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PS Jailbreak Products Safe To Buy?
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thunder78
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20. October 2010 @ 16:06 |
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Im a newbie, but I have been reading some.
Questions are...
Is it safe to buy Jailbreak products? Im not interested in buying something and 6 months later Sony seizes that company's records and come after me. Honestly Im interested in just having my current games easily accessible on my hard drive vs all the disk shuffling.
If this is safe to buy, where do you recommend and which do you recommend? I understand the ones that are programmable will be the most useful should you need to reflash the code to make it work beyond 3.41. I had been looking at the PSYes, but would really like your opinion and location.
Thanks in advance.
Thunderoad
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bigo93
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20. October 2010 @ 16:23 |
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Yes they are safe to buy, if $ony ever manages to get a court order for a company to release sales receipts and go after buyers, it will just show how corrupt governments have become and they should be forced out.
Second, the JB does not work beyond 3.41, the main jb only work on 3.41, psfreedom can be used on 3.21 and 3.15; but note NONE currently work on 3.42 or 3.50, if you have updated to either of these you cannot use the jb.
I got my ps3yes from lightake.com, they are based in china, delivery from date of order took 2 weeks to get to the UK. IF you order use promotional code prowinner for a discount, if that doesnt work try game5off.
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GBX_Lee
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20. October 2010 @ 23:26 |
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Yep , PS3Yes is better than many other clone since you can always find the latest firmware on the ps3yes site , besides , in case the ps3yes team stop supporting, you can flash it with other firmware , I am pretty satisfied with this product.
BTW, I got mine from Lightake too , which is the officially listed reseller.
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pspndsps3
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21. October 2010 @ 01:33 |
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I got my ps3yes from priceangels.com, they are based in china, delivery from date of order took 19 days to get to the US.
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thunder78
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21. October 2010 @ 09:12 |
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Originally posted by bigo93:
Yes they are safe to buy, if $ony ever manages to get a court order for a company to release sales receipts and go after buyers, it will just show how corrupt governments have become and they should be forced out.
Second, the JB does not work beyond 3.41, the main jb only work on 3.41, psfreedom can be used on 3.21 and 3.15; but note NONE currently work on 3.42 or 3.50, if you have updated to either of these you cannot use the jb.
I got my ps3yes from lightake.com, they are based in china, delivery from date of order took 2 weeks to get to the UK. IF you order use promotional code prowinner for a discount, if that doesnt work try game5off.
Thanks for the all the replies. Only one of your replies relates to is it safe to buy and that is my main concern. I purchased a device years ago that "COULD" be used for something illegal and had attorneys from a company contacting me saying my records were seized. This is the reason for my question. Not saying this is the same thing. I personally wasn't using it in an illegal way and I have only intentions of backing up my games to my hard drive for easier access as I claimed earlier with this.
If anyone has any further info on this subject, please share it and I do thank you for all your replies so far.
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bigo93
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21. October 2010 @ 09:41 |
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Well the thing is that these dongle are just usb development boards with only the basic features. If these were classed as being illegal then shouldnt the teensey and the atmel usb dev boards also be branded as being illegal?!
However those boards were made for programmers to control say an automated robot or make leds flash in a certain way. They can basically be used for almost anything. It's just now someone create a program which can run an exploit on the ps3.
Now in australia these dongles have been banned, but notice this little product: http://www.ozmodchips.com/prankster-avr-usb-p-321.html Now if this was released before the ps3 dongles noone would give a damn, but here's the cunning part, the components inside these are exactly the same as in the ps3 dongles, so anyone in australia can buy these completely legally and flash it with psgroove!
Nothing Sony can do with this as ozmods are selling a legal product which has nothing to do with sony or the ps3, and they cannot be held responsible if their customer flashes these with psgroove to jailbreak their ps3. ozmods and other australian sellers are probably laughing their arses off at sony with this.
If in some insane incident the australian courts ban this because sony say it can be used to jailbreak the ps3, it'd be like forcing samsung et al to stop selling hard drives because they are used to store illegal content in the form of game data.
So to sum up, screw you $ony you reap what you sow.
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thunder78
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21. October 2010 @ 10:30 |
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Originally posted by bigo93:
Well the thing is that these dongle are just usb development boards with only the basic features. If these were classed as being illegal then shouldnt the teensey and the atmel usb dev boards also be branded as being illegal?!
However those boards were made for programmers to control say an automated robot or make leds flash in a certain way. They can basically be used for almost anything. It's just now someone create a program which can run an exploit on the ps3.
