(EP 4) Running PS3 Games from an External Hard Drive (NTFS/FAT32)

[@andrasjoo3462]

Informative, straight to the point, shows actually whats in the title. A real gem if you ask me. Thanks, you helped a lot!

[@matthewmillward3927]

Love these tutorials, made jailbreaking my PS3 slim a breeze. Enjoying life with RetroArch and CFW

[@brianburwick]

I'm enjoying life with cocke and balls

[@marcodubs]

@@brianburwick do u think you are fucking funny

[@Cynocles]

1 Final note for this video which MW missed, MAKE SURE THE DISK IS FORMATTED AS "BASIC MRB" If you use the same tool he does theres a convert button right at the top you can use to convert from GPT or what ever its down as.

[@Cynocles]

@TheLegend use the tool he shows there’s a button to convert from one to the other like my comment original says

[@michaelyapkf]

@@Cynocles I kept trying but ntsf DRIVE not detected. So I checked and found my drive is GPT and not MBR. Is this the reason for PS3 not able to detect the drive?

[@AndreiB617]

@@michaelyapkf yes. You need to use MBR, not GPT.

[@aldrich94]

Dude thank u so much I almost gave up

[@GamerDan89]

@@AndreiB617 bit that mean, that you can only go up to 2tb. Higher is not possible with mbr then and you also cant do 2 different partions sadly.

[@luizhenriquecarvalhodesouz7201]

Thanks a lot, gentleman!! At first, i tried in the NTFS format, but somehow it didn't work. On the second time i tried in the FAT32 format, it did work smoothly. Now i'm gonna get some nostalgia in the Call of Duty 3. S2

[@HowToFixIT404]

Drive needs an MBR partition table and it needs to be less than 2TB total

[@sagas070707]

Amazing tutorial. Very easy to follow up. Thanks for your help. I still love my PS3

[@mikakoivisto6504]

Yeah, Ps3 is the best console for me

[@MiX0195]

Yo do you know how to update games with the external hard drive

[@somebody69747]

@@MiX0195 Just press triangle on your console and select Check for updates or a setting of that name while you are having internet connection on your ps3 ofc

[@alisalih2031]

How do I find links to game files?

[@somebody69747]

@@alisalih2031 superpsx

[@mk2267]

Excellent guide! Looking forward to more ps3 videos. You really do seem professional when you make these videos.

[@m4rksmani]

Bro you helped me,i just change my pc hdd with a ssd and turned the hdd into external and i started search for something and your video come out , thanks bro

[@m4rksmani]

@Geez, people these Days yes

[@m4rksmani]

@Geez, people these Days yes

[@m4rksmani]

@Geez, people these Days diff ps3 have diff memory

[@m4rksmani]

@Geez, people these Days for games you need to watch some videos on yt how to jailbreak succesfully ps3 and install multi man, later you need a pc and a usb to put games from pc to ps3

[@itztaha5961]

Thanks for making this video, this will solve the issue of having small storage capacity.

[@IlIAnubisIlI]

man you're the best!. i had a game over 32 gig and couldnt fit it onto my fat32 thumbdrive. but i had another thumbdrive thats 128 gig. this worked thank you so much

[@juaquindeanda3316]

Guys an easier way would be to format as FAT32 (so it's natively supported) and use ps3 ISO tools to create an ISO but check the box next to "split for FAT32" and it won't have to copy the files to the internal drive when you try to play it will just play from the external.

[@Daevid11]

@TeamHP Gaming I wil try either :D

[@adve9373]

@@Daevid11 did it work?

[@bs190413]

Yeah did it work?

[@NuBoko]

Took like 3 tries but it finally showed up on my system, very nice video.

[@familieboss4862]

where can you download iso files?

[@NuBoko]

@@familieboss4862 You must be new.... here is some sound advice, You don't ask that question. You can create ISOs by inserting your legally owned copy of whatever game you have into a PC and creating a disc image using deamon tools lite or something similar.

[@familieboss4862]

@@NuBoko thank you

[@jaykay3765]

@@NuBoko so we cant just download a game and put it on either mmCM or webman? I'm trying to download guitar hero & dej jam & no luck .

