PS3 recovery menu discovered in FW 2.50

Well now, here's something that came out of nowhere. Yesterday, someone at the PSPGen forums discovered a system recovery menu for the PS3. The French PS3 owner who made the discovery stumbled upon it after messing up his installation of Linux on FW 2.50. Hit the full article for a video and more info!

Well now, here's something that came out of nowhere. Yesterday, someone at the PSPGen forums discovered a system recovery menu for the PS3. The French PS3 owner who made the discovery stumbled upon it after messing up his installation of Linux on FW 2.50. Here's his video (most of it is Linux stuff, but it's only towards the end where you actually get to see the recovery menu):

According to PSPHax, the recovery menu can be accessed by doing the following (given that you're running FW 2.50, of course):

• Place your PS3 in STANDBY mode
• Hold the power button until you hear 2 beeps.
• If it goes into the video reset setting then you messed up, and do it again till you hear a double beep.

An interesting discovery? Yes. Useless? Well... it depends on who you're asking. For a homebrew developer, this doesn't really lead to much (yet). And practically speaking, the only use this has is to recover your PS3 from a semi-brick without having to bring it into a shop.

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