This is being reported as a fake, as I said I haven’t tried it so am unable to confirm either way. It is probably best for users to ignore for now and wait for Project PROGSKEET to become retail or go the infectus route.

Thanks to user Guest_1651 I bring you (pre 17th Feb 2009) PS3 owners good news. Clever so and so’s at thetechgame.com have found a way to downgrade PS3′s (made before the 17th February 2009) to OFW 3.21, meaning of course where you go from there is entirely up to you (REBUG anybody?)

The method is pretty long winded and will NOT, currently work on PS3′s made AFTER February 17th 2009 (did I mention that already?), also the only “registration codes” (the code that corresponds to the firmware you want to end up on) made public at the moment are for phats but slim ones are available by PM’ing the author of the original forum post here.

There are some issues to take in mind first though:

You need 2 wireless controllers and cables for each

You need 2 4gb (NO SMALLER) usb sticks

You need a CD or old game (they don’t say how old but I’m guessing the older the better, or just stick to your bon jovi best of album)

You probably want someone with you, to keep pressing O, and call an ambulance when your heart gives out from the stress of possibly killing your lovely PS3.

I haven’t tried it myself as I’m still on 3.51 but from other members of thetechgame.com it seems to work.

I’m not going to post the tutorial here as I figure if you can’t even find the link to it above you will no doubt screw your PS3 up :p

If any of you guys try it please let us know how it goes, and follow the instructions to the T.

Yesterday a user at Elotrolado, dospiedras1973, found out and documented how to downgrade 3.6x FAT Consoles with NAND (sorry, NOR users). This is a quote from his post (translated with Google Translate) :

Hello, I’ve been working on this project about two months now since I’ve gotten to work as public so that everyone can use, this tutorial is for consoles with 256MB NAND flash does not mean it does not work in 16MB in itself is changed almost the same in those with normal flash, but because even I have my fat fucking 16mb 80GB I have not been able to neither prove nor verified.

Nougat (the phrase I owe to some forero around here that I really liked the expression):

With INFECTUS flash0.bin and we get our nand flash1.bin as in the tutorial to repair bad lukin nands do the same process until we get our dump flashfinal.bin 256MB

nand we open this with a simple hex editor and look for this part editor

“00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6F FF E0″

ay you will see that just under a very similar line, I find this data in the offset 000C0020 may vary according to the nand and the party starts here:-D

EVEN replace that line with the file if you use the hxd 1patchcos.bin get in the first 0 of the line -> right click and paste writing before you have to have an open 1patchcos.bin hxd in hex and copy its contents to can paste ..

then we find the second file to patch at hxd we dump on our part:

“00 00 00 00 00 00 10 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 40″

and in the same way as the first patched patched this also cojemos 2patchtrvk.bin pack the file and replace the entire contents including the
“00 00 00 00 00 00 10 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 40″

then we take the option we use reescramble flowrebuilder this dump so we rebuild our flash0.ECC.bin and flash1.ECC.bin

and flash the result, when you finish you will notice that the PS3 now has a nice on but black screen, it cojemos our factory jig to put it into service mode and put it in factory, then the typical cojemos lv2diag of yore and the pup you please

(NOTE: the first pup that metais will stay in the console as the minimum version that you can downgrade then, if you want to lose 3.55 to 3.41 then you will have to put the pup up to 3.41 before 3.55 or 3.55 will remain in that if cost will not rewrite the dump again to downgrade to lower the pup that you put the first time.)

then you put your factory lv2diag to leave the service and you’re

Note: this applies to repair the brick Waninkoko NAND NOT DONATED plates even sem-001 (tested) (and step downgrade xD)

Thanks:

all channel # irc-hispano darkps3 for supporting me for so long
to donate the INFECTUS austaquio32 to achieve to continue with my project
to Nodial2ne paid for the help locating files in the nand
to robs1 for helping throughout the process with ideas to make this possible

and everyone who was patient and not by private haunts me xD

pack:

http://pastebin.com/7tmtcdNN

Ingratitude:

er_poty: I do post, post it comes to creating private fights and telling him to send me get to the bottom of the shoes PDNKED

pd: I have 4 years unemployed, who selflessly want to donate something please contact me via private (sorry but I have 2 children and the PS3 does not give me to eat me or them xD)
either that or give me a job lene!

