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PS3 hacked by iPhone dev? |
Listed in: PS3 Tags: Geohot, hack, playstation 3 updates, ps3, rumor, Sony

Here's something interesting for the weekend. iPhone developer Geohot claims to have been finally able to hack the PS3.
Here's what the dev posted on his blog:
I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I've also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip.
Geohot further adds that even though he's not revealing the exploit yet, it's not patchable by Sony. Firmware updates could however make implementation harder. There's no mention of what firmware he's working with.
Geohot -- if it is the same one -- made his mark on the iPhone homebrew community with a baseband unlock for firmware 3.1. Without further proof I'll have to put this under rumor for now. I guess we'll just have to wait and see if this turns out to be the real deal.
Thanks to Adam West, James, Koolkatmedia, Ferre, and mansonfreak for the tips!
Via [Geohot]
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I wonder if we'll be able to run a version of Windows 7/Mac Snow Leopard on the PS3, I do hope so.
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A hacked ps3 means no more hypervisor for one thing, and may not even require the linux overhead part.
Any form of windows is probably impossible but Mac OS, with some versions being released for PowerPC architecture, could that be plausible?
Linux without a hypervisor sounds good to me though.
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I don't care about copied games, and even if I did I wouldn't waste my precious BD-R discs.
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Hopefully this will lead onto a purely software based hack so we can easily make better use of the PS3 like with the PSP.
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I like how ignorant people point out how they like how ignorant people are these days.
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And the prices of ps3 games are pretty low. So I think most people wont need to pirate anything. And homebrews could be pretty awesome on the ps3.
So yeah... The reason for hacking the psp could be Homebrews...
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You're an idiot, I pirated maybe 3 games on the PSP and I don't even think I played them, I played SNES all the freaking TIME on my PSP. I beat ChronoTrigger and I got a bit into Mario RPG, plus Mario All Stars + World!
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PS3, I'd love to get that modded so I could play some of my PSX that I kept sealed on the PS3 w/ the update graphics. There are many legitimate uses for playing backups of discs.
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I've pirated over $50,000 worth of software, games, music, movies, operating systems, you name it. And I'm proud of that.
You can go and keep helping the already filthy rich people get richer, well, I'm not emptying my pocket to those 'living-way-too-fucking-large' assholes that STILL overprice the fuck out of games and everything else.
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agreed theyre just living it up while we can barely get through..
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killzone 2
demon souls
R&C series
Resistence series
ALL the great multiplats that have been coming out like mw2,borderlands and dragon age please dude the ps3 has so many good games its not fair.
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GTFO. Take your 36Fail with you too.
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Lets see how this road go...
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If this is real then PS3 games will sell so much as PSP games.
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PSP has good games but just can't make good sales cuz of piracy.
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ps3news is one of the most bullshit PS3 sites out on the net.. They ALWAYS lie about exploits just to increase their site traffic.
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ps3news ALWAYS bullshits about a new "exploit" that "they found" just so they can increase their website traffic so they don't get shut down.
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dont talk about sh!t you have no idea on... it only makes it look like your mom insisted on throwing you as a baby.
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The games BEEN shit. With very few exceptions. And it STAYED that way. Not because of piracy, but because of half-assed passionless developers that just want your money. And ya'll give them your money. Shame shame.
Reality Check.
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If this is legit, a simple firmware hack could easily bring it back.
Also, as much as I'm hoping this is not true, if it is, I'd love to see a PCSX2 port make it to the surface.
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10 x $50 = 500$
10 x $5 = 100$ + 135$ bluray burner off tiger direct.
$500 vs 235$...
HMMMMMMMM. SUCH A HARD CHOICE MAN.
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Why the hell do people want to run stuff on the PS3? You got computers for that. A virtual pc on the ps3 isn't logical because it has almost no ram.
Go buy your games. Or get a 360
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1 - A Ps3 upadate flash the Nand so this news would be a eminent disater for his project
2 - as a devs he know alredy that SOny will upadate what he talking about so as daekalex and many did , it would be beter if he surprise sony by a full release rather than corumting his works
3 - aven hacked blank BD are very expansive
4 - fuck u dont hack it a sell many ps3 games on ebay
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I doubt half the people here can understand what you're saying.
