This morning by Japanese provider was so kind to give me back my BB Internet connection. The first thing I checked was the new MotorStorm 2 promo video featuring "John Kaminari" (and old Italian friend who worked for my publishing company and now is working in Japan as actor). The video is simply ilarious and even tough made for the Japanese market is 99% in Italian language with Japanese subititles. Pure genious!!!!

Spelunker, the 8bit classic platformer, from Irem is being ported to PS3. The title will be an HD remake and will be downloadable via PSN...

PS3 Filer allows browsing image files by using the Blu-Ray Disc Java Hack (no modchip needed). This software is also a Famico mEmualtor (no sound) so it's possibile to play Supermario on a Playstation 3. Download the PS3 Filer here

Note for fanboys: the title is a Joke... I love MSG4 !!

Seems that the eyoutube video posted by StreetskaterFU is not a fake.... the only problem is: Is there anybody who still care to see a PS3 hacked (with or without a mod-chip)?!
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Amazon Japan is selling old PS3 models at nearly double the price of the new 40 Giga. Meanwhile used console buyback price for the old Playstation 3 models (20/60 Giga) has more than doubled in Japanese shops: from 15.000 to 40.100 Yen for the 20 Giga Model  (from this Japanese blogger). Actually the used price is the same price the shops charged one year ago for a new console... 
Seems that Japanese gamers value the retro compatibility with PS2 titles more interesting than Sony expected...


(Buyback price for a PS3 one year ago)

(via PS3HAX)  Team ICE and SorroW have released a "overflow.tiff" exploit today which is confirmed working on PS3 firmwares up to 2.10 on BOTH PAL and NTSC consoles.

At the moment the TIFF file freezes the PS3 via "heap overflow" (not buffer overflow), but by knowing the "backend number and making the right calls" it is possible to inject a simple code."

This is mainly being released so other hacking teams can take a crack at it, and hopefully it can accomplish what all PS3 hackers have been patiently waiting for. (Team ICE could not get the full potential of this TiFF becuase they lacked the PS3 SDK)

Few weeks ago I visited the really cool Transformer HD DVD promo booth in Akiba, but since  I don't have an HD player I bought the DVD version. But seems that a Japanese gamer found a way to watch the Transformers HD DVD version on his Playstation 3. He succesfully burned the movie on a Blue Ray but seems that he still can't transfer the subtitles from HD DVD to Blue Ray.


 

Yesterday, Akibablog (via  Danny / Kotaku) has spotted Asobit City in-store display promoting the new 40GB PS3  model with Blue-ray adult movies from TMA. More than a way to promote PS3 I feel this is a way for Asobit City to get rid off all the unsold bluerady Pornos thata has piled in the adult floor of the shop in the latest months...

Japan will never stop to surprise me: last week, in Japanese stores, PS3 sold less than Xbox360!
I feel that more than a WII/PS3/360 console war in Japan there is a portable console vs home console war with the latter loosing every week: after the restyle the PSP started to be a good seller instead the new PS3 seems following the path of the first models.
Basically, way before the release last year, the meme "PLAYSTATION 3 is TOTALLY UNCOOL" spread among japanese otaku subconscious  and I feel Sony needs more than a new/cheaper model to overcome this negative meme... the party is not over (the new PS3 model will sure sell during first weeks), but the cake...  (Media Create's Official Japanese hardware and software sales here or on the right column of this blog)

Il programmatore hacked2123  ha appena svelato un metodo per far girare le copie backup su PS3  che va ad aggiungersi ai due già noti: il PS3 Linux Method e il  PS3 SAK v1.00. La nostra sensazione è che per la prima volta  ci sia veramente poco interesse per l'hacking di una console Sony (al contrario i chip per il Wii stanno riscuotendo un successo
incredibile).

Oggi, presso la salagiochi NamcoLand di Shibuya (Tokyo) inizia il location test della versione arcade di Tekken 6.

Waisted (aka Placasoft)  ha pubblicato la guida del nuovo exploit PS3 che si basa sul fatto che il gioco Warhawk Beta game va online a scaricare alcuni file da eseguire e tramite il vecchio trucco del DNS spoofing si può fare eseguire i file che si vuole (anche se c'è ancora la criptazione da "aprire" prima di poter veder nascere una scena homebrew)...  la notizia è interessnte  in se ma ogni giorno che passa abbiamo sempre più dubbi sul fatto che ci siano poi tante persone interessate all'hacking della PS3...

(per chi non lo sapesse utilizzare questo tipo di exploit è illegale ed è un'attività che verrà perseguita dalla $ony)

Ecco il video in cui si vede il leggendario (incredibile ma vero i membri sono italiani) Team Infectus  presentare il downgrande della PS3. Per il momento è solo un esercizio di stile ma è evidente che le potenzialità del chip Infectus sono praticamente illimitate...

In Giappone,  mentre il DS Lite ha superato i 17 milioni di pezzi dal lancio (e 163.000 pezzi nell'ultima settimana), la Playstation 3 è scesa sotto le 10.000 unità vendute in una settimana! (Magic Box)

Un utente del forum Afterdawn basandosi sul vecchio hack giapponese che permetteva di far girare i giochi Playstation 2 su PS3 non modificata ha trovato il modo per
inserire uno switch e poter effettuare lo swap senza dove tenere aperta la propria Playstation3.