HOWTO: Change the Region of Your PS3 Blu-ray Drive!

[The Central Scrutinizer]

One of the remaining problems with the PS3 even with all the released CFW's is you can only watch BLU-RAY movies from the REGION that you allowed to, as per this map below:

Along comes KureKure from PS3News, with a helpful tutorial on how-to get pass this last block remaining on your Jailbroken PS3 console:

ever since the first ps3 jb was out i was hoping for a region patcher so i can watch all the blu ray discs i own no matter if region a/b/c and nobody ever knew how...

after lotsa research and checking around i present to you 3 patch*.txt files for lv2 patcher!

just copy the files into: /dev_hdd0/game/LV2000000/USRDIR

and the next time you start lv2 patcher you will have 3 new patches to choose from (region a/b/c)

once you patch you don't have to restart your ps3, it works right away! if you restart your ps3 the bd region is set to standard again

tested & working for me on pal cechcxx machine with 3.55cfw (rebug & kmeaw) using kmeaw's lv2 patcher v9!

this only works for blu ray and nothing else, for dvd the old xregistry trick applies...

i didn't code anything, just collected and tested, sources for this can be found here:

http://www.ps3news.com/PS3-Hacks-Jai...-version-data/
http://www.ps3news.com/PS3-Hacks-Jai...n-is-Released/

thanks a million times to everyone involved, this now makes the ps3 the best bd player for that prize range!

Attached is KureKure 3 patchs for lv2 for those using v3.55, and below is link to the latest v9 lv2 patcher.

Off-Site DL Link -> LV2 Patcher v9 (via) Dashhacks

Now it might not at first seem 'front page news' but truth is in some countries this type of 'firmware hack' is what is needed for people to use to fight Sony in the legal system, case in point is 'Australia' were PS2 modding was ruled legal because it make the system 'region-free'.

News Source: How to Change the Region of Your PS3 Blu-ray Drive - PS3 NEWS

Thanks to manster for the news tip on this wonderful tutorial....

DIRECT DOWNLOAD: Lv2 Patcher + BD Region Changer

[baalpeteor]

very nice work... another good selling point for 3.55 CFW. Now you can overseas blu ray and watch them in BLU RAY quality.. nothing no other game system can do (or blu ray player for that matter)

[uZer]

Cool. 1st REALLY useful thing released after 3.55 cfw

[PR0XIDIAN]

Epic win! Hopefully we will have an option to spoof every region at once like the PSP eventually. This is great news, thanks for your hard work!

[dobosininja]

I wonder if this would fix the bd playback not authorized issue...

[dagrimmreepa]

Move over Batman, KureKure is now my favorite person in the world lol
Do I risk saying it: I feel like my PS3 has been........*drumroll*...... KURED!

[ironhide666]

Cool. 1st REALLY useful thing released after 3.55 cfw

you forget showtime... it made my wdtv got retired

[defacto]

is this limited to blu-rays or other regions dvds as well?

[Mickrick]

I wonder if this would fix the bd playback not authorized issue...

No it doesn't. Just tried it.

[Mickrick]

is this limited to blu-rays or other regions dvds as well?

Read the first post and if you still don't know, keep reading it until you understand.