PS3 Firmware 3.42 Now Live

[Euphoria14]

IMU1808 said:

disolitude said:

Mohasus said:

Euphoria14 said:

I doubt it stops the hack people.

Actually, it does.

"Update: We can confirm that all variants of the USB-hub emulating exploit (PSFreedom, PSGroove, PSJailbreak) are no longer functional in firmware 3.42."

http://exophase.com/

unless you hack and don't update for now.

A lot of people may choose to use PS3 offline and have another one for must play online games. Also whats so hard about not updating to 3.42 for a few weeks and waiting for a new hack firmware? Just saying...

By the time Sony gets this firmware on new game disks which trully makes it a manditory update, hack will most likely be updated to go around the Sony firmware block.

Not really... Newer games have always come with the latest firmware or the one just prior depending one when the game goes into print. It's been that way since Firmware 1.02. Most just didn't know about this until the recent Other OS hack thing.

Means absolutely nothing if you do not update. For example my PSP custom firmware is still at 5.00 but I have no issues playing games that require anything beyond 5.00. 

Birth By Sleep for example requires something along the lines of 6.XX and playing it is no problem. All it requires is access to the flash memory and modifying files to trick the console into thinking it's firmware version is higher than it actually is.

If they get a custom firmware to install for those who do no update then the scene wins, no questions asked. Forced firmware updates on games will be absolutely moot.

 

You obviously do not know the scene very well.

I highly doubt SONY beat the scene because of this update. To be honest I know they didn't beat the scene.