140w ago - While new pictures and stock of the PS3Stinger PS JailBreak clone are surfacing, Russia and Hong Kong have been added to the list of territories where PSJailBreak sales and distribution is being banned.

This news comes following Sony's victory in Australian courts and further legal action in both the United States and Sweden.

As seen in the YouTube video below courtesy of oldcake2828, Sony is examining packages at customs and seizing PSJailBreak and all clones of the PS3 modchip in Hong Kong.





In Russia, PSJailbreak has also been deemed illegal recently, to quote from MadFanboy.com (linked above): "Please note that any method of distributing counterfeit games for the PS3 is illegal.

As is illegal to manufacture, sale and...

142w ago - Update: L-S seems to have been misled, as knocturnal81 points out the pictures actually appear to be of a $35 PSJailBreak clone called PSJailBreaker versus the original PS JailBreak USB PS3 modchip.

Today French site Logic-Sunrise (linked above) has posted some pictures of the PS JailBreak PS3 modchip final retail version, which comes just hours before an update to the PSGroove open-source PS JailBreak PlayStation 3 exploit is expected.

To quote, roughly translated: "First introduced in aluminum, we had the chance to make a review, the team PSjailbreak we send the dongle seems to be the final product, which will be marketed and sent to all resellers who want the be.

There is a strange thing I have noticed a avrusbkey example. Once initialized, and the green LED on, the console is spent in debug.

you can remove the dongle, the PS3 is still running in debug mode, and the games are daring. Once the...

144w ago - As a follow-up to our previous post from yesterday, today some PS JailBreak pictures, preliminary reviews, a FAQ / guide and fresh videos have arrived.

To begin, PS3JailBreak.com has posted up pictures of the PS JailBreak instructions and cover letter (pictured below) along with the following additional PS JailBreak details, to quote:

• Do tools like SN Systems Target Manger work while this mod is being used? No Target Manager does not connect, it tries but fails.

• Does a debug settings menu appear like on PS3 Test units? No this does not appear when using the dongle.

• Can the USB Dongle be dumped? Possibly however initial common attempts to dump it have failed. The dongle is detected as an Unknown USB device in windows. It does not show up as a storage device. Trying to raw dump it with programs like Hex workshop also do not detect it since it doesn't show as a storage device.

• Does the dongle only need to be used once to convert my PS3 to a debug unit? No, you must use it every time...