XMB Modified With More Debug Options

Psgroove writes: "Kris Absinthe has reported via his blog, that he has successfully modified the XMB. He has added a few Debug PSN options by modifying his XML files on his flash."

[dangert12]

Hey Mr Hacker i respect what your doing for the community honestly but can you leave that shit at home i mean people like you will screw people like me over eventually for example OTHER OS
love u bye

[Red_Orange_Juice]

not interested, please move on to warez forums

[WhittO]

lol, imagine if they started adding things everyone wants that Sony hasn't delivered, could be good for us because maybe Sony will listen to the reasons why people are jail-breaking their ps3's (like Apple learned why people jail broke their iphones and started adding the missing features).

[dantesparda]

what missinbg features were that?

[lex-1020]

Oh you know, like picture messaging, a video camera, tethering. You know the little things that everyone in the world except Iphone had. Get off Steve Jobs nuts and realize the first Iphone sucked. But Apple added what people wanted and improved it.

[evrfighter]

"you will screw people like me over eventually for example OTHER OS "

right cuz you used other os

[Eamon]

Apparently, some modders may have found a way to re-enable Other OS. lol

[WhittO]

"really?
what missinbg features were that?"

haha, everyone knows the main reasons why most people jail-broke their iphone: MMS, custom wallpapers, cop & paste, tethering, basically loads more customisation and options that Apple didn't allow, but most of them features have now been added, so there is less reason now to jail-break.

You know Apple prob wouldn't have been so quick to add all of them features if the jail-break didn't exist!

As soon as they start adding ps3 features everyone wants and there is all of a sudden loads of reasons to jail-brake, Sony will listen.

[raztad]

@Eamon

I guess you are talking about this:

http://www.ps3hax.net/2010/...

However, inside the article you can find this little piece of info:

"Time will tell if we have otheros working eventually."

I can't tell for sure, but I wouldnt be surprised if Sony removed every bit of support for OtherOS in the PS3 OS. I find very unlikely hackers can get otheros working properly ever.

[Brklynty1]

Theres no point in hacking the PS3 seriously.

[FantasyStar]

why's that? I see plenty of reason to hack the PS3. That SneS emulator I saw on youtube is amazing. IT puts the Virtual Console on Wii to shame. Also, playing PSP Games on the PS3? DC games as well? C'mon, you can't not be impressed by that.

[wissam]

PSP one was fake and snes can be played on 10 years old pc.
people will hack mainly to play free games.

[nycredude]

Also why the hell would you want to play PSP games on the ps3. The graphics will be below hd levels and it is no longer portable. It's retarded. Plus if you are too cheap you can already hack the psp.

Face it. It's pointless. Only people who want to pirate cares about this.

[The Great Melon]

I would love to play PSP games on the PS3. I tend only play PSP and DS games when I travel, but I don't travel often. If the ability to play PSP games was created I would jump all over it.

@nycredude

Graphics aren't everything in this world. You make it seem like everything before HD games are unplayable.

[DaTruth]

2 years ago I had an NES emulator on the Ps3 but there was no sound and no support for save games.

$hit was great till the next firmware ended it. MegaMan 2 and Bionic Commando was great but I got to Wily's world dragon boss and it started bugging up on me so I couldn't finish the game!

@The Great Melon: It sounds great to play PSP games on your HD television, but I bought the cable for that and only used once!

[mfwahwah]

There's no point in playing games on the PS3 either though.

It's just that some people find different things fun. You play video games on your PS3. They hack their PS3. I don't care who does what.

[badz149]

first it was enabling otherOS but it was just there but doing nothing! and then there was playing PSP's ISO and it was proven FAKE and now what's this? what's the point? you can't even go to PSN using the exploit!

for those hoping for PS2 emulation, XGC and so on, just give it up already! it's not going to happen, not unless if they can find a way to hack FW3.42 and now FW3.50! what took them so long? it's been awhile since FW3.42 but none came out with any hack! now they just realized that Sony purposely allowed them to use the Logan5 tools as there was no harm to it as the PS3 and PSN was secured. but with the exploit, just a quick updates disabled that and no hacked PS3 are online since then! well, without the stolen dongle and code, hackers were hopeless for almost 4 years and I'm not expecting them to hack FW3.5 anytime soon! have a happy time staying offline

[xino]

Please think again!
Why the fark did Sony advertised the OtherOS on their ps3 in the first place? why was OtherOS installed to the ps3 in the first place? If Sony knew that would be the way Hackers can hack the ps3???

