PS3 Burning disks yields black screen

[skyrbunny]

Hi there, I recently installed CFW (Cobra) on my PS3, and it's worked great. I can load ISOs via FTP and all that. But I wanted to burn games onto disks and use those to play my games. However, when I burn the known working PS2 ISO onto a disk and insert it into the PS3, it reads it as a PS2 format disk (as it is), but then loads into a black screen and becomes unresponsive. How can this be?

For the record, I know using the internal HDD is the Optimal way to do it. I just like disks, and I want to draw little pictures on them and insert them into the console when I want to play games.

Here's what I've been using:
- PS3 Slim (Not super slim) w/ Cobra CFW (Latest stable, afaik)
- DVD+R (I also tried DVD-RW with the same result)

 

[GuilloteTesla]

Hi there, I recently installed CFW (Cobra) on my PS3, and it's worked great. I can load ISOs via FTP and all that. But I wanted to burn games onto disks and use those to play my games. However, when I burn the known working PS2 ISO onto a disk and insert it into the PS3, it reads it as a PS2 format disk (as it is), but then loads into a black screen and becomes unresponsive. How can this be?

For the record, I know using the internal HDD is the Optimal way to do it. I just like disks, and I want to draw little pictures on them and insert them into the console when I want to play games.

Here's what I've been using:
- PS3 Slim (Not super slim) w/ Cobra CFW (Latest stable, afaik)
- DVD+R (I also tried DVD-RW with the same result)

PS3 Slims do not support playing PS2 games from discs, either original or burned.

You must always use ISOs on non-BC PS3 consoles.

 

[NiQ]

Hi there, I recently installed CFW (Cobra) on my PS3, and it's worked great. I can load ISOs via FTP and all that. But I wanted to burn games onto disks and use those to play my games. However, when I burn the known working PS2 ISO onto a disk and insert it into the PS3, it reads it as a PS2 format disk (as it is), but then loads into a black screen and becomes unresponsive. How can this be?

For the record, I know using the internal HDD is the Optimal way to do it. I just like disks, and I want to draw little pictures on them and insert them into the console when I want to play games.

Here's what I've been using:
- PS3 Slim (Not super slim) w/ Cobra CFW (Latest stable, afaik)
- DVD+R (I also tried DVD-RW with the same result)

CFW had to remove the check that blocks the PS2 emulator, because that also blocks the ability to play ISOs.
That indeed creates an issue where if you put a physical disc, it'll start the emulator, which will then crash the system because it cannot access discs.

 

[skyrbunny]

CFW had to remove the check that blocks the PS2 emulator, because that also blocks the ability to play ISOs.
That indeed creates an issue where if you put a physical disc, it'll start the emulator, which will then crash the system because it cannot access discs.

Why can't it read the disk if it can play ISOs? Is it not able to physically read the disk?

 

[NiQ]

Why can't it read the disk if it can play ISOs? Is it not able to physically read the disk?

The emulator lacks the code necessary to access the optical drive. It was only designed to play the PS2 Classics titles available from the PS3 store. Evilnat managed to hack it so it can read ISO files from the HDD but apparently doing that for real discs would be a lot more difficult.
Apparently Sony initially had plans to release a full software emulator that can play discs but at some point scraped the idea. It's not known whether it was a technical or business decision (probably both).

 

[TnA]

Some wrapping-code or a replacement for the ISO-driver could do that, if someone wants to spend the time.

 

[NiQ]

Some wrapping-code or a replacement for the ISO-driver could do that, if someone wants to spend the time.

Seems that Evilnat never posted the Cobra 8.5 source code so we can't do that even if we wanted.

 

[TnA]

Even if he did not release it, your conclusion is not correct.