PS3 hack plays Blu-ray backups, should send Motorstorm values soaring
By Tim Stevens 
posted January 5th 2010 7:25AM
posted January 5th 2010 7:25AM
The PS3 has thus far proven to be something a tough nut to crack for those wanting to play backups on non-modified consoles, but word on the web is that a technique has been found that will make it possible -- if the stars happen to align properly for your hardware configuration. What you need is a PS3 model capable of running Linux, Ubuntu, Windows XP on top of that, a suite of utilities, a copy of the original Motorstorm, and a Blu-ray burner. Get all that configured properly and you should be able to use the technique at the read link to play those copies of games that have thus far been expensive coasters. Given the complexity of this approach we can't be 100 percent sure it's legit, but for what it's worth there is video "proof" after the break, and should you attempt this feat of hackery yourself please do let us know how you get on.
Update: Ugh -- seems that the video has been yanked for now.
Update: Ugh -- seems that the video has been yanked for now.
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Or .. Get a Popcorn hour C-200 , and do nothing
@JTD ooops dint see the part about playing games .. In that case good job
@JTD
Actually, popcorn is better.
Any time you see a label covering the entire disc, it's a fake. Ttoally a fake. You don't have to use labels that way... you can prove you're running a blank by showing that it's a blank. no one would cover up the blank blu-ray unless they were really covering up a real copy of the game.
Also, the method is just daffy. If this worked, the PS3 would have been hacked years ago. It's probably possible to hack a PS3, but this is a fake.
It's already been verified as a fake on MAXCONSOLE forums as early as 2 days ago. The dude put a white label over an actual game and said it was a back-up.
I must say, Sony did an excellent job hack-proofing the PS3. Its taken over 3 years to finally crack, and it doesn't even work on the newer consoles. I guess they learned the hard way with the PSP.
@B3astofthe3ast Sony didn't feel the pain of their own mistakes though. The pirates are taking money out of the hands of game creators.
@B3astofthe3ast
that's because it's the new console. give them time =)
@B3astofthe3ast
I think the PSP's lower attach rate is mainly because it's so hackable to run SNES and PSP pirated games. Sony absolutely hurts from that piracy.
@B3astofthe3ast IT would seem that way on the surface, but when you consider the difficulty of working with Bluray, I would imagine that would explain most of the delay. While I will never understand Sony's love for proprietary formats that seem to just confuse people, in this case it has worked to their advantage.
@Jordaan
Jordaan, difficulty working with blu-ray?
I realize the PS3 has less main RAM and a multi htreaded weirdo processor, and is harder to work with than the 360 (and sme say, easier than the PS2... who knows), I think the blu-ray is very easy to use.
For one thing, it's easier to work with than DVD because it has consistent read speed. No matter where the data is, same speed. With DVD you have to put data in the right place, with filler data, to achieve the fastest speeds (speeds that are faster than blu-ray). This limits devs quite a bit sometimes.
No, blu-ray is limited in read speed compared to hdds and DVD (for a couple of GBs of the DVD, anyway), but they are not hard to work with, as far as I understand.
Sony loves these formats because they make a lot of money, of course. Not sure why that confuses you... their success with blu-ray has already earned them billions, as did MiniDisc (a huge success). Memory Stick and Beta certainly didn't do anything huge, but both were used for years and were valid gambles. Sony develops stuff to make money... it's no sin. I wish nothing was proprietary, but the most cutting edge company can press their technological advantages sometimes, and this encourages innovations.
@Jordaan The funny thing is while Sony does love proprietary formats, the PS3 is the most open console ever. Ability to swap hard drives, bluetooth for headsets, mice and keyboards, and standard memory card readers. No console ever has been that open, and it's funny that it came from Sony.
@(Unverified) MiniDisc a huge success? You must not live in the States. MiniDisc bombed worse than UMD movies did here.
@B3astofthe3ast
I'd rather think it's because there were so little game worth playing on ps3, consider those multi-platform games can be played on xbox360 or pc. only until now the hackers are more interested in the ps3 exclusive titles released recently.