After years later, an hacker boasted he can hack the ps3, thus Sony got scared and removed the thing we all paid for. My goodness the ps3 has been out since 2006! Why is it in 2010 Sony decided to remove the goddamn OtherOS?

People like you who support paying for DLC on disc are the ones who wouldn't understand how Sony are ruling us gamers and supporting their actions.

It is now proven that the ps3 can be hacked and is hacked via exploit. So why can't Sony give us back the OtherOS???

[showtimefolks]

that they advertised the feature but in ps3 user agreement they have the right to close any service ban anyone limit anyone's services

so if sony keep banning people in a way more people will buy ps3 one for hack other for online gaming so sony wins either way

[lex-1020]

I didn't buy my Ps3 for the install other operating system. And quite frankly I couldn't have cared less about it. If you want to run Linux so much put it on your computer. I bought my Ps3 for games and the bluray player. I can't say for certain but I can say with reasonable confidence that most people didn't use the install other OS option. I can also say that most, not all, but most of the people in an uproar about it are A) Hackers using it as the easiest exploit, or B) Xbox fanboys who are using it as ammo against Sony. I'm sure there are some people out there who actually used it for other things.

[xino]

Listen mate, we don't care what you do with your PS3 whether you bought it to surf porn online, play games and movies or use linux for other uses what ever. The main point is, you bought the Ps3 and it isn't yours to keep, therefore you are basically renting it!

Second, do whatever you want on your ps3, we don't care. The problem is SONY removed a feature MOST people played for which is the OtherOS.
Tell me, did anyone EVEN hacked the ps3 with the OtherOS? no, we only had an hacker boasting that he can hack the ps3 and Sony were shaking in your boots and removed the feature to prevent hack.

And look what this has brought, hackers are now even hacking the ps3 to bring the OtherOS back. You see the irony there mate?

If you demand that if I want to use linux I should use it on pc, then I demand if you want to play game go back an Xbox 360 or play it on PC. If you want bluray go back a bluray player or get a bluray drive on your pc. Your argument is flawed.

Everyone used the ps3 for different purposes and Sony alienated a lot of people for removing that feature.

[Sitris]

So this xino guy doesn't want to support Sony because he payed money for the playstation 3 game player, for Linux, even though you have a computer that can run Linux. So you will support hackers that keep the other os feature. You do realize that if you want to use the other os feature you can revert your firmware? Same result, no threat of ripping money of Sony. Cause when you hack, no psn. You need to be quite mate, you don't need to hack to have os back.

[Oxymoron28]

Xino; The PS3 is a home console, it's purpose is a gaming system, as in you play games on it. If you spent £300+ on a PS3 for the OtherOS feature then you, my friend, are an idiot. The "OtherOS" feature had no use along those lines, and I can't believe for a second that people actually brought the PS3 so they can install Linux.

Those that are saying they want to hack their PS3 so they can re-enable "OtherOS" are lying, they just want to get free games and the like...

[Persistantthug]

Because here you are telling me what I'm supposed to use and do with my PS3, and If I don't do what YOU think I'm supposed to do with MY PS3, I'm an idiot.

I paid for my PS3, I paid that money to have all my features, and I expect them to be there...period.

Sony's gonna lose this California Lawsuit, and it will be good for consumers.

Thank goodness California is a liberal state that champions consumer rights.

[Oxymoron28]

Persistantthug: I don't quite see how you took offence, PS3 is a gaming system, so it makes sense to buy it for gaming.

As I said in another post the OtherOS feature was only there for "super computer" use (like what the Air Force were doing with them).

OtherOS wasn't a unit selling feature so I don't know why people treat it like one...

[Eamon]

Some people are happy to be tools. You shouldn't bother arguing with them.

[diatom]

These are custom themes anyone can make via the free Sony XML compiler they released a few months ago. I can also make options to run 360 games, cross game chat and turn water into wine, they just won't do anything....

[ElementX]

@danger
As if you even knew what Linux was anyway....

[Solid_Snakeps3]

well said... If it wasn´t for hackers we would still have OtherOs feature, and people wouldnt bitch for something they didnt use...

