TheSixthAxis does not condone piracy and does not recommend the modification of your console – doing so is against the Terms of Use of the console and is possibly illegal. Seriously, there will always be those who get a kick out of circumventing security measures the challenge of cracking what is perceived as the uncrackable sublimely attractive.įor the rest of us, be aware that you not only risk losing your PS3 altogether (either now or in the future when your CFW may be detected) but will likely spend more time updating and tweaking your console rather than what it’s actually intended for: playing games. You would essentially install the new custom firmware as you would any regular firmware update on the PS3. Initially released by DarkAleX to reproduce PSX games installed in the past FW with another.

Then all you have to worry about is Uncle Sony nuking your PS3 from orbit. All you need is a PS3 with firmware 3.55 or lower (unless the requirement has recently changed) and a usb thumbstick. How to Convert PSN PKG Games to Folder Backup Game CFW PS3. Sure, it’s early days yet and, who knows, it’s very likely the hacking community will iron out these issues and create a safe, robust custom firmware. The coding elite over at NeoGaf, watching from the sidelines as the nightmare of PS3s dying around the hacking world unfolded, have chimed in, warning interested parties of the inherent perils of going rogue.Īpparently the guy who made this messed with lvl2 to make it accept a bigger payload, this is why random consoles are killing themselves. I’m sorry for all the consoles that have died, this was unexpected :S

Custom firmware ps3 install