Install Debug Firmware on a Retail PS3 system

[NDT]

Originally Posted by young blade even if the latest debug firmware gets leaked its still gonna be a problem because the infectus chip doesnt support 2.30 or higher.. maybe not even 2.20 so were out of options...

Hi, i'm really interested in what you wrote, can you confirm it?
How you understood it?

Let me know because i have a PS3 with infectus but i still haven't downgraded it.

[cherryduck]

Excuse me if I'm being dumb, but could this 'hybrid firmware' be created because when you start installing the retail firmware it does actually start installing it, and then when you swap hard drives and start installing the debug firmware it installs a bit of the debug, thereby literally installing a firmware which is half retail and half debug. Also, if this is the case I can't see this being much use in downgrading etc, because you'd just end up with a firmware thats half the latest, half the older one. Of course I'm probably completely wrong...

Well what I'm saying is that downgrading using this method would potentially start installing the latest retail firmware, putting half of that on, then after the swap would finish off by installing the latter half of the older firmware. Thats the only reason I can think of for debug options to be installed but not work, perhaps the hybrid firmware is literally a hodge podge of bits of the retail mixed with bits of the debug.

[sephiroth25]

I have a hypothesis, if you have a hdd of 60GB and a 20GB, and allocate 10GB on two HDD for the PS3 system, and the rest for Linux, do you think it will work?

I can not test my hypothesis, my PS3 have firmware 2.30.

[RMX]

Has anyone tried to boot a PS2 on the retail PS3 with debug firmware installed? I wonder if the 40GB model can run PS2 games once debug firmware is installed. Furthermore, Test PS3 can boot a so called master-disc - PS2 game on a DVDR media with the special data in few first sectors (such images can be produced with Sony CD/DVD Generator). It would be interesting to know how a retail PS3 with the debug firmware installed recognizes such discs.

[ddaywalker]

"new" update PS3_DEBUG_Firmware_v1.60_USA_Update-IND was released!

[PS3 News]

Originally Posted by ddaywalker "new" update PS3_DEBUG_Firmware_v1.60_USA_Update-IND was released!

LOL... ya that was leaked to PS3 Devs last year as part of the 1.6 leak, but now it's finally making it to the public although it's indeed older than the 1.8 and 2.15 which are already "public"

If anyone has a link to it, post away and I'll add it to the downloads for those who collect them.

[ddaywalker]

i know that it's old, but everything could be helpful

here's the dowload link: http://www.ps3news.com/forums/downlo...o=file&id=3954

[sephiroth25]

does the debug 1.60 work on a ps3 retail ?

[PS3 News]

Using the "HDD Swap" method in the first post, any Debug Firmware will... as long as you are updating to a higher version meaning to use 1.60 Debug you'd need a lower Retail PS3 than 1.60.

Personally, since the Debug Options don't function I wouldn't update a Retail PS3 with Debug 1.60 though, because then to get it back to Retail you will have to go even higher.

[fmbaig21]

as of right now i dont think anyone besides the devs should update to debug...