We now have two hardware choices and one software choice when it comes to backing up PS3 games. In one corner there’s the ODE’s. Optical Drive emulators. These clever little devices sit between the PS3’s Blueray drive and its main board allowing you to connect an external hard disk by USB. All this is transparent to the console itself. Well maybe not transparent, but more on that later. So you simply keep your PS3 updated with the latest OFW as its released but still enjoy your game backups from disk.
Sounds great and I was about to purchase one myself when I thought Id try to find a little more information that is usually shown by the shops.
Firstly how risky is this method? Well as the 3k3y is apparently made by the same people who did the xk3y for the Xbox360 maybe that’s a good place to start. It turns out that not long after the xk3y was released a way was found in the next update to detect it and thousands of people got permanent bans for their consoles. Just Google it for yourself. So are we about to see the same thing happen on the PS3?
Well no-one but Sony can answer that problem. What we do no is both the latest ps3 jailbreak and Sony’s PS3 OFW are on 4.46 and have been for some time now. This fact combined with the impending launch of the PS4 have many people convinced that that the next update will coincide with the new consoles launch. We are sure to see some updates to SEN around that time so a possible large incremental update is highly likely depending on what cross talk there may be between the two consoles of course.
So what does that mean for the Cobra ODE and the 3K3y now they are out there in the wild is yet to be seen. What is for certain that any of the early adopters that managed to get around the stock shortages and actually have one running will the the first to find out.
The PS3 Homebrew Archives 