PS3 Weird Issue

[excaliburn92]

Hello!

I recently bought a fairly new CECHA00 PS3 mostly for PS1 and PS2. After updating to 4.86 patching my NAND, I ended up installing the LITE version of Rebug 4.86.1 since there's no REX. Everything went smoothly. I tried playing my PS1 and PS2 games region free and it was amazing. Now, the only thing that annoyed me was the swapped X/O on JP PS3's, so I figured I needed REX so I QA flagged and downgraded. All good. This time though, PS1 games from out of the region won't work, but JP games do (since it's a JP console).

Now, this behavior was so familiar, as it happened on my slim PS3. Out of region game just boot into a black screen on both consoles, with exact same CFW. I remember busting my head trying to get Region-free PS1 to work on the slim and ended up just giving up on it. Now here's the weird part, I installed the LITE Rebug 4.86.1 on the slim, and holy shit my US original copy of FFVII boots! I could just keep it on 4.86.1 LITE but for my JP PS3 I want to retain the swapped X/O, actually I want to retain the whole REX CFW. What could be the issue on REBUG 4.84.2 when it comes to playing out of region PS1 & PS2 games?

Note: I've tried numerous fixes including enabling COBRA, enabling debug menu 2 & Region free setting (set console region aswell). All of them booted into a black screen no matter what, while Rebug LITE 4.86.1 just works.

 

[Cypher_CG89]

Not seen this one in a while. All I have done is set my region to North America in the DEBUG Settings menu and it plays games from all regions as I have many imports from over the years, though I don't play them as disc's > All games are ripped and backup to kepp this discs nice and new more or less [ PS1 to BIN/CUE and PS2 to ISO ] and they work fine. The only other thing is all my CFW PS3's are on DEX with REBUG.

 

[Fin9ersMcGee]

Hello!

I recently bought a fairly new CECHA00 PS3 mostly for PS1 and PS2. After updating to 4.86 patching my NAND, I ended up installing the LITE version of Rebug 4.86.1 since there's no REX. Everything went smoothly. I tried playing my PS1 and PS2 games region free and it was amazing. Now, the only thing that annoyed me was the swapped X/O on JP PS3's, so I figured I needed REX so I QA flagged and downgraded. All good. This time though, PS1 games from out of the region won't work, but JP games do (since it's a JP console).

Now, this behavior was so familiar, as it happened on my slim PS3. Out of region game just boot into a black screen on both consoles, with exact same CFW. I remember busting my head trying to get Region-free PS1 to work on the slim and ended up just giving up on it. Now here's the weird part, I installed the LITE Rebug 4.86.1 on the slim, and holy shit my US original copy of FFVII boots! I could just keep it on 4.86.1 LITE but for my JP PS3 I want to retain the swapped X/O, actually I want to retain the whole REX CFW. What could be the issue on REBUG 4.84.2 when it comes to playing out of region PS1 & PS2 games?

Note: I've tried numerous fixes including enabling COBRA, enabling debug menu 2 & Region free setting (set console region aswell). All of them booted into a black screen no matter what, while Rebug LITE 4.86.1 just works.

If I'm not mistaken, ps3 doesn't have a region lock (except for a small handful of games), so I don't think region is the problem here (my ps3 on HEN can play games from any region)

Although I'm unsure if this extends to ps1/ps2 games... CechA00 has full hardware backwards compatiblity for Ps2, and the Ps2 WAS region locked.
Did the first Ps3 release have region locked Ps2 hardware...? I haven't a clue unfortunately.

Also,
Cecha00 is Japanese market (NTSC-J)
Cecha01 is US Market (NTSC)
Cechbxx was only released in Japan (NTSC-J)
Cechcxx was the first and only BC model released in Europe (PAL)

Again, I'm really unsure about region lock and BC hardware models. This is just my thoughts on the matter.

 

[excaliburn92]

Not seen this one in a while. All I have done is set my region to North America in the DEBUG Settings menu and it plays games from all regions as I have many imports from over the years, though I don't play them as disc's > All games are ripped and backup to kepp this discs nice and new more or less [ PS1 to BIN/CUE and PS2 to ISO ] and they work fine. The only other thing is all my CFW PS3's are on DEX with REBUG.

If I'm not mistaken, ps3 doesn't have a region lock (except for a small handful of games), so I don't think region is the problem here (my ps3 on HEN can play games from any region)

Although I'm unsure if this extends to ps1/ps2 games... CechA00 has full hardware backwards compatiblity for Ps2, and the Ps2 WAS region locked.
Did the first Ps3 release have region locked Ps2 hardware...? I haven't a clue unfortunately.

Also,
Cecha00 is Japanese market (NTSC-J)
Cecha01 is US Market (NTSC)
Cechbxx was only released in Japan (NTSC-J)
Cechcxx was the first and only BC model released in Europe (PAL)

Again, I'm really unsure about region lock and BC hardware models. This is just my thoughts on the matter.

It's weird. Region-free works fine on Rebug 4.86.1 LITE, but not on 4.84.2 REX. Moreover, the Fake Other Region in debug settings keeps switching to Off on reboot, and doesn't actually work.

 

[Desmo]

Weird...I have the same model running 4.84.2 REX. I can play all games from every region and swapped my button controls from the Japanese variation.