How To Hack Your Ps3
Things you will need:
PS3 Firmware 3.55 or lower
Any Playstation 3 game disc
Portable hard drive formatted in FAT32
Formatting your hard drive into FAT32 is essential as the PS3 only reads
FAT32 drives, well at the moment atleast. To format it into FAT32 you
can try using the windows 7 in-built disk management software, but i
couldn’t get it to work so i just downloaded EASEUS Partition Manager
3.0 Unlimited Edition. It worked like a charm in under a few seconds.
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Please note – YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUY ONE OF THESE PS3 JAILBREAK DONGLES!
I would also advise to be signed out of playstation network and not sign into it when using a jailbroken ps3
I would also advise you not to update you console from a jailbroken state… say 3.55 Custom Firmware to 3.56 Official Firmware
Good news is, that the jailbreak is not permanent ! To find out how to
reverse it, so you can play online again, please go to point 9, which is
almost at the end of this tutorial
1) CHECK
The first thing to do is to check you playstation 3′s current firmware.
The jailbreak can only happen if the PS3 is firmware 3.55 or lower (Not
sure about back dating from 3.56 have a look on google)
To check your ps3 firmware you have to go on your playstation 3 and go to:
Settings > System Settings If this is mneaw’s 3.55 CFW patched PUP ,
please ignore the bit below in green and go straight to point 2!
If not, then install the official sony 3.55 firmware. This can he found here:
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Put the file on your external HDD here:
PS3 > UPDATE > PS3UPDAT.PUP
To install it you will probably have to boot it up in recovery mode. I
would first try to install it via the System > Update System route.
If this fails you will have to use recovery mode. To enter recovery mode
you have to power off the PS3 and then:
#1 Press and hold the power button and the PS3 will boot up and then
shut down again. Release the power button once the PS3 has shut down.
#2 Press and hold the power button and hold it until the PS3 does 2
quick beeps once this has happened release the power button and the PS3
should boot up in recovery mode.
#3 Choose the bottom option which is System Update.
#4 This will scan the External HDD and then ask you if you want to
install the 3.55 firmware. Select YES, the PS3 should install the
firmware and reboot the PS3
Check the PS3 firmware by going to
System > System Information
2) DOWNLOAD CUSTOM FIRMWARE
The second thing you will have to do is download the playstation 3
jailbreak. There are many jailbreaks flying around the internet but the
one i have found to be the best is the mneaw’s 3.55 CFW patched PUP
one.
This custom firmware can be downloaded from:
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3) JAILBREAK
When you have downloaded the firmware you will have to install it. To do
this you will have to plug in your FAT32 formatted external harddrive
and create a folder called PS3 inside this folder create another folder
called UPDATE inside this fold you need to put the file you downloaded,
this should be called PS3UPDAT.PUP so to recap
External HDD > PS3 > UPDATE > PS3UPDAT.PUP
Once you have done this you are then able to install the update. To do this plug the external hard drive into the PS3 and go to:
Settings > System Update > System update via storage media
Follow the on screen instruction and this should install the ps3 custom
firmware (CFW) the PS3 should restart once this has completed.
4) Once the custom firmware has installed if you go to the Game section
on the XMB there should be two new items appeared. These are:
Install packages and APP_HOME/PS3_Game if these are not here then the ps3 has not been jailbroken.
If this was successful ignore the Green text Below and go to Point 5.
If for some reason you cannot install the firmware this way you will
have to install it in recovery mode. To enter recovery mode you have to
power off the PS3 and then:
#1 Press and hold the power button and the PS3 will boot up and then
shut down again. Release the power button once the PS3 has shut down.
#2 Press and hold the power button and hold it until the PS3 does 2
quick beeps once this has happened release the power button and the PS3
should boot up in recovery mode.
#3 Choose the bottom option which is System Update.
#4 This will scan the External HDD and then ask you if you want to
install the 3.55 firmware. Select YES, the PS3 should install the
firmware and reboot the ps3
Check the PS3 firmware by going to
System > System Information
5) DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL GAME BACKUP MANAGER
How to installed games on your freshly jailbroken PS3, the first thing
you will have to do is download a game backup manager. Once again there
are many of these all over the internet and for the purpose of this
tutorial i will use one that i know works, well for me of course.
The game manager than i use is called GAIA MANAGER v2.07 this can be downloaded from here:
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Once downloaded you will have to load the file onto you external hard
drive. The file will have to be placed in the ROOT directory of the
external hard drive. When you open the file you downloaded there should
be three files, these are:
1 = UP0001-GAIA01985_00-7679866932773369-V2.07-GAMEZ.pkg
2 = UP0001-GAIA01985_00-7679866932773369-V2.07-GAMES.pkg
3 = UP0001-GAIA01985_00-7679866932773369-V2.07-BDRIPS.pkg
All three of the files are the game you only need one of them in your
root directory but the one you choose if personal preference but i
always choose the -GAMES.pkg one. You will have to remember which one
you choose later on.
Example EXTERNAL HDD > UP0001-GAIA01985_00-7679866932773369-V2.07-GAMES.PKG
Plug you External HDD back into the PS3 and go to the install packages
button on the Game directory on the XMB. you should see the file come up
and just press “Xâ€
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