as someone who has really never liked or commented on YT vids, I've never been so obliged to do so. You've been so refreshingly explanatory on the step by step of "how to modding" that most amateurs including myself would be lost in without the step by step instructions given in your videos. thank you for what you do
Hey man, I just want to say I really appreciate how you anticipate every possibility to make sure no one gets confused or left behind. Little things like "if you already have [x] this will look different" or "if you have [y] version this might take longer" etc. etc. It takes extra thought and care, but puts you many steps ahead of so many other tutorials.
Much appreciated~ Totally understand that these longer videos can put off people, but the people who do stick around appreciate the detail and the timestamps. After doing this for so long I've realized I'd rather have 10 people saying I put in too much detail, or else I'll have 300 people telling me I'm not detailed enough.
Man. You've made modding every single console I have easy to mod. In the past week I've modded a phat 360, trinity 360, and now a ps3 slim. You're my new favorite channel.
Came here via MVG, great tutorial, very clear and helpful. My PS3 is now jailbroken! One small tip that may help someone someday (if they even find this amongst all the comments!) is that I didn't have the "update from storage meda" option in system update, so instead I had to boot the PS3 in recovery mode and could install the CFW from there.
This is literally the best guide for installing CFW on a PS3 I've come across on RU-vid, literally every step is crucial and explained wonderfully. Definitely subscribing! I'm fairly new to the world of Homebrew and Jailbreakinf my consoles but after successfully flashing my PS Vita with CFW, I thought why not my Ps3 as well right? And following your steps I have smashed it out of the park and all steps were successful. Thanks very much good Sir!
Just used this tutorial last night. Thank you for the step by step instructions. It was easy to follow and helpful. Now installing my PS2 games from disc to my hard drive.
picked up a used ps3 on a whim, this video was super helpful in getting everything set up. your way of explaining things and going in depth just feels so patient and informative, thanks so much!
Thank you so much for this. My brother gave me an old PS3 he wasn't using anymore, and I just basically upgraded/maxed out all of the ports on my PC with SSDs. Rather than just throw a 850 Evo 500GB in the drawer never to be used again, I gave the PS3 an upgrade. So I decided to also jailbreak it with this tutorial. Works like a charm. 🖤🖤🖤
I did the same with an old Msata 500gb solid state in a 2.5 sata enclosure. Took ten mins to upgrade the hard drive. I have noticed a slight difference in loading times. Amazing console once its true potential has been uinlocked
Great job! Still works Dec 2023! I like the patience and time you take to explain so we understand what can happen if we don't lol. Keep it up, you are now one subscriber richer (look forward to seeing your other posts :D)
This video is lovely and as always you really help break down the process in such a understandable and easy manner that anyone can follow. However if I could mention one thing, I think it would’ve really helped to mention some extra precaution when going ahead with installing CFW, in specific the possibilities of bans. This was one of the first videos I watched in regards of the topic and just had assumed it would be no big deal as it wasn’t mentioned, so I went ahead and followed it all and got it working. Afterwards I deleted the jailbreaking profile and hopped onto my regular account with my PSN being set to auto login not thinking much of it. It wasn’t a bit after using it that I began to look a bit into it and saw the risk of getting banned by having CFW and being on PSN which scared the shit out of me. I think mentioning it at the beginning for people who haven’t done this before would’ve helped but other than that though this is a solid video as always!
@@Korochi I’m not too familiar with the rate that bans are given or if it’s as enforced but I think it should be alright if it’s a few times. I hear of stories of people doing it for months or years and being alright. I guess it’s a luck of the draw.
As far as Today (May 2 2024) it's still working. I fixed my old PS3 Slim CECH-2120A (version 4.91) and everything on this vid. Worked perfectly. My guy it was super helpful. 😊🎉
Dude, that was way, waaaay too long, but way, waaaay working so hats down to thee and to the PS3Xploit team : length was needed to circumvent a lot if not all situations and your warnings were crystal clear. It worked a treat for me first shot and the world needs more of you! Cheers!
Found a thread on Reddit where someone installed a 2TB internal hdd. I am going to attempt that now. I am well aware 1TB works all day and some say 1.5TB works too. I'll be editing the sectors reducing the hdd to 1.86TB then installing it on a ps3 with firmware 4.46. Once installed then I'll upgrade to newer firmware. I'll report back after to let everyone know how it turned out. The people that did do this claim it works. If it does it woud be great if you made a video on this.
