PS3 Custom Firmware
The greatest achievement of the PS3 Jailbreak is undoubtedly the ability to natively install Custom Firmware (CFW) on the PS3.
Since the Rebug team released the first 3.41 CFW in spring 2011, a few years have passed. Further releases followed from teams like Rogero, Habib, Ferrox, Evilnat and a few others.
Rebug no longer exists and only Evilnat has stayed on the ball to this day.
PS3 Custom Firmware Evilnat 4.90
The current CFW from Evilnat is consistently successful. With the support of other developers, he managed to create a CFW that actually leaves nothing to be desired.
The CFW can be installed over any other CFW and is of course ideally suited to be installed after a Downgrade. The ability to go online with the CFW and play game backups from an external NTFS hard drive are certainly just a few notable advantages.
Here is a small excerpt from the features of CFW 4.90:- based on OFW 4.90
- PSN/SEN possible
- compatible with FSELF
- can be installed over 3.55 OFW
- full PS2 game support
- CINAVIA protection disabled
- Trophies: activate, deactivate, delete
- FTP Server
- PSN disabled by default, when enabled the syscalls are disabled (safe)
An update from an older CFW version is usually unproblematic. Simply copy the CFW onto a FAT32 stick and install it via the XMB.
Note:
A newer version of the CFW has now been released. There is more information about it in this post.
If you are looking for a different firmware, regardless of whether it is original or custom, you'll of course also find it here.