Rumor: Belzar - World's First PS3 Modchip Being Tested?

Can't say I've heard of this until now, and the domain appears to go to a residence... so if it was legit I'd definitely fear Sony's wrath. :wacky:

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That being said, I know idone said on IRC he was going to mail them about getting a test sample... guess we'll know soon enough. :D

this is excellent news and i too am seeing this for the first time knowing that the ps3 indeed is hackable. but as stated, a mod chip definitely isn't worth the risk of having your accounts banned or even worse, have your entire console bricked. chances of this being released without sony doing something about it is 1 in a billion.

Yeah, well, a few points.

Of course, I hope its real (who does not?), but seriously - it most likely is not.

For starters, their own description is quite clunky, but the best parts are below:

- No awkward USB interface - just insert DVD and play!
- No external PC/laptop needed
- Completely upgradeable firmware, via Belzars usb 2.0 interface

So, you do not need a PC, and there is no USB interface (yes, because USB is soo awkward), but, you can upgrade the FW with USB...

Furthermore, there are no pictures, or install documents.

The kicker is that it supports all Region DVD/"Blueray" movies - ironically, the limitation of this is not done in HW, but in Software.

Finally the whole "copied games" part is funny - how exactly are we copying these games - scene releases will not work, I love how PS3/PS2 disks work, but not PS1 disks (which, in the grand scheme, is the easiest disk to get going) and where are the pictures of the modchip, the install documents, etc?

Some stuff does not add up, but maybe they, or someone else can prove me wrong!

hey,
if its cool, next week can i put up a ps4 modchip that allows you to play Xbox 720 games & can make unicorns appear when you say my name backwards "svdootmi"?

(I crack myself up)

more that likely this wont come to pass, as much as i would hope. let see if idone can get confirmation from these guys before anyone screams the "F" word.

I do think that this one are for real.

They are talking about a "Direct Boot" Modchip, maybe the backups are loaded before the console loads the XMB, and maybe the fact is that the mod blocks the XMB. Thats why they are calling "crapy USB", because they dont plan to mess with USB programing too much, maybe because its XMB territory. And they dont talk about any online interactivity, then a assume that its really a "Direct Boot", without calling the XMB, only loading the discs right after the console goes on. I think its the right way, because this way we wont fear any PSN ban.

I do think that its a "high price" prank to do too, buy a domain just to make a prank? Dont think so. And to finish, think about the time this new are being unleashed! Maybe M$ decide to pay for someone to unleashe this jugernaut of a chip right in time that all the publishers are rejoicing about the price cut... ummm...!

Sorry about my english guys, and till next time.

This is too funny. Dont you think with all of that electrical knowledge he would atleast know how to make a better webpage than that pos?

I dont believe it and nobody else here should... lets face it ... only one person out there has the know how to circumvent sonys protection and thats c4eva.

Too bad he cant take a little break and investigate the ps3.

i think this is fake. 1st its on ps3news, sony can/will find out and so many people tried. and if it is true sony will patch it.

Interesting find, but it's probably sketchy at best. Looks like a template website that isn't fully customized and the links section is unrelated. But ... hopefully they aren't full of it, anything helps. Thanks for the post, had my hopes up for a second there.

Even Better News- do you know geohot?

He's the guy who hacked the iPhone. Well he's on PS3 now! Check HERE http://twitter.com/geohot if there is someone you can trust trust HIM.

Even if it was real... Imagine the cost of the Blue ray burner, the blue ray discs, the time to download or rip the game and such. i would have thought we would have first gotten something like the Hd Loader for the PS2 :confused:

I am sure this mod chip will pave the way for a USB Loader.

Obviously a fake, there is no way bluerays can be booted before xmb starts.

So much negativity. Sheesh. I believe the same thing was being said about the remote play hack and the same things will be said about any ps3 hack that seems promising from the looks of it. Lets just wait and see

No argument posted here proves that it is fake so I will hold some hope. Not holding my breath but not gonna chime "fake" either. Its about time there was some hack anyway

I dont believe its negativity, some people are more documented than us and know what they are talking. If more experienced people are telling you why they think its a fake you should really listen and read carefully why.

I hope most of you dont end up feeling like an ass if/when this news becomes a confirmed rumor and then crawl back from where ever you came from. You got to take this kind of news with a grain of salt and try to analyse from a technical point of view when a blog, webpage or youtube kiddie posts something about a hack.

Jumping around any news, fakes or findings and thinking it will lead to an iso loader in 1 day, week, month is far from true. I hope this modchip is in deed true but my gut tells me it probably wont get anywhere.

