Reminds me of when I used to use HDloader to boot games and get around the region protection. I could see this as potentially useful for those who used Winhiip to switch ISOs in and out of the hard drive, but this could also be a fake.

Posted at 11:53 pm on Aug 16th, 2008 by blizzarddemon

Ohh god not here too.. This is team ice and team paradox all over again..

Posted at 12:10 am on Aug 17th, 2008 by TJHooker

> backing up Blu-ray discs takes a lot of space

And 1TB SATA drives are only $110…

Posted at 12:12 am on Aug 17th, 2008 by ed3

wtf is all the *clicking* for?

Posted at 12:49 am on Aug 17th, 2008 by pip

looks like a lot of bs just to play a backed up game from the hard drive. I think it’s fake though just because you never really get to see any of the file sizes.

Posted at 1:33 am on Aug 17th, 2008 by javier256

its not clicking, the sownd is from the autofocus of the camera, it must be broken to make that noise, but u can tell its from the focus by looking at the top left corner and see that everytime you hear the “clicking” its trying to focus the image…

Posted at 1:46 am on Aug 17th, 2008 by novolo

If the PS3 gets hacked for backup play, PS3 sales will rocket

Posted at 4:40 am on Aug 17th, 2008 by Liam

Is this actually genuine?

Posted at 7:04 am on Aug 17th, 2008 by Don Birdi

of course it’s genuine, hackaday wouldn’t post things that weren’t actually hacks…

Even if it is legit, it doesn’t matter. Sony did the PS3 right, they made it not worth hacking by making it region free and allowing linux to run on it out of the box. The two legitimate reasons given for hacking a console are already defeated leaving piracy the only reason to hack it. Pirates generally copy or slightly modify hackers work, and since the hackers aren’t working hard on it, no piracy.

It would be nice to see the entire system opened up to linux as opposed to the relatively limited power it’s given, but I doubt hardcore hackers have enough interest to hack it all the way open.

Posted at 10:32 am on Aug 17th, 2008 by Jason

Jason – “Leaving piracy the only reason to hack it.”
Based on what? Incorrect assumption, i.e. linux can’t access the GPU natively, that alone could give someone reason to hack around it.

Posted at 12:27 pm on Aug 17th, 2008 by spaceballs

Lets not forget the ability to backup your own games and save them from the scratch factor.

Posted at 12:35 pm on Aug 17th, 2008 by 36chambers

thx

Posted at 4:52 pm on Aug 17th, 2008 by bashar

Anyone else get hijacked by trojans by attempting to go to that site?

Posted at 5:18 pm on Aug 17th, 2008 by Ryan M

I second 36chambers comment. Those scratches do shit tons more damage then they did on the measly cd based games of the nineties…Used to be able to scratch those things to kingdom come back in those days, now with all that data compressed onto the same area, even minut dust scratches can prevent readablity of gigs worth of data.

Posted at 9:20 pm on Aug 17th, 2008 by blizzarddemon

I got the virus warning while reading this also

Posted at 2:40 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by shawn

yeah i think this site is a little cheap. I’ve had to clean up a trojan I’m pretty sure this site installed by looking at the file times and my history.

Posted at 4:18 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by alex d

aaaaand nobody cares. There are a grand-total of 5 games that I would want on the PS3.

Now, I would buy it for it’s Blu-Ray capabilities… If I had any reason to do so. I have a media-server that connects to my Popcorn Hour–so I don’t even need physical media anymore. So nice to never have to switch out discs anymore.

Posted at 10:27 am on Aug 19th, 2008 by Alexander

Well, I like the idea of being able to run a disk from the HDD.

As for the person who claimed there is no reason to hack the PS3, all I can say is HOMEBREW!

Posted at 1:51 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by ChaOS

Um… I just noticed something, Where in the video does it show a game launching from the HDD?

All I see is a guy in warhawk (which can play off the HDD via PSN) who drops back to the XMB and launches an actual disk. I could easily make the same video, no hacks required…

Someone wanna clear that up for me?

Posted at 1:54 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by ChaOS

Lol I can do that too. Put the Warhawk disk in. Load up to the lobby, eject the disk while in the lobby, put in the Motorstorm Disk, then it looks like you are playing Warhawk but have Motorstorm in. Not that hard to do.

Posted at 6:47 pm on Oct 2nd, 2008 by rfom22

or lol, just buy the PlayStation network version of it, and download it, play it and just leave the motorstorm disk in there.

Posted at 11:34 am on Nov 23rd, 2008 by harrison

This is not a hack you can download WARHAWK from the psn store online and play it through the consle without blue ray

Case closed this is bullshit

Posted at 6:36 pm on Dec 1st, 2008 by Matt

Yea as someone else stated this is BS its just Warhawk doesn’t need the disc much once its loaded and he took out the Warhawk disc and put in Motorstorm. If he showed himself playing warhawk the Motorstorm disc was in and its not in his game list then that would be different.

Posted at 11:51 am on Jan 14th, 2009 by NeCrom-X

well the games are expensive each game in my country cost from 60 – 100 bux damn expensive

Posted at 11:45 pm on Feb 21st, 2009 by anonymous

ps3 is garbage, hackers are really not interested in it, xbox won this gen and its easier to hack, by the time they hacked the ps3, the next gen of consoles will be out…..

just get a xbox…more games, better online, and backups…nuff said

there is only 5 games i like on ps3 gt5, infamous, uncharted, metal gear, and resistance…

Posted at 1:34 pm on Aug 3rd, 2009 by d

Good post, adding it to my blog now, thanks

Posted at 2:45 pm on Aug 10th, 2009 by Free PS3 Slim

Nice blog adding this to my twitter now

Posted at 2:28 pm on Aug 19th, 2009 by Free PS3 Slim