1w ago - Following up on his previous revision, today Spanish PlayStation 3 developer Estwald released PS3 Fan Control Utility v1.7 which now supports up to PS3 CFW 4.41 with details below.

Download: Control_Fan_Utility_v1.7.rar

To quote, roughly translated: Uploaded version 1.7, which theoretically supports all PS3 firmwares (If you see a problem, and I correct red phone )

Fan Control Utility v1.7 Changelog:

Accepted CEX/DEX based CFW's

• 3.41
  
• 3.55
  
• 4.21
  
• 4.30
  
• 4.31
  
• 4.40
  
• 4.41
  

For those unaware, PlayStation 3 Control Fan Utility is an application that let you set the speed of the fan for your PS3 console or install a payload that runs behind games and controls the fan speed to keep the temperature under a certain reading.

The utility is intended to work on CFW CEX/DEX 3.41, 3.55, 4.21, 4.30, 4.31, 4.40 and 4.41. There has been expanded support for more CEX Based...

1w ago - Following up on their previous update, PlayStation 3 developers Estwald and D_Skywalk have updated the PS3 backup game manager known as Iris Manager to version 2.42 with the changes detailed below.

Download: Iris Manager v2.42 for v4.XX PS3 CFW / Iris Manager v2.42 (Animated Icon) / GIT

IrisManager is a port of HermesManager based on PSLIGHT, Tiny3D, PS3Soundlib and OpenPS3FTP, is a completely legal open code manager made with PlayStation 3 homebrew tools.

Supports PS3 Custom Firmwares: 3.41 (Hermes), 3.55 (Kmeaw), 4.21 & 4.30 CEX (with LV1 access, like Rogero or Rebug), 4.31 CFW, 4.21 DEX, 4.40 CEX MLT and 4.41CFW.

Iris Manager v2.42 Changelog, roughly translated: Version 2.42

What's New in version 2.42:

• Fixed crash when detecting between CFW 4.40 and CFW 4.41.
  

(Thanks to Rancid-o for the fix and LoboGuara for the notification)

1w ago - Following up on their previous revisions, Italian PlayStation 3 developer Francesco Lanzilotta at BiteYourConsole has updated the PSP Minis on PS3 application dubbed PSPMinis / PS3Minis / Bite to version 1.5 which now includes PSP homebrew support in the changes below.

Download: Bite 1.5 (Setup) / Bite 1.5 (No Setup) / Bite 1.5 (No Setup) (Mirror)

To quote, roughly translated: Released Bite 1.5 with support Homebrew

The team BiteYourConsole is back in the evening releasing the new version of Bite with support in the realization of homebrew.

In this new version there are two good news, we have added the possibility to create backup with the new method remaster and the second novelty, we can, through steps dictated by Bite, convert PSP homebrew to run them on the PS3.

Interacting with Bite is simple, we can directly use the PSP console, the console because every button has its own function.

Bite Functions:

• Down...

2w ago - Following up on their previous revision as hinted HERE, PlayStation 3 developers Estwald and D_Skywalk (with assistance from Miralatijera) have updated the PS3 backup game manager known as Iris Manager to version 2.40 with the changes detailed below.

Download: Iris Manager v2.40 for v4.XX PS3 CFW / Iris Manager v2.40 (Animated Icon) / GIT

Iris Manager v2.40 Changelog, roughly translated: New: Version 2.40

1) Updated Italian language (thanks AcidBuRn1)

2) Fixed error in the definition of a variable in the FTP which made the console will turn off when not using the remote, but was transferring files

3) Further improvement for PSX emulator that eliminates the need to modify usleep() changing it to a method that allows syscalls redial as often as desired [crappy] (and thus be able to step calls...

2w ago - Today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer spacemanspiff has released OpenSCETool (OSCETool) v0.9.2 which is an open-source clone of the original SCETool followed by the SCETool source code by naehrwert with details below.

Download: OpenSCETool (OSCETool) v0.9.2 / GIT / SCETool Source Code / GIT

To quote: OpenSCETool is a clone of scetool under an open source license. SCETool was reverse engineered and analized to produce this program, and copied his behaivour.

OpenSCETool (OSCETool) Changelogs:

Version 0.9.2

• Fixed rap/rif/idps/act.dat management. Now it works fine.
  

Version 0.9.1

• Fixed a segfault decrypt some SELFs.
  
• Added option -p to patch the sys_process_param when signing an ELF. This is the same as applying FixELF.exe before signing.
  
• Added support to klics.txt. If the klicensee is not specified, it is looked up in the data/klics.txt automatically (only for decrypt).
  

Version 0.9.0

• First...