New PS3 custom firmware bricking 60 GB consoles

They'll probably make a fix to unbrick it, seeing as the PS3 can load stuff from USB prior to the OS loading, its totally possible a fix will come out.

Kind of like a bad bios flash on an HP laptop, while booting the laptop you hold down 3 keys on the keyboard and it will flash whatever is on the USB stick (with the right file name) to the bios. I'm sure the PS3 has a similar style of feature seeing as they use USB to 'jailbreak' it, or at least did before new years eve hit.

i have a broken fat ps3 (won't read discs) and did the cfw and worked fine.alberth123123

But will they learn? I bet no

i think this pretty much sums it up..

so only ones with hacked games are being bricked right?

i changed my hdd over ages ago to a 320GB that doesn't matter right?

lol i guess there will be a lot of ps3's on ebay for peanuts now, might snap one up incase they come out with a unbricker :)

lol i guess there will be a lot of ps3's on ebay for peanuts now, might snap one up incase they come out with a unbricker :)

Yrkoon99

Don't trust unknown hackers.

These guys didn't used geohot's cfw instead they used someone else's

Why don't they just wait on a proper one with a decent homebrew and everything.

This will for sure just keep killing ps3's.

because waninkoko knows nothing about the PS3, he just wanted the fame of getting lv2 first, or he is an epic troll

all PS3's with this CFW will be bricked soon, it will overload the syscalls even after its installed

Why don't they just wait on a proper one with a decent homebrew and everything.

This will for sure just keep killing ps3's.

Robbazking

Because they want free games now.

Can you repair a bricked PS3 yourself? Because if not, lol.

hakanakumono

yes you can, its honestly not that hard, it would take 20 minutes tops

well.. nand/nor flashing isnt something the average ps3 user would know how to do

Link

The PS3 jailbreak fallout just keeps on coming, with the latest incident serving to demonstrate how careful gamers must be when they try to mess with their systems. A new custom firmware has been released, and it's bricking 60 GB consoles left and right. Oh dear.

Custom firmware v3.55 has killed quite a few launch PS3s as people rushed to "back up" (lol) their games without waiting to see if the thing actually works. Even when it was discovered that the firmware is utterly broken, people were still bricking their consoles because they weren't reading whole forum threads.

mrmcygan

Awesome, I hope it bricks as many systems as possible.

Whats amazing is how people are classified as pirates for using custom firmware.

OmegaPillow

LOL, great news. Is bricking ultimately the end of said console? Im sure they can flash the firmware back to stock?SPBoss

HAAAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!!!!!

That's hilarious!

Idiot pirates getting their just desserts.

[QUOTE="SPBoss"]LOL, great news. Is bricking ultimately the end of said console? Im sure they can flash the firmware back to stock?tommyas

Idiot pirates getting their just desserts.

Crossel777

As father jack says I LOVE MY BRICK!!!

i think this pretty much sums it up..

LP4EVA2005

LOL!

EXCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEELNT.

No sympathy. If they wanted a Cell-based system they could hack, IBM would have happily sold them one.

lowe0

So they rushed into it, and screwed themselves.. Why am I not surprised?.

Who would hack a 60gb those things are like the Lamborghini's of the ps3 models.Fightingfan

lol they got burned when they tried to play with fire.

Can't think of anything else except: Owned!!

GreenGoblin2099