Besides that, Geohot is known for releasing hacks for the iPod Touch and iPhone. There's no way he'd bullshit this.
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Piracy is the ONLY way to go! I would never, ever support non-piracy!
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2 things... this isnt like the psp... i dont think it would be cool or fun to do this with the ps3 because we would loose a lot of the good game programmers just like what happened with the psp... and if you were going to burn them it would take forever per copy.. (700mb around 1.2hours) and you would be putting out more money so it would be better to just buy them legit or wait 2 years till they are at $19.99 usd. vs $200+ just for the burner and $60+ (10x)for a good pack of discs...
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what the hell is wrong with you idiots.
the xbox has been hacked since day dot.
are good games released for xbox?
you people are robots.
no good games are released for PSP because of piracy.......BULLSH!T
good games are released for PSP.
the crap games are because of lazy devs, not piracy
Wii=hacked
xbox360=hacked
think about it idiots
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First of all, the PSP is portable. Who ACTUALLY wants to carry around 10 UMDs when they go somewhere? At least the PSPGo is getting it right, but the ridiculous almost-PS3 price tag is putting many off. So yeah, I think it's safe to assume that many people pirate games because it's just so convenient. Like the difference between the old CD player Sony Walkman and an iPod.
Secondly, though, the PSP was also REALLY easy to hack, whereas the 360 is hardly newb friendly when it comes down to it.
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But they're still rich as shit! Go figure! People are STUPID
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Lets see, how true this story ist ;)
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i always said i would never pirate ps3 games and i still stand by that. i really want some kick ass homebrew. xbmc or similar would be a dream come true. not to mention some emu's.
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This will surely screw the ps3 game sales.
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you sure? because I swear I got one of those "unbreakable jasper" units and it RRoD'd on me.
anyway... this hack will be doomsday for the PS3 if gone public. I know there are legit uses for such a hack, but more people know about the "not so legit" uses for it also. The PS3 has done well as it is. I don't want it to go the "PSP way".
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your_fire is the only here with a brain
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360 and Wii have been hacked for ages, and people pirate the hell out of them. Does that stop game or hardware sales? Nope. I bet 90% of people still purchasing Wii because it's so easy to hack to add homebrew.
So no, this won't "b da endz of da ps3"
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Doubt grammar like that would land a high paying legit PS3 development job.
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then again i see problems.. blackra1n caused a hell of a lot of problems on iPhones..
But Still this is nice..
but im not so sure about it, if piracy flies up on the PS3 i wont be two happy .. ill pirate games on any system except PS3.
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So yeah, I sincerely hope that this never gets released.
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"Harder for dev teams to make money"
Are you MAD? Do you have any fucking idea how freaking much money they make?
Do you have any fucking idea how hard they make it for new people to enter the field? They're practically monopolies sucking the money out of retarded consumers like YOU and getting richer and richer while negros down the street, hell, I can't even walk on the same sidewalk as them for fear of gettin robbed/jumped.
But it is the way it is
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otherwise playing ps2 and ps1 backup i dont think its anygood for ps3 huge game files unless you are using a 2terabyte harddrive and have the means do make a game iso and make it run...
yeah there is also the psn games
hm
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bite me haters, i dont give a fuck ^^
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OtherOS support for PS3Slims would be nice too.
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for a start im happy to buy games for the ps3, theyre good games, and worth it, makes your appreciate them more
you couldnt appreciate any pirated game on the psp, it just put you of the psp, you wouldnt even play the games
i want homebrew on the ps3, however i would it legit, sony should do something similar to XNA, or apple (never thought id say that)
open the platform up.
Plus its just going to result in cheats or bans on the psn, never a good thing
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And who knows, maybe if this gets released it will force Sony to release a free SDK for us and let us run our unsigned code legitimately instead of having to hack it. Sure we wouldn't be able to modify a lot of the things we can do with the ps3 (in-game music and stuff) but we'd at least have other homebrews. Sony could just release it and say "Here's this! We don't support what you make though!" and have some sort of license to say "what ever happens is the developer's fault not ours. If your ps3 eats itself then decides it wants to throw itself back up don't call us and complain." That way they can keep us from FULLY unlocking the ps3. It's easy for them to add extra security so we can't run "backups" or modify any part of the ps3 or even get kernel mode (if that exists on ps3?). Maybe have all unsigned code be put into some weird...unsigned code mode? with full 3d support though please.
