Mathieulh and Alek *confirmed* that it worked; the public announcement of the discovery came from StreetSkaterFU.



As for me figuring out how it can be accomplished, I only figured out half of it (the process of actually getting the game installed). How you RUN the thing is beyond me.

how stupid i could already run warhawk ftom the hdd without the disk thats no hack

This is not using the PSN store version of the game.

games nowadays are so big, you'd fill up your hard drive faster than [insert hillbilly metaphor here]! i used to pirate psp games, and after seeing what happened to that system, i've got to say, leave the ps3 alone. it's already having a hard enough time as it is. we don't need to give developers another reason to give away our exclusives.

Yea it's always simple when it's not FreePlay doing it, isn't it? What did I tell you! It's like I can *****ing predict the future! FreePlay continues degrading PS3 hackers.

Like others have said, running backups is just bad for the industry. I want to play good games. I am willing to pay for good games. I don't need some (a lot of) cheap ass-holes ruining it for me. The developers have a hard enough time as it is, and good developers should be rewarded for good games.



If anything, I would much rather prefer to hear of some hardware mod-chip breakthroughs. a) the "breakthrough" probably wouldn't be fake like this news most likely is (give me some details instead of names I don't even know), and b) it will keep the pirate scene down to a relatively small group of people.

doesnt matter if 20 out of40 know what custom firmware is,the point is that developers know that they will lose money if they make a psp game...yet the reason why cod4 is on ds and not psp

You're not paying attention. He used the Motorstorm disc to boot Warhawk from the HDD, then removed the Motorstorm disc...

I a couple of months ago would have said great about this, and the sad thing is I will actually probably use it as well, it's abit hard to resist the playing of games you don't have to pay for.



I find people citing that back-ups have been going for years and they never really did any damage, and that might be the case to an extent, but I think the difference between now and then is the internet, and the fact that more people have access now than ever and this information is available to them, where as years ago most would have never known about all this and there for wouldnt have done it. But now they have the information available to them, more and more people will exploit they're systems than ever meaning a bigger loss to the gaming companies.



Realistically I do not think this will kill the systems, the 360 and the Wii is still going strong, so why people think this will make a bigger difference towards the PS3 as apose to those systems is beond me. But I do think all the systems being hacked this time around will cause a massive problem for systems in the future. For the price of the systems and the games. But I think that will just cause hackers to want to hack it even more due to the fact no one will be able to afford to buy the games anyway.

ever heard of an R4 card for DS?

Most people have a 40gb PS3, so whats the point? Downloading a "back up" game would almost consume the whole PS3's HDD, not to mention installing the game as well.



Why don't people try to hack into the PS3's Cell processor and unleashes its awesome power. I bet we can do a lot more things with that, then playing "back ups".

first Warhawk, next Motorstorm.



it seems that the original disk is necessary to kick off the booting process. then it can be replaced with any retail disk, and after the game starts up no disk is required.

360 games are rather compressed or fit on a DVD9. They are then upscaled to HD by the 360.



PS3 games have most, if not all, of their games uncompressed in HD format.



I hope SONY updates their firmware soon.



Respect the developers and give something back to them. They created our entertainment. You can hate SONY as much as you want but the developers are the ones that provide us with entertainment.

This is the worst thing that can happen to the ps3. Cmon guys, the ps3 is getting some god games. If you want that to continue prevent ps3 piracy!!!!

the blu ray version of warhawk installs the whole game on to your hard dive anyway, if you look the blu ray version installs 700 odd MB's of data on your hardrive and the PSN download is the exact same size as the install. ive done this before, i was playing warhawk when my bro accidently ejected the disk, and i kept playing i even loaded up new maps and stuff like that without the disk even being in the drive, the disk is just needed to start the game then it is not used again whilst playing

resistance or a game that doesnt install any data on to the hard drive and then ill be impressed

I agree wholeheartedly. We get a bunch of free stuff with the PS3 anyway.

