Video of Ferrox PS3 ISO loader: for real?

Posted Feb 4, 2007 at 4:43AM by QJ Staff Listed in: PS3 Tags: Hackers, YouTube

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We're not sure if this is real, but if you experienced homebrewers and hackers out in internet land know what to make of this, we'd certainly like your opinion. There is now a video circulating of what looks like a PS3 ISO loader known as Ferrox v1.0.

Now, if this video is to be believed, it's running Ridge Racer 7without any problems. Strangely enough, this doesn't actually look like the Paradox thing being beta tested, so we're a bit curious, especially since they say at the end that it works with all firmware versions. What is Naoneo's YouTube video all about then?

If you happen to have the definitive word, and can back it up with info, let us know!

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# .... — Guest 2007-02-04 00:05

I sure hope so

# fake... — Guest 2007-02-04 00:07

this doesn't look real at all...

I'd like to know what on earth they actually did to run an iso loaded apart from having a bad quality youtube video where they're messing with the menu, screen goes black, writing appears... screen goes black... game appears...

Easily edited, can't be real

# // — Guest 2007-02-04 00:12

"for sending the devkit to the wrong person".... what the *****.. like thats gna happen, i reckon its fake

# ... — Guest 2007-02-04 01:01

sending the kit to the wrong person? Wtf? *cough* fake *cough* and i didnt even know they still made Jolt cola. this killed just watched the film "hackers" too much imo

# Maybe Real... — Guest 2007-02-04 01:23

It would be better if the camera was better quality. I couldnt see what he/her selected at the beginning.

# Fact — Demon Slayer 2007-02-04 01:41

No hackers actually call themselves "Elite Hackers".

# . — Guest 2007-02-04 01:47

Narcissistic ones would. Perhaps thats what we have here :)

Or its fake, time will tell.

# its black — Guest 2007-02-04 02:05

its so black.... sure fake..

# I don't care — Guest 2007-02-04 02:13

I'm buying my own games. I get far more pleasure out of carefully selecting the top titles and buying them. This makes be get the most out of them. If I just download games I try them for 5 mins, then flick to the next iso. BORING.

# could be real — Guest 2007-02-04 02:47

If you look closer they are changing the OS from PS3 to Other OS which means they made their own OS that runs these games. So if they did do this that would mean sony would have like no way of telling who is using this because it just looks like another OS and thus can't cut you off from the online like xbox does.

# Might be Real — Vietone 2007-02-04 03:03

Yeah if you lok closely they are booting into the OtherOS.

This could mean they found an exploit that allows you to open an Image in the OtherOS and send it to the Real PS3 OS. This might be possible since you can run the PS3 OS from Linux.

If he PS3 game runs entirely from Linux, then they might have found a way to get drivers for the RSX to work. They would also have to have found a way to pair up a controller through Blu-tooth in Linux unless its connected with a USB cord.

Im keeping an open Mind about this one.

# Linux, — Guest 2007-02-04 04:03

Linux was gonna be a problem to begin with. Although i highly doubt you'll need Linux installed to run this, its probably exploiting the open sourced side of the PS3, finding the connections between the cell and RSX, tap those 2 together and fake the "game OS". Its like psp's devhook, you run the game OS expect your just emulating it but the actual system thinks your running the game OS

# sure fake... — Guest 2007-02-04 04:04

Look fat32 cant handle rr 7 can it? only ntfs can store up to that high...

# why endorse pirated games — Guest 2007-02-04 04:18

to be honest, things like this will destroy the gaming industry, why have pirated games, becasue doing this your robbing the bussiness, and if it continues to the extreme, there will be no games industry, i know this all to extreme, but i get angry when people start downloading or buying illegal copy of games.

But i can't tell if it real, but if it is, should we )TRUE GAMERS) really be happy about this????

# because — Guest 2007-02-04 04:49

I don't feel like buying a rehash of Madden every year for little improvements they could just have put into a download

# You know nothing — Vietone 2007-02-04 05:45

If its stored on the internal drive, it can be as big as it wants to. I don't know if anyone knows what partition the PS3 OS uses, but when you partition for Linux, you can use any format you want. If its Linux, probably ext2 or ext3.

The PS3 can store big files internally for Game Data, so to say its fake because it cant hold it is false.

# PS3 ISO Loading Details — Guest 2007-02-04 06:01

Details

This hack is indeed NOT fake. As you can see, we have created our own otheros.bld file, that loads a hacked version of the linux kernel. It then allows you to simply select a Image file. The File extensions that can be used are .iso and .img. The following games has been tested:

-Resistance Fall of Man

-Madden NFL 07

-Ridge Racer

-Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07

-NBA 2K7

Resistance Fall of Man Shows Slight lag because of the size of the image.

