Yeah I turned it back on after a week, and it went to a reasonable amount. I even made sure I didn't somehow have a global ignore or something turned on

 

Ok, doesn't have a whole lot to do with this, but it does involve PS3's at least. Does anyone know how to fix laser disc readers? Mine broke like a month out of warranty, and I was not paying them to have it fixed. Still a little bitter about it if you can't tell.

 

This might help.

 

Thanks, first one I've seen that actually looks competent/is a video.

 

Update: There's a rumor floating around that Sony is including a backdoor in their newest firmware release. If anyone here is foolish enough to actually have their JBed PS3s hooked up to the internet, it would probably be good to take them offline.

 

So I'll be straight with you guys, the only thing that intrigues me enough about this situation to risk bricking a PS3 with my minimal hacking skills is if someone adds in PS2 emulation to PS3 slims.

Is there any indication that this may be happening in the near future? If so I'll keep away from the PSN for a bit.

 

Given that I'd heard of PS2 emulators existing for quite a while now, and used to have an Xbox emulator myself, I'd say it's a fair possibility. That said, I know very little about most of this stuff.

 

No, ps2 emulation on the ps3 depended on a certain chipset, which is only available in some of the older ps3 fats. Ps2 emulation will most likely not occur on slim PS3s.

 

Some are fairly decent, but unless they've radically advanced in the past 7 months, I know there are plenty of flaws with them.

Now this isn't an area I'm exactly an expert in, however from what I understand emulation requires quite a bit of hardware power. From what I've heard, the PS3 couldn't do this, so it got around it by including the same chipset inside the ps2 so it could run the games.

I've heard that PAL PS3s could run emulation somehow, but I'm not quite sure if this is true. If it is, apparently it was done in such a way that allowed the Ps3 to work with it's rather limited hardware, as PS2 emulation on PC's requires a huge amount of processing power (though admittedly the cell processor the ps3 might be up to the challenge).

Sorry if this is rambling on, just got back to the doc and on vicodin. Broke my ankle .

 

The PS3 actually can emulate the PS2, and for a long time were doing software emulation of it. They eventually decided to drop that; probably wasn't profitable.

(Note: this is for the PS3s that DO NOT have the PS2 chip in it. Those just have hardware emulation).

 

Huh, I wasn't aware of that. Well, maybe we will see emulation in the future.

 

Well, Sony's finally started to ban hacked PS3s now. I'll be honest, if you've been stupid enough to keep your console connected to the 'net still after all the warnings, and against all common sense, you deserve it by now.

 

Is there any benefit to hacking the ps3? I'm still on 3.41 and haven't even played on the ps3 since before christmas, been playing on my pc with all the games bought in the steam sales.