59w ago - Following up on the previous release, today PlayStation 3 developer Andreas Oman has updated Showtime PS3 Media Player Testing Build to version 3.5.72 with the changes outlined below.

Download: Showtime 3.5.72 g4757fa6 PKG / Showtime GH 3.5.72 g4757fa6 PKG / Showtime 3.5.72 g4757fa6 SELF / GIT

Showtime PS3 Media Player v3.5.72 Changelog:

3.5.69-ga3159fe

PS3: Use jemalloc instead of newlib's malloc

Using jemalloc significantly reduces memory fragmentation and thus mitigates the out of memory conditions that happens
now and then when using Showtime (in particular during movie playback)

It's also much more efficient than newlib's malloc thanks to per-thread caching of allocation and per-thread memory arenas

For more information about jemalloc, see http://http://www.canonware.com/jemalloc/

3.5.61-g6dfd6a5

59w ago - Today BahumatLord has made available a custom PS3 cheat PKG disc backup alongside a video of it in action from Ronin22222 below.

Download: Custom PS3 Cheat PKG Disc Backup (1GB) / Update (33KB) / Update #2 (26.9MB)

To quote: If anyone remembers a wile back when all the commonly used file hosts went down we lost a lot of files. Among them were the cheat pkg files that let you play your game the way you want to. I've made a custom disc backup that has a graphical interface for installing all of the cheat pkg files that I could find.

I thought you guys might like to check it out. There will be updates in the future any time a new cheat pkg is released or if I missed anything on the first release. You will only need to download the main disc backup once. All future updates will be able to be applied by simple drag-and-drop in windows. NO HASSLE GUARANTEE.

Alll credits go to the original posters and to the people that were able to salvage these download links. More info about what these cheat pkg files can do can be found here:

New Cheats PKG Collection: psx-scene.com/forums/f180/new-cheats-pkg-collection-no-requests-84071

59w ago - On this April Fool's Day a group of PlayStation 3 developers going by the name of athen5cl0ne have released what they call 910D0 Beta, a purported all-in-one Nintendo emulator for the PS3 entertainment system that claims to support NES, SNES, GameBoy, GBC, GBA, Nintendo DS, 3DS, Nintendo 64, GameCube and Wii titles.

Download: 910D0 Beta All-In-One Nintendo Emulator for PS3 / User Guide (PDF)

According to soratheultima some emulation (including 3DS, GameCube and Wii) isn't possible yet, however, tthousand reports that they have uncovered a major flaw in running Nintendo code on the PS3 console and that a more detailed guide is incoming.

Although several users have noted it only crashes for them (even with the proper ROMs and BIOS) those interested can give it a try and share your results below with the included PKG files.

Changelog: v0.1 Initial Beta Release - Testers Needed

Notes:

• PS Move required for certain Wii games, and all DS and 3DS games.
  
• 3D Enabled TV required to use 3D effect on 3DS games.
  
• Requires a...

60w ago - Following up on this initial release, today PlayStation 3 developer Corwin75 has updated his PARAM Edit PS3 Save Modification homebrew application to version 2.0 with the changes outlined below.

Download: PARAM Edit v2.0 PS3 Save Modification App (Windows) / PARAM Edit v2.0 PS3 Save Modification App (Linux) / PARAM Edit v2.0 PS3 Save Modification App (Mac)

To quote: This software is now cross platform which means its compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac

Here are the functions listed below:

• Change the saves protection (protect/unprotect).
  
• Make compatible your saves with another ps3.
  
• Change details of the save.
  
• Change title of the save.
  
• Change sub-title of the save.
  
• See information in the save.
  

60w ago - Following up on the previous ReActPSN v2.20 release, I have recently created a small PS3 RAP2RIF converter application for converting .RAP files from ReActPSN to .RIF file format.

Download: ReActPSN PS3 RAP2RIF .RAP to .RIF File Converter

It is based on a my own research.

Place it to the ps3tools directory along with other tools and then place your idps and act.dat files to appropriate folders.

This tool will generate .rif file that you should copy to your exdata/ folder. Then you can unself a corresponding NPDRM file.

Have fun.

Finally, from flatz comes the source code for RAP2RIF and RAP2RIFKey below:

RAP2RIF: pastie.org/private/yltlfwubsz8w5pyhmojyfg