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  • JFW DH 3.56 MA Dev Update: Universal MAD Downgrade On The Way

    It's time for another JFW DH 3.56 MA Dev update. Last time, we heard of Dynarec being incorporated into the firmware. This time around, the news is about the upcomoing Universal MAD Downgrade. Oh yeah, let's get to being reacquainted with the UMD abbreviation that we've all came to love, in a whole new way.



    If you're using JFW DH 3.56 MA, you would know that one of the limitations is that you're basically stuck on that firmware. This was due to Sony introducing a new 'updater2' which does not recognize any of the firmware updates that use the previous 'updater1'. To combat this, Universal MAD Downgrade has been put together to allow users to downgrade their PS3s to 3.51 or 3.55. Here's a rough translation provided by hellsing9 of PS3Hax.

    Hello friends, we have another fresh news from demonhades and his team are already testing universal MAD downgrade. The one who is perfecting it, it's our great spanishdev jaicrab the one who gives veracity to this project.

    You can lower from any version from jfwdh356 the times you want, this way many users that were not willing to test it (for x reasons) Now will can try and see the great capacity and work been done in this jfw356.

    Also Demon and Kike said to me that you will can downgrade to 3.55 or 3.51 (clean)

    Allowing you to install any CFW or JFWDH3556.

    This is what many people were waiting for, well soon will be available in his web and here.

    Needless to say this year will be full of surprises regarding JFWDH356 and who knows maybe they can achieve an JFWDH3.60 or JFWDH4.11.
    Progress is progress, no doubt. I wonder what the team has in store for us. It would be quite the breakthrough if an actual 4.11 custom firmware can surface at one point or another. With Universal MAD Downgrade on the horizon, will you be giving 3.56 MA a shot?

    Source: Zrandiscene via PS3Hax
    Comments 14 Comments
    1. No0bZiLLa's Avatar
      No0bZiLLa -
      if it was confirmd by a few known people that it could indeed downgrade, i prob would do it. just to check it out and see whats up
    1. bitsbubba's Avatar
      bitsbubba -
      I wonder if it re-hashes the syscon or needs to work in conjunction with QA flag
    1. atreyu187's Avatar
      atreyu187 -
      I have always thought of this group as a bunch of wannabe's but I am seeing that I am totally wrong as with there recent work it seems they are on the way to making the PS3 more homebrew friendly. If a N64 EMu is native to this CFW I would use it if a downgrade is made as I don't want to buy a flasher to install on my system. Good work and please keep the news coming about this CFW/team.
    1. bitsbubba's Avatar
      bitsbubba -
      Quote Originally Posted by atreyu187 View Post
      I have always thought of this group as a bunch of wannabe's but I am seeing that I am totally wrong as with there recent work it seems they are on the way to making the PS3 more homebrew friendly. If a N64 EMu is native to this CFW I would use it if a downgrade is made as I don't want to buy a flasher to install on my system. Good work and please keep the news coming about this CFW/team.
      I'd definitely use it if they get Dolphin ported, lol
    1. djluiluv's Avatar
      djluiluv -
      yeah whatever happened to darkraziel and the dreamcast emu he was working on??? (and the other stuff he was "working on"....)
    1. Frakistan's Avatar
      Frakistan -
      does this mean we can downgrade our 4.11 ofw to cfw through software and no need to open the console?
    1. Shaitan's Avatar
      Shaitan -
      Quote Originally Posted by Frakistan View Post
      does this mean we can downgrade our 4.11 ofw to cfw through software and no need to open the console?
      No, this is just a progress update that still requires 3.55 or a flasher. I still haven't seen a single feature that would be worth the risk of updating past 3.55, 3.56 game compatibility is a rediculous selling point. When the news of 3.41DH was announced they promised TB features and more(LMFAO), I get really fricken PO'd at every DH update. MAD was announced a while ago and still nothing worth mentioning
    1. DEMON01's Avatar
      DEMON01 -
      Molotov, i think you need a kok-tail...
      You don't get anything and wrote here just for being dbag...
      Don't you?
      Proove it!
    1. djluiluv's Avatar
      djluiluv -
      You know what??? If you don't have anything useful, constructive and/or positive to say..then you should prob. refrain from bashing dev.'s when they're hard at work just so you can enjoy the fruits of their labor but not before bashing them and making want to stop further development b/c of stupid comments like that. (Just a thought...)
    1. BahumatLord's Avatar
      BahumatLord -
      @Molotov - I'm looking at your past comments and I'm not liking what I'm seeing. You have a tendency to use abusive and unnecessarily negative comments. Leave the bad attitude on other sites.

      In some cases people are just trying to get attention. In most of those cases it turns out to be the wrong kind of attentiion
    1. tuputamadre's Avatar
      tuputamadre -
      MAd is only for 3.56MA not for 3.60+ is the only way to down with MA to 3.55- without flasher.
    1. BrutalDeluxe's Avatar
      BrutalDeluxe -
      it does seem that they are ambitious and haven't always delivered so I understand why some maybe doubtful about these guys so I would just like to say BRING IT ON guys, show us what your made of!

      Dam, somone's deleted what Molotov put I wanted to see his rant!
    1. Main's Avatar
      Main -
      I guess were gonna have to wait and see.
    1. zrandiscene's Avatar
      zrandiscene -
      El MAD se a aplicado al PRE3 EN MI FORO ESTA TODO PARA EL DOWNGRADE



      AHI esta todo
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