[dragonelite]

The ps 3 is already hacked so what about getting other os back sony.

[PopEmUp]

for me to hack my Ps3 is to watch Mkv videos, to game straight off from the ps3 incase of my blu-ray lense die on me, and do cool dynamic wallpaper or making background that have sound on it that would be awesome to think of it

[mushroomwig]

Those damn fingerprint marks, clean that TV..now!

[RedPawn]

You know what those marks really CAME from.

[TheOldOne]

I just got the joke.

[MGRogue2017]

You know what this guy is doing.. yeah, It doesn't look right. It feels wrong.

[Simco876]

Stop making these things on the PS3. I am already dreading the firmware updates to stop this

[sjaakiejj]

When will hackers understand that they are harming the Playstation 3 owners much more then they are giving them? Especially the ones that aren't pirates.

[xino]

You bought the PS3 but SONY thinks of it that you are only renting it, but you do not own the ps3 regardless you buying it.

We paid for otheros and they removed it, so you don't care because you rightfully contributed 3rd of your money to sony by paying for otheros.

if otheros can allow hackers to hack the ps3, why the hell was it included in the first place?
a question you should ask yourself.

So I advice you to support the hackers and if Sony wants to disable all features of PS3. Who would buy their trash console?

I mean PS3 was even advertised it can multitask, but can it really do that? NO! Because if it can we wouldn't have to demand for cross game chat or party system.

[HeavenlySnipes]

all that shit b/c the hackers that you are supporting look to exploit stuff and make Sony step in and remove them. If people weren't doing things that they weren't supposed to do we (the honest true gamers) would still have bckward compatible ps3's with OtherOS capabilities.

[Biggest]

So this guy xino thinks the right thing to do is promote the destruction of one of the best consoles ever made so that all parties involved are left with nothing. Sounds completely logical and not at all DUMB AS F**K! People like you deserve every bad thing that comes your way.

[mrcash]

Sony knew the risks when they implemented the features. While many of us didn't buy the ps3 for its other os capabilities,web browser it was a still a great options to have.

[jacobdevos]

I agree with you whole heartedly that i did -in fact- pay for otheros.

on the other hand i really doubt you used it..

I had installed yellowdog / ubuntu on my ps3 before and to be honest it had no gpu features, it was choppy and the cpu wasn't recognized by the os as anything but a single core / dual core cpu..

another reason i think otheros was great is it supported my interest in programming for cell. Which i was very interested in. But.. seeing how IBM stopped production of cell almost entirely there isn't much of a future for that either.

In Sony's defense they tried to make their platform as open as possible and frankly being able to boot to another OS opened too many doors for hackers to get in.. It's really hard to blame them after owning a dreamcast..

anyway, i respect sony's decision to drop otherOS but i do really resent that it happened

[Oxymoron28]

I can guarantee, many of those who brought a PS3 didn't even know about the "OtherOS" feature until they saw it when they first booted it up.

Xino, you strike me as ... well as an idiot to be honest.

You are aware that the OtherOS feature was implemented for use by companies/departments and what not such as the US Air Force? Because system linking multiple PS3's can create a rather cheap but powerful super computer...

[djfullshred]

You payed for a PS3 because of other OS?

Whatever floats your boat. I bought it to play games with. I played around with multiplie OS on PC hardware years ago. Loaded 3 or 4 OS on the hard drive even. A PC is much better for that kind of thing.

[morganfell]

The only person being used is you xino. You have used every bubble here like a puppet to champion what this hacker is doing. You are fooled into thinking it is freedom when it is really simple theft. They show you something you think is cool in order to gain support for their real reason - piracy. And you dance to the tune they call, flopping at the end of their string. Dance, dance, dance.

[koehler83]

Is that a 4:3 television?

[FACTUAL evidence]

Wow, These hackers ain't doin shit nowadays but petty stuff......Till they make voice messaging or XGC I'll clap for them. Even if they did do that I wouldn't support hacking though.

[Vicophine]

So many self righteous critics of pirates on this site..

[tiamat5]

Yeah, just cheer them on like all the other lowlifes. Or even better blame Sony when they try to protect their investments. Pirates and hackers aren't self righteous at all. They are just honest citizens who are just trying to help us and we judge them so harshly. *cries a pool of tears*.

