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not that one was needed, but I wrote a tutorial on accessing that screen. not many people know about it. it's also a good way to know whether ur on dex or cex or sex iirc. u can either use that or go into multiman to check. :-P
 
Label on the board underneath the cover says TMU-520 there was a sticker covering the location. Looks almost identical to one of the broken reference tools I got.
 
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Intrenz-Dev-Team said:
Label on the board underneath the cover says TMU-520 there was a sticker covering the location. Looks almost identical to one of the broken reference tools I got that was already missing the top. Is this useful?
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Yes i think is good enought, to be completly sure it can be seen printed in the board, like this one
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/images/8/8a/TMU-520_1-871-645-11_A_Detail_5_(Label).jpg

The number that appears under it (the 1-871-645-11) is the exact model... maybe yours has different the two numbers at the end (10, 11, 21, etc..) this can indicate an small hardware change

Btw, you said it has a 0.90 firmware installed ?... where you seen this ?
Im looking at the list of firmware version in wiki and im not so sure if scene was aware that this firmware existed
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/System_Firmware
I think it should appear in that table in the group of "proto DEH"

The firmware version can be seen beter in the "more system information" screen i mentioned before i guess
 
My doubt about the firmware is because im not so sure if it can be seen in the XMB the complete number, retail firmwares are 2 numers...then a dot... then 2 numbers (mayor and minor version) but with pre-retail firmwares the version numbers and eventually added letters are long

And now im talking about this... there s another very important thing you need to check... is an additional circuit board named "communication processor", because that motherboard is a TMU-520...you should have the TCP-520
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Communication_Processor
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/TCP-520

Basically, from it you can update, read or write the syscon (chip) firmware... this cant be made in a retail PS3

So well... from the hardware point of view, if is really a TMU-520 you are going to have the same features than a DECR-1000 because is the same motherboard and communication processor

From software is where it comes interesting, because yours is older so maybe there is some "flag" (software) inside syscon enabled or some differences in the areas of the flash (to store firmware) related with hardware id's or features of your model
This kind of things could help a lot because there is a lot of unknown stuff unknown when we look at a flash dump data

And btw, lol @ heavenly sword sauce... it was made by SCEA santa monica studios
 
Thats amazing that you know that about the game lol, and also so my understanding that its basically the same as a normal reference tool.
 
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But if I were you I would contact zecoxao, he has hands on experience with this, you could not ask for better help & he proposed... [emoji6]
 
Im not so sure if it was santa monica studios though, it was what i thought initially and a fast search in google gave me some positive results... but now im reading more about it and i dont know
 
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Yes & yes..
But if I were you I would contact zecoxao, he has hands on experience with this, you could not ask for better help & he proposed... [emoji6]
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Couldn't suggest a more capable and active dev. He has done some pretty amazing stuff. And the Heavenly Sword source code is amazing. It was the first game I bought for my system, that and Resistance Fall of Man. The only two games I own without trophy support. The sixaxxis support was tough and took a while to get used to.
 
Alright as a follow up to what we have been discussing on here I have dug up alot of information thanks alot in part to all of you guys, and mathieulh has provide me with a ton of information as well albit not directly, that and with some of the physical research iv been doing on the DEH-R1040 System and records over time along with consulting the company I bought this stuff from.

From my understanding from all of this my device the DEH-R1040 is essentially just an early DECR-1000A in almost every aspect.
Minus a few board number revisions and a slightly lower rsx revision but it seems its hardly any noticeable difference the firmware seems to be supported a bit lower than the DECR-1000A That I will get into a little bit more detail later on once I can confirm the exact numbers we are talking about here. Mechanically I can verify among the many sources iv consulted here and elsewhere physically and online, that the console hardware wise is basically the same what makes it unique are a few markings the original stickers inside that state that its prototype hardware, the slightly earlier revisions but only ever so slight. The prototype sticker on the back and different model numbers ect and the drastically lower quantity, my guess at this point a very small handful were used for internal sony testing purposes before getting the green light to produce these under official circumstances and name. The model is only months earlier than the DECR-1000A and was essentially the final model that they went with. I have found the firmware in the form of a 0.90.pup file and have compared the hashes and so on with the one on the wiki for the DECR-1000A with early rsx revision and can confirm this , they are essentially the same firmware. I dunno if this can be useful to you guys still, though I can confirm this there may be a slight difference in the software on the device itself due to it being earlier and using slightly earlier components albit they are built the same in the later model the quality on these seem greater than the DECR, the handywork seems much more precise but that may be due to the lower number produced and most likely in house workers hand building these vs the more greatly produced later and final version if someone can help me confirm this that would be of great help as this is my speculation on that end. The solderwork seems more precise in my opinion. Everything is original inside nothing has been replaced which is cool to know this is something I verified with the sellers which was actually a bit difficult to get ahold of initially. I will perform whatever further testing for you guys and the community if requested now that I am more able to do so as iv done alot more research into this and have a much better understanding. I dont know if anyone is against hardware probing this to gather more information but thats the idea im leaning tword for the most information that I can gather, comparing operating frequencys ect ect. Although I dunno if that sort of information will be useful for you guys here on the scene. I was told that this particular unit may be one of the few working units and notified that one of the units that I know of was rendered inoperable by means im not sure of as I wasnt presented too many details. I know that the number of units in the wild with this model number that are genuine are in the low double digits but again I do not know an exact number. I did notice that internally a few places that has been soldered to and I was told that the system had stress probes attached there at one point these have since been removed and are gone. If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask and if anyone by any means knows something more about this please do share id like to know even more about this particular model. Id like to thank everyone for everything.
 
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Btw @Intrenz-Dev-Team im thinking your motherboard TMU-520 could have the codename "printed" in it because is a pre-retail TMU-520

Long explain short... motherboard names are composed by 3 letters - 3 numbers
That 3 letters is an acronym of the real codename of the motherboard... usually that codenames are imposible to know because belongs to motherboard prototypes that maybe never went out of the engineers table
But some codenames can be seen in some rare motherboards, as example...

The first PS3 retail motherboard name back when it was released in 2006 was COK-001
Later we realized that name was the acronym of COOKIE, it can be readed in this photo (from a DEH-1001H-D PS3 model)
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/File:S73F0217.JPG

The same happens with VER-001 (retail)... with codename VERTIGO
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/File:VERV00-0_TOP.jpg

And with SUR-001 (retail)... with codename SURTEES
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/File:SURTEES-03-back.jpg


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So... we know for sure every motherboard has a codename, and from it is derived a "3 letter" acronym that later is used for retail production

In your DEH-R1040 PS3 model... you have the TMU-520 prototype motherboard (later used in DECR-1000 production)
So maybe in your TMU-520 motherboard can be seen the codename

If at some point you dissassemble it (to change thermal paste or whatever) please take a look at it
Maybe is something like... TEMPURA, lol
Doesnt have much importance though... is an easter egg for curiosity sake
 
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I think DEH-R10XX are the prototypes of DECR-1000
DEH-R10XX was used to develop the different versions of TMU motherboards, starting with TMU-510 later with TMU-520
And TMU-520 was used for production of DECR-1000

The point is his DEH-R1040 is the only model with a TMU-520 "pre-retail" so is the only model from the posible TMU-520 variants that could exist where the codename could appear
There is another alternative though... that the codename only appeared in the first TMU-XX (only in DEH-R1000 with the first version of the TMU-510)
 
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