hey all
I am new to the ps3 scene as are most people here :-)
i have done lots of reading and have a question maybe someone can give me an answer
it seems some games have to install to internal because of file sizes and some can be installed to external (the 4gb thing)
I have read that multiman is the way to go and am wondering if when you start it if it searches the internal and the external or if you have to switch some setting to see the different drives???
does it give you an option for which drive to install to ????
LVL2 isn't needed for newer backup managers, but it is needed for the permission fix; and the permission fix is important.
You can use both the internal and external on the same system, with the games in the same list. Of course, most people don't own nearly enough games to fill a 750GB drive anyway...and the internal drive lets games load faster, so why bother with externals?
so do follow the guide in regards to the level 2 seems this has now disapeared from the guide
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In the package, there are two .PKG files. Place both into the root of your flash drive and head over to *Install Package Files. Install the lv2.pkg first and then the Rogero Manager. There is a slightly updated version of Rogero which integrates the lv2, which can be found here: Rogero 7.9c
When you run lv2 for the first time you should get a white screen that says "Success! Run the backup manager." It then prompts you to hit X and quit. Your screen will go black for a second and then the XMB should return. From there you can run Rogero.
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You can use both the internal and external on the same system, with the games in the same list. Of course, most people don't own nearly enough games to fill a 750GB drive anyway...and the internal drive lets games load faster, so why bother with externals? considering the size of ps3 games compared to wii games i would imagine that the internal even upgraded to at least a 500gig (biggest i could find with the 9.5mm factor) would only hold around 30-50 games
where as a 1tb drive on the wii will hold over 250-400 games (so i have read :-0)
the speed of loading is an important factor and something i have not heard of before
i figured it was the same
just trying to get it all straight in my head before i try anything
(screwed anyways i bought my ps3 at 3.56)
but still hoping for the future
all help is greatly appreciated and this site is the best
I initially had all my games on my internal, and it was full before I knew it.
I havent noticed that much difference in loading speed between internal and external. So If a game can be run on external, check www.psjcl.com , I will put it on my external drive, if it can only be run on internal put it on internal.
You have to remember half the games also require a mandatory install of data on the internal hdd. So say you put a 20gb backup on your internal, you end up having to use at least 24gb instead due to a 4gb install. So I've decided everything on external unless it has to be internal.
I am surprised you know only 9.5mm high hdds fit in the ps3, but this is true. all 500gb and even most 750gb hdd will fit in ps3s. It is only the 1tb hdds you will have to worry about as these require an extra platter which increases their hight to 12mm.
Just remember different managers save the game files in different folders if you decide to use more than one backup manager.
Originally posted by busabill: but you can only format a ext hdd to 30GB on fat 32 so that isnt that much
am i wright
no.... get fat32format.exe (google it); it can format any size hdd to fat32... any other fat32 format tool will also work, the format option in windows is limited (for big(ger) hdd's you only get the ntfs option)
AS dennisv9 says, you can download tools that will format drives up to 2tb in size under fat32.
Note although multiman supports ntfs, you can only play backed up games from a fat32 hdd. The ntfs support is only for movies and music etc on ntfs drives I think.
Originally posted by bigo93: AS dennisv9 says, you can download tools that will format drives up to 2tb in size under fat32.
Note although multiman supports ntfs, you can only play backed up games from a fat32 hdd. The ntfs support is only for movies and music etc on ntfs drives I think.
i haven't tried it yet, but there is ntfs read only support on multiman. so you should be able to play games of the ntfs partition, but you cannot write to it. so if you connect a usb drive to your ps3, and you connect via ftp and try to write files to the ntfs partition, it won't work because it is only read only. i don't see the problem in this, because you copy stuff over via your computer.
this also means that you cannot backup anything to the external ntfs drive via your ps3 (so you cannot rip bluray movies or games from your ps3 blu ray drive to your ntfs external hdd, since you are then trying to write to it.....)
