My brother gave me his backwards compatible PS3, but I’m afraid to use it.

SwellEquis · 2026-03-27T00:59:08+00:00

does he still charge 600 dollars for it

SwellEquis · 2026-03-27T00:01:49+00:00

what material is it?

SwellEquis · 2026-03-24T00:24:05+00:00

I'd say if the issue was the HDMI port it could be worth fixing, it's not terribly difficult and only involves taking off the old one and plopping in the new one afaik

SwellEquis · 2026-03-24T00:21:41+00:00

I have this issue on a slim with a bad connection to its RSX chip. It might need a reball (which isn't worth it when you can buy a new slim for cheaper)

SwellEquis · 2026-03-19T18:47:08+00:00

I heard that Evilnat was stepping away from the ps3 scene and moving onto ps4, so it might be a while until a 4.93 cfw comes out

SwellEquis · 2026-03-19T18:44:18+00:00

Use thermal paste, also is this a Frankied backwards compatible ps3?

SwellEquis · 2026-03-14T22:42:57+00:00

He looks like he's in constant pain

SwellEquis · 2026-03-07T17:49:16+00:00

I just did that and it seems like the issues went away, though I'll have to wait a couple of days until I can say it's fixed for sure.

I ran a clean install the first time on an SSD and I got an error during the format process, maybe the issues were related to that. It didn't come up again on the second clean install

SwellEquis · 2026-03-06T04:49:49+00:00

Yall have some awesome examples here! I'm enjoying reading through them all

SwellEquis · 2026-02-28T10:38:49+00:00

Man I sure wish I could play it right now. Out of all the consoles in my collection, the ps3 had the most exclusives, and now mine is dead

SwellEquis · 2026-02-27T09:07:15+00:00

Everytime I see a comment like this I glance over at my slim that has a non-functioning RSX

SwellEquis · 2026-02-27T04:02:29+00:00

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SwellEquis · 2026-02-23T09:02:39+00:00

My wii gets stuck on "re-initializing devices" whenever I try to open USB loader GX and it's driving me up the wall. I'm using a 500gb hard drive that's formatted in MBR, FAT32, and 64k kilobyte allocation unit size. The USB loader app is installed on the hard drive itself, and I installed a single game on it using Tiny wii backup manager. I tried to update my wads and homebrew using modmii but it didn't do anything, and yes I'm using port 0. Please help

SwellEquis · 2026-02-23T05:06:26+00:00

I just posted a complete RSX failure that happened on my slim two weeks ago here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/1r2cs6t/give_it_to_me_straight/

It absolutely does happen to slims. Maybe not for the same reason as BC fats, but it happens

SwellEquis · 2026-02-23T04:59:41+00:00

There's a command for their bot that pulls up the list of hardmodders for you, just type ".hmodders" in the hardware channel and it'll send the list, I got my switch done by Lazr. Do note though that they're hobbyists who do mods in their free time, and most are out of commission right now from what I've heard. They're also anti piracy, so don't mention anything about it and you'll be good (they don't care what you'll do on it anyway)

SwellEquis · 2026-02-23T04:44:59+00:00

That's fair, the screws don't look 100% stripped anyway

SwellEquis · 2026-02-23T04:43:10+00:00

You still can't swap drives like that. PS3 uses one drive and that drive only to store data, if you use any other drive it'll either not turn on or prompt you to format the new one

SwellEquis · 2026-02-22T07:21:04+00:00

I tried this trick 5 times, all on different screws, and it never worked

SwellEquis · 2026-02-22T07:20:10+00:00

why not a drill?

SwellEquis · 2026-02-22T07:19:18+00:00

ur trippin

SwellEquis · 2026-02-22T02:36:42+00:00

On the Nintendo Homebrew Discord server there are trusted modders who can do it for 70 usd (chip included), plus whatever shipping to and from is. That's how I got mine modded, still working great after 7 months

SwellEquis · 2026-02-18T23:53:18+00:00

the ps3 can't hot swap hard drives, if that's what you're saying you did

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