PS3 General Discussion

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Fixed now.

The ITV i-player and 4OD are both up and running.

If your in the UK just switch on you PS3 and you will find them just below the BBC i-player.


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Just spotted that on the PS Blog, nice...hopefully I'll be able to disable the ITV part of it as ITV is banned in our house :D
 
If I do a back up of my hard drive can I then reinstall the data into a new PS3? I'm thinking about getting a slim because frankly this scrap that's hooked to my TV is on it's last legs for sure. I did the thermal paste thing and it worked but after like an hour or two of being on the PS3 gives me the finger and turns off...this makes it really hard to watch Blu-Rays.

I don't want to loose my game saves, especially GT5 since it wasn't exactly thrilling the first time around.
 
Joey D
If I do a back up of my hard drive can I then reinstall the data into a new PS3? I'm thinking about getting a slim because frankly this scrap that's hooked to my TV is on it's last legs for sure. I did the thermal paste thing and it worked but after like an hour or two of being on the PS3 gives me the finger and turns off...this makes it really hard to watch Blu-Rays.

I don't want to loose my game saves, especially GT5 since it wasn't exactly thrilling the first time around.
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A backup to an external HDD reinstalled to a new system may cause you to lose copyright protected saves, which GT5 is, along with quite a few others.

But there is a data transfer utility where you connect the two systems via Ethernet cable and it will move everything over to the new system, retaining all copyrighted material. Your old system either needs to be deactivated from that content or it does it itself. I'm not sure exactly.

If I get my replacement before you I'll give a full report on how it works.

But the home remedy fixes are never permanent, so I'm not surprised to see yours isn't a lasting fix. I keep waiting for the day mine goes out again. Every time GT5 hangs for a second I cringe, waiting to see if it is just a network issue or if I will hear the notorious "BEEP, BEEP, BEEP!"
 
Thanks guys, I'll probably get a slim after Xmas. I didn't really want another PS3 until I looked at my Blu-Ray movies and went "damn it".
 
Joey D
Thanks guys, I'll probably get a slim after Xmas. I didn't really want another PS3 until I looked at my Blu-Ray movies and went "damn it".
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Yeah, when mine died I decided that I was in no hurry to repair or replace it since GT5 was delayed and I had a 360. So, I decided that at the moment I will just watch my unopened Blu-Ray of Dune and...SON OF A! :ouch:

That was when I told everyone the only Christmas gift I was interested in was money or gift cards toward a PS3.
 
The games still don't interest me much, especially with my interest with GT5 waning and nothing really major coming out for a while. But Blu-Rays? Ya I love to watch Blu-Rays mostly due to all the extra stuff on them. With most films I can't tell the difference between a DVD and a Blu-Ray but the extra content is always nice.
 
tankuroded
Can I use a game with a region different from my PSN? Because I made an Asian PSN today. ;)
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I think so. I was playing the Namco Museum Beta from Hong Kong a year before they released the full version globally.
 
Ya I'm pretty sure there is a PS3/Uncharted 2 bundle sitting under my winter holiday fake Douglas Fir right now :D. Looks like I won't have to endure the shottiness of the fatty anymore, which has already annoyed me beyond belief. All I wanted to do last night was watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the PS3 gave me the middle finger and said no. Same thing happened with Indiana Jones too...I think my PS3 hates Steven Spielberg.
 
Question time...
I have my PS3 hooked up on the wireless perfectly here at my dad's house. BT Home Hub, plugged in the WPA key and instant connection.
Meanwhile, at my mum's house, I plug in the WPA key then the PS3 shows me the birdy after 5 minutes of "Exchanging Key Information"...
She is with Virgin Broadband.
Help? :P
 
*fist pump*

I can now watch the Blu-Ray's I'll inevitably get!

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It's the 160GB one so I should be good on HDD space.

*** The data transfer utility sucks, it keeps telling me to plug in an Ethernet cable when it already is. It doesn't need some super special Ethernet does it?
 
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Joey D
*** The data transfer utility sucks, it keeps telling me to plug in an Ethernet cable when it already is. It doesn't need some super special Ethernet does it?
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I get that with my ethernet cable too sometimes. There should be a green light on at the back right over the ethernet port. If it isn't on, the cord isn't in correctly.
 
I have a general question and I'm not sure if anybody can really answer this.

Seeing as my fat PS3 is just over 2 years old and I was accumulating too much data to back up anything other than my game saves on my thumb drive, a few months ago I purchased an external USB drive that's powered off the bus. It's small, compact, quiet and allowed me to backup my entire hard drive, which I did once every few weeks.

