I am so thrilled that I find a CECHA01 for 150USD and The system has 80days Of use. I live on a beach area so when The AC is on The system runs tops at 62c (GPU, CPU is always lower, The fan set at 36%) with Games like The Last Of Us and God Of War 3.

They keeping doing this and im not sure why

Help me my ps3

My ps3 is cech 3003b , it has the most recent firmware update installed , all i want is to download and play some games nothing else , can somebody direct me how to mod my ps3 which tutorial to follow ?

Really want to collect Blu-rays but don’t wanna have to deal with Region locked blu-rays.is it practical to use a PS3 as region free Blu-ray player by jailbreaking it?

I plan on getting a ps3 and modding it but I havent found a definitive answer on if it can read a 4tb ssd? Ive heard there are formatting issues and only 1.75tb is readable. Ill be getting a 25xx cech and doing a cfw brew on it is 2tb the largest SSD I can use?

Pretty much every game I try has given me a black screen. Grand turismo 5 worked. Do I need to enable some game settings within webman to make them compatible? I did enable BD mirror. If anyone has any tips it would be highly appreciated. Havent touched a PS3 in 10 years. Console is a CECH2501B running evilnat 4.93 CFW CEX. Not sure if it's my firmware or what. I do not not remember having so many issues when I was running rebug firmware. Any idea wtf is going on? Thanks for reading my post! :)

So I have a quick question I have a 2504B ps3 slim and I installed Hen on it. Every time I go to the hen enabler I need an internet connection so Hen can work. Is there a way to not need internet every time I enable Hen on my ps3

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Please forgive the terrible title, I couldn't think of anything to properly describe the issues I've been having while setting up a PS3 system I got. I will try to explain what happened in as much detail as possible, so prepare for a decently big post.

Alright so, to give a bit of a background into my knowledge or whatever, I've modded many a 3DS during many different era's of their hacking guide, and further have looked into, albeit very briefly, wii u and switch modding. So I'm familiar with some things, just not everything, especially with PS3 specific terms.

I figured that, considering the 3DS literally just has a one stop shop website guide for its scene, i figured the PS3 would have a very similar approach. Which I was able to find on consolemods.org . Dunno if that name means anything to anyone who knows anything about PS3 modding, good bad or otherwise, but moving on.

I was able to go through the beginning motions of getting my console prepped for modding: Check the serial code CECH 25, CFW compatible, nice. Check the firmware update, version 4.91, so I follow the specific path for it that includes opening up the browser, resetting all the data and loading a github page. Just to find out, oh! turns out it's already got cfw. Great! Less work for me. Now I need to figure out what to do with it, (which in hindsight I should've taken a little bit more precaution into doing before jumping headfirst, but I'm getting ahead of myself.)

I find a page from the same site that includes a "reccomended setup" for consoles that have been modded. Specifically, the first instruction was to update to the latest version of Evilnat since I was on a version prior to 4.92. This is when I discover the CEX DEX PEX acronyms, which I now know what they stand for, but at the time didn't. I picked one from the list that sounded fine to use (PEX) and installed it. I'm certain that my wifi chip works (i mean i connected to the internet earlier so), and I assumed my blueray drive thing or whatever works so I just installed the basic version of the PEX firmware. (Again, not knowing what it meant.) This is where another one of my pitfalls comes in because I had assumed I was in safe mode when I was still in the xmb menu (very new to PS3 stuff, please spare me any making fun of) and updated it through the "main" method? IDK what else you'd call it. Though, the system said that it was corrupt. Okay, fine, that's fine. The guide just says that if that happens I chose the wrong version, and to just choose another. This is when I decided to properly look into what the acronyms meant. I specifically saw that DEX means dev kit, or a console that has been "modified" (simplifying) to be one. I wasn't sure what the person who previously owned this console did, but I had just assumed that wasn't it, so I chose CEX. This time, still not in safe mode mind you, I updated the console and it worked!

Well actually, except it didn't... the console now force boots into what I now know to be safe mode, and says the software is unable to be launched. I have tried installing the "main" versions for each of the firmware types for evilnat and none have worked. So currently, I've effectively now got a brick suspiciously shaped like a PS3. (Although I'm not sure what a bricked PS3 looks like, this is probably the closest one could get to one.)

