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This tutorial will cover how to perform this all from a flash drive, however if you wish to load your RAP activation files from your hard drive, you can do so by placing the RAP files in "/dev_hdd0/exdata/" on any version of PS3HEN 2.1.0 or higher. Unlike the previous HAN method of repacking and resigning these games to your specific console, this method requires no additional processing of your files! Version 2.0.2 of PS3HEN introduced this feature which allows you to painlessly activate any PKG games you have, assuming you have matching license files for them.
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This video aims to show you all how you can easily activate any PKG formatted games to install on your PS3 console using PS3HEN's on the fly activation features. Louay's Written Guide on Installing PKG from NTFS Drives:Īny links specifically listed as affiliate links give me a small monetary kickback at no extra cost to you and no influence on the content. This video has been made with Fair Use in mind and has been created as an educational piece of media. Lastly, you will still need a FAT32 formatted USB drive to do the initial installations of webMAN MOD and prepISO, after that any PKG files you wish to install can be copied to an exFAT or NTFS formatted USB drive. webMAN MOD and prepISO will be required in order for this to work, if you choose to follow along. This video will assume you already own a modified console and have at least a basic understanding of how to navigate it. This method of PKG installation requires you to have either a jailbroken PS3 console running custom firmware or a console modified with PS3HEN. However thanks to a write-up posted by PSX-Place user Louay, we now have a clear cut method of installing any PKG files from exFAT or NTFS USB drives! This does not require FTP transfers, nor does it require splitting up a PKG, just copy it to the correct folder and mount it! You typically have to take an extra step to format large drives to this, and this file system doesn't support any files larger than 4 GB in size.
A major limitation of installing PKG files from a USB device on the PS3 is being forced to stick to the FAT32 file system.