[lex-1020]

Great so let me hack your computer and pass your credit card info and social around the web. I Mean it would help people to poor to buy stuff they want. And i am just a honest citizen trying to help. And besides, it's your fault for making it so easy to take.

[Eamon]

lex, those are scammers. He's specifically talking about the illegal downloading of games.

[TheBand1t]

Can I come by your house later and steal your shit? I mean, since you don't seem to mind stealers.

[turok]

ur name says it all.

[nanometric]

Great analogy there, buddy! Making a copy is exactly like coming to someones house and taking their belongings.

p.s. I hope i don't need to add /s

EDIT: Sorry, but losing money and not gaining more money are two different things.

[YoshiMeetsU]

Stealing is stealing.. Whether I do it digitally or come to your house when your not home. TheBand1t's point stands.

[Matthew94]

nah stealing is way different from pirating

pirating is also eco friendly

[k-Lan]

"pirating is also eco friendly"

lmao! that was funny dude.

[Biggest]

"EDIT: Sorry, but losing money and not gaining more money are two different things."

How stupid can one be?

[Eamon]

downloading and filesharing is basically like copying and pasting.

As far as I can see it, it's like stealing an "idea" not actually stealing something tangible.

[bustamove]

Maybe someone should break into your house and steal your stuff. Then I'll see how much you like pirating then.

[mrcash]

The deal with pirating its more like sharing, they are sharing with other users. Its not the same as going to someones house and taking their things, it would be more in the lines of cloning an item and taking the cloned item.

[WLPowell]

how about I borrow your wife/gf and "share" her with a bunch of people on the interwebs? I mean you still get her back, I'm not "stealing" her or anything.

The lame excuses people convince themselves to use nowadays...

[peowpeow]

It's more like..

Hey can I borrow your wife's DNA so I can clone her? (free of charge)

[Eamon]

The difference here is your wife is tangible but the file you pirated isn't.

That's why they have separate laws for piracy and theft.

And you're not borrowing the "wife." Like mrcash said, it's more like cloning her.

[acky1]

People usually have no problems with petty theft and most people on this site are culprits of it. Some of these hackers aren't even stealing anything anyway.

Stealing £100 off of a billion dollar company like sony would be like stealing 1p off me which i really wouldn't mind you doing.

[shink]

What happens if a thousand people stole 1p off you? Would you mind then?
It might be a small amount individually but it can be detrimental to the company if everyone starts to do it.

[djfullshred]

Steal even 1p from me, and I'll knock your teeth in. It's a matter of principle you know?

[acky1]

Meh, £10...still not that bad. But £10 to me is about 100 million pound to sony which i'm sure they havn't lost from hackers. But this analogy is pretty rubbish.

From above: "losing money and not gaining more money are two different things"

[nycredude]

Bustamove

That would be too easy on him, Software pirates are pvssies. Real pirates would kill him, rape his wife/girl and then kill her and when they are done they will take all his stuff and the house.

[testerg35]

Umm.. lots have been stuff are pretty exciting. The DC and SNES emulator are the ones I'm most excited about. Its amazing how these guys are able to write th emulators considering the SDK and technical information about PS3 programming isn't readily available. I mean the SDK is out there, but would still need to know how to code for the PS3.

[IPUMPMYGUN]

As a long-time gamer, I do not support pirating games. Yes, games are $60.00 and such, but developers have to make a living too. They're people like us. As much as I want to enjoy every game in the Sony library, I know that's not going to happen because I have a life and do other things besides video games. As much as I want to have free things in life, things come at a price. If you want and expect quality games, expect to pay for it and pay for developers troubles. If games are pirated, than Gaming publishers, developers and gaming corporations won't make money and they won't release good quality games and thus prices will go up even further making things too expensive later on again or they will run out of business.

Back in the old days of Nintendo vs Sega era, Games were $90.00-$100.00 dollars. Back than if you got a gitchy game; that was it.....Most of the times we couldn't return the game. We had to make due with what we had. Today, developers through internet and technology, can fix the glitches/bugs to make our experience playing the game better. Think of it this way, how many games did we have back than? Double the amount I could count on my fingers. If games were $100.00 back than, plus the amount of games in our library that would be $2000.00 spent on cartridges. That's not including tax. Not too mention Consoles were much more expensive as well back than. Online service for playing XBL or PSN + is $50.00 + Games $60.00+ any other accessories let's say $100.00. That's chicken shit compared to back than. All of you young kids are lucky. Every day companies and developers can improve on they're technology to make games and hardware less expensive.

