Introduce me to the PS3, just fixed a junked system yesterday!
A little background...yesterday I was out running errands after work and I stopped by one of my favorite shops that has a small game buy-sell-trade operation. I spotted a fat PS3 marked bad and end up walking out of the store with it, blowing my small monthly arcade/gaming budget. I think we're all fond of an electronics project now and again. I had success fixing some fat PS2 systems a few years ago, so I figured it could be fun.
I get it home and cleaned it with a leaf blower and my vacuum, and hooked it up to my TV so see what I had as a project. Long story short, the hard drive was in the process of dying and made the system behave like it had multiple hardware problems (and no warning it was crapping out).
I had a dead laptop sitting around with a 160GB SATA HDD and I threw it in, learned about system updates (v4), formatted it, and it seems to have fixed the system! I was finally able to enjoy my only blue ray- a copy of Toy Story 2. It was one of the last fats before the slim came out, so no PS2 backwards compatibility. But the silver lining is that it plays all PS1 games, so I was rocking R-Types, Final Doom, Road Rash, etc last night.
I got it online last night and registered for the Playstation network. I also "activated" it for games and movies...which I am not sure what that does. I am very familiar with the 360 home, and I found some good free small games to play on that service. Are there any free give-away games on PSN also? I'll be a free user
Looking forward to some of the PS3 exclusives like the Drake games, Infamous, and whatever J-RPGs I can find. I think the recent Final Fantasy is now only $20....but that will be for next month....Not sure how long this will last, but I'm enjoying it so far.
A little background...yesterday I was out running errands after work and I stopped by one of my favorite shops that has a small game buy-sell-trade operation. I spotted a fat PS3 marked bad and end up walking out of the store with it, blowing my small monthly arcade/gaming budget. I think we're all fond of an electronics project now and again. I had success fixing some fat PS2 systems a few years ago, so I figured it could be fun.
I get it home and cleaned it with a leaf blower and my vacuum, and hooked it up to my TV so see what I had as a project. Long story short, the hard drive was in the process of dying and made the system behave like it had multiple hardware problems (and no warning it was crapping out).
I had a dead laptop sitting around with a 160GB SATA HDD and I threw it in, learned about system updates (v4), formatted it, and it seems to have fixed the system! I was finally able to enjoy my only blue ray- a copy of Toy Story 2. It was one of the last fats before the slim came out, so no PS2 backwards compatibility. But the silver lining is that it plays all PS1 games, so I was rocking R-Types, Final Doom, Road Rash, etc last night.
I got it online last night and registered for the Playstation network. I also "activated" it for games and movies...which I am not sure what that does. I am very familiar with the 360 home, and I found some good free small games to play on that service. Are there any free give-away games on PSN also? I'll be a free user
Looking forward to some of the PS3 exclusives like the Drake games, Infamous, and whatever J-RPGs I can find. I think the recent Final Fantasy is now only $20....but that will be for next month....Not sure how long this will last, but I'm enjoying it so far.