# thereal1 — Guest 2007-02-04 06:22

lol?

# Keep the Good Work... — Guest 2007-02-04 06:26

i Wonder if a Firmware Update can prevent this...

Can Sony Block it with a firmware..??....Plz keep us Informed

# NaoNeo — Guest 2007-02-04 08:04

You know there is a website called NaoNeo about PS3 Hacking:

http://naoneo.com

# Every system has had pirated games — Guest 2007-02-04 10:29

Some people buy games, and others don't. The latter are NOT a part of the market, and so have no effect on it.

Consider that every PSX ever made could play copies without any hardware modification via the double swap, and then consider how successful it was. The N64 had almost no piracy (the cartridge emulators were too expensive), and that basically fell flat on it's face.

It's also worth noting that despite all the noise that's being made by the industry, the fact is that prices are _lower_ in territories with higher piracy levels (a fact that should suprise nobody with any knowledge of economics...)

The only harmful effect is when the availability of pirate copies reduces the size of the market to a level where a certain title becomes not worth producing.

# You know the slogan! — Guest 2007-02-04 10:31

EA Sports - it's in the game! (you brought last year)

# PS3 ISO Loader — Guest 2007-02-04 10:43

when is this ISO loader going to be available ?

# Apparently Real — Guest 2007-02-04 12:04

The super quick loading times would suggest it was running from the hard drive as opposed to the disc (unless the blu-ray drive IS that quick), but its not really easy to see whats going on. We've had Ferrox post and say that its real, but we all know how easy it is to post some low quality, poorly lighted video on youtube and claim it shows something amazing. Though I kinda hope it is real... :-)

# Release — Guest 2007-02-04 12:51

i dont think they will release it, simply becasue it is FAKE!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !

# it's cool — Guest 2007-02-04 13:36

I would love this too.. i mean I would like to have super mario bros 3, super mario, mario kart, mario64, homebrew ps3 games, mame, all on my ps3, load ps1 ps2, maybe psp iso's ? nah donno they havent made a psp emulator .. but possibilities are endless i guess for this.. online with mame? i like SVC chaos.. hmm kaillera ?

# FAKE! — Guest 2007-02-04 13:48

its totaly fake if you even want me to consider this real without releasing the thing then dont black out the screen in between every change in image. they just show the xmb then black then a little title screen and some other bs then black then cut to a shot of ridgeracer playing. add a little creative editing and boom your a hacker lol if you want me to belive this invest in some lighting and dont edit your movie at all

# real — Guest 2007-02-04 14:03

I think this is real because she is a homebrew developer and has been working on hacking ps3 linux for some time now she knows alot about this stuff and other groups have already found a flaw so there's a chance naoneo did to.

# Re: PS3 ISO Loading Details — Guest 2007-02-04 15:06

For R:FOM, did you try deleting the dummy data to make the ISO smaller?

# What are you talking about? — Guest 2007-02-04 15:11

"screen goes black, writing appears... screen goes black... game appears"

WTF dude, that's the loading screen, genius

# What song is that — Guest 2007-02-04 15:42

Can you please tell me what song is that

# its NOT fake — Guest 2007-02-04 15:55

why would a known person like her, wanna mess up her reputation by releasing a fake video?

Also look at the bottom where the tv logo is on the tv, it doesn't move.

And she also mentioned the hyper-drive exploit.

Well, what if it were fake? Who cares?

The paradox loader will be coming soon.

# PERHAPS, I HAVE THE ANSWER!!!!!!!!! !! — Guest 2007-02-04 16:15

PARADOX RELEASED IN THE LATEST NFO FILE

PS3 IS THE LUCKY NUMBER???

Pretty Soon 3=March

EITHER THAT OR IT IS GOING TO BE RELEASED IN 3 DAYS, BUT NOW LIKELY

# not a fake i guess — Guest 2007-02-04 16:25

people who says its a fake becoz of it being all dark are blind or they are using crappy monitors.. look closely and u can see the whole tv with its tv logo.. i myself believe its real..

# Pretty Soon 3? — iNCREDiPiNOY 2007-02-04 16:28

I thought it Plug'n Screw 3!

# gone baby, gone!!! — Guest 2007-02-04 19:05

Funny, I get here, go to look at the vid, and it's gone. I wonder why. Now, I don't wanna go to one side or another. People have *****ty cameras sometimes, I give them that. And yeah, it's a little hard to believe that you are running an actual prog when there are no lights (then again, like I said, the vid is gone, so I am just going off of descriptive reading). But why would the video be taken down? Either a. someone is ashamed of themselves for trying to be "4w350m3 h4x0rz" (I hate the crappy elitists...they are so damned annoying) and faking a bad vid, or b. someone actually got wind of this, and tried to shut it down before anyone else could see. Now, knowing youtube, it's probably the latter. They leave copyrighted ***** up all thetime for months, so why not this...It may be real, maybe not, but my point is (and I have one, I swear): somebody saw this, got scared because they know its possible,whethe r actually done or not, and complained to the craps at youtube. I hate pirating games. Pirate movies, pirate music, but for the sweet love of christ, leave the games alone!!!