So, now I'm not quite sure what to do. The previous owner I believe factory reset the console, though obviously didn't install OFW, so there wasn't anything lost on the console. Do I have to factory reset it and install OFW? Is there just a version of firmware I've missed? Did the previous owner completely f me over? None of these things I know and any help would be appreciated. I also am now realizing that I forgot to mention that yes, my drive was formatted correctly, I checked several times before and after "brick"ing my console. If anyone prefers DMs then feel free to shoot me a message. If I can get it working I will try editing this post with the solution.

Searched everywhere and can’t be sure I’ve found an answer for this situation, apologies if I missed it. But I don’t want to experiment in case it bricks my console.

I used Backup Utility to back up my OFW PS3, stored on a thumb drive.

I have a 2nd PS3 with CFW, and I want to know if I can get my backed up data from OFWPS3 onto this one.

Can I use “Restore Data”? Seems risky. I watched some MrMario videos on Apollo but didn’t get a clear answer.

If anyone knows please enlighten me! The main thing I’m going for is keeping my progress/saves going on the new CFW machine. I have the OFW still it’s totally fine just out of HDD space so I plan to keep it as a backup system and use the CFW as my main.

I'll keep it short, Sony's announcement about discs made me reassess my digital library and I decided to buy disc versions of the few digital games I bought for the PS3 and PS4. I'm now finding that the disc variants of those games don't recognize the savegames I have from the digital variants of the same games. I looked for a solution and tried to mod my saves with Bruteforce Save Data but clearly I'm in over my head on this since I tried changing the ID of the saves and got nowhere. Is there anyone who can guide me through the process so that I can use my digital saves on my physical copies?

P.S.: I don't have a modded PS3 and don't plan on modding it until Sony takes down PSN altogether, so I need a solution that works via PC. I transferred my saves via USB, so I can use that to retransfer the saves to my PS3.

Each folder is a two character name. bk, ci, ie, je.

So I formatted a new 320 gb hard drive on the console and followed all the steps to install custom firmware on a fat silver japanese ps3, I used a youtube video to flash it the alternate way because ps3toolset wasn't working at the moment, I installed hybrid firmware 4.93 and went to something aldo github something like that and followed all the steps, it said everything was successful and I rebooted like it said and put evilnat CFW 4.93 the CEX one on my hard drive, the system updater on the xmb recognized it on my hard drive I accepted everything and went to install, the first part finished but when it went to install it took me to a screen saying connect my controller and press the ps button and said I needed to update to 4.93 or higher, I've now tried all of the CEX evilnat firmwares for 4.93, the PEX ones for 4.93, the official sony 4.93, and the 4.93 to be able to just use hen instead and I keep getting either the error that says the data for the pup file in my flash drive is corrupted (for all the evilnat
firmwares, no bt, no bd, normal)or error 8002f281 that a critical error has occurred and to contact sony when I try the official update i got from the sony website. I've tried reformatting the usb flash drive I'm using multiple times, I've tried safe mode, rebuild database and all the other options in safe mode and it says it cannot access the storage, is there anything I can do it get this ps3 to update so I can get back to the xmb? I've given up on cfw I ordered an adapter for my laptop to connect the ssd and reformat it to fat32 will that work for me? please let me know any suggestions and if anyone else has ran into this problem, any feedback would be heavily appreciated

I overclocked my ps3 using mm and when I tried to launch a game after saving settings it froze then it would freeze any time I tried to open anything including mm, and is also freezing in safe mode. What can I do here?

So I have a CECHK03 80GB Fat PS3 with OFW firmware 4.85.

From what I understood - the LV0 keys leaked by geohot way back when are burned into the CPU, so technically, there's no need for HFW, right? 4.92 and 4.93 EvilNAT is signed with those keys, yes? So it should install?

Then why doesn't it? It errors out half-way, both 4.92 and 4.93, MD5 hash checked do not install. On the other hand the 4.93.1 HFW does install, and the flash writer method from the xxevilnatxx website works just fine, after executing that exploit and rebooting the PS3, the 4.93 evilNAT installs just fine.

