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Demon Cleaner
27th October 2011, 16:15
There's some activity on the PS3 again, and maybe in the near future we will get a new jailbreaking device. Although you will have to run the 3.60+ games from BD discs.


It's true and it's blue ... now what's Sony gonna do when the latest jail breaking dongle comes to modshops near you. The "True Blue" dongle behaves similar to earlier jailbreak devices; however, this one supports firmware 3.60+ required games, up to 3.73, and does not require the power/eject trick. And no -- no PSN access. But if you've managed to keep your PS3 at 3.55 or lower, then True Blue is for you.

True Blue requires a "special" BD-R disc for 3.60+ games to work; these blank Blu-ray discs will be available from official resellers as well. Once we know the resellers we'll share 'em with you. So you will require the dongle + these particular discs for everything to work properly ... at least for now anyway.

True Blue Features

- Booting of games from v3.6+ (up to v3.73) from special BD-R discs available from official resellers
- Runs games up to v3.56 from HDD in conjunction with 'backup managers'
- Does not require the Power/Eject trick
- Custom v3.55 Dongle firmware behaves like OFW when 'True Blue' is not inserted
- Manufactured from highest grade components and Actel based
- Durable and high quality metal case design
- Tough and durable plastic packaging
- Further features to be added as they are developed
- On board 2 MBytes SPI flash
- Supports Fat and Slim consoles currently running any firmware up to v3.55
- And any PS3 which can be downgraded from v3.6+ to v3.55 (NOTE: Requires other tools, 'True Blue' currently can't downgrade a Console)
- Supports all regions of consoles
- Supports all regions of ISO’s to be released
- Rock solid crystal oscillator on board for flawless timing


The 'True Blue' dongle allows booting of the latest the ISO’s (3.6+) from special BD-R discs which can be purchased from all official resellers.

The discs can be burned by any BD-R recorder and there are no special requirements on either PC or BD burner types.

Whilst we can disclose that the discs are specially manufactured to allow booting of the latest ISO’s, further technical information on the way by which the BD-R discs can allow booting cannot be provided, for obvious reasons.

Harrison
27th October 2011, 17:06
Nice. Great in finally see support for newer games.

Demon Cleaner
4th November 2011, 17:41
Some news:


Previously we reported that the True Blue jailbreak dongle (or JB2) would require special blank BD-R discs for 3.60+ games to work properly; these discs would be sold alongside the device from official resellers, who we still don't know yet. Well, you can scratch all that "special" Blu-ray nonsense now because the hardcores behind True Blue have figured a means to using regular, plain ol' BD-Rs ... nothing special here -- just get the dongle, burn your games, and play 'em.

Here is the full, long list of 3.60+ games reported working with True Blue:

Alice: Madness Returns
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Battlefield 3
Bleach: Soul Resurreccion
Bodycount
Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2012
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Call of Juarez: The Cartel
Captain America: Super Soldier
Catherine
Child of Eden
Dark Souls
Dead Island
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dirt 3
Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi
Dungeon Siege III
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3
F.E.A.R. 3
F1 2011
GoldenEye 007: Reloaded
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Just Dance 3
Madden NFL 2012
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
NBA 2K12
Need for Speed: The Run
No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise
Portal 2
Rage
Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One
Rayman Origins
Record of Agarest War Zero
Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny
Saints Row: The Third Shadows of the Damned
Silent Hill: Downpour
Skylanders Spyro's Adventure
Sonic Generations
Supremacy MMA
Tekken Hybrid
The Adventures of Tintin
The Cursed Crusade
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The King of Fighters XIII
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
The Sims 3: Pets
Thor: God of Thunder
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Trilogy HD
Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
White Knight Chronicles II
WWE '12

And I'd imagine there are more.

Shortly later:


Shortly after yesterday's True Blue update, the team sent word again that booting 3.60+ required games direct from the HDD is now possible -- no "special" or regular blank Blu-ray discs required, in fact no discs at all. But now the real question is: Is True Blue even necessary? With all these game/EBOOT patches coming out, like this and this, who needs a new jailbreak dongle? Don't get me wrong, True Blue could lead to bigger and better things, especially when/after it's reverse engineered ... plus patching games can get pretty dirty.

Updated True Blue Features

- Booting of all games designed for v3.6+ (up to v3.73) from BD-R discs and HDD
- Runs your existing games and new games up to v3.73 from HDD in conjunction with 'backup managers'
(NOTE: 'Backup Manager' are not supplied with the dongle, end-user installs his choice of personal 'homebrew')
- Does not require the Power/Eject trick
- Custom v3.55 Dongle firmware behaves like OFW when 'True Blue' is not inserted
- Manufactured from highest grade components and Actel based
- Durable and high quality metal case design
- Tough and durable plastic packaging
- Further features to be added as they are developed
- On board 2 MBytes SPI flash
- Supports Fat and Slim consoles currently running any firmware up to v3.55
- And any PS3 which can be downgraded successfully from v3.6+ to v3.55
(NOTE: Requires other tools, 'True Blue' currently can't downgrade a Console)
- Supports all regions of consoles
- Supports all regions of v3.6+ games
- Rock solid crystal oscillator on board for flawless timing



I asked myself the same question if True Blue is really still necessary, as EBOOT patches come out quite fast, although not for every game. So far there's the patches for Battlefield 3 and Uncharted 3, which gives me some time before I will need another one.