Nothing said has been particularly technical to warrant listening to more experienced folks. Just a bit of close scrutiny akin to discrediting someone based on language use (bad english/grammer). If i havent read carefully enough then ok :p

I personally cant say its probably fake even. I know that saying that would just be falling prey to the ps3 hack climate. I will only accept that it could be real

After checking the website for myself, I must say that I'm not impressed at all, The images are obviously from a template, under them it still reads "Image Caption"... My guess it's that a 12 year old wanted to make a prank... that's all!

THANK YOU! And I leave the scene ... :)

Reminds me of the analogy on whether the glass is half empty or half full... one's view of if this is real or not depends on whether you are optimistic or pessimistic by nature. :wacky:

I'm still waiting to see if idone gets a test sample for our site, or even a simple reply from them... we'll see. :hmm:

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im sure its fake... there are too many hitches with it.

now lets factor in, the actual costs for this item... wii chips *atleast the good ones* were a minimal of 20, since this would be a 1 of a kind item, with a HUGE ammount of interest, expect mark up... so the ammount could be in the high 50's *like the wasabi/d2pro's were* since it seems quite good with those features, im assuming its a 50+ chip... now you add in the cost of a bluray burner *100+ easy*, and the price of a blank bluray disc *5 usd per, from what ive been hearing...* the overall cost/risk doesnt even out with the reward... and MOST pirates would be turned off... most wii pirates for instance wouldnt even spring for brand name discs...

it says all models... but with slim being announced, and all of that... its very iffy if they obtained one, and even so i doubt it was a simple ezpz fix for the slim model, since it doesnt specify the slim either way *if it could, then i assume it would say EVEN THE SLIM! and if it couldnt the opposite* in addition, it doesnt bring up a point on the ps2 backups... i would assume first gen only... but from what they said, it appears all...

the biggest thing i find odd is "Transparent stealth operation" i dont see how, the first of anything, can be sure to be "stealth"... or atleast be proven 100% safe... =\ they also use poor things like "No config disc needed - it just works!" they give no explanation for it, and the way its stated, it sounds off...

finally... I wouldnt trust anyone who says "world's first modchip to direct boot Blueray back-ups" *they add the E multiple times...*

im sorry, but even if they were bad at marketing... they should atleast have minimal... I mean MINIMAL knowledge of terms, because I dont know about other people... but do you really trust a group that cant even spell "bluray" correctly? *btw i know my english isnt amazing, but im not a dev trying to market a product =P*

I agree with victorinox here, it looks like some kind of publicity stunt. Its hard to believe that a modchip, which seems to be more of a drivechip, since the site states that the chip will only allow for copied games, could do this. The drives firmware is encrypted and on a per-box basis, so unless they found a way around all of this, they are just making things up.

Guess we will have too wait and see. I find it strange that no one else has heard of this till recently. I still call fake and till proven otherwise.

Hopefully more details in the next 24hrs.

I think it's a fake.

Cause in www.hacktronics.co.uk they say they have received one to test, but if you make a whois to hacktronics.co.uk you get the following.

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The same as belzar.com

Catched :p

owned!
Lets wrap this up here guys, move along :p

maybe this is why they removed otheros from the slim?

Just wait & see.. :)

Something is bound to happen sooner or later,.....

Still no reply from this guy yet and he has my email and phone # to contact me.

As far a fake ps3 mod chips go there was a site (quite some time ago) that had pics of a crap load of wires connected to the drive.. which was fake of course.... and also team infectus saying that the argon was only a .dat file away from becoming a ps3 drive chip..(later they stated that due to SCEE {legal issues} the project was halted)

For now lets just wait and see if we can even get a reply from this guy :p

And as far as hopes for ps3 hacking/backups ect ect.... i would honestly rather see a legal elf loader spring forth before a method is divulged to launch/load/run backups

See... ntn technical. Just problems with the sites wording etc :p

Lets just all agree the ps3 can never be hacked and move on. Thats what we are getting at here anyway, isnt it?

For me is "too good to be true" and I hope someday ps3 can be hacked ;)

Patience lads, this is more than like b.s. but just wait it out.

Well in my opinion this does not sound as a prank.

Did you guys remember that site that had a timmer like 20 hours 15 minutes and 17 seconds for the ps3 iso loader to be launched ?
That had a very calling publicity call.

This belzar site does not, it's simple, it's almost hidden so maybe..

And I would like to know, why is against the law to build a mod chip for the ps3 ?
You can create a better cooler that would cool your ps3 better them the original one, why you are not allowed to build a chip that would make your ps3 runs "better" ? ;)

I'm really not familiar with SCEE politics.