[@burninglory2]

These tutorials are really helpful. Makes everything a breeze. Awesome videos :)

[@jumpingalaxies951]

Thank you so much. I'm an idiot when it comes to this kind of stuff, but this I can definitely do. THANK YOU.

[@zoongtang69]

Great video love how you didnt skip and explained everyting

[@athermahmood1065]

Cheers as always bro. Essential points all included.

[@gazzaboy84]

Thx for this ❤ im new to the ps3 modding scene . Now im able to use my old ps 3 thats been sat in a cupboard for years that had a brken bluray drive.

[@psmith5573]

Crystal clear! Love all the episodes.

[@Johnny-up3yh]

Amazing Tutorials.....Thanks so much!

[@demjidasa5184]

jeez man you are really good at this

[@retrovideogamejunkie]

Questions. How big in size can be the external hard drive for the PS3? If I download games thru pkgj (in the ps3), can I transfer them to the external hard drive n play them from there? What format need to be that hard drive? (I guess you have another for the case of missing raps, right?)

[@familieboss4862]

where can you download iso files?

[@chrissini5869]

thanks moded warefare your video is not only easy to follow they actually work been playing fight night champion since

[@roberts5368]

Cheers bro👍 got to be one of the smartest guys ever when it Comes to this sort of stuff

[@JubeProductions]

Great instructional video for someone that is new to PS3 CFW and Multiman. It was good that you showed how to play both ISO games and Games in folder format. What I don't understand is why would anyone want to use the folder format since it has to be used on a FAT32 partition? It just seems like it would be easier to use ISO's or convert folder format over to ISO's. That way you don't have to worry about splitting up files bigger than 4GB or formatting external drives into FAT32. I want to keep everything as simple, and as standard as possible. I would rather just use ISO's as my PS3 game format for all games. Because I am new to PS3 hacking there might be a reason for all that, but I don't know yet since I have only just started using a PS3 with CFW.

[@georgiolaroche6139]

whats the app? or software for this? how do you convert to iso? does iso means that you will have files lower than 4GB?

[@familieboss4862]

where can you download iso files?

[@JubeProductions]

@@familieboss4862 I use the Bit Torrent protocol. I can find most any games on the popular tracker sites. If you're not familiar with bit torrent, look it up it's not that hard but it takes a little more explaining than I can do here in the comments.

[@GamerDan89]

The plus on fat32 is that you still can use it for transfering music and movies natively on ps3 without multiman and bring it to another ps3 as well

[@JubeProductions]

@@GamerDan89 I never considered this. I only have one PS3, and I don't need to transfer music files between them. But I can see how that is a benefit if that's what you do.

[@kratos9174]

Thank you so much again You are the best by far , ny favorite, Working to get more knowledge since im a rookie on these mods

[@zidanethelegend4307]

Thanks for your tutorial. By the way, to install DLC pkg need to create a folder too?

[@85bearsfan34]

Great tutorial I downloaded a torrent this worked perfectly thanks bro

[@smgofdvld]

good video i dont do this because of worrying about disconnect or power failures. its a neat feature not sure how slow games are with this but nonetheless i appreciate your vids.

[@judaeadlamini4492]

U taught me everything I will forever be grateful

[@honler380]

What external hard drive did u use mine doesn't appear in ps3

[@NaworHD]

I think you forgot to talk about GPT and MBR disks, mine were in GPT format so my games didn't showed up. Anyway great tutorial, keep it up !

[@skonafid]

Mime was MBR and the games still didnt want to load up

[@NaworHD]

@@skonafid check if a partition remains

[@soseikiharagatatsu7859]

This is really useful and I learned a lot thanks now I'm gonna test my NTFS hard drive in my PS3 and I now I know how to make an iso into a game folder did not know that you can do that with winrar

[@jenovaizquierdo]

Awesome video man. I have a question can I use a 5tb external hard drive?

