Well as of right now I'm pulling my hair out just trying to get anywhere near the syscon with the tutorial. At this point I'm so frustrated just trying to get things working computer side I've about called it quits multiple times.
Anything I look up online leads to things way beyond a beginners level of comprehension. Im not looking to learn how to code, im looking to learn how to run one thing for the sake of getting my now $200 console back into working order. Thats all, but you know how the internet is... what you need it buried under 50 people going do it this way.
I just want to find a guide on exactly how to get this stuff working. I know enough about computers to get myself in trouble, that's why I don't really mess with them.
So far I've got my laptop setup to dual boot into Linux mint with python working just fine at its base. After that I cant make heads or tails of things as the more I try to research things the more confusing it gets. I dont consider myself stupid but damn this makes it feel that way.
As for the differing opinions on what to do I'd like to be able to do both but given that I have more than one console with issues I want to get the syscon stuff working first as that will help me fix 3 other consoles I have here.
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I cant write an "step by step" guide, but i can explain some general concepts of what you need to achieve
First you need to get some linux distro to boot, there are many ways to do it but a handy one is to create a bootable USB... then configure your PC bios to boot from USB and boot it
After that you need to get used to the linux terminal and "lspci" and "lsusb" that displays some info about the hardware, your goal is to find the identifyer of the USB programmer and his port name (some COM#)
You can do all this with the PS3 disconnected from the PC (but the programmer connected to USB)... just to practise
When you are used to that procedures you need to get used to the linux package installer, all/most linux distros have one, and allows to install/uninstall software just using the mouse (no need to type commands in terminal)
What you need to install is mentioned somewhere in the tutorials, basically is python + some support packages related with python
Power off the PC, connect the PS3 to programmer to PC, keep the PS3 completly unpowered... then boot the PC, run the python script (with the correct COM identifyer of te USB programmer)... aaaaand power the PS3 to standby
At that point you should see some characters displayed in the PC terminal, it means the PS3 is sending some data, and thats great, but it could happen several things:
-the data looks garbage (so turn off all devices and repeat, the TX and RX wires are connected incorrectly, you need to swap them)
-the data is readable !!!
If the data is readable, then you need to get used to how to do the "auth" command with syscon (is a requirement, if you dont authentificate syscon is not going to accept any other command)
Also, you need to get used to the 2 operation modes availables in syscon (that makes availables the "internal" or "external" commands). To switch this modes is needed to connect/disconnect the DIAG pad to ground... you know is one of the wires you need to solder in the motherboard, keep one side of the DIAG wire unsoldered to allow you to change the syscon operation modes easilly
