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PS3 game backups not too far off

2 December 2006 14:43 by Dave "Davedough" Horvath | 35 comments

Sony's newest console, the PS3 hasn't even been out for a month yet and already a group most people in the "scene" should know of has come incredibly close to unlocking its true potential.

Team Xecuter has been one of the biggest threats to Microsoft and Sony alike with modifications that enabled hard drive loading of your game backups. In a recent post on their website, they've revealed that they have connected a 750Gb hard drive to the PS3 and have successfully been able to pass data back and forth from it. Their newest development dubbed the Hyperdrive features the ability to connect any 3.5" SATA hard drive to your PS3 and they're currently working on an IDE solution. Additionally, it has USB 2.0 support for dumping data to and from the hard drive.

Upon connecting the drive, they have been able to get the PS3 to recognize it, format the drive to it's standards and store all the settings internally to the PS3 and not the hard drive.

What all this means is that its quite possible that Blu-Ray dumps to an external hard drive may not be too far off. Larger drives would be needed since games such as Resistance: Fall of Man have been seen taking up some 16Gb worth of data. It's an exciting time to see what these folks develop in the future. Could we see legitimate PS3 backups gracing the hard drives of the masses soon? Only time will tell.

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AntiHer0 (Newbie) 2 December 2006 17:50
Just downloaded the ps3 emulator and rom images...works great! Pessimism, from the Latin pessimus (worst), denotes a belief that the experienced world is the worst possible. It describes a general belief that things are bad, and tend to become worse; or that looks to the eventual triumph of evil over good; it contrasts with optimism, the contrary belief in the goodness and betterment of things generally. A common conundrum illustrates optimism versus pessimism with the question - does one regard a given glass of water as: "Is the glass half empty or half full? Conventional wisdom expects optimists to reply with half full and pessimists to respond with half empty. [ + quote]
xXxBG (Member) 2 December 2006 17:51
pointless post edited out by creaky [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 3 December 2006 2:56
xXxBG (Member) 2 December 2006 17:52
SONY IS #1 IN GAAAAMMMMMMIIINGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!! [ + quote]
WierdName (Senior Member) 2 December 2006 17:54
@tatsh- The games are bigger due to the size of the levels themselves and the programming of all the various extras such as the more advanced artificial intellegence and such. Then theres all the media for the rendering(consider how with some games that even the little rock on the ground is rendered a little different from the rest). The videos due take up some space but not most. [ + quote]
SovMish (Member) 2 December 2006 19:21
sweet. That's why I'm waiting to get the PS3 in the summer (but the 60 gig in my closet is talking to me, I swear... it's saying open me, play me, connect me lol). Anyways, excellent news. Just like DevHook for the PSP. Can't the space problem be solved by plugging in an external HD into one of the USB ports? [ + quote]
SovMish (Member) 2 December 2006 19:23
Oh, and the game developers don't need to worry about not selling enough copies of the game. Because only like 1 out of every 100 people are going to do this... just like the PSP. All my friends have normal fully-updated PSP's, while I still have the 1.5 + Devhook. [ + quote]
OneMember (AfterDawn Addict) 2 December 2006 19:28
Quote: Resistance: Fall of Man have been seen taking up some 16Gb worth of data... I bet it will be fun to dl ps3 games in future... :D S��nn�t: http://keskustelu.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2717 Rules: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2487 [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 2 December 2006 19:29
tmfloria (Senior Member) 2 December 2006 19:50
just how I thought it would end up being .. Hdloader for PS3.. Can't wait to see the full outcome [ + quote]
ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 2 December 2006 20:33
L the PS3 is fancy computer making it litary even easier to bypass the DRM than a Nintendo or Sega console...ain't that a odd funny thing? 0-o [ + quote]
ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 2 December 2006 20:50
a question about archiveing a BR so if a BR ISO is 24ish GB that means you need 2-3 DVD9 or 5-7DVD? [ + quote]
jutsu (Junior Member) 3 December 2006 1:39
now the problem is.. how to boot the image file, or back up BR game if someone can make the PS3 run Unsigned code like in "PS3 test version" or PS3 dev version... [ + quote]
spiesfan (Member) 3 December 2006 4:44
wow that was quick [ + quote]
Cinnjerm (Junior Member) 3 December 2006 6:08
LOL, Sony!!! [ + quote]
ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 3 December 2006 6:52
jutsu if someone could make a boot program and then run it off the HD then couldn't they just blacklist it or something unlike the older consoles this has full lunix,I wonder howmuch of the hardware protections can be overridden via software....mmmm [ + quote]
xXxBG (Member) 3 December 2006 8:15
I just bought a 320 GB Hard Drive for my PS3 and it works Flawlessly :):):):):) [ + quote]
Andrew691 (Senior Member) 3 December 2006 15:16
Most likely they will make a program for linux that is like daemontools, to "mount" an ISO to a virtual drive. Then all the need is boot code, to make a loader.(could be blocked in updates). Definitely not far away. Quote: Quote:Resistance: Fall of Man have been seen taking up some 16Gb worth of data... I bet it will be fun to dl ps3 games in future... :D Just read Blue Dragon (or something) for Xbox360 was going to be on 3 DVD DL disc. So even Xbox games are gunna take a while to get. [ + quote]
0ldskool (Junior Member) 3 December 2006 16:05
u gotta love them at eecuter :D [ + quote]
21Q (Senior Member) 3 December 2006 16:27
I'm gonna get a PS3 when the bugs are fixed and I dont have to connect to the internet to fix the bugs. [ + quote]
ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 3 December 2006 16:44
21Q think abotu that....Sony will always be havning to fix something... [ + quote]
Mackadae (Newbie) 3 December 2006 18:49
I think it was too premature for Team Xecuter to reveal their status on hacking PS3. Considering the problems and feedbacks Sony is already receiving; PS3 is technically under development. I wouldn't be surprise if Sony come up with something to change all that. Then again, like kaosX said "yeah.. cat and mouse.. firmware update, hack, firmware update, hack..." But all in all, I applaud Team Xecuter. [ + quote]
xXxBG (Member) 3 December 2006 19:39
What bugs are u guys talking about, its working really good. [ + quote]
ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 3 December 2006 19:46
xXxBG price lack of games thos BUG me pretty good :P it has a few glitches out of the box about 200ish main PSX titles don't work needs HDMI and High def patchs for all sort of small annoyances,in all the PS3 is better than the 360s launch so far but its still luke warm and alot of bugs yet to be found...its a unlike MS's Beta test of the 360 this is a RC1 not quite a full launch but not worse than others. [ + quote]
ianlov (Newbie) 4 December 2006 4:58
Well this is where the fun begins just look at the cheats etc on teh XBOX live! cause of tampered data on teh HDD all this is gonna do is ruin it for all of us hardcore gamers :( [ + quote]
ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 4 December 2006 11:44
ianlov god games suck so bad you have to cheat to get any real fun out of it I hate the Xbox because it dose not have a cheat device(CB or AR) when I cheat its to try and balance a crappy game or make the game more fun,online cheating is pointless. They can do stuff about cheaters online from temp bans to stat resetting to all out bans. I hope the 360 gets one a (CB or AR)........ [ + quote]
xXxBG (Member) 4 December 2006 14:23
WOW was i wrong! Well then, its normal for some bugs on such advance technology :P [ + quote]
ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 4 December 2006 16:24
xXxBG meh :P [ + quote]