8w ago - Following up on their previous updates, this weekend PlayStation 3 developers Estwald and D_Skywalk (with help from Miralatijera) have updated the PS3 backup game manager known as Iris Manager to version 2.22B with the changes below.

Download: Iris Manager v2.22B for v4.XX PS3 CFW / IrisManager2.22B_animated.pkg / GIT

Iris Manager v2.22B Changelog:

• Fixed offset in the payload strcpy lv2 MLT 4.40 (major bug)
  
• Patcher explore_plugin modified to show the disc icon and MLT 4.40 error while patching which includes Miralatijera
  

To quote, roughly translated:

What is IrisManager?

IrisManager is a port of HermesManager based on PSLIGHT, Tiny3D, PS3Soundlib and OpenPS3FTP, is a completly legal open code manager made with Homebrew tools. Iris will load both PS3 and PS1 backups.

Supports the custom firmwares:

3.41 (Hermes), 3.55 (Kmeaw), 4.21 & 4.30 CEX (with LV1...

36w ago - Following up on the previous update and yesterday's PSN Passphrase leak, today Chinese PlayStation 3 hacker Luckystar has released an unofficial version of FckPSN 0.9c which allows PS3 Custom Firmware (CFW) users to access Sony's PlayStation Network once again.

Download: FckPSN 0.9c and Certificates / FckPSN 0.9c and Certificates (Mirror) / FckPSN 4.25 PLATFORM_VERSION Test by Nimloth / OpenPS3FTP and Dev_Blind / OpenPS3FTP and Dev_Blind (Mirror)

To quote, roughly translated: I believe we all know, tested on CEX and DEX 3.55 is feasible (working but with an 80023110 error). Program still finished before September 11 into PSN, the the camouflage version number 4.21 the camouflage host ID is all zeros.

The networking cheating curse you BAN Oh. BAN directly off the account...

45w ago - Following up on his previous revision, today PlayStation 3 developer PsDev has updated PS3Tools GUI Edition to version 2.6 which now includes PS3 CEX to DEX functionality as outlined below.

Download: PS3Tools GUI Edition v2.6

To quote: Hi everybody, here to release my new update.

PS3Tools GUI Edition v2.6 Changes:

• Added CEX 2 DEX
  
• New Interface
  
• Fixed PKG decryptor button
  
• Fixed EDAT Tool button
  
• Removed second GUI form
  
• Minor bug fixes and code changes to perform better
  

I have been asked a lot recently to add in a debug PKG decryptor because all I had is a Retail decryptor & extractor. Well I did, but last minute checks, I noticed it was not performing the way I wanted it too.

So instead of releasing faulty code/tool on my program and say it works half way, I'd rather withdraw the feature until a further update when I can have it working properly to my standards and what should be most.

PlayStation 3 CEX to DEX:

This whole CEX to DEX is going around, I felt like adding it to GUI form had to...

50w ago - It's been a few months since his initial release, and today PlayStation 3 developer deroad has updated the NoRSX PS3 2D Graphic Library for the PSL1ght homebrew SDK to include TTF support.

Download: NoRSX PS3 2D Graphic PSL1ght SDK Library with TTF Support / NoRSX PS3 2D Graphic PSL1ght SDK Library with TTF Support (Mirror) / GIT

To quote from his blog: My lib has been updated to allow people to use *.ttf files instead of my old experimental font. You can use any ttf loaded from memory or from hdd and print any kind of text as you want.

An example

This is the function that needs to be called to load a font from memory:
so for example if my font is Andale.ttf, and i want to load it from memory, i would call:

102w ago - Hi, after the events this weekend regarding a domain issue I've had to release a new build to patch several glitches with premium memberships and some server side work to fix the advert not closing after clicking skip. In 3.90 these are minor changes, but we're required:

1) changed all server side links to pixolia.co.uk from pixolia.org. that's about it one small change to fix several issues...

Download: PSN Download Manager 3.90

Also I realised a few saying the advert got stuck, and in some / most cases people didn't click the skip button.

The advert shown at the startup will never close until you've clicked on the skip button unlocked after 5 seconds, it may take slightly longer on single core computers so be patient (old single core computers cause the multithreading to hang for a minute or two, nothing I can do about that.)

I've also reduced the number of advertisements on my website, I'm very disappointed by clicksor for allowing such issues to occur and have reported them to various sites about the risks they pose to consumer safety.

Due to these issues, I recommend...