I'm just curious

[ryu]

why hasn't anybody been able to "hack" the PS3 yet ? i'm not trying to promote piracy i just wanna know what makes this console so hack proof.

 

[Fudzy]

Its possible, I think the expense of blu ray discs and reproduction equipment makes it unappealing to the bigger syndicates though.

 

[blaaislaai]

This was my question in another thread, but have asked it in a different way.
Anything is possible

 

[Retro]

Its possible, I think the expense of blu ray discs and reproduction equipment makes it unappealing to the bigger syndicates though.

Anyone know why the games for the PS3 are so big?

 

[blaaislaai]

To compensate for the awesome graphics of coarse

 

[Syphonx]

Anyone know why the games for the PS3 are so big?

Because DVD9 forces developers to use the format to its maximum, while with blu ray they can just dump whatever they like on it, thats why they have installs and slow loading times

 

[RazedInBlack]

Has anybody noticed that the games are much shorter compared to PSX and PS2.

Resident Evil 5 for example.

 

[RazedInBlack]

Because DVD9 forces developers to use the format to its maximum, while with blu ray they can just dump whatever they like on it, thats why they have installs and slow loading times

Ok! If you say so!

 

[Fudzy]

Anyone know why the games for the PS3 are so big?

Uncompressed textures, who knows? The games could be smaller than that but I think the OS is expecting to find the information on a blu ray disc.

 

[Retro]

To compensate for the awesome graphics of coarse

Lol, ok.

I had a look on some torrent and newsgroup sites. A lot of the PS3 games are actually very small, like in 2 or 3 gig.

 

[sn3rd]

Games are piratable, but you need hardware to make the special "markings" on the Bluray disc (ROM markings). Bluray players have hardware to read these markings, but not write them. Only authorised entities (manufacturers) have easy access to such equipment. In addition, the PS3 uses all sorts of weird hacks to make the software work, like forcing buffer overflows to write certain parts of memory, etc. It's just weird.

And this could all be circumvented, I'm sure, but most people aren't really interested in doing that because of the price of BD media.

 

[Rosaudio]

Lol, ok.

I had a look on some torrent and newsgroup sites. A lot of the PS3 games are actually very small, like in 2 or 3 gig.

uhh wtf are ps3 games doing on torrent and newsgroup sites?

 

[Syphonx]

uhh wtf are ps3 games doing on torrent and newsgroup sites?

Kind of weird since downloading a PS3 game is useless.

 

[sn3rd]

Ah, but I don't think it's mandatory to implement the ROM marking. So it's possible that certain games CAN be pirated in this way.

 

[Nerfherder]

I have heard about a ps3 chip... apparently it is in testing.
A hackable PS3 would change a lot of things

 

[I am Penguin]

Kind of weird since downloading a PS3 game is useless.

Game-saves is not so useless as you may think!

 

[Syphonx]

Game-saves is not so useless as you may think!

but you dont need to torrent the 5 gig game to get the saves, which is what we are talking about

 

[I am Penguin]

but you dont need to torrent the 5 gig game to get the saves, which is what we are talking about

Again it depends what game you are talking about? Anyway the only one moaning about it is YOU No one else. What for no one realy knows. You prolly stuck in your own dreamworld there. Shame!

 

[Syphonx]

Again it depends what game you are talking about? Anyway the only one moaning about it is YOU No one else. What for no one realy knows. You prolly stuck in your own dreamworld there. Shame!

Moaning about what?

 

[Lord-Nikon]

Had my PS3 hooked up on a Full HD Sony LCD this weekend and I completely understand what the fuss is all about now! I understand why the games are on blu-ray and I understand why it takes so long to install / load

p.s. If Santa is reading this, please may I have a Full HD Sony LCD for, uhm, as soon as possible!