Patch 1.36: FAIL!

Honestly, this is just..I don't know whether it's funny or sad or what. But as most (if not all) of you will soon come to find, when trying to update Home to 1.36, rather than updating, it'll just reset your PS3. So before I even tried patching mine (I actually for got until I saw this), I saw this on Twitter:

#PSHome - for those having difficulty patching to 1.36, there is a workaround posted on the forums now:http://bit.ly/chnFjk

What?! A "workaround"? Haha, are you serious? Basically, for some reason, if you try hitting X to start the install process, it will just reset your PS3. What you have to do is wait for the HDD light to not be lit up anymore. They say wait for it to stop blinking, but mine was just lit up solid, and the time it took for me to wait for the light to go off was similar to the time it takes to load into Home. Oh, and the patch is on 5210KB.

Anyways, here's what the patch is supposed to do:

Patch Notes Improvements

• We have reduced the time Home takes to start up. After installing and loading the patch for the first time, subsequent loads will be significantly quicker from then on.
• We’ve also improved the 3D audio positioning for stereo and 5.1 surround sound.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that could cause large files to be improperly cached.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent you from changing the size of the cache under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when taking photographs.

It does seem to be faster jumping from space to space, but the initial start-up is still pretty slow.

Some "Rare items" available via website

A new website (http://pshome.b1.jcink.com/) has been slowly spreading through the internet lately, claiming to be able to net Home users rare items.

Rare Items: Items that were available for a limited time that are no longer obtainable.

Yes, it works. But it's not stealing and it's a fairly short list of items. Half are free and half you still have to pay for.

The free items are things from events or games that unlocked free items in Home. Basically, the free items you get from the site were already free and are no longer obtainable, AKA "Rare Items." So no one is losing money thus no one is stealing from SCEA.

The other items on the site are again Rare Items. You just have to pay for these. So again, no one is stealing because people are still paying for these items. If anything, the Home staff should be thanking these guys for getting SCEA more money. You can even buy the Final Fantasy 13 items with U.S Dollars. Plenty of people already buy foreign items (Joanna_dark for instance, or maybe she just steals them, who knows) with foreign PSN cards. They either buy the foreign cards or get a foreign friend to send them a PSN card, etc.

So with these foreign items on the website, they are doing people favors by:

1.) Skipping the process of getting your hands on foreign money, and lets you buy them from the PS Store with U.S Dollars.

2.) And giving SCEA more money from Japanese items.

I might not have mentioned this (I'm not proof reading this right now because I need to head to class soon), but you download and pay for all the items listed on the afore mentioned website via the PS Store. So there's no, "Just enter your credit card info here on our site and you'll get instant access to free items!" Simply go to the link up top, click on the item you want, then close you browser (it'll ask you if you want to close) and it'll take you straight into the PS Store at the screen where you choose to download the item.

Although I have not tried to pay for any items listed on the site, so try this at your own risk.

AT YOUR OWN RISK

Also, we do not endorse http://pshome.b1.jcink.com/