Sony unleashed a new firmware for the PS3 today – version 3.42. I wonder what new features it adds?
If you guessed “None, it just makes the PSJailbreak stop working,†well then you’d be right on the money.
According to the PS Blog, firmware 3.42 “includes additional security features.†According to reports circulating on the internet though, what it does is render the piracy-enabling USB-dongles – PSJailbreak, PSGroove and PSfreedom - useless.
For now. According to the people who make the exploits they can be updated to possibly work again on newer firmwares. It seems we’ve entered the same cat-and-mouse scenario that’s plagued the PSP for years, with hackers and Sony constantly leap-frogging each other.
Source : Kotaku
Last Updated: September 7, 2010
spl0it
September 7, 2010 at 09:48
Those Girls are leap frogging the wrong way!
RSA-Ace
September 7, 2010 at 09:54
Someone said it also added a Move Calibration setting in the options.
Sir James of the SS Cape Town
September 7, 2010 at 09:59
They’re doing it wrong! Blondes! Sigh!
Sir James of the SS Cape Town
September 7, 2010 at 10:01
Has anyone tried it yet? I think I’m first going to wait and see before I download it, just in case it bricks my PS3.
Gavin Mannion
September 7, 2010 at 10:12
It all looks good from here… not sure what you guys are talking about
lans
September 7, 2010 at 10:41
i guess all you cheapo bastards will have to get real jobs now!
GO GET SOME JOBS!!!!
al360
September 7, 2010 at 10:51
aai another 20 mins of my life wasted cause of a stoopid firmware update what happened to real engineers when updates weren’t needed the lazy bastards
Dark
September 7, 2010 at 11:09
Blonde
RSA-Ace
September 7, 2010 at 11:55
Updates provide extra value? Why wouldn’t you want that?
Sony added support for patches in the previous firmware – and they using it now – you don’t have to download the whole 200MB update…
AC!D
September 7, 2010 at 12:30
Incremental updates for the win. Downloaded it in 5 minutes.
lans
September 7, 2010 at 12:44
@acid are you buying the signature edition?
would you be interested in starting a gt5 get together at fourways crossing, by cats digital? on nov 2?
AC!D
September 7, 2010 at 14:31
Sorry Lans i live on the other side of the country and no im just getting the regular edition. There are too many of my favourite games comming out early next year like Deus X, Dead Space 2, Killzone 3, Portal 2, Yakuza 4 and Dragon Age 2. I need to spend prudently this X-mas so i can enjoy the fantastic new year games.