PS3 Soft MOD, What is This?

Icemanbrfc

Icemanbrfc

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as the title says, what is this PS3 soft mod stuff? is this similar to the Wii Homebrew stuff? Can one use this to use your existing games(legally owned), back it up and play from hard drive? I would like something like that
 
im useless at stuff like this, so would rather pay somebody to do it. My son who is 3 wants to put his own discs in, so i just want to ensure that i back it up, in the event he damages the disc or something.

if anybody can do it, please PM me your details

Thanks
 
First find out what version your console is currently on. I doubt there is CFW for 3.61 and upwards out.

This is part of the reason why I sold mine. My wife accidentally upgraded mine (didn't get the chance to load CFW yet) when it asked her to. It was connected via wifi
 
grav80 said:
First find out what version your console is currently on. I doubt there is CFW for 3.61 and upwards out.

This is part of the reason why I sold mine. My wife accidentally upgraded mine (didn't get the chance to load CFW yet) when it asked her to. It was connected via wifi
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Ouch. So you don't want to buy games? hmmmm?
 
grav80 said:
First find out what version your console is currently on. I doubt there is CFW for 3.61 and upwards out.

This is part of the reason why I sold mine. My wife accidentally upgraded mine (didn't get the chance to load CFW yet) when it asked her to. It was connected via wifi
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Actually, it's out for CFW 4.30... I flashed mine myself & it works perfectly :D

Icemanbrfc. If ur in Cape Town, I know a guy who will do it for u
 
Jimmy-Z said:
Actually, it's out for CFW 4.30... I flashed mine myself & it works perfectly :D
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Whaaaaaat??!!! I kept on checking for a few months and realised that they might not be able to hack 3.6x which my wife upgraded mine to. When it was quiet for about 6 months I thought phuk it, I need money and this thing is just gather dust :D
 
PM sent.


lol. I was sooo close to selling my old Phat ps3 as well. Glad I held out :D
Flashed & fitted a 500GB drive (wasn't easy on a flashed console)
 
Jimmy-Z said:
PM sent.


lol. I was sooo close to selling my old Phat ps3 as well. Glad I held out :D
Flashed & fitted a 500GB drive (wasn't easy on a flashed console)
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man so maybe i should 1st replace my hard drive, with a bigger one before i do the Mod. I too have the Phat 80GB
 
abzo said:
Oh just didn't understand why you'd have no use for it if it's not modded then. :confused:
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I had a whole bunch of games, and that was part of the problem. If its all on the HDD of the console then things are much easier to manage. PS3 games are huge to download and during the time I had mine I only had 3G so piracy wasn't really my aim (though if I could get hold of some iso's I might have been very tempted :whistle:)
abzo said:
So are the latest models moddable too then?
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You're going to have to ask the other guys that. My knowledge of anything PS3 related ends at 3.61 :)
 
out of interest sake, if the PS3 can only read Fat32, how would the bigger games be playable? Fat32 can not read file size bigger than 4GB, so im a bit confused.
 
Icemanbrfc said:
as the title says, what is this PS3 soft mod stuff? is this similar to the Wii Homebrew stuff? Can one use this to use your existing games(legally owned), back it up and play from hard drive? I would like something like that
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Do you have a link?
 
There aren't many games with files bigger than 4gb. Those you'll have to either store on the internal drive or split into smaller parts. There's some software that does it, but I've just kept those few on the internal. It takes long enough to transfer files via ftp, didn't want to mess with splitting software which might or might not work.
 
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