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I’d love to get my hands on a karaoke version of the Jinchuriki song, but Haruka Kanata was always my favorite Naruto theme… Thanks and can’t wait to play it!

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Weird, this PS3 freezing issue definitely flew under my radar.

I have around 1050 customs (C3 and others) and never ran into a hard lock of the system until this week.

 

My luck finally ran out

 

One Dream Theater song froze my PS3 (cant remember if it’s Through her Eyes or Through my Words), turns out it was the .png that was not correctly converted to .ps3 and was still .xbox, also the mogg was only 38KB… Did you notice anything of that effect in the folder?

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No prob, I did notice the .png was still named as a *xbox file and the mogg was empty on the ps3 file after it froze my ps3 just trying to preview, so I downloaded the XBox file and used C3 to process it into a working ps3 song.

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Just to report that “Through her eyes” by Dream Theater for PS3 downloads as a 99kb file instead of the whole thing… ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />

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OK this is my first post here and I’m doing it after spending 12 hours trying to get customs working on my PS3. I’ll try to make it count so I’m sorry if it’s a little long.

Hopefully this might help someone in a situation like mine and save hours of his life.

 

(As a sidenote I would like to mention that I’m no expert but I have a few basic programming skills and already knew my way around PS3 jailbreaking a little bit. I also had made custom GH DVDs for my PS2 back in the day so it’s not like I just randomly tried things and got lucky… I advise others to at least do their own research before even thinking of trying stuff and mess around with your PS3 because if you FUBAR your PS3 you only have yourself to blame in the end…)

 

After hearing just very recently about how PS3 customs were possible (I didn’t touch my JB PS3 in years and used my slim to play online and I mostly play PC games anyways so I was out of touch), I got around to make them work on my model.

You’re going to say wow, big deal. Thousands of people got that to work.

The only difference is I had to do it without having the Free Pack *already* installed or going online with the PS3 you wanna play customs with to get it (Method 1) OR installing a rap file (Method 2).

 

I didn’t do it because I like to think of convoluted ways to do shit,

I did it because

A) I’m still on OFW 3.41, I couldn’t find any way to install raps (method 2) on it and

I don’t wanna either go online with the PS3 (method 1) or update the 3.41 OFW. No need to waste time & ask me why I didn’t update to CFW or another method of jailbreaking. That’s just how things are.

 

Basically, Method 1 wouldn’t work because I couldn’t go online to download the free pack since I didn’t want to update the firmware to a custom firmware (needed for spoofing the FW version which enables you to get into PSN Store).

I also had swapped the 60GB HD and didn’t bother transfering old saves & DLC files, so I don’t have my old RB1 save on the jailbroken PS3 (containing licenses etc).

I had created a new user and never went online with that PS3 since jailbreaking it and switching the HD (I got another PS3 to go online) so it is technically unactivated even if it used to be with the old HD.

 

Method 2 wouldn’t work since homebrew apps like ReactPSN or PSNpatch would not see raps on the USB drive and I was SOoL trying to install them… The reason was probably also that they needed a newer custom firmware to run correctly.

 

What ended up working is using a PC proxy to snatch the Free Pack 1 using my other un-jailbroken PS3 that I use to go online all the time.

You need that pack to “unlock” the ability to play customs, other free songs would not “unlock” customs when I tried them instead thinking I could save some time.

(google PSXDownloadHelper, don’t worry there is a way to make it english too lol. Another old ps3 proxy would not work for me.)

If you didn’t get what I just said, you got a lot of understanding to do before attempting this so I suggest going the other 2 ways. Setting up a correct proxy is not that hard but it does take longer than installing a rap if you have that option.

 

Basically the proxy application running on your computer returns the link of whatever you are downloading on your PS3 in the PSN Store so that you can then download the free pack as a pkg on your PC. You then put the pkg on your USB drive and install that on the jailbroken PS3. That gives you the songs.dta C3 needs & correct permissions your PS3 needs to avoid getting a “Unable to load song, skipping” error.

 

TL;DR? :

 

If you don’t ever want to go online with your jailbroken PS3, are stuck on a lower firmware preventing you to install raps and don’t already have the Free Pack 1 installed, you can use PSXDownloadHelper to download it if you have another PS3 you don’t mind going online with connected to a PC.

 

Lastly,

Thanks for all of the work you guys did to get this even possible.

Thanks to all the FoF guys, the Wii guys, the XBox guys…

I have almost 200 DLC songs for RB that I paid for.

I just succesfully added around 90 gems thanks to all of your efforts.

I couldn’t be happier that RB4 was announced and I really wish that HMX would hire a bunch of you guys because your work deserves it.

Again, thank you.

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