37w ago - Today PlayStation 3 developer FreePlay has released a PC homebrew application dubbed Open BDEMU HDD Manager which allows users to manage their PS3 DEX's Blu-ray emulator hard dive files.

Download: PS3 Open BDEMU HDD Manager / PS3 Open BDEMU HDD Manager (Mirror) / PS3 Open BDEMU HDD Manager (Mirror #2) / PS3 Open BDEMU HDD Manager (Mirror #3) / PS3 Open BDEMU HDD Manager (Mirror #4)

From the ReadMe File: Open BDEMU HDD Manager by FreePlay

Want to manage your DEX's Blu-ray emulator hard dive, but hate that PS3Gen is missing essential features like increasing the number of game slots or dumping a game from a disk to a file? Worry no longer! The Open BDEMU HDD Manager is here for you!

This tool duplicates PS3Gen's ability to manage your BDEMU HDD, but works faster and has some added features.

• Dump an existing game to an EMU image file
  
• Write EMU image files to disk
  
• Erase game slots
  
• Rename...

72w ago - Over the weekend PlayStation Vita developer Virtuous Flame has made available OpenCMA, an open-source homebrew application that prevents the PS Vita Content Manager from connecting to the Internet to bypass online and the latest OFW checks.

OpenCMA r1 for PS Vita / OpenCMA r2 for PS Vita / OpenCMA r3 for PS Vita / OpenCMA r4 for PS Vita / OpenCMA r4 for PS Vita (1.80 Fix) / OpenCMA r4.5 for PS Vita (Unofficial) / OpenCMA r5 for PS Vita / OpenCMA r5 for PS Vita (Mirror) / SVN / YifanLu's OpenCMA GIT

To quote, roughly translated:

Open CMA...

113w ago - Today wuepe at Spanish site Elotrolado.net has updated the PS3 backup game manager to Open Manager v2.1 Rev J-2 for PlayStation 3 Custom Firmware users along with sharing an OM 2.1I-2 PS3 XMB Game Launcher mod.

Download: OM 2.1J-2 OMAN46756 3.41/3.55 / OM 2.1J-2 OMAN01234 3.41/3.55 / OM 2.1J-2 NPWR01247 - Call Of Duty B.O. 3.41/3.55 (Stealth) / OM 2.1J-2 NPWR00826 - F1 2010 3.41/3.55 (Stealth) / OM 2.1J-2 Source Code / OM 2.1I-2 PS3 XMB Game Launcher

To quote from French site PS3-Addict (linked above), roughly translated: This mod is a bit special, he is a manager that can launch a single game at a time. It will display the games directly in the XMB as in the picture above. This mod also manages the settings for each version as patch management or automatic execution. It is therefore a function similar to MagicPKG or to eboot tool offered by deank.

In the archive you can find 30 times the same...

114w ago - Over the weekend PS3 developer Rogero has updated his PlayStation 3 Backup Manager to version 8.2 for Waninkoko/Kmeaw and Wutangrza/Geohot PS3 Custom Firmware users.

Download: Rogero PS3 Backup Manager v8.2

Below are the updates from the changelog, as follows:

• 8.2.0 - Added Games List Filtering with [L2+R2+L1] to show HDD Games, USB Games or All Games.
  (works with only one external HDD attached at a time)
  
• 8.2.0 - Added Manager support for spoofing CFW versions to 3.50, 3.56 and 3.60.
  
• 8.2.0 - Added [USB Mount] support for FW 3.41,now works on OFW/CFW ver 3.41 and CFW ver 3.55.
  
• 8.2.0 - Added [USB Mount] support for Disk-Less loading, start game from app_home\PS3_GAME.
  
• 8.2.0 - Added [USB Mount] support for spoofed CFW (3.50/3.56/3.60), now works with spoofed CFWs.
  
• 8.2.0 - Added the Option to Enable/Disable "Blurring of Games List Background" from Settings.
  
• 8.2.0 - Added more Optimization of the Game Copy function with some bugs fixed.
  
• 8.2.0 - Changed the caching mechanism to a much optimized one resulting in an overall speed improvement.
  
• 8.2.0 - Changed Auto-Fix Game's folder/files Permissions to always on,it will run auto only if needed.

120w ago - Today Rogero has updated his PS3 Open Backup Manager to version 8.0 which now includes Syscall 36 implementation among other changes detailed below followed by version 8.1 with changed HERE.

Download: Rogero Manager v8.0 Kmeaw Waninkoko Syscall36 3.55 3.41.pkg / Rogero Manager v8.0 Kmeaw Waninkoko Syscall36 3.55 3.41.pkg / Rogero Manager v8.0 Kmeaw Waninkoko Syscall36 3.55 3.41.pkg / Rogero Manager 8.0 ELF / Rogero Manager v8.0 Wutangrza Geohot Syscall36 3.55.pkg / Rogero Manager v8.0 Wutangrza Geohot Syscall36 3.55 Stealth.pkg / Rogero Manager v8.1 Kmeaw Waninkoko 3.55 3.41.pkg / Rogero Manager v8.1 Wutangrza Geohot 3.55.pkg / Rogero Manager v8.1 ELF

Changes in Rogero v8.0 include:

8.0.0 - This version is Compatible with OFW3.41+Dongle/Hermes CFW3.41/CFW3.55/Kmeaw/Waninkoko.
8.0.0 - Changed from using LV2_patcher/PL3 to Dean's implementation of Syscall36.
8.0.0 - The Manager can be started with Disc In + USB inserted without any problems.
8.0.0 - Updated the Payload Auto-Detection to support all types of Payloads/CFWs.
8.0.0 - Fixed the FTP Server,...