18f2a3 No.15196974
>friend's secondhand, modded fat PS3 keeps overheating
>offer to help out
>have experience softmodding a couple of consoles and fixing laptops
>clean it up, check power supply, replace thermal paste, drill holes by the fan so it doesn't keep sucking in increasingly hotter air
>doesn't help a bit
>go to the guys who modded and sold him the thing in the first place
>"Dude, we gotta reball it to fix it, not worth it in the longrun, really. If you pay $70 we'll just give you a used Super Slim CECH-4004C instead"
<"Is it crackable?"
>"Yeah, it's cracked!"
>take it home
>try to launch it with the old hard drive since they both use the same firmware
pic related
>doesn't launch, guys warned me it would happen. They also said it's impossible to play PS2 games on a 2 USB fat PS3, but I managed to do it, so I didn't listen
>"Alright, let's at least backup some of the stuff here"
>plug it into PC like I did before
>"Drive unrecognized, wanna format it instead?"
>ItAintMe.mp3_Starts_Playing.png
>fine, format it
>takes an hour and a half
>shove it back in, expect it to be formatted automatically on boot
pic related
>search high and low on how to softmod, downgrade or do fucking anything on a super slim ps3
>it's all scams, outdated tutorials, "your version of console in undowngradeable!", dead links and "reply to see post" bullshit, even the pages I saved back in the day for future use
>nearly tear my hair out in frustration
So yeah, PS3 general. Really looking forward to playing Dragon's Crown, Diablo 3, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, Red Dead Redemption, and all the PS2 games I missed out on and can't emulate like Ghost in the Shell, Battlefield 2 Modern Combat, Marvel Nemesis, and many others.
IF I can get it to work.
Which console from the beginning of the dark ages do you think aged best / came out as a winner in terms of quality games?
4854af No.15197019
>Console war faggotry
Anyway how's the SEGA Hulk game?
abe867 No.15197031
>>15197019
>and all the PS2 games I missed out on
All of which poorly emulate on a PS3 or don't work at all?
>>15197019
No wars, they're all shit
45a6bd No.15197038
In response to the latter question I think PS2 likely, although I never had one myself.
c87acf No.15197042
>>15197031
Hardware backwards compatible models play PS2 games perfectly. It's the later software backwards compatible models that can have some issues.
abe867 No.15197056
>>15197042
>Hardware backwards compatible models
>You either had to choose between more HDD space or PS2 games
>Barely anything was informed
7th Gen was absolute trash, I wish every single person with fond memories of it to die in a cage hanging over a fiery pit
c87acf No.15197062
>>15197056
>You either had to choose between more HDD space or PS2 games
Both CECHA and CECHB models have hardware backwards compatibility you dolt, just CECHA was the more expensive model with the larger hard drive. This is also irrelevant to the discussion about buying them second-hand in 2018.
45a6bd No.15197064
>>15197056
Where did the mean PS3 touch you anon?
18f2a3 No.15197070
>>15197056
Wii was pretty fun. Metroid Prime Trilogy was worth the purchase for me. Brawl was good with friends and because Ii never experienced Melee, Super Mario Galaxy was baller as well.
bbdf3e No.15197077
>captcha doesn't work right
>entire post deleted
Fuck you too Mark.
Anyways,
>Super Slim
>"Yeah, it's cracked!"
This is probably where they fucked you over, but it's not like your lack of research didn't get your further into trouble. A PS3 hard drive is encrypted FOR THAT SPECIFIC PS3 CONSOLE, NO OTHER PS3 WILL ACCEPT IT. There are ways to move/copy data to/from a PS3 after hacks/CFW, and even ways to back up some data (like saves) onto a flash drive/external HDD on stock firmware, but since you've already formatted that drive, you're SOL.
All articles and tutorials telling you that you cannot downgrade the Super Slim are telling the truth.
AS OF RIGHT NOW, THERE IS NO WAY TO DOWNGRADE THE SUPER SLIM MODEL OF THE PS3
Your best bet is to download a Homebrew Enabler style software mod that can allow you to play "game backups" that you can download from a few websites. Just about all of the PS3 library is available, so get yourself a big hard drive (1TB+) depending on how many games catch your interest. HEN doesn't go as deep as CFW, and cannot utilize some of the same features that, say, Rebug can accomplish.
23a021 No.15197089
>>15196974
>Playing Battlefield 2 on PS2
Why anon? What multiplayer-servers are you going to join? Or are you going to run around shooting shitty bots?
23a021 No.15197093
>>15197042
Nah, there's still many PS2 games you can't play on the PS3. It just freezes up on many games, just watch any compability-list.
f72a08 No.15197101
Reminder that No PS3 can run Monkey Hero
c87acf No.15197109
>>15197093
To clarify, what I meant was that if the game works then there shouldn't be any rendering issues because it's not software emulation, it's running on hardware. If the game doesn't run at all then that's some other deeper issue beyond just rendering.
b953ef No.15197116
My fat ps3 stopped playing ps2 discs when I jailbroke it and won't play ps2 roms either. When I try to play the disc the screen simply goes black and stays that way. I can still access the ps3 menus but the game won't load. I've tried running files and discs in multi man with and without cobra. Nothing I search seems to work and pretty much everything I read is five or more years old. Has anyone else dealt with this issue? Any ideas on what I should be doing?