I ran into two problems during this process. Here’s how I fixed them. 1st problem: after getting the USB drive set up and ready for the cfw patch, it wouldn’t locate the update file. Fixed by double checking the folder formatting on the USB drive (“PS3” folder was in a sub folder under a folder titled “Evilnat 4.90 CFX” instead of at the root of the drive. 2nd problem: After trying to install the CFW update, met an “Error 8002F957: Data is corrupted”. Fixed by doing a full system reset (“Restore PS3 System” in system settings) and doing the flash memory patch again. Hope this helps anyone who has same problems I had
I really appreciate the attention to detail on which steps you show. Sometimes even just seeing how to download the right thing off of github can be a barrier for a person.
Bro, to be honest, I don't follow youtube because I'm very busy with life, but whenever I need to mod some console or do something like that, I come back to youtube, and it's always a pleasure, it's always extremelly happy for me to see that you keep uploading videos for the community. I wish I had time to watch them all and do a lot of modding, but saddly I don't have time. I just want to say here that I've been into tech all my life, and this is by far the best channel. When I need to do something, it becomes an extremelly entertaining and pleasurable thing to be able to do it whatching the content on this channel. Thanks for all your apports to the community and sorry for my english xD
Boy, when you proposed to go to theme audio in multi-man and disable the theme audio, I was like, oh there's music ? And than that nasty sax played and i couldn't disable that music fast enough ! Thanks for the clear video, it was perfect and helped me a lot !
Wireless Chip of my old ps3 slim died were I had HEN installed so now i got myself a freshly new one and to my luck it had the right serialnumber so i could finally crack it. Big shoutout to you my guy always helpful and explained well!
Thank you, AGAIN MrMario. I watched your Xbox360 guide and modded my Xbox360 back in December, and now that's my PS3 slim done thanks to this video. You're really so clear, and I even appreciate you leaving in the bad checksum that happened. Mine went fine, but I know there's going to be people who appreciate seeing what to do when something goes wrong. Going to go and watch some of your other videos on what to do with it :)
Thank you for your step by step guide man, never done CFW before- had a Fat pos3 sitting dusty in my cupboard and was considering loading it up with CFW to turn it into a Ultimate Retro console upto ps3 thanks you again :)
Hey mr.mario i need some help, everything was fine and did like the tutorial said but now at 30:31 installing the cfw i keep getting error during copy operation (80029c56) can you help me pls? Im on a slim 20x soo i saw it was all good
I've tried so many other turorials and each one didn't explain anything very well and I just gave up so many times Today I tried again and I used this specific tutorial I followed it step by step and it finally worked thank you so much for this tutorial it saved me so much trouble
Thank you, Mario! You are the best! Now I have JB PS3! I have a question. I want to upgrade the hard drive. My PS3 is CECHK04, NOR. I saw that NAND is easier, you just change the HDD and install only the home brew, but mine is NOR. Should I get external SSD with usb cable and format it as extended storage so I can paste games there from laptop? Or should I buy 1TB internal to change my old 80GB, I saw I just need the same CFW, but what about the patch? I deleted all from the booting flash, but I can do it again. Do I need to visit ps3toolset from my ps3 with flash in to patch again before I change the internal hard drive? I'm just wondering what to get, external with usb cable or change the internal. Thanks in advance! Keep up the good work! :)
Thank you very much, I have never found such a clear tutorial explained in a simple and detailed way in every single part like yours, I have been thinking about modifying my old PS3 for years but not being a native English speaker I have always been afraid of getting stuck somewhere (the ones in Italian always suck). Finally I can start copying all the games I have, I just have to figure out how to dump them from the discs. Grazie mille!
Thanks man. I just used this tutorial after buying a CECH-2001 for $20, and cleaning it. I delided the rsx and put some liquid metal on it. Just got done installing the OC firmware
I did this on a Japanese CECH2500A PS3 Slim I bought from ebay last year and it worked flawlessly! I used to use HEN because that was the best alternative, but now I finally have a custom firmware installed!
man i need to say really thank u. Lucky me i got a slim that can be jail break and i do all the steps because i was using hen but it was for me a problem with ps2 games that cannot be played unless with ps2 gui and it was a lot of trouble for me. so u really saved me bro. subscribed. REALLY THANK YOU
READ THIS IF YOU GET THE DATA IS CORRUPTED ERROR: At least in my case, it was the USB stick I was using. If you are getting the same error, you should try out different USB sticks you have available, and see if it works for you. I used a SanDisk UltraDrive 64GB. The first one I used that didn’t work was a no name one with a microSD slot as the storage, so really it was just a adapter for the microSD to become a USB stick. Hope it helpe somebody struggling with the same problem. By the way, this guide is great and helped me a lot, thanks!
This was super helpful, you are doing the lords work. My lord encourages making the most of what we are given. that include hardware that's been locked up :P
Thank you so much! It is working on my ps2 slim cech-2501B. I carefully followed your tutorial and successfully CFW it. Very helpful for a newbie like me.
