Citazione:
Disclaimer: the latest firmware of PB2 is only applicable to PB2 dongle [2012-07-02]
PS3break team have noted that there are some debates on clone events. we have to announce that PS3break team is the second team who is capable of releasing the latest firmware to support TB v2.7 after TB2. The latest firmware of PB2 is only applicable to PB2 dongle, it doesn't fully support other similar products, if you continue to upgrade other dongle with PB2 firmware, what happens to you is your responsibility. we will always take the forefront in the ps3 scene, provide the most prompt and safest update service for our customers.
PB2 CAN SUPPORT LATEST UPGRADE 2.7 GAMES [2012-06-27]
PB2 team has released "V1.02" today, this upgrade content: 1. enrich and perfect the codes, enhance the stability and the safety of pb2 system.
2. perfect support the latest games. We will, as always, continue to release the latest firmware to our customers. For further details, see the download page.
The return of the king! Pb2 is on sale globally on the net. [2012-05-22]
Pb2（PS3break2) is the latest product from PS3break team who ever made a tremendous splash in the PS3 scene. Pb2 can break your own PS3 console and enjoy the latest and most popular PS3 games which require 3.6+ or 3.7+ PS3 firmware. The ps3break team are focused on enhancing the user experience of our customers, play games with it easily!
we will release PB2 V1.02 firmware for the latest and popular games in a few days, stay tuned!
Citazione:
I know that last month an article was posted regarding a clone of a clone. But in this thread I want to share my personal findings after doing tests with a JB-King dongle and inspecting PB2 (PS3break new product).
Attention:
This thread is not made to cause any controversial discussion and as the thread opener I ask of you, please let’s stick to the main topic: “using PB2 firmware with JB-King dongle”. If you want to discuss any other controversial stuff, please do so in the appropriate “drama” section.
The Findings:
As a very curious person that I am, and as a owner of various dongles / hardware that were at some point used and still are used in the ps3 scene to achieve some kind of jailbreak, like for example E3 Card Reader, CobraUSB, TI-84 Plus Calculator (yeah LOL, old payload days), and just recently I got a JB-King from a local store.
I was wondering what was PB2 all about, so I went to their site and started looking at the documentation, for my surprise I noticed that everything, including the documentation images where exactly the same as JB-King documentation. Immediately I decided to check the download section and obtain the PB2 dongle firmware files, I then kept my curious investigation by opening them on my Hex editor, check sizes, names and extension.
Now check this out, here you have JB-King FW files information (main FW and last update FW):
Code:
File Name: 2.3_upgrade.dfu (main dongle FW)
Size: 2.00 MB (2,097,461 bytes)
CRC32: FFFFFFFF
MD5: 2A9CEA5056A5681F0126EABCA117B47D
SHA-1: E426B39291197AB21F671411F63C49A0E987417B
Code:
File Name: upgrade_2.51.dfu (update FW)
Size: 25.2 KB (25,813 bytes)
CRC32: FFFFFFFF
MD5: C41A2E1433CA297A7E104502C53C7389
SHA-1: 718AF82E4B40624C720FD8B8CA7AE6556CA3895C
and here you have PB2 FW files information as well:
Code:
File Name: spitb27.dfu (main dongle FW)
Size: 2.00 MB (2,097,461 bytes)
CRC32: FFFFFFFF
MD5: CF988AC5EA526304981F0DC182E4D059
SHA-1: 56995A63B04793A8500F1CFB7B61D624BD76D325
Code:
File Name: upgrade_2.71.dfu (update FW)
Size: 20.5 KB (21,013 bytes)
CRC32: FFFFFFFF
MD5: 9F8947326DCF46C0D02DF2E27F83F478
SHA-1: F814938B857F99687DD008E6D41DA61717268E7C
Note: CRC32 was apparently modified in both cases JB-King / PB2, since this algo is flawed and if you have enough knowledge you can practically do this with all files, other hashes seems to be fine though.as you can see, the sizes and extension, and even the file header matches with each other (they are not identical in data though).
The Test:
After all that I came to the conclusion that if I flashed / upgraded my JB-King dongle with the PB2 dongle FW files it should in theory work.
So I did it…
- Connected the JB-King dongle to the PC (while holding the upgrade switch / button)
- Run the JB-King upgrade utility
- Loaded the main PB2 FW file, spitb27.dfu, and updated my dongle with it.
