The (legal) things you’d like to see the scene bring to the PS3
It’s no news anymore, the PS3 has been cracked open by hackers.
For the past few days, I’ve been enjoying the hypocrisy of technology websites talking about this. When a tool such as Half Byte Loader is released, enabling thousands of people to legally play homebrews while staying far away from piracy, we’re lucky if we get a line on any site (that is not categorized as “psp underground”) in the miscellaneous section.
But when Kernel and crypto join the party, the same technological websites that “condone piracy” are the first ones to mention all the bad things that could be done with it, jumping like scavengers on juicy news… The most hilarious (in a bad way) are the comments posted on these websites, in which some people decide they can judge the goals and motivation of dozens of hackers. I especially love this one, a jewel:
These sanctimonious a-holes [Note: he talks about the people who hacked the PS3] just want their games for free and are too chickensh*t to admit it.
Of course, if this person had ever tried to understand the underlying security of a computer system, they would have realized that such a hobby requires 200% of one’s freetime, and therefore hackers do not have any time to play (and, honestly, games are probably too limited for these guys who can literally do whatever they want with a computer…)
But I digress…
Today I don’t want to talk about piracy. I leave that to these websites, it’s illegal and it’s uninteresting… rather, let me ask you: what would you like to do with your ps3 if you had full control of it? Do not mention uninteresting stuff such as “running backups”.
Personally I’d like to focus on the “multimedia” role of the PS3 in my apartment. It’s connected to the TV and boots very fast. Unfortunately, Sony intentionally crippled the console for the wrong reasons. Here’s what I would like to see fixed:
- Put back the support of PAL DVDs on my Japanese PS3. The Japanese PS3 doesn’t read my French DVDs, despite Japan and France being in the same region (zone 2) for DVDs. It *** me off (like you can’t imagine) that a piece of hardware bought in 2009 cannot read DVDs that I legally own, especially when a computer bought in 2000 does it without a problem.
- Region free for DVD and Blu-Ray. I’m French, I live in Japan, I work for an American company: region locking is against my religion.
- Possibility to skip ads in BluRay and DVDs. I pay for the movie, not for the ads.
- More video codecs support, such as MKV, etc… (hmmm, as I read back, I guess what I’m asking for is a VLC port to the PS3 😛 )
- A good mp3 player to replace the crappy existing one. Seriously, how can they call it an mp3 player when it doesn’t have a “play all my music randomly” function?
Hmm, that’s pretty much it for now. Homebrew support of course, but this one’s obvious 🙂
How about you?
I wouls love to see a port of xbmc or boxee… I still use my xbox classic with xbmc as a media centre. And the bluray hack back, to run some java homebrew would be cool… I am a java coder, would be nice to run some of my code on the ps3 🙂
A VLC port would be awesome and of course OtherOS support.
“A good mp3 player to replace the crappy existing one. Seriously, how can they call it an mp3 player when it doesn’t have a “play all my music randomly” function?”
Need to agree with you that the MP3 player on the PS system is ***. Every time when my mp3 player run out of battery, I use my PSP as a backup MP3 player, but the random function is as *** as it can get, it always random in the same folder before it get to the next one.
Don’t have a PS3 but i agree Disk Region also get in to my nerve, what the heck is that i need 2 DVD player when i have live in 2 country(have been a oversee student for some time) , as human we god dam live in a WORLD, not a CELL
About the MP3 player, I would like to 3ese a function that lets it read the iPod databases, so you can plug your iPod in and control it like you would on a “Made for iPod” device
Maybe NTFS support for USB Drives (Due to the fact that once we have MKV Playback how are we going to get the large MKV onto the PS3(without FTP))
i agree with you wololo. upgrade ps3 compatibily with multimedia such as codec for mkv and other codec.
I can watch movie, i can play games and i can listen some music from my console. Nice!
and of course, PSX and PS2 Emulator!
There is a Homebrew PSX Emulator already and hopefully by next week someone would sign it with a Sony key and you’re good to go.
First thing that came in my mind is … MKV ! Many things are needed on here, a better browser is an example.
Linux for developing. A better music software .. Too.
i have a slim PS3 so i bought it knowing i wont get OtherOS,so no Other Os for me, i just want 2 things 1)an MKV player and 2)being able to download PSN Demo Games on my PC then installing them on the PS3.
region free PSX emulator, most of my PSX collection is NTSC and i live in a PAL territory – i know there is an emulator but hey why not use what the ps3 has if we can :\
Wagic for the PS3.
ps2 emu(kingdom hearts)
and otherOS with full hardware access(would be a solution for a whole lot of other things mentioned in the comments here)
I would like them to figure out a way that i could use an external Blueray usb drive as my main drive so i can use my ps3 again
Have Other OS put back on the PS3, perhaps have it working for the Slim.. That way i could run servers off it and ***, hay, it’s pretty much powerful nuf to do so. 🙂
Multimedia for the win but not just a crashing youtube app but a fullblown iptv solution with public aswell as local services maybe even decoder interactivity as now its all very closed… But what id like most i guess linux kde mobile psp or ps3? To load the prx and boot 66. Thkx
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