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[marquimvfs]

Given the fucks we got recently from Sony, I started thinking again in jailbreaking my original PS3. I had a secondary jailbroken PS3 in the past, but the thing were really slow in the menus and I barely used it because of this. Now with the stores closing for good, there is now a good incentive to jailbreak again.

How is it working today? Is it possible to exchange Hdds with og firmware and cfw? I mean, I know it is easily doable but, is there any reason to be concerned, aside from any eventual physical damage to the conectors? CFW is doing anything at board level or if I change Hdds my console will be "fully original" again?

 

[LordCBH]

It's super super easy to do

https://consolemods.org/wiki/PS3:Getting_Started

 

[LordCBH]

As far as your swapping question, I am not sure. You can do all the things you do now (multiplayer, play games online, earn and sync trophies) in CFW, because Sony just doesn't care to police to small amount of people on the platform anymore.

Like there's always a chance, but even pirating games doesn't seem to get you banned anymore. My PS3 and vita drives are full of games I downloaded using the <redacted> store that I've earned trophies in and played online. As long as you don't chest in online games or use a trophy unlocked, you're pretty safe. Can't guarantee, of course.

Also, don't play the PS3 version of Destiny. Bungie will actually ban your account even without cheating.

 

[marquimvfs]

It's super super easy to do

https://consolemods.org/wiki/PS3:Getting_Started

I think you missed the point. I know it's easy to do. But I'll check the link anyway. Maybe it answer what I'm looking to.

I'm also a collector and I'm willing to mod my only PS3 at hand, and I'm looking for any downside of doing it, or things that could invariably change the only original PS3 I own.

Edit: LordCBH I think it's better you remove any piracy mentions. That's not allowed here.

 

[LordCBH]

I think the most annoying thing is transferring games you download on a pc since the PS3 can't read NRFS or exfat drives and fat32 has size limits on files. You can install a thing in the CFW tools reader to enable it to read NTFS, but I've had exactly zero success doing so.

 

[jshackles]

I think you missed the point. I know it's easy to do. But I'll check the link anyway. Maybe it answer what I'm looking to.

I'm also a collector and I'm willing to mod my only PS3 at hand, and I'm looking for any downside of doing it, or things that could invariably change the only original PS3 I own.

Conventional wisdom is to never take a jailbroken console online, and even back in the day that was the only downside of jailbreaking the console.

Now that you won't be able to connect online anyway? Literally zero downsides.

 

[LordCBH]

Edit: LordCBH I think it's better you remove any piracy mentions. That's not allowed here

Fair point. Removed the name of the app at least. Once the shop goes down I don't think it will matter since there's no way to support these studios at that point.

 

[xanaum]

It's a really good option for emulators too. I played a ton of arcade games on a jailbroken one. My only issue is that I get the feeling PS3s tend to die pretty quickly after being jailbroken, with the CPU eventually failing. Then again, all the ones still around today are pretty old, so maybe that's just been my experience.

 

[LordCBH]

It's a really good option for emulators too. I played a ton of arcade games on a jailbroken one. My only issue is that I get the feeling PS3s tend to die pretty quickly after being jailbroken, with the CPU eventually failing. Then again, all the ones still around today are pretty old, so maybe that's just been my experience.

I will say: don't do overclocking. That will kill it faster lol

 

[Magic Carpet]

I'm gonna go try and get my Ratchet and Clank PS3 games back from the Mom and Pop I sold them to a few months back. If they still have them. I'm gonna do the Emulation thing.
I hear tell PS3 emulators are doing decent.

 

[LordCBH]

Of note: when possible, support the studios and the devs. When that choice gets taken away from you, do what you wish.

 

[marquimvfs]

It's a really good option for emulators too. I played a ton of arcade games on a jailbroken one. My only issue is that I get the feeling PS3s tend to die pretty quickly after being jailbroken, with the CPU eventually failing. Then again, all the ones still around today are pretty old, so maybe that's just been my experience.

Emulators are by far my biggest reason to do it. But my previous experience were kinda meh with a enormously increased boot time and a sluggish menu. Now, with zero incentive to keep it original I'm tempted to do it again if it's 100% reversible process. Will even try on another spare hard disk.

 

[LordCBH]

Emulators are by far my biggest reason to do it. But my previous experience were kinda meh with a enormously increased boot time and a sluggish menu. Now, with zero incentive to keep it original I'm tempted to do it again if it's 100% reversible process. Will even try on another spare hard disk.

Depends on what you're emulating, of course. Stuff like SNES runs great. And PS2 games tend to run pretty awesome too. N64c I've noticed, tends to struggle.

 

[marquimvfs]

Of note: when possible, support the studios and the devs. When that choice gets taken away from you, do what you wish.

Already did. Backlog is fairly sized and piracy Is not a motivation here. If it's really improving QOL, I will rip my game of choice to play.

 

[Antwix]

I hope the guy on GAF I sold my cfw ps3 to still has it working good for him

 

[Traxtech]

Can you jailbreak the ps3 slim? I have a ton of physical media here (alot of rare ones too) but would like to keep some of them sealed

 

[Sephimoth]

Worth.

