PBO Alternative Custom Firmwares
  • First, understand what you are doing before flashing, read here.
  • Next, be warned : As with any firmware update PLEASE DON'T ATTEMPT UNLESS YOU CAN RECOVER SERIALLY.
  • These firmware updates were patched to respond only to the PBO remote, please be warned that you might end up bricking your box if you tried them to any other player (including the original devices for which this firmwares were actually meant) but the PBO.
  • Finally, please feel free to post here (the PBO wiki forum) about any issues or concerns. For more info about the firmware itself, please use the links provided with each patch.
  • Optional : if you like the patched firmware, why not drop a "thank you" for the guy who made it all happen ?

Disclaimer:

  • All the patched firmware are non-official betas. Though they are public releases, they are not bug free and were intended to be shipped on their respective products. They are provided here for demonstration purposes and to collect users feedback on them (as pointed below).
  • Please support the original developers of these firmwares by providing bug reports and constructive feedback on their respective forums (links provided below).
  • A friendly reminder for those kind enough to provide the aforementioned feedback: be smart when posting and don't cause confusion for original equipment owners on their own forums.
  • Please be advised that no support for these firmwares will be provided on the Official PBO forums, please either use the wiki forums here or seek help wherever you feel appropriate.
  • If you cannot abide yourself to these fairly simple requests, please refrain from using the custom firmwares linked below.
  • Thank YOU

Following is the patched firmwares.
Thanks tsk for making this possible.


8/13/2011 : 5440 patched

Here is the ACRBO 5440 Euro image BOOTCODE 18 or later REQUIRED

Featuring GUI 2.0

For more info about the firmware itself and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.


** 7/22/2011 : 4585 patched**

Here is the ACRBO 4585 Euro image BOOTCODE 18 or later REQUIRED

Featuring GUI 2.0

For more info about the firmware itself and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.


** 6/12/2011 : 3966 patched**

Here is the ACRBO 3966 Euro image BOOTCODE 18 or later REQUIRED

Featuring GUI 2.0

For more info about the firmware itself and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.

Having troubles upgrading to any other firmware from this firmware ?, try forcing firmware upgrade over the network, read here


03/03/2011 : 1026 patched

Here is the MedeBO 1026 image

For more info about the firmware itself check here and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.

(03/13/2011) SHIZZL has also released a mod for the official firmware, read about it here, and download a PBO compatible version from here.
(04/08/2011) Download PBO compatible version of release 2 of SHIZZL's mod from here
(05/28/2011) Download PBO compatible version of release 3 of SHIZZL's mod from here
(06/12/2011) Download PBO compatible version of release 3.1 of SHIZZL's mod from here
(06/24/2011) Download PBO compatible version of release 3.2 of SHIZZL's mod from here

Mirrors:
MedeBO 1026


** 2/3/2011 : 2115 patched**

Special thanks for Gabe :)

Here is the ACRBO 2115 Euro image BOOTCODE 18 or later REQUIRED

Find the Asian version here

Featuring GUI 2.0
Setup screen background is messed up but the setup menu is working fine (Next/Prev to change categories, up down to navigate through each category options).

For more info about the firmware itself and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.

Mirrors:
European


** 26/1/2011 : 5249 patched**

Here is the MedeBO 5249 image

For more info about the firmware itself check here and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.

Mirrors:
MedeBO 5249


** 9/12/2010 : 4824 patched**

Here is the ACRBO European 4824 image

Find the Asian version here.

Both versions are optware friendly (more info).

For more info about the firmware itself and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.

There is also a PlayON!X PBO compatible version of this firmware, check here for more details.
Get a PlayON!X PBO compatible version with more space (for you hacking pleasure) from here thank mancalledhero.
(9/03/2011) : PlayOn!X r4824 rev5.1 is out check here for changelog

Mirrors:
European
Asian


** 7/12/2010 : 4861 patched**

Here is the MedeBO 4861 image
(Special Thanks to gabe)

For more info about the firmware itself check here and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.

Mirrors:
MedeBO 4861


** 29/10/2010 : 4368 patched**

Here is the ACRBO European 4368 image

Find the Asian version here.

Both versions are optware friendly (more info).

For more info about the firmware itself and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.

Mirrors:
European
Asian


** 3/10/2010 : 4241 patched**

Here is the MedeBO 4241 image

For more info about the firmware itself check here and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.

Mirrors:
MedeBO 4241


** 1/10/2010 : 4090 patched**

Here is the ACRBO European 4090 image

Find the Asian version here.

Both versions are optware friendly (more info).

For more info about the firmware itself and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.

Mirrors:
European
Asian


** 23/06/2010 : 4318 patched**

Here is the ACRBO European 4318 image.

Find the Asian version here.

Find the Optware friendly version here (more info).


Metafeeds and xLive port are working fine (youtube is broken again) :(

For more info about the firmware itself and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.

Mirrors:
European
Asian
Optware friendly


** 30/05/2010 : 4107 patched**

Here is the ACRBO European image.

Find the Asian version here.

Download the optware friendly version from here (more info)

4107 is not compatible with metafeeds

For more info about the firmware itself and to provide feedback to the original firmware developers check here.

Mirrors:
European
Asian

Mirrors II: (hosted by scboley)
European
Asian
Optware friendly


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