If someone knowledgeable is around, I would like to know. I'm highly interested in the technical details of how this all works nowadays as I haven't followed the scene in a very long time, and I only have a moderate grasp on binary exploitation and only a tacit understanding of the exploit chains in use here.

its a CECH-2004B with hen 4.92 or 91 idfk since it wont fucking start!!!!!!! i press the power button either two things happen, it immediately rapidly screams at you by beeping quickly three times with a flashing red power button, or it pretends to start, spinning the disc reader and all, then it does this weird sound almost like the disc reader instantly stops and then beeps quickly three times, i didnt care much because it eventually booted up but then it just wont anymore, i need help im furious

Title says all

So I formatted a new 320 gb hard drive on the console and followed all the steps to install custom firmware on a fat silver japanese ps3, I used a youtube video to flash it the alternate way because ps3toolset wasn't working at the moment, I installed hybrid firmware 4.93 and went to something aldo github something like that and followed all the steps, it said everything was successful and I rebooted like it said and put evilnat CFW 4.93 the CEX one on my hard drive, the system updater on the xmb recognized it on my hard drive I accepted everything and went to install, the first part finished but when it went to install it took me to a screen saying connect my controller and press the ps button and said I needed to update to 4.93 or higher, I've now tried all of the CEX evilnat firmwares for 4.93, the PEX ones for 4.93, the official sony 4.93, and the 4.93 to be able to just use hen instead and I keep getting either the error that says the data for the pup file in my flash drive is corrupted (for all the evilnat
firmwares, no bt, no bd, normal)or error 8002f281 that a critical error has occurred and to contact sony when I try the official update i got from the sony website. I've tried reformatting the usb flash drive I'm using multiple times, I've tried safe mode, rebuild database and all the other options in safe mode and it says it cannot access the storage, is there anything I can do it get this ps3 to update so I can get back to the xmb? I've given up on cfw I ordered an adapter for my laptop to connect the ssd and reformat it to fat32 will that work for me? please let me know any suggestions and if anyone else has ran into this problem, any feedback would be appreciated

Basicamente a ideia era reduzir os processos e ao mesmo tempo trazer uma instalação personalizada mais satisfatória, então agora podemos selecionar imagens direto de dentro do app, ele permite usar uma logo png sem fundo no ícone, o que fica bem legal na XMB, e permite adicionar músicas sem precisar converter, ou seja, é só baixar a trilha sonora do seu jogo em MP3 e ele vai fazer a conversão automática e inserir no seu PKG.

Agora também podemos adicionar a uma fila, trazer mais jogos e em seguida colocar para converter todos em um só carregamento.

Em resumo, é isso, testem aí, ainda estou procurando melhorias então feedbacks são bem vindos. O site está em português do Brasil mas o app tem a opção de alterar para inglês e espanhol.

Compatível com Windows 10/11

i tried to rename my pcsx2 memory card to vm2 but that didnt work after moving it to ps3 and replacing the vm2 file i already had on ps3. so what can i do with my pcsx2 memory card saves to get them to be read on my super slim with ps3 hen.

Hey, so i've had my fat ps3 for a couple of months and everything has been running smoothly when I first modded it, but after not using for about 3 weeks it stopped connecting to wifi. It won't let me sing into psn. I also updated it to evilnat 4.93 to see if that solved it but it didn't work. I'm not sure what else to do and I don't think that its a bad wifi card. Any help would be great thanks.

So I wanted to play a translated version of Skyrim Legendary Edition. Installed using Hen the pkgs (both the game and the dlc) but there are no rap files so it does not show in XMB.

How can I fix it?

I cant find the rap files anywhere also

i just got a ps3 and I'm trying to download hen whenever i try to download the update via storage media it says no applicable update data was found I've done everything i can think of using multiple usbs all my files all correct and i had them on fat32 and a 16kb cluster size

Have a fat ps3 with hen that I use solely for rb3dx.

Recently the system has been shutting itself off during gameplay (game play shuts off, loud beep, blinking green light) so I think the power source is shot.

Have to force reset the system, error check and load everything back up, usually the system will shut down again within 30 mins or act like nothing has happened and run normal through the night.

Is it worth it to fix the system or just replace it with the same model, put hen back on and hopefully swap the sdd?

I've tried to use a cfw slim but it can't handle deluxe

Thanks.