Playing games off an external drive - PS3Hax Network

yasyas777 · 10-10-2010

Hi, because there has been a lot of confusion, I would like to jsut clarify that you CAN play your ps3 games off the EXTERNAL DRIVE.

My setup is 1tb external USB HDD powered by an external power source.

All of my games work perfectly, and for those that dont, if i put a disc in the drive, they work great. Like Heavy Rain etc.

I have an 80gb ps3 so its not ideal for me to boot from internal.
The root on my usb device is like this:

D:/GAMEZ/BLUS30453(this being the game folder with the extracted files)

That is it.

Games that have worked so far:
dead rising 2
god of war 3
heavy rain
LBP
super street fighter IV
Castlevania LOS
Tekken 6
BLAZBLUE

republicano · 10-10-2010

yes you can,
tekken 6 (BLES-00635) has a big file so it shouldnt work on external,unless there are many versions.
file is TEKKEN.psarc
im having problems playing god of war 3, only works on backup manager v1
whats your setup ? - hex key and manager ? thanks

yasyas777 · 10-10-2010

For games like Tekken, unzip the PSARC that is too big to go onto fat32 and then RAR it up so it downsizes and stick it into the right folder in fat32 and unrar it in there, it shud work fine (:

Rax909 · 10-10-2010

Thank you! This helps alot. I was actually thinking of finding this out but you answered my question perfectly. Because my brother has an external hdd and I was thinking of asking him if we can use it for games since I am pretty sure he never uses it. Infact one time he admitted to saying he forgot he had it. My brother is kind of a moron, he also is very selfish so I doubt he'll let me use it. But since he never comes anywhere near the ps3 I could probably take it secretly and he'd never know. lol ANYWAY XD sorr for the ramble...and thanks again for showing off that externals work. Because I only have a 8gb usb...and I cant hold really anything on it. It only really can hold one game at a time. Since most are over 5 gig...I was in the middle of downloading Castlevania I do know thats 11 gig give or take. So his external should be able to hold that with no trouble.

republicano · 10-11-2010

so only games with psarc files so far, i assume rpf, and others are similar just different formats, anyway can you please tell me what you are using to get god of war 3 to work

Thank you

noddy4life · 10-11-2010

Hi guys the best thing to do for big games is SafeIMG v0.1.1 - PKG Compressor just use the split 4gb option i have used it on a couple of games with obm

yasyas777 · 10-11-2010

Originally Posted by noddy4life

Hi guys the best thing to do for big games is SafeIMG v0.1.1 - PKG Compressor just use the split 4gb option i have used it on a couple of games with obm

Yes. this!

Originally Posted by republicano

so only games with psarc files so far, i assume rpf, and others are similar just different formats, anyway can you please tell me what you are using to get god of war 3 to work

Thank you

I REPEAT. It is not JUST for PSARC.
For GOW3. i backed up the game onto my internal and copied it over to my external using awesome file manager.

Originally Posted by Rax909

Thank you! This helps alot. I was actually thinking of finding this out but you answered my question perfectly. Because my brother has an external hdd and I was thinking of asking him if we can use it for games since I am pretty sure he never uses it. Infact one time he admitted to saying he forgot he had it. My brother is kind of a moron, he also is very selfish so I doubt he'll let me use it. But since he never comes anywhere near the ps3 I could probably take it secretly and he'd never know. lol ANYWAY XD sorr for the ramble...and thanks again for showing off that externals work. Because I only have a 8gb usb...and I cant hold really anything on it. It only really can hold one game at a time. Since most are over 5 gig...I was in the middle of downloading Castlevania I do know thats 11 gig give or take. So his external should be able to hold that with no trouble.

Good luck man! Make sure you make a folder on the root called GAMEZ, and put the folder with the GAME ID in there. Backup manager should be able to pick it up no problem.

d-RLY · 10-16-2010

About the external HDDs. They still have to be FAT32 right?

subyfan · 10-16-2010

edit, nm got it.

shaneman150 · 10-17-2010

I seem to be having trouble

I have a 1TB external, formated to FAT32.

In the root directory, I place a folder named "GAMEZ" Within that folder, I place the folder with the Game ID.

I plug it into my PS3. None of the backup managers seem to detect the HDD.

What am I missing?

10-10-2010	#1
yasyas777 Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 6 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Playing games off an external drive Hi, because there has been a lot of confusion, I would like to jsut clarify that you CAN play your ps3 games off the EXTERNAL DRIVE. My setup is 1tb external USB HDD powered by an external power source. All of my games work perfectly, and for those that dont, if i put a disc in the drive, they work great. Like Heavy Rain etc. I have an 80gb ps3 so its not ideal for me to boot from internal. The root on my usb device is like this: D:/GAMEZ/BLUS30453(this being the game folder with the extracted files) That is it. Games that have worked so far: dead rising 2 god of war 3 heavy rain LBP super street fighter IV Castlevania LOS Tekken 6 BLAZBLUE

10-10-2010	#2
republicano Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: even i dont know Posts: 301 Likes: 188 Liked 25 Times in 24 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	yes you can, tekken 6 (BLES-00635) has a big file so it shouldnt work on external,unless there are many versions. file is TEKKEN.psarc im having problems playing god of war 3, only works on backup manager v1 whats your setup ? - hex key and manager ? thanks __________________ cfw 3.55 > OFW 4.25 due to some noob who wanted to play f1 2012 :(, rendered it useless as well as that 500gb inside.

10-11-2010	#5
republicano Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: even i dont know Posts: 301 Likes: 188 Liked 25 Times in 24 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	so only games with psarc files so far, i assume rpf, and others are similar just different formats, anyway can you please tell me what you are using to get god of war 3 to work Thank you __________________ cfw 3.55 > OFW 4.25 due to some noob who wanted to play f1 2012 :(, rendered it useless as well as that 500gb inside.

10-16-2010	#9
subyfan Apprentice Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 4 Likes: 2 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	edit, nm got it. Last edited by subyfan; 10-16-2010 at 07:19 PM.

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10-10-2010	#4
Rax909 Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 550 Likes: 9 Liked 43 Times in 34 Posts Mentioned: 8 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Thank you! This helps alot. I was actually thinking of finding this out but you answered my question perfectly. Because my brother has an external hdd and I was thinking of asking him if we can use it for games since I am pretty sure he never uses it. Infact one time he admitted to saying he forgot he had it. My brother is kind of a moron, he also is very selfish so I doubt he'll let me use it. But since he never comes anywhere near the ps3 I could probably take it secretly and he'd never know. lol ANYWAY XD sorr for the ramble...and thanks again for showing off that externals work. Because I only have a 8gb usb...and I cant hold really anything on it. It only really can hold one game at a time. Since most are over 5 gig...I was in the middle of downloading Castlevania I do know thats 11 gig give or take. So his external should be able to hold that with no trouble.

10-11-2010	#6
noddy4life Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 74 Likes: 8 Liked 10 Times in 5 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Hi guys the best thing to do for big games is SafeIMG v0.1.1 - PKG Compressor just use the split 4gb option i have used it on a couple of games with obm

10-16-2010	#8
d-RLY Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 2 Likes: 1 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	About the external HDDs. They still have to be FAT32 right?

10-17-2010	#10
shaneman150 Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 2 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	I seem to be having trouble I have a 1TB external, formated to FAT32. In the root directory, I place a folder named "GAMEZ" Within that folder, I place the folder with the Game ID. I plug it into my PS3. None of the backup managers seem to detect the HDD. What am I missing?

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