I could imagine, that there is problem with this hen plugin and its exports, since hen payload is almost identical to Cobra minus lv1 stuff, which is not relevant for this. wasn't there a hen version without this plugin?
and the problem with externals, it is always so, that it can give problems, cause if a game has lot of small files, which have to be installed, it surely will slow down on an external usb enclosure. bigger allocation can slightly improve performance, but not comparable to internal CELLFS
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on the other hand, the developer usb bdemu seems not to have such limitations, and games work perfectly fine with it. probably has also some propriety filesystem format, dunno
What you say makes sense, since one more curious fact is that if I load the nitroplus blasterz from internal, I let it install the data it requires and everything, and then from there, I decide to load the game from an external hard drive, then the game will no longer crash or cause a blackout on my ps3, so the problem that my ps3 shuts down every time I load that game from an external hard drive is because of the data installation.
Another thing is that I did not know that when you load games in iso from an external hard drive, what you did was an emulation of the blu ray optical drive.
although, aren't ps3 usb ports supposed to be faster than the blu ray drive itself? , or is it a matter of compatibility with the BDEMU that certain games work strangely or simply do not work)?
I would like to contribute to being able to solve this problem with these games, since I don't think my nitroplus blasterz backup is damaged or corrupt. Or that my wwe 2k17 backup is badly copied.
if in case this can reach the ears of the developers of the hen. Well, I will leave the list with those somewhat problematic games from an external hard drive
-silent hill downpour: same problem as with wwe 2k17, the game takes time to load on the first loading screen, I think it's because of the data installation (but if the game is loaded from the internal hard drive, the game will load quickly )
-wwe 2k17 : takes time to load on the first loading screen. but if it is loaded from the internal hard drive, the game will load quickly
and finally the splinter cell trilogy, which for some reason, chaos theory doesn't load, gets blocked when said game is selected.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - Suffers from the same issue as nitroplus blasterz, it shuts down when running from external hard drive, but if loaded from ps3 internal hard drive, the game runs perfectly
and the strangest case of all: max payne 3, I heard that this game had problems like it stayed on a black screen when showing the title screen and things like that
I think the problem there was because someone wanted to load the game in a folder (jb) format, what I did was convert the game to iso, and the game worked perfectly, but something strange for me is that when I started a new game, the game It crashed in the first cinematic, and out of nowhere it sent me to the recovery mode of the ps3. but investigating , I found out that this game suffers from a problem that if you load it from firmware higher than 4.00 , the game will crash at any time and send to recovery mode , for that reason rockstar released a patch to fix that problem , and thanks to them that the problem was solved.
but I don't know if it's a matter of my backup or the game was really broken.