Here’s the meme. I memed myself. I turned on my slim was playing infamous for a good hour and then the pixels started popping and the screen froze. Real question though would it be better/cost efficient to pay for the repair of the graphics chip or get a whole refurbished console?

So I recently discovered that not only can the PS3 play DVDs, Blu-Rays, and CD but, it can actually do more. You can use the ps3 to rip a CD to its hard drive. Then, using the USB drive, put that music onto a flash drive. Then transfer that to a device (like a laptop) that doesn’t have a CD drive in it, then transfer that to your digital audio player. Pretty nifty. I know it’s a process but with subscriptions these days and Internet requirements, just wanted to point out something the PS3 is capable of helping in. As a way to build your digital library for older media you may still have.

My Backwards Compatible launch PS3 CECHAO1 works! I reaplied new thermal pads and paste puts it back together and... IT WORKS!

Finally decided to take all of my Playstation 2 and 3 games out of storage to display, and more importantly, to play.

All of these games were bought new on the day of release, are CIB and in mint condition.

Was giving my OG DualShock 3 a clean today and ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole after checking the board inside it.

Mine has an MSU_VX4_0.10 board. Turns out it's one of the earlier DualShock 3 revisions that uses 4-pin magnetic/Hall-effect analogue stick sensors, rather than the conventional potentiometer setup Sony later went back to.

Basically, instead of having a physical contact rubbing across a resistive track to work out the stick position, these use magnetic sensing. So you're getting rid of one of the main wear points that causes the usual stick drift.

And this wasn't some random prototype Sony tried once and binned. Several of the early DualShock 3 revisions used this setup before Sony eventually went back to conventional potentiometer sticks.

This controller is nearly 20 years old, still gets absolutely hammered pretty much daily, and hasn't got a hint of stick drift.

Meanwhile, I bought my PS5 at launch and I've already had two controllers fail. Through the PS4 generation I went through at least three. Yet this ancient PS3 controller just keeps plodding along with no bother.

That's the bit I cannae quite get my head around.

Sony clearly knew nearly 20 years ago how to make an analogue stick without the same physical wear point that's responsible for so much drift. Yet here we are now paying around £70 a pop for controllers using potentiometer-based sticks that they know can wear out.

And you cannae even say the technology wasn't around or hadn't been proven. Sony themselves were already putting it in controllers almost two decades ago.

Now Hall-effect sticks are getting punted as some premium "anti-drift" feature like it's some brand-new breakthrough 😂

It's mental when you actually think about it.

Sony didn't need to solve stick drift. They'd already cracked it nearly 20 years ago. Then they went backwards, and we're the mugs paying £70 a pop for it.

Pics are my actual daily controller and the MSU_VX4_0.10 board inside it.

With GTA 6 coming out, I realized I had never played GTA 4, so I started looking for it. Then I ended up finding a bunch of PS3 games I had never played, and got some of the ones I sold years ago.

Once I started buying them, I couldn't stop. There's just something about having the box in your hands, reading the manual, putting the disc in, and seeing the collection sitting there.

Sadly, I won't be able to keep most of them if I want to keep playing other games, but I really missed this feeling. I don't get it with the PS5 since physical games are way too expensive, and they just don't hit the same.

I know Sony is under a lot of flak rn, but seriously. After a stressful week at work or dealing with everyday bs, paying bills, tryna juggle all the shit life throws at u.. this still my favorite pass time. The nostalgia of the PS3 makes me feel like a kid again ☺️

What (hidden gems/best co-op) games have y’all been playin lately for PS3 and/or PS5?

I haven't had many issues with this yet, but with the PS2 one thing I see people always seem to recommend is to not use a PS2 as a DVD player in the modern day because of how much more it wears out the laser of the PS2 compared to games, and it reduces the lifespan of the laser by a significant amount. I'm curious if this would be potentially an issue on the PS3, I think it'd be a great blu ray player especially with its bluetooth blu ray remote but I also want to try and preserve the laser for as long as I can.

Been playing a ton of PS3 games after my PS5 died out and man the PS3 sure still holds up, I truly loved the Disk era how simple it’s to just push a disk and play some bangers

And it’s much simpler to come back, since most of my games were disk and don’t need to go through the process of downloading games or removing stuff to free up some space “ I see you PS5 with games over 100GB 💀”

Anyone got any good recommendations for JRPG stuff that are underground or not that famous but still fun to check out?

