Debug PS3 DEH-H1001-D Prototype Surfaces with Pictures!

As I replied to your e-mail Cookie Monster I am attaching the rest of your pics to the next few posts since our Forum only allows 10 per post- THANKS again for sharing these with us and +Rep! :cheers:

More of Cookie Monster's pics for the first post! :ch:

More of Cookie Monster's Debug PS3 Prototype pics! :tup4:

The rest of Cookie Monster's PS3 Prototype pics! :muhaha:

PS: Eventually I will move this thread to our PS3 Debug/Test Forum... but since we don't have the Site News set up to support it yet we'll leave it here for the time being. ;)2

Тhanks for the photos.. is brutally machine :p

I am shocked ps3news! triple posting? tsk tsk :p

Keep up the work ppl. Eventually lightning will strike and we will win! well you will win... i'll just run around screaming like a crazed fan... maybe with pompoms...

Is this a newly acquired unit and what can be hoped to be done with it?

Awesome, thanks for the pics. Pretty sweet you got your hands on one. The news here keeps getting a little better each day.

Sick stuff dude +Rep and where did you get this from man? it is sick!

What Firmware does it run? And lets say if you upgrade the firmware does it get a the same firmware the rest of us would get or would it get a entirely different firmware say a special debug firmware or something?

She take normal debug update. :)

Most important question I think is knowing if the jtag port is actually alive and if some devs here KNOW how to access it and see if they can dump the firmware or flash from the BD-ROM. I dont know much about the inners of the ps3 but if the bd-rom is actually the same as a retail bd-rom with a flash in our hands maybe, just maybe a nice backdoor could open.

My guess is if we could pull out a flash from the bd-rom and actually make some mods to it, we wouldnt probably need the jtag port alive on retail consoles and just solder an external memory that carrys and overrides the current flash. This could bring at least backups to the ps3, or something very close. Plus a nice switch to choose between flashes, how sweet could that be?

Could you explain wha this jtag port does? It seems very important. The console is very nice, is it now property of the dev team? Or is it from someone on the net ?

I posted this a week ago here: "http://www.ps3news.com/forums/post20-273970.html"

Hey thnx but that is a restricted area :p and I can´t enter. Could you maybe copy your post or pm me ? Thnx in advance :tup: :)

Forgive my ignorance but will this unit have any effect on hacking PS3?

I hope this leads to an exploit, the hard work everyone has been putting in is well appreciated by all :)

Guys I dont want to be misleading this are all just assumptions Im making on my previous knowledge working with jtags in a different area other than gaming consoles. I really dont know if the flashes can be pulled out or if they are encrypted or married with a key to each ps3.

Maybe we dont need to rewrite all the flash but we could modify some flags on it, this is just my imagination. It could be also used to clone bd-drive, who knows, since this kind of units are RARE and probably are not on devs hands.

I actually wanted to ask if Cookie Monster actually owned the console or if he was posting the pictures to show that early revisions had an intact JTAG. I was pretty sure he owned one when he stated what kind of firmware "she" was compatible with, but now I'm not so certain (also considering that the pictures were taken in 2006).

Yes console is on hand ;)

And pictures taken this week, just not set date when batteries die.. so don't let date stamp confuse.

retail console also have same connection available also, but retail manufactured consoles have not used this port in manufacture, so on them not even solder is there, but solder pads are there.. so likely was for early testing.

Most likely if the connector is there its because its working, I mean whats the purpose of installing one and the retail not having it smells fishy(the connector). Now the pads on the retail could be alive or could be cut off, blow, plus no connector, but like I said if anyone can figure out a way to pull the flash out of a machine like yours that would be a beginning.

Now why I focus so much on the flash? Because if the retail cant be accessed then with a flash in had we could flash it somewhere else and make like a mod chip. Then solder it onto the bluray, the chip has by force those lines alive since the onboard flash uses it. Assumptions again.

great stuff there mate.. another step towards ps3 hacking.

if you are talking about the jtag on the BD drive, it is nearly confirmed to be alive by skygames...

http://www.demonhades.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1969&start=75

To access the connector the console has to be completely disassembled, and special rig for power and for heatsinks to connect.
No if you look at pics this bd drive is like all others.. pads tinned but nothing there... all ps3 drives seem to have been programmed by this.... but i dont understand why ppl keep on about bd drive in this thread... it is the connector on the main board that is shown. :lol:

Are you sure it's ok to post serial numbers and stuff for prototype machines ?

For example this one: http://www.ps3news.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19106

Sony could probably track them down. People even hide their PSP MAC address when they post a tutorial on Youtube or forums, blogs, etc. Next time maybe you should censor the serial numbers too. Better safe than sorry.

You got yourself a pretty sweet PS3. Is this unit any different from the other debug consoles?

That's a part number, rather than a per-machine serial number. So it's quite safe.

Nice ! I hope it will help to hack this console.