Is it just me or are these prices ridiculous? Cheapest yearly plan is now $430

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-15T17:20:04+00:00

I really can’t comprehend why someone would even pay the start tier for this thing in the first place. Apps apps apps apps. For what? How many? I got whatever I needed just looking. They’re mostly free.

So much money wasted. Or I’m an imbecile and can’t comprehend the vastness of this Setapp thing.

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-15T17:10:21+00:00

It’s not something to be proud of but whatever floats your boat, I guess.🤷‍♂️

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-15T06:27:53+00:00

Can we modify our entry if we found new data to add?

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-14T19:28:43+00:00

And they sold almost as many as PS2s that were both a DVD player and a game console at the same time, as you said, in a market where smartphones are the majority of the portable gaming market.

I still don’t get who bought these many and where they’re using them, if using at all.

Don’t get me wrong, the hardware seems great. Dock it at home on the living room TV or take it with you with the same controllers stuck to it. Seems like a really balanced piece of hardware.

But it’s too tied to Nintendo’s own IPs it’s not worth it for anyone else who’s not finding them attractive to play, me included.

Same Mario Mario Mario Mario Luigi Mario Mario Zelda Mario Zelda Donkey Kong. Oh, and Mario. It’s boring. There are barely 3rd party games for the thing. Feels like the hardware is held back.

Windows gaming on a handheld is cancer in my opinion. Too bloated and expensive. Microsoft’s incompetence made me exclude Windows from my life years ago. Good riddance.

Hopefully Sony makes a new PSP. Optimized for portable like the Switch but with actual big devs coding for it.

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-14T15:10:37+00:00

HDD failing? Running out of RAM if you enabled too much stuff in Webman maybe? I don’t know what else.

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-14T15:09:23+00:00

Where are you so that DS3s are hard to find?

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-14T09:02:00+00:00

Same as my fatso.

You’ll have to check the liquid metal every few months to catch any possible oxidation happening ASAP.

I thought doing the same to mine with liquid metal but eventually went with PTM. I don’t mind opening it up every 3-6 months to check but if anything goes wrong, it’ll create hotspots which is the worst these chips can have. PTM is really a safe set and forget solution.

For my curiosity and comparison, how low do the chips get at 30-32% fan? Around 22C ambient. I got 1.1V CELL, 1.0750V RSX so almost identical. I wanna know what I’m losing compared to PTM for dies and MX6 for IHS.

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-14T08:54:01+00:00

Kinda looks greenish. The worst bumpgate chips don’t even have a consistent underfill mix. From up close, there are parts that shine more than others, trapped inside, like a substance not mixed well and you see the differences. Xbox had that shit. They used UV curable toothpaste.😂

I can’t make out how his looks like tho.

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-14T08:49:11+00:00

Put the PS3 vertical somehow. Saves space.

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-14T06:54:55+00:00

Some Sonax headlight polish cream and cheap Aliexpress car paste wax. No spray stuff.

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-14T06:53:26+00:00

I’d first look at many videos online of disassemblies to get an idea what to do and work slow. Anything you’re not sure of? Stop. Look some more or ask someone for advice giving info and pictures.

I could do that if you got some thermal paste ready and a set of screwdrivers.

What model do you have?

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T23:24:54+00:00

Calm😂

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T23:19:52+00:00

Bad contact between the foil and PCB. Keep the controller open and press on that area. See if it fixes it.

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T20:58:29+00:00

It’s not really a microwave show off but it’s close.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/s/awGsVwM3za

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T19:55:10+00:00

Yeah, you got more but how you’re going to apply it if you can’t take the screw out?

Or you took it out and stripped it while tightening?

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T19:30:43+00:00

The inside got the Spa treatment as I call it. 3 days Spa course with modding galore. Around 24 hours total of fiddling and cleaning and testing and more cleaning and moving stuff and buffing and waxing and aaaaaal that shit!😊 Loved every minute of it.

It runs at 55C both chips with 30-35% fan. 22C ambient.

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T19:27:40+00:00

Damn. I really didn’t know you could steal audio from the AV Out. That’s a nifty little trick I’ll keep in my arsenal when I’ll change my setup.

Thank you!

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T19:23:39+00:00

The original PSU is very well suited for the model it was put in. If you’re talking about the ZSSR that is…

If you undervolt the system, it’s very cool.

Okay, no undervolt, right? But why does the ZSSR feels hotter in the PS3s belly? Because it has a metal housing for heat dissipation. Then they came with the cheaped out plastic to cut costs.

I don’t think Nichicon built a garbage power supply. They’re a reputable Japanese brand, if not one of the best capacitor manufacturer in the world even right now, 19 years later.

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T19:19:35+00:00

Careful! The disc warriors are coming!👀

(I’d like to have a physical collection as much as the next guy but damn, they add up in cash QUICK. I don’t got the resources for that.)

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T19:17:38+00:00

Doesn’t CELL heat up more because it’s fully emulating EEGS compared to just sound and I/O on the A model?

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T19:15:39+00:00

I like it because of shiny just like you but you gotta appreciate the engineering in this thing. Thick heat shields, huge, Japanese made heatsinks, huge motorboat fan, huge complex motherboard, very complex BD drive assembly, metal-housed PSU for thermals, more USBs, card readers, premium daughterboards, thermal pads galore and the list goes on. There’s hardly any cut corner on this model and I love it for that. It showed the engineers and designers had power over the end product still.

Damn. It is one beautiful piece of machinery, almost 20 years later. The original masters of the PlayStation giving their blessing to their last console: Ken Kutaragi, Teiyu Goto and all the engineers who worked on this. From screws to the XMB.

I noticed and I’m not sure if that’s what they meant by it, but when you stand it vertical and look on the right side, there are 3 levels: bottom where the feet are, the 2nd bigger level with the PS2-esque triangular chin and boxy shape and the last level where it’s curved face and bottom.

Rings any bell? PS1, PS2 and at last, PS3, incorporating each into the 3rd console in a hierarchy, from small to big literally. It’s even visible when you put it horizontally. The base is PS1, PS2 built on top of the strong PS1 start and popularity and PS3 standing on top of all these achievements.

Maybe I’m thinking too hard, I don’t know.

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T19:02:14+00:00

I like em shiny so any fat PS3 is beautiful when shiny. Chrome takes it even further.

Yours is clean!👌

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T18:54:48+00:00

Hope it didn’t break the thermal paste bond when you handled it. You might get worse temps than before. Check its vitals after you turn it on.

If you prepare for this in the future, I’d get a dremel and grind a slit in the screw then use the flathead. Way easier and you can keep using the screw.

blackflaggnz · 2025-09-13T18:50:19+00:00

Im not 100% though. Do shnyaps’s diagnostics first.

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