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PlayStation 3 hacked with USB mod chip

PlayStation 3 hacked with USB mod chip

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News is breaking that Sony's PlayStation 3 games console has been hacked using a USB dongle. Very little technical information is available at the time of writing but three videos have tipped up on Youtube which appear to show the modchip helping to successfully loading the game Ratchet & Clank from a FAT32 external hard drive. It's not clear whether the USB device is a custom modchip, as some sources are suggesting, or a vanilla memory stick with a modified boot...



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