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| | | Had two "fat" OG 60GB PS3's, one for NA and one for JP--which I guess turned out wasn't necessary, at least later, given there was no region lockout and methods were found to sign up for and buy stuff from the JP store even from NA. Anyway one died a heat death (the ol' inadequate CPU paste or whatever it was; I did a lot of Folding@Home with them for years, they kept my drafty old Seattle apt warm ^ ^_) and I eventually sold the other when I moved four or so years ago because at the time I hadn't been using it for ages. Or wait maybe I just junked it because I was afraid it might die at any moment on whoever I sold it to. Don't remember.
Got a "slim" one now, and my old stupid-large download list. You can no longer buy stuff directly on PS3, I think because it must have got cracked or something so credit companies and so forth no longer regard it as secure. You're supposed to be able to fund your PS "Wallet" through their web site, but it always just says some generic error has occurred when I try that--so I have to do it through my PS4.
My gigantic old PS3 download list, which can now only be accessed from a PS3 as far as I know, is getting weird. My first recorded downloads are from 2/11/2007 (launch was late Nov 2006 I think), but now it's keeping whatever my latest purchase was at the bottom of the list. : P
Caught between the physical media and download ages, PS3 is looking like it's probably going to end up being the odd man out from this phase of console history. Whatever it rules. |
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~400 of them are DOA costumes. ]_] (see entry 1403)
... It was a long time ago! ^^P
It's 1421 items now, since I did buy that Ozma Wars mini. And now it has mysteriously appeared at the bottom of my PS3's Download List, replacing my previous purchase, Golden Axe, which has equally mysteriously moved close to where it should have gone in the first place, the top of the list. ^ D^
Of those SNK minis, turns out (the Ozma Wars Wikipedia page, for instance, did not mention this) most ARE in the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection that I have on PS4, where they're much sharper anyway. But Gang Wars, The Next Space, and Touch Down Fever don't seem to be in that or Arcade Archives. Gang Wars is an Alpha Denshi game, originally published by SNK.
I think I'll probably do something with the Ozma Wars mini anyway, because it presents the game in black and white, with a large custom frame, while the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection has it with simulated cellophane color overlays and a relatively plain frame, so it comes out looking pretty different between the two.
The original NEOGEO games behind the delisted NEOGEO STATION ports by M2 have all made it to Arcade Archives--although curiously, the Arcade Archives version of League Bowling did not come out in the US or Europe--just in Japan and Asia. Also, the NEOGEO STATION versions have some features not found in Arcade Archives, like pixel-perfect scaling options, and game-specific borders (okay a small number of other games in Arcade Archives have custom borders--or at least, I know Darius does).
Final Fight: Double Impact is Final Fight and Magic Sword, not Black Tiger like I said during the recording (Black Tiger came out three years before Magic Sword, and is similar).
I accidentally found myself in a Final Fight online game on PS3 late last night after firing up the game to make sure it ran and was patched up, and flailing at the 3D scene main menu! ^ _^ Felt like delay-based networking but actually ran pretty well, played through a stage or so co-op with whoever the heck was running an open game on PS3 in 2022 there! = ooo MAn, PS3 4eva!
I'm NOT going to do anything with the Ridge Racer 7 Demo and StarDrone, because I fired them up briefly to be sure they patched up and I did not like them. : P
Man I'd forgotten a) there was a PS1 Classics of Bust-A-Move 4 on PS3, and b) I own it! Sweet. Can't remember if I've played it much. Even with a frame or two of input delay over the original disc version on PS1, it can't be worse than the (shudder) Windows CE port on Dreamcast (see entry 755), can it?
In the PS3 store, 2:53:23 "Games - Genres - Arcade - minis" has 46 minis listed; 2:59:26 "All Games - minis" has 4 minis listed. ; D |
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| | | I was down to just a couple games I sort of cared about stuck on the PS3--well really just Demon's Souls, but also would be nice to have VF5FS, and I still had X-Men on there, too...then I went ahead and put Super Hang-On, Virtua Fighter 2, and Fighting Vipers back on, since they might work better via emulation than the versions of those three games I have in Yakuza and PCSX2.
Anyway so I got tired of waiting around on the console and jailbroke it, following this walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIVu3Px3eXY
Which used
https://rufus.ie/en/
https://github.com/littlebalup/PyPS3tools
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/cfw-4-91-2-evilnat-cobra-8-5-beta6-cex-dex-pex-d-pex.39743/
https://emn178.github.io/online-tools/md5_checksum.html
https://store.brewology.com/multiman.php
Then dumped my PS3 games by following this walkthrough: https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Help:Dumping_PlayStation_3_games#How_to_dump_Digital_games_&_DLCs_on_a_jailbroken_PS3
Which used
https://github.com/Zarh/ManaGunZ/releases/tag/nightly
https://github.com/bucanero/apollo-ps3/releases |
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| | | | Saves can be transferred with Apollo Save Tool--save them out with the tool from the PS3, and, running AST from within RSPC3, decrypted to be readable by the emulator. |
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| | | The dumped PS3 games I'll be running in RPCS3 for starters:
- Fighting Vipers (see entry 1393)
- Super Hang-On (see entry 1784)
- Virtua Fighter 2 (see entry 1378)
- Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown (see entry 1376)
Oh huh, all Sega. I'd mostly done the jailbreaking to liberate Demon's Souls (see entry 1688), but turns out RPCS3 only supports the disc versions of that game in particular 'p', so I'm waiting for the disc version I bought off eBay, and I'll rip that from the jailbroken PS3. And I'd put off getting Virtua Tennis 2009 (yeah more Sega) for PS3 'cause I didn't want to be sticking discs in the darn thing, but heck now I'll get it and rip it and I can stop uselessly wishlisting the de-listed Steam version. ... Oops it was Virtua Tennis 4 I had wishlisted on Steam. And that was out for PS3, too. Welp, now I'll have both of 'em on PS3 to compare, oopS! = p ; )
Initially had also dumped PS3 Joust (see entry 1431) and X-Men (see entry 1458), but in emu I could actually see that Joust's playfield is slightly blurred (not its UI though : PPP), and X-Men's obvious PS3 blur is just way more obvious, so nah not on my tortured eyeballs. |
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| | | Dumping disc-based games is just copy and past in Managunz file manager: https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Help:Dumping_PlayStation_3_games#How_to_dump_Disc_games_on_a_jailbroken_PS3
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Assuming you have a jailbroken PS3, here is how you dump Disc games from a PS3 console:
Insert your Disc into your PS3 and open Managunz File Manager.
