Originally posted by XAviierG
What's the benefits of the cfw now?
Advantages
Homebrew emulators, homemade games, cool programs,
Game piracy, all games before 3.60 are mostly able to be pirated for use on a external or internal hdd or burned to a blank blu-ray disk
ps1 backups burned to a blank cd are playable via a newer version multiman.
disadvantages
No psn
All games made to run on firmware 3.60 or higher cannot run, although they released a new dongle thing thats supposed to enable it.