[@trixiegg2017]

yup really helps now 40 gigs thats ok theres a few games i wanted and fat32 was working u rock :)

[@xxqtanimegirlxx]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE U U MADE MY DAY FINALY A CFW TUTORIAL THAT REQUIRES NO FTP

[@chickenghost8023]

btw you can copy games from external hard drive to internal and vice versa with multiman just select a game from games menu and hit Triangle and choose copy. This easier way than using file manager.

[@manikashop]

cant be done when the file is in ISO

[@bugaveli]

I had a blast with my modded ps3. Wish i hadnt sold it a few years back.

[@hucz]

Get another one. They are cheap right now to buy used.

[@chapraza]

Thank you many Times I appreciate your hard work making this videos

[@PurushaDesa]

Excellent video. Dumb question but can I simply take my physical copy of the game and still run an external drive as extended system storage for the PS3 in the same way I can for the PS4? And was that process simple enough not to warrant a separate video from you? Thanks.

[@aydendagoat]

Thank you this method is so much better then file zilla the other was so slow when copying over otp

[@baharchoudhury2245]

Perfect Thank you ....clear and concise...

[@ady199]

I have a 4TB external drive formatted as NTFS and the PS3 is not detecting it. Is there a size limit? Thanks in advance

[@jeffrey1296-rl1mi]

u need to split it in 2 partitions, ps3 isnt designed to go past 1tb can be finnicky at 1.5tb

[@GenGamesUniverse]

Seems like the better way is via NTFS so you can "run" the ISO files off of the external.

[@antonino7100]

I actually found a way to run ISO’s off a FAT32 USB

[@fcwennekers7588]

@@antonino7100 How?

[@antonino7100]

FCWENNEKERS well at the time I thought I did cuz I was able to run a PSXISO off the FAT32 USB but it’s not the same

[@pupsiuspupuliukas2394]

FAT32 is probably better because it is supported by any ps3

[@at-cj2iy]

@UC7zNfRCo3D4gye3eIaG8wsg yea PS1 games jerkoff we know you full of shit You cant insall big ass games on fat32 formats

[@reta3549]

Thank you so much for these useful information

[@flea9663]

Thanks for the video i know its 2024 but hey free games on a og system, but just to let yall know that im using a external 2tb sdd, i tried to use ntfs i messed around and could never get it to work but when i change the ssd to fat32 worked like a charm i just put the game folder on the ssd and had to install managunz because multiman for some reason did not read the ssd but now im playing ps3 games.

[@abbigail030398]

My ps3 is not recognising my hard drive at all.

[@imdrugdealing6592]

Sis out hea tryna jailbreak her ps3

[@stevestewart3816]

​@@imdrugdealing6592 this is my sister you jerk off

[@isa-mr9ky]

​@user-xm4em3gm5u didnt understand much from the top comments but 1 suggestion i could say is while having ur hdd connected , if you have installed multiman (i think its also called mmcm ) run it then go to the far left then downwards to an opinion about "switch to Multiman mode" or something along these lines, run it then after it restarts multiman go again to the far left (if it didnt do that for you) and click on the file manager It should open a computer like page, go to the bottom left corner (similar to where the windows icon would be placed ) Click O to right click Choose ntfs driver (not 100% if that what its called) It should do a scan and refreshed the page then you'll get 2 new files in the root folder which are usb port 0 and port 1 and you should be able to open ur hdd

[@vgffff68]

Mbr not gpt

[@jamieturnick]

ik this is really old and you probably already solved this issue but mine wasn’t reading it either all I had to do was put my hd in fat32 format on my computer

[@badbasegaming]

im not gonna lie, ive been following the ps3 scene for quite some time and i never found any solution to some of the problems you just solved with ease . thank you sir and God bless you id send you a donation but there's no link

[@mehmood9687]

Awsome tutorial man!

[@GameExploreYT007]

Hi i purchased jailbreak ps3 12 gb i can use my external HDD to play games ? Please replay ...

[@victormanuelespinalcaba2754]

Yes

[@drgauravsuneja]

You make the best videos.

[@afistfulofpimples1745]

No he doesn't

[@sirajalichisti4826]

Thankyou so much, it's very usefull for me.

