JFW-DH Team Abandons Plans for PSN Access

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Published on 08-10-2011 04:26 PM

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For gamers looking to regain access to the PSN , the upcoming custom firmware by the JFW-DH team sounded like it could be their saving grace. However, today those hopes were dashed with the announcement that the promising new firmware would be abandoning any plans of including PSN access. One would have to assume that these plans were directly caused by Sony's recently released 3.70 official firmware. However, there is still some good news to be had from this announcement. Instead of focusing on including PSN access in their custom firmware, the JFW-DH team has decided to focus on developing their own methods of playing online. They have stated that they plan to incorporate (directly into their custom firmware) a setup similar to xlink, which would allow users around the world to play games as if they were LAN'd together. As nice as this new functionality sounds, losing PSN access is still a big blow to the JFW-DH firmware.

Demonhades stated on his website the reasons are simple and are translated below:

* We're not going to be fighting with Sony to access your network.

* We're not going to waste time looking for ways to circumvent the security of PSN and instead we going to to improve performance in our JFW DH.

* Within the team we have all agree that we going to set aside the PSN and focus on our own custom network.

* So after much pondering we have decided it is best for everyone, and instead to use the power of the The Grid to create a system similar to xlink but embeded into JFW as an internal part of the system, so you could play similar to LAN PCs.

The following statements were also added to today's sad announcement, but the last one gives hope to maybe someone else picking up the torch:

Be aware that we can not have everything in a custom, sony monitors your network ... and we will not be in a constant battle with them!

The video that was published earlier of us entering the Sony PSN Store was just a sign that without the latest version we could skip version checks .. NOTHING MORE!

If other developers want and do make plugins to skip these checks then, perfect! But it is NOT our priority!

The announcement ends with thanks for all the support from the international communities, but if you looking for a new custom firmware to give you back access to PSN online, then you can forgot about the JFW-DH developers as they will NOT be the ones to do so.

Source: PS3Crunch

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ahou - 08-10-2011, 04:47 PM
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owanef - 08-10-2011, 04:54 PM
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this sucks yeah, i can care less, WERE IS 3.66..??..??

Spazkid - 08-10-2011, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by ahou

YOU'RE UNHAPPY ABOUT THIS? YOU CAN'T BE. GO MAKE YOUR OWN ONLINE BYPASS TO PSN THE DEVS DON'T OWE YOU ANYTHING.

Spazkid - 08-10-2011, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by owanef

this sucks yeah, i can care less, WERE IS 3.66..??..??

You fail as a troll.

The only reason anyone REALLY wants 3.66 is online play.

The only game worth playing that's locked out ATM is portal 2.

nonekiller - 08-10-2011, 05:06 PM
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ill be happy as long as you can have a friends list in xmb that u can message and ect with online.

ploggy - 08-10-2011, 05:12 PM
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Same ^^^ I really don't care about playing mutliplayer online, I'd just like to be able to chat with my friends who are on official firmware.

ahou - 08-10-2011, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Spazkid

YOU'RE UNHAPPY ABOUT THIS? YOU CAN'T BE. GO MAKE YOUR OWN ONLINE BYPASS TO PSN THE DEVS DON'T OWE YOU ANYTHING.

Do they have to owe me something for me to be unhappy about it? Not sure how you got from point a to point b.

this sucks yeah, i can care less, WERE IS 3.66..??..??

It's not going to happen.

tthousand - 08-10-2011, 05:15 PM
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I like the fact that they are focusing on THEIR OWN NETWORK, but at the same time, allowing other developers to create their own plugins that allow PSN use!

ZacUAX - 08-10-2011, 05:18 PM
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Damn decent of them. They shouldn't be making PSN access for CFW. It's one or the other, folks. Or 2 PS3s.

mega4000 - 08-10-2011, 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Spazkid

You fail as a troll.

The only reason anyone REALLY wants 3.66 is online play.

The only game worth playing that's locked out ATM is portal 2.

I bet that when batman arkham city, uncharted 3, umvc3, dead rising off the record, dead island, mwf3 and all those amazing games hit there won't be a cfw (A)
The only reason? people can't play catherine nor any other new games so eat your ****ing words. Nobody gives a damn about psn if they can't even play the new games. As I said before, keep playing your pathethic homebrew games you pirtae .

atko2 - 08-10-2011, 06:29 PM
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I aint bothered about another cfw, all i want is a way to play stuff like portal 2 and the like. Its as simple as that. I would go back to replacing eboots and the such to do it

dagrimmreepa - 08-10-2011, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by mega4000

I bet that when batman arkham city, uncharted 3, umvc3, dead rising off the record, dead island, mwf3 and all those amazing games hit there won't be a cfw (A)
The only reason? people can't play catherine nor any other new games so eat your ****ing words. Nobody gives a damn about psn if they can't even play the new games. As I said before, keep playing your pathethic homebrew games you pirtae .

I'm playing Catherine right now on my 3.55 KMeaw. It's a good game.

indirect76 - 08-10-2011, 06:39 PM
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Did anybody really expect this feature to be the end all foe PSN access? CFW = offline. Get over it.

mario0431 - 08-10-2011, 07:17 PM
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Will there firmware still have ps2 support or did they change there minds about that too?

mega4000 - 08-10-2011, 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by dagrimmreepa

I'm playing Catherine right now on my 3.55 KMeaw. It's a good game.

Yeah! 80% translated with the most important part in japanase!! way to go!

jalaneme - 08-10-2011, 07:23 PM
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i bet they didn't even have psn access in the 1st place, they were only seeking attention and so they mention it and now they have what they want they really don't care anymore, that is the worst trolling ever.

TidusMMM - 08-10-2011, 07:24 PM
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catherines being translated? awesome

TidusMMM - 08-10-2011, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by mega4000

Yeah! 80% translated with the most important part in japanase!! way to go!

catherines even being translated? awesome ^^

ahou - 08-10-2011, 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by tthousand

I like the fact that they are focusing on THEIR OWN NETWORK, but at the same time, allowing other developers to create their own plugins that allow PSN use!

Why exactly would they try to stop someone else from trying to access psn with their firmware?

mega4000 - 08-10-2011, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by TidusMMM

catherines even being translated? awesome ^^

No, they just use the asian version of the game and put whatever the **** they could from the usa version. The game can't be played at full translation because nobody have something to make games 3.56+ working.
So don't get your hopes up because the cutscenes and most of the important part in order to play are in japanase