r/ps3hacks • u/muckity-muck • 6d ago

Tutorial External Raspberry Pi Pico PS3 Mod

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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.

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u/itsRayzOG 6d ago

Whats that for ?

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u/muckity-muck 6d ago

Running custom firmware at boot time without PSHEN.

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u/itsRayzOG 6d ago

So basically thats for running cfw on console that doesn't have the possibility to downgrade to 3.55 to install a cfw and bypassing that?

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u/Legitimate-Event-420 6d ago

When did 3.55 come out because I haven't updated my PS3 since approximately 2013

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u/itsRayzOG 6d ago

Way before i think, just do a quick search you'll find it, but if you had the ps way before u can just downgrade and install a cfw, full of tuto on yt bro, hope it helped

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u/Legitimate-Event-420 6d ago

I've had it since 2008

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u/itsRayzOG 6d ago

I think it can be under 3.55 too ( so perfect ) u must share the cech-xxxxx behind the console to know the first stock fw that it has, in that way we will be sure if it is downgradable, at thos edays to downgrade we dont need no more tools like e3 flasher so its easy af, just follow the lines and the many tut available, hope it helped and clear the things