Homebrews

Have you ever dreamed of just one unit to run all your various mixed systems games? Unity is a project to build a single unit that can play games from various different console systems from just one controller.

Consoles to consider will be Sega SMS, Nintendo NES, Nintendo Game Cube, GBA, Amiga CD32, Philips CD-i, PS2, PSX, NeoGeo, MegaDrive, Amstrad GX4000, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, DreamCast, ColecoVision, SNES, TurboGrafx/PC Engine, Atari 7800, Atari 2600. 

This still a work in progress, Check video below for some more insight.  Read more »

Unless you live in a distant galaxy, you noticed for sure all the PS3 hacks going on right now, well after Kakaroto's CFW two days ago, Geohot released a video proof of his own Jailbroken 3.55 too, though no released date announced.

[Update]

Geohot released to the public his jailbroken cfw 3.55 now.  Read more »

Sony have his hand full with all the jailbreak things going on and now seems you can even remote play any game on your ps3 via psp, incredible.

Check the ps3 exploits articles here or just keep on reading.

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 Just a quick diagram showing how to connect to PSN without the mandatory firmware update 3.42.

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According to this site a dongle called PS Jailbreak allows you to dump your original PS3 games onto a FAT32 HDD and play games from there. Check video below.

 

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Haven't post anything about homebrews for while but this one might get your attention.
Seems the PS3 three years plus of hack/homebrews free is about to be ended by a hacker going by Geohot.

Read more here, and stay tuned.
 

If you are into homebrew or using the YDL 6.1 on your PS3, you might want to know version 6.2 has been released to the usual public mirrors.
 

What's new in Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) v6.2 :

•  Ability to install and boot using USB thumb drive
•  Kernel v2.6.29 for ppc64, v2.6.27 for ppc32
•  IBM Cell SDK v3.1.0.1
•  Xfce 4 Desktop Environment
•  OpenOffice 3.0
•  Mozilla Firefox v3.0.6
•  Improved Wicd
•  Improved PS3VRAM support
•  Libfreevec
•  Gnash v0.8.4
•  Over 600 updated packages in all!
•  Over 2500 new packages in EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux).

This version is online since 29 June 2009 on a DVD to YDL.net users for download or purchase, but now Fixstars put it online on public mirrors accessible to everyone!
 

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Some homebrews are just useless while others very usefull and this one definitelly merit the very usefull title.

Displaying your handheld console on your TV always a dream and FuSa SD v1.0.50b will just do that and in a very great transfer speed.

Version 1.0.50b bring more improvment:

• New "SpeedDBoosteR" solves speed issues for all games and now it's turned on by default
• New rewritten engine!
• Now uses "one-way-cache"
• Added on-fly screen mode switcher
• Added cpu clock switcher to menu
• Added Vram hack
• Added Plug'n'Go! feature

Download new version here

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