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  • First Games Appearing that Require 3.56 Firmware

    Two new games have popped up that require Sony's security laden 3.56 firmware. The first game, Dragon Age II, isn't due to hit retail shelves until March 8th, but hackers have managed to get their hands on an early leaked copy. After some experimentation, some people have reported success in getting the game to run on 3.55 with a simple modification to the version string in the PARAM.SFO along with a repackaged EBOOT.BIN.




    Baseball fans will be disappointed to hear that the second game to require 3.56 is MLB 11 The Show. Like Dragon Age II, The Show isn't supposed to hit stores until March 8th. However, some users are reporting that certain stores have broken that street date and sold copies early. Little examination has taken place yet on MLB 11, so it is still unknown if the game can be modified to run on a 3.55 console.



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    1. hideki-PSG's Avatar
      hideki-PSG -
      Quote Originally Posted by LSTR View Post
      sooooo many Hippocrates .....supposedly legally use BMs ..... your only lying to yourselves and in the end i hope you all get banned .... i love CFW but i also love thanking people for there hard work ... lets face it the number of CFW pirates outweigh the number of actual legitimate CFW lovers e.g the ones who use it for linux, emulators,ect....
      You mean hypocrites...

      Hippocrates was the founder of modern medicine (which is I'm sure not what you meant), hence the hippocratic oath that all doctors take (which actually doesn't contain the text "Do no harm", that was part of a lecture given much later on, probably by Aristotle)
    1. Turkish-PSG's Avatar
      Turkish-PSG -
      Quote Originally Posted by grandy View Post
      It really has nothing to do with what games are coming out. Personally I could care less about final fantasy whatever. I'm a huge baseball fan and The Show is always a quality series of games, so I've been looking forward to it. The reason the PS3 hasn't been hacked further is because all of 5 people that actually have talent in hacking the console have been sued. Of those five maybe one doesn't mind piracy and will help hack the PS3 in that direction. Honestly the public talent is severely lacking on the PS3.

      The death of scene console groups has led to the death fo talented hacking groups. Now you have a bunch of P2P type morons and lackluster hackers that need to tweet and blog about their progress. If anyone remembers say 10 years ago, only once in a blue moon you had someone being raided. Why? It was because those groups took security very seriously and no one wanted individual credit and fame. Rival groups would work together just to achieve progress, individuals never craved fame, and there was an abundance of talent working together.

      Honestly, I can barely think of a project that has involved more than one person when it comes to the PS3. There was fail0verflow's work and psgroove but thats about it. If you want to see real progress on the PS3, people will need to start working together and stop craving attention. Thats my 2 cents. Unfortunately, its a different generation we live in these days.
      I agree with you, thats why I want Geohot to rot in jail. Dude things he is a popstar giving interviews and making a ****** rap song. My respect for Dark_Alex has grown 1000% ever since I heard about this geohot.

      And the funny thing is? All the little kids around here see geohot as a role model, shouting "**** sony", "i will never buy a sony product again!!" Talking all tough and cool on the internet lmao!
    1. Mick MakinaCore Murphy's Avatar
      Mick MakinaCore Murphy -
      turkish STFU stop slebberin 1 load if shite and away on diffrent site if you have nothing good to say your comments are load a crap you probs found your ps3 in a skip next to a crack dealer and sooked him of to get it off him now run along and do us all a favour AND F*UK OFF
    1. tranceonline-PSG's Avatar
      tranceonline-PSG -
      @turkish:

      Nothing is unhackable! Never. It takes more or less time. thats all.
      I am from turkey and I really don't know what your intention is in getting all the flaming on you. Wandering around on a ps3 hacking related page. I really don't.
      Do as u like and I home at some day, the ppl here will have the power to just ignore u. Not because I hate u, I don't even know u, but Cauz u are wrong here and only do provocation to other ppl.