Right after you find an exploit in the PS3.

most people say that downloading an iso means consuming all the hdd's space ..but what about burning the iso into a blue-ray disc...then playing it...does that work??

OMG,



i cannot honestly believe how newbish the QJ readers are.



are you all too young to remember any other console than there next gen flavours?



lets start...



do any of you remember the PS1, PS2? piracy scene was far more widespread than the PSP even touched upon. it was the PS1/PS2 that made sony what they are today (in the console world).



the reason the PSP died is because it was simply crap (and dont flame me fan boys) i have one and even got into the scene when there actually was one, the piracy didnt kill the psp, the psp did.



xbox anyone? yup piracy there too, did it kill the xbox



dreamcast? okay bad choice here on my part, but it wasnt the piracy that killed that either.



so the question is will piracy kill the PS3? will it f*ck. what will kill the ps3 is like the psp the lack of any real substance (again dont flame me fan boys) i have one and i love it, but the sheer fact of the matter is i can only name a handful of decent titles (released thus far) that are worth paying 40+ quid for.

i can only hope (as i am) that the coming year will be more properous and we will finally see some games that PS3 deserves



those that are i will buy, those that arnt i wont, simple as

We don't need these problems

"those that are i will buy, those that arnt i wont, simple as"



Same as everybody, but what they are trying t say is different companies not wanting to develope games for the PS3 due to lack of sales.



If you flam me for that, I'll just ignore it so do what you all want.

The DS is even easier to Mod and code for than the PSP. But the psp is already losing titles +[



If this keeps on with the PS3 it will end up like the PC. Good games for PC lways come 1 or 2 years later than on consoles because its so easy to exploit. Even games you have to pay for are downloadable for free.



If this is released it will be bad for the marketing of i and will soon die.



Dont Release It!

Kiddo, you're the one who seems to think any jackass with a malformed TIFF image is a hacker.



I've already MADE useful things. It's YOUR turn, f*cknuts.

It cool that theres some work on PS3 Isos; however, personally (as almost everyone has said before :p) not only would it cost too much to get the eqipment need to rip and store the games, but its not really needed. As much as i hate paying $60 a game; keep in mind, you dont have to buy your PS3 games at Gamestop, EB, Best Buy, etc. The internet has great deals on certain games. Some times you can get them more than half off. Not only that, if PS3 games become pirated, it could once again lead a system to its doom (RIP PSP and Dreamcast :( ). Personally, i really think (if they can) they should look into a way to play imported PS1 and PS2 games on PS3. I mean, you spend a $1000 on the tv, $500 on your PS3, and a majority of import games cost about $30-$50 bucks usually. Not only that, if you have a certain import for PS1, i find it funny that even thou you own the disc, the only way you can play it on any PS3 is to buy the damn game again on the PSN. >:( Grant it, i do have a modded PS2; however, id like to play my imports on my 42 inch Insignia (via HDMI). XD

this is not a major breakthrough...i just want to know why it is called (ps3 backups running) if he used an original warhawk disc to start the game...the only thing that will make me buy ps3,is to see REAL backups running via a hdd or copied blue-ray which i think will never happen....

Err, no it isn't - "You say tomato..." is when two people call the same thing by THE SAME NAME, only pronounce it different!

That sucks for both of you. The 80gb PS3 here is 400 bucks, last time I checked. The most I've seen a PS3 game go for is 60 bucks.

Even if this is real i don't think people will start downloading games at like 25 GB. This is so god damn lame. What we should focus on is to get real homebrew running on the PS3, not backups. Nobody wants to buy a blu-ray burner for like 300 bux and then buy a god damn blu-ray disc for 25 bux and also download 25 gigs of some game that's gonna take like a week or something. No, what people really want is emulators. N64, Dreamcast, PSP, Genesis maybe even Xbox?



