We all know that Waninkoko’s Custom Firmware v3.55 v2 doesn’t have the best compatibility with homebrew apps–compare to other Custom firmwares. With that being said, here is a special build of the Gaia Manager (backup manager) by Crisetbets of logic-sunrise, which is 100% compatible with Waninkoko’s custom Firmware v3.55 v2.

Changelog:
* Made to be 100% compatible with CFW Waninkoko V2
* Directly integrates the payload
* LL2 is patched

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Developer drizztbsd has released Gaia Manager v2.07. This version has disc-less on syscall36 enabled for ‘/app_home’. There are three (3) versions available in a single download, as shown below:

- UP0001-GAIA01985_00-7679866932773369-V2.07-BDRIPS.pkg
- UP0001-GAIA01985_00-7679866932773369-V2.07-GAMES.pkg
- UP0001-GAIA01985_00-7679866932773369-V2.07-GAMEZ.pkg

The most popular choices among many users is the ‘GAMEZ.pkg’.

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Drizztbsd has pushed a new update to his Gaia Manager app. Version 2.06 resolved startup crashes and fixed errors for some games (e.g. Fifa ’11). And as always, Gaia Manager is a backup manager for use to run PS3 game backups on your PS3′s hard drive.

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Drizztbsd is back with another update to his Gaia Manager. Version 2.05 brings hard coded payload for less crashes. And as always, Gaia Manager is a backup manager for use to run PS3 game backups on your PS3′s hard drive.

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For those who are not a fan of the standard theme that comes with every Gaia Manager, today is your lucky day! Here’s a theme called ScreamWorkers that you can use to spice up the look of the Gaia Manager that is installed on your PS3. Keep in mind, you will need to have Gaia Manager installed first, prior to using this theme. Also, you will need Comgenie’s Awesome File Manager or an FTP server app to transfer and overwrite the current theme that’s on Gaia Manager.

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Drizztbsd has informed everyone that Gaia Manager has been updated to v2.04. This latest version of Gaia Manager brings added stability and removes the ability to direct boot ( which was not working properly). The latest LV2 Patcher is based off of Gaia v2.04 for those who do not know about this. Click below to download or to post any questions or comments.

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It has been awhile since we last heard from developer Drizzt but he’s back with an update to his popular backup manager called Gaia Manager. Just like Open Manager and multiMan, Gaia Manager will enable your PS3, with custom firmware v3.55, to be able to run game backups from the console’s hard drive.

UPDATE 3: Gaia Manager v2.02 – Changed the payload loader function, should now be compatible with older Gaia Managers.

UPDATE 2: Gaia Manager v2.01 (3.55 CFW only) Features: It does not try to load the syscall every time you start Gaia Manager, but only the first time. that should be fix some crashes when reopening Gaia Manager. It’s reported that if the PS3 crashes sometimes you will need to do an hard power off / power on (detaching cable and reataching).”

UPDATE: Gaia Manager v2.0 – Auto-patching of LV2 has been integrated into Gaia Manager, therefore you do not need to run the LV2 Patcher each time you want to play PS3 backups. How convenient!

Feel free to post your comments below.

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Gaia Manager is based off Open Manager and Sexy Manager. Therefore, you can use this to boot games stored on your jailbroken PS3. Not to mention, this manager have features not found on other managers.

Notes:

• PL3 dev (peek & poke) payload is not supported and using it may crash your PS3.
• Precompiled psgroove+pl3 versions often include dev payload, so use my builded hexes instead.

Features:

• Supports up to 512 items from two USB devices, internal hdd and bluray.
• Ability to copy games from bdvd to hdd0 or USB’s, from hdd0 to USB’s or from USB’s to hdd0. It is done asking to you the destination device. It use uses asynchronous reading and writing for fast copy.
• Special support for big files in FAT: it splits files >= 4GB using .666xx fragments (if the file is name.ext, the file splits as name.ext.66600, name.ext.66601,…). This file is not bootable and it is marked using ‘_’ as folder prefix. The file is joined when you copy it to hdd0 device.
• Automatically finds the path of the games and asks to you about it. In other case, if the Gaia Manager is installed in the hdd0 creates one. You can change it pressing SELECT+START later.
• Including checking game option (pressing R3). It displays information about the files, size, splits or big files, if it have one.
• Support for Homebrew: you can creates “homebrew” folder in root USB FAT device and put here others folders with an EBOOT.BIN (.self format) and one ICON0.PNG. Also you can use the internal hdd0. Homebrew is launched directly and receive the path in argv[0].
• FTP support to upload homebrew: Gaia Manager uses “GAIA01985″ as user, by default. I recommend flashfxp to use it, because FTP (Sony) support is not very good.
• Supports Hermes v3 patching and disc-less playing. if you return from game list, apps_home can launch games without one disc (some games don’t work without any disc).

How-to use:

You just need to put your game in /dev_hdd0/BDRIPS via FTP or BDRIPS in the root of a FAT32 formatted USB disk, you can change the games directory compiling with make WITH_GAMES_DIR=XXX. And your games cover (260×300) in GAMES_DIR/COVER.PNG, /dev_hdd0/BDCOVERS or BDCOVERS in the root of the USB disk that contains the game as TITLEID.PNG (for example BLES12345.PNG).

