PS Jailbreak - Store And Load Your Games From Your Hard Drive With The PS3 Modchip.
Posted: Tuesday, August 24, 2010
by Mark Thompson
Along comes the PS Jailbreak. Or as some call it the PS3 Jailbreak and PS3 Modchip. A little USB Dongle that allows your Playstation 3 to store and load games from the internal Hard Drive of the console.
It’s much like the USB Modchips that came out long ago for the Playstation 2, that didn’t require any internal soldering of any kind, and were just plug in and play type modchips that were so easy to use and install that they went off the shelves.
Many people didn’t think that a PS3 modchip was possible, as it’s been several years since the release of the PS3 console itself, and no modchip for the PS3 ever surfaced.
What is shocking to myself at least, is that absolutely no wiring is needed. Most modchips for any other consoles, certainly first generation modchips, always required installation by way of solder anywhere from 10 - 40 wires internally on to the main board of the game system. Not with the PS Jailbreak. It’s just plug in and play.
The backup manager software that comes with the PS Jailbreak is what makes all of this so magical. You simply install this software and you’ll see another icon right on your PS3 main screen, called the backup manager.
When you select and load the backup manager, all you have to do is insert any PS3 game disc, and the option to install the game will come up on screen. Once selected, you can see the progress bar as your game is being installed on the Playstation 3 hard drive.
The time for install varies naturally, based on how large or small the game is on the disc, but I’ve found it to take no more than just a few minutes for many of the newest games to install.
And this is where the fun part starts. Now that your game is installed on to your internal or external hard drive, you’ll once again be able to go into the backup manager and it’ll show a full list of all of your games already installed. Just click on the game you want to play, and it will load for you instantly.
It’s faster to play games from the internal hard drive because there’s virtually no load times. The HDD loads games up to 20 times faster than the same game from the disc. You’ll also notice that there is almost NO load time during the game, between levels and such.
If you have a Playstation3, then this PS3 ModChip is for you. The PS Jailbreak to game faster, but also protects your expensive game collection from scratches or damage that you would have during regular use.
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