In closing, I can understand from a point-of-view where you and or your family are poor and can't give you nice things and that things are a little expensive, but GET A DAMN JOB IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD SHIT!!!!!!!

[nycredude]

There are other ways to play games without spending full price on it. you wait for new games to get a little old, wait for online deals, or you rent it. If you are so poor that you can't even rent a game then I would say gaming shouldn't even be one of your priorities. Maybe paying the bills and eating should be more important.

That being said, some of these hackers genuinely do not care for pirating and just like to hack electronics and see what they can do. It's a hobby. However as with everything in life you will have the greedy and shady people who ruin things for others.

All of these hacks and stuff so far have been done ages ago on the pc so they don't impress me. The only thing that would impress me would be for them to make Ps3 able to play 360 games.

[xino]

So your theory is: get a job to buy game so you can support the developers.

you can keep protesting your message till 2011, when VAT will now rise up to 20%. Thus game prices will even be higher!
If the next COD will be released 2011, expect the price to high to £60/$70 since currently COD game cost £55/$65 now (rrp)

[Biggest]

So don't buy COD. You can try all you want, but you will never justify theivery by saying "But I can't afford it and I really want it!"

[testerg35]

LOL.. I love how when PS3 was not hackable and 360 games were/are being pirated, PS3 fans would talk crap about MS and how MS deserves it. You didn't hear about how bad pirates were.

Of course now that you are able to play copied PS3 games... bad bad pirates. evil evil pirates.

[turok]

... double standards. and most n4g users have it. especially those who deny it vehemently.

that said I am indifferent to this article but cant say the same to the comments here... looks like hypocrisy is the game of the day.

the level of trolling here... is staggering.

[jony_dols]

Ms game studies are involved with and heavily finance pretty much all the 360 exclusives.

I have a flashed xbox, i only use it it for games leaked well before their release date. I have pirated Gta 4, Fallout 3, fifa 10 and Halo reach.
I bought gta4 and fifa 10 on my ps3, bought fallout 3 through digital dist on my laptop.

Halo reach is the only pirated game that i didnt actually buy.
And hey i aint denying it.
I you have ever bought a 2nd hand game, not a cent of that goes to the dev either, it goes to Gamestop ect.

[turok]

u earned my respect. honesty is good.
if only others wud follow.

[jony_dols]

MS are the most money hungry so and so's in the industry.
They are always screwing over their loyal fanbase. One feels alot less guilty pirating their games because of this.

[testerg35]

Haha.. thank you for proving my point. Last I checked, MS doesn't publish everything on the 360. So screwing EA, Ubisoft, Capcom on the 360 is different from screwing them over on the PS3?

[wissam]

Without sony's dongle this thing would have been very hard.
just as a reminder.

[nycredude]

Last I checked no one is playing copied games. You still need to get your hands on a copy first to back it up so at least you have to rent it. So imo it's useless since you can't play any new games and old games are cheap anyway.

BTW maybe ps3 fans didn't care about the 360 being hacked cause it doesn't affect them. Have you not consider that? If I only own a Ps3 why would i give a fvck about the 360 or wii or psp being hacked. Now if the Ps3 is hacked and the and pirating is rampant then it will eventually affect me so i would naturally be concerned and have an opinion.

I know in this site it seems people care about what is going on on the other console a bit too much but not everyone is like that.

[testerg35]

Ummm... you're kinda clueless. You don't need to rent. You can just download the games to your external or ftp to your internal. As far as new games, Move games are on newsgroup for downloads.

Also, it was PS3 fans always commenting how MS deserves to be hacked.

[squadass99]

Actually I've seen a few threads popping up about pirated PS3 games, i would link em as the idiots are pirating games that A) need to be connected to the PSN to get the most out of the game I.E. lbp, Warhawk, even heavy rain to a certain extent with the patches to fix it. B) requesting PSN downloadable titles.

Hell you even get shouted at for pointing out that their logic is flawed (most of them seem to be non-english speaking so its hard to understand what they say half the time) granted I am seeing a lot of complaints saying none of them work which is always a laugh. Gotta laugh at the future games which force you to update though. Not sharing the site though don't want to publicise it anymore than it is.