18f2a3 No.15197157
>>15197077
Yeah, he did tell me something to that effect, I guess I'll just go back there tomorrow and see what can be salvaged. Hope I don't have to pay any more, this is damn embarrassing.
>>15197089
https://youtu.be/MnbVvs8hpXQ?t=3m31s
>>15197116
Have you tried tricking it with PS2 Classics placeholder?
b953ef No.15197297
>>15197157
Yeah and I just tried again to no avail
18f2a3 No.15197312
>>15197297
Are you launching ps2 roms from multiWAN?
046626 No.15197547
>>15196974
You got played.
For future reference:
Thanks to PS3xploit you can now downgrade any PS3. But to hack them you must downgrade to 3.55 and if the console is post late-2011, it can not run 3.55 so it'll brick unless you reflash 4.82 once again. So, here's the rundown:
>Phat PS3s
All are hackable but they aren't very durable
>Slim PS3s, CECH20xx and CECH21xx
All of these are hackable too, waaaaaay better than the phats
>Slim PS3s, CECH25xx
Some are hackable. Check the datecode underneath the system. If the datecode is 0x, go for it. 1A or 1B are hit or miss, but mostly miss so skip them.
>Slim PS3s, CECH30xx
Forget about these.
>Superslims
See above.
Keep the superslim as a legit console or just resell it, anon.
cb4349 No.15197561
bb900f No.15197565
>>15197093
20 and 60gb fats had an actual PS2 chip in them. Though, I'd wager it's a late model chip, and even PS2s had some slight incompatibilities with both particular PS1 and even PS2 games at times. The 80gb fat (NTSC, anyhow) is stuck using emulation instead, and thus having more incompatibilities.
>You either had to choose between more HDD space or PS2 games
The HDDs were replaceable, even in the fat models. Bigger issue there was the longevity of the fats between how hot they get and the quality of the thermal paste being subpar.
18f2a3 No.15197568
>>15197547
and I fucking thanked him for it too
I even said he was better than the only other store in town dealing with cracking and repairing consoles since the clerk there treats all customers like retards and pretty much threw component cables for Wii in my face when I asked for them.
bb900f No.15197572
>>15197565
Second part was supposed to be for >>15197056 .
046626 No.15197584
>>15197568
Well, there's the softhacks available for Superslims so he teeeeeeeeeechnically wasn't wrong.
But said softhacks suck and are a pain, whereas CFW is basically owning the whole system so you do whatever you want with it.
046626 No.15197589
>>15197568
Oh, and every PS3 hard disk is signed. Switching it to another system, no matter how similar, will ask a reformat. Always.
You can't just swap 'em like that.
c4c19f No.15197596
HookTube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.
RIP Console Quality Standards
bb900f No.15197599
>>15197547
>Slim PS3s, CECH25xx
>Some are hackable. Check the datecode underneath the system. If the datecode is 0x, go for it. 1A or 1B are hit or miss, but mostly miss so skip them.
Better solution is to just run minverchk on them to be 100% sure the base firmware is indeed in range. Though obviously that's probably easier to do after you've bought a system, as I would assume most stores don't want to run a seeming risk of you bricking what they're trying to sell (though minverchk is safe).
18f2a3 No.15197601
>>15197589
Yeah, I know that now. Part of the fault definitely falls on the guy for not explaining it correctly.
The rest falls on me for being a nervous anti-social fuck who tries to get out of every conversation as fast as he can and not paying attention.
046626 No.15197602
>>15197599
Yeah, minverchk is the final test to make sure, but just as you said, I don't think sellers would like you to 'run some things' previous to the purchase - hence the datecode shortcut.
f8ef0d No.15197628
>>15197070
NO ITEMS! FOX ONLY! FINAL DESTINATION! OR YOU ARE A SCRUB!! always sounds on my mind when someone mentions Brawl.
b953ef No.15197774
>>15197312
I'm trying to run ps2 roms from multiman and discs from multiman and the regular xmd or whatever it's called
3a06e1 No.15197808
>>15197056
>>You either had to choose between more HDD space or PS2 games
Only if you were too dumb to replace the HDD with a better one
>>15196974
You got doubleniggered, you don't fix PS3s by reballing them, the only thing that "fixes" it is applying heat (about 180°C) to the defective chip, you can do that yourself with a heatgun if you wanna try but the fix is generally very temporary and will fail again in months.
Every single nigger trying to sell you a reball for fixing console is A trying to fuck you over and just applying the heatgun fix or B genuinely retarded about his job.that he thinks you actually need a reball.
As for super slim piracy you got fucked, best you get is an easier access to the old OFW backup loading method that used system backup/transfer.
>>15197042
>Hardware backwards compatible models play PS2 games perfectly
Not the ones with just the GS (CECHC), and don't bother telling me that it doesn't count as hardware BC because it's partially emulated because that's also the case for CECHA/B consoles.