@htd
still don't have one? it's okay, maybe they'll drop prices next christmas (:
@stonecoldstevejobs
>>Sony didn't feel the pain of their own mistakes though. The pirates are taking money out of the hands of game creators.
Sony loses money along with the game creators, console makers get licensing fees from every game sold. Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft all lose money from pirates. Not to mention that all of them also develop and publish games.
There is also the ancillary damage that once piracy becomes prevalent on a certain console then developers stop developing or slows dramatically for that console.
@B3astofthe3ast
"I guess they learned the hard way with the PSP."
Well, they should have learned with the PSone and PS2 so it took them a lot of time to finally figure it out. But yeah, 3 years of being hacking free is quite a feat.
@KAL326
Minidisk was a huge, huge, huge success that made Sony a TON of money.
It doesn't matter that it wasn't successful in your neighborhood if Sony made lots of money overall. In some places on the planet, Minidisc was dominating, in some places, it was nearly nonexistent. I do live in the States, but I don't call a product a failure just because it wasn't popular in the states. I call a product a failure if it lost or didn't make much money... by that standard, Minidisc was a huge success.
UMD was not much of a success, though. Forgot that one, but it's not exactly a huge failure either... just not a success. Sony and other companies like Sony gamble a lot, and if they win occasionally, they make lots of money. Last year, Sony made $80,000,000,000. Part of that is because they push proprietary formats that annoy us.
@(Unverified) look dude, minidisc was not a success ok! where is it now, i rest my case.
@hardluckstories Yeah, VHS was not a sucess, look, were is it now?
DOH!, it was really succesful in Sweden, while it is generally laughed upon nowadays, but back then it was the thing to have ;)
@hardluckstories Next time you listen to a great sounding bootleg/rare concert from 1992 to 2002 era--thank the HUGE popularity of minidisc among the pro-sumer crowd. Dat was never affordable or portable enough. It(minidisc) was a recording format, not a distribution format such as UMD. Consider it a digital replacement to cassette tapes at the time when CD burners were 1X speed and $3000 (with $20 blanks, that's what I paid in 1994) An audiophile of a previous age would have never bought a pre-recorded cassette tape.. but would use type II and IV metal tapes in their 3 head nakamichi dragon tape deck to record radio shows, concert broadcasts on HBO, etc.. Minidiscs vanished only when memory card prices came down drasticly.
@(Unverified) Actually, I was more referring to the cost for individuals looking to hack the console. On an xbox 360, its a Dual Layer DVD, everyone has a DVD-DL Burner in their computer. But a BluRay burner? When PS3 was launched, those were several hundred dollars.
What incentive was there to buy such a device, on an unproven format (which IMHO SHOULD have lost to HD DVD)?
I get that they make money off most of their formats, but they make things trickier. If you knew you could get a sony camera that took SD cards instead of Micro Stick M2 Pro X++ Alpha Super or whatever the minor change is at now, I know I'd much prefer that, and usually thats what sways people away from sony products, that they don't play nice with most accessories...
damn that video is not working for me :(
@timmyjan
It's probably been removed cause the "owner" got scared ;)
Video removed by user.
@Neejay
more like video has been removed by sony's lawyers
@EI8HT No, it would say if it was removed by copyright infringement and who filed to have it removed.
@EI8HT Here's an example; not sure why the URL is so freakin long.
http://www.youtube.com/index?ytsession=ybhjbz2dh_W3mrOAKmlAmQXqRDMa63KTdOuCP7w-cPEB6VUxTnOpW6fDrF4o7M2TSYZTXuAgbth31SiJcU_JNIQBcLLXEPgvomIl5Xs2mesONvFN6Sg8amq9mR11LPJNy9kCaBXl8HUPYmw0DHwKDmDYbG0Zwi3HPXmVxsWnCwLPSeTwHbTLo1430opHlc_P3Q_A7vwfKkp6I6YQ9CXRlXZYHthmNm9RAaU9UpkVgLwDWDlMkn38UuffUIlaL83udUE0-yr8ytxUUFvmQrLupxPPIqGxegKF6rVSAJ99ufxeu6ulipNarQ
http://www.ps3news.com/forums/ps3-hacks/video-motorstorm-playstation-3-hack-exploit-run-playstation-3-backups-109279-20.html
This post specifically has more details: http://www.ps3news.com/forums/ps3-hacks/video-motorstorm-playstation-3-hack-exploit-run-playstation-3-backups-109279-21.html#post280086
I used to do this. Hack a system played burned games on the ps2 and other systems. I look back and it was not worth it one bit. The time i wasted when i could have just rented or bought the game is wasted forever. Just buy the game its not worth the hassle! trust me. IF you cant afford a game them spend the time working instead of hacking. Just use Goozex I will never spend the time to do this again.