Ah rubbish, but it was a fun read, back to my 360 :) :crazy:

From the PS2 mod-chip days: http://www.out-law.com/page-8701

Another summary: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipcass/ipcass-alphabetical/ipcass-alphabetical-ko/ipcass-sony.htm

he must have been paid. So many things would be outlawed if that were to be applied (though we are heading in that direction it seems). Anyway, does this apply internationally?

In Canada (http://news.cnet.com/Canada-shutters-mod-chip-operation/2100-1040_3-945540.html) they are considered "circumvention devices" so now illegal:
It appears the same with Australia (where they used to be legal) these days too: http://www.out-law.com/page-3776

weird thing is you can still buy mod chips in Canada. so i don't know... most mod chip sites are also located in Canada and ship from here as well. Canadian laws are pretty flimsy... i mean u can legally walk into a movie theater here still and cam a move lol....

True indeed, but I have a feeling that will change soon due to the Entertainment Software Association of Canada (http://www.theesa.ca/). :wonky: It appears they are modelling a bill after the US DMCA (http://www.ps3news.com/General-Off-Topic/canadian-game-industry-seeks-to-jail-pirates-targets-mod-chips/)

i wanna see video picture ; prove!!! anything !! not a piece of junk.

Me too, i think is fake. Only to get rep.

yah but lucky for us they are having a vote by the citizens on what it should include, so im sure things aren't to going to be as retarded as the us DMCA. and it may not even pass if to many people whine about it.

Rumor or not, i don't think i want to risk a ps3 just for a modchip. I don't think it is worth it.

I wont risk my ps3 for a mod chip, i prefer not to have my ps3 hacked, pshhh :tdown:

I think we most wait for see this (true or fake).

and one thing about online and modchip :

in ps2 we have modchip too and we can use it into online mod but we must shout down it when disk is loaded and we do it with one switch , if this news was true i can make a tutorial for it and it's very easy ;)

Could be a possibility, but i think we could better wait this one out...

Just a Quick Question....

If all this is real and i were to get one would it only Block Online play or would it block the playstation store and Playstation Home as well?

Well seeing how Sony is on banning people from there accounts, just as the guy who trash talked into getting banned and has agrophobia... it will block any online access meaning your PSN account.

Thats just my theory though.

Why are you here? :confused:

Well this is PS3 NEWS isnt it? :hmm: :chill:

if its true sony will get around it some how

well, even if this is not true, a modchip will be made sooner or later. Sony's decision to remove otheros is going to piss off a lot of hackers...

The inclusion of the silly Links section on their site reeks of a traffic generation tactic to get money for advertising.

-Erich

Great.... Now a bunch of 9 year old kids get to hack the trophy system making it lose it's fun. :( Note I am not talking about the people who made the chip just the people who are going to use it.

Quite odd indeed... this was in our inbox, but even though the title and username mentions Belzar nowhere is it in the video: :confused:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ps3belzar

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgPzXCHs6p0[/youtube]

Clean your PS3 and you can play backups!

I would love to have my ps3 get a once over like that. New thermal compound and dusted.

i SERIOUSLY wouldnt be shocked if this was a hoax, trying to exploit how crazy rumors are becoming facts... with the slim becoming a real deal... and all that stuff i think they trying to exploit this, and pull off a good hoax =3

I've found the original of this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xWos1XXNJk

Belzar = Fake /end thread

Ha! +Rep indeed... although we don't know if the video from the "Belzar" YouTube user is the same guy as the one on their site, but if it is then ya that doesn't look good for them. :wacky:

That or this is part 1 of the installation which it doesn't say, but does smell a little fishy i must say, but time will tell. :wacky:

I think this is definately fake until proven otherwise, maybe idone will get a reply, but i'm thinking it may be very vague if he does. There should be at least some proof or images to show it works. The website looks very generic.

I'm just hoping with all my might that it's going to be real and that it will allow usb storage to install. I've been on this site for almost 2 years now hoping for that day to come :|

FFS the guy just wipes the thermal paste off, what is this joke. :confused:

Don't get your hopes up. After all the information (stolen video, sending the modchip to someone whose webpage is on the same server, etc.) that was posted in this thread it would be healthy to stay suspicious.

Somewhere above people mentioned site http://www.hacktronics.co.uk, so from http://www.hacktronics.co.uk/PS3-Hacking-Tutorials.html we can clearly read:

Althouth there is still no ps3 modchips or hacks that will allow a ps3 blueray backup to boot, there is however a way to play your Ps2 backups

Guess it's settled now.

