "software".

by - 2007-09-07 16:30:45
blah

the ps3 is capable of sustaining those framerates on the snes emulator, its just that sony has not given the proper permission to linux to use the pretty much anything but the processor and harddrive, go graphix card at all. @average and . homebrew isnt the problem, its what people do with it. I own a psp with and edition of OE on it and I do not pirate games. I just use it to play sega/nes/snes games. Most developers of homebrew support sony, they love their products and do not condone piracy. you have to blame the people, not the technology.

by - 2007-09-07 17:03:44
yes, free software

and also homebrew is free software I am a linux user and there is no diference betwen linux software and [insert game system name] homebrew software in both cases it's software made by users not by large corporations actually linux started as homebrew even personal computers started as homebrew, and the meaning of homebrew started with the first personal computers and the software for them, linux evolved and became a commonly recognised OS but it started as a little project made by a student as most of the homebrew aplications linux is just a kernel and it can boot in a "designed for windows" PC with a bootloader just because the bios in a common pc allow the cpu to start reading code at boot without check the code so there is no hack needed to make your own operative system just because there is no hack doesn't mean it's not homebrew

by - 2007-09-07 17:21:47
phonetics

You really shouldn't talk about somebody else bad pronunciation when you don't know how it's really said. Have you ever lived in Japan? I have and it's not said GAYDEN. I think you're Gay and that's your way to show it. It's pronounced Guy-Den The same way you would say "some GUY over there." and "wait in the DEN" Study your Japanese you hick

by - 2007-09-07 18:04:52
I also have pirated games

nobody wants a pirated game but sometimes is that or nothing

by - 2007-09-07 20:07:25
uh

No one heard of the Action Replay MAX for ps2? It's slow, but it allows homebrew launching on a completely unodded ps2, including slims. I haven't bothered trying it with a ps3 but chances are it'll work.

by - 2007-09-07 20:17:40
Nothing New

PS2 Homebrew has been bootable on the PS3 for a while now. Watch the boot up of a PS2 .ELF launcher on a PS3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAeY16hzhzg This is how I launched Code Majic to use on the SOCOM series online. :)

by - 2007-09-07 20:59:14
Please Fix That

You really need to change your camera settings so you wont have that clicking noise.

by - 2007-09-07 21:21:22
oh yah...

Your hands are so manly.

by - 2007-09-08 02:06:18
I have 3.52M33-4 on PSP---BUT NO HOMEBREW ON PS3

I have all the snes/gba/N64/sega and I too want to support the developers and not download cso/iso/dax like a cheap who(r)e sucking the blood out of PSP Because I love to death for its capabilities. Lately a buddy gave me a cso which i already fully know how to get but decided not to pirate games. Guess what happened next day hun?? I was intrigue by the cso and that side just took over and 3 iso was downloaded and saved to my memory card. I knew in the back of my head what I was doing and felt bad i was going against my priciples but that greed and hunger consume me like a fat kid holding an ice cream cake......We all have a fat kid holding an ice cream cake in us even those that try very hard to hold themself back is now a prey or eventually will be so. But for the morally unethical who got the PSP just for iso/cso these guys will corrupt people. I love the PS3 just as much as the PSP and I've seen how horrible it has been exploited by owners that's why I say ban homebrew on the PS3. All that emulated consoles can already be played on the PSP, Putting homebrew on the PS3 only means you can play the very same outdated but classic games on the PS3 just like PSP. You are playing the same games on the PS3 what is the difference besides it makes you happy but won't admit that you will pirate games, I'm sure you will ...we all know what will happen if you let that fat boy have the ice cream cake.-----and I don't think people would care that much for homebrew just to play the same sorry graphics game on the PS3 as in the PSP, that is just an excuse to get people to hack the PS3 so your cheap ass can pirate games. Homebrew should only be allow to maximize the performance and content of the PS3. But cheap greedy people will always take advantage of that to exploit homebrew to private games and that's what it's come down to on the PSP. I love homebrew but I think there is already an excessive amount on the PSP, you don't even need to go anywhere else for it, you and I pretty much have it all on the PSP already ...and 3 years down the line we still would not get to half way or play through all the homebrew games on PSP. People are greedy by nature, look at the history and war....Keep reading downward I bet you will see some lame ass or very beneficially complicated ideas on why we should have homebrew on PS3...yet it is only to hide their true motive that they want to be able to private PS3 games and discourage great developers to make great games for PS3. BOTTOM LIINE, NO HOMEBREW ON PS3

by - 2007-09-10 03:45:04
Ya basic

Its just Ya Basic (it camewith the PS2 demo disc in eur/uk) running on the ps3. Not really homebrew, I'd be interested if the Linux kit that was aviable for the PS2 works on the PS3 (don't fink it will tho).

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