Hey guys, so I bought a PS3 slim 120gb HDD with arch 4.41 CFW, it has multi-man. I got few questions to make this PS3 up-to-date in terms of CFW and apps. I did bunch reading on the forum but having messed up on a modded ps3 before, I would like to double check with the community before risking again. So any advice is greatly appreciated.
1. I read up on the different CFW, seems like there are 6 popular ones out there, and the most newbie friendly is REBUG? Should I switch to REBUG and if so, how? I had experience installed Rogero many years ago with 3.55 ps3 but not from one cfw to another. Also, once I install REBUG, how do I update to newer version of REBUG?
2. I have a 1TB laptop drive I want to swap out the 120gb drive with, cause I read up on multiman compatibility and it seems internal games have higher compatibility than external, so it is probably a good idea to have a bigger drive, correct me if I'm wrong as the info might have been out of date. If external hdd booting is just fine then perhaps there is no point having a larger internal hdd. I never upgraded hdd with a CFW before, how do I put in the 1TB hdd? Can do I it with new CFW REBUG at the same time as per my first question? Will I lose my saved games changing hdd and CFW?
3. If my internal hdd gets full, can multiman transfer it to external hdd and to pc and vice versa? I know wii have a wad manager that makes transfer easy between pc and external hdd, is there a similar game manager for the ps3? I'm more familiar with the wii and I know it has bunch useful tools like the homebrew launcher and wiiflow, I only know of multiman for the ps3, are there other must have apps for the ps3 I should know about?
4. Do you let the ps3 connect to the internet? Last time I had a modded ps3 connected to the internet, it updated firmware and got rid of the CFW, but without connected to the internet, the game can't get patches, how do you get around that? I know wii has a tool that blocks firmware updates, perhaps there is a similar tool for the ps3 so I can connect to the net without risking the mod?
5. Any advice you can give to a ps3 CFW newbie?
1. I read up on the different CFW, seems like there are 6 popular ones out there, and the most newbie friendly is REBUG? Should I switch to REBUG and if so, how? I had experience installed Rogero many years ago with 3.55 ps3 but not from one cfw to another. Also, once I install REBUG, how do I update to newer version of REBUG?
2. I have a 1TB laptop drive I want to swap out the 120gb drive with, cause I read up on multiman compatibility and it seems internal games have higher compatibility than external, so it is probably a good idea to have a bigger drive, correct me if I'm wrong as the info might have been out of date. If external hdd booting is just fine then perhaps there is no point having a larger internal hdd. I never upgraded hdd with a CFW before, how do I put in the 1TB hdd? Can do I it with new CFW REBUG at the same time as per my first question? Will I lose my saved games changing hdd and CFW?
3. If my internal hdd gets full, can multiman transfer it to external hdd and to pc and vice versa? I know wii have a wad manager that makes transfer easy between pc and external hdd, is there a similar game manager for the ps3? I'm more familiar with the wii and I know it has bunch useful tools like the homebrew launcher and wiiflow, I only know of multiman for the ps3, are there other must have apps for the ps3 I should know about?
4. Do you let the ps3 connect to the internet? Last time I had a modded ps3 connected to the internet, it updated firmware and got rid of the CFW, but without connected to the internet, the game can't get patches, how do you get around that? I know wii has a tool that blocks firmware updates, perhaps there is a similar tool for the ps3 so I can connect to the net without risking the mod?
5. Any advice you can give to a ps3 CFW newbie?
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