My Apologies....

[tezzad]

..To everyone.
Firstly, if this question has been posted before, I apologise. (I couldn't find it on a search)
Secondly, I'll apologise for what MAY be the single most stupid question ever asked on these forums.

Anyways here goes:
We all know that the PS3 itself and indeed backup managers have no problem istalling homebrew pkg's/playing backed up games from an external storage device, without the need to have them on the PS3's own Harddrive.

BUT would it be possible to fool the PS3 into thinking your PC was just an ordinary external storage device? For example having your PC connected to the PS3 via USB but in the backround have a program/hack/mod/exploit running that emulates the PC's internal harddrive into an external one? (if that makes sense)

Basically I was thinking along the lines of how Daemon Tools (and other such programs) can create virtual drives for mounting ISO's etc.
Could the same not be done to create a 'virtual external storage device' instead of a 'physical drive' that could then be read by the PS3 as a 'mass storage device'/'external storage device' ???

Again I'll apologise to anyone who may have had their brain melted by reading this post, but I just thought I'd throw it out there!!!

[Xeauron]

There was such a program for PSP, whereby you could run your games off your PC HDD via USB cable (search USBhostFS). Though there isn't anything for PS3 which will do this as far as I know, nor is there anything planned ether (as far as I know).

There was even a NetHostFS which allowed you to stream games from PC wirelessly, but I never used it so I wouldn't know about it really.

[Mark Webber]

It works from Pc to PSP because the PC is a host and the PSP is a slave.
Saying that, if you connect up 2 hosts directly, PC & PS3, you will get nowhere.

[Xeauron]

It works from Pc to PSP because the PC is a host and the PSP is a slave.
Saying that, if you connect up 2 hosts directly, PC & PS3, you will get nowhere.

Good point, I knew there was a reason. This harks back to the time when everyone was asking for a program on the PC to jailbreak your PS3, which couldn't be done as the PS3 is a host device and not a slave.

[CODYQX4]

Probably easier to get the PS3 to mount the PC as a network drive. It can already access media servers.

Probably if we could mod the games to run off hdd (like we were doing before 3.55 peek-poke), and get the ps3 to execute them off that drive and it work (doubt it would work out of the box or be easy).

[Mark Webber]

Then you have the problem of playing accross a network. Speed would be shocking, stuttering would be terrible at best etc etc.

[CODYQX4]

Then you have the problem of playing accross a network. Speed would be shocking, stuttering would be terrible at best etc etc.

Yeah I personally don't think a 30+GB game would play very well but it would be over LAN and maybe Gigabit connection would be OK. Probably would be best in that case to cache the game as DL'd then delete cache when done so things aren't DL'd constantly.