20w ago - Following up on IrisManager v1.38 and their Install Fake BDEmu PKG PS3 DEX CFW Dummy BDEmu Guide, Italian PlayStation 3 developer Rancid (o) has made available Iris Manager v1.40 which now supports the PS3ITA CFW 4.21 DEX and Rebug PS3 CFW in DEX mode.

Download: IrisManager v1.40 v4.21 DEX PKG / IrisManager v1.45 v4.21 DEX PKG / IrisManager v4.XX DEX (Source Code)

To quote, roughly translated: For the uninitiated manager Iris is the only backup manager tool developed with legal (see PSL1GHT). unlike Multiman does not care much for frills, simply does its job...

22w ago - Following up on his previous revisions, today PlayStation 3 developer wborland0 has updated PS3 Game List Manager to version v2.0 for Windows x64 users with the changes below.

Download: PS3 Game List v2.0 Manager for Windows / PS3 Game List v2.0 Manager for Windows (Mirror)

To quote from his blog: In time for the holidays, another revision bringing PS3 Game List to v2.0. The idea behind this release was to update the framework supporting the application, while implementing all the possible features (most suggested by users) fitting the time frame.

This version implements a very useful feature: support for RAR files (including multivolume and password protected archives). That means users can retire WinRar for their decompressing needs, as PS3 Game List is now able to load game info from RARs and extract data as well (up to 5% faster than WinRar, no less).

This functionality allows users to manage their compressed games, in addition to their standard game folders, games stored as ISO files and PKGs (PSN games and Homebrew), pushing the ‘all-in-one...

26w ago - Today Sony PlayStation 3 hacker KaKaRoTo has shared a video on his latest PS3 release he calls Eleganz: The Elegant Homebrew Manager with details below.

Download: Eleganz: The Elegant Homebrew Manager PS3 PKG / GIT / PS3Dev GIT / Eleganz: The Elegant Homebrew Manager PS3 PKG (Mirror) / Eleganz: The Elegant Homebrew Manager PS3 (Resigned 4.xx) PKG by haz367 (runs ok - exit = black screen - no HDD corruption!)

From his blog: Hi everyone, Last year, in January, I decided to have some fun and write a homebrew application using the EFL (trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/EFLOverview) libraries. I decided to work on a homebrew manager.. basically a replacement to the XMB.

It went really well, and the development was really fast, and it was all thanks to the awesome API (docs.enlightenment.org) and capabilities of the EFL libraries. However, I became busy and was unable to continue... also, it was a bit slow and without proper hardware acceleration, it wouldn’t be as good as I hoped for, so I put the project on the...

30w ago - Today the E3 Team announced they (and likely several other teams) will be releasing a PS3 CFW v4.30 for 'free' soon (since the PS3 LV0 / Bootldr / Appldr Keys etc are in the wild) with their own Game Manager as well.

Download: E3 CFW 4.30 PUP / E3 Manager 4.30 / E3 CFW 4.30 and manager.zip / E3 Fun Flash Downgrade Process

E3 CFW 4.30.pup (192.2 MB - 201,540,219 bytes)
MD5 .PUP: 6FB3A01F02A1EE97178241D9B38DA49E

E3MANAGER430.pkg (11.3 MB - 11,885,312 bytes)
MD5 .PKG: F3B12BDCC400078A12683C9EDF83ADB8

Update #2: An anonymous user called Soon has shared PS3 LV0 for 4.30 / 4.25 and LV2 of 4.21 decrypted, and with his LV0 4.25, LV2 4.25 and LV0 4.30 dumped & decrypted (below) and states that the E3 CFW should not be installed.

Download (Passwords Removed): lv0_430_decrypted.rar...

30w ago - Following up on the PS3 DEX Open BDEMU HDD Manager and Mac OS X Switcher for PS3 BDEmu Drives, today Mgenecke has released a PS3 DEX Image Manager for USB drives he calls PS3EMUTool Alpha along with some updates below.

Download: PS3EmuTool Alpha / PS3EmuTool Build 121022-1233 / PS3EmuTool Build 121025-0139 / PS3EmuTool Build 121026-0144 / PS3EmuTool X2.00

To quote: Hi, I have written a little program, that manages your Images on a DEX-Image-USB-Drive; It's on "Alpha", means it can be better, but I think this program does it's work. Please read manual_en.txt. I hope it's useful.

Today I release a tool for your PS3-BDEMU-Disk: .Net 4.0 and VC2010Redist have to be installed (I think, this is installed on the most PC's) and you have to run it as administrator. Try it, test it an reply.

Update 121022-1233:

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