January 2010 was also the time that famous hacker Geohot hacked the PS3 Hypervisor, with a hardware glitching hack that worked on PS3 firmware 3.10. piracy), and was one of the first credible rumors on the topic (late 2009, a group named Belzar had similar claims, but that never saw the light of day). In January, a USB dongle named “Zpack” pretended to allow PS3 games backup loading (a.k.a. Between 20, multiple hackers and teams looked into the console, but most of the released hacks in these first few years were concentrated on Linux (the PS3 originally allowed dual boot with Linux through its OtherOS feature), PS2 backup loading and/or emulation (some PS3 models had PS2 backwards compatibility), Java homebrew, or hardware mods not directly related to piracy or homebrew.īut 2010 came, and that year was a turning point in the PS3 hacking scene for multiple reasons. The PS3 came out in 2006, and it took several years for the first piracy dongle to see the light of day. Like all modern consoles, the PS3 was far from being hacked on day one. PSJailbreak: How the first PS3 piracy dongle came to be From “It’s so dumb it can’t possibly work” to “wait, how did they even think of that?” and everything in between, we hope you’ll enjoy this series. Some became instantly popular at the time of their release, others were a bit obscure or got forgotten with time, but all of them were really crazy in this writer’s humble opinion. In this series of articles, we’ll be discussing imaginative hacks for various consoles and devices. This is the story of PSGroove and PSJailbreak, or how the PS3 homebrew community thwarted the plans of some underground group to become rich on the back of PS3 piracy. But there was a point in PS3’s hacking history where it seemed sending payloads to the console with the craziest devices possible was almost a contest for hackers.

You couldn’t really hack the PS3 with a Ham and Cheese Sandwich.

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