It's Official: PS3 hacked to run games off of HDD

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DarkNight_DS on 12 February 2008

This exploit doesn't require a mod chip, the other systems so far still require the modification of the hardware.

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RDBRaptor on 12 February 2008

This was only a matter time. When people say that the PS3 is 'hack proof' I just roll my eyes and find their comments very arrogant.

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epsilon72 on 12 February 2008

I wish they would focus on real homebrew rather than copy-protection-circumvention, but I guess that's what gets them the most attention..

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skip on 12 February 2008

the size of the game files + the price of a bluray computer drive that can extract the data from a rental copy are anti-piracy features in-themself

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skip said:
the size of the game files + the price of a bluray computer drive that can extract the data from a rental copy are anti-piracy features in-themself

Similar things were said when the PS2 hack was found. Today for less than the price of 3 games you can put a 500GB hard drive in a PS2 that will hold around 110 games.

I would imagine you could probably rig up an adapter quite easily to use full size drives for the PS3 and buy a 1TB drive to save your games on.

Honestly the flood gates are open now..for the PS3 and soon the Wii..only time will tell what impact this has for them.

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redspear on 12 February 2008

gebx said:

HappySqurriel said:

Quickdraw McGraw said:
I think you guys are blowing this out of proportion.

Sony will obviously do what they can to cover this up by the next firmware.
And it's different then with the PSP. I don't know many people who are willing to risk a $400-500 machine trying to exploit a hack that isn't even that fool-proof at this stage.

Unless hackers manage to go further with this, it shouldn't have a noticable impact.

Once an exploit has been found it gives hackers an opportunity to learn far more about the hardware, firmware, and operating system; this (eventually) makes it impossible to prevent further exploits because the hackers will be able to find a flaw in new firmware, and to "unpatch" a firmware update.

With that said ...

Piracy is only an issue if your system caters to technophiles who are likely going to know about and be able to take advantage of an exploit.

Wouldn't that be a big part of PS3's current owners?

From what I have seen not really. This is not a knock on the PS3 it is after all a consumer device just like the Wii and the 360.

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Stillwell on 12 February 2008

This makes me intrested in a PS3. :p

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Sqrl on 12 February 2008

Stillwell said:
This makes me intrested in a PS3. :p

It has begun....duhn duhn duhn!!!

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FinalEvangelion on 12 February 2008

My laptop has all the equipment required to do it. BD reader / burner. the discs are too damned expensive still.

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