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"RxE" New! THE best Dash ever! (Xbox360)

Truly amazing! Words can't describe how awesome this new dash is for jtag xbox360's!!!! Click the link to view more about this with a list of all the features.. Like voice command and skeleton recognition (kinect)
Click me and read about RxE!!

Happy Labor Day! Have some dual boot with the E3 Flasher

I hope everyone enjoys the holiday today! Now watch the video :p

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E3 FLASHER dual boot, can with v3.70 play PSN and with v3.55 play your HDD games!

After we release dual boot video, most people love it but it also raised some doubt. We understand, so today we release a new video, and do some clarification:

1: E3 FLASHER not only a flasher, but with perfectly extension because integrated lots of interface
* We will release more useful function later, all will be free just like when we release Golden Finger function on our E3 card reader.

2: E3 FLASHER can be upgrade from PC USB or TF card, very simple to do.

3: E3 FLASHER dual boot you need TWO HDD's, one for 3.70 , another for 3.55. If you use only one HDD, it will be required to format everytime.
* We will release a kit that includes ESATA station for you switch HDD's easier. (Supports 2.5" and 3.5" sizes)

4: At present, on NAND flash console, you need to solder plus wires also. And no dual boot function because no 256M NAND FLASH ON E3 FLASHER.
* On NOR flash FAT console, you need to solder plus wires also, and includes dual boot function.
* On Slim console, there is no wires, but you still need solder some points. It is easy can be done in 3min.

5: We will release 2 new version E3 FLASHER at the end of this month.
* One is 256M NAND flash on board and with CLIP, to get dual boot and no solder function.
* Another is same as present E3 FLASHER but with CLIP, so all NOR flash console no need any solder at that time. (sure cost will higher)

6: If all goes well, we will release official pictures and retail prices by this wednesday !

Wii missed you! LetterBomb 4.3 systems hacked!

Been a while since a nice neat new hack has been released for the wii console. It uses the letter board and other fun stuff.

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Up until now the only way to liberate your Wii console and enable the use of homebrew with System Menu 4.3 was to use a gamedisc based exploit such as �BatHaxx�, �Return of the Jodi� and others.
Today we are announcing a project that changes this completely and removes the requirement for an exploitable game.
In memory of BannerBomb, we present you with LetterBomb , a brand new System Menu exploit that will allow you to enable homebrew with the push of an envelope (no stamp licking involved)
This exploit reuses (and abuses) some of some Nintendo�s Wii Messageboard functionality.
You will need:

A Wii running System Menu 4.3 (E/U/J/K)
A SD(HC) card with some free space
Your Wii�s WiFi MAC Address (available from your Wii�s system settings). This is needed because the Wii will only accept messages addressed to its specific MAC address.
A few minutes of your time

For this very special occasion we have created an easy-peasy webpage that takes away some of the pain that is usually involved with getting homebrew onto your system: http://please.hackmii.com
This webpage will ask you for some necessary information (such as your System Menu region and MAC address), and will then return a nicely packaged ZIP file that is ready for extraction to the root of your SD card. Simple eh?
All that is missing from that point is a boot.elf/boot.dol file (that you will need to place in the root of your card), and you should be good to go. For your convenience we have an option to prepackage and bundle the HackMii Installer boot.elf (this is enabled by default).
So, how do I do this?
Simple�. once you�ve unzipped the file to your SD card (and inserted it) just navigate to the �messageboard� on your Wii and in the default view you should browse to �yesterday� (the place where you usually see yesterday�s messages) � sometimes this may be �today� or �two days ago� (this depends on the timezone you are in).
From this view you will be presented with a small envelope (that should obviously stand out against the rest of your plain old boring ones), click it, kick back, twiddle your thumbs (the Brits among you, go and make a cup of tea) cross your fingers and hope it worked.
DISCLAIMER: We are aware of a similar exploit by giantpune (good work!), but as of today this has not been released. In anticipation of its release we decided to reverse engineer, hack and implement something ourselves.