7c1d96 No.15198076
>>15197561
Xniggers can make their own their
>>15196974
>drill holes by the fan so it doesn't keep sucking in increasingly hotter air
my phat PS3 currently has more holes in it than I'd care to admit, but with the top cover off, the fan hardly ever goes above level 2 anymore. re-applying thermal paste and putting in extra air ventilation has been a great improvement from jet engine speed 5 minutes after starting up any game
f8ef0d No.15198104
>>15197808
I heard in general even reballing is not even that effective in the end.
e760e7 No.15198132
>>15198104
then it wasn't reballed, it was given hot air treatment.
3a22bb No.15198152
>want to play Soul Calibur 5 again
>can only find pirated DLC for EU version so I can't use old saves with it
>RCPS3 won't run it
046626 No.15198284
>>15198152
Try resigning the saves to change the region. I did it successfully with Nier when I wanted to try the DLC and only got it for US when my save was EU.
bb900f No.15198495
>>15198152
I've found some on a site I've used before that has a US/EU set, and has the actual downloads split up by region. Probably not going to like how the place handles though.
3a06e1 No.15199050
>>15198104
Reballing is effective when the problem lies with the balls under the chip being bad not when the chip itself is bad.
Simple test for that is to simply apply some heatgun to the chip but staying below the melting point of lead free solder (215°C, 170-190°C works well), if you console works again it's a bad chip it might hold on a few month maybe more if you don't use the console very intensively and have really good cooling, if it doesn't the balls are bad and then you can consider reballing,, congratulation you just saved yourself about a hundred bucks or several hours of your life.
And no doing that isn't gonna cause further damage, to reball you're gonna have to heat the chip with a heatgun but over the melting point of lead free solder this time so you're not doing anything a reball wouldn't and that's also why reballing "fixes" things
956cf4 No.15200126
>>15199050
The simplest test to see whether reballing will help (not to mention verifying if a reball/rework was even done correctly!) is to just x-ray it, something any legit reball operation can do.
e4dd15 No.15200141
>>15198076
Got a fat one too, what exactly did you do?
Everytime i use it for over an hour it turns in to a god damn jet turbine.
588862 No.15200159
>>15196974
You and your friend got jewed fucking harded OP.
c3061a No.15200230
So, I have a slim and replaced the thermal paste. It seems to stay at around 75°C with the fan at 40%, RSX about 65°C or so during games. Would you guys say those are ok temps? My ps3 has never overheated, but when the fan started going like a jet at 70% and the CPU was getting to over 80°C on the xmb, I thought it was time for a hand.
18f2a3 No.15200314
>>15200159
I went to see the guy and he told me all I had to do was follow the damn train, CJ! was install the official 4.82 update like the console asked me to and then follow the instructions on ps3xploit.com (the HAN exploit thing where you access a website through your console for everything).
I'll report on what can be played well now. After a nice, homey supper.
ed409b No.15200327
>ywn build a PS3 cluster
Why even live?
1a1f4a No.15200342
>>15200327
For what purpose? A current year $2000 enthusiast gayman PC outperforms PS3 by nearly a hundred times already.
>>15200230
I wouldn't let any of my processors run at temps above 70°C. Take this with a grain of salt, though; I have never known how hot my PS3 became in normal operation while it was still working.
ed409b No.15200360
>>15200342
>For what purpose? A current year $2000 enthusiast gayman PC outperforms PS3 by nearly a hundred times already.
Ever wanted to do something like rob a train at gunpoint before realizing that you're about 150 years too late? It's like that. It's something that's firmly cemented in the past and you will only ever read about it.
86fb91 No.15200369
>>15196974
More like the console that aged like milk.
18f2a3 No.15200469
>>15200369
>69
not dubs, but I'll check it.
c16d10 No.15200479
>>15200342
There's a radical difference in the kind of computing done by a computing cluster and a desktop gaming PC. You don't tie 100 PS3s together to play videogames.
c16d10 No.15200482
7948ad No.15200483
>>15197077
>A PS3 hard drive is encrypted FOR THAT SPECIFIC PS3 CONSOLE, NO OTHER PS3 WILL ACCEPT IT. There are ways to move/copy data to/from a PS3 after hacks/CFW, and even ways to back up some data (like saves) onto a flash drive/external HDD on stock firmware, but since you've already formatted that drive, you're SOL.
got CFWd HDD running fine currently in PS3 but want to salvage saves from older hdd. how could I do it?
91b286 No.15200490
>>15200483
Copy the saves onto a USB. Some saves will be copy protected however.
7948ad No.15200497
>>15196974
>>15197407
Ratchets are good. so is Catherine (soon on PC) or other 10 games that got ported over the years. its a big letdown. was really hyped for that fabled awesome library only to go from game to game bored because most of them are AAA shitfests
e82f3c No.15200499
I had a ton of fun with the PS3 despite never owning one.
7948ad No.15200501
>>15200490
wont switching HDD fuck it over where old one has OFW 4.82 or what is number and CFW is lower?
91b286 No.15200510
>>15200501
It shouldn't. Save data is save data and other than the copy protected shit, there shouldn't be anything else getting in the way of copying save data.
7948ad No.15200525
>>15200510
but isnt there some internal memory or something in ps3 that isnt changed with hdds?
