28w ago - Following up on his previous update, today HDMadness has released PS3 ErmaC 4.30 CFW v1.2 which includes improved XMB Stability and he is pleased to confirm no PlayStation 3 flashers are necessary from this release onward.

Download: ErmaC 4.30 CFW 1.2.rar / ErmaC 4.30 CFW 1.2.rar (Mirror) / ErmaC 4.30 CFW 1.2.rar (Mirror #2)

PUP MD5: 90EF8FD8F6D2B2DA106C38DD08DC9C66

Below are the details, to quote: Hello m8, New version released, we can now leave the flashers alone...

• More Stable than any other 4.30 CFW out there
  (Tested with numerous PS3, slim and phat models)
  
• Can run games with the latest updates signed with Keys up to 4.30 without any patching needed
  
• PSN enabled
  
• Cinavia protection disabled
  

Changes since 1.1:

• Some small bugs fixed (XMB oriented)
  
• Removed some icons from XMB (they were not needed and helped improving XMB stability), including PSHome. No more "demo mode", if...

28w ago - Following up on my previous revision, today I have updated PS3 DarkEboot Fixer to version 3.5 which is used to fix PlayStation 3 EBOOTs for 3.55 CFW.

Download: PS3 DarkEboot Fixer v3.5 (ENG and ITA)

DarkEboot Fixer v3.5 Changelog:

• Added option to fix automatically PARAM.SFO (Edit PS3_SYSTEM_VER to make it compatible with FW 3.41 and higher)
  
• Fix bugs related to the alternative method of Fix EBOOT.BIN
  
• Rewritten fix system file Self and SPRX
  
• Fix bugs related fix files Self and SPRX
  
• Updated system-Repack PKG
  
• Minor bugfix
  

* The pack contains 2 Exe tool, one in English and one in Italian.

Enjoy

28w ago - Hi all, with a guide and tutorial already posted, I finally decided to join the forum and share my PS3 CFW 4.XX+ .PKG Resigner Script v0.3.1b followed by v0.3.2b, v0.3.3b and v0.3.3b Fix1.

Download: PS3 CFW 4.XX+ .PKG Resigner Script v0.3.3b Fix1 / PS3 CFW 4.XX+ .PKG Resigner Script v0.3.3b / PS3 CFW 4.XX+ .PKG Resigner Script v0.3.2b / PS3...

28w 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,...

28w ago - Today PlayStation 3 scene release group DUPLEX is back with a When Vikings Attack PSN PS3 fix for CFW 3.55 and 4.20+ users with details below!

From the PS3 NFO File, to quote: Notes: DUPLEX is back with another hot PSN game for CFW 4.20+ and CFW 3.55

1) Install the game .pkg from XMB as usual

2) put our crack EP9000-NPEA00372_00-VIKINGSATTACKKEY.edat into the following location on your PS3 (via FTP): dev_hdd0/home/00000001/exdata/

If you have no exdata dir there then just create it manually and put the .edat inside. (Alternatively you can check other profile dirs like home/00000002/exdata and copy it there)

3) for CFW 3.55 only: replace files on hdd in dev_hdd0/game/NPEA00372/ with files from our eboot_patch dir

4) play from XMB

Greetings go out to unSANE !

As always, check out the ongoing thread for the latest PS3 patch fixes and also the new PS3 3.55 EBOOT Patch Fixes with New Appldr / NPDRM Keys.

Seems DUPLEX has connections everywhere. Darn game is...