Recently the PS3 Dev Team received a PS3 Reference TOOL Kit and detailed the Frontside and Backside of the hardware.

Today we popped off the top of our PS3 TOOL to share how this monstrous machine works!

For starters, the cover is large but thin, and quite sharp (it drew blood!). Underneath the top cover are multiple steel covers, nearly 1/8th of an inch thick. This keeps the PS3 TOOL...

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Today Xamp has released a patched version of Xplorer360 to work with 250GB XBox 360 harddrives.

Download: Xplorer360 250GB Edition

From the ReadMe File:

The Good:
• Drag and drop content to and from (inject/extract) confirmed working on both Partitions 2 and 3.

The Bad:
• Do not use any sort of backup or restore image features with this...

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Today SKFU has shared a bug he found in PS3 Firmware 2.8 (although he said it should be present since 2.0 through 3.0) that allows you to dump random data from the PlayStation 3 HDD and RAM.

To quote: There's a little "bug" in the PlayStation3's NAT test which causes that you can dump random data from the HDD and RAM. Why exactly this appears; I don't know, yet. But well, it...

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The kind people of team D2SUN (linked above) have sent out some samples of the new Nintendo Wii SunDisk Chip for testing.

After testing this chip out I have to say that there is not much more one could even expect out of a drive chip.

Some high points:

• Chip comes retail packaged nicely.
• Quality of the pcb is excellent.
• Chip is large but fit's...

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Over the weekend geohot, famous for unlocking Apple's iPhone, has posted a few tweets on his Twitter account that he has began looking into hacking Sony's PS3 console.

He has also dropped by our Forums to enquire about the PS3 Hypervisor Decryption Keys, and has been in touch with CJPC via IRC as well.

To date, geohot has reported the following via tweets:

"ooo got access to a...

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Yesterday tmbinc has reported on XBoxHacker.net (linked above) that user "jc" in #free60 found that his XBox 360 Jasper, built June-30th 2009, already contained the new bootloader (but with a 7363 Kernel).

To quote: We don't know when Microsoft switched it in production, but this discovery means that they did this at least over a month before the update.

So far,...

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Today Geremia has released FreeKey on the XBox-Scene forums (linked above). This is a FREE decrypter tool for the XBox 360 Lite-On DG-16D2S drive with Firmware 83850c.

Yes, thats right! Just days after the release of the iXtreme 1.6 F/W for the Lite-On 83850c, hackers decided hey, why should we pay someone to "decrypt" our DVD keys like fools? We can make an app to do it our selves.
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This weekend Gizmodo (linked above) has tested out the PS3's external video storage from the not-so-recent PS3 Firmware 2.70 update, and they have confirmed it works as intended.

To quote: You can back up your purchased videos to any external USB drive, be it a flash drive or a standard USB hard drive. The video will show up on in a backup folder inside the drive, but you can't stream...

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PlayStation Store Senior Manager Grace Chen has shared this weekend's PlayStation Network video content update today, as follows:

Here are our this week’s new releases and top downloads for the Video Store. Also — in our largest featured collection ever, you can download movies, TV shows, exclusives and specials, all inspired by the sold-out Comic-Con.

Fans of DC...

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Hello to all members. A week ago I found very useful information of what kind of software (firmware) is inside this powerful box PS3, and I was shocked by the level of protection and level of firmware.

XMB is running in virtualized space (other os too) with conditions that controlled by "Super Hardware Administrator"-its not real name, (there is no Hypervisor like all of...

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