91b286 No.15200539
>>15200525
That should be in relation to swapping the HDDs; the PS3 will demand a format if the HDD is swapped. So copy the saves before you swap the HDDs, swap them, format it and then paste after it's been formatted. Last time I had to do something like that, there were no issues other than with some saves being copy protected and lost as a result.
67728f No.15200665
>>15200483
you can dump the eid root key and be able to read the hdd on your computer with some software. Can't rememer the name. Likewise, you could do as >>15200490 anon says, there's also software to remove copy protection, though if you're on rebug you can use debug settings to get rid of that too.
7948ad No.15200670
>>15200665
>you can dump the eid root key and be able to read the hdd on your computer with some software.
this sound much better. I really dont want to cfw again even when it was easy.
c3061a No.15200717
>>15200342
I've heard before that the CELL runs hotter, however I don't feel good letting it run at 70C or more. Anybody ever done a case mod? I really don't want to deal with removing the IHS.
18f2a3 No.15200727
Well great.
Got to the part where I can finally install the vidya, but half the tools are trojans (totally false positive, guy!)
http://www.psx-place.com/threads/tutorial-the-great-ps3xploit-3-0-han-all-in-one-guide.16979/
Namely the PS3Tools by Aldotools installer and PKG Resigned by Habib archive.
So what now, virtualmachine it up?
912117 No.15200758
What's the deal with the HDMI port? My PS3 has been fine for years, yet a couple weeks ago I get a black screen and no signal mid-game all of a sudden.
c16d10 No.15200806
>>15200727
If it's some sort of heuristic antivirus they could truly be false positives
18f2a3 No.15200822
18f2a3 No.15200839
>>15200822
>>15200806
Spybot S&D says they're clean.
>heuristic
that's a new one
3a06e1 No.15201256
>>15200126
Well sure it's better but I don't think most people can do that as easily or as cheaply.
>>15200727
https://www.virustotal.com/
If more than a handful of sites say it's bad then it's likely bad
Should have a windows VM / guinea pig secondary build to test that shit ideally.
>>15200758
Make sure it's not because of the screen or the cable, if it's indeed the pot that's borked you're likely boned, unless you can repair it youself or can use a component cable instead (you lose 1080p but it's really not a big deal considering outside of BG movies almost nothing actually runs at that res.)
921e3e No.15201817
>>15201810
Yeah that probably warrants a virtual machine or a sandbox, assuming the programs are actually valid.
912117 No.15201916
>>15201256
I've only tried ti again once and it did work. Can't be my cable because I use it for my PC all the time. I'll cross my fingers and hope it was a one off.
bb900f No.15202826
>>15200525
I think you can tell the system to back up the firmware to USB as well before switching out the hard drive, and then tell it to copy the existing firmware back over to the new, blank drive, rather than pull the latest OFW from wifi. I could be wrong though.
18f2a3 No.15204487
>do everything by the book
>virus
>install virtual machine
>can't start it normally
>spend a half hour looking up why it might be happening
>find nothing online, try poking every button, turns out I had to use a Headless start for it not to crash
>install windows
>try to follow this overly complex tutorial that doesn't match the folder and filename layout of the the files provided
>give up halfway because virtual box crashed and reset all progress
>move on to ps2
>bit retarded and redundant, don't see why it all couldn't be done with one application and a couple of scripts, but what do I know, at least it's shorter
>sign the .pkg file, prepare the installer, all going swimmingly
>can't copy file onto the USB key because it exceeds the 4GB filesize limit
>can't connect to PS3 via Filezilla because "ECONNREFUSED"
>initializing HAN takes ages and fails constantly, so it makes trial and error methods a pain in the ass
>drink myself into a stupor
so how was your day/night?
92000b No.15204520
>mfw I have a hacked regular slim
>mfw still need an actual PS2 and legit copy of Gran Turismo 4 to play GT4
18f2a3 No.15204980
Well I finally managed to get something working:
Burnout Paradise, but only because the whole game is smaller than 4 gigs. So how the hell am I going to get 60 gig masterpieces onto this thing? No multiman = no FTP, n ps3 doesn't recognize exFAT, so can't use the USB key to transfer full files, PKG Linker is viruses. Going to try and split them up into small RAR part files and hope PS3 knows how to extract and combine them together.
18f2a3 No.15205177
>>15204980
Nope, that didn't work, there is no file browser, so I can't regroup split files.
Anybody had any experience with PKG Linker? Pretty much everyone on the internet besides distributors says it's a total virus. So how do I connect my ps3 with a PC?
8bf8e0 No.15205771
>>15196974
>the console that aged like wine
I'll give you points for the audacity of saying this, but you're still a fag.
18f2a3 No.15207309
>>15205177
I managed to install PKG Linker (which seems to be a simple customized apache server application) and get the server running, but now I can't get the Han enabler to initialize. Usually it takes a couple of tries, but I'm on my 20th now or something.
4bb3ca No.15207415
>>15197547
hackable as in I can play a physical ps2 disc on it?
50cb1a No.15207437
>all this bullshit just to crack a fucking crack a 12 year old console
This is why emulation is superior
92000b No.15207456
>>15207437
All slims needed was a USB stick and a website.
d10066 No.15207532
>>15207437
Except emulation by definition will never be as accurate as actual hardware. And the PS3 is so easy to hack and pirate games for that a fucking nigger could do it.
