Has anyone worked out why certain games cannot boot?

[OnePlayer]

Hmmm read the title... lol

[Anony]

Lol I would like to know more about this to.

[OnePlayer]

I cant be the only one pissed off about it lol i really want to have cod on my ps3 so i wont "ruin" my laser + modding

[szlifier]

I think it's great that COD games are not working. With PSN access there would be modded lobbies, 10th or whatever you kids like. Those things ruined MW2 on 360 forever. Same thing will happen to Black Ops. That's very sad. Cheaters and modders online is the last thing PS3 scene wants to see.

[OnePlayer]

I think it's great that COD games are not working. With PSN access there would be modded lobbies, 10th or whatever you kids like. Those things ruined MW2 on 360 forever. Same thing will happen to Black Ops. That's very sad. Cheaters and modders online is the last thing PS3 scene wants to see.

I aint no kid lol and i dont want it for boosting i agree i hate people who ruined the lobbies and stuff. I enjoyed the actual proper modding of MW2. New features and such.

[DJLO]

I have a suspicion that these non working games have the eboot.bin hardcoded to look for or boot the game off the bluray but we can't test this theory until some works out how to decode the eboot

[talmagal]

I have a suspicion that these non working games have the eboot.bin hardcoded to look for or boot the game off the bluray but we can't test this theory until some works out how to decode the eboot

bingo you hit the nail on the head

each games eboot.bin runs differnetly
like for gow collection the eboot.bin run the gow1.self or gow2.self which runs the psarcs

for the megadrive collection it reads a lot of things off disc which is why a lot of things dont run

take fear 2 for example it will run fine off backup if the disc is in while running on the backup

a few other reasons might be becuase the game system is in jb mode and sony signed packages do not like to be installed while in jb mode. which is why all game updates if working have to be installed while in non jb mode.

plus for other games the updates fixed it so it doesnt read a much from disc or reads better. like grid it wont work from backup before u install the update but if you install the update boom no more disc error.

soome games i just have no clue myself but most like to read from the disc even though its running from a backup

and on another note if someone can find where the ps3 activation is held we could have working psx psn games agn. or if someone can make an eboot.bin that can activate the psx emulation cuase the iso.bin.edat just tells the ps3 to look at user 0000000X and check the psn account and if system is activated. once we find a way to activate the system and use the eboot.bin it will be easy to make packages which can install and help the ps3 play ps1 games

and we cant decode the eboot.bin its sony signed and the sdk wont touch anything sony signed. so there is not converting the eboot.bin back to elf files

althought the sdk will touch sony signed edat files but wont package them.

[Lakerfanalways]

Whatever is causing these issues to happen I hope someone is able to figure it out and able to fix it. EyePet, F1:2010 and Racquet Sports are three games that I would LOVE to play from the backup manager if I were able to

[doggiestew]

I aint no kid lol and i dont want it for boosting i agree i hate people who ruined the lobbies and stuff. I enjoyed the actual proper modding of MW2. New features and such.

I also can't stand the boosters, etc. but would LOVE to have custom maps like for say COD WaW Nazi Zombies. I have been looking into how to make custom PC maps work on the PS3, and it would be no simple task. I think without being able to modify .edat files, this may never happen.
Can anyone shed a little light on this?

[namdlo]

With the new option of not requiring a PS3 game in the drive has anyone tried copying the "non-working" games to a blu-ray, starting the game from the backup manager and seeing if the game will work?

If it does then look at removing files to see which ones each game needs... possibly then copying those file to a dvd and trying again.

If this has been tried then sorry I didn't see a post about it.