I jailbroke an old PS4 I had in loft.

Fuck Sony gonna do?

 

[LordCBH]

Already did. Backlog is fairly sized and piracy Is not a motivation here. If it's really improving QOL, I will rip my game of choice to play.

I DO rip my PS3 games and throw them on an external SSD. It's quite convenient.

 

[LordCBH]

Can you jailbreak the ps3 slim? I have a ton of physical media here (alot of rare ones too) but would like to keep some of them sealed

I think that would fall under the hybrid firmware? I don't think it can do full on custom firmware, but hybrid firmware that you just rerun the jailbreak on when you boot up each time should do what you need. The link in post 2 will tell you how to identify and what your option are.

I've got a launch 60GB so I've got the evilnat firmware on it.

 

[marquimvfs]

Worth.

I jailbroke an old PS4 I had in loft.

Fuck Sony gonna do?

Nah, not worried about sony. Just not being able to restore the console to an "original state" if things aren't as good as I thought they would be. I did jailbroken and old spare ps3 I had some years ago, thought that it was sluggish and sold the damn thing. Now, doing in my main ps3, I'm wondering how hard it would be to restore it to an original form if I don't like the result.

 

[Pagusas]

I need to jail break my Vita now that support for it is ending.

 

[LordCBH]

Nah, not worried about sony. Just not being able to restore the console to an "original state" if things aren't as good as I thought they would be.

I'm pretty sure you can. It might just amount to running an official firmware update, BUT DONT QUOTE ME ON THAT.

I think there might be a section on that in the modding wiki. I can take a deeper look later and see.

 

[Antwix]

Given the fucks we got recently from Sony, I started thinking again in jailbreaking my original PS3. I had a secondary jailbroken PS3 in the past, but the thing were really slow in the menus and I barely used it because of this. Now with the stores closing for good, there is now a good incentive to jailbreak again.

How is it working today? Is it possible to exchange Hdds with og firmware and cfw? I mean, I know it is easily doable but, is there any reason to be concerned, aside from any eventual physical damage to the conectors? CFW is doing anything at board level or if I change Hdds my console will be "fully original" again?

I've been out of the ps3 game for years now but from what I personally remember is when you swap hard drives, you'll get a prompt to reinstall firmware if they are different. I thought firmware was tied to the nand/nor.

 

[LordCBH]

I've been out of the ps3 game for years now but from what I personally remember is when you swap hard drives, you'll get a prompt to reinstall firmware if they are different. I thought firmware was tied to the nand/nor.

I think the firmware pairs whatever drive you install with the board, or it's partially installed on the drive? I am unsure which.

 

[StereoVsn]

I need to do this. I have modded phat PS2 and Vita so why not PS3.

 

[German Shocks]

It seems like the best time to do it.

 

[Drew1440]

Do it, it's well worth it. If you are unsure, try HEN which boots to an umodded state which you can then reenable by selecting the 'Enable CFW' option in the XMB

I think the most annoying thing is transferring games you download on a pc since the PS3 can't read NRFS or exfat drives and fat32 has size limits on files. You can install a thing in the CFW tools reader to enable it to read NTFS, but I've had exactly zero success doing so.

There are workarounds, you can split ISO files into 4GB parts which your backup loader (webman MOD) can mount as one large FAT32. Many games can just be copied as is to the FAT32 drive, known as JB Format. For games that have files over 4GB, you can put them in an ISO container as discussed above.
You can have upto a 2TB external drive formatted as FAT32, and with certain Western Digital drives you can use larger clusters that allows for upto 8TB of storage over FAT32. The PS3 does support upto four external USB drives giving you lots of flexibility for storage.
The only limitation is for PS2 classic games, since the PS2 emulator runs under its own hypervisor which shuts access to external USB drives, you are limited to the internal storage which maxes out at 1TB.

Emulators are by far my biggest reason to do it. But my previous experience were kinda meh with a enormously increased boot time and a sluggish menu. Now, with zero incentive to keep it original I'm tempted to do it again if it's 100% reversible process. Will even try on another spare hard disk.

There are way better solutions for emulators than relying on a 2006 PowerPC processor that never really had good IPC performance. An Intel NUC running a custom Linux distro or the Nvidia Shield TV are much better solutions for emulation.

 

[LordCBH]

There are workarounds, you can split ISO files into 4GB parts which your backup loader (webman MOD) can mount as one large FAT32. Many games can just be copied as is to the FAT32 drive, known as JB Format. For games that have files over 4GB, you can put them in an ISO container as discussed above.
You can have upto a 2TB external drive formatted as FAT32, and with certain Western Digital drives you can use larger clusters that allows for upto 8TB of storage over FAT32. The PS3 does support upto four external USB drives giving you lots of flexibility for storage.
The only limitation is for PS2 classic games, since the PS2 emulator runs under its own hypervisor which shuts access to external USB drives, you are limited to the internal storage which maxes out at 1TB.

I'll need to play around and figure out how that works. I tried to FTP into it and transfer that way, and it was so slow.