Thread: PS3MFW Builder v0.2 Released

KaKaRoTos and the rest of the team behind the popular PS3MFW Builder, have been hard at work improving their tool. Today, they bring us PS3MFW Builder v0.2 which has some significant improvements and new features. The tool now allows you to include version spoofing and custom startup sounds in your modified firmware. In addition, your MFW can now be installed on systems with broken blu-ray drives. Lastly, the ability to convert a shop/demo unit to a full fledged retail unit is now included along with a few other features and bug fixes.



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Today we are proud to present our second official release, PS3MFW Builder v0.2. Just as the previous release, v0.2 is intended for firmwares 3.10 and above. Extensive testing of the framework and tasks has been successful with all versions above 3.10, the majority of tasks are also successful below 3.10. PS3MFW Builder v0.2 contains many new features that further improve usability. For this new version, PS3MFW Builder and the tasks have been moved to seperate repositories on git-hacks.com. Builder 0.2 adds new functions to aid in the creation of tasks, with 2 bug fixes. For programmers, the new core offers more flexibility for tasks and allows to manipulate the user interface better.

Furthermore, several exciting new tasks have been created. The most interesting one is a new privacy patch, which keeps PS3 from sending personally identifiable information to many configurable domain names: After jailbreak became available for PS3, reverse engineers discovered that the PS3 collects a multitude of personal information without your knowledge, such as such as your TV model, a list of all usb devices (including product IDs) you ever plugged into your PS3, usage statistics, which games and media you play and more.

The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) specifically allows for consumers to circumvent technological protection measures in order to protect their privacy. Even though there was little doubt concerning the legality of PS3MFW Builder before because it in itself does not circumvent any technological protection measures, this new feature makes using it inside the USA fully DMCA compliant.

Additionally, PS3MFW Builder v0.2 allows for several new customizations, including a firmware version spoofer, a way to edit the look and sound of the boot sequence by inserting your own coldboot files, and a task to replace the default “Airbush” XMB theme. Now it can also create modified firmwares that can be installed on PS3s with broken Blu-Ray drives as well as create firmwares that can convert demo (kiosk/shop) units into regular retail PS3s! A bug that prevented USB storage devices from being shown under Game Data Utility was fixed.

The new PS3MFW Builder v0.2 and tasks can be found at www.git-hacks.com/ps3mfw

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REQUIREMENTS
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To use PS3MFW Builder, the following is needed:

-The latest version of ps3tools (not older than 25 March 2011), found on git-hacks.com

-Tcl/Tk 8.5 ( http://www.tcl****/software/tcltk/8.5.tml )

-rcomage for some tasks
Source: http://ps3mfw.com/