30w ago - Following version 1.3, PlayStation 3 developer HDMadness returns this weekend with PS3 ErmaC 4.30 CFW v1.4 which fixes a bug on some 3D TVs and more as detailed below!

Download: ErmaC 4.30 CFW 1.4.rar / ErmaC 4.30 CFW 1.4.rar (Mirror) / ErmaC 4.30 CFW 1.4.rar (Mirror #2)

PUP MD5: F54D03ED118C91FCC9AADFB8B3A029CA

Changes from the included Release Notes:

ErmaC 4.30 CFW v1.4

• 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
  
• No Demo Mode/kiosk fw messages when using you PS3*
  
• XMB fully optimized with fast access in-game or not so you can have the best
  performance with your console
  

Changes since 1.3:

• Another round of small bug fixes, including the bug that was detected with some 3D TVs
  that were...

89w ago - Following up on the earlier releases, today PlayStation 3 developer an0nymous has updated PS3Load which allows users to run PS3 SELF programs via wireless or wired network with some make_self bug fixes as outlined below.

Download: PS3Load GNPDRM PKG (580.47 KB)

To quote via PS3 Dev Wiki (ps3devwiki.com/index.php?title=Dev_Tools#ps3load_3.55_make_self_fixed):

Older versions of ps3load would not work on 3.50/3.55 ("sysProcessExitSpawn2" won't work proper), and you had to use 3.41 instead. This is no longer an issue with the recent version ps3load which fixed the (make_self) issue for 3.55 standalone precompiled version to try: ps3load.gnpdrm.pkg (don't forget to delete your old version first)

Using ps3load:

1. make your app, produce at least an ELF
2. sprxlinker yourapp.elf (this should be done for you if you use any of the samples)
3. make_self yourapp.elf yourapp.self
4. load ps3load on the PS3
5. define the PS3LOAD environment variable in your favorite shell with tcp:ip_addr (where ip_addr is your the ip address of your PS3)
6. ps3load yourapp.self

102w ago - Today PS3 Media Server 1.30.1 is released, which fixes an iTunes library bug among the changes:

Download: PS3 Media Server 1.30.1 (Windows) / PS3 Media Server 1.30.1 (Linux) / PS3 Media Server 1.30.1 (Mac)

Changelog 1.30.1:

• Fixed bug that caused very slow iTunes library parsing
  

Changelog 1.30.0:

• Backwards-incompatible API changes (for plugin developers/packagers) - see ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11283 for more details
  
• Updated OS X binaries (FFmpeg, MEncoder and MPlayer) to fix an AC3 bug and improve internal VOBsub display quality
  
• Optional GUI to allow profile to be selected when PMS starts
  
• Better UPnP spec compliance
  
• Logging improvements
  
• ASS/SSA subtitles disabled by default on Linux and OS X
  
• Multithreaded MEncoder enabled by default on multithreaded CPUs
  
• Subtitles stay within confines of original frame when using overscan compensation
  
• Made transcoding tab resizing consistent for all sizes
  
• Fixed DTS...

109w ago - PlayStation 3 developer Andreas Oman has updated Showtime Media Player for PS3 today to v2.99.401 which includes several bug fixes and performance tweaks, as follows:

Showtime v2.99.401 Changelog:

• Fix alignment issues with subtitles.
  
• Make sure each rendered text line is aligned same way as the text bounding box
  
• Fixes ticket #497
  
• Don't crash if text rendering fails
  
• freetype: If we are unable to get a face with style modifiers, try to get one without
  
• It's ok since we can do italic and bold ourselfs. Before this Showtime crashed
  
• httpclient: Fix regression with non-chunked transfered data
  
• Problem when reading last bytes of file (truncated reads)
  
• Affected playback of .mov/.mp4 files
  

Download Link: Showtime Media Player for PS3 v2.99.401

Showtime 2.99.393 Changelog:

• New PS3 icon in XMB (credits to gizmo)
  
• Improved subtitle rendering (Can now do some styles, etc from SSA/ASS)
  
• subtitles: Add support for Windows 1250 character encoding
  
• Handle UTF-8 BOM in SRT files
  
• Fix various bugs in PS3 Cell accelerated video decoder
  
• Improve...

119w ago - Today the Killzone 3 PS3 patch v1.04 update has gone live via PSN, which includes several bug fixes detailed below courtesy of Guerrilla Games alongside some new features for PlayStation 3 gamers to take advantage of.

To quote: CHANGES & NEW FUNCTIONALITY

• Network - Lag fixes and fixes for network errors 10002, 8001 and 8013
• Gameplay - Players now have more stamina by default. Sprint length is increased but the recharge timer has been adjusted to compensate
• Gameplay - Mortally wounded players no longer have collision. Alive players should now be able to traverse the levels without getting stuck on mortally wounded players
• Gameplay - Medic's revive cool-down reduced from 25 to 10 seconds
• Gameplay - Increased range from where friendly players can be revived - player can be revived from 20 meters now
• Gameplay - Guerrilla Warfare games now last 15 minutes and it takes 100 kills instead of 50 to win
• Performance - Improvements to party creation server load
• Menu - Show envelope icon to indicate that player has received message
• Menu - Rewards panel in post game screen now auto-scrolls
• Menu - Botzone is now paused when player goes to start menu
• Menu - Single click squad...