blu-ray is an encryption bastard, and although I don’t understand it, it’s horrifyingly difficult to enable blu-ray spoofing / playing backup games / etc.

Considering that the originals could run linux as a feature (clever sony) then there was little interest in hacking it to run custom code, because although the majority of people use homebrew enabled hardware to pirate, most of the people who write the code do it so they can run custom code – which was enabled by default with the old ps3s.

maybe now that all these features are being taken out the community will finally decide to tackle the blu-ray security and atleast seriously try to produce a homebrew enabled ps3.

Yea for the most part up until recently the xbox360 was able to only play exact backups of games, and that was the extent of things… Now people are getting more into the homebrew and modding games aspects… Took quite a while for it to get this far compared to the original xbox. But that is all due to the security measures implemented by M$

@xrazorwirex

>because although the majority of
>people use homebrew enabled hardware
>to pirate, most of the people who
>write the code do it so they can run
>custom code

What total bollocks. All those shops in China that having been knocking out backup devices since the dawn of gaming haven’t been doing it for the sake of homebrew. This “I’m a security researcher, I must hack something big to prove that my security penis is the biggest!” stuff has only been around for the last couple years. Every time someone writes an article about cracking consoles they always write all this stupid shit about it being for homebrew and liberating hardware (If you buy a wii it’s for wii games right? Why would you buy a wii for running ports of snes emulators?) and totally forget the Chinese bootlegging shops and warez groups that are responsible for the majority of work done on consoles.

My cyber kawk is still the biggest

Let’s see if someone is gonna be able to hack this one. Real curious …

If the system is smaller and the old model puts out a lot of heat, won’t that be bad? The PS3 slim has a new blu-ray reader that is smaller and runs more efficiently then the old model producing about 1/3 of the heat.