PS3 Has Been Finally Hacked to Run Games Without Discs (VIDEO)

[RafaelOrix]

voty2000 said:

RafaelOrix said:

voty2000 said:

Why does everyone think a firmware update will stop the mod from working?  The wii has had a bunch of firmware updates and they get cracked within weeks.

If DigitalFoundry is right, that's actually not a hack. Someone stole/got a program (or code, have no idea) to run the PS3 as a debug unit, the same way devs have. The HDD backup is available for developers, plus they can run unsigned code. That's (probably) how these guys are running games from the HDD.

 

A simple software update plus new codes for developers would effectively cut out this "hack". new games would have this update and Sony forces some mandatory updates for online gaming, which would remove that code from these guys.

 

Feel free to correct me, as I understand just a little of this stuff. 

I really don't don't know.  The last time I modded a console for gaming was the original Xbox and I've put homebrew on the wii for the extras.  Microsoft tried to force firmware updates on games and such and all you had to do was load the game onto the console and the run a patching program to make it work.  And if they have already cracked one code they know how now and it probably won't take long to crack the new one.  I dunno, it just seems that from past experience, once a console is cracked, it's game over on stopping the mod scene.

@Bold: Agreed. But that's actually the catch, imo. They haven't hacked anything, they just got the stuff to turn a commercial PS3 into a debug mode, used by devs. If that's the case, then Sony won't have trouble stopping this, newer consoles would already have the newest firmware. Anyway, I guess we will have to wait and see.

Also, they can patch newer games to remove mandatory system updates, but still wouldn't have online features whic is, imo, one of the best things this gen. Of course that's just my taste, pretty sure I would find easily someone tha does not care about it lol.