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this is the data from whois. for $8 or so, he has played a joke that is fooling you guys throughout the world :D

Was anybody fooled, or does this guy just look like a fool, i never though for a second it was true.

boring... :crazy:

A little explanation on how this proves it is a fake would help... i dont get it :confused:

something like this isnt even funny... must have been some depraved fools who played pranks like this before. Not saying its fake, but if it is where is the fun? The site doesnt even have ads so he get ntn..

Wow this is still going on lol ...

WTF would name their modchip the BELZAR ? WTF

You need to understand that those of us who still think that there is a chance for this to be true are dying for a ps3 hack and that`s why they are keeping there hopes so high.

belzar.com register = 1 Aphril

because the recent news claim to be from july which the site started in August. dont that smell like a scam and stunt?? :cool:

News isnt tied to the site. They can easily have done whatever before creating the site and then post a history of "belzar" and whats happening now. Just saying its not exactly damning.

I hope this is true, I think the whole world is waiting for this news for years. Unlike the PS1 & PS2 in PS3 we still got no issue about direct boot mod chip until the slim type was release. So let just pray and wait about they confirm. :hmm:

lolz.

This is the ugliest prank I have ever had.

Guys I don't think it's false, but I don't think it's true either.

I LOL'd pretty hard at this though:

The Latest PS3 Firmware..
What version are they running, and what is the latest?
LOL..

EDIT: oh and this

Maybe this is PHP driven and the PHP script writes random links or ads to the page, but I don't see a change when I refresh.
PHP can run inside an HTML file. Pretty simple stuff guys.

Sorry about it guys but I've been in Japan for a month now and I haven't seen my PS3 (Had to leave it at home because of customs...)

One more month here to go.
Also, For anyone that wants to come.
Seriously and honestly, Japan is trying to be America SOOOOOO BAD.
Plain and simple.
All of our cartoons are either on banners or t-shirts and crap like that.
Also, Most T-shirts have english stuff on them, but the GRAMMAR is TERRIBLE. I give it a -100/10.
And that is putting it mildly.

did anyone find anything new about this?

found this on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgPzXCHs6p0

Yeah, if you read the rest of the thread (its near the start I think), someone found that that video was stolen from another video.

Guess what?

Belzar has completed the beta testing of the ModChip today :)
Yeah, I am sure it is ready to manufacture :) But something is missing...Like.... the chip itself :)

Ooops.. Look like the big day is tomorrow :D
Another news from hacktronics.co.uk
Yeah but which today? :lol:

that's great news ;) Nice! :chill:

If the guys from Infectus are confirming this then my hopes are indeed quite high this is real.

Im struggling to find where the Infectus team posted that statement. Nothing on their site unless im blind?

Hacktronics have said they will soon be posting a tutorial on how to install the Belzar modchip, and with the Infectus team comfirming it is coming, I'm keeping my hopes up.

Also, with a lot more hackers looking to the PS3 as a challenge, it will eventually come, and with the PS3 slim having no other os, my guess is it will be sooner rather than later.

Here You go mate ;)

http://hacktronics.co.uk/PS3-Modchip-Guide.html

Thanks for the link :)

Now im back to being reluctant. If infectus posted them themselves on the other hand...

Since I think both Belzar and Hactronics are the same company... and since I believe that all these stuff is fake.. I thought it would be nice to ask infectus themself about the statement:

http://www.infectus.biz/forum/index.php?topic=3040.0

LOL thats a picture of the infectus 2 wii modchip lmfao. The InFeCtuS 2 is a universal modchip that is compatible with Wii D2C chipsets through a special firmware. The Wii firmware, WIIKTUS, requires 13-wires for D2C hardware.

Three additional connections are required for region-free support. An InFeCtuS 2 with Wii firmware is very similar to the Argon Wii, except that it can be flashed to modify other consoles as well. Also the tab of that page says wii softmod guide lol.

who said that the chip picture there belongs to belzar? anyway.. I wonder how long it will take for this thing to be announced fully fake!

I say what a crock of crap they are trying way to hard to fake this! Like others I wish it was real but every time this belzar site has something to do with it self it just gets more horrible... But I just had a thought that infectus chip is not just a wii chip but a multifunctional chip so I stand to correct my self it could be used for the ps3, wasn't there a team that was just a bios flash away from a fully functional modchip or something like that but anyway we will just have to wait and see and twiddle our thumbs.

Looks like it may be fake. :( An administrator named Arakon on Infectus' forum said this:
http://www.infectus.biz/forum/index.php?topic=3040.0