Screw backups. Give us homebrew instead!

this is bull*****. this could kill the ps3 in a very real way. we just have to hope that a quick firmware update can nip it in the bud! that's where ps3 has the advantage over psp because the PSN makes updating more or less mandatory.

I thought the DS and PSP were selling the best right now in Japan.

New PS3 hacks backup video, proof it works online and Motorstorm



StreetskaterFU has published a second video of his PS3 backups hack to prove it works. In his words this video shows "proof works online and showing inserted disk is motorstorm as proxy disc. When i eject disc, game quits like normal." Continue discussion on the new video here.



i dont know if i can post the web here but its from maxconsole

it should be on the update on Qj !

hehhehee thinking of buying a 250 G HDD for the Ps3

"But according to FreePlay, the exploit is only doable if you have a second hard drive handy"



Wrong! You guys only reported HALF the news. The hack is doable WITH NO ORIGINAL if you have two HDDs and it's ALSO doable if you have the original with only one HDD.



At least, that's what the rest of the world is reporting.

They are not INVOLVED, they just verified that it's real.

Thank you. I hate being misquoted.

I'm not interested in an ISO loader or the ability to play PS3 Backups.



i can't wait until Homebrew Developers find a way to open up the PS3 to run unsigned code.



Can't wait for proper emulators(Dream cast, N64 and even PS2 are all possible) region free DVDs and Blu Rays, and homebrew Apps and plugins!



the possibilites are endless! how mad would it be to be able to use the psp as a controller, or to expand upon remote play features, or allow compatibility with more movie file types, etc.



A true PS3 Custom firmware. i can't wait.



I'm sure this is an important step towards that, well done :)

I'm not insterested in hacking my PS3 in any way, shape or form. Sony has clearly shown us they have a handle on the situation and I use PSN more then disc games as it is.



However, if there's a way to play backups that require the original just for the sake of playing off the HDD then I'm 100% for it!!!!



MS is doing giving everyone this exact feature with the 360.



From what I can tell, with ZERO modifications, we'll be able to play games from the HDD with the original in the drive. THAT IS AWESOME!!!

So you are saying it's okay to pirate....even though it's 360. Your 24 years old, GET A JOB and save your damn pocket change and maybe be able to buy a LEGIT game for yourself. You sound so proud that you are actually pirating or more like supporting pirates. What the hell is with your damn explanation.

You write like a 13 year old and you expect us to believe you have a video editing job?



English not being your first language isn't the problem.



Anyway, in my country a 360 game costs $59.99 and a PS3 game costs $59.99. btw, since you asked, I own 5 of them (PS3).



To pirate a 360 game costs about 40 cents. Pretty soon, to pirate a PS3 game will be FREE. Either way, to do them requires a LOT of hastle if you wish to go online.



So your lame ass comments are going to be wasted on MOST people that come to this site.

piracy nirvana means *****ty games and even *****tier online. i would rather pay $100 for a game then download it for free and have the system go down. i have a psp m33, and online and gaming in general are not pretty. alek, please stop.

Ok, so Piracy is BAD........... but we all do it, no one can deny it. Ever taped something off the tv/radio - PIRACY. ever downloaded an MP3... PIRACY. Ok, so there are dirrerent levels of said Piracy, but i don't think it has hurt the PSP as much as most would think. Sony's still touting a 10 year lifespan - and making new models, and developers are still making games (althoug things have slowed - maybe because of the lack of interconnetabli ty of games with the New Gen Systems - due to lack of power - A ps3 game just wouldn't be anywhere near as good on a PSP.



Things can't be that bad for the psp, and look at the homebrew that has enhanced our lives, better MP3 and Video, cool wee Games, and other random device emulators (ir remotes, old consoles). I say bring on the HB, cause at $25us a disc, and $600+ a burner, and the excessive size of the games, i don't think game piracy will be a huge problem for them yet (unlike some consoles we know "cough" XBOX360 "cough")