To quote from a (now removed) Tweet of Squarepusher2: "BTW Mathieulh I know you gave durandal that CEX-DEX ZIP, that it wasn't you that bundled that up, and you were not supposed to do so either"

**WARNING** IF THIS TUTOTIAL ISN'T FOLLOWED TO THE LETTER YOU MAY BRICK, THE AUTHOR (THAT WOULD BE ME) DENIES ALL KINDS OF RESPONSABILITY SHOULD YOUR PS3 GET DAMAGED IN ANY WAYS. YOU KNOW THE RISKS **WARNING**

Requirements:

1. A playstation 3 on firmware 3.55 or below
2. A dongle to go to Service mode
3. A usb pendrive
4. A brain
5. The author of this little trick.
6. Have your pc connected directly to the ps3 on ethernet with the ip set to 192.168.0.100 and the hostmask to 255.255.255.0 (make sure no firewall is running, not even windows one, this may prevent your console from connecting to the pc)

Procedure:

** PART 1 **

1. Set your console into service mode with any compatible dongle.

2. Put the content of the converter-console folder at the root of your usb pendrive.

3. Extract ObjectiveSuites-GetData on your PC.

4. Put the usb pendrive on the last usb port on the right of your console.

5. Run ObjectiveSuites.exe from ObjectiveSuites-GetData

6. You now have a few seconds to start your console, start it.

7. Objective Suite should display "PASS" and txt files will be created in the Temp dir. Once done, power off your console.

8. Get ALL these txt files from your temp directory and send them to the author (me) with informations about your playstation 3 model (FAT/SLIM, CECH* model)

** PART 2 **

9. You should recieve from the author (Yeah me again) a file called request_idps.txt

10. Extract ObjectiveSuites-SetIdps on your pc.

11. Put the request_idps.txt in your temp folder (MAKE EXTRA SURE IT'S THERE OR YOU WILL BRICK)

12. Run ObjectiveSuites.exe from the ObjectiveSuites-SetIdps directory.

13. Start the SAME CONSOLE YOU GOT THE TXT FILES FROM (If it's another console you WILL BRICK IT).

14. Wait until Objective suite displays "PASS" Then power off your console, at this point your console should be a Debug one.

** PART 3 **

15. You will now need to do a drive initialisation in order to use the bluray drive on your console. Put your usb pendrive on your pc, delete all the files you previously put in there, Put "Lv2Diag.self" from the "set up" directory at the root of your pendrive along with PS3UPDAT.PUP (that's 3.30 debug firmware)

16. Put the pendrive on the usb port on the most right of your console.

17. Power on the console, The screen will be black and the green led will stay lit, wait until it blinks and the console powers off, once it does the firmware will be installed.

18. Put the pendrive back on pc, delete the files you put in there previously, and copy the content of the "drivefix" folder to the root of the pendrive.

19. Put the pendrive at the usb port most on the right of your console and power it on.

20. The drive initialisation will then occur, wait a couple of seconds, then power off the console (you may have to unplug it from the AC)

21. Put the pendrive back onto the pc, delete the files you previously put in there, then copy the Lv2diag.self from the "finalize" folder.

22. Put the pendrive on the usb port on the most right of your console. Power it on. Your console will power on for a few seconds then power off.

CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE NOW COMPLETED ALL THE STEPS AND YOUR CONSOLE IS A FULLY FUNCTIONAL DEBUG BOX. YOU NOW JUST NEED TO POWER IT ON AND COMPLETE THE USUAL FIRST TIME SETUP PROCEDURE.

Great evidence you got there.... Random people with no standing whatsoever on the matter, that'll convince everyone...

I'm not a fool I do realise that this tutorial would essentially turn your ps3 into a debug console, but it still runs on debug firmware

why would their be an option in the debug menu to enable the ps3 to switch servers [ Yes the PSN Retail servers are accessible from this option ] if the debug ps3 was meant to be locked to dev servers only or no servers at all, whichever it is you believe

Not everyone wants to get on the debug firmware to be able to play pirated games online, its good if the debug firmware stops you running backed up games online

1) You start of saying that you don't believe PSN is blocked. You then end by saying it'd be great and wish it was. That clearly says to me that you don't know.

2) Its not just random people, search it anywhere. It also makes sense. A debug console, if in the wrong hands, could hack and cheat any game it pleased due to the ability of running unsigned code. OBVIOUSLY you can't play on retail PSN, and that's assuming you can play on debug.

3) YOU need to realize it wasn't a TRUE debug firmware made available to us. That's simply impossible without a debug console. All they did was make options to emulate the options a debug console has. It was NOT a true debug firmware. From that conclusion, some options could easily have been added in for the sake of adding it in. [I'm a tad iffy on this one. Correct me if I'm wrong.]

4) You make a falsified opinionated stereotype that all people that play using backed up games or want PSN are people that pirate games. That, also, makes you a full-blown imbecile. Some people want it to utilize PSN's chatting capabilities, others, for the use of Netflix, or other online services. Others still want it to access the PSN store, PS Home, or other Sony-Services. Though the majority, not everyone wants it to play online. Further on still, not everyone that wants to play online wants to play pirated games online. Even further still, not everyone that wants to play games [pirated or not] online want to hack online in those games, they simply want to keep the jailbreak whilst enjoying online game-play.

5) Again, yes, it does run on debug firmware, but you've technically never seen a true debug firmware on a debug console run before. You can't be so certain of the options. And yes, that applies to me as well. This number is all of speculation.

6) There was the option to switch servers in a USER-MADE debug firmware, not SONY-MADE. Debug firmwares were generally meant to lock it down.

7) End of Argument. You said one thing, then later stated something on a whole other basis and side of the argument entirely, and then stereotyped, which is void in an argument.

I'm not a fool I do realise that this tutorial would essentially turn your ps3 into a debug console, but it still runs on debug firmware

why would their be an option in the debug menu to enable the ps3 to switch servers [ Yes the PSN Retail servers are accessible from this option ] if the debug ps3 was meant to be locked to dev servers only or no servers at all, whichever it is you believe

That's where I got that from, not that you wished it couldn't play backed up games online, so watch who you call a fool before you read what THEY said as well. Also, you do know the QA token is not the same thing as debug firmware, or console, and its settings are simply settings that a Quality Assurance team can access, hence the QA servers. They are NOT debug settings -facepalm-. Noobs these days -.-'..