>b-but muh upscaled textures
50cb1a No.15207575
>>15207532
>Except emulation by definition will never be as accurate as actual hardware.
Yeah, I sure do love those accurate framedrops shit tier res and hardware and peripheral limitations, just like the devs intended.
32e847 No.15207668
>>15197056
Gen 7 is still better than Gen 8
1ccaa7 No.15207687
>>15207668
Don't think anyone outside normalfag havens like Gamestop and IGN forums will deny that.
Doesn't stop Gen 7 from being shit as well
046626 No.15207702
>>15200314
Yeah, HAN is what you can do at most with a 30xx or superslim. But it's nowhere near as good as full-on CFW.
046626 No.15207707
>>15207309
Anon, it's not worth the pain, seriously.
You should just resell that or keep as a legit online enabled console and get a console that can run CFW.
259ba4 No.15207766
>>15200369
>>15200469
>double 69s
not dubs, but I'll check 'em anyway.
67728f No.15208260
>>15204980
>>15204487
>Pkg larger than 4gb
Use ps3splitter anon, though without multiman I'm not entirely sure how you'll be able to merge them together. Have you figured out what's wrong with your FTP setup?
>>15207437
>too retarded to mod a console that is wii-tier in terms of softmods
>ps3 emulation
Ah yes the famed PS3 emulator that has full compatibility and no issues. Guess I should throw out my modded PS3 out the window.
855165 No.15208308
Isn't PS3 modding still stuck in that "If you don't have 3.55 you are fucked for softmodding it" phase that started like 8 years ago?
3a06e1 No.15208422
>>15208308
Now it's if you have a PS3 that doesn't have 3.56 as the minimum possible version you're fucked
e760e7 No.15208429
>>15208422
nope, all systems are compromised, the hack varies but it's open season.
9997c7 No.15208480
>>15208260
PS3 isn't even close to Wii-tier. The hack itself is about as complex as most early 3DS exploits, except all the vital hacking tools are scattered across half a dozen dead forums, most of said tools are barely functional and will never improve because the PS3 community is full of lazy faggots who think needing to reboot your console every time you do anything of note is perfectly fine, nothing is adequately documented, and what little documentation exists is often completely useless because it was last updated in 2011.
3a06e1 No.15208640
>>15208429
Unless that has changed can't you only load stuff that has an update on PSN if you use the super slim hack?
bb900f No.15208712
>>15208308
No, as of Thanksgiving last year, there's a webkit exploit that allowed for any system running (then?) current OFW and that had 3.56 or lower firmware at some point in its use to be CFWable.
ebd32b No.15208763
>>15196974
But why would you bother? rpcs3 has come such a long way that you really don't have to fuck around with an actual PS3 anymore.
18f2a3 No.15208992
>>15208763
because I can barely emulate ps2 and gamecube as is
>>15208260
I've finally managed to connect the PS3 and my VM hosting the PKG Linker server, but I still get the common 800xxxx72 or something error, which could be caused by a number of things. I've already disabled my firewall entirely and rechecked all IP addresses, but I still can't install the RE4 package.
I'll figure it out after work.
>>15207707
at this point, it's personal
dabb5f No.15209885
>>15209377
>that lack of sky texture
>that slowdown
>that sound popping
18f2a3 No.15218902
>>15208992
the 92 error keeps persisting despite me applying every known fix and redundancy. I think it's because I'm running it through a virtual machine even though the ping goes through without a problem.
I'll try using a "throwaway" laptop I have lying around, but I'm not keeping my hopes up.
After playing Paradise for a while I have cemented my opinion that Takedown is objectively better.
7430d0 No.15218954
As a tip, do not purchase fat ps3s as they are all trash by now, almost every person online I've seen talk about getting one ends up getting screwed somehow.
Also the slim runs persona 4 perfectly. I don't know about anything else.
d98752 No.15219088
>blue-ray movie player
>aged like wine
7948ad No.15219199
>>15200665
I cant find that thing either. anyone know a name of that software?
b96b45 No.15219237
I love my PS3 slim.
Had it since 2014 and not any problems with it, though i would clean it and put on new thermal paste…if i knew how to open it and clean it. Might just send it to somebody else that cleans shit like that becuase i don't want to risk fucking up my PS3. I love that thing so much and i have sunk so much time of my life into that and if it broke…i would fucking lose it.
I would be more angry and crying than any other time in my life if it broke, probally just collapse onto it crying.
b96b45 No.15219250
>>15219237
Side note, i play vanilla non-hacked PS3. I don't care about your fancy emulators or that wierd tech stuff, i just pop in a disc and start playing.
Question…can i back up all my saves onto my two flash drives and buy a new PS3, insert the flash drives, put all my saves onto a new PS3 and keep playing like normal or do i have to start over on all my games?
Also can i log into my PSN profile on another PS3, and play using my online save data on that one?
Like i have 800 hours played on BF4 and if i logged onto PSN on another PS3, could i insert the BF4 disk and keep playing with all my progress?
7948ad No.15219279
>>15219250
>and play using my online save data on that one?