@dgood48080
I agree mostly, except for the Dreamcast. It's ridiculously easy to play backup games on that system. The whole disc swapping on the PS2 was a hassle, especially when you spent all day downloading the game and burning 5 coasters for one good one only to realize that game sucked.
@7egend I agree. The dreamcast was the easiest system to do that. No Mods needed. Man i miss that system.... Its a real shame it didnt succeed. Dream cast would have next gen system out by now. I wish they were in the mix of systems. I spent so many hours downloading games on dialup for the Dreamcast. It was fun when i was a kid but games are so cheap when you trade them on goozex. Its just not worth it. I would rather just buy the game and trade it with little loss.
I'm skeptical... Windows XP shouldn't be able to run on the Cell processor...
@Cheese It
I remember hearing that Vista could be emulated very, very slowly on top of Linux.
@Cheese It
Google it - you can run XP on the PS3 from Linux. Slow though.
This hack is way too wonky though.
What a ridiculously contrived way of going about this whole thing. I'll just continue to be content with buying only the games from developers that actually deserve my money (meaning FUCK YOU, INFINITY WARD).
@r34p3r
What's interesting is that all the crappy games are available on PC anyway. If you want to try before you buy, because a game might suck ass, just play it on PC, even if you're a PS3 gamer. PS3 exclusives like Uncharted 2, Heavy Rain, MGS4, GT5... you know what you're going to get. If you don;'t like the game, it's not because of poor quality or graphics or anything like that... you just don't like that kind of game.
So piracy on the PS3 isn't even necessary. Glitchy games like Fallout, or games that have cheap plots like MW2 are easily previewed via a torrent (and then you buy them when you realize that they are worth the glitchy hassle, especially with Fallout).
@(Unverified)
lol @ saying Fallout isn't worth the money. It's easily one of the greatest games I've ever played, and I've been playing video games since NES. I never noticed any glitches that hindered my experience on that game whatsoever, so it seems to me you're just talking bullshit.
@avengeryarr i think he said that Fallout WAS worth any glitches, whatever they may be...
What about playing PS1 and PS2 backups?
@exenter
PS2 backups? Not a bloody chance, ever, of that working. If the PS3s without the EE chips could run PS2 games, Sony would be aware of it.
PS1 games, well, that's a horse of a different color.
@exenter
just get pcsx2 and play 'em on a modern computer. PS1 games are even easier since the emulators have been out that much longer.
@(Unverified)
I have the 60GB model which can play PS2 games.
@Ghen
You can play PS1 game without any major problems with ePSXe, but all PS2 emulators I have tried, have a lot of problems.
I'm glad Sony have thus far made a Pirate-Proof PS3. It's bad enough that so many PC games are ripped as soon as(sometimes before)they hit the shelves the PSP failed in protecting its creators. I hope Sony catches on and protects there device with further updates.
@ adamrgolf
Holy freaking add's batman!!! O.o
and plus the guy in the video is like mumbling some dead language, why in the world did you think that link was a good idea to post?
@Sieg I don't even own a ps3, just thought exploring this news was interesting. Thought other people might like the link to delve in a bit more themselves.
Who cares.. I'm streaming using Xbox and home theatre pc - blueray players are $99 too these days
@Kiwi
And yet, there are people out there who still don't know how to spell Blu-ray
Regardless of how convoluted the process is, I cannot say that it is a good practice to link directly to instructions on how to pirate software. How about posting a guide on how to pirate movies, complete with the programs needed, and where to find them under the engadget name?
@T Baxter I only did a google search to find the link. Perhaps I should have posted the lmgtfy link? I only searched because the original posted video didn't work.