      @topic: some day, there will be a spoof like for the psp. It has just begun folks!
    1. Floodas's Avatar
      Floodas -
      Quote Originally Posted by medalcue View Post
      3.56 will never get cracked. Its not even being worked on since Sony is coming out with 3.60 soon the devs are waiting for that.
      To that we should add that 3.56 doesn't need to get cracked. With cfw 3.55 you can play offline online and even the latest games using 3.56 spoof and various pkg's. There is absolutely no reason to hack it why even try?
    1. digitalemu's Avatar
      digitalemu -
      Quote Originally Posted by dapooloffool View Post
      Pirates!!! You can't use the backup bs argument to wriggle out of this one.

      Why not? In order to run my backup of Dragon Age through 3.55 CFW because that's the only CFW available right now that will run backups. I don't use my original disks as I store those in my safety deposit box for safe keeping.
    1. maurice-PSG's Avatar
      maurice-PSG -
      Meh.....well doesn't matter for me, I decided to go to 3.56 from CFW only because I use Netflix and I already preordered DA II and Skyrim. Also, I got calls from my internet provider about complaints from Sony and they were threatening to cancel my account with them. Don't really need that right now, so I'm gonna wait this out till Geohot vs. Sony is resolved.
    1. peeer-PSG's Avatar
      peeer-PSG -
      Quote Originally Posted by Floodas View Post
      To that we should add that 3.56 doesn't need to get cracked. With cfw 3.55 you can play offline online and even the latest games using 3.56 spoof and various pkg's. There is absolutely no reason to hack it why even try?
      I'm still using ofw 3.41 with dongle payload and I am running Dragon Age II right now with a modifed EBOOT.BIN, on external FAT32 HDD. I don't know why you say you need spoof, I'm not using any spoof payloads and its running fine. Back to before cfws appears I remember spoofs were used to quit getting that message from PSN that there is a newer firmware update available. It even enabled online in the begining for about a week or 2. They were kinda useless after Sony blocked the spoof to access online.

      I guess its different with the cfws 3.55. Anyone else can confirm this?
    1. peeer-PSG's Avatar
      peeer-PSG -
      Quote Originally Posted by digitalemu View Post
      Why not? In order to run my backup of Dragon Age through 3.55 CFW because that's the only CFW available right now that will run backups. I don't use my original disks as I store those in my safety deposit box for safe keeping.
      There is also a cfw 3.41 made by Hermes.
    1. TWITDADDY's Avatar
      TWITDADDY -
      Quote Originally Posted by grandy View Post
      It really has nothing to do with what games are coming out. Personally I could care less about final fantasy whatever. I'm a huge baseball fan and The Show is always a quality series of games, so I've been looking forward to it. The reason the PS3 hasn't been hacked further is because all of 5 people that actually have talent in hacking the console have been sued. Of those five maybe one doesn't mind piracy and will help hack the PS3 in that direction. Honestly the public talent is severely lacking on the PS3.

      The death of scene console groups has led to the death fo talented hacking groups. Now you have a bunch of P2P type morons and lackluster hackers that need to tweet and blog about their progress. If anyone remembers say 10 years ago, only once in a blue moon you had someone being raided. Why? It was because those groups took security very seriously and no one wanted individual credit and fame. Rival groups would work together just to achieve progress, individuals never craved fame, and there was an abundance of talent working together.

      Honestly, I can barely think of a project that has involved more than one person when it comes to the PS3. There was fail0verflow's work and psgroove but thats about it. If you want to see real progress on the PS3, people will need to start working together and stop craving attention. Thats my 2 cents. Unfortunately, its a different generation we live in these days.
      i still remember the ps2 xbox days when just about everything released was by a team. I guess I still thought these were teams working together. But you definanly right about this new age of hackers wanting to be known. Just look at any of these guys twitter and there you go. And I also am a huge baseball fan, and the show was my whole reason for buying ps3. Hopefully theres a method soon to at least load retail disc without having to update. I really dont want to update but if thats the only way I can play the one game i actually want then i guess no more homebrew. Anyway nice post
    1. TWITDADDY's Avatar
      TWITDADDY -
      Quote Originally Posted by Mick MakinaCore Murphy View Post
      turkish STFU stop slebberin 1 load if shite and away on diffrent site if you have nothing good to say your comments are load a crap you probs found your ps3 in a skip next to a crack dealer and sooked him of to get it off him now run along and do us all a favour AND F*UK OFF
      Thanks now i know exactly how to boot these games. Im glad this site is full of intelligent people just like you.
    1. Mick MakinaCore Murphy's Avatar
      Mick MakinaCore Murphy -
      what twitdaddy :-S

