132w ago - Today Dukio reports that French developer ManuNg has released PS3Win v0.9.2.1, which is a PS3 JailBreak Game Organizer PC application followed by some updates below.

Download: PS3Win v0.9.2.1 PS3 JailBreak Game Organizer for PC / PS3Win v0.9.4 PS3 JailBreak Game Organizer for PC / PS3Win v0.9.6 PS3 JailBreak Game Organizer for PC / PS3Win v0.9.7 PS3 JailBreak Game Organizer for PC

From the ReadMe file: I offer a tool to manage the list of PS3 games locally and on a PS3 (via FTP).

• You can specify multiple directories containing games
• The search for a list of games on a PS3 Ftp
• It retrieves the image, the id, name, file date, the minimum OS version and the version of the game
• You can copy the games from the list
• You can print the list or save it to a text file.
• You can aiso view images of the game
• It may be in English language.
• You can specify the colors of the list
• You can resize the window and the columns...

132w ago - Below is a guide I wrote on PSX-Scene (linked above) and here on PS3News how to get Call of Duty: Black Ops working with PS3 JailBreak on PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.41.

Today a copy of Black Ops arrived "in the usual places" and it required 3.50 to play.

JonahUK pointed out that when the EBOOT.BIN was viewed with a hex editor it showed it was compiled with the 3.40 SDK meaning it was debug update time!!!

I extracted the EBOOT.BIN file and PRAM.SFO from the 1.02 debug update modified them and made a pack here: CODBO.rar / Mirror #1 / Mirror #2 / Mirror #3 / Mirror #4 / Mirror #5 / Mirror #6 / Mirror #7 / New Pack With All SFO Regions / New Pack With All SFO Regions #2 / New...

132w ago - Over the weekend Klutsh posted a simple guide on how to compile PSFreedom's payloads with Ubuntu 10.10.

He states this is for the payloads only and is independent of devices, and his next guide will cover compiling the kernel and the kernel module which are device dependant.

Below is the guide, to quote:

Here's a real quick guide on getting Ubuntu 10.10 ready to compile the PSFreedom payloads.

Prerequisites:

• A Working install of Ubuntu 10.10

The Guide:

First thing we need to do is install some applications through apt, so open a terminal and do the following:

sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf libsdl1.2-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gcc-4.3 cpp-4.3 g++-4.3 texinfo autoconf

Now we need to clone PSFreedom from github to our local PC, pull it's submodules and get the toolchain installed

cd ~/
git clone git://github.com/kakaroto/PSFreedom.git
cd PSFreedom
git submodule update --init
cd pl3
git submodule update --init
cd ps3toolchain

132w ago - Recently we learned how to use PS3 game Title IDs to Download PS3 Game Update Packages on Your PC, and today I have made a simple PC application called IdentifyMyGame which will give you information about the PS3 game by inputting the Title ID of it.

Download: IdentifyMyGame v1.0 / IdentifyMyGame v1.0a / IdentifyMyGame v1.0b / IdentifyMyGame v1.0c / IdentifyMyGame v1.0d

This is still the first version. I can guarantee an update by tomorrow which will add more features!

Below is the IdentifyMyGame changelog. Enjoy!

Changelog:

1.0: First Public Release. SFO Support,...

132w ago - Today PSGroove reports that the first legal (not built with the leaked PS3 SDK) PS3 homebrew game dubbed Pongus for PlayStation 3 JailBreak users is now available courtesy of CodeZombie.

Download: Pongus PS3 Homebrew Game with Source Code

To quote: This is the first PS3 homebrew game to use no copyrighted code. The game was coded from the ground up, entirely with the PSL1GHT SDK. Here is what CodeZombie had to say about his release:

Pongus is a simple pong clone, demonstrating the basic features of the PSL1GHT SDK.

Right now, it's in a playable state, with enemy AI, collision detection, Speed advancement and simple controls.

I am aware that there is already a much better pong clone available for the PS3, but that package contains leaked Sony code, and is illegal to distribute.

This package is the opposite, written completely with the Open PSL1GHT SDK. No Sony code was used to write this game, and thus, is able to be freely distributed, source and all."