PS3′s compatible with this method (thanks pdnked):
PS3 Fat:
CECHA = 256MB
CECHB = 256MB
CECHC = 256MB
CECHE = 256MB
CECHG = 256MB

Actually, this method is not new: it’s the same method math discussed at Psx-scene’s forums a while ago and an evolution of rms’ waninkoko unbricking method, thus it’s believed to be working. Remember, if you’re willing to test DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. Are you going to test this method? Or rather wait for a CFW? Let us know in the comment section below

Thanks go to Guest_4026 for the tip

UPDATE: dospiedras1973 is reporting his work on a slim method! Stay tuned for more updates! (Thanks to Sam for the tip )

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A while ago, we reported to you that Sony had issued a new minor firmware update for the PS3, which was an optional download on the list. Few days on, a lot of people has been reporting of several noticeable freeze on certain software video game titles which is quite a bad news for those wanting to try a shot on the update.

To straighten things up, this only appears to be causing on selected numbers of PS3 users, and surely does not seem to be mass problem at the moment. There are also reports that their PS3 console is not suffering any kind of strange freeze after the 3.65 update, but just so to let you guys know, here are the mentioned problems stated by those affected people.

Specific titles that have triggered the problem are Resistance 1 and 2, FIFA 11, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood and also a number of Blu-Ray movies. They have been experiencing about slow downs whilst navigating through the PS3 XMB, while some gamers are also suffering of ’5 second freezes’ during play, some of which require a hard reset of the console.

You can see that the whole situation is still ongoing, but if the PS3 firmware update of 3.65 is seriously causing major slow down problems and game freezes then call it as our job to let you guys informed more as it progressed. If you have just installed the optional PS3 3.65 firmware update, let us know on the comments below how your PS3 is handling at the moment.

Just after few days since the release of 3.65 official PS3 firmware, you can see a lot of 3.65 CFW fakes especially on Youtube where these scammers are targeting those with no idea what they click on.

To show you an example, is this 365.jailbreak-world.com website. The one that has “Jailbreak-World Solutions Limited” on the footer. First thing you need to know when detecting a fake, is to aware of the surveys in their download page. You will encounter that when downloading the supposedly 3.65 jailbreak file on the website. See, FileMe? That’s fake. Why? Because the scammer wants the money they get from the surveys. The surveys actually pay them when someone filling up theirs at a very good rate. So, yeah, when you see FileMe crap on a supposedly jailbreak site, remember, it’s a fake.

On another note, there’s a spoof for 3.65, but i think it’s a crap too because it is actually made from PS3MFW. Not that the tool is crap though, if you get what i mean..

In a frantic fashion, Sony has released yet another new firmware within a month of 3.61 release after the PSN outage. Not major changes from the look of it though, but it kind of awkward when having the same update time frame with Nintendo’s 3DS who also has released a new update to their handheld system.

In the new OFW note, there doesn’t seem to be any security fix mentioned, it just probably minor ones. That’s a good news considering the fact that there is a major crowd in the scene making up their time on finding the infamous exploits “discovered” long time ago which could lead to 3.61+ CFW (Maybe 3.65 CFW too). If only Mathieulh and other devs decide to break the ice..

Earlier tonight we released an optional system software update (v3.65) for PlayStation 3. This new firmware improves the operating stability of some PS3 format software, and changes the XMB item SaveData Utility (minis) to [SaveData Utility(minis/PSP)].

Again, this update is optional, and can be downloaded by selecting System Update from the Setting column of the XMB.

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