Free only today! Nexus S Android phone

Who doesn't love google? Who needs a new kick ass phone that just happens to be FREE! Click the link and get a Nexus S!!!

CFW 3.55 PS3A Rev3 (PS3)

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Hello, today I decided to share my advanced our own CFW 3.55 PS3A.

This "Rev3" contains a lot of novelty in design of the XMB and corrects an annoying bug with formatting, but above all I brought you your own category "Homebrew" that works for all languages.

I've prepared a short demonstration video to get you the mouth water

Gecko 1.17 Released, Winbond Unlock Support (Xbox360)

Crazy... This is one of THE craziest things iv'e seen to help in the aid of hax... You have to watch.
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Gecko 1.17 Released, Winbond Unlock Support Gecko 1.17 has been released along with Winbond Unlock Support A man built it... a man cracked it... after months of trial and error and several weird methods; a Huge and Impressive effort in the tests. Geremia has made public the Kamikaze Winbond Unlock. We will not lie, this is not for noobz! Many drives have died in these tests which arrived at the method you will see in the video. But with all that, it�s the easiest method we can provide now. We delayed the (by now old) Macronix trick while we worked on this WINBOND trick to make as easy as possible. Full notes and comments of Geremia can be found here.

We released Gecko 1.17 which can handle The Winbond Unlock method, you will appreciate the possibilities put into the unlock on your Workbench with a small standalone device like Lizard powered from usb-ac adapter instead of having to have a PC near for this particular job. :) Full tutorials are being written and will be posted with-in the next 24 hours, but meanwhile we have prepared a small video of how to unlock the Winbond with the Kamikaze method using Lizard (Require Gecko 1.17)

(xbox360)Great News from elitemodscene.com!! Wasabi X360/X360S/BoxZii

Hot product of 2011 imo will be "Optical Disc Drive Emulators" for Xbox360. I wouldn't get one right away until people actually start testing these out. Competition is always a good thing for the consumer so hopefully the more there are of these the better the price for us! :)
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Even though the X360Key has not been released yet we already have two new products that have recently been announced fighting for the top spot in the Optical Disc Drive Emulator market. The first new product is the Wasabi 360 which has 2 different models, one for the phat 360 and one for the slim 360. Not very much is known about this product just yet but the following quote has been taken directly from their webpage :

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Wasabi X360 and X360S - coming soon!

The ultimate ODDE (Optical Disc Drive Emulator), allows you to emulate your 360's optical disc drive and run Xbox 360 or Xbox 1 ISO's from HDD. No more hunting for game discs, simply execute your favourite ISO's from any ESATA HDD. Easy, fast, safe and convenient.

Features include:
Solderless installation
Selection of your favourite ISO's via our intuitive user interface
Support for AP25 enabled ISO's
ESATA interface is used in place of USB providing superior performance, since data is transferred directly between the ESATA HDD and Xbox 360 resulting in impressively high bandwidth, many times faster than reading from a real DVD disc
Elegant and streamlined console inspired case design
Versions available for both fat and slim consoles
NTFS file system natively supported
Powerful embedded CPU running performance tuned Real Time Operating System
Regular firmware updates available free for download
Fully updatable hardware (MCU and FPGA's) from ESATA HDD including a failsafe recovery mode
No need to modify your original ODD
Hardware selectable pass through mode - providing access to the original ODD

Features coming soon:
Xbox Live compatibility
Dumping of X360 ISO's from original discs

The second product is named BoxZii, the people behind BoxZii have put out a lot more information on their product and have even included installation pictures. This product also comes in two different models but they are not differentiated by the model of Xbox 360 you have like the Wasabi360, The BoxZii has 2 models for you to choose from depending on how you intend to use the device.

