Playing Game Backups

Prerequisites

• A modded PS3 console with either HEN or CFW, If you don’t know what those are, Please check our Getting Started guide.
• A backup manger such as: MultiMAN, WebMAN, Or IrisMAN.
• Access to a USB flash drive or wifi/LAN.
• A legally obtained backup of the game you want to play, Please check the creating game backups guide if you don’t know how to backup your own games.

Transferring games

Using FTP

FTP is a extremely outdated protocol and therefore is prone to failing mid transfer, Other than being limited to around 10Mb/s due to the PS3 having a outdated wifi chip

1. Get your console connected to FTP using this guide.
2. Depending on your game format there’s different locations you’d want to move your games onto:
   1. For ISO games: /dev_hdd0/PS3ISO/
   2. For JB folder games: /dev_hdd0/GAMES/
   3. For PKG games: /dev_hdd0/packages/ and .rap files go in: /dev_hdd0/exdata/

Using USB

This section will only cover FAT32 formatted drives. For NTFS drives, there is a separate process.

Due to a limitation in how FAT32 works, You cannot copy files over 4GB to it without splitting them. To do that for PS3, there is a guide dedicated for that.

• There’s multiple locations you’d need to place your games at depending on their format:

1. 1. ISO games: In a folder called /PS3ISO/
   2. JB folder games: Simply copy the folder into your USB stick, Make sure that you copied the whole game and not just the /PS3_GAME/ otherwise it’ll not work
   3. PKG games: Copy over to a new folder called /packages/ and .rap files over to /exdata/

Playing ISO games

1. After copying your game over, refresh your package manager and it’ll show up in your games list.
2. Simply press on it and you’ll be back into the XMB.
3. Scroll up and you should see your game mounted as a disc. Press to launch it.
   • If you get error 80010017, Please make sure you properly decrypted your games.

Playing JB folder games

1. After copying your game over, refresh your package manager and it’ll show up in your games list.
2. Simply press on it and you’ll be back into the XMB.
3. Scroll up and you should see your game mounted as a disc. Press to launch it.

Playing PKG games

Installing PKG files

1. Navigate to ⭐️Package manger on your XMB

• • If you are on HEN, You’ll need to enable it for that option to appear

1. Press on it and navigate to the ⭐️Install package files option
2. Depending on where your files are located you’ll choose either:

• • PS3™ System storage: if your PKG files are located on the dev_hdd0/packages path
  • Package Directory: if your PKG files are located on the /packages/ directory on your USB
  • Standard: if your PKG files are located on the root of your USB drive(As in not located in a specific folder)

1. You should see your files listed, Press on the PKG you’re willing to install and a new entry will appear on the XMB

Installing RAP files

Do not rename any RAP before placing it as that will cause it to not function as intended

• Basically place them in dev_hdd0/exdata/ If you originally had them on a USB drive, If you transferred them using FTP then you can skip this step

Playing backups from Recordable Discs

You can burn a PS1, PS2, or PS3 ISO to a CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc and play it on a CFW PS3 by inserting the disc and launching it from the XMB. If your CFW does not have Cobra, you can mount it with the latest version of WebMAN. If you do not have Webman, you can launch it using the application DiscBOOT.

• Ensure that when you burn the disc, you include the PS3_GAME folder and the PS3_DISC.SFB file.