Recent content by fdm

Opinion? Wonky hardware. Thought that the second I read the title. Obviously HEN is stable, well tested, and hasn't changed much. So it's whatever is not that.

It doesn't matter that the disk is real if the game checks for modchips. It will still trigger AP protections.

Past what's in the repo, I imagine some users maintain private plugins for themselves. Not much out there for such a niche player. On the plus side, it's super easy to develop for, so if you wanted to not much would be in your way. Plugins are written in Javascript so you can do fun stuff like...

In that diagram all those capacitors are connected in parallel. If one of those ceramic caps shorted to ground, all three rails should be shorted as well. If your probing is correct, at least one of the caps on the third row has shorted and the trace on the positive side has fused. In this case...

The FreeMcBoot installer should detect your console and install everything you need. If 1.966 blackscreens, try 1.953, make sure your console does not have a modchip installed or it will never work. You might consider another entry point if your just buying pre-loaded memory cards.

Remove unwanted content manually before building the iso, you save a little space but I don't think it's worth the effort most of the time. Mandatory installs, on the other hand, waste a ton of space and it is currently an unsolved issue. PSN titles come with decompressed data and have...

PS3s use SATA-150, what the drives are capable of doesn't really matter. Sony just used whatever drives were cheap and available at the sizes they needed.

I think that "Custom Firmware Tools" menu is the xai_plugin. I know you can use IDPSet to permanently change your current target ID to the region of your choice. This will for sure solve your issue and is exactly the method I would personally use. Under Custom Firmware Tools -> PSN Tools there...

I think you'd need your ERK for that, or at least every guide has you dump it as a prerequisite. That wouldn't be obtainable without CFW afaik.

So the periodic lv2 memory validation, do we know how that works? I wasn't able to find it documented on the wiki. Curious to know if WDSD can overcome it with a hv patch or it happens off in the loaders and any lv2 patches will need to be reverted like with hen.

I'm currently using HEN hosted by leeful: https://leeful.github.io/672v7/index.html I switched from MIRA after it started failing to launch my game. MIRA always crashes if I enter Rest Mode, while HEN crashes sometimes. 6.72 seems far less stable than 5.05 IMO. I get kernel panics quite...

I think it's because the PS2 emulators act like an operating system running on top of lvl1. That's why you can't access the XMB and have to reload HEN when returning to it. The fan payload gets unloaded and runs at whatever speed it was at when you launched the emulator, so you either raise the...

Sorry if it's a silly question, but ever since HAN was released I wondered if it'd work to apply the react patch to vsh and restore an act.dat backup afterwards. Suppose it doesn't matter unless your unlucky enough to buy a banned console(fraud?) or Sony releases a patch to change PSN keys...

It'd have to be back ported to work on your old firmware, but it's unnecessary, ps3hen makes your ODE obsolete.

You must be connected to PSN to launch any of the video apps and that same mechanism will force updates. Additionally, if an old version is modified to keep the old webkit and remove the PSN requirement, you won't be able to launch it before running a kernel exploit so it can't be used as an...