PS3 Permanently changing the region of a backwards compatible PS3

E

Een_Thijs

Member
Hey there! I saw several (older) posts about this topic, but I couldn't find one where I could get an answer. Maybe I didn't search long enough, in that case: Sorry!!!
I have the chance to acquire a CECHA00 or CECHB00 relatively cheaply. However, the problem is that I live in the Netherlands (Europe), which is a PAL region, so the region doesn't match. This seems to have a few consequences:
  • X and O are swapped
  • PS1, PS2, DVD, and Blu-Ray are region-locked to Japan (NTSC-J)
I know these issues can be resolved with CFW, but I would prefer to use OFW. This is because I already own a CECHC04 model (with Frankenstein mod) running CFW. Is it possible to permanently change the region of a CECHA00 or CECHB00? Meaning the change would remain even after upgrading or downgrading and switching between OFW and CFW?

I've read some information suggesting it might be possible with registry editing and swapping the EID/IDPS. I also have a broken CECHC04 that I could potentially use to extract data for permanently changing the region of a CECHA00 or CECHB00.

As far as I know, all motherboard revisions are identical across regions. And the system software is even the same for all regions and motherboard revisions. So, it seems to me that the region should be changeable somewhere in data that isn't overwritten during a system software update, and that it should be possible to make this change permanent.

Does anyone here have experience with this by any chance?

P.S.: I know that I will be taking a risk by using the 90nm RSX with OFW and that it will probably die sooner than with CFW. But a good friend of mine can do the frankenstein mod so fixing that is not really a problem for me.
 
Een_Thijs said:
As far as I know, all motherboard revisions are identical across regions. And the system software is even the same for all regions and motherboard revisions. So, it seems to me that the region should be changeable somewhere in data that isn't overwritten during a system software update, and that it should be possible to make this change permanent.
Click to expand...

that is true but not for cechA and cechB. they were released only in japan and north america. nowhere else.
Yes you can chenge the EID/IDPS but it needs to be from the same model. so your ID from cechc will not work. Well theoreticaly it would but i think it would affect the emulation procces as the CECHC does not have full ps2 hardware, and who knows what else. The ID is also a ID of the console. So you can Hardmod only ID from North america consoles. As this consoles were newer released in europe the europe ID for this consoles does not exist. And by Hardmod i mean read the nand inject the new ID and hope for the best. The proces is somewhere here on forum.
 
Last edited:
Thanks for the reply! I didn`t think even think about the impact that it would have on the ps2 emulation part, but that seems very logical. But wouldn`t that be configurable in the xRegistry instead of tied to the EID/IDPS? So using the EID/IDPS of a CECHC for the region change and configuring the console somewhere else to use the full ps2 hardware for backwards compatibility?

I once downgraded my CECHC04 to OFW 1.02, and then ps2 backwards compatibility is completely broken. When OFW 1.02 firmware was released, GS only PS2 backwards compatibility didn`t exist. PS2 backwards compatibility only starts to work from about OFW 1.50 on the CECHC04 if I recall right. So maybe the data that tells the PS3 what PS2 backwards compatibility mode it needs to use is seperate from the EID/IDPS. But maybe it just didn`t work because the EID/IDPS pointed to emulation software that didn`t exist yet, and not because it tried to use full PS2 hardware.
 
So far what i know No. CechC is not capable of firmware that low of course it did not work. Yes ID pointed to that.
 
CECHC is for sure capable of a firmware that low, otherwise I couldn`t have downgraded mine to it. The minimum firmware version is 1.00 just like CECHA and CECHB. It was just never designed to run such a low firmware, that's why backwards compatibility broke at that low of a firmware.

Edit: On my CECHC OFW 1.02 worked perfectly fine for everything except the PS2 backwards compatibility! Couldn`t find a single other bug or something whilst it was installed.
 
Een_Thijs said:
CECHC is for sure capable of a firmware that low, otherwise I couldn`t have downgraded mine to it. The minimum firmware version is 1.00 just like CECHA and CECHB. It was just never designed to run such a low firmware, that's why backwards compatibility broke at that low of a firmware.

Edit: On my CECHC OFW 1.02 worked perfectly fine for everything except the PS2 backwards compatibility! Couldn`t find a single other bug or something whilst it was installed.
Click to expand...
Thats why i wrote is not capable....
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Back
Top