Nice one wouldn`t it be possible to do the same they did with the xbox 360?? Creating a secondary hardware ID within the playstation as it works for them it could work for us as well..
I`m not worth much with scripting so don`t ask me to do it myself...
For now its just my ideas I can try to help out with
meh tVersity is a pain. PS3 Media server is much better. It will play and convert on the fly, as well as copy straight to the hdd to play a vid without having to stream it.
cfwprophet i have first the same issus like you but after i have first patch to usb and after this i have repath an make a boot up of my fat PS i have startet once an it work now perfectly.
now i have just an idea. i hope there is a way, we know the PS extract the content of an update to hdd0/1 i dont know how but i have read it that there is an partition for it.
after we can patch redirection of system folder so we can now tray to redirect hdd0 and hdd1 to a usb device and make an update the content will be extract to them after a disconnect of de usb drive we cann make a reboot and have the extractet files on the usb its just an idea.
Now we just need a exploit to remap flash to usb when the ps3 restarts in update mode.
From what I understand, when you install an update, it actually restarts and boots the update version of the firmware in the same way that USB loader lets us boot firmware off a USB drive.
So the problem then is that if you want to install 3.50, it will boot the 3.50 image meaning that we would have to have a 3.50 exploit first in order to remap flash to USB.
I don't know that's the case with absolute certainty, but I believe it to be true.