This weekend when I went to try it, I kept getting an error message.

Operation failed (error 80010038).

After a bit of research, it seems that this indicates corrupted data. I can tell you that my PS3 seems to be running fine and I haven't had any noticeable problems. The only thing I can trace it to was a head smacking moment about 2 weeks ago when I accidentally started to delete one of my games. I canceled the operation, although too late, and was left with a file labeled by the system as 'corrupted file', which I there after deleted.

At this point, I assume not being able to back up my entire hard drive is somehow a result of this aftermath. I wonder now, if I were to buy a new PS3, if the data transfer utility would also result in this frustrating error.

Should I just let it go and make sure I keep backing up all of my game saves on the thumb? Is there something I can do to check the hard disk? Any suggestions? If the PS3 is running fine, I probably shouldn't be worried. But it's kind of ridiculous that I can no longer make a backup. I'd really hate to take an extreme measure like back up my game saves and format the hard disc. There are some games out there, GT5 among them, that store things like your photos, race replays, car thumbnails, not as part of the game save but as part of the game files. And I'd lose all of these.

Anybody else had this experience?
 
jjaisli
This weekend when I went to try it, I kept getting an error message.

Operation failed (error 80010038).

After a bit of research, it seems that this indicates corrupted data. I can tell you that my PS3 seems to be running fine and I haven't had any noticeable problems. The only thing I can trace it to was a head smacking moment about 2 weeks ago when I accidentally started to delete one of my games. I canceled the operation, although too late, and was left with a file labeled by the system as 'corrupted file', which I there after deleted.

At this point, I assume not being able to back up my entire hard drive is somehow a result of this aftermath. I wonder now, if I were to buy a new PS3, if the data transfer utility would also result in this frustrating error.

Should I just let it go and make sure I keep backing up all of my game saves on the thumb? Is there something I can do to check the hard disk? Any suggestions? If the PS3 is running fine, I probably shouldn't be worried. But it's kind of ridiculous that I can no longer make a backup. I'd really hate to take an extreme measure like back up my game saves and format the hard disc. There are some games out there, GT5 among them, that store things like your photos, race replays, car thumbnails, not as part of the game save but as part of the game files. And I'd lose all of these.

Anybody else had this experience?
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Access the Recovery Menu and then select Restore Database. With luck that will straighten out the HDD.

Restore File System might be necessary, but I am unsure if that will delete anything or not. It will probably give you a warning first. I am totally unsure of this one though, so try it at your own risk.
 
@jjaisli
I don't know anything specific about this error.
You can try the following actions in the recovery menu:

Restore File System: Like chkdsk/fsck, no data is lost. I've done this multiple times.
Rebuild Database: A database is deleted and rebuilt. You'll lose data, I think messages and meta data of media files etc. but I don't know exactly.

Remember: A backup does not protect against hardware failure. Many things can't be restored on another PS3.
 
Appreciate the further insight, drivatar. fsck--OK, got it.

I was under the impression, aside from trophies, doing a full backup and restore was effectively the same as a system transfer and would copy everything...?
 
jjaisli
I was under the impression, aside from trophies, doing a full backup and restore was effectively the same as a system transfer and would copy everything...?
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Some files are locked to a specific user or system, including some save files, for copyright reasons.
 
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Must only be in the EU right now, I just checked the US iTunes store on my phone and nothing showed up.
 
It's very slick but to be honest there isn't much on it that's particularly useful at the moment. There's a friends list to see who's online and compare trophies but no messaging. There's also the PS blog and PS news plus you can browse tons of games.
 
Joey D
Must only be in the EU right now, I just checked the US iTunes store on my phone and nothing showed up.
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The article makes it sound like an SCEE only thing, and only limited EU countries at that.
 
So, there's a good series of monthly purchases coming up:

January Mass Effect 2, LPB 2, Dead Space 2
February - TDU2, Bulletstorm, Killzone 3
March - Shift 2, Crysis 2, Tomb Raider Trilogy, LEGO Star Wars 3
April - Motorstorm: Apocalypse. Portal 2, Mortal Combat
May - LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, Red Faction Armageddon
June - True Crime Hong Kong, L.A. Nore, Mx vx. ATV Alive
July - None
August - none
September - Resistance 3, Ratchet and Clank All 4 One,
October - none
November - Uncharted 3
December - The Last Guardian, Duke Nukem Forever, Mass Effect 3.
 

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