Do i need an original disc to play off hard drive.

[masterwong]

Do i need an original disc in the drive to ply games off the hard drive with the jailbreak ?

[ThreeDog]

Yes you do.

[masterwong]

ok thanks.

[carapalida]

ok, so, this jailbreaker... as far as i have understood...

1. lets people dump the original disc, creating an image onto a hard drive?

2. the hard drive can either be the internal ps3 one or an external one connected to the ps3?

3. after the dump is on the drive, you are able to play it without having the disc in the ps3?

4. why cant the jailbreaker read/play the old dumps/isos found on the net? why does it only read dumps done by another jailbreaker? i thought an iso was an iso...

sorry, i a am a bit new into all this... i do read a lot around here and on the net but since i dont have anyone to talk about this sometimes i get some questions that go unanswered

i do aprreciate any help. thank you in advance.

[talax]

1. Not exactly, it doesn't create an image, it creates a folder on the hard drive that has ALL the files in the same directory structure that it was on the Bluray game disc. Backup Manager also decrypts on the fly the eboot.bin file (important!). It is NOT an ISO file.

2. yes

3. Yes, but you must have an original PS3 game disc of some sort in the drive.

4. See #1, the eboot.bin in the isos that were floating around were NOT decrypted, and thus they don't work. Since the backup manager is (currently) the only tool that decrypts eboot.bin, you cannot (currently) decrpyt the eboot.bin. I assume there will eventually be some homebrew that can "convert" these old isos, but until then, the isos are useless.