Great video! If you make another, you may want to mention that if the PS3 has a pending firmware update (in my case 4.87 to 4.9) then when you get to the step of installing the custom firmware, you will not get the option to download via internet vs from media file; Instead it will only apply the already pending firmware and you'll have to start all over. Thanks again!
I just want to thank you for having such a well detailed and helpful guide. My PS3 had actually been jailbroken in the past, but trying to apply the 4.90 EVILNAT update initially had something go bizarrely wrong (corrupted data which prevented the console from properly booting), which required me re-applying the OFW to get it running again. After following your guide, I was able to get it back to CFW as good as new again! :) *And thankfully I didn't lose any of my previous installations on the hard drive.*
Man, you are a god! 🙏 I just finished jailbreaking my ps3 slim and everything is working perfectly. Also a million thanks for the game splitting video that you made, rdr was to big for the usb but following your video i could install it. Finally i wanted to ask how can i run ps2 isos? I can't see the iso file when i go to the retro section. Cheers!
Works great. Thanks a ton! And oh, if anyone has problems finding the Multiman application, check the folder in your PS3 that stores all your digital games, it should be there if you don't see it :)
thank you so much, i did jailbreak with your previous video just one hour ago and it all worked. subscribed and noticed you uploaded just 20 minutes ago xdd
Love your vids! Full of helpful information. Used this vid to mod all my ps3s. Sadly my B01 and E01 were destroyed by a so called Professional who delided them. Luckily I found an A01 still sealed to work on. First thing i did was watch this to mod it and check its temps and play time. Always a big help!
Bro I have question so I did everything you told me but when I opened the site it did not give me the popup to run the plugin should I continue further
One thing to note about the PS3 versions that are CFW compatible: the key thing you need to look for is date code or date of manufacture. If your date code is 0D or lower, or if your date of manufacture is December 2010 or older, then you can CFW. If your date code is 1A or higher, or if your date of manufacture is January 2011 or newer, then you can't. January to March 2011, you might want to try it just to see if it works. But stick to PS3's made 12/31/2010 or before
You can do that, although keep in mind consoles out there could be case swapped. The only sure fire way to verify is to check the MinVer of the system itself when you use it.
Be wary of going to psx-place their privacy statement is doing some messed up stuff. When you click agree, it highlights the "Partners" link and when you click on that, or "More Options" the page will hang and overload your memory till the system crashes or you force-closed the tab. Confirmed in Chrome, Edge and FireFox.
Man this video was super helpfull. got my PS3 CFW fully installed thanks to you on a 1tb SSD. cant wait to start exploring the world of Moded PS3 content
This took a long time for me cause I did something stupid and format my PS3 and didn't realize that the toolkit got shut down so I am glad that they finally fix it
Thank you for your hard work, I've watched a lot of your videos and I really enjoy the content. Getting ready to mod my ps3 as I type this. Thanks again
@@MrMario2011I’ve got the same issue, I tried doing what you said but that doesn’t work either. I even went back and redownloaded the stuff you said to before the 30:00 minute mark and still nothing. What can I do?
I never heard of jailbeaking a ps3 all this time I wanted to play my gta ps2 disc and been looking fir a backwards compatible ps3 within how much I wanted to spend didn't know I could do this thanks!!!!!
Hi, i was attempting to follow the video. But i can't move forward with the process. I keep getting 'the ps3 exploitation framework download failed, with HTTP Error 403. integer library the downloading error and session gc failed. Model is a CECH-2001A
Can CFW revert back to the old PS3 store? Someone on Twitter says it can and posted a short video showing him scroll through it. just wanted to confirm that on here. Thanks.
Thank you so much I just upgraded from hen to cfw and i can say hen sucks so bad , i had allot of problems and freezes when i was on it, yeah cfw is the way to go ! Thanks again man I watched the video twice before i make the cfw to make sure i did everything right.
Man i subscribed after watching so many of your helpful videos you are the "CREAM OF THE CROP" I lost access to my modding tools on my modded CECH-2500A after upgrading my 160hdd to a 1tb ssd and your video saved my console and taught me not a valuable lesson but very handy knowledge thank you so much. Also btw you can change CECH2500A from ? To yes i have the ceramic white Japanese model but enough rambling time for me to dump my entire PS1, PS2, PS3 physical library
Hi, I followed all the steps and I had no errors, but when I go to install the CFW it gives me a copy error and I can't continue... I have a compatible PS3
i rarely comment on videos but this was so good i had to. Thanks for the step by step guide it really helped me do this process. Also i used a sd card with a sd card reader for the usb drive
