GUIDE TO GETTING CFW ON PS3 VERSION 3.55​

Guide objectives :

- Install Custom Firmware 3.55

- Connect to PSN (optional step)

- Install and launch Homebrews

- Transfer files between Computer/PS3

- Play games with managers
​

Guide Contents & Index:

GUIDE 1: INSTALLING CFW:

- Pre-requisites

- Procedures

- PC Stuff

- PS3 Stuff


GUIDE 2: CONNECTING TO PSN

- Pre-requisites

- Procedure
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GUIDE 1: INSTALLING CFW AND BACKUP MANAGER​

- PRE-REQUISITES -​

0) A FAT32 formatted USB drive

Most low-capacity USB drives are already FAT32 formatted. If your's isn't, right click on the drive letter of your usb(eg: E:\) and click on Format. Choose FAT32 and Quick Format it.

1) OFW 3.55(if you don't already have it)

Download (Use the mediafire link.)

MD5 CHECKSUM: ca595ad9f3af8f1491d9c9b6921a8c61


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Make a new folder on the root of a usb drive and call it PS3. Make another folder inside it called UPDATE. Put the 3.55 update in here and make sure that it's named, 'PS3UPDAT.PUP'. Now put the usb drive into the PS3 and go to Settings -> System Update and choose Update via Storage Media and press 'X'.

2) CFWM 1.5 Small Version [32MB]

Download

Used for obtaining Custom Firmwares.

3) MultiMAN:

BASE

This is currently the best backup manager.

- PROCEDURE -​

- PC STUFF -​

STEP 0: CREATING A CUSTOM FIRMWARE

Automatic Patching:​

1) Create a new folder on your desktop and call it 'CFWM'. If you downloaded OFW 3.55 earlier, skip step 3 and create a new folder inside this folder called 'Original_3.55_FW'. Copy the PS3UPDAT.PUP to this folder.

2) Extract the .exe from inside the CFWM archive to this folder.

3) Now, open the .exe and choose 'Download 3.55 OFW'.

4) After it has finished, choose any CFW from the 3.55 section and click on Create Custom Firmware 3.55.

NOTE: I recommend Kmeaw's 3.55 CFW.

Manual patching:(by Cyan)​

1) Download CFWM v1.5 Full version (+batch by Cyan) [152MB]. and create a new folder on your desktop and call it 'CFWM'. Now, extract everything from that archive to this folder.

2) Place the downloaded OFW 3.55 in 'Original_3.55_FW' folder (or OFW 3.41 in 'Original_3.41_FW' folder).

3) Double click on the Batch file corresponding to the cfw you want to create (ex. Kmeaw_3.55.bat) and follow the instructions. Verify that both MD5 hashes are matching at the end of the process.

4) The patched cfw is now available in newly created folder named after the cfw you chose.

STEP 1: TRANSFERRING EVERYTHING TO THE USB DRIVE

Okay, now lets start transferring the CFW and the Backup Manager to the USB drive.

1) On the root of your USB drive, create a new folder called 'PS3'. Now inside 'PS3' create another folder called 'UPDATE'.

2) Go to the 'CFWM' folder and now go to the folder of your chosen CFW.

3) Find the PS3UPDAT.PUP file and copy it to the 'UPDATE' folder which we created.

4) Open the multiMAN archive.

5) Extract multiMAN WT.pkg, USB.CFG and options_default.ini to root of your USB drive.

- PS3 STUFF -​

STEP 1: INSTALLING KMEAW CFW

1) In the XMB, go to Settings -> System Update.

2) Now select Update Via Storage Media.

3) A message will pop-up.

4) Press 'X'.

5) It should install successfully. If you get any errors, try installing it using Recovery Mode.

STEP 2: INSTALLING MULTIMAN BACKUP MANAGER

1) In the XMB go to Game -> Install Package Files.

2) Select MultiMAN and install it.

3) If you want to play games with Kmeaw cfw, you need to install this using the 'Install Package Files' option in the Game section of the XMB.

STEP 3: ENABLING NTFS ON MULTIMAN (OPTIONAL)

[title: ENABLING NTFS ON MULTIMAN]

1) Plug your external hdd into your PC and download this.

2) Install usbview and open it.

3) Grab the vendor id and the product id.

4) Now create a new notepad file and put this in 0xVNID:0xPRID:V where VNID is the vendor id and PRID is the product id and V is the number of volumes.

5) Now save it as USB.CFG and copy it over to the root of your USB Drive. If it asks you to replace it, do so.

6) Now download Awesome File Manager and install it on your PS3.

