After having another day to experiment with my
PS3 the following is what I can report thus far:
- The PS3 won't allow you to do anything if you don't have the HDD installed (see picture below).
- HD Loader (HD Advance) receives a hardware error (see picture below) after launch as the
PS3 is similar to the PSTwo (v12+) so it would likely require an automan fix or HD Connect in order to function properly.
- Both USB Extreme and the
Swap Magic ELF Launcher appear to require updated USB drivers in order to fully function. Although both boot-up on the
PS3, neither recognizes the USB jump drive despite it being properly formatted and recognized by the
PS3 browser menu (see pictures below). This may be the result of the Hyper visor (refer to diagram below) or perhaps updated USB drivers are simply required (Success-HK management have been notified and their engineers are going to examine this further I've been told)... time will tell. :smilew
- For
PS3 Internal Memory Cards, you can save 120kb (15 blocks) of PS1 format data and up to 7998kb of PS2 format data (displayed in the pics below).
- In order to run my
PS3 Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom game I get prompted (see picture below) upon selecting the disc to update to Firmware v1.02 or later. As mentioned previously, the
PS3 currently ships with stock v1.00 Firmware on it, and as tempting as it is to upgrade to play the game I'm still holding off... at least for awhile yet anyway. :-oops:
- Still haven't had the urge to remove the warranty seal just yet in order to open up the
PS3 for internal examination. Those who don't wish to wait on me can check http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4908 for their thorough
PS3 autopsy which includes replacing the stock drive with a
320GB drive that
works with no known issues! Cool stuff indeed!
- No new progress yet with imaging
PS3 game discs. Although our Blu-Ray ($ony) drive reads Blu-Ray movies perfectly, it will not read/recognize
PS3 games under any Windows imaging application thus far- including Nero, iSOBuster, etc. The next step is to attempt a raw data dump via Linux so that we can then work on deciphering the filesystem differences (if any) and begin to publish
PS3 game FileList.txt files here. However, we have not yet ruled out the possibility that $ony deliberately blocked
PS3 game discs from their Blu-Ray PC drives... more to come soon! :tupb