32w ago - Following up on the PS3 Factory 3.56 with Flasher news, French PlayStation 3 developer raymanvtwo has shared a way to install Rebug PS3 CFW 4.21.1 on any version PS3, however, it requires a PS3 Hardware Flasher, will format your HDD and may result in a permanently bricked console so be WARNED!

Below is a rough translation of the process, as follows: You will need just a flash, great care, attention and rigor.

This method will format the hard drive of your PS3, make sure to recover your important data. Also, you incur a risk of irreversible brick in case of bad handling. Neither I nor PS3-Addict can not be held responsible. If you are not able to follow this tutorial to the letter, thank you spend your way!

Firstly, ensure the validity of your dump, flow rebuilder is the best in the field. Also check that all your fichiez is a different size of 0 bytes (including bootloader_0). If there is a problem, it will help you out.

Now that you have your dump, to see if the offset 200 if you or IFI FI.I with HxD as hexadecimal editor. If you IFI,...

34w ago - Sony Blog Manager Fred Dutton has shared an interview today discussing Need For Speed Most Wanted, which offers a glimpse under the PS Vita version's hood.

To quote: Next week sees the keenly anticipated release of Need for Speed Most Wanted, the latest release from Criterion Games - the legendary UK racing specialist behind the Burnout series and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, the phenomenal 2010 entry in EA's long-running street racing franchise.

That the PlayStation 3 version is very, very good should come as no surprise, but somewhat more unexpected is the amount of care the studio has lavished on replicating the experience on PlayStation Vita. Producer Matt Webster and his team have squeezed almost the entire experience onto the handheld, and even found room for a little bit of extra content exclusive to the system.

We sat down with Matt earlier this week to find out exactly how Criterion has pulled it off.

PlayStation.Blog: What was your goal when you first started developing the PS Vita version of Most Wanted?

Matt Webster, Producer at Criterion Games: It was to make the same game - that was the goal.

As much as we possibly could, we wanted to deliver all the great things about the console...

45w ago - Over the weekend the PCSX2 Team have finally released public version 1.0 of their PCSX2 Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator for various platforms including the PC.

Download: PCSX2 - PlayStation 2 (PS2) Emulator Public Version 1.0

Below are all the details for those interested, to quote: PCSX2 1.0 released!

After many long years of development, debugging and testing effort, we have reached a point where PCSX2 runs a great majority of the games, and there are no important issues that could possibly be fixed without requiring major modifications to the emulator.

Because of that (and because we already felt it was overdue), we decided to stop thinking of new things to do for a bit, polish the stability, compatibility and existing features and release the result as the first major version of PCSX2!

There have been tons of changes since the last release, including improvements to Jake Stine's wxWidgets GUI overhaul, cottonvibe's new multithreaded VU core and improvements on the primary plugins.

This release is a big milestone that marks the way to new features and improvements!

Here is an excerpt of the latest changes:

Windows:

Core:

• Video timing adjustments

52w ago - Following up on their initial news, today the XCM Team have made available a video demo of their new XCM F-1 Version 2 Converter for PS3 and XBox 360 in action below!

For those who missed it, below are the XCM F-1 Version 2 Converter functions and features as well:

• New functions (Shifter, Sensitivity and Force feedback) added
  
• Compatible with all versions of XBox 360 / XBox 360 Slim, PS3 / PS3 Slim consoles.
  
• Built-in converter allows you to use G27 and G25 racing steering wheels on XBox 360 with XBox 360 racing games.
  
• Plug and Play.
  
• Supports Rumble.
  
• Built-in Combo Attack function on 5 Memory Buttons - Program up to 20 button combos to a single button to pull off devastating moves at will!
  
• Enable Rapid Fire/Turbo on wired XBox 360, Original XBox and PS3 controllers when connected to your XBox 360 / XBox 360 Slim, PS3/PS3 Slim consoles.
  
• Supports PS3 SIXAXIS games.
  
• Supports analog stick tilt functionality on XBox 360 controller for the PS3 console.
  
• User controlled Rapid Fire / Turbo firing rates (High Speed, Medium Speed, Off).
  
• Supports wired XBox 360 controller,...

54w ago - Today the XCM Team has released their new XCM F-1 Version 2 Converter and made available the online F-1 v2 Instruction Manual for PS3 and XBox 360 console owners!

From their official site, to quote: The F-1 converter v2 has been added, including some new features like Shifter, Sensitivity and Force feedback level for G25 / G27 / GT racing steering wheel to be used on XBox 360 console.

XCM F-1 Version 2 Converter Functions and Features:

• New functions (Shifter, Sensitivity and Force feedback) added
  
• Compatible with all versions of XBox 360 / XBox 360 Slim, PS3 / PS3 Slim consoles.
  
• Built-in converter allows you to use G27 and G25 racing steering wheels on XBox 360 with XBox 360 racing games.
  
• Plug and Play.
  
• Supports Rumble.
  
• Built-in Combo Attack function on 5 Memory Buttons - Program up to 20 button combos to a single button to pull off devastating moves at will!
  
• Enable Rapid Fire/Turbo on wired XBox 360, Original XBox and PS3 controllers when connected to your XBox 360 / XBox 360 Slim, PS3/PS3 Slim consoles.
  
• Supports PS3 SIXAXIS games.
  
• Supports analog stick tilt functionality on XBox 360 controller for the PS3 console.