7) Run it and browse to /dev_hdd0/game/BLES80608/USRDIR

8) On the other side you should find a directory that has "USB" in it, the inside directory should have your "USB" file.

9) Highlight it and press O to copy it into MultiMAN USRDIR.

10) Now go back to multiMAN and press Start + /\.

11) The NTFS driver should be activated now.

NOTE: Currently you can only copy from an external NTFS hdd to your internal hdd. Nothing more, nothing less.

-END OF GUIDE 1-​

GUIDE 2: CONNECTING TO PSN​

Spoiler: GUIDE 2: CONNECTING TO PSN. THIS DOES NOT WORK CURRENTLY AS THIS METHOD HAS BEEN BLOCKED BY SONY

THIS DOES NOT WORK AS OF 3/18/2011. FOR MORE INFO, GO HERE.

- PRE-REQUISITES -​

0) A FAT32 formatted USB drive

Most low-capacity USB drives are already FAT32 formatted. If your's isn't, right click on the drive letter of your usb(eg: E:\) and click on Format. Choose FAT32 and Quick Format it.

1) TEAM REBUG'S 3.60 SPOOFER

Visit Team Rebug website to download a list of URLs

Select a link from the provided list in the text file to download the installer.

- PROCEDURE -​

INSTALLING TEAM REBUG'S 3.60 SPOOFER​

1) Extract 3.60_Version_Spoofer.pkg from the archive you downloaded to the root of your USB drive.

2) Plug it in to your PS3

3) In the XMB go to Game -> Install Package Files.

4) Select 3.60 Version Spoofer

5) Once loaded Press the 'X' button to install. It will take about 15-45 seconds.

6) When it prompts for a reboot, do so.

STEP 2: INSTALLING FUCK PSN (OPTIONAL. USE THIS FOR SPOOFING YOUR CONSOLE ID).

1) Download dev_blind.pkg, fuckPsn-v0.6.exe and CA27.cer from here. Copy dev_pkg and openps3ftp.pkg from the OpenPs3Ftp archive to the root of your USB Drive.

2) On your desktop, create a new folder. Let's call it Fuck PSN.

3) Copy CA27.cer and the fuckPsn-v0.6.exe file to this folder.

4) Now download an FTP server. I personally use FileZilla.

5) Install it.

6) Now plug-in your USB Drive into your PS3.

7) In the XMB, go to Install Package Files and install dev_blind and OpenPS3FTP.

8) Go to Game and launch dev_blind to mount the flash as writable

9) Now on your PS3 run OpenPS3Ftp and on your PC run Filezilla or whichever FTP server you use.

10) Go to FileZilla and enter root as the username and openbox as the password.

11) Now using FileZilla go to /dev_blind/data /cert

12) Rename CA27.cer to CA27.cer.bak

13) Now copy over the CA27.cer from the FuckPSN directory that we created earlier to /dev_blind/data/cert

14) Now change your PS3's primary and secondary dns servers to your PS3's IP. If you don't know how to change the DNS servers look here.

15) After you're done changing the DNS servers, reboot your PS3 and launch FuckPSN.exe from the folder we created earlier.

16) You can now connect to PSN.

-END OF GUIDES-​

F.A.Q.(by Cyan)​

Main questions

Q. Can I use burnt Bluray discs to play games?
A. No. Only Internal and External HDD is working with backup managers.

Q. I updated past 3.55, is there any way to get the 3.55 custom firmware from there?
A. No. There's no way to downgrade from 3.56+ firmware yet using a software method. Though, there is a way to downgrade some FAT PS3 involving Infectus modchip.

Q. I'm on 3.50 or bellow. Do I need to install the Official Firmware 3.55 first?
A. Even if installing a cfw3.55 over an old fw should work, it's recommended that you update your PS3 to the same Official Firmware as the cfw you want to install first to avoid bricking your console.

Q. I'm on 3.41 or bellow and don't want to update to 3.55, do I really need to install 3.55 to use a cfw?
A. No, you can install Hermes cfw 3.41 (please update to ofw 3.41v2 first) and follow the guide the same way. Just don't install the Version Spoofer from Team Rebug (It only works on 3.55).

Q. I'm already using a cfw but I want to change for Kmeaw 3.55
A. First re-install the ofw 3.55 over your current one, then follow the guide again.

Q. How big should be my USB drive just to install it, not to play back ups?
A. Around 200mb.

Q. Where can I find all previous Official Firmware and their MD5 hash ?
A. Sony removed previous firmwares from their servers when the first jailbreak method appeared. You can still find remaining links and all the informations here.

