PS3 update

straw · Post by **straw** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:27 am

I found the important ones, 3.41 and 3.15. It would be useful to have 3.5 and 2.76 as well

Don't mess with the brown ACID "CFW". It can hardly be called a custom firmware, and although it can be permanently installed on the system, it doesn't afford much usability for the common warez rat. And made me look dumb telling the kid he didn't need a modchip; I'd just install acid cfw permanently. DERP!

Also, I downgraded a slim 160g from 3.4 to 3.15 with no issues; kept Blu-ray playback just fine.
No otheros though.. doing some research it looks like the slims never had otheros because the lowest they shipped with was 3.2. Wishful thinking I suppose..

I know I can downgrade at this point, and would like to freely go up and down from 3.15 to 3.5, 3.41 for various uses IF I could be comfortable that when I go back to 3.15 I'll still have my preccciiioooouuussss linuxxxx......

Or they can just come with the REAL custom firmware, already.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:34 pm

My, things are a'changin' ...

I'm going to try to put on a custom FW this weekend. I upgraded to 3.55, which appears to be step one. I acquired a couple of, uh, "test programs" in anticipation. Can these be run from an external USB drive, or do they all have to be FTP'ed over to the PS3?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:05 pm

I still haven't bumped over 3.41 so I'm not sure how it works on 3.55.

But in "the past" (just a few days ago) you had the choice of an external USB drive of some sort formatted to fat32 or using the internal drive. Fat32 has that 4gb file limitation.

I hear PSN works on the 3.55 cfw's? Tempting, but I'm using hermes 3.41 cfw for now simply because I had a 500gb set up internal and I didn't want to break shit.

I don't think blackbox ftp works on 3.55 yet? You can use the FTP programs built into your backup manager (multiman is probably your best bet for 3.55)

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:04 pm

I agree, it looks like MultiMan is the best option for me at the moment.

I can't find a list of games that contain files > 4GB anywhere. Maybe there's not one.

I acquired two games (Motostorm and Motostorm Pacific Rift) and they require 27 gig, so my original PS3 60 gig hard drive isn't going to get me very far if I have to run them all locally.

From what I am reading (and the files that are showing up) PSN games do work.

I meant to do the firmware today but instead I fell asleep after football was over. Maybe tomorrow.

straw · Post by **straw** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:06 pm

want worms for 3.55? I have it as a .pkg file.

Untested but my "old" copy (and all other PSN games on 3.41) you need to say NO every time you start it to not update or it will tell you to go into the ps store and renew your license. Which means no online for worms or any of the psn games with update patches.

still a good game though, and you can play with as many people as you have controllers

js · Post by js » Fri Jan 28, 2011 6:26 am

Party's over already, at least for online. They pushed down 3.56, yet another update that adds NOTHING and only takes away.

To quote: "According to users on http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=420002 and http://www.highdefforum.com/gaming-syst ... ata-2.html Forum, the 3.56 firmware prevents the newer PlayStation 3 models (with 16 MB flash) from being upgradeable to a new hard disk drive.

Read more: http://www.ps3news.com/forums/playstati ... z1CKtzQgNg

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 6:31 am

What great PR for a company touting their new handheld portable system.

"Buy our handheld and we promise to disable all the cool features remotely after you own it!"

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:08 pm

I tellya they are gonna nuke all the firmware and make everybody start over. I was thinking of doing the custom thing but perhaps I will hold off until the PS4 comes out.

THE
ALL FALL DOWN
AARDVARK

js · Post by js » Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:26 pm

PSN is baaaaaaack....

with the 3.60 version spoofer. It's a .pkg and runs on kmeaw 3.55.

There's actually some good free music on the PSN store (the q-bert street fighter stuff)

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:16 am

I dug up this thread because I just installed a 3k3y on my PS3 and was looking to continue the conversation. Then I saw who it was and got a little sad.

Jack, if you're up/down there and reading this... I got it working. The 3k3y works great and circumvents the need for CFW.

lethargic · Post by **lethargic** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 4:29 pm

Will you just play a game and stop FIDDLING!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 5:37 pm

straw wrote:still a good game though, and you can play with as many people as you have controllers

Or as many people in your family still alive.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:20 pm

straw wrote:want worms for 3.55?

I'm sure you have more than you know what to do with.