7w ago - Following up on their previous updates, PlayStation 3 developers Estwald and D_Skywalk (with help from Miralatijera) have updated the PS3 backup game manager known as Iris Manager to version 2.30 with the changes outlined below.

Download: Iris Manager v2.30 for v4.XX PS3 CFW / Iris Manager v2.30 for v4.XX PS3 CFW (Mirror) / Iris Manager v2.30 (Animated Icon) / GIT

Iris Manager v2.30 Changelog, roughly translated:

• Fixed problems with recent CFW 4.40 (/ APP_HOME on Rogero v1.03)
  
• Added some cosmetic changes to the GUI and full UTF8 support (now support Arabic characters, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Korean, etc. using system fonts)
  
• An example of using these fonts you can see it by pressing START on the main screen to enter the "Global Settings" and then pressing SELECT there.
  
• The default Iris Manager uses 4 internal sources, which will function if used...

13w ago - Following up on his previous revision, this weekend PlayStation 3 developer Estwald has updated the PS3 backup game manager known as Iris Manager to version 2.15 with the changes outlined below.

Download: Iris Manager v2.15 for v4.XX PS3 CFW / Iris Manager v2.15 for v4.XX PS3 CFW (Mirror) / GIT

To quote, roughly translated: v2.15 Changelog:

• Fixed problem of authentication in PS3 discs when copying: if a problem occurs, the disc is ejected and auto load again, but has added a check for that to happen as little as possible or simply not happen.
  
• Added SQUARE button to eject / load disk.
  
• Now the disc into the tray stops after two minutes of inactivity approximate
  
• Added L3/R3 to change category of games. Terminated L2/R2 buttons
  
• Added syscall and jjolano libnet with FTP v2.3 (there is a version 3.0 with improvements, but I do not have the source code. The 2.3 is the one on github)
  
• Added new system font with Japanese characters (and Western) to display the title...

112w ago - Today D_Skywalk has ported Hermes Manager for PlayStation 3 backups to what he calls IrisManager v1.0, which is compatible with PS3 CFW 3.55 for Custom Firmware users.

Download: IrisManager v1.0 / Homepage / GIT

To quote: Well, after much playing with the PS3 and "accompany" Hermes Manager support in 3.55 I have finally decided to do my own project which will gradually diverged from the original.

It has taken many months to reach this release with syscall8 of hermes and the new hook so I hope everyone enjoyed it and the manager to behave as stable as in our tests.

Note to some developers with close source projects that does not respect the GPL:

If you benefit from this code, then you SHOULD contribute back. And it is very clear how I expect you to contribute back - by providing full access to the COMPLETE system which is using my code.

At the core of GPL, the intention is that someone else should be able to make modifications to such a system and build other things from...

122w ago - Spanish PlayStation 3 developer Hermes has made available what he calls Hermes PS3 CFW, a PS3 Custom Firmware 3.41 version 1.0 Beta build which includes Payload 4, followed shortly by Hermes v4c Payload v1.01 which includes source code and details HERE.

Download: Hermes PS3 CFW 3.41 with Payload 4 / Hermes PS3 Custom Firmware 3.41 with Payload 4 (patched PUP) / Hermes PS3 Custom Firmware 3.41 with Payload 4 (patched PUP - Mirror #1) / Hermes PS3 Custom Firmware 3.41 with Payload 4 (patched PUP - Mirror #2) / Hermes PS3 Custom Firmware 3.41 with Payload 4 (patched PUP - Mirror #3) / Hermes PS3 Custom Firmware 3.41 with Payload 4 (patched PUP - Mirror #4) / Hermes...