CFWM

Q. The program doesn't start.
A. You need .Net framework 4.0.

Q. Where can I find .net4.0 ?
A. Here

Q. I don't want to install .Net4.0. How can I still patch the firmware?
A. You can use bspatch program to patch the firmware manually. Follow the manual patching method in the Guide.

PSN

Q. Can Sony ban my PSN account?
A. Yes, as Sony can't ban your Console ID, they can ban your account. But you can always create a new account, while unbanning the PS3 itself will be harder.

Q. Can I play online with all games?
A. You can't play online anymore. You need the 3.62+ official firmware to connect to PSN.

Q. FuckPSN is not working, what can I do?
A. You need .net Framework 3.5, and if you are using a firewall you need to open these ports : 53 UDP, 80 TCP and 443 TCP. You may need to close Skype.

Multiman :

Q. When I press start+triangle to enable NTFS it freezes
A. Your NTFS partition needs to be primary and active.

 

[PedroGomezGoldin]

hi there;
the CFWM 1.5 Small Version [32MB] link is down.... could you update it??

 

[Cyan]

I'll see if I have it (It was the author of the guide which uploaded it).
meanwhile, you can take the full version (152MB), the link is in the "manual installation" box.

 

[godreborn]

I take it theres no way to Mod a Slim PS3 to play PS2 games

I have seen reports on other forum of people playing ps2 titles on slim. It requires a cobra dongle and a special Openps2loader iso and you can't save. Also, you can only load isos from smb or Usb. I don't have a tru blu so i did not test it myself but I believe its true. check ps2 on ps3 slim cobra on youtube.

you can play them without openps2loader. u can just click on the iso on ur hdd and load it from there. u might also be able to just use the disc (most likely can). however, it's pretty buggy. I don't know about saving as I never tried to do that, but u will have to have the ps3 controller plugged in since wireless will not work. plus, there r a lot of frame-rate issues. although I didn't check every game, I didn't encounter one that didn't work. the saving issue may be due to the people not creating a ps2 memory card beforehand.

 

[probotzor]

can i play backup games from internal hdd with this guide? im kinda new here,im buying ps3 next week,so im looking foward to your answers thx

 

[Cyan]

Only if you are buying an old PS3 with firmware lower than 3.56 (up to 3.55 it's fine).
If you buy a new PS3, you can't install a custom Firmware, and then you can't backup games at all.

 

[probotzor]

im am buying new ps3 :/ so there is not any way to play backups on it?

 

[Cyan]

No way for the moment.
The only possibility would be a new hack method, a way to hack 4.x firmware.
But we can only hack 3.55 and bellow for the moment.

Don't hope or wait too long. There hasn't been any progress in more than one year now.

If you want to hack a PS3 now, you need an old one with an old firmware.

 

[probotzor]

damn i actually found some files for 4.0 and 4.11 and downloaded them,but i assume they are fake from what you have said
do they sell the ones with old firmware in stores? i do not want to buy used one :/

 

[Cyan]

Maybe, but you need a store with not many customers.
One who could still have an October 2010 pack (like PSMove pack). This pack was on 3.40 (it was a CECH-250.B)

The only way to check before buying is with the model number.
You can find that number on the box.

Check this table:

Spoiler

There are "CECH-250" which are both old (3.40/3.50) and new (3.61)
But there is model "CECH-251" which was only sold with firmware 3.50.

I don't know if there are "new" CECH-251, so be careful as this table may be old and missing models.

 

[probotzor]

the model they are selling is CECH-3004A i dint find it in that table :/

 

[JFTS]

Hey, just recently I tried to play Uncharted 2 from the disc on my modded PS3, but the game has some problems. If it won't load forever, it'll skip videos, slow down or having some textures not loaded at all. I haven't tried other discs yet, but all the backuped work fine with Uncharted 2. Could it be that the disc drive is damaged by backing up the games?

Also, I bought Shadow of The Colossus a few days ago and I haven't backed it up yet, beacuse of this. So, I downloaded the game to transfer it with a flash drive to console but when I try to copy the file folder into the flash drive, it says the file's too big, even though the drive is twice the size of the game. Why is that?

 

[pyromaniac123]

Hey, just recently I tried to play Uncharted 2 from the disc on my modded PS3, but the game has some problems. If it won't load forever, it'll skip videos, slow down or having some textures not loaded at all. I haven't tried other discs yet, but all the backuped work fine with Uncharted 2. Could it be that the disc drive is damaged by backing up the games?

Also, I bought Shadow of The Colossus a few days ago and I haven't backed it up yet, beacuse of this. So, I downloaded the game to transfer it with a flash drive to console but when I try to copy the file folder into the flash drive, it says the file's too big, even though the drive is twice the size of the game. Why is that?