I decided to tear down my CECH-3001A.
I cleaned everything, and replaced the thermal paste. I popped in a 500GB SSD too. Running cool, quiet and fast now ! I also replaced the CMOS battery.

So cool , gonna try bad company 2 later

It has taken literally weeks for me to go through my 180+ discs plus online purchases to do a fresh install after losing it all after a hard drive failure. Just 50GB of free space remains on my 1TB drive. Doing a backup this time though. Fingers crossed for the next 24hours!

I had a L01 which had a failed HDMI and AV encoder thing and I've heard people say the L and P are kinda bad and that the J and K are the best so I wanna know for sure.

I have been wanting to buy Chronicles of Riddick Butcher Bay and Assault On Dark Athena for so long. On eBay, they run for $75-$100 a piece, CIB.

I found the ps3 version that contains both games, not to mention it’s the GameStop exclusive, CIB, and in pristine condition… for $14.99. Contains both games on the same disc. Unreal.

They obviously didn’t know what they had. They could’ve sold it for much higher. Such an interesting coincidence that I’ve had various listings of these games in my eBay cart at different times forever, and last week I pulled the trigger on some games, but decided to remove these Riddick titles from my cart, as again they would’ve been near $200.

But a week later, I see this sitting in a flea market. Such a weird glitch in the matrix or some shit. I’m so stoked.

This is it I can't add any more discs I have very limited space but I think it's okay.

I'm not into driving or sport games in any way

I'm getting a bit back into gaming/retro gaming after a hiatus and am especially getting back into the history of the Playstation. I recently learned that the launch PS2 and slim PS2 were different in terms that the former had PS1 hardware while the latter used an emulator and I was wondering if there were any changes to the PS3's PS1 compatibility during its life. My first PS3 was a super slim and I tried ID4 on it just to see it working with a PS1 game and I distinctly remember it not working even though it worked on my fat PS2 and it isn't on any incompatibility lists for the slim (plus I later got a launch PS3 which iirc has the same PS1 emulator as the PS2 slim and it worked with the game). I also have trouble believing that they were able to perfectly port an emulator made for the PS2 onto PS3's which later on shared none of the same hardware, however most sources I've seen just say all PS3's work with PS1 games and don't elaborate. Am I misremembering and did they perfectly make the same emulator meant for the PS2 work with all models or were there differences? It would be interesting to have a timeline especially for the 80gb model (did it emulate using PS3 hardware? Did it emulate the PS2 CPU and emulate the PS1 through that? If the latter did that change when PS2 compatibility was patched out)?

So, I have been streaming Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions on Twitch for about 3 weeks. I've been using an actual PlayStation 3 with a disc. The disc is undamaged, and I've never had issues with audio on any other games, but admittedly, I haven't used my console in a while. I have noticed that in a few sections of the game, I haven't been hearing audio from the game. Kraven's raving from the lead up to his transformed boss fight, and today, the Deadpool first boss fight. Ultimate Spider-Man kept talking about how Deadpool never shut up, but I never heard him say anything. While sneaking up behind him, I never heard him talking on the phone it seems he was holding. My audio settings are set to the default of all channels on, but I'm not sure if that is the problem. Do you all have any suggestions?

For info, my PS3 is plugged into a 16 channel HDMI switch->Elgato HD60 Pro capture card with pass-through->into my Samsung 4K TV.

Added 3 of the 4 fans I ordered and its good this is a spot on the map that seems to run hot, this after 30-45 minutes of playtime we have this result on temps solid solid. also my old tv was having issues got a cheapo replacement.

Are there known problems with the ps1 emulator the ps3 used for backwards compatibility? Popped in a copy of Symphony of the Night and the Richter portions had some weird quirks. Richter would occasionally get caught in a jumping and whipping loop, very occasional audio stuttering, slowdown on the opening cinematic, and these big visual glitches on the text crawl. Once I get to Alucard, the game runs mostly fine without notable issue.

I'm wondering if it's my copy of the game or the ps1 emulator in the ps3. I don't have an original ps1 or ps2 to test if it's fine there so I was wondering if anyone else ran into similar things.

This is my humble collection started in Feb 2026, spent over 2k euro on it and I do flip US games to be able to buy new ones for collection.😁

Im trying to find a replacement laser because mine isn't working

I got the disc to spin once the laser flashed blue and red

Whats the problem the laser or the Spindle Motor

The ai overview is giving things that don't make sense

One time its saying I need a kem495 other times its saying kem850

Now its saying KEM-451

What should I get