Unfortunately not 100 percent compatible. Doesn’t work the Ratchet games.
What about using a Brook adapter?
How are they “going haywire”? Frequent misinputs? Was having this problem and found a fix online and now they work near perfectly, only once in a long while issue might pop up for a second and normally squeezing the case of the controller gets it right again. What the problem supposedly is is that there is empty space in the case of the PS3 controllers and inside there is a cable that lies on contacts that send/receive controller input and this is kept in place with a small piece of foam that seems to get smaller somehow and stop doing its job. If you dissasemble the controller you can fix this making this foam piece ‘thicker’, all I did was I cut some pieces of electric tape and applied them to the bottom of the foam square. After that my original PS3 controllers work much better.
Yah, they have a life of their own lol.
I finally got Alice Madness Returns. been meaning to get it for years. Really great so far!
Also playing Tomb Raider Legend via the Trilogy pack, really want to smash through all three of the TR games of that era, they’re a great balance IMO.
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Just had a painful weekend of upgrading the PS3 HDD to an SSD.
The damn backup facility kept failing. Ended up deleting almost everything before it worked, and I couldn’t start clean as I had some damn locked save files.
But after all the hassle… including updating the CFW etc, Games load like 30 seconds faster?
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Game loads aren’t much better in most games but the XMB feels a lot less sluggish and you get the reliability and noise benefits.
Oh yeah, it’s so quiet!
Is it still painfully slow at writes? Probably the worst thing about the PS3, installing and deleting software and saving games was painfully slow compared to the Xbox 360. Apparently part of the problem was how games were stored as a large number of small files whereas 360 games were in a small number of large files.
I really want this trilogy
SSD’s only work with custom firmware?
Should be fine going by this old DF article https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-can-ssd-upgrades-boost-ps3-performance
In Europe the Super Slim PS3 had a 12GB SKU, it was fitted with 12GB NAND. Not SSD like performance but it did have some of the benefits of flash storage.
No mine’s on stock firmware and works just fine with a 1TB SSD.
Yeah it works anywhere, but changing HDD when you have CFW is more complicated, as it seems the copy process struggles more, and you have to re-install CFW which was hard to find again (official rebug site links are dead…).
I’m going to save a copy of the last rebug in a safe place for the future!
I also stupidly only got a 500GB SSD ‘to try’ because it was cheap And now it works nicely I realise I should have got a 1TB. Will leave all the game installs off for now to upgrade sometime soon.
Wow 30secs is huge for that gen. Worth it imo
That was from boot to playing Alice Madness Returns, via installed disc on multiman. 2:08 down to 1:40.
Would likely be quicker for the 2% of games that don’t have 83 animated developer/publisher/technology logos in their intro.
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Jumped in and got a 1TB instead… Will use the 480GB as a bootable external for an old Mac OS backup I have where my photoshop still works, and maybe a Windows partition.
Much easier doing the restore and set up process now I have it all worked out. And now should have all the space I’ll ever need, I got 30 retail game discs into 500GB before.
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It’s a shame it can’t go above 1TB but certainly that’s a lot of space to work with.
Huh, had no idea that was a limit.
Pretty ridiculous thinking about it. A 1000GB solid state drive in a PS3. They originally came with 20/60GB 5400RPM hard drives. These years later upgrades are wild.
1TB SSD for a PS3??? You must put a crap ton of games on there. I have a 256GB SSD on my PS3 and feel it’s mostly enough for the amount of games I would put on it. BTW there’s like 40 or so more PS3 games for me to get.