Often you will find a zip file that contains two Gaia Manager versions (*-BDRIPS.pkg and *-GAMEZ.pkg). The only difference is the directory where you have the games rips, BDRIPS or GAMEZ. I suggest to use the BDRIPS version, but if you want retrocompatibility with the original Backup Manager or with OpenBM you have to use the GAMEZ one. 

Changelog:

v1.04.1 Features:
Fix network shutdown. It’s needed to properly shutdown the network when you exit to XMB or when you launch an homebrew.

v1.04 Features:
- Fix Direct Boot and Homebrew launch
- Add support of left analog stick to scroll the game list

v1.03.1 Features:
- Fix some bugs in weltall code. Upgrade as soon as possible and do NOT use V1.03!

v1.03 Features:
- Fix permissions if directory has 0700 as file mode (on internal hard disk). it fix the ftp permission problem with pl3
- Increase max device number from 3 to 5
- Automatically modify PARAM.SFO to enable remote play in game. © FunzZy
- Added german language strings © evostar
- Add a better, transparent HIGHLIGHT.PNG (courtesy of klutsh)
- Add a patch from weltall to get the system version instead of harcoding 3.41 (useful to play new games with old firmwares
- Add cleanup function to remove the list of the games played. That list is sent to Sony
- Updated French translation, thanks foX aCe

v1.02 Features:
- Automatic cover downloading (with SQUARE)
- Backup BDVD button assigment removed, you had to use CIRCLE on first entry
- Add support for pixel blending for PNG alpha support
- Changed logo (thanks traumakom)
- Removed version inside gaia manager and added to XMB information box

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Gaia Manager is based off Open Manager and Sexy Manager. Therefore, you can use this to boot games stored on your jailbroken PS3. Not to mention, this manager have features not found on other managers.

Notes:

• Direct Boot mode is unsupported! Use it at your own risk.
• PL3 dev (peek & poke) payload is not supported and using it may crash your PS3.
• Precompiled psgroove+pl3 versions often include dev payload, so use my builded hexes instead.

Features:

• Supports up to 512 items from two USB devices, internal hdd and bluray
  
• Ability to copy games from bdvd to hdd0 or USB’s, from hdd0 to USB’s or from USB’s to hdd0. It is done asking to you the destination device. It use uses asynchronous reading and writing for fast copy.
• Special support for big files in FAT: it splits files >= 4GB using .666xx fragments (if the file is name.ext, the file splits as name.ext.66600, name.ext.66601,…). This file is not bootable and it is marked using ‘_’ as folder prefix. The file is joined when you copy it to hdd0 device.
• Automatically finds the path of the games and asks to you about it. In other case, if the Gaia Manager is installed in the hdd0 creates one. You can change it pressing SELECT+START later.
• Including checking game option (pressing R3). It displays information about the files, size, splits or big files, if it have one.
• Support for Homebrew: you can creates “homebrew” folder in root USB FAT device and put here others folders with an EBOOT.BIN (.self format) and one ICON0.PNG. Also you can use the internal hdd0. Homebrew is launched directly and receive the path in argv[0].
• FTP support to upload homebrew: Gaia Manager uses “GAIA01985″ as user, by default. I recommend flashfxp to use it, because FTP (Sony) support is not very good.
• Supports Hermes v3 patching and disc-less playing. if you return from game list, apps_home can launch games without one disc (some games don’t work without any disc).

How-to use:

You just need to put your game in /dev_hdd0/BDRIPS via FTP or BDRIPS in the root of a FAT32 formatted USB disk, you can change the games directory compiling with make WITH_GAMES_DIR=XXX. And your games cover (260×300) in GAMES_DIR/COVER.PNG, /dev_hdd0/BDCOVERS or BDCOVERS in the root of the USB disk that contains the game as TITLEID.PNG (for example BLES12345.PNG).

Often you will find a zip file that contains two Gaia Manager versions (*-BDRIPS.pkg and *-GAMEZ.pkg). The only difference is the directory where you have the games rips, BDRIPS or GAMEZ. I suggest to use the BDRIPS version, but if you want retrocompatibility with the original Backup Manager or with OpenBM you have to use the GAMEZ one. 

Changelog:

v1.04 Features:
- Fix Direct Boot and Homebrew launch
- Add support of left analog stick to scroll the game list

v1.03.1 Features:
- Fix some bugs in weltall code. Upgrade as soon as possible and do NOT use V1.03!

v1.03 Features:
- Fix permissions if directory has 0700 as file mode (on internal hard disk). it fix the ftp permission problem with pl3
- Increase max device number from 3 to 5
- Automatically modify PARAM.SFO to enable remote play in game. © FunzZy
- Added german language strings © evostar
- Add a better, transparent HIGHLIGHT.PNG (courtesy of klutsh)
- Add a patch from weltall to get the system version instead of harcoding 3.41 (useful to play new games with old firmwares
- Add cleanup function to remove the list of the games played. That list is sent to Sony
- Updated French translation, thanks foX aCe

v1.02 Features:
- Automatic cover downloading (with SQUARE)
- Backup BDVD button assigment removed, you had to use CIRCLE on first entry
- Add support for pixel blending for PNG alpha support
- Changed logo (thanks traumakom)
- Removed version inside gaia manager and added to XMB information box

[FileFactory]: DOWNLOAD HERE



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