PlayStation Home already hacked?
By Ross Miller 
posted December 14th 2008 7:49PM
posted December 14th 2008 7:49PM
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I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
Wow, some people are complete losers. Who would waste their time trying to find this stuff out and then actually carry it out? Get a job and a life for god sake.
You're posting on Engadget instead of skiing down Mt. Everest...? Get a life.
@Metkis
Most epic comment ever!
As if it weren't already hard enough to get home..
i can haz?
It's been out since Friday. Don't see how HARD it can be to reboot ur ps3 and have the Home icon appear in your xmb in the network space.
Did anyone else hear "That is good weed" during the video. Those kids/middle aged virgins are going places.
If only it was for everyone that it changed... I'd have made it p0rNs
Do all the avatars shop at the gap?
I wait for the deluge of 1 guy 1 jar and goatse to bring playstation home to its knees.
NO! Just NO. I never heard of the 1 guy 1 jar before but dude you just scarred me for life. That ***** is disgusting....
Please tell me why this story is significant? So the guy changes something for himself.....isnt that supposed to show the flexibility of Home?
Instead its sounds like a bad thing.....huh.....
Maybe they can hack some personality into Home...
How do I brewed haxed home?
alert("women's liberation? woman, you better get yourself back in that kitchen and cook me up some food.");
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my wife is using it under the account I set up, damn Sony doesn't let you change your PlayStation account name once you have it set up.
years in the making and all we have to play is saucer pop, bowling, pool, and 3 crappy arcade games.
HOME, great concept, great technology, really boring. Hopefully they add more stuff for people to do then just chat and dance and get virtually raped by a bunch of idiot loons.
I think Sony HOME need to set up an area for kids and an area for idiots
He mustn't be too smart, what with signing his psn name at the bottom of the posters. BAN HAMMER for him I'd say within a few days. Sony are tough on hacking home and any other shit you can throw in there. They will find you and fuck you up.
Ok? What am I looking at? Where is the head coming out of the water? I'm not sure I see a pre-historic dinosaur in the loch.
Do they show full length movies on the screens in Home, because if they do, I'd actually be interested getting on. If they don't, they should. It'd be a cool marketing technique... walk into Home, see some section of some movie, get all caught up in it and then have someone else distract you or ask to play a game... just like real life.
If they'd actually prepare to have people create their own content instead of making people pay money to choose between things out of a list, maybe this wouldn't be so much of an issue. Maybe it's actually in their plans, but they sure are keeping it hush-hush.
Haha, this is really easy to do ^^
Its not that he has changed things on the servers so that everyone sees the things that have been changed, only him and people who have set up their home client the same as him.
Playstation home uses web servers to put content out on the billboards and poster boards and movie screens etc, all it is, is a simple forwarder to your own content links, all you need is a webserver (which anyone can get).
Its hardly hacking, its just things kids do to try and impress their mates, the same thing can be done with games like WoW and RO, you can change the files and links in your client to have strange things like cars in WoW instead of horses etc.
Almost all the data for Home is streamed via the web, hence why things like downloading a new area is only 20mb.
I will see if I can find a link for you to show you how its done, I am sure somebody somewhere will have posted the method, its probably how this kid has done it in the first place.
PSN ID: Dr-Mog
Mog
http://Www.MogCast.coM
Your exactly right, but most people on Engadget would rather it be a Home server hack because it would be better for screwing Sony.
Actually, even if this hack is local, it could be bad for Sony. I'm assuming at some point they're going to be selling those spots to advertisers. If you could replace the ads at with anything, then someeone spent some money for something you're never going to see. It would make advertises think twice about placing ads in Sony Home.
Right, just like how AdBlock Plus already does this for Firefox et al for every other web site out there, causing advertisers to think twice about buying even more banner ads... oh wait, that hasn't happened either!
Seriously, why don't this StreetskaterFU guy hack Xbox Live?
Home is already free. SONY has put up so much effort in developing it and given it to us without asking for anything. Granted that we may need to purchase some things here and there but it's still basically free. You can choose not to buy anything and still can make friends and have fun in HOME.
Hey StreetskaterFU, what are ya trying to proof? You're a hacking guru? or Robin Hood? Go hack Xbox Live and make it free for everyone. I'll say you're good if you can do that.
Leave HOME alone! It's disgraceful people like you we can't have free things.