Hi everyone,
I'm pretty sure I had an account here, but maybe it was deleted due to inactivity. Anyways, a couple months ago I took out my old PS3 slim of the box and decided to give it a spin again. It's a slim, but with a CFW on (currently on the newest CFW evilnat 4.92.2 or sth like that).
In my PS3 I have a 1 TB internal SSD and a 2TB external HDD NTFS. The way my setup worked up until now was - I was getting an ISO of the game I wanted to play (for the games that I own for the sake of this conversation), I coupled it with a .dkey file, put both of them on the external HDD in the PS3ISO folder and ran them through webMAN with the help of prepNTFS. For DLCs, themes and updates I'd just get PKGs + RAPs and put them on a separate USB stick and install them on the internal HDD. That's the way I want to keep my setup. I don't feel like "FTPing" games directly into the internal SSD and installing games via USB is out question due to the amount of time it takes.
Anyway, the place where I sourced my ISOs is going to shut down in a month, so the next source I'm going to switch to will get me PKGs. They, per se, will install on the internal SDD, which is what I'm trying to avoid. I want to keep the internal SSD for mandatory game installations, DLCs, updates and themes.
The question I want to ask is - what is the easiest way to play a game from an external HDD now that I'm dealing with PKGs? Do I unpack them and once I have the "disc" format just put them on the external HDD into the GAMEI folder and pray to god it's that simple? But even with that, I think it's just going to be faster to copy/read if I had one big file like an ISO instead of thousands upon thousands of small files in the "JB" format. So then would that mean I would have to:
1. Download the game PKG + RAP file.
2. Extract the PKG using aldostools into the disc format.
3. Convert it into an ISO using whatever PS3 ISO software there is.
4. Then put the ISO in the external drive's PS3ISO folder (I guess without the need for a dkey file anymore, as I'm sure most of those tools would patch the eboot already)?
So in the end what I wanted to know is:
I) is my logic correct?
II) is there an easier way of doing that? (I used to know all the ins and outs, but I haven't been invested in the hacking community for... longer than I can remember once I moved to PS4 and now PS5)
III) are there any quirks or things I should watch out for? As in, something specific I should configure, get, install etc?
IV) best/modern software to get?
I'd appreciate any inputs and help. That being said I'll start experimenting on my own tonight.
I'm pretty sure I had an account here, but maybe it was deleted due to inactivity. Anyways, a couple months ago I took out my old PS3 slim of the box and decided to give it a spin again. It's a slim, but with a CFW on (currently on the newest CFW evilnat 4.92.2 or sth like that).
In my PS3 I have a 1 TB internal SSD and a 2TB external HDD NTFS. The way my setup worked up until now was - I was getting an ISO of the game I wanted to play (for the games that I own for the sake of this conversation), I coupled it with a .dkey file, put both of them on the external HDD in the PS3ISO folder and ran them through webMAN with the help of prepNTFS. For DLCs, themes and updates I'd just get PKGs + RAPs and put them on a separate USB stick and install them on the internal HDD. That's the way I want to keep my setup. I don't feel like "FTPing" games directly into the internal SSD and installing games via USB is out question due to the amount of time it takes.
Anyway, the place where I sourced my ISOs is going to shut down in a month, so the next source I'm going to switch to will get me PKGs. They, per se, will install on the internal SDD, which is what I'm trying to avoid. I want to keep the internal SSD for mandatory game installations, DLCs, updates and themes.
The question I want to ask is - what is the easiest way to play a game from an external HDD now that I'm dealing with PKGs? Do I unpack them and once I have the "disc" format just put them on the external HDD into the GAMEI folder and pray to god it's that simple? But even with that, I think it's just going to be faster to copy/read if I had one big file like an ISO instead of thousands upon thousands of small files in the "JB" format. So then would that mean I would have to:
1. Download the game PKG + RAP file.
2. Extract the PKG using aldostools into the disc format.
3. Convert it into an ISO using whatever PS3 ISO software there is.
4. Then put the ISO in the external drive's PS3ISO folder (I guess without the need for a dkey file anymore, as I'm sure most of those tools would patch the eboot already)?
So in the end what I wanted to know is:
I) is my logic correct?
II) is there an easier way of doing that? (I used to know all the ins and outs, but I haven't been invested in the hacking community for... longer than I can remember once I moved to PS4 and now PS5)
III) are there any quirks or things I should watch out for? As in, something specific I should configure, get, install etc?
IV) best/modern software to get?
I'd appreciate any inputs and help. That being said I'll start experimenting on my own tonight.