While they're at it they'd make one for psp too. so we might see something good from this. My two-bits.
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Because we know all those psp updates were just to add cool features right?
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I'm stoked
Piracy wont be as big of a problem, it still will be, but the 360 is pirated and it sells fine.
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Maybe because Microsoft loves it. You can mod the system, they can then have a legitimate reason to ban it. You run right back out, buy a new one, but more Live subscriptions, buy more MSP, and help them out immensely. Do you think Microsoft gets holiday sells numbers from new owners? No, they save all of it up til November every year and go after everyone, right before Christmas shopping season. Imagine that. And they still some of the highest game sells.
Piracy may hurt the developer, but it is a blessing for console manufacturers.
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@dontwannaloggi n- Not all games are heavily compressed idiot, check a torrent site,and do a comparison between MW2. It's about 1.2GB bigger, don't let fanboyism get in the way of truth
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-Most of us are basement dwelling no life etc. Our opinions about everything are ignored by normal? people, except for totally unimportant things, like games. We play a game then create considerable buzz, encouraging casuals to buy
-Alot of people would rather buy a console knowing they have the option to pirate. I always prefer buying original, why the hell not. But in alot of cases this is not possible, or practical.
-Increased console means userbase, no? They might just need to work a bit harder to get money from the poor basement dwellers
-Wii>360>ps3 saleswise. See a trend here in terms of price AND homebrew?
You are going to say learn economics, blah blah. I say learn reasoning, etc
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I think this would be great as sony is excruciatingly slow and could never match the creativity and ingenuity on the same scale of the masses.
On the other hand though the word homebrew is always closely followed by piracy. Piracy is the only reason that the looks so negatively on the homebrew scene... it is a scourge.
In fact the only reason that it exists is due to the fact that homebrew developers etc. keep on creating applications that allow "back ups" to be made from the original game (recent not old retro roms that companies make no more profit from). This then leads to the abuse of the application in relation to its intended use.
maybe the decision not to create these apps will allow homebrewers to separate themselves from the pirates.
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ps3 memory
•256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
•256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz
and someone said something about the cpu being incompatible with PC...
ps3 CPU
3.2 GHz Cell Broadband Engine with 1 PPE & 7 SPEs
this should be able to emulate some great stuff...
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you're an idiot
most my friends have PS3 and i have never heard one moan about price.
and guess what.....360 games cost THE SAME AMOUNT AS PS3 GAMES
really, grab a brain.
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It was a while back
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If you take a whole 50GB DL Blu-Ray and you have a 16Mbit connection, which is very common these days, you only need 7(!) HOURS to download the game. If you can't even wait this long, you don't deserve these games. Come to to think of it, if you downlaod games, you don't deserve them anyway.
Buy your games, people.
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I love how he says that like its no big deal. :)
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google "emulators ppc"
or
http://www.zophar.net/
Of course having the XMB hacked is also a dream come true, but whose willing to hack it, not me. It would be to expensive for me to even think about it, Yet. Give it 3 years.
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2. You will never be able to run Windows or Mac OS X on the PS3. They are closed source.
3. "Disagreeing" with this hack because of piracy is like disagreeing with knives because you can stab people with them.
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PS2 Emu would be so fucking awesome...
SNES, GBA, and maybe DS emulators yay.
I love homebrew.
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if you dont want to do it then dont
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Will the hack allow to run a burnt BD-R game disk? or maybe run ISO off a hard drive? Also I am not discussing the morality of whether it is right or wrong. I'm just discussing what is practical in either situation.
Some complain that neither option is practical. Maybe for some I can understand.
I believe to have a collection of ISO's on hard drive is very practical. A TB drive is not that expensive compared to the price of very few games. Yes many games are large in size. In other systems some games are "scrubbed" of content that is felt to be unneeded in order to reduce size. Even with very large game, I honestly could download them in a reasonable time with my 20 Mb connection a using Rapidshare account or Usenet. I live in a small city, but I know that many people in some areas I've seen have a 50 Mb connection or maybe more. Sometimes I can download a gigabyte in almost half an hour. Load it up, go to sleep and its ready.
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