Isnt that PS+ only thing or PS gold or how its called
cac80d No.15219287
>can i back up all my saves onto my two flash drives and buy a new PS3, insert the flash drives, put all my saves onto a new PS3 and keep playing like normal or do i have to start over on all my games?
There are a few games like Bayonetta that are copy protected so you can't copy them at all unless you pay (((Sony))) to use their online backup service. The majority of my games can have your saves backed up to flash drives, however.
>>15219250
>can i log into my PSN profile on another PS3, and play using my online save data on that one
Is it someone else's or a new one for yourself?
If it's the former, you can use your saves but are barred from unlocking trophies if it detects that you are using save data wasn't on the owner's PS3 but if you do it while logging on to your PSN account, it might allow you. Haven't tried that.
18f2a3 No.15219330
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>15219237
>if I knew how to open it
first result on jewtube
in any case, you'll need a couple of screwdrivers, maybe a torx one as well, a knife or a narrow piece of metal to pop open stuck together parts. Canned air is recommended, but not necessary.
Don't rush, keep track of your screws and keep your work area clean and well lit.
>I would be more angry and crying than any other time in my life if it broke, probally just collapse onto it crying.
what are you, a faggot?
ecc4a3 No.15219607
>>15219237
I'm taking mine to a guy in a few weeks. I'm gonna have him clean it, repaste it, and install one of the new PSU's so it doesn't get as hot and loud. If you are going for a reball, make sure the guy uses lead solder.
Mine's an OG phat. Three gens in one console is pretty cool. I'd cry too if it died.
ea996c No.15219618
>>15197019
>Console wars
They're all PC's with inbuilt digital cuckoldry
e3dfd9 No.15219624
Modding on the PS3 is fucked. A Jtagged 360 is much nicer than a modded PS3.
046626 No.15221406
>(optionally) having to update to 3.55
>(optionally) having to downgrade to 3.55
>installing CFW through official system update option in recovery
>Putting pkgs in a usb drive and installing them
>fucked
How come? It's easy as 1-2-3 and it gives complete control over the console.
3a22bb No.15221416
How do I get Harmony of Despair working on RPCS3? I can't find out how to unlock the demo.
18f2a3 No.15221476
>infecting a VM with viruses and spyware = 2 days
>infecting a spare laptop = 1 day
>being too persistent for my own good health = timeless
I give up. Waiting for hours on end for a HAN Enabler to initialize, copying a PKG Linker 1 kb file, rebooting the system TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN ONLY TO FIND THAT THE CONSOLE STILL CAN'T RECEIVE FILES FROM YOUR SERVER FOR SOME ARBITRARY REASON
AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
is tiring.
I'm taking this thing back and trading it for a regular slim. I should've listened to you from the start, >>15207707 . But I gotta do it the hard way, I gotta keep making things hard for myself because I have this crazy idea if I keep making things hard for myself, nobody will make it harder than it already is.
92000b No.15221495
>>15221476
I hope you get the Slim of your dreams anon. Also a hard drive to put in it.
046626 No.15221511
>>15221476
Well, anon… It's not bad to have perseverance. I've had quite my fair share of adventures with modding (3ds early days with Menuhax and cfw, PSP TAv033 with ChickHEN, Wii before Banner hack/Letter hack ease) that were quite the fun times in some sort. But yeah, for anything PS3 I think HAN is just not worth the pain.
If you can't trade keep the system as a legit one and maybe resell later on.
Good luck!
61ba80 No.15221523
>>15221476
>punished anon: denied cfw for his ps3
Trade it in and check if the new ps3 you get has the right OFW, if it doesn't then just trade it in somewhere else. There's no need to torture yourself like this.
d2d4f8 No.15226599
Are there any good apps getting progress these days, and if so, is there a good place to keep tabs on them? All I find are weird databases without much traffic.
768ea9 No.15234167
Well I switched the super slim for a regular slim and haven't had the time to plug it in yet.
It's funny, I finally have the money to spend on vidya, but not the time.
18f2a3 No.15241677
>>15234167
bumping until I get to finally install and use a CFW on this slim, but work's been killing me
eeaf1f No.15241723
Softmodding superslims with HAN is even easier than fats, the real problem is that presently lots of games don't work with HAN. Like lollipop chainsaw.
eeaf1f No.15241741
>>15221476
You should have used an ethernet cable instead of wifi, faggot. Modding a superslim is way easier than a fat nowadays.
18f2a3 No.15241806
>>15241741
I did it all. Switchbox, wifi, direct linking. Used a virtual machine, a spare laptop… nothing worked, the PS3 simply did not connect to the server.
The guy at the store showed me that I should have used a specific Han Enabler function "hidden" within the toolbox instead of a website like the instructions he told me to follow said. And the custom enabler doesn't tell you if it's done it's job, so I never bothered to check on my own.
I remember helping another friend install Rebug on his Slim years ago and using FileZilla is a walk in the park. I just need the free time to do it. My back is killing me and my legs are not ok.
55d06c No.15243895
>Diablo 3
disappointed OP
There were actual games you could've chosen but you blew it
e4a265 No.15243906
>Aged like wine
Yeah, it's vinegar at this point
18f2a3 No.15243933
>>15243890
>>15243895
I've heard the coonsole version is fun with dodging and shit, would be a nice stupid detour from my Grim Dawn playthrough.