[@mazorlp8404]

Thanks Man! works Perfect without problems but it take some Time to download the Games

[@yasserbanse]

Love the tutorial. Good job

[@thajazzzprovidaaa26]

Yooooo thank you so damn much for helping me today on jailbreaking my ps3. YOUVE taught me hella and I appreciate this so much. You’re awesome as hell yo

[@iplaystudio7482]

Thank you so much for letting me know this!

[@MRJazzygameplay27]

I tred this with the fat32 drive for god of war 3 and copied the files to the internal hd, but i only get a black screen and the game closes after a while...

[@user-ov9kt8te5r]

You are best i wish we have many person like you

[@normalchristiano2276]

People*

[@Schwift3D]

Any plan on making an update to the jtag/rgh series? Love your videos, followed your old tutorials years back.

[@familieboss4862]

where can you download iso files?

[@ManuelrPM24]

Great video as always Thanks! Does the ps3 suports a 4TB external HDD?

[@mchagnon7]

The ps3 is the only machine with a usb port, computer or otherwise, that needs to be modded in order to recognise an external hard drive. Every time I use a ps3 I have a hard time wrapping my head around how it can be as bad as it is.

[@taemorrow1]

My game is in a folder on a FAT32 but MMan is saying there's nothing there when I refresh games.

[@dusankosta]

You are the king. You helped me so much. Tnx

[@HowToFixIT404]

Forgets to mention even with CFW the ps3 wont read NTFS if its GPT partitioned and not MBR. Also needs to be smaller than 2TB

[@ThePreciseClimber]

Surprisingly simple. Can you install PS1 games on the external HDD? Also, can you transfer PS3 ISOs from the external HDD to the internal HDD and vice versa with Multiman?

[@DOCLOWE1988]

Yes

[@MrMohaakon]

Thank you this was very useful

[@bahori2253]

Thanks for this great video.

[@gn8737]

Hi there, I've tried the steps but still can't get the PS3 to recognize the NTFS hard drive/jump drive any suggestions what are the missing steps?

[@olivierrojo2003]

Thanks a lot. In case we've got a game with some DLC in FAT 32, can we put then in a folder named "packages" on our HDD where the game is in a folder named "GAMES" ? Thanks

[@emmanuelopoku3857]

Very detailed.. thanks bro

[@nastysoft2889]

Thanks bruh I think it is clear now

[@damsabar4337]

Very clear and useful!!!

[@reewazkhadka4918]

I have a question. Can we transfer our games to PS3 main home screen (XMB) ?

[@Robbie1872]

yes if you go on multiman go to your hard drive and the games you want to move will be in the ‘game’ folder move them to the folder called ‘GAMES’ the folder should have a multiman symbol beside it

[@remi1771]

What's better, NTFS or FAT32??

[@kamykaik3718]

This video allowed me to solve many of my problems. Thank you so much

[@familieboss4862]

where can you download iso files?

[@arosharashmitha8231]

@@familieboss4862 if you find out please let me know

[@jokes227]

My hard drive doesn't even show up in either ntfs or exfat format. Is it bc I have games installed on my internal hdd already?

[@rayferrer1709]

How do you install the dlc if doing the ntfs iso method? Will you be transferring over 2 iso files--1 being the main game and the other iso the dlc?

[@naughtydog9843]

Hi Ray, did you ever find an answer to this? I'm in the same boat myself. Thanks.

[@rayferrer1709]

@@naughtydog9843 Haven't found the answer yet. If you find it let me know. Thanks.

[@naughtydog9843]

@@rayferrer1709 Will do Ray. :)

[@brkbtjunkie]

Which file system has the least drawbacks for ps3? Fat 32? Since it’s routed thru usb2.0, are there advantages to using a SSD?

[@shawnsowers4063]

Ps3 keeps turning off once I play one of the games for a little bit? Any fix?

[@watashiwalucas4870]

Thanks this helped a lot.

[@learninglinux.zenx.7593]

thank you for those videos.

[@MRsilver410]

When I do NTFS way how do I go by installing dlc and manual updates for games I want to play from ntfs drive?

[@naughtydog9843]

Hi Silver, did you ever find an answer to this? I'm in the same boat at the moment.

