PS3 Swap Switch Tutorial

Yeah, those I have are from a torrent site...I prefer backing originals myself, but most of the games I want either none of my friends have them or they aren't even released in europe...
I've heard of a site with good isos, but they're all rapidshare and split into a bijillion downloads, lol...needless to say I don't have a rapidshare acount

 

Im surprised that those isos are not working, are you sure that they are smaller in size than the boot disk (san andreas)? i know san andreas has not got the biggest TOC.

The thing is i live in the uk, i have a usa ps3 but all my backups are pal, they run perfectly. I boot them using devil may cry 2 ntscu

I have tried many games, there are no problems whatsoever, i can boot jap, usa or euro games

I know when you first started attempting a swap trick you were using bluray disks to boot ps2 games, im sorry to say but you may have damaged your laser. This could be the reason games are getting stuck.

I cant be sure though


You could try a different brand of disk dvd+r or dvd-r work well, rewritables dont work so well

 

Well now you got me all confused, lol...
I haven't swapped with blue ray's and I used 2 different dvd marks, both of them resulting not only to the game freezing, but the game freezing at the same spot. And I use verbatim dvd+R 16x(I always burn at 1x though).
Maybe San andreas doesn't have as much TOC as I originally and naively thought, but bigger than the previous game I used and that's y it didn't freeze as much...unfortunately, I don't have any authentic devil may cry games right now(except 4), even though I've ironically played them all...
But if that's the case, where could I find out how much TOC each game has...or how?

 

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/182717

 

Just found that myself and from browsing it I see that my biggest toc game is final fantasy X bonus disc That means I can't play dark chronicle, at least (((((((((((

 

On the bright side though....afterdawn rocks man, rocks hard! :]

 

Well, here is yet another puzzling fact:
I had bought devil may cry back in the days of my chipped ps2 and it plays normally! DMC has more TOC than the final fantasy X original I use, so how is that even possible?
No matter y, it would seem that I'm doing sth wrong in the backing up process...But a copy of 1 of my original games, tenkaichi3 to be exact, works perfectly and a spiderman3 iso works with only the graphics rarely behaving just a little strange, without even bothering my gameplay...
Maybe the crappy iso theory is back on the table? Or is there sth I can do to play these games I want so much to!?

 

Its strange but, some games get stuck at different levels in the game, you may not have got to the level that exeeds the toc, another reason is the dmc backup may have been ripped by the person who copied it to make it smaller

 

Ripped? Smaller? How do I do that? Maybe that can help me play the games I can't. Also, I read final fantasy X with my pc and in my computer it sais 0 out of 4.28 GB free, which is excactly the size of it's TOC. Does that mean that I can see how big the TOC of each game is just by reading it in the pc, cause if that's the case the games I can't play definitely have a small enough TOC to be played and there is another problem....

 

yes the pc drive will tell you the toc, 4.28 is the toc for that game, its complicated ripping games, i cant do it myself

 

It tells u the toc of non-ripped backups too, right? Cause then I'm definitely using a bigger toc game nad still my games freeze...
My diagnose is crappy isos...
But u said u don't have a problem with ur backups, so do u know any good site/program to download isos from/with?

 

Sorry, all my old backups i bought from a seller in the uk, my newer ones are all torrents, why dont u try different torrents of the same game?

You could still have a laser fault, do not rule that out completely. Try to borrow any originals and back them up to see if they freeze, than u know its the isos.

 

I have made a backup of 1 of my originals and it works perfectly. Plus, an old backup I bought works perfectly too, and an iso I downloaded doesn't freeze. I've also tried different torrents of the same games and they freeze at the same points, but seing how few torrents of these games are there, they could all be from the same source...
I;ve read somewhere that sometimes there are errors with public tracker torrents, but I don't even know what trackers are, let alone public or private 1s...

 

i dont know what u can do now, maybe someone else has an idea?

 

Hey guys.

Sorry to barge in your conversation like this.

I have recently modded the switch on my PS3 and it works fine!

But after reading up to 20 pages of the forum and hearing of burning lasers when switching and running the drive with a CD.

I decided to Unmod the console to previous settings.

So I just soldered back the original red and black wires to the motor as how it was before.

I also cut the red sensor wire because I wanted to install a switch to maintain orginal functionality.

But as I resoldiered the two red wires together, my load sensor is not working, and as a result, I cannot run and cd's at all on my PS3.

Has anyone ever had the same problem?

Or do I need to replace that sensor wire thing?

Much appreciated for any help I can get.

Kind regards
James

 

Hello, there are only 2 things that could cause this, you have not soldered the motor or the sensor wires correctly (try to undo the wires and do them again).

THe other reason is you may have burned out the sensor by sending the power the wrong direction.

 

Gday mate.

Much appreciated for your help!

The motors are working, because I can hear them moving when I push the eject button.

The wires are soldered on correctly, so I think what the other thing you suggested is that I may have sent the power the wrong way.

In this case.

Is there a way to manually load the cd in?
Or can I go to a electronic shop and look for a replacement cable to connect the sensors together.

As I only cut the red wire, but if I replace it, maybe I can get the sensor to start working again.

Kind regards
James

 

At the moment I have tried manually loading the CD in the blue ray drive.

I press the eject button.

The motor spins, however the CD does not eject.

Does this mean my motor is busted?
As the motor runs, but the CD only just shifts a bit off the center but does not come out..

Do you think I should just solder back the switches? and run it till my blue ray drive burns out and I need to purchase another blue ray drive.

At the moment, I'm guessing the the bottom motor which ejects the cd out is not working, but the motor which is pushing the cd out is.

So I'm going to resolder the connections hoping this might work out.

 

Alright mate, Your only option is to buy a new sensor, the other option is to manually eject/insert using batteries and a switch (the 1st option is the best but difficult to find)


if u try and swap the red wire, i doubt it will work, its worth a shot tho

the laser wont break if you operate the switch while the ps3 is off from the back, turn it off eject with switch, then insert with the switch and turn the ps3 on from the back

 

There is only 1 motor for ejecting and inserting discs. So if you hear a motor sound the problem cant be a broken motor.

I think you did something wrong when putting blu-ray drive back toghether. That can make the disc stuck at certain moment.

And one more question. Does a LED flashes when you put a disc in?

And about burning lasers. If you use the mod correctly you dont have much change to burn your laser. It seems that people who are ejecting discs when ps3 is reading the disc, that after certain time laser dies. So just switch after 8 min 30 or press eject button en then use switch to eject (to swap original -> original)