Guide: How to Run PS3 Games with 4+GB Files from External HDD

[Mantagtj]

interesting news, my ps3 has a 350gb hd so this ain't too exciting for me

500GB , but its like WBFS really when we had to format a wii drive in mac format, I cannot remember what type of format (smoke too much) but would this work instead of ntfs?

Just a suggestion...

[crbsk8er]

Same here. Seems like the program just reads the file but never physically extracts it to the hdd. (win xp, with latest .net framework) hmmm...

That's because it extracts the files into your default cmd prompt location. Like for me it's "C:\Documents and Settings\Chris".

To find your location; start > run > cmd and whatever location the window says is where the extracted PSARC files are located.

[GrandpaHomer]

Just an idea... Why not use the PS3 to format the external hdd? If you insert a new hdd into the PS3, the PS3 formats the drive into UFS2 (I think). This file system obviously allows files larger than 4GB. If you remove the drive and put it into an external hdd casing, connect it to the USB ports then theoretically it should be able to read the drive. But it doesn't for some reason. Now if that reason can be targetted and resolved, we would not have to worry about large files on the external drives.

Sadly - this is not possible - PS3 will not read internal format of hard drive as external.

[dante wesley]

this is great news, I wounder would this work on the PS3 HDD I only ask because I moved a game (Uncharted II as a matter of fact) to the PS3 and this file in question would always be smaller when it reached the PS3 (not sure if thats normal) the game worked fine but I don't know for how long.

[GrandpaHomer]

this is great news, I wounder would this work on the PS3 HDD I only ask because I moved a game (Uncharted II as a matter of fact) to the PS3 and this file in question would always be smaller when it reached the PS3 (not sure if thats normal) the game worked fine but I don't know for how long.

This is just bug in FTP software showing the incorrect file sizes for larger files

[iced8]

That's because it extracts the files into your default cmd prompt location. Like for me it's "C:\Documents and Settings\Chris".

To find your location; start > run > cmd and whatever location the window says is where the extracted PSARC files are located.

Thanks man, what you said was true.

[ahasverus]

Will this be useful in Final Fantasy 13 ? I guess not because the +4GB file in ff13 is a video.

Somebody with this game can confirm ?

[TeamKidneyBean]

I've created a Gui to do this automatically, and recompiled to use .Net 2 rather than .Net 4

It's still untested as im awaiting my JB device, but in theory should work!

[PS3 News]

I've created a Gui to do this automatically, and recompiled to use .Net 2 rather than .Net 4

Thanks TeamKidneyBean, I added it to the first post now and +Rep!

[Shabang22]

I've created a Gui to do this automatically, and recompiled to use .Net 2 rather than .Net 4

It's still untested as im awaiting my JB device, but in theory should work!

Fantastic job. However, you've made it so that the program only recognises '.parc' files, not '.psarc' files.

Simple coding typo, looking forward to seeing it fixed in the next revision.

Cheers!