76c9d2 No.15243944
Ar nosurge was GOTY 2015 not Witcher 3. That is all.
76c9d2 No.15243962
>>15197056
>everyone should be as miserable as I am and stop enjoying videogames
I will take it under advisement.
806ac3 No.15243998
>>15243962
THERE IT IS THERE IT FUCKING IS
THE GAME THAT SINGLE HANDEDLY LOWERED EVERY FUCKING EXPECTATION I'VE EVER HAD
THIS GAME WAS THE .WORST. FUCKING GAME I'VE PLAYED.
806ac3 No.15244000
>>15243944
YOU ARE A FUCKING
NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER
e9540c No.15244045
>>15219250
Yup. As soon as I read that this homo modded it, I was like "there's your problem dumbass" and quit reading.
Treat the console the way it's intended and it will work great. Treat it like a cheap PC and it will break down.
806ac3 No.15244151
>>15243998
THIS GAME MADE ME ENJOY ASSASSINS CREED 3
I HOPE YOU FUCKING DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a0da4f No.15246236
I delidded the PS3's CPU and GPU. It took about 3-4 hours tearing down, applying thermal paste, etc, but damn is it worthwhile. The console, which is CECHA01, no longer sounds like a jet engine.
I followed instructions here: https://quade.co/2017/ps3-delid-ihs/
18f2a3 No.15246288
>>15246236
I remember running into this page as well, good find.
09e41e No.15247174
>>15246236
>no longer sounds like a jet engine
Fuck, I had removed this from my memory.
I used to run FreeBSD on one to play around with POWER ASM and test the portability of some third party software.
I noticed the OS has accesss to all but 4M of RAM, I figure this is the PS3's hypervisor running the OS as the GameOS, with 4M for itself.
Because of this quirk I had to run the GameOS first, use a fan control tool, then boot the OS as a game. Otherwise the CPU would turn itself off when compiling a lot (overheat).
At 100%, those things just remove all noise from a room, it's nothing but VRRRRRRRRRR and you can feel the pressure in the air.
God damn. The PS3 is strong as shit.
8aad39 No.15247192
I like to repair consoles and other things, which is usefull since i can buy them cheap if i need them, and sell them if i don't.
I never touched a ps3 before, but i see a lot of broken ones on ebay.
Can someone list me some common problems they have? which one are impossible to fix? i'm reading around about them, but more opinion are always nice.
357b31 No.15247209
>>15247192
They're usually damaged by overheating and got the YLOD, look it up. Easily the #1 cause of PS3 console death on fat models. Commonly fixed by replacing the thermal paste which is low-quality and deteriorates over time. >>15246236
357b31 No.15247213
>>15247192
>>15247209
Oh and replacing the thermal paste is how you prevent an overheat from happening. If its already damaged by overheating and has the YLOD you can fix it but short of a reball it will probably break again as the hardware is already damaged.
357b31 No.15247214
>>15247192
>>15247213
Sorry for the triple post, but the damage is at the solder connections level.
e30584 No.15247335
>>15246236
I forgot to add that's not mentioned in the article: after delidding/applying thermal paste, I used Arctic MX-4; great and cheap. I didn't use glue, but thermal paste for sticking the IHS back. I thought that any super glue/caulking would ruin cooling performance over time quicker, and the thermal paste + heatsink would still hold it in place anyway. The only problem was that the IHS kept sliding when the motherboard was tilted, so reattaching the heatsink was tricky.
a24d76 No.15248053
I finally got some time to myself and installed Rebug on the slim without a hitch. Now on to transferring vidya, which is trickier than I had hoped since I don't have a switchbox and the I can't seem to connect to it via wi-fi (filezilla just says ECONNREFUSED, which immediately makes me think of those MeetnFuck games and the sound a woman makes when you mess up).
If all fails, I'll just switch my PS3 for my friend's since I'm staying at his place. It's the same model too!
56cc7b No.15248312
>>15243998
>>15244000
>>15244151
You're a piece of shit that shouldn't ever touch a console or portable for the rest of their lives.
465838 No.15248340
looking for good list of PS3 gaems
046626 No.15249542
>>15248053
Your ftp is not running, most likely. Open multiman and set the ftp sever to on without a timelimit (if you set one, you'll run out of time eventually and it'll stop accepting connections again).
Once you copy everything, turn off the ftp server. I hope you're using wired connection, though… Otherwise it'll be sloooooooooow.
55e860 No.15251362
>>15249542
Had to have multiman turned on in a specific way.
Haven't tried uploading with the wifi yet, but after booting into multiman the sound disappears in the menu and game, even after I launch it throug XMB (standard procedure). Still using the same Burnout Paradise image, so the issue must be with mM
09e41e No.15251489
>>15248053
If you're always going to have a network connection, I can tell you I've had 0 problems streaming games over LAN with ps3netsrv.
On your PC you basically just setup a folder with games, run a little server, and on the PS3 you install a plugin or use multiman (or both), tell it the machine ip, and you can load games that way without them being on the PS3. Great if you want your entire collection at home, but only a small subset when traveling. Or if you can stand long load times, VPN to home while traveling.
