PS3MFW - PS3 Modified Firmware Project is Announced

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Our apologies to KaKaRoToKS for apparently offending him by not posting this news sooner. Admin had trouble accessing the site due to weather delay.

KaKaRoToKS has announced PS3MFW, a PS3 Modified Firmware project!

We have just been informed by an anonymous source that a new modified firmware-project is underway: Project PS3MFW.

There are several contributors, some of whom are well-known within the PS3 homebrew community but wish to remain anonymous. However, we were told that KaKaRoTo is playing an important role in the project.

The purpose of Project PS3MFW is the development of a customizable tool that creates modified firmware for Playstation 3 with many great features not available in current solutions. It provides a framework where each firmware modification task is an independent plugin with access to an API that facilitates the modification process. One important feature is that the project will be entirely open source, as opposed to every other MFW released to date.

The tool will be called “PS3MFW Builder”, and it will work in conjunction with several other utilities.

Project PS3MFW is an ongoing project; anyone qualified can contribute.

A release of the PS3MFW Builder v0.1 is imminent.

Updates from KaKaRoToKS via Twitter:
* PS3MFW has ~65 customization options, the backend is robust and does a lot of checks, we tested almost every combination, on 3.15, 3.41 and 3.55 and tested it on over 15 different PS3 models, we had no bricks at all.

* The "Task options" you see are just for the "clean video" task, each task has its own options that you access with the 'configure' button

* FYI, in the screenshot, that "theme" option is just about the GUI theme, has nothing to do with the generated PUP.

* For now the tool doesn't support 3.56, but it works and was tested on 3.15, 3.41 and 3.55. I will release more information later: ps3mfw.com

News Source: PS3News

Thanks to PSX-SCENE member haincha for submitting the news earlier today. No idea what happened to the thread.

[Robocrop]

Sweet! reminds me of redsn0w :>

I will try this on my 3.41

Small suggestion if Kaka reads this.

Perhaps put a (?) after each option which will display a small info when hovering mouse over it, i.e a explanation of what i.e " Patch LV2 Kernel" does.

[RAD FX]

Well done!, this will be another sword in the arsenal for PS3 users! looks to have some cool features!


<Off topic>
though, you guys think YOU have weather troubles?
National Loop

My very slightly northern comrades are about to get blown away!
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[SCEA]

I approve this message.

[RatAndDragon]

Hmmmm....

Interesting. I may have some suggestions for that.

[PR0XIDIAN]

I approve this message.

HAHAHAHA. I hope we can take current custom firmware and modify it with this. Can't wait!

[AlexDC22]

Wow great news

[Shaft]

Man would be great if they could do something with 3.56

[PR0XIDIAN]

I approve this message.

Am I seriously the only one who noticed SCEA made an account? (Or appears to have). I'm glad this username isn't my psn because I bet they will ban all the names that appear on this site... I'm a fan of hacking, not pirating. This could get interesting...

[ihaxgames]

Man would be great if they could do something with 3.56

I've been told that by changing version.txt to 3.56 we can access PSN, however I don't know about the truth to that statement, I hope it's true though