Ferdilanz
Forum Noob
Greetings,
I have recently acquired a genuine DECH-2500A with DEX 3.66 that was originally assigned to Trendy Entertainment, now Chromatic Games, the developers of Dungeon Defenders (NPUB-30251). It's incredible, the things I found on the system that were just sitting there. It's like if someone gave you a little puzzle box with forbidden knowledge hidden inside. I found 2 different Development emails ending in playstation dot-freakin-net. I found Trendy Entertainment company emails for at least 3 different developers whose LinkedIn accounts list TrendyEntertainment as prior employment. I am a bit surprised the console wasn't wiped before they got rid of the thing. Now that I have it, I understand the community is somewhat interested in researching the less-common firmwares. On an unrelated note, I think It would be really cool if I could reach out to these folks and interview them about how I now have their PS3 DevKit and what it was like at the time to be using this system while developing Dungeon Defenders.
Anyway, is there perhaps any interest in a flashdump of DEX 3.66 once I figure out how to do that? Moreover, I wanted to know, say I upgraded to the final DEX (4.84 according to PSDevWiki, AND assuming that PUP exists AND it would be worth doing in the first place) or an equivalent DEX CFW, but wanted to go back to DEX 3.66, is that at all possible while maintaining the data on the original and my new storage devices? I've seen around the web that firmware downgrading is indeed possible for DECH-2500 consoles; some say I'd need a CFW for it and others don't mention any prerequisites for downgrading.
The whole reason I got this DECH was for playing games with the debugging capabilities inherent to DEX. I'll need to figure out what to do with this thing while respecting the history of the unit and not screwing it up like I did when I upgraded the OFW on my CECH-3001A from 4.81 to 4.93, thinking "I want to sign into PSN on a real PS3 for the first time in my life, I'm sure I'll be able to downgrade later!" not researching beforehand that CECH-3000s aren't CFW or downgrader-compatible.
Thank you, and have a lovely Memorial Day for my fellow United-Staters.
I have recently acquired a genuine DECH-2500A with DEX 3.66 that was originally assigned to Trendy Entertainment, now Chromatic Games, the developers of Dungeon Defenders (NPUB-30251). It's incredible, the things I found on the system that were just sitting there. It's like if someone gave you a little puzzle box with forbidden knowledge hidden inside. I found 2 different Development emails ending in playstation dot-freakin-net. I found Trendy Entertainment company emails for at least 3 different developers whose LinkedIn accounts list TrendyEntertainment as prior employment. I am a bit surprised the console wasn't wiped before they got rid of the thing. Now that I have it, I understand the community is somewhat interested in researching the less-common firmwares. On an unrelated note, I think It would be really cool if I could reach out to these folks and interview them about how I now have their PS3 DevKit and what it was like at the time to be using this system while developing Dungeon Defenders.
Anyway, is there perhaps any interest in a flashdump of DEX 3.66 once I figure out how to do that? Moreover, I wanted to know, say I upgraded to the final DEX (4.84 according to PSDevWiki, AND assuming that PUP exists AND it would be worth doing in the first place) or an equivalent DEX CFW, but wanted to go back to DEX 3.66, is that at all possible while maintaining the data on the original and my new storage devices? I've seen around the web that firmware downgrading is indeed possible for DECH-2500 consoles; some say I'd need a CFW for it and others don't mention any prerequisites for downgrading.
The whole reason I got this DECH was for playing games with the debugging capabilities inherent to DEX. I'll need to figure out what to do with this thing while respecting the history of the unit and not screwing it up like I did when I upgraded the OFW on my CECH-3001A from 4.81 to 4.93, thinking "I want to sign into PSN on a real PS3 for the first time in my life, I'm sure I'll be able to downgrade later!" not researching beforehand that CECH-3000s aren't CFW or downgrader-compatible.
Thank you, and have a lovely Memorial Day for my fellow United-Staters.
