Captain Pants said:I just put a 500GB in my Slim last week. Good timing.
not today.B1gg_Randall said:WTF So i cant upgrade my 40 gig
There was a firmware that did that? I have a DS3 that refuses to work with anything unless it's connected via the USB :/lucius said:Bah, my slim is on the list and I was going to upgrade my hard drive next week. As bad as the firmware update that made controllers stop syncing with the PS3, maybe worse.
Stoffinator said:So that means I can't upgrade my slim? That blows if true, its only got 20gig left (on its 160gig HDD I put in).
Seraphis Cain said:I think I might have found something else new in 3.56 (I'd post it in one of the other 3.56 threads but they were all locked due to lolpiracy talk).
When you go to the second page of a user's profile card (the page with the breakdown of how many bronze/silver/gold/platinum trophies they have), in the lower right corner the total number of trophies they have is displayed. I'm 99.9% sure that this wasn't there in previous firmware revisions.
Really a minor thing if it IS new, but still.
I3rand0 said:That's always been there since Trophies came out.
spindashing said:Okay, LOL. I'm going to upgrade my 20gig launch PS3 in a few months and Sony does this?
smh, I'm stuck deleting mandatory installs over and over to play games.
That's right - the upcoming fixed update will take away hard drive upgrades altogether.Crisis said:This is almost certainly a glitch that will be fixed by a forthcoming update. They wouldn't have disabled one memory size and not the other.
The thing is, the more complex a structure becomes, the more vulnerable it becomes - the more holes there are to be poked into. That's what happened with PS3 (unforced human error creates a fatal security flaw in an extremely complex program that is eventually found and exploited), and if PS4 is more complicated than that (and chances are it will be), it too will have more vulnerabilities to exploit - more holes to poke. Get it?Zeelman said:First the hacking and now this, again? The PS3's OS is a mess. I really hope Sony can turn this around with their next console.
REALLY? Boy oh boy, am I glad I have a CECHA, then.BAW said:On average, 16 MB models get 10% fewer fps in games than 256 MB models.
Zzoram said:Why did they drop the flash from 256MB to 16MB in slim models? Does it affect performance?
BAW said:It was a cost cutting measure and was intoduced in the later fats, i.e. even before the slims. On average, 16 MB models get 10% fewer fps in games than 256 MB models.
I could cry right now. You are my best friend.FLEABttn said:Your 20 gig launch PS3 is unaffected. smh indeed.
Shaneus said:There was a firmware that did that? I have a DS3 that refuses to work with anything unless it's connected via the USB :/
They switched all the good coders to work on PSP2 firmware, obviously.Mailenstein said:Sounds like anybody with at least 1hr programming knowledge can get a job at Sony's PS3 firmware department division.
Withnail said:Yeah more pointless updates incoming.
But at least we got homebrew right :|
Beer Monkey said:You really shouldn't install this firmware anyway if you want to keep your homebrew options open.
bullshitBAW said:It was a cost cutting measure and was intoduced in the later fats, i.e. even before the slims. On average, 16 MB models get 10% fewer fps in games than 256 MB models.
Morac said:I'm not sure why people call this a bug. It's actual more of a side effect of Sony's newer hot patch process. The 3.56 patch is a tiny patch which simply add/changes files in the 3.55 software. This differs from most patches which download the entire firmware. Since part of the software on models with 16 MB of flash memory is stored on the hard drive, those PS3's need to reinstall the software when upgrading the drive. PS3's with 256 MB of flash memory store all the software in the flash memory so it isn't lost on a drive upgrade.
Anyway since 3.56 is a hot patch and requires 3.55 to be installed prior to updating, you can't install 3.56 on a new drive. You also could install 3.55 when upgrading if not for Sony's software version checks.
In any case it's not a bug, Sony simply wanted to get 3.56 out quickly, hence the hot patch. Once they have most of the PS3 consoles updated, they'll replace the hot patch with a full patch and it will work for drive updates.
I expect that a new 3.57 update will come out before 3.56 is fixed considering 3.56 has already been hacked.
FLEABttn said:Where's that statistic from?
it took a week the last time, July 27th -> August 3rd.corrosivefrost said:What the fuck is this bullshit?! So my PS3 is DOA until Sony gets off their ass and pushes a new fw with a fix? Goddamit.
How long did this spectacular snafu take to resolve last time... i.e. when can I finish my fucking upgrade? >_<
Are they aware of this? Can we actually expect a bug fix sooner rather than later?
you could not have to swap disks and save your precious physical media from the bitter cold that causes the disks to get brittle and crack!kitch9 said:I know, I don't know what I'd do without umpteen backup managers and sod all else....
The Faceless Master said:it took a week the last time, July 27th -> August 3rd.
you could not have to swap disks and save your precious physical media from the bitter cold that causes the disks to get brittle and crack!
kitch9 said:Yeah I know, I've had to replace all my games 3 times due to the cracking and snapping when they are introduced to oxygen.....
Jinfash said:What does the 3.56 even do, besides facilitating banning blops cheaters and (temporarily?) preventing upgrading HDDs. Did it complicate jailbreaking in any way? I'm still on an OFW, but I'm still interested in jailbreaking in the future.
styl3s said:So i can't take my 80gb HDD out and put a 500gb one in? will my 1TB external still work?
i don't understand i am illiterate when it comes to this stuff
I will try the external in a bit, this is fucking bullshit i cant put a bigger HDD in MY ps3, goddamn pirates are ruining it for everyone those bumscorrosivefrost said:This is true. You can't swap the internal PS3 hard drive out if you've upgraded to 3.56 until a new firmware is released -- whether that be an update to 3.56 or a new fw entirely (3.57).
If your PS3 is still working, your external drive should still show up, providing it showed up before the 3.56 update was applied (meaning that the drive is properly formatted to FAT32 and thus is recognizable by the PS3 OS).