Model 1: Internal Mainboard + USB PC Control Dongle

Xbox 360 XDG2/XGD3 Compatible
Supports Dash (2.13599) included
Supports FAT Consoles / AP25 Emulation
SLIM support by Simple USB software Upgrade
Plug and Play/Requires DVD Key
NO FLASHED DRIVE or JTAG EXPLOIT required
100% SOLDERLESS
USB 2.0 and ULTRAFAST LOADINGS
Avoid Overheating and >75% 3 Red lights of Death posibilites
Avoid tedious drive fw reflash
DVD/DL/Multigame compatible
Full upgradeable by USB/JTAG

Model 2: External OLED Control Panel for USB HDD/Pendrive (No PC required)

OLED control panel
USB HDD/Pendrive supported
Supports ALL Motherboards
USB & Jtag upgrades
Easy Installation

As you can see model one uses a dongle to communicate with your PC where you can control the device with a PC side app however, with this model you can only read ISO's from your internal 360 harddrive.

Model 2 has a standalone OLED control panel so you do not require a PC and it can also read ISO's from an external USB harddrive.

For more information on these two products please visit their official websites.
** WARNING ** None of these devices have been proven to be real, order at your own risk.

BoxZii.com
Wasabi360.com

OpenPStore (PS3)

OpenPStore will soon be released. Currently 5 people have tested said OpenPStore. It reminds me of the hombrew browser for the wii which happens to be fantastic btw ;) . Keep up the hard work blipi!!

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Hey people. I've just heard you posted this here, and I just said to myself, let's post too.
Atm I'm working on OpenPStore, which is part of the JFW. I've been working on it for many many hours, as all devs which are working on JFW, and it is just disgusting to read people saying JFW is a fake.

I've seen pics of JFW running, not all of its features though, so it's not fake. There is a whole team working hard every day to bring this to you, and I've actually talked to all of them and I do know their work is real.
Just for you to know, now it is 2 am where I live, I've been working till now just to have it all ready for the beta test and not to delay it anymore.

We want to verify everything is working without any problems before realeasing it, to avoid things such as bricks or weird bugs. That's why the beta and further release will take so long. So far it is all progressing fine, and I do have proofs of, at least, my work.

Here I bring you 2 proofs of how hard we are working (OpenPStore).
1- We had a problem with a pre-made library to read .xml files (mxml), which was solved by manually coding a new .xml parser.
xml_parser.h : http://pastebin.com/bqQr1YG5
xml_parser.c : http://pastebin.com/A7DsysUJ
(Don't expect to find any OpenPStore here, as it is only a .xml parser)

2- Final GUI design of OpenPStore (Not a pic of a ps3, but from a PC. Though PS3 is exactly the same):
It will come in multiple colors, with an autochanger (to random color) feature.

If you want to I can keep you updated.
JFW is real, and we are putting all our effort into it. Do not trust any fake release/leak! I don't know if the brick thing is true, but having seen all the work which has been done here, I would just trust it and not mess around.
Nobody is going to brick nobody's console unless someone leaks the JFW. And, even if it is leaked, if you don't use the leaked beta, you dont' have to worry about anything. And ofcourse, the final release won't have this anti-leak feature.

I also have to say thanks to everyone of you who do trust in us and give us support, as support and opinions is our only pay back for the work =)

Blipi

PS: If it was for me, I would translate JFW and it's homebrew to English and more languages, but as I am not the only one who works in this project, I don't know when English support will come or whether it will come or not. Sorry.

PS2: For those claiming evidence... Beta will be here soon, just wait. You cant trust us or not. I know what I'm doing, and I do know that it is real.
I don't even have a ps3 to test OpenPStore too, and I have to keep asking for testers. More than 5 people have already tried OpenPStore, and every one of them could tell you that it is real.

