This is a shoutout because I feel console scenes need a little more love/light in them. I wanted to do a shoutout thank you to all the developers who have made this scene possible and all those QA testing. These people give their time, and energy (a lot of it) for free to reverse-engineer complex intricate hardware and software. I cannot describe how intricate this is, unless you were in the know. Think hours and hours of effort and work.
People like @bguerville and all the other developers who enable these consoles to be unlocked deserve thanks and appreciation, and for that, thank you! Thanks to the work of you all, all our favourite multiplayer games and all the DLCs I bought now exist as offline pkg install discs I can just pop into a console and install with the package manager in a single click. Something goes wrong I can dump the syscon and debug and whip out the soldering station. If the NOR goes bad, I can just restore the dumps (even from my legit consoles that you can take with bgtoolset) and restore the NOR including per-console keys. Done before there is a problem and I would call on any PS3 owner to take this little 16MB backup even from your legit systems as bgtoolset runs in RAM only until you patch.
I am not big into piracy for games unless you are on a low-income and cannot afford expensive games. Never ever would use a cheat online. I buy all my content legit (if Able) but the jailbreak scene has enabled me to preserve that content in a DRM-Free way for my social group who regularly LANs on PS3 to keep using it for years to come on a LAN, and to install the content on all the consoles in my gaming room. Even basic things like dumping the NOR chip to keep backups of metldr keys is important to the preservation of this hardware for use for as long as possible. This is actually why I like a good jailbreak.
My social group loves the PS3 as a LAN box. I game only socially and we hangout a lot for LAN parties on games like MW2 and Black Ops 2. Those DLCs were cheap entertainment that have provided years of fun already for the cost of less than a night out. It has got me through years of ill and sick health (physical, my mental health is very good). But i have seen with the XZ crisis that nearly caused many web servers to be compromised how poor mental health of people who put in their time for free can cause harm.
So next time anyone wants 'Jailbreak on firmware XYZ now plz, chop chop' step back and consider what that entails, to people doing it unpaid, for free as a labour of love or passion. Send the developers your love and support. And to any developers working on this, if you feel the need to take a break, you are beholden to no one and your mental / physical / spiritual health comes first. Know your work is appreciated, and thank you so much for enabling the games I enjoy to be enjoyed for years to come by a social group who loves the platform.
People like @bguerville and all the other developers who enable these consoles to be unlocked deserve thanks and appreciation, and for that, thank you! Thanks to the work of you all, all our favourite multiplayer games and all the DLCs I bought now exist as offline pkg install discs I can just pop into a console and install with the package manager in a single click. Something goes wrong I can dump the syscon and debug and whip out the soldering station. If the NOR goes bad, I can just restore the dumps (even from my legit consoles that you can take with bgtoolset) and restore the NOR including per-console keys. Done before there is a problem and I would call on any PS3 owner to take this little 16MB backup even from your legit systems as bgtoolset runs in RAM only until you patch.
I am not big into piracy for games unless you are on a low-income and cannot afford expensive games. Never ever would use a cheat online. I buy all my content legit (if Able) but the jailbreak scene has enabled me to preserve that content in a DRM-Free way for my social group who regularly LANs on PS3 to keep using it for years to come on a LAN, and to install the content on all the consoles in my gaming room. Even basic things like dumping the NOR chip to keep backups of metldr keys is important to the preservation of this hardware for use for as long as possible. This is actually why I like a good jailbreak.
My social group loves the PS3 as a LAN box. I game only socially and we hangout a lot for LAN parties on games like MW2 and Black Ops 2. Those DLCs were cheap entertainment that have provided years of fun already for the cost of less than a night out. It has got me through years of ill and sick health (physical, my mental health is very good). But i have seen with the XZ crisis that nearly caused many web servers to be compromised how poor mental health of people who put in their time for free can cause harm.
So next time anyone wants 'Jailbreak on firmware XYZ now plz, chop chop' step back and consider what that entails, to people doing it unpaid, for free as a labour of love or passion. Send the developers your love and support. And to any developers working on this, if you feel the need to take a break, you are beholden to no one and your mental / physical / spiritual health comes first. Know your work is appreciated, and thank you so much for enabling the games I enjoy to be enjoyed for years to come by a social group who loves the platform.
Some of the plasma displays were epic to look at.