[tiamat5]

Oh yes you 360 people were so vocal about the hacking of the 360. And Microsoft did everything they could to prevent hackers from cracking their crap security. I remember all those posts about how horrible it was that the 360 was hacked. Oh wait. No there weren't. You were to busy seeing how much you could steal from Microsoft and leech off of them.
I love how lowlifes always find a way to make what they are doing seem right. It makes you feel so much better doesn't it? Running around accusing everyone of wrong doing trying to ease your guilt. Pretending that it's okay because the company has lots of money so it is okay to steal from me. All illegal hacks are bad. Breaking the device's security is wrong no matter what system it is. If you want to be a leech, a thief or a sponge that is your problem. But I wish you would leave us honest and legit PS3 owners out of this.

[Paralex]

I like how no one takes this seriously except for you.

[crinale]

Whatever happened to the "backward compatibility with PS2 via emulator"?
I remember these hackers promised to deliver that quite a long time ago... hehe:)

[testerg35]

So whatever happened to you'll never be able to play copies on the PS3?

[crinale]

I remember them saying that also.
The whole PS3 cracking thing is EPIC FAIL.

[nycredude]

Where are the pirated copies? Where are the downloads, the torrents?

You still need an original copy first to play "backed up" games.

[Darkfocus]

actually nycre ps3 games were being uploaded and torrented long before the ps3 was hacked. it actually started because there was a glitch in motorstorm that allowed you to play backups but even after that was patched people continued uploading PS3 games for some reason.

http://www.ps3hax.net/2010/...

[xino]

obviously those guys are still working hard on it.

It took a hacker a long time to get PsP to play on PS3.

You think just because these guys are hackers they can do all these things in an instant?

[lex-1020]

Wow you are really sucking hacker dic* maybe someday you'll grow up and realize that hacking helps NO ONE.

[Biggest]

Was four years not enough? But at least someone made Pong, right?

[dabri5]

Actually major companies like Sony hire "hacker" groups all the time to test out the limits of their security. Once breached (if breached) they collect the information and use it to further strengthen their security. Hackers can be very useful.

Also, hacks/mods/workarounds are how some of the standard features we have now came to be. Iphone wouldn't have wallpapers if it weren't for hackers.

**THIS IS NOT AN ARGUMENT FOR PIRATING WHICH IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT THAN HACKING/MODDING***

[wissam]

Not underestimting the ps3 hacks or anything. but isn't it funny he was able to modify psn option and he was unable to log into psn.

[Z777]

well now that hacked ps3 users can do this soon more than liekly someone will create a homebrew psn store for thier own apps. Sorta like cydia on jailbroken ipod touches....

One thing i know is that the psp when it was hacked the online was ruined, well if hackers can create their own netowrk than we dont have to worry about anoyying hackers shooting millions of rockets at cheating and such.

[Capt-FuzzyPants]

what is the otherOS?

[jay2]

You know what makes me LOL? the fact that these hackers don't care that some of the sad people who wanted/were useing this hack have updated their firmware. I'm sure the new one would be hacked by now if they'd actually got together and worked out what to do. Here's hoping for another few years of the new fw's not being hacked. Sony seem not to need to worry as much as they do/did have to with the PSP, but still if the hacking comunity wants to beat sony at their own game they should rally round and work on hacking the new FW. I'm so pleased they seem so stupid that they haven't done this :).

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

There's a reason why other company's don't do anything once their consoles hacked. The'll try to block a few hackers here & there, but after that MS and Nin don't really give a crap.

I suggest Sony do the same as it won't effect them as much as they think it will/is.

[Neko_Mega]

That is all that those hackers are, plus they been saying they got all this stuff that you can do on your PS3 but nothing to really back it up.

Just some picture, I can take a picture and make it look like my PS3 can get on XBL.

No more Lame thing for hackers please N4G.

[edoman20]

For me there is absolute no problem in hack the console and add things, and to be true i found it pretty awesome, like the dreamcast that could do 1000000000 things when it was hacked

Sony is faceless company (yeah like microcrap and nintendo) and they will do what its best for their interest , there is no need for the fanboys to do a corporative defense

[WitWolfy]

The thing you guys dont realize is that people who dont play online still get the full benefits of this dongle. And before you know it they'll enable the online feature AGAIN! If i was Sony I'll bring out a FW update every month now jsut to patch up the security even more