9w ago - Following up on their previous revision, today Team SGK has released PS3 CFW 4.40.1 (Full 4.40 No Spoof) with the changes detailed below.

Download: CFW 4.40.1 Full No Spoof by SGK / PS3UPDATCdEX-4.40.1-CFW_by_SGK.rar (Mirror) / multiMAN 04.20.04 for CFW 4.40 / Fix Multiman cat XMBSGK+ by SGK

MD5 Hashes:

• CFW 4.40.1 Full No Spoof by SGK - fe63923c834021d5cf7efdbbd76ee9ee
  
• multiMAN 04.20.04 for CFW 4.40 - bc462f2c094900dba3e2a1e1762c9807
  
• Fix Multiman cat XMBSGK+ by SGK - 2747f1c2b91bc9c6ffa7fd2d8f3bbc97
  

To quote, roughly translated: Hi all voilla you my CFW 4.40.1 I see the changelog. 4.40.1 Changelog:

1: Adding Core OS compler 4.40
2: Adding and all self SPRX 4.40
3: QA flag enabled
4: PUP can be used Checkoff downgrade with E3 flasher...

16w ago - Following up on his previous release, today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer SvenGDK has updated PS3 Multi Tools for Windows to version 8.5 with the changes outlined below.

Download: PS3 Multi Tools v8.5

Hi, I got finally time to release a new version of PS Multi Tools. The new version contains not really new functions but lets you customize and use it like you want.

PS Multi Tools v8.5 Changelog:

• Removed the PS Multi Tools Mainmenu to replace it completely with the PS Live Menu.
  
• Complete cleanup (Removing unused things, cleaned unused code, ...)
  
• Full PS Multi Tools and PS Live Menu translations for German, French, Luxembourgish, Português brasileiro*, Spanish* and Nederlands, other languages still need to be manually translated.
  
• MyPS Advanced (Customize PS Multi Tools - Themes ... )
  
• Realtime notifications (If I just updated something, I will let you know )
  
• Replaced the black box on the console selection form to a new PS Multi Tools Quick-Setup
  

*To use this language, please select it under MyPS->Additional PS Multi...

27w ago - Following up on his previous work, today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer condorstrike has released Condor Updater 3 followed by v3.1 for PS3, which offers a pseudo-recovery mode system firmware update from the XMB.

Download: Condor Updater 3 PS3 Homebrew Application / Condor Updater 3 PS3 Homebrew Application (Mirror) / Condor Updater 3.1 PS3 Homebrew Application / Condor Updater 3.1 PS3 Homebrew Application (Mirror)

From his blog (linked above): Hi guys, I took a short break from Pointman, my upcoming PS3 Homebrew video game, and decided to investigate what Sony did to prevent Condor Updater from working on 4.xx.

After some coffee and hair pulling it seems the culprit was one of my protection checks implemented in v2.0, so I re-wrote it and added a nice PIC1.PNG and ICON0.PNG, and now it works on 4.xx CFWs.

MD5:...

50w ago - This weekend the E3 Team have announced a new PS3 JailBreak alongside news of another PlayStation 3 DRM-infected USB dongle currently in development.

Below are the details, as follows: Official Statement from E3 Team Regarding a New PS3 Jailbreak

Few days ago, there was news posted on various Web sites that we had cloned JB2 (aka) True Blue (TB) successfully.

We clarify we did not clone any other product, but we did find the ways on how to allow the newer games to work on CFW v3.55.

Our research has found 3 different ways to allow newer games to work on older firmwares!

A way:

• No need of any new keys, but allows SOME new games to work on CFW v3.55 with a special bypass.
  
• We think the USB device on market uses this system. (Maybe)
  
• With this method, most games even v4.11 games can run on CFW v3.55 very easily.
  
• But there has some games that can't work with this A way.
  

E3 Team knows this A way...

53w ago - Although PlayStation 3 developers have already commented on DRM-infected dongles, following in the shadows of JB-King and JB2USB today we have a third PS3 JailBreak 2 (JB2) True Blue (TB) dongle clone dubbed PB2 entering the market.

Download: PB2 Introduction (PDF) / PB2 3.55 Dongle Custom Firmware v2 / PB2 V1.01 Upgrade Package

To quote from the official site (linked above): PB2 (PS3Break2) is the latest product from PS3Break Team who ever made a tremendous splash in the PS3 scene.

PB2 can break your own PS3 console and enjoy the latest and most popular PS3 games which require 3.6+ or 3.7+ PS3 firmware. The PS3Break team are focused on enhancing the user experience of our customers, play games with it easily!

PB2 Features Include: