Recent content by datadestroyer

Could I ask what thickness you used, and how if the metal plate was hard to screw back on due to the thermal pads sticking out? I used an eraser of 3mm thickness and I'm unsure if I'm comfortable with how much pressure was going onto the eraser when I screwed the metal plate back onto the...

I could definitely see that, but at least it's probably easier on the PCB or solder joints.

Basically, what the eraser mod tries to mimic? Surprised there arent cheap chinese clones or something yet. Or maybe one can be scanned so people could 3D print it?

Going to try it, hope it works. It already feels wrong when you try to put the metal plate back on top, because the eraser sticks out a bit which prevents the plate from sitting flat against the board as it did beforehand. After screwing the plate back on, I can definitely tell there is...

Would love to do this, but I have no experience with reballing or whatever its called, and extremely little soldering experience. Is there someone I could pay to do this online? How much would it even cost? EDIT: Looks like Computer Booter can do it. Guess I'll go to him when my CECHA breaks.

I can't find the option to edit my post, but I found my issue: I was copying my original save file and renamed it from slot 1 to slot 2. So even though I selected to load the save file in slot 2, it still knew to load the 000000000.000 from slot 1. Once I removed the original PS3 save file and...

So I'm trying to get my PSP save of MGS Peace Walker to work with trophies, and so I tried to create a fresh save of PW on PS3, and then decrypt the save. I also took my PSP save and decrypted it. I then replaced 00000000.000 in the PS3 folder with my SDDATA.BIN file from my decrypted PSP save...

I remembered that razors used to be the original tool used when delidding first became a thing for PS3s, but was quickly abandoned because of how easily it could cut the substrate. Has anyone tried plastic razors instead? (Like this...

Are there any risks? I've tried searching around, but I don't see many people talk about this. Is it because it doesn't affect much? I would've thought 20 year old thermal pads would be losing their effectiveness by now. If I do want to replace them is there anything I should be looking for...

Anyone see this? https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/rw1kcs/i_guess_the_eraser_mod_isnt_always_a_good_idea/ It makes me unsure if I should use this mod or not. Was it user error, or is the method itself flawed?