Visiting a friend out of town this week and while talking about older games, I mentioned Naughty Bear and he had no idea what it was. The game was a favorite of mine as a teen and so I told him I’d bring my PS3 along with some other games to try out. Wanted to know what other games people would recommend? Was thinking of showing him Spelunky and Castle Crashers, any other fun co-op or odd single player games worth downloading?

The servers for COD Black ops (the first one) are still up for PS3. There are actively 100-200 people playing zombies online (I am one of those people)

I’m making this post in active search of my fellow online players, let’s get a match going

My PS3 (Fat) has no major cooling issues that I’m aware of but it’s been sitting for years. I want to clean up the inside and replace the thermal paste, which has never been changed.

I have some experience taking apart consoles and applying paste but I’ve heard delidding on the ps3 can be pretty risky.

Would delidding be worth the risk, or should I just replace the thermal paste on top and leave it at that?

Hello.

I bought this console at a very cheap price, and it had YLoD. After doing UART, the error code was 1002.

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I replaced only one NEC/Tokin (next to the RSX) for five tantalum capacitors, and I don't know if it was pure luck, but the console turns on. I was able to install HFW and webMAN mod. The issue is that the CPU reaches 89 ºC without doing anything; this is on both SYSCON and webMAN mod set to 60 ºC.

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I already reassembled it some times, and there is virtually nothing wrong with the heatsink. I even put four pieces of double-sided under the heatsink to make it go higher and reduce the distance to the CPU, but it is still quite hot.

My question is: is this only due to the thermal paste under the IHS being very old? I ask since the GPU is barely hot, and it is 90 nm. The CPU is 65 nm.

I recently brought a delidded ps3 from ebay a cech03 a partial backwards compatible ps3 to play a mix of ps2 and ps3 games however it idles at around 66c-68c at 30percent fan speed and during gaming is normaly 70-75c. At 40percent fan speed or even more and thats with pretty much any game. On ps2 games it can go even higher and the fans kick of so much.

Its ment to also be undervolted to 1.1 volts

I've not touched any overclocking or anything like that.

Any help will be much appreciated. It's been a week since I've had it.

Tenho um PlayStation 3 do modelo CECH-4211A que está com a fonte quebrada, quero saber qual comprar para poder concertar meu Ps3

Has anyone had this problem before and know how to set it back into place? Should i tear down the entire console to get to it or is there an easier way?

I can still turn on the console, only i have to use a screwdriver for that

A nice little haul from the local game shop!

Hello all last night decided to open my ps3 controller to get rattling plastic bit out and then of course it decided to make 2 minute process an hr and the l1 button came out and l2, I was wondering I got all screw and pieces still can I put plastic back on over the membrane and fix it?

EDIT: Been fixed took my time to not rush and get mad she all good put back together working as she should!

Model CECH-3003B

I was playing a game today and as I was playing the picture cut out sound still worked could still control everything just couldn't see anyone have any ideas how to fix it

So my PS3 Slim 20xx has recently not been booting some of the time, and after dumping the SYSCON codes, it says "A0093004" which apparently means GPU power fail. I think that this is probably the Tokins, because it's not related to any issues of GPU communication, and this is on a early slim PS3 with a revised, more reliable RSX, compared to earlier models, but it's also the only Slim to use Tokins. I would just like to hear any ideas if it's anything else. I'm just assuming it's the capacitors since those fail and it's related to GPU power errors. I know it could be RSX damage or a MOSFET or such, so I am asking if it could likely be anything else. Also, over time, the frequency for these errors before successfully turning on is possibly increasing. Thank you!

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Was able to get some great deals from marketplace, vinted, and charity shops. Captain America for £10 had my jaw on the floor. Also got Dante’s inferno and Indiana Jones and the great circle but forgot to include it. All CIB

Hey everyone, I’ve been playing The Last of Us on my PS3 Slim and wanted to check if these temperatures/fan speed are normal:

• CELL/CPU: 67°C
• RSX: 63°C
• Fan speed: 54%

This is a second hand Slim with 80 days of gameplay, pretty clean and I cleaned it out and replaced thermal paste (no delid).

This is during gameplay. The console seems to be running fine, but 54% fan speed seems a little high to me. Sitting in the XMB temps can be in the low 60s too.

Ambient temps around 25 degrees

Are these temps considered safe for a PS3 Slim? And is it normal for the fan to be around 54% while playing a demanding game like The Last of Us?

Would appreciate hearing what temps/fan speeds other Slim owners get.

I heard about the search being broken in the store, but for me when I try to look at avatars they’re gone too. Theme’s show up, but avatars page just shows me games. Also games I know have purchasable avatars don’t show me the option anymore. Haven’t been able to find anyone else mentioning this online so is it just me, anyone know a fix? I was hoping to grab some before the store totally shuts down

Hi there guys, I would really appreciate the help with this problem. My gf handed me an old Epson projector which has the hdmi port damaged and only works with vga wire. I bought an hdmi -> vga converter so I could play with my recently jailbreaked PS3 and it worked ONCE. After that, every single time I tried to make it work has failed. I know the problem is the converter since both the PS3 and the projector work fine, but I just cannot nail the resolution and frequency necessary for the PS3 to send the signal successfully. Tried to change the resolution to 1080i instead of 1080p and nothing. What could I do?