First, let's make clear that there's no one size fits all guide, this is most likely not the way to get the maximum amount of features (that would be a non-lite Rebug), it's probably not the most efficient way, it's not 100% compatibility (no single method is), it does not cover PSN packages - however it's decently polished, reasonably detailed, and I've actually tested it

I also have a CECH-C (phat, nand, with PS2 CPU) console and assume you want to install stuff to the internal hard drive.
I also assume your console is downgradable to 3.55 and fully stock (although you will be reminded of being sure of such during the related steps)

now i have installed the ferrox 4.82, is it obligatory to do the last steps ? ( installa habbib QA run it and install Rex Cobra 7.5 )? what do you recommend me? also many thanks, does it need to be installed by usb or via package manager?

No, in fact what I personally did is:

Exploit/CFW

1. Update to 4.82 if you haven't already
2. Follow the instructions for software "downgrading" until your console triple-beeps and powers off, meaning the exploit should have done its job. I personally used a TDK 8GB, formatted to FAT32 with 4 kB blocks, and set the actual exploit webpage (with the pinkish background) as homepage then rebooted before running the exploit.
   [Note: the above description and link applies to PS3XPLOIT V1. You are free to use V1 or V2, both available from the same page, at your free choice.]
3. Remove USB, Turn the PS3 back on and let it do the filesystem check...
4. Download Ferrox 4.82 Cobra and put it on USB, renamed to /PS3/UPDATE/PS3UPDAT.PUP (this is the standard path for OFW or CFW installers).
5. Insert stick in console again, update from system settings > removable media.
   If it fails to be detected try recovery mode (with the power off, hold the power button until you hear three total beeps and the console is off again, release for 2 seconds, start holding again until it beeps twice in a row = 4 beeps since you released and re-held the button).
   Follow the instructions.

Optional: Install a link to the Cybermodding appstore website

1. Game > ★ Package installer > System storage > Ferrox mod installer
2. Game > Ferrox mod installer > homebrew store > install
3. Network > cybermodding homebrew store (replaces the link to the PS3 manual).

You navigate it like a website (R3 zooms, right stick scrolls, arrows or analog move pointer, X clicks, L1 back, R1 forward in history...)

If you want to practice, you can download Webman directy on your console instead of performing the next step on your PC: backup managers > webman mod 1.47.06 (the first one as of today) > point to USB drive, don't press X on it, press start to download

Alternatively you can just browse to http://homebrewstore.altervista.org/ on PC or console.

Webman installation

1. Get Webman_mod_1.47.06_Updater.pkg and copy it to the root of the USB drive
2. Also get the PSP launcher if you want to run said console's ISOs; only the "PSP_remaster_launcher_fixed.pkg" is required
3. Game > ★ Package installer > Install package files > Standard > all the stuff we downloaded in the previous steps
4. Game > webman updater mod etc etc. Hold L1 as you start it, until you're back to the XMB. You can now uninstall Webman Updater (triangle > delete).

"Installing" software (ISO/folder)
While Webman is running, you can connect to your console via FTP without any further settings (press Select+Start while the XMB is visible to check the IP address), create appropriate subfolders of dev_hdd0, them being: BDISO-DVDISO (for decrypted movies), PSXISO-PS2ISO-PS3ISO-PSPISO (for games of those consoles), GAMES (for extracted, folder-style PS3 games), and upload games in supported formats to said folders.

Alternatively, you can download and install Irisman File Manager if you want an on-console file manager. It is straightforward to use and supports NTFS out of the box, including the "Mount and exit to XMB" feature to install nonsplit .pkg with the XMB's package manager without double copying.
However it has a bug: after use, you should always go back to the root and unmount the NTFS drive, else the file manager won't launch again without that drive connected (unless you FTP in and delete the settings)

Installing software (PKG)

1. Deliver the .pkg to your console. This can be done in many ways, some of which are:
   • FTP: copy the file to /dev_hdd0/packages/
   • FAT32 flash drive: Only for packages that fit. Simply put them on the root, or a "packages" subfolder of the root, of said external disk.
   • NTFS hard drive (bubble method): Browse to the packages in IRISMAN's file manager and click on them.
   • NTFS hard drive (remount method): Browse to the packages in IRISMAN's file manager, press circle on one of them, select "mount and exit to XMB", go immediately to next step.
2. Go to Game > ★ Package Manager > ...
   • FTP: ... > Install Package Files > PS3 System Storage > your package
   • FAT32 flash drive: ... > Install Package Files > Standard or Package Directory > your package
   • NTFS hard drive (bubble method): ... > Playstation Network Content > your package
   • NTFS hard drive (remount method): ... > Install Package Files > Standard > your package
3. Your package is now installed. You can find the applications in the appropriate main menu (Game, unless it's a video-related application, etc)
4. You can delete the files you used in the previous steps.
5. You may need to install licenses for non-DRM-free packages. The most common way is by installing the ReactPSN homebrew (yep, another package), copying the licenses (RAP, RIF, EDAT) to an "exdata" folder of a FAT32 hard drive, creating or renaming a second PS3 user called "aa", then running ReactPSN while holding L1 until it returns to the XMB.

Running games

1. Game > Webman Games > pick your poison, you should get a notification saying the game was mounted. Alternatively you can go to Game > Webman Games > Webman Setup > PS3 Webman Games for a grid view in the web browser
2. For PSP games, now go to Game [> Webman Games > PSP] > PSP Launcher, then select with or without local multiplayer tunneling (adhocparty)
3. For PS1/PS2, now go to Game > Playstation[2] Format Disc.

Tips

• The Webman settings, however daunting at first, have useful features such as fan control and a list of button combos: watch what you click but don't hesitate to look at them!
• By default the fan will have a very high minimum in PS2 mode (even before said games are started), don't panic!
• Similiarly, the power LED going yellow when entering or leaving an application is not a sign of disaster.
• You can control Webman via any modern browser: just connect to your PS3's ip address.
• "Cobra" firmwares, compared to normal ones, have integration (but not necessarily the required software built-in) for FTP, ISO loading, etc -- the name comes from Cobra, who is a company that made PS* modding tools including an ODE and in particular a dongle-based CFW, "Cobra USB v6".

 

[Reaga]

Can anyone explain a way to convert PCSX2 memory cards to PS3 virtual memory cards?

 

[joe7dust]

How do I play psn game? I have a bunch of them in pkg form from "PSX-PS3.PSN.Collection" and all give 80029537 error when I try to run them from the default spot they go to. Do I need to get a psn launcher or something? I have a couple psp launchers I got from the Homebrew store that say I need to renew the license