[PS3] - Dongle Free EBOOTS

[Demon Cleaner]

That's good news. Some guys are decrypting the TrueBlue dongle, and already released 2 patches (eboots) for Ninja Gaiden 3 and FIFA Street 2012, so that you're able to play these games that require firmware above 4.xx on your 3.55 CFW.

I tried both tonight, and both are working fine. Hopefully they will manage to bypass dongles soon, and release a new CFW.


A short while ago we posted about the work the E3 Team was doing with bypassing the True Blue dongle. Well now they’re telling us what they’ve been up to and it's pretty big.

Now, initially I myself thought that the work that E3 was doing was just going to result in a new dongle on the market and you know what, I’m glad they proved me wrong... well kind of. Not only have they found a way to get newer games to work on 3.55 CFW they found three but one of them will involve an E3 dongle, now there is no point in trying to explain all of this myself and mess it up so I’ve posted a quote from the E3 team below as well as two patched game links to let you run your legal backups of Ninja Gaiden 3 and FIFA Street 2012 on your CFW enabled PS3 without a dongle.

[Harrison]

Very nice. My second PS3 with 3.55 CFW should be arriving in the next few days, so I can try this out. :)

[Demon Cleaner]

I got a True Blue dongle now, due to a misplaced order, then I had to change the order, as I didn't get the money back. So I ended up eventually with the TB dongle.

I must say that it works really great. I put a new CFW on the PS3, the one from True Blue (3.55 v2), which also allows you to play games until 3.55 just like any other like Kmeaw. Dongle update is so easy, just install the update .pkg file to your PS3, then update the dongle through it.

With the dongle inserted, PS3 recognizes the system as 4.11 True Blue 2.7. Online is still not possible though. But I now downloaded about 25 games that needed 3.55+, even 4.xx, and they just run perfectly.

The dongle was 69€, which is basically the price here for one new game, so if I can now play over 30 new games, it's worth the money.

[Tiago]

Demon, can you list please the list of those 25 games please ? I know someone... that has 3.55, he did it a long time ago, as i remember it's a "normal" 3.55 v1 i guess ..... and he did not do anything else after it.... he played a lot of games some needed a special patch also, but he run a lot of them. but now you talking about a 3.55 v2 an i want to know more about it. Is it a USB ? just plug and play?
please tell me the list o f games or at lest the main ones...
thanks

[Demon Cleaner]

You need the True Blue dongle and their custom firmware, in the meantime v2.

http://www.truebluejb2.com/

There's also a list of the patches for the newest games.

[Demon Cleaner]

I knew this would happen, it's like always, I have my dongle since 1 week, and now this:


On Lightake's product page for the dongle, a message has been posted in the description explaining the situation that a lot of people are talking about today.

True Blue JB2 was stop producing and a newest replace product will be released in July, please pay close attention to TB official site news update in recently days. Any questions just contact sales@lightake.com for help.

Bollocks!

Well at least I get 30 games for the price of one. Although they could bring something else out now which would make the TB obsolete? We'll see.

[Demon Cleaner]

Btw, only to keep you updated, newest games coming out all the time, almost together or only 1 day later comes the EBOOT for it. I finished last week already with Hitman Absolution, which I had 1 week before it's initial release.

[Harrison]

Nice, so the True Blue dongle continued to be supported for newer releases?

BTW, what did you think of Hitman Absolution? I've played the previous games in the series and enjoyed them.

[Demon Cleaner]

No, True Blue is obsolete since some months. You only need a CFW like Kmeaw, and the corresponding EBOOT file, or .pkg to install for your game.

Hitman Absolution is absolutely great, I had a lot of fun with it, and this is definitely one of the games that I would play again, to see if I can do it differently, as there is often more than one way to assassinate your targets, or run/sneak/shoot/disguise through a level. I was basically only sneaking silently, as using fire power leads to absolutely nothing, only hundreds more enemies will engage you.

[Harrison]

Nice. Will have to play it when i get time.

Regarding the eboots. How did they manage to do it with just eboots now, when a dongle was required before?

[Tiago]

Nice. Will have to play it when i get time.
Regarding the eboots. How did they manage to do it with just eboots now, when a dongle was required before?

Good question! I read somewhere that they got the keys. Last time i checked almost every game is now possible to crack.
you don't even need the specific eboot, there is a software that reads the standard eboot and transforms it to a crack one.

[Harrison]

But I take it you still need a PS3 on the older 3.55 firmware for it to work as you are still running unsigned code?

When they break it fully from the recently released master key and it will work for all firmwares, than that will be perfect. Although it will spell really bad trouble for Sony. I really would only want that to happen once they have released the PS4, then we can fully explore the PS3 without worrying about killing the platform.

[Demon Cleaner]

Yeah, the EBOOT files contain the keys, so no dongle is needed anymore. But you also get 4.21 and 4.30 CFW, where all the new games work just fine, only downside is that you can only fit 10 games on your HDD.

[Harrison]

Is that due to the Blu-ray iso sizes? Can you load then from external HDD with these eboot files?

interesting that there is now a 3.40 CFW. Do you have any links for more information? Would a 3.55 CFF PS3 be needed to then upgrade to the newer CFW?

[Demon Cleaner]

I have no idea, didn't look into that at all, because where's the point? I think you can upgrade from any firmware to 4.30, don't know if you need a CFW.

Look at www.ps3hax.net for some information.

It's really only interesting for people with higher firmware than 3.55, as I also don't know if you still can play your old games, it's really only for the newest games, and as EBOOTs get released almost the day the game comes out, and 3.55 doesn't have that 10 games restriction, I prefer to stay at 3.55. I have now over 200 games on an external HDD.

[Demon Cleaner]

You know that the new Devil May Cry is out, and guess what, someone already released a 3.41/3.55 patch for it, awesome!!