0ade0f No.15251513
>>15248340
>PS3
>2007
Make it stop
de49af No.15251540
>>15208763
>just get this emulator that barely runs any games and even IF it does it's a fucking slideshow
Retard.
8ee07e No.15251662
>>15204980
What happens when you put S&K into S&K anyway?
a24d76 No.15255535
>>15251662
4 player co-op?
a24d76 No.15256141
Finally got it to work, had to fiddle with some COBRA tools. Still can't play Resident Evil 4 though, gets stuck on the first loading screen after main menu.
Apologies for shit taste, I have nothing to defend it with. I'm just really really tired and a retarded edgy interpretation of Dante's Inferno is just what I wanted.
e4ab4d No.15256225
>>15196974
>really looking forward to playing all these great PC games on my PS3!
Why do you do this to yourself?
a24d76 No.15256315
>>15256225
Diablo 3 is supposed to be a very different beast on consoles, same goes for Battlefield 2 MC.
>ignores every other game that's not on PC
046626 No.15262983
>>15256141
That's weird. You sure it's a good copy?
Try other games. I remember Driver San Francisco requiring a random game in the disc drive for it to work on old CFWs, but it no longer needs that.
Try that one, or if you're looking for something small and quick, how about Dragon's Crown?
a24d76 No.15264394
>>15262983
nope, same iso emulates on PCSX2 just fine.
Battlefield 2 works as well, but god damn I did not expect it to be this slow.
I can't find a european copy of Dragon's Crown, so I'll go ahead and try the NTSC copy I've found just now.
4e1dbe No.15264404
>>15251489
I didn't know this was possible on PS3, I have SMB setup on my PS2 and it's great
046626 No.15264416
>>15264394
Oh, you mean the PS2 version of it!
Why play that? There's a native PS3 version. It's digital only I think, but you can install it just fine - that's the beauty of CFW
a24d76 No.15264610
I damn near spat noodles through my nose when I heard him say "Oh no, dr. Connor's class."
ISO backup works fine and dandy, managed to snag a copy of Spider Mang 2 from my friend, I'll finally get to play this game.
>>15262983
nope, using either PS2 or PS3 discs doesn't help. I'll just wait for the PS3 version to finish downloading and try it out later.
046626 No.15264615
>>15264610
The disc inside drive trick only applied to some PS3 games. PS2 compatibility is all up to how well the game performs in the internal emulator. Seems RE4 doesn't work well in that case.
Refer to this list for quick reference:
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/PS2_Classics_Emulator_Compatibility_List
(curiously, RE4's entry states it is playable…)
a24d76 No.15264649
>>15264615
Eh, who knows.
If all else fails, I'll just play the Wii version.
000000 No.15275778
>>15264615
How bad is RE4 on emulator?
2a683f No.15275838
>>15275778
Didn't RE4 get ported to almost every system after its initial release, including PC? Why would you need to emulate it?
000000 No.15282323
046626 No.15283114
>>15275778
Well, I haven't tried on my PS3 since I preferred playing the Wii version back then (and PS3/4 "HD" ports exist), but…
>Compat list says the US version at least is playable
>but Anon here couldn't get it to run. Dunno if it's a PAL version, though…
PS2 ver is pretty meh anyways, the cutscenes are all low-quality prerendered video.
93a6a8 No.15283241
>>15247335
There's this thing called thermal adhesive (pretty much permanent, usually used to firmly attach aftermarket heatsinks on VRMs and VRAM chips), and self-adhesive thermal pads (not permanent, used in some GPUs on VRAM chips to increase heat transfer to heatsink). And thermal epoxy (again, pretty much permanent)
cefd2a No.15283290
>>15251662
You get action all the way up to the KNUCKLES
000000 No.15285154
>>15283114
>the cutscenes are all low-quality prerendered video.
Kind of expected from RE.
a24d76 No.15285179
>>15283114
>>15275838
First PC port was broken beyond belief, you couldn't aim, you couldn't exit the game, it ran like shit, etc… I haven't tried the 2014 HD port (wow that was 4 years ago?), so I can't say anything about that one. I also have it on the Wii (works really well with the wiimote, even if a bit jittery), but I wanted to play the original.
I got the game to work by simply re-transferring the file via cable connection and by making sure ps3 didn't go to sleep during transfer, that was the problem.
e8772e No.15285237
>>15285179
>First PC port was broken beyond belief, you couldn't aim, you couldn't exit the game, it ran like shit
The first port had weird rebinding limitations forced gamepad or KB aiming unless you modded it, you could exit the game if you weren't a retard (SPOILER:generic KB shortcut exist for a reason) and it ran fine 30fps cap notwithstanding (it's there in every port that isn't the HD re-release for PC/Xbone/PS4)
b96b45 No.15288277
Here is my PSN ID for my PS3 if any of you wanna play with me…
Exodus_MW3
Yes, i know it's a very faggy name, i did that years ago and i wish i never chose such a horrible name.
afa611 No.15288378
>>15196974
>the console that aged like wine
It's incredible, considering it started as sour grapes.