[@arthurgomez1941]

way faster that ftp takes forever thanks

[@irishjz3667]

the game cant load man

[@tugatek]

It would be great if we could always use the external hdd for everything, like save game progress, etc.. without use the internal hdd.

[@Scenty2024]

Webman Mod has an option that allows you save game progress on external hdd, you should check it out.

[@tugatek]

@@Scenty2024 that's great 😀 Thank you very much 👍🏻

[@Scenty2024]

@@tugatek You're welcome 😊

[@sarmsgoblin]

I have a problem when i press to play the game on ntfs it says this operation is not allowed error 80010002 EINVAL please help

[@jaykay3765]

@@sarmsgoblin I have the same problem did u fix yours?

[@RetroFan]

Hello, your tutorials are very helpful. Are you familar with nopaystation & PKGi? I have the nopaystation browser on my PC. I'm wondering if I can download the games to my external 1TB HD & play them on the PS3 from that drive.

[@skankhunt5684]

This vid is Gold, 🥳🥳🚀🚀

[@drstrangedoom6819]

FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE PS3SPLITTER SAYS THAT THERE WAS NO BIG FILE FOUND. PLEASE NAME UR MAIN FOLDER AS GAMEZ AND THEN SCAN THE WHOLE FOLDER WITH PS3 SPLITTER

[@prodzombar]

1:00 for NTFS & 3:53 for FAT32

[@fortnotegamer6449]

can you add ps3 games to your external hard drive and plug it into your ps3 slim/super slim?

[@willsweetin2313]

Figured it out. Formatted my 2 tb to fat32 set as primary. Ps3 didn’t like it. Switched it to logical and same thing. So, I made a tiny partition and made it the prime and my ps see’s the big partition :)

[@bobspence5322]

i can store about 4 to 5 decent sized games on the original hdd and tbh there arent that many i play all the time by 2022. so ill have to just leave them on the external hdd i have that doesnt work and put them on the system itself if i want to play them and delete them when i want to play sth else. i wanted to just have a larger library easy to get to but honestly compared with all this installing them before playing it isnt such a big deal. shrugs.. thanks for the video it had some good info on it.

[@user-ft3lc2si9s]

Well you didn't play the game through the NTFS drive... I'm still at this stage and can't play the game 😢

[@niapolong]

I couldn't do it from my NTFS hdd but I followed your instruction for the FAT32 splitter and it works! Can I copy this split game to the ps3 internal hdd or must it be played from my external hdd with the cache like you showed here?

[@lee__1707]

Can you install a pkg game from ps3 package manager directly to external HD ?

[@lamenking420]

Yes

[@leonardferguson6314]

How?

[@gets187]

I would've like to see you play something other than resistance from your hard drive . Just to see

[@TJ-tx8zo]

I suppose 2 TB harddrives is the maximum external capacity? PS3 do not support GPT to my knowledge.

[@frankthetank6621]

Hello just a quick question does the install game data get stored on the external hdd when playing games off it? Im using Fat32. Also do save files get stored on external hdd as well?

[@raaz1408]

I wonder what's the next one going to be? I mean you almost covered everything about PS3 exploit and stuff.

[@Nightkillerz]

I need to know how to get mod menus

[@killer_tyger]

its going to be about how to install ps2 games

[@killer_tyger]

​@@Nightkillerzdownload psn patch and sen enabler run a custom patch then download the mod menu that you want replace the eboot file and and add the modded file from the modded ebbot to hdd0/tmp then back out of multiman run psn patch and hold x once you hear a beep you want to launch the game and when you get into the sign in screen for playstation you want to hold down L3+R3+R2 to unload multiman then sign and ur good to go

[@MODRuLeZ]

@@killer_tyger where can I get the custom patches? I'm getting 8003117 error

[@Ukiiiiiiii-gs5nt]

My external is ntfs i use iso and when i try to open the game it gives me error encrypted/invalid iso, but with my fat32 dump games works

[@the_scraggler]

Came here to learn what to do with DLC, updates and pkg files. None of that is covered, he shows them but doesn't mention them and he doesn't respond in the comments. Still trying to figure it out.

[@SyaroChan]

Thank you for the tutorial