SlashGear Japan
Wouldn’t it be great if you could use your PS3’s hard drive to store your games? Capcom recently claimed that by loading a chunk of data from Devil May Cry 4, they managed to significantly decrease load times, so it could prove very benificial. Well a group of hackers have managed to load retail games on their PS3.
While this does seem pretty cool, it’s by no means something I would recommend doing. Just think of how large your PS3 games are, single-layer Blu-ray discs can hold up to 25GB. Your drive would be full in no time.
There’s also one more small hitch with this hack, you have to have a PS3 Test unit, not a retail PS3. What’s the difference? A Test unit is used by game developers and cannot actually play retail games. The hack does, however, allow retail games to be played on the PS3 Test. If you’re one of the few people that actually owns one of these, then you’re in luck.
[via MaxConsole]
3 Responses to “Hackers run full retail games from a PS3 hard drive”
Ivan_PSP February 12, 2008
I need one i got a regular 60GB PS3 where can i buy a PS3 test unit for under $1000?
-1Bob February 13, 2008
Actually, test PS3s can play retail PS3 game discs.
NeutralDigit November 26, 2008
It’s not hard to swap the HDD of the PS3 for one of a larger capacity, say up to 250 GB, as well as slide in a Linux Live type DVD, load the live system into RAM or install it to a HDD partition, then copy the game disk images from the games to the HDD.
With some of the proper programs and some experience, of course, this is simple and will absolutely work on a “stock” PS3. No need for a test system.
This is not news or exciting in the least. Pretty poor for a first time reader.
Neutral