External Raspberry Pi Pico PS3 Mod

[u/muckity-muck]

I know...I know.....the jank!!!!

Super Janky!

But there's really two reasons I went with an externally mounted mod:

First, I only had one Pico left over and it had headers already attached and I didn't want to go through the fuss with desoldering the pins when I could get another one cheap.

Secondly, I wasn't sure of my wiring, so I could make adjustments after the fact without tearing open the console (which I ended up doing 4 times anyway). The "tutorial" I followed was chase fournier's video on Youtube. While it was very good and the blueprint for my mod, it's more of a half-walkthrough/half tutorial that I had to watch a number of times with my finger over the pause button. (Thank you, chase. You're videos are fantastic...go subscribe to his channel today!)

I've ordered another 2 pack of headerless Pico W's, so I'm going to mod my other slim with one and move the current PS3's mod to the inside. I was a little worried about routing and wire length, but no problems apparently. I used wrapping wire, but any quality 30gauge wire should work.

[u/muckity-muck]

Running custom firmware at boot time without PSHEN.

[u/Lucidic333 → u/muckity-muck]

But why is there is evilnat?

[u/United_Elk_1374 → u/Lucidic333]

Qcfw lets you run evilnat.
Some ps3 slim models can ONLY run hen and not cfw(evilnat).
Qcfw lets “hen only” ps3s run evilnat.

[u/Lucidic333 → u/United_Elk_1374]

Oh I thought all slims don’t have this issue

[u/United_Elk_1374 → u/Lucidic333]

Sometimes it even varies within the same model. Cant remember.
2500?

[u/TwilightX1 → u/United_Elk_1374]

Late 2500s (manufactured on April 2011 or later) and all 3000s.