PS3 LV2 Kernel Peek/Poke Patched, Backup Managers and CFW!

[Mbb]

Update: This method ended up failing because the LV2 address range is protected by Sony on PS3 with Firmware v3.55, so Netkas and flukes1 are now working on a patch for LV1 instead.

Today Netkas and flukes1 have successfully managed to patch the PS3 lv2_kernel in v3.55 Firmware to allow peek and poke syscalls, meaning PlayStation 3 backup managers and Custom Firmware (CFW) will also be able to make use of them!

Download: PS3 3.55 LV2 Kernel Patched with Peek/Poke / PS3 3.55 Custom Firmware with Peek/Poke / 3.55 Peek-n-Poke Patcher GUI and 3.55 Peek-n-Poke Patcher GUI v2 by http://psx-scene.com/forums/665699-post1.html

From the ReadMe file:Patch to add peek and poke syscalls to PS3 firmware v3.55 by flukes1 and netkas (irc.efnet.net #ps3test)

To create the patched PS3UPDAT.PUP:

1. Use bspatch to apply PS3UPDAT.PUP.bsdiff to Sony's official 3.55 PUP, which is available from their website.
2. Run this from command line: "bspatch PS3UPDAT.PUP PS3UPDAT-NEW.PUP PS3UPDAT.PUP.bsdiff"
2. Ensure that the md5sum of the resulting PS3UPDAT.PUP is: 337831fac6a9b05074f73710c4bb7c86

Simply install the patched PS3UPDAT.PUP onto your PS3, then install geohot's jailbreak.

Our PUP can be installed over any firmware version, including 3.55-geohot. If you install over 3.55-geohot, you must reinstall geohot's jailbreak afterwards.

For developers: peek is syscall 6, poke is syscall 7 (same as PL3 dev payload)

Props to mastag22, lastExile, Killer_In - our testers with balls of steel.

Enjoy!

- flukes1, netkas

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[FMAranda]

I tried multiMAN with that .PUP and it doesn't work. Let's wait Dean update it, lol.

[Mbb]

Hopefully it will all work when they did update there backups managers, and there will probably come an noob-friendly tutorial

thanks geohot for make this happen lol, altough you didn't do it yourself

[PS3 News]

Cool news indeed! Thanks Mbb, and moved to the main page now as well.

[anulu82]

what a progress!

thanks for all the FW's and apps! hope so BM's will work soon on 3.55

[Link14]

Just waiting for Dean updating his multiMAN. Pressing F5 on his topic

[Fr33m4n]

I'm going to wait a little while before I jump on this. The original jb payloads did not include peek/poke. My guess is that after devs get a handle on 3.55 there will be a new CFW with only the needed syscalls added and not peek/poke.

[skotosa]

Guys I updated from 3.41 straight to the patched CFW 3.55?

Am I ok or was I supposed to update to the Official 3.55 first?

PS3 seems fine it recognized as 3.55

[mattaggz]

I don't understand this release, Geohot in his video from last week he says OMG don't patch lv2 you'll brick your console. Either that was a hint at what to do to get backups launched, or this at some point will brick your console.

[clouduzz]

I know PL3 is supposed to be cleaner code or whatever but how does it compare to hermes 4b? Last time I tried Pl3 (when first released) a lot of my games wouldn't work so I went back to Hermes.