      lolol
    1. NEO117-PSG's Avatar
      NEO117-PSG -
      Quote Originally Posted by grandy View Post
      It really has nothing to do with what games are coming out. Personally I could care less about final fantasy whatever. I'm a huge baseball fan and The Show is always a quality series of games, so I've been looking forward to it. The reason the PS3 hasn't been hacked further is because all of 5 people that actually have talent in hacking the console have been sued. Of those five maybe one doesn't mind piracy and will help hack the PS3 in that direction. Honestly the public talent is severely lacking on the PS3.

      The death of scene console groups has led to the death fo talented hacking groups. Now you have a bunch of P2P type morons and lackluster hackers that need to tweet and blog about their progress. If anyone remembers say 10 years ago, only once in a blue moon you had someone being raided. Why? It was because those groups took security very seriously and no one wanted individual credit and fame. Rival groups would work together just to achieve progress, individuals never craved fame, and there was an abundance of talent working together.

      Honestly, I can barely think of a project that has involved more than one person when it comes to the PS3. There was fail0verflow's work and psgroove but thats about it. If you want to see real progress on the PS3, people will need to start working together and stop craving attention. Thats my 2 cents. Unfortunately, its a different generation we live in these days.
      You sir, should get out of my head.

      +9000

      Geohot should really stop now with the attention whoring. What is wrong with him really? Its what got him into this bull in the 1st face...

      I miss the old days when hackers would keep in the shadow and release what they have and not some two-bit key while keeping everything else because "it could be potentially used for illicit means" I hate dumb people, attention *****s and moralfags. And Geohot and Marcan are all of these things.

      f0f: "Lets say to EVERYONE how*weeeee* hacked the PS3, and don't forget that we're not gonna make them public because it could be illegele omg omg omg omg. What's that? You mean to tell me some guy with a ******* face published them? BLASPHEMY!! HE PUBLISHED THE KEYS *WE* FOUND!? I must totally let everyone know on my Twitter that it was *US*, and only us, who found the keys."

      Geohot: "Hey guys here's the keys *I* totally found with my hard work (totally not Fail0verflow) oh but I'll keep the npdrm one, who knows what it could be used for, Oh no no no... I know it might really screw up Sony with no means of ever patching their stuff without new hardware... but its better if I keep it so I can suk their wee wee's and get a job. LOL Its not like I'm doing this for you or anything. Here's a Youtube video of me doing stuff u can't do btw bai. ...Oh ok ok, have this CFW with LVL2 patched, and remember. You have to sign every app to work with it now... Don't know how? Oh... Well here's an app that'll do it, figure it out yourselves. " Twats...
    1. TWITDADDY's Avatar
      TWITDADDY -
      Quote Originally Posted by NEO117 View Post
      You sir, should get out of my head.

      +9000

      Geohot should really stop now with the attention whoring. What is wrong with him really? Its what got him into this bull in the 1st face...

      I miss the old days when hackers would keep in the shadow and release what they have and not some two-bit key while keeping everything else because "it could be potentially used for illicit means" I hate dumb people, attention *****s and moralfags. And Geohot and Marcan are all of these things.

      f0f: "Lets say to EVERYONE how*weeeee* hacked the PS3, and don't forget that we're not gonna make them public because it could be illegele omg omg omg omg. What's that? You mean to tell me some guy with a ******* face published them? BLASPHEMY!! HE PUBLISHED THE KEYS *WE* FOUND!? I must totally let everyone know on my Twitter that it was *US*, and only us, who found the keys."

