[carldenning]

Originally Posted by hewman correct me if im wrong but battlefield 3 works on 3.55 CEX with duplex's fix,

correct but u cant update the game on 3.55 cos it will make the game a higher fw game . so on dex u can update the game

[HipHopStyler]

Originally Posted by carldenning ok u got 1 hdd with 1 partion and it see it as 1 partion ps3gen formates it so its able use it but if if u got 2 partion of a hdd why wouldnt it reconize it got 2 partions and use ps3gen to formate 1 of the partion i guess it would reconize what ever the partion is made with before ps3 gen other wize u wouldnt be able to use ps3gen to formate it in the 1st place so what IF ps3 gen could reconzie 2 partion just like it would if u had 1 partion do u get what i mean ?

mummy listen

Preparing the usb hdd: 0. Connect an external usb disc 1. Go to debug settings on your dex 2. BD Access select "BD Emulator (USB)" 3. transfer rate option select "HDD Native" 4. "Format BD Emulator HDD"

Lets say I did create a 2nd partition. 1TB (500GB fat32 ; 500GB ex3 for BD emulator) with PC --->DONE!

A)I go to the living room where my ps3 is and plug in my external HDD.
Now if I do step 4 from the Tutorial, I dont think the Ps3 will ask me which partition I would like to get formated , or does it?

If not then its risky that I could all my saved data on the ext HDD

B)Maybe I could skip step 4 and do the rest.
Would it work?

understand?

EDIT:

so what IF ps3 gen could reconzie 2 partion just like it would if u had 1 partion

Thats the thing which I am afraid of.

[veesowavy]

can we play without the original disc

[carldenning]

Originally Posted by HipHopStyler mummy listen Lets say I did create a 2nd partition. 1TB (500GB fat32 ; 500GB ex3 for BD emulator) with PC --->DONE! A)I go to the living room where my ps3 is and plug in my external HDD. Now if I do step 4 from the Tutorial, I dont think the Ps3 will ask me which partition I would like to get formated , or does it? If not then its risky that I could all my saved data on the ext HDD B)Maybe I could skip step 4 and do the rest. Would it work? understand?

yeah i do now
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i wonder if once the ps3 does what ever it does to the hdd . if u could clone it to another hdd

[UnknownStranger]

PS3 Retail Update PKG to DEX PS3 Retail Update PKG to DEX Update PKG - YouTube

[DIHY fox]

can we get a checksum of ps3gen and psn_pkg? that way we can make sure we got the right ones or would that be against the rules as well?

[CoupDeBoo]

Lol we need a noob friendly guide. Cause i have no idea what is going on here

[HipHopStyler]

Originally Posted by carldenning yeah i do now ************* [ - Post Merged - ] ************* i wonder if once the ps3 does what ever it does to the hdd . if u could clone it to another hdd

I dont have any other HDD.
But I will now try this process with a 4GB USB Stick and will create a 2nd partition and will format it with ps3gen.exe to know if the tool asks me which partition I would like to get formatted.

Thanks for your help and suggestions and also to others who tried to help.

Now back to topic. We shouldnt spam the thread with my HDD drama.

[4218kris]

Originally Posted by DIHY fox can we get a checksum of ps3gen and psn_pkg? that way we can make sure we got the right ones or would that be against the rules as well?

that would be good as im not sure they are right either, i wasn't sure how to ask. lol checksum would be great.

[oPolo]

Originally Posted by carldenning ok u got 1 hdd with 1 partion and it see it as 1 partion ps3gen formates it so its able use it but if if u got 2 partion of a hdd why wouldnt it reconize it got 2 partions and use ps3gen to formate 1 of the partion i guess it would reconize what ever the partion is made with before ps3 gen other wize u wouldnt be able to use ps3gen to formate it in the 1st place so what IF ps3 gen could reconzie 2 partion just like it would if u had 1 partion do u get what i mean ?

I'm not entirely sure that I get it sorry, but as far as I have understood ps3gen, it makes 4 partitions for you.

You cant have 2 partitions, and then one of the partitions would be subpartiotioned into 4 subpartitions. Or well that is not how the ps3gen tool works, and it can't be easily altered, since the DEX firmware has some expectations as to what the harddisk would look like after the ps3gen tool.
It would not expect that it would have to look at all of the harddisk's different partitions first bytes, to find the partition description tables for any(or perhaps a fixed 4) partition(s) within a single partition.

What I hope is that it does not care about the amount of partitions at all. I hope what it does is that it just looks at the bootsector (the first bytes of the harddisk) where the partition descriptor tables are, and then look at each of the different partitions on the harddisk, whether they contain a data structure (likely created with ps3gen) suitable for the BD emulation. If that is the case, then if the limit of the 4 partitions created by ps3gen could be altered, we could have more games on the ext. HDD. However... It is a bit odd that they have made that limit of 4 partitions.


So, in short, ps3gen does not work on the individual partitions. It works on the harddisk and partitions the harddisk itself (thus overriding the old partition table that described your previous partitions, with its new table that describes the 4 partitions that the BD emulator can use). , it does not partition a partition on the harddisk.

i guess it would reconize what ever the partion is made with before ps3 gen other wize u wouldnt be able to use ps3gen to formate it in the 1st place

It wouldn't need to recognize what the partitioning scheme was before it partitions the harddisks. It makes no difference to it as it just overwrites them, regardless of what the prior content was, so it doesn't care. It probably doesn't even look at the prior partitioning scheme.
(Or well.. It doesn't override the partitions itself, it overrides the partition descriptor tables on the start of the harddisk that refers to the hardisk with its own PDTs, so when the harddisk is accessed by the OS, it sees no reference to the old partitions only the new partitions created by it.. So, the data from the old partitions is still there, until they are overwritten by whatever data/games that fills the partitions Which is why formatting or deleting a file, isn't enough if police comes knocking on your door (if a file is deleted, it likewise just deletes the file descriptor ))

I don't hope you take this offensive btw. I have no intentions of doing so. You are one of the guys in here, I consider my bro-knight.
Although, you have given me the perception that you drink heavily.