Insert your NTFS MBR formatted USB drive into your PS3, it'll now show up in Managunz as an ntfs:0 entry on the list (screenshot).
Go inside the USB drive and make a folder named after the game you're about to copy from its disc. The reason to do this is so that it is easier to keep track of what's being transferred, especially if you are about to transfer multiple games from several discs.
Now go back and go to dev_bdvd on the list (this is your disc's directory). Copy everything in this folder, go back and paste them in the game folder you created in your NTFS MBR formatted USB drive earlier.
Now you can see the game files being copied to your USB drive (screenshot).
Let it finish transferring and you're ready to finish the rest of the steps on your PC!
Installing these copied Disc dumps on RPCS3: Simply place your copied game folders in /games inside RPCS3's folder. Alternatively, you could place the game folder anywhere you want on your PC and drag and drop it into RPCS3's window (doing so will add the game folder's path to RPCS3's games configuration file automatically). Now restart RPCS3 and the game(s) should show up on the Games List in RPCS3's GUI.
Note: These disc dumps will be copied in JB Folder (basically Folder format) format. RPCS3 does not support ISOs, so make sure you're not selecting any option that says "copy as ISO" in step 4 above. Follow the steps above as they're written and you will be fine.
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Copying them off the disc can take a bit--Demon's Souls is a little over 9 GB and Managunz says it will take a little over a half-hour to copy the 12K+ files.
The process for dumping digital games is a little more complicated: https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Help:Dumping_PlayStation_3_games#How_to_dump_Digital_games_&_DLCs_on_a_jailbroken_PS3
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How to dump Digital games & DLCs on a jailbroken PS3
Assuming you have a jailbroken PS3, there's 2 ways of dumping Digital games and DLCs from a PS3 console:
PKG Format: Start the download of the Digital game/DLC from the PS store and select Download in Background, let it finish downloading. When it is done, you will see its installer is listed in your games list on the XMB (PS3's home screen). DO NOT INSTALL IT YET! Open Managunz and navigate straight to /dev_hdd0/vsh/task/XXXXXXXX and the PKG files will be waiting for you there.
Folder Format: If you already have the digital game(s) or DLC(s) installed on your console then navigate to /dev_hdd0/game/ and look for the folder(s) named after the game's serial (such as NPUBXXXXX or NPEBXXXXX etc). You will simply need to copy these folder(s).
Note: In regards to folder formatted DLC(s), if your base game for the DLC is a disc copy then the DLC's folder may be named after your game disc's serial instead, like BLUSXXXXX/BLESXXXXX etc.
Transferring them to your USB drive: Insert your NTFS MBR formatted USB drive into your PS3, it'll now show up in Managunz as an ntfs:0 entry on the list (screenshot). Copy your Digital game or DLC in whichever format you're interested in from their directories shown above, and paste them into this USB drive. Wait for them to finish copying (screenshot), and once that's done you can move the files to your PC.
Installing them on RPCS3: After moving them to your PC, if you dumped your game in PKG format, simply drag and drop the .PKG file into RPCS3's window to install them. If you dumped your game in Folder Format, simply drop the folders you copied in /dev_hdd0/game/ directory in your RPCS3 folder.
How to backup the license (.RAP) files for Digital games & DLCs from a jailbroken PS3
We have covered how to copy the Digital games and DLCs from your PS3, but for them to work on RPCS3, we must also make a backup of their respective license files. These license files are known as .RAP files. The manual way of backing up .RAP files is quite a lengthy process. Instead, here is a fast and easy way to backup your .RAP files for all your Digital games and DLCs using Apollo Save Tool on your PS3:
Open Apollo on your PS3 -> Select User Backup -> Export Licenses -> Export all licenses as .RAPs (screenshot).
Apollo will save your .RAP files in \dev_hdd0\home\0000000x\exdata (folder 0000000x can be 00000001 or 00000002 etc if you have multiple user profiles on your PS3).
Copy these .RAP files to your USB drive using Managunz and transfer them to your PC.
Installing these .RAP files on RPCS3: To install your backed up .RAP files on RPCS3, simply drag and drop them into RPCS3's window, or manually place them in /dev_hdd0/home/0000001/exdata in your RPCS3 folder.
Note: If you notice that your .RAP file is missing/not being backed up for a certain Game or DLC there's an easy fix for this. Start a download for the game on your PS3. You can now pause and cancel the download immediately after the download begins to prevent all the game files from being re-downloaded to your PS3 again unnecessarily. The point of doing this is because the license files are always the first to be downloaded and will remain in the PS3's file system even after the download is cancelled. Now repeat the steps above on Apollo again and the .RAP file should successfully be backed up this time.
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| | | | After 18 minutes, Managunz shows nearly 3 GB of oh maybe it was 8.11 GB for Demon's Souls copied from the disc, but still just over 30 minutes remaining, so who knows. : P |
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