143w ago - Yesterday we
reported on news of the first x3JailBreak PS JailBreak PS3 USB ModChip clone, and today it is being labeled as a possible fake with a second clone dubbed the PS3Key Mod surfacing.
Similar to the x3JailBreak site, the Dutch Web site
PS3Key.com lacks specific details on the alleged clone, so only time will tell if it is legitimate or not.
They do state, however, to quote: "Good news everyone! Our mad scientist has confirmed that getting into the console is as simple as pretending to be a USB hub! It doesn't look like this is going to take any more than a few weeks!"
According to Nyleveia.com (linked above), x3JailBreak is nothing more than the internals of a generic or branded-clone USB flash drive when compared to PS JailBreak which they say likely utilizes an Alcor AU6984 flash storage controller.
To quote: "Both devices follow a similar layout with a bank of SMT's leading to a crystal oscillator then a flash controller and lastly the SMD (Activity light). On the lower device, the flash memory itself is located on the underside of the PCB, as the many vias present in the PCB around the flash controller indicate.
A similar arrangement of vias are present on the purported x3Jailbreak, leading me to believe that there is actually a flash chip present on the rear of "their PCB" too."
Well this is no good. I tried installing Rebug D-Rex 4.30.2 but kept getting an error that it's corrupt from the main update screen and from the recov...
can we enable 3d acceleration without such a device?.. i guess if there is a 3d acceleration support in the future , it might be through this device or a similar one.
that's why i assumed that everyone who is interested in hacking his ps3 will have one!
Do you mean having a 3D accelerated driver could be useful?
If so then i agree.
But if you mean using the usb in conjunction with OtherOS:
since a prerequisite of using the usb device is that the FW is 3.41, then anyone still using 3.15 will effectively have no use for the device at all.
It's an "either/or" situation - you either have linux or you have this usb dongle.
Something i'm sure is plausable with using the usb is to enable the flag which states Linux can be used on FW > 3.15, in which case users would not have to make that kind of choice.
can we access the rsx chip with this device? i mean how low-level this dongle could do especially with Linux?
and what i meant was that having the ability to run unsigned codes on gameOS is more than enough to have some good emulators and media players right?
so why do we bother running emulators/HD media players on a heavy OS like Linux considering the low size of the ps3 ram? because the otherOS can only see 256mb of the total ram , it was limited by sony, correct me if i'm wrong.
so i guess the gameOS is the way to go for homebrew.. why would anyone need Linux?
sorry for my bad English thought!
so why are we even bothering with enabling 3d acceleration in Linux?
Not everybody will be using the device. Some will still operate on a previous firmware with OtherOS enabled - for them this could be very valuable.