FAT32.

 

[JFTS]

Hey, just recently I tried to play Uncharted 2 from the disc on my modded PS3, but the game has some problems. If it won't load forever, it'll skip videos, slow down or having some textures not loaded at all. I haven't tried other discs yet, but all the backuped work fine with Uncharted 2. Could it be that the disc drive is damaged by backing up the games?

Also, I bought Shadow of The Colossus a few days ago and I haven't backed it up yet, beacuse of this. So, I downloaded the game to transfer it with a flash drive to console but when I try to copy the file folder into the flash drive, it says the file's too big, even though the drive is twice the size of the game. Why is that?

FAT32.

What do you mean? The drive is already formatted as FAT32. If that means that big files can't be loaded, I don't know. I'm not very much into technical stuff. Would you mind explain it to me?

EDIT: I think the FTP server is way too slow to transfer these big games.

 

[probotzor]

is it possible that this model can he flashed? http://www.gamestop....-160-gb-konsole ?
it says that its release date is october 2010

http://www.gamestop.de/Playstation%203/Games/1295/playstation-3-konsole-slim-inkl-120-gb-festplatte
this one is from 2009

 

[pyromaniac123]

Hey, just recently I tried to play Uncharted 2 from the disc on my modded PS3, but the game has some problems. If it won't load forever, it'll skip videos, slow down or having some textures not loaded at all. I haven't tried other discs yet, but all the backuped work fine with Uncharted 2. Could it be that the disc drive is damaged by backing up the games?

Also, I bought Shadow of The Colossus a few days ago and I haven't backed it up yet, beacuse of this. So, I downloaded the game to transfer it with a flash drive to console but when I try to copy the file folder into the flash drive, it says the file's too big, even though the drive is twice the size of the game. Why is that?

FAT32.

What do you mean? The drive is already formatted as FAT32. If that means that big files can't be loaded, I don't know. I'm not very much into technical stuff. Would you mind explain it to me?

EDIT: I think the FTP server is way too slow to transfer these big games.

With fat32 you can't copy over files that are larger than 4gb.

 

[probotzor]

i asked in the store and they have told me that their ps3 has 3.70 firmware....is there some way to play backups on that firmware

 

[Cyan]

No, there's no way.
I'm very sorry


@[member='pyromaniac123']:
About games with files bigger than 4GB, you have different solutions if you want to transfer a ISO from computer to PS3:

1. use FTP (over ethernet, not wifi or router, so it's not slow) to transfer the game to your internal HDD.
2. use a file splitter to cut big files in multiple 4GB files and store them on the external HDD.

But You can't play the game with split files, you need to reconstruct them on internal HDD.
Here, you have also two solution:
1. use the game manager to copy the full game from external to internal -> the split files are automatically reconstructed as a big single file.
2. use the game manager with a "cache" option. It will transfer and reconstruct ONLY the split files on your internal HDD. The other game's files are still on external.


For more information, I invite you to read my tutorial, the chapter about games with 4GB+ files.
You will find link to splitters too.

 

[JFTS]

@[member='pyromaniac123']:
About games with files bigger than 4GB, you have different solutions if you want to transfer a ISO from computer to PS3:

1. use FTP (over ethernet, not wifi or router, so it's not slow) to transfer the game to your internal HDD.
2. use a file splitter to cut big files in multiple 4GB files and store them on the external HDD.

But You can't play the game with split files, you need to reconstruct them on internal HDD.
Here, you have also two solution:
1. use the game manager to copy the full game from external to internal -> the split files are automatically reconstructed as a big single file.
2. use the game manager with a "cache" option. It will transfer and reconstruct ONLY the split files on your internal HDD. The other game's files are still on external.


For more information, I invite you to read my tutorial, the chapter about games with 4GB+ files.
You will find link to splitters too.

Thank you for the excellent guide. It's very useful. But I still can't understand. Why is the original Bluray lagging and crashing? Could it be that the disc drive is damaged due to backing up games?

 

[Cyan]

damaged, maybe.
Due to backing up games, no I don't think so.

The drive's job is to read discs.
some games require constant reading of the disc, even if it's not from start to end in one pass, so it's not backing up which damaged it, playing is also affecting it.

Did you try other games (which worked fine before) to see if they are also lagging now?
Maybe it's just Uncharted 2 which has a problem.

 

[probotzor]

guys i found this model in hungary http://www.gameshop.hu/playstation3/playstation-3-slim-320-gb/2524
it says it is cech 2504a....can that one be flashed or something? and if it can,how?