32w ago - As of October 26, 2012 the Library of Congress has rejected a proposed exemption that would allow for the JailBreaking of video game consoles including the PlayStation 3, ruling that PS3 JailBreaking is to be considered illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Download: Full DMCA Ruling 2012.pdf

Because the Register determined that the evidentiary record failed to support a finding that the inability to circumvent access controls on video game consoles has, or over the course of the next three years likely would have, a substantial adverse impact on the ability to make noninfringing uses, the Register declined to recommend the proposed class.

Below are the details, to quote: "B. Video game consoles - software interoperability

Because the Register determined that the evidentiary record failed to support a finding that the inability to circumvent access controls on video game consoles has, or over the course of the next three years likely would have, a substantial adverse impact on the ability to make noninfringing uses, the Register declined to recommend the proposed class.

EFF, joined by Andrew "bunnie" Huang ("Huang"...

40w ago - Sony PlayStation 3 hacker KaKaRoToKS has announced today that the RSX Graphics Library for PS3 known as RSXGL by Alex Betts is now ready for use by developers.

Download: PS3 RSXGL (5c6aba6) / GIT

From his blog: RSXGL Working and Usable

Hi everyone!

When the PS3 homebrew scene started, a lot of people were complaining that it wasn’t possible to write 3D games for the PS3 because of its lack of OpenGL library.

Almost a year ago, Alex Betts thought he would tackle this problem and he started working on RSXGL... an implementation of the OpenGL 3.1 specification written from scratch targeting the PS3′s RSX.

Anyone in their right mind would say that it’s impossible, that it’s too much work, but Alex spent the last year working on it, alone, until it became usable. You can read some news about it here.

For some reason though, no one used it to build their own apps. Maybe the status of the project...

40w ago - Following up on his last revision, this weekend PlayStation 3 homebrew developer deroad has updated the NoRSX PS3 graphic PSL1ght SDK library to v0.1.8 followed by v0.1.9, v0.2.0 and v0.2.2, v0.2.9 and NoRSX PC emulator to v0.0.4 followed by v0.0.5 with details from the changelog outlined below.

Download: NoRSX PS3 Update v0.1.8 (4f5642e) / NoRSX PS3 Update v0.1.8 (4f5642e) (Mirror) / NoRSX PS3 Update v0.1.9 (96b8a31) / NoRSX PS3 Update v0.1.9 (96b8a31) (Mirror) / NoRSX PS3 Update v0.2.0 (bbd5bf2) and v0.2.2 / NoRSX PS3 Update v0.2.0 (bbd5bf2) and v0.2.2 (Mirror) / NoRSX PS3 Update v0.2.9 / NoRSX PC Emulator Update v0.0.4 (83de961) and v0.0.5 / NoRSX PC Emulator Update v0.0.4...

49w ago - Following up on the PS3 CEX (Retail) to DEX (Debug) Conversion Method from earlier this week, today PlayStation 3 developer andbey0nd has released an easy C2D CEX to DEX Flash Patcher conversion tool for Windows (currently only works with the 16mb NOR) alongside PS3 LibEEID (library related to EID0) source code below.

Download: PS3 C2D CEX to DEX Flash Patcher (Windows) / LibEEID Source Code / GIT

To quote: andbey0nd has released (pastie.org/4243807) another tool to us this morning. c2d is a Cex 2 Dex Flash Patcher. Currently it only works with 16mb NOR. Slowly but surely the scene seems to be coming back to life. 1 hack at time... Thanks andbey0nd and keep up the awesome work!

[andbey0nd] works for 16MB flash dumps (NOR) only
[andbey0nd] also if for some reason a WRONG EID key is provided - the program will abort and will not generate invalid DEX flash.. so no chance for bricking
[andbey0nd] if an output DEX flash file is created - it means that it is valid

c2d.exe (win32 app)

49w ago - Following up on his previous revisions, today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer deroad has updated NoRSX to version 0.1.5 which he states is now a real PSL1GHT library.

Download: NoRSX for PS3 v0.1.5 / NoRSX for PS3 v0.1.5 (Mirror) / GIT

To quote from his blog: Finally I setup my lib to be built as a real lib. In fact it will build now a libNoRSX.a

This lib will be installed inside the PORTLIBS directory. It uses also a new header #include (it will include always all the functions)

I noticed also that all the homebrews built with this lib will be also less heavier then the old one! To install it, just run make. It will build also the example. This has been tested with the latest PSL1GHT version.

To include this lib, just add into the Makefile the -lNoRSX flag (if you have problems, give a look into the NoRSX Example folder).

THIS LIB IS JUST FOR PSL1GHT V2

This doesn't work on v1. but it can be ported easily.