PS3 Finally Hacked!
February 5th, 2010
While perusing the web this morning I ran across something that made me very happy; the playstation 3 has finally been hacked! Hacked by Geohot, the same guy that first hacked the iphone no less. This guys a legend!
Currently this doesn’t mean anything other than a glimmer of hope for us frustrated owners of the PS3, but Geohots released an exploit, tutorial, and encouraged hardcore console hacking enthusiasts to document research on the psDevWiki. This means that hackers can start building software to enhance the playstations capabilities.
Sony built a console with tons of potential as media centre, and marketed it as such. Sadly however, they failed to deliver anything more than something rather mediocre. I’d love to make my PS3 my media centre, but it just isn’t good enough.
In case Sony (who are no doubt depressed right about now) come across my blog heres a few features I desperately want in my playstation.
1) Last fm scrobbling. I’ve been scrobbling music to last.fm since 26th March 2004. Building up statistics of music I listen to. I’m not going to play music primarily through my ps3 until it can scrobble my plays.
2) Media Server Capabilities. If you want me to put all my media on my ps3, then I’d damn well better be able to share it with my other devices. Why cant I sync it to an mp3 player? Stream it to my laptop or other computers?
3) I bought a PSP because provided my ps3 is on standby, I can travel, and providing I have access to the internet, use my psp to turn on my ps3 and browse the media on it. I’d presumed my psp would be able to DOWNLOAD the media from my ps3, not simply stream it… Seriously, I mean, if its streaming the media anyway, then all the psp needs to do is SAVE the media for playback when my psp is no longer connected to the internet. How is this not an obvious idea? I have since sold my psp.
Now that the ps3 has been hacked, and hope renewed for hackers hardcore or not, maybe we can let ourselves dream about ps3 features we would love to see.
What would you like to see enabled on the playstation 3? Leave your comments below.
Thanks once again to Geohot for improving my iphone, and making this leap of progress for my ps3.
Yeah I found out a few days ago, aswell as a media server I suppose the only things I do want are already doable… but their just more effort than it’s worth… Like I could play any number of emulated games through installing linux on it… and There’s a long winded way to save ps1games on it… you can download ps3games from psn so saving them off the actual disc to the hdd would be nice as apposed to the lie-full “install game” feature lol.
I can’t wait to see what people will come up with and what improvements will be made towards the above.
Altho I was delighted to find the original guiltygear on psn lastweek. Now all I need is GGx2, samsho4.
Yea, those would be nice features that could be made very simple. Although some of them would encourage/support a bit too much copyright infringement (roms for old consoles etc), so we can’t exactly blame Sony for not implementing such abilities. In fact, I’d say they did as much as they potentially could have done by allowing us to install linux on it.
Btw, did I see you on PSN playing blazblue a while back? I bought the game today, we should play. :)
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