Now in australia these dongles have been banned, but notice this little product: http://www.ozmodchips.com/prankster-avr-usb-p-321.html Now if this was released before the ps3 dongles noone would give a damn, but here's the cunning part, the components inside these are exactly the same as in the ps3 dongles, so anyone in australia can buy these completely legally and flash it with psgroove!
Nothing Sony can do with this as ozmods are selling a legal product which has nothing to do with sony or the ps3, and they cannot be held responsible if their customer flashes these with psgroove to jailbreak their ps3. ozmods and other australian sellers are probably laughing their arses off at sony with this.
If in some insane incident the australian courts ban this because sony say it can be used to jailbreak the ps3, it'd be like forcing samsung et al to stop selling hard drives because they are used to store illegal content in the form of game data.
So to sum up, screw you $ony you reap what you sow.
I get the whole thing where its legal product only made illegal by its use. I can buy knives and guns all day, it only becomes illegal if i kill someone with it. I guess my concern comes specifically from the fact that these products are branded "PS" whatever implying its misuse. Im not familiar with ozmods. Are they just as effective as say PSYes, cause that would make me feel more comfortable that its made for something else, but capable of being used to psjailbreak. I've read a little about the psgroove. Can you summarize the difference and usability of ozmod with psgroove and say PSYes.
Thanks for being so helpful and informative. Im sure Im asking questions that could benefit others that are wondering the same things.
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bigo93
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21. October 2010 @ 12:08 |
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Ozmods is a company which sells things for consoles. they wont be selling the ps3yes as ts illegal now in australia.
AS for which manager and hex to use, its really up to you, and its hard to keep up as there's new one every week. MOst are using Herves v4 with Open Manager 1.17
Note that if you do get the prankster avr, as soon as you flash it with psgroove you cannot use it as the pranking device. Unless you save the hex file to your pc first, though im not sure how you extract a hex only flash one onto it.
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21. October 2010 @ 13:56 |
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Originally posted by bigo93:
If in some insane incident the australian courts ban this because sony say it can be used to jailbreak the ps3, it'd be like forcing samsung et al to stop selling hard drives because they are used to store illegal content in the form of game data.
That would actually be quite funny. I'd love to see the iPhone banned in Australia because it can be used to jailbreak the PS3. I hope they do a livestream of the Apple ./. Sony trial.
Xbox 360: Slim untouched with a faked 320 GB harddrive for XBL, phat with LT 3.0, played Halo early, so going on live would be an instand ban, also with a faked 320 GB harddrive
PS3: Untouched 160 GB Slim, 60 GB Fat with latest Rogero and 160 GB internal harddrive.
PSVita: hardly ever play it
GameCube: Black with a Viper chip installed. With gameboy player. Trying to get a Wavebird controller.
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thunder78
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21. October 2010 @ 14:07 |
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Originally posted by bigo93:
Ozmods is a company which sells things for consoles. they wont be selling the ps3yes as ts illegal now in australia.
AS for which manager and hex to use, its really up to you, and its hard to keep up as there's new one every week. MOst are using Herves v4 with Open Manager 1.17
Note that if you do get the prankster avr, as soon as you flash it with psgroove you cannot use it as the pranking device. Unless you save the hex file to your pc first, though im not sure how you extract a hex only flash one onto it.
Thanks for that info. Another generic dongle i see out there often is Minimus. Are you familiar with that one? I cant find many people talking about using the Prankster. I want to be sure I can make what I get work.
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21. October 2010 @ 22:57 |
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The units that are not sold as jailbreaks are the safest from a legal standpoint. Units that are shipped with the software on them are not allowed according to a part of the DMCA that was already struck down...but that won't stop sony from trying to sue a few hundred dongle buyers as a scare tactic. However, units shipped without software, and not specifically marketed as jailbreak devices (dev boards like the teensy). The Teensy boards are really the best bet anyway, other than the Teensy++...because these are the first two boards to get everything. The Teensy++ has more capabilities, but most people won't need those anyway. Oh, and the Teensy is actually in stock at the moment (it has been sold out since the first PSGroove release).
http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy.html
Originally posted by bigo93:
Yes they are safe to buy, if $ony ever manages to get a court order for a company to release sales receipts and go after buyers, it will just show how corrupt governments have become and they should be forced out.
Read a newspaper some time...they have already proven that hundreds of times. Don't be surprised at anything they do.
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