JFW-DH now in Master Beta phase (PS3)

Not sure about master but the title did make me giggle a bit. What some are still calling "fake", it seems this firmware from the folks over at demonhades.org will soon prove to be real. Today, testers will begin a 2 week testing phase. If you think well hey, I'll find this firmware cause like everything else on the internet gets leaked. Think again, something is being done so the firmware won't work and might even brick the console. At least that's what is being "said". So sit tight and soon we can have a new firmware that could even be better than kmew's

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GROUP A - Backwards Compatible Owners

* User-Spanish speaking (in Spanish beta)
* Internet Connection on the PS3 (not psn)
* Backward-Console PAL, NTSC FAT
* Game-Original 3.56 (not dispensable)
* Console with Firmware 3.41 or less
* Original game-PS2, PS1, PS3
* Backup of the above both PS3, PS2, PS1 (PS3 unpatched)
* Game store NPDRM 3.56 or 355 (not psone)
* Backup 341 / 355Kmeaw
* Linux live cd-USB Red Ribon

GROUP B - Later-Model PHAT's (no PS2 ability)

* User-Spanish speaking (in Spanish beta)
* Internet Connection on the PS3 (not psn)
* Console not backwards-PAL, NTSC FAT
* Game-Original 3.56 (not dispensable)
* Console with Firmware 3.41 or less
* Original game-PS2, PS1, PS3
* Backup of the above both PS3, PS2, PS1 (PS3 unpatched)
* Game store NPDRM 3.56 or 355 (not psone)
* Backup 341 / 355Kmeaw
* Linux live cd-USB Red Ribon

GROUP C - New PS3 Slim Owners

* User-Spanish speaking (in Spanish beta)
* Internet Connection on the PS3 (not psn)
* Console not backwards-PAL, NTSC Slim
* Game-Original 3.56 (not dispensable)
* Console with Firmware 3.41 or less
* Original game-PS2, PS1, PS3
* Backup of the above both PS3, PS2, PS1 (PS3 unpatched)
* Game store NPDRM 3.56 or 355 (not psone)
* Backup 341 / 355Kmeaw
* Linux live cd-USB Red Ribon
No word on their forums if they are going to start an ENGLISH BETA release, but they do warn their BETA testers, that if anyone thinks of LEAKING it, they have safeguards IN-PLACE to in-fact BRICK the LEAKER's PS3 or ones that have INSTALL the LEAKed BETA, so be VERY CAREFUL if you find any so-called LEAKED-BETAs out there, as we will most likely being seeing soon some lame Youtube pages or other wannabe sites suddenly appear and claim to have the release now that it is out to selected few people.

Demonhades also announced on the forums the firmware developers are aiming for a release date of October 1, 2011 once the 3 selected groups of 2 weeks of BETA testing is over and all the required selected tests have been completed, and the final remaining bugs are tracked down and removed by the teams of developers working on the JFW-DH custom firmware release.

ProgSkeet... awww skeet skeet skeet skeet!

To ProgSkeet or not to ProgSkeet, that is the question.. What is this you might ask? Lil-Jons' remix? Some tech porno? YES!! it's a chip to program(think infectus but on crack)! nand's & nor's galore :) You can even request a custom build. If you like to tinker with soldering and game consoles you must get one of these! Make some money, buy "bricked" wii's or PS3's off ebay. Downgrade firmware on a PS3 that someones brother updated and more!

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ProgSkeet barebone PCB [Limited White Edition] ProgSkeet is your one and only solution to your flashing needs. Whether it is NAND, NOR or any other kind of non-volatile memory - just solder, plug in and operate! Blazing fast read/write speed!
Beside software-side updates, you can also expect hardware updates powered by customer requests! With a broad range of applications, such as EEPROM programming (among others: Altera, Lattice FPGA/CPLD), Bad flash recovery, more commonly known as "Unbricking" (Modems, video cards, cell phones, music players) and plain serial programming (manufacture of your own device). Supported devices include, but are not limited to: K9F1G08, S29GL128, K8Q2815, HY27US08. Industrial programmers often range in the EUR 1000+ range with limited customer support. ProgSkeet can compete with these programmers all the while maintaining low cost! And always remember - for accuracy and speed, choose ProgSkeet!
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