PSGroove – Free And Open Source Jailbreak For PS3 Released

Those of you who are looking to jailbreak PS3, you don’t have to pay any more for the jailbreak software. Now a free and open source version of PSJailbreak exploit called PSGroove has been released by a github user. For the unaware, jailbreaking lets you install third party apps and games on your PS3 similar to iPhone.

According to it’s author, the PS3 jailbreak works on AT90USB, ATMEGA and other related microcontrollers. Here are the steps to jailbreak PS3 using PSGroove.

What you need: PSGroove code (link at bottom) and any AVR USB development board.

1. Download PSGroove files (link at bottom).

2. Configure the makefile by updating the MCU, BOARD, F_CLOCK values as per your chip and board.

Teensy 1.0:

MCU = at90usb162
BOARD = TEENSY
F_CLOCK = 16000000

Teensy++ 1.0:

MCU = at90usb646
BOARD = TEENSY
F_CLOCK = 16000000

Teensy 2.0:

MCU = atmega32u4
BOARD = TEENSY
F_CLOCK = 16000000

Teensy++ 2.0:

MCU = at90usb1286
BOARD = TEENSY
F_CLOCK = 16000000

AT90USBKEY / AT90USBKEY2:

MCU = at90usb1287
BOARD = USBKEY
F_CLOCK = 8000000

Note that Teensy boards have only one LED. When the exploit succeeds, this will be turned off, instead of turning green. The general rule is that the LED should turn different when the exploit works.

3. Building

On Linux, use the AVR GCC toolchain (Debian/Ubuntu package: gcc-avr). On Windows, WinAVR should do the trick.

make clean
make

4. The next step is to program the PSGroove hex code on to your PS3 board.

For the AT90USBKEY and other chips with a DFU bootloader preinstalled, you can get the dfu-programmer tool, put your board in programming mode, and run

make dfu

For the Teensy boards, you may have to use the Teensy Loader software.

5. Now comes the final part of putting to use the PSGroove exploit on your PS3.

First hard power cycle PS3.

Plug the dongle into PS3.

Press the PS3 power button, followed quickly by the eject button.

After a few seconds, the first LED on your dongle should light up. After about 5 seconds, the second LED will light up (or the LED will just go off, if you only have one). This means the exploit worked! You can see the new “Install Package Files” menu option in the game menu.

Download PSGroove Jailbreak For PS3