PS3 Debug / Test Firmware 3.50 - 3.60 Updates Leaked

[PS3 News]

Today is a great day indeed for PlayStation 3 scene developers, and following up on the PS3 Debug / Test Firmware 3.70 Update from last month now comes the PS3 Debug / Test Firmware 3.72 patch update courtesy of ConsoleDev!

Download: PS3 Debug / Test Firmware 3.72 Patch Update (10.93MB)

Similar to the 3.72 OFW Patch from the recently released PS3 3.72 (Retail) Firmware, it appears Sony is now offering compressed patch updates for PS3 Debug / Test console users.

As always, it's important to note that these PS3 Debug / TEST updates will currently NOT install on a retail PS3, and so it is intended for examination and comparison purposes only unless you own a Dev unit.

For those curious, running this updater on a retail PS3 will not damage it, however, it will give the following error before the installation completes: The data type is not supported. (8002F029)


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[itwong]

how come the debug patch/update 3.72 is only 10mb after being compressed? Shouldn't the patch update be named PS3PATCH.PUP instead of PS3UPDAT.PUP? Sounds weird.

[Foo]

I wonder if mixing of this will produce anything... Hmm...

[Foo]

As I started getting an idea, I tried mixing in a little of the file between the 3.72 debug PATCH and the 3.72 OFW update (the full PUP). Now I found out that the patch has two more files that the actual update. File 10, and File 11. As I looked I came to conclusion that the vsh was within File 11.

Here's the mix I made:

File_5 (OFW)
File_6 (OFW)
File_7 (OFW)
File_8 (OFW)
File_9 (OFW)
File_10 (Debug FW)
File_11 (Debug FW)
PUPHeader.bin (OFW)
SDK_Version.bin (OFW)
updater.self (OFW)

Now the things that bother me are, are that File_9 and File_11 are the same size, and the updater and PUPHeader.

I honestly don't know if there's any point in this, but i'm curious.

[Ezio]

It is only 10 mb compressed, but if I uncompress it becomes 175.631 kb. Is it normal?

[PS3 News]

Not normal up to now for them, but it's padded basically.

[Ezio]

It is padded with 00 values, only first 10 mb are real values, the rest of the 175 mb is empty. Is it a update patch for 3.70 or is it corrupt?

[ConsoleDev]

Unfortunately I do not own a PS3 Debug/Test Unit, for this reason cannot test these updates.

[PS3 News]

Is it a update patch for 3.70 or is it corrupt?

It looks like we may have to wait and see if/when someone posts a complete PS3 3.72 Debug update... At first I was thinking patch update as well, but PS3 hacker eussNL states it isn't proper so perhaps corrupt indeed:

Not proper (unpacking dev_flash_001.tar.aa.2011_09_14_050233 error):

• unpacking update_files.tar (00000000_0a064000 bytes; hmac: FAIL)...
• unpacking spkg_hdr.tar (00000000_00011800 bytes; hmac: FAIL)...
• unpacking ps3swu2.self (00000000_00565760 bytes; hmac: FAIL)...

MD5: FB906610575F9B51F2AB8E2174F03C0D
SHA1: 4CEEEF8A4A805AE19E0E9ED3BA1E54FC93D353CF
CRC32: 9701527 | CRC16: F676
HMAC_SHA1: 0xDC05B52D52A2C2E1E1301A8E8B45FE43FC172BA4

PUP file information
Package version: 1
Image version: 99999
File count: 9
Header length: 656
Data length: 179844904
PUP file hash : DC05B52D52A2C2E1E1301A8E8B45FE43FC172BA4
File 0
Entry id: 0x100
Filename : version.txt
Data offset: 0x290
Data length: 5
File hash : 8E20378674A5D312D3CF899B8818BD5DA9530F4E
File 1
Entry id: 0x101
Filename : license.xml
Data offset: 0x295
Data length: 264283
File hash : 367FCD28D27719525D0A11A4F2679FBF35B4681F
File 2
Entry id: 0x103
Filename : update_flags.txt
Data offset: 0x40AF0
Data length: 5
File hash : 65A0A6DA7FDB7F7A93C50F2439F6D5FE4C55AF74
File 3
Entry id: 0x200
Filename : ps3swu.self
Data offset: 0x40AF5
Data length: 5658464
File hash : 635883F388DD46FE3560ADABDBCCC5CD94B67A7A
File 4
Entry id: 0x201
Filename : vsh.tar
Data offset: 0x5A6255
Data length: 10240
File hash : D9B66E0D2845D71A67D76E7907AB06368CE61E08
File 5
Entry id: 0x202
Filename : dots.txt
Data offset: 0x5A8A55
Data length: 3
File hash : 1AA4749D0EE0D0AE937FBF73BC4B9ACD352F732A
File 6
Entry id: 0x300
Filename : update_files.tar
Data offset: 0x5A8A58
Data length: 168181760
File hash : DEFC6880C983CCBB0A5E9127DDE930AB62BD1B05
File 7
Entry id: 0x501
Filename : Unknown entry id
Data offset: 0xA60CA58
Data length: 71680
File hash : 1A76D6F88E36F492583DBFC914D49E2831623255
File 8
Entry id: 0x601
Filename : Unknown entry id
Data offset: 0xA61E258
Data length: 5658464
File hash : F381421D0E990D42DEE1B10B46F877DD243D47BD

[oVERSoLDiER]

Very interesting post Boss. It seems the CED Firmware provider fails, or Sony include something special here, to prevent that it got shared such easy.