- Disconnected the JB-King dongle from the PC
- Connected it again, and did the same flashing but with the latest PB2 FW file, upgrade_2.71.dfu.
The Results:
After connecting the JB-King dongle flashed with the PB2 FW to my PS3, I turned it on and as expected, everything was fine. I didnt even change my PS3 CFW, still using the JB-King CFW v2 provided in their site.
I then, loaded multiMAN to test Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (has TB patch applied) and after returning to the XMB the game loaded with no problems.
Conclusion:
This is at least good news for those who bought JB-King, since there hasn’t been any updates in their site with new FW that brings compatibility with newer games.
At least from my personal test findings, you can actually flash a JB-King dongle with PB2 FW and use it without any problems =).
Stay tuned
I will eventually update this thread with information about tests with games like: Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier, so far not supported on JB-King 2.51 FW (as far as I know) , but supported on PB2 v1.02.
Important:
Please note that I am in no way responsible for anything that happen to your dongle / hardware / console by doing what I personally decided to do, if you don’t know how to flash the FW files to JB-King, please be careful.
PS: Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to be as informative as possible =). I will try to update this post with more information as I have more free time to do so.
SeeYa!
Citazione:
Update:
Note: I will keep updating this with more info soon, like games tested, etc.
What is PB2?
PB2 is a recently released PS3 dongle by the creators of PS3Break. It works exactly as JB-King and TB.
PB2 CFW and JB-King CFW
Both firmwares provided by their respective websites are identical, they have the same file hashes:
Code:
File Name: PS3UPDAT.PUP
Size: 170 MB (178,826,845 bytes)
CRC32: 8FCA62E8
MD5: FF689E1E8CDD02A46DDADB14C3C5B85C
SHA-1: BA28DAD2975D58B0E55742CE0DA910F22D9516DF
Extra Info (might be useful for devs)
This probably is nothing big, but might be of interest for those working on reverse engineering these kind of dongles (JB-King / PB2 / TB / etc)
Both JB-King and PB2 use a Firmware format with a DFU extension, DFU stand for “Device Firmware Upgrade”, and they are designed for STMicroelectronics / devices.
The header of these files start with the following data (this one is from PB2 FW 1.02 / spitb27.dfu)
Code:
DfuSe.%. ..Target.....ST....:.ourceCode.stm32_psgroove.genk eytools.spi.tb27.dfu
Code:
unsigned char rawData[80] = {
0x44, 0x66, 0x75, 0x53, 0x65, 0x01, 0x25, 0x01, 0x20, 0x00, 0x01, 0x54,
0x61, 0x72, 0x67, 0x65, 0x74, 0x01, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x53, 0x54,
0x2E, 0x2E, 0x2E, 0x00, 0x3A, 0x5C, 0x00, 0x6F, 0x75, 0x72, 0x63, 0x65,
0x43, 0x6F, 0x64, 0x65, 0x00, 0x73, 0x74, 0x6D, 0x33, 0x32, 0x5F, 0x70,
0x73, 0x67, 0x72, 0x6F, 0x6F, 0x76, 0x65, 0x00, 0x67, 0x65, 0x6E, 0x6B,
0x65, 0x79, 0x74, 0x6F, 0x6F, 0x6C, 0x73, 0x00, 0x73, 0x70, 0x69, 0x00,
0x74, 0x62, 0x32, 0x37, 0x2E, 0x64, 0x66, 0x75
};
Here you have some links to a couple of PDF with more information about the “DfuSe USB device firmware upgrade STMicroelectronics extension”.
[url]http://www.st.com/internet/com/TECHN…CD00155676.pdf[/url]
[url]http://www.st.com/internet/com/TECHN…CD00158241.pdf[/url]
And here you have a link to download the suite of applications that allows you to, for example: Upgrade a STM device in DFU mode, Extract a DFU firmware as s19 / HEX / BIN, and even do some tests.
[url]http://www.st.com/internet/com/SOFTW…EMO/um0412.zip[/url]
[url]http://www.st.com/internet/mcu/produ…7.jsp#SW_DEMOS[/url] (have to click on ‘Design Support’ tab)
On the original thread I attached some screenshots I took from my personal installation of these applications on my system.
[url=http://www.ps3hax.net/2012/07/pb2-v1-02-fw-compatible-with-jb-king-dongle/]PB2 v1.02 FW compatible with JB-King dongle: Research by CaptainCPS-X | PS3Hax Network[/url]