Harrison
5th November 2011, 10:54
Nice. Very fast progression and development. Tempting.

Tiago
7th November 2011, 14:22
Battlefield 3 and Uncharted 3 are fully working for 3.55
game and patchs are available for them, and they are very easy to do it.

Battlefield 3 can be installed in internal and external HD with 3.55.... nice game!!
i didnt see uncharted yet, but the first "bug" of "journal" is now fixed. Works 100%

Demon Cleaner
7th November 2011, 15:42
I'm currently playing Uncharted 3, journal "bug" is fixed, just made a pause now to eat something, gonna continue in 2 minutes :)

I only had one freeze so far, beginning of chapter 3, but I reloaded, and then it worked. Hopefully there will be not too many freezes, best would be none at all.

Harrison
7th November 2011, 16:05
I loved the first 2 Uncharted games but not had chance to play the third yet.

Demon Cleaner
7th November 2011, 21:07
Until now it's really good, but not better than the 2nd. The "WOW" effect was also bigger from the 1st to the 2nd, than from the 2nd to the 3rd. Although the visuals are again very excellent. I'm in chapter 10 now.

J T
7th November 2011, 21:50
Despite not playing video games much at all of late, and already having a media centre PC under the telly.... all this talk of PS3 modding (and how easy it seems to be at first glance) is really tempting me to go out and get one if I can find it for cheaps....

Harrison
8th November 2011, 00:58
Just remember you will need to find a PS3 running FW3.55. New PS3's probably all have FW3.6 or newer already loaded so you won't be able to jailbreak them and run your own software.

Demon Cleaner
8th November 2011, 13:45
One from eBay would probably be the best buy, you can even then ask the seller which fw it has.

Harrison
8th November 2011, 14:06
I'm wondering is it worth anyone buying a phat PS3 these days? Or should they go with the Slim? I have the newer Slim and am more than happy with it, but then I am not interesting in hacking it as I want the online access for the PS Store and online gaming. However I would be interested in getting a second one at some point to run custom FW so I can play some of the games I don't want to actually buy, and to explore other homebrew and emulation on the platform.

The older 60GB Phat PS3 definitely had a higher failure rate over the slim, but had more features and did look better IMO.

Without reading back though the CFW release lists, do that now offer PS2 gameplay support (i.e. give back owners this ability) as well as PS1? And also do they allow playing of PS1 and PS2 ISOs as well as CD-R and DVD-Rs? If they do then I am very tempted as I could then pack my PS2's and PS1 away and use use a hacked PS3 for all Playstation gaming.

Demon Cleaner
8th November 2011, 16:51
Should go with a slim one, why buying a phat, CFW is the same for both.

Not everything supports PS2 games yet, you would have to buy the Cobra USB dongle to play PS2 games. Don't know if you can run them fom disc though?

Demon Cleaner
8th November 2011, 22:28
Perhaps something interesting for you.

There's a program called ONE released today, which you install under 3.41 or 3.55, and it lets you run PSX games from disc, but does not support running them from HDD.

Harrison
8th November 2011, 23:21
Cool. Thanks for the info. I might wait a bit longer to see what further developments happen as things seem to be moving quickly.

Demon Cleaner
16th November 2011, 18:03
True Blue v2.2 is now released, and supports booting 3.60+ games from HDD, no need to burn to BD anymore.

Harrison
17th November 2011, 02:04
nice.

Demon Cleaner
7th March 2012, 13:15
True Blue seems to be quite a dongle to go with, yesterday they already released patches for The Darkness 2, Binary Domain, SSX and Mass Effect 3. Quite fast!!

Submeg
8th March 2012, 07:18
After all this talk of modding....I just sit here and think, so much effort! I research then buy a game, smash it, move onto the next....always waiting for the games to be old so they are cheap. It seems so much effort to keep ahead of Sony...ugg I must be getting old :p

Harrison
8th March 2012, 12:02
Normally I'm modding consoles asap, but I've been the same with the PS3 so far. I'm not too bothered with getting most games on release, and am happy to wait until their initial interest dies down and they appear secondhand on ebay for next to nothing. I picked up a load of PS3 games this way and have a nice collection. I do buy the odd new game if it is something I really want, but other than that I'm prepared to wait for most.

Saying that, I am still tempted to get a second PS3 to mod if I saw one cheap, as I love to mod/hack games consoles and see what I can do with them... especially with the power the PS3 has.