Sony PS3 Slim CECH-2000 System Flash Dumped!

Monday, December 14, 2009
By admin

Here is a little piece of news we skipped over when our [url=http://www.ps3news.com/PS3-Dev/ps3-reference-tool-kit-arrives-for-the-ps3-news-dev-team/]PS3 Reference Tool[/url] arrived.

One of our resident PS3 DEV’s [b]CouRieR[/b] extracted the flash of a PS3 Slim (CECH-2000) European console with Firmware 2.75 a few months back by removing the chip, and dumping it with an external reader along the lines of the [url=http://www.elnec.com/products/device-programmers/beeprogplus/]BeeProg[/url].

The chip, a Samsung [b]K8Q2815UQB[/b], is a 128 Megabit flash chip. The dump, which weighs in at 16.0 MB (16,777,728 bytes), is quite similiar to that of a later model PS3 with the smaller flash.

Earlier generation Fat PS3′s, those that sported dual 1 Gigabit flashes, had two copies of the PS3 firmware along with a full AES filesystem (for /dev_flash) on the flash.

The PS3 Slims, like later generation Fat’s, have the AES filesystem (/dev_flash) on the Hard Disk Drive, and mounted virtu
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