      Geohot: "Hey guys here's the keys *I* totally found with my hard work (totally not Fail0verflow) oh but I'll keep the npdrm one, who knows what it could be used for, Oh no no no... I know it might really screw up Sony with no means of ever patching their stuff without new hardware... but its better if I keep it so I can suk their wee wee's and get a job. LOL Its not like I'm doing this for you or anything. Here's a Youtube video of me doing stuff u can't do btw bai. ...Oh ok ok, have this CFW with LVL2 patched, and remember. You have to sign every app to work with it now... Don't know how? Oh... Well here's an app that'll do it, figure it out yourselves. " Twats...
      we should have a like button
    1. Turkish-PSG's Avatar
      Turkish-PSG -
      Quote Originally Posted by tranceonline View Post
      @turkish:

      Nothing is unhackable! Never. It takes more or less time. thats all.
      I am from turkey and I really don't know what your intention is in getting all the flaming on you. Wandering around on a ps3 hacking related page. I really don't.
      Do as u like and I home at some day, the ppl here will have the power to just ignore u. Not because I hate u, I don't even know u, but Cauz u are wrong here and only do provocation to other ppl.

      I'm not wandering around here, I'm looking for homebrew and emulator related stuff on this site. This site is not only about piracy as you seem to think. This site is about all hacking development regarding the PS3. I have every right to support homebrew and emulator and be anti-piracy.

      I'm not provocative, it is not my fault that you get upset or buddhurt about my opinion, I can say whatever I want, I can hate whatever I want, the good thing is that people can also love, just because I hate the piracy that u love doesn't mean I hate all the hacking on the PS3, like I said, I'm all for homebrew and emulators. Stop dictating me what I can and can't do on this site, it just shows how immature and childish you are.


      I don't care what other people think or say, I just give my opinion, if you can't live with it stop reading my comments and shut the f*ck up.
    1. Turkish-PSG's Avatar
      Turkish-PSG -
      Before december 31st 2010, we had usb dongles that did our sh*t just right. Most of these little kids around here think PS3 hacking began with geohot, giving him all the credit and not even failoverflow.


      The reality is, I had a usb dongle since october 2010. No geohot and attention whoring or whatsoever. I was playing emulators. So before you cry about "b-b-bu-but, u must lick geohots balls because he is the reason u are doing hax on ps3!!!!11", think about the ps3 scene before the time of little schoolgirl geohot
    1. tranceonline-PSG's Avatar
      tranceonline-PSG -
      Quote Originally Posted by Turkish View Post
      Before december 31st 2010, we had usb dongles that did our sh*t just right. Most of these little kids around here think PS3 hacking began with geohot, giving him all the credit and not even failoverflow.


      The reality is, I had a usb dongle since october 2010. No geohot and attention whoring or whatsoever. I was playing emulators. So before you cry about "b-b-bu-but, u must lick geohots balls because he is the reason u are doing hax on ps3!!!!11", think about the ps3 scene before the time of little schoolgirl geohot
      BUT, the piracy stuff was there TOO with the dongles. So all geohot AND failoverflow did, was to make it possible without a dongle, without doing all the "power off, on-eject" stuff everytime u want to do it.

      And to the emulator stuff:
      I dont really know why ppl want to play emu's at a console like the PS3 ?
      U can play like every emulator on the PC. The only difference is (in most cases) that u can sit on your couch while playing it from a ps3. BUT mostly u get less compatibility and with some emu's less performance, as on a PC.

      AND doing emulator stuff, IS piracy too!
      As long as u dont play games, which got "free to load" ONLY!

      So if u play games that are NOT free to download, that u do the same "sh***" as we do.
      Only difference: u prank other companies AND get less grafix from it
    1. TWITDADDY's Avatar
      TWITDADDY -
      just to let you guys know mlb 11 is confirmed working(not by me yet) on multiman 1.15.03
      heres what you get
      1. Install pkg file included in pkg folder
      2. Open up Backup Manager (tested on Multiman 1.15.03)
      3. Change Param Sfo file from 3.56 to 3.55
      4. Load it up with a game disc in drive
      5. Play the game
    1. TWITDADDY's Avatar
      TWITDADDY -
      And to comment on all the pirate talk, arrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh matie
    1. ISOHaven-PSG's Avatar
      ISOHaven-PSG -
      Having it as a req to load the game versus NEEDING it because the game requires some new functions of the FW are two different things. You can find ways around the former.
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