# Read more books — Guest 2007-02-04 19:26

Why are you assuming its fat32????

1. fat32 is an old predated dos/windows file system

2. linux uses ext2/3 reiser, etc..which can handle as much as 2terabytes

3. theres many kinds of filesystems out there, that includes PFS, and is not capped to only 4gb per file

# the lucky number — Guest 2007-02-04 20:07

The letter "P" is under 0

The letter "S" is under 2

The number 3 = number 3

so

PS3 = 23 february/march ) lol

# Paradox — Guest 2007-02-04 20:51

You are going to see fake $#!7 like this being spread around for the next few weeks, 'til Paradox put their loader out there.

One of the daed giveaways that this is fake is not the crapiness of the vid, but the fact that this looks NOTHING like the Paradox beta loader, as the article at the top oof the page says.

What are the chances of their being two completely different ways of booting ISOs from the hard-drive?

# nes/snes — Guest 2007-02-04 20:58

games have been pirated for years, the nes and snes and all that have been pirated for ages, just because companies found ways to block or try to block it like on psp doesnt mean the gaming industry is suddenly falling apart, there are thousands upon thousands of people that dont know about pirating games or iso or custom firmware or any of that, that buy all their games, some people buy so may they say its pointless to even use iso because they have all the games they could ever want. so my point is, just because a few thousand people that know how to play pirated games dont buy them, doesnt mean that a whole industry will fall apart, they have the other millions that will buy their games.

# Its real — Guest 2007-02-04 21:13

if you zoom into full screen you can see the stand that the tv is on and it never moves, so im convinced its real.

# The TV — Guest 2007-02-04 21:55

What has the fact that the TV, or it's stand, never moves got to do with this being fake or not?

All you see is the screen ... they could have edited a video or DVD, then played it on the TV.

# Fake — Mentality 2007-02-04 22:21

this is a fake for sure, and the video don't work anymore btw.

# Say What ! — Guest 2007-02-05 00:15

What do you mean by -

Another White boy video ?

# something ive heard — xche78x 2007-02-05 00:42

if you use OTHEROS the main ps3 OS locks the RSX chip, so for now its impossible. linux cannot access the RSX nor any programs thats are run like it. so how can you make a PS3 ISO game loader run without RSX? if that program is inside the ps3 main XMB and loaded like Devhook or any like it then that may get my attention. and fyi whatever you do on your unit, the online server can always check malicious wares on your console. these corporations are not dumb you know.

# uhm — xche78x 2007-02-05 00:50

haven't you got that on your windows PC?

try installing linux on your ps3, you can also play those emulators.

# Ferrox — Guest 2007-02-05 01:27

Its not fake you idiots, if anyone actually knew anything about PS3's ..Everyone is like oh oh paradox is coming out soon ..and this one is fake cause the PS3 cant be hacked, so why would paradox's work :\

Ferrox FTW! ..All Firmware Versions

Paradox In 3 Weeks - naoneo release ferrox before.

# Its fake — Guest 2007-02-05 01:57

Videos have been removed, I suspect because the heat that they drew was too much, now anyone who was actually going to release it would have expected heat, however someone who was making a fake would think that it would be a laugh, then suddenly crap their pants when all the attention in the world turned on them.

Oh what a surprise the videos have gone in a vain attempt to stop the heat, the video was ***** quality meaning many tricks could be used, the video was dark, there was NO info in the video as to how it was released, and it just doesnt make sense to release a video if its fully working when you could just release the damn thing.

Anyone who believes this is real still is retarded.

# 100% real deal — Guest 2007-02-05 03:04

I inspected those videos closely and can ensure you, they are as much real as they can get. Definetely good job on coding this Ferrox thingie.

Now all we have to do, is wait for the PDX response (in their next nfo?) or for naoneo to release Ferrox. We'll see.

Here's a question about Ferrox though: is it really able to handle all FW versions?

# "dude" — Guest 2007-02-05 05:59

"dude", this looks so fake personally... I had the understanding that no iso loader information would be released until the March euro release so Sony wouldn't patch it...

# Video not playing — Guest 2007-02-05 06:05

"This video has been removed by the user."

Fake?!?!

# LoL — Demon Slayer 2007-02-05 06:22

I suppose, but after following the PSP community, I've learned to trust nothing that doesn't come with a file.

# tere pan da fuda patkai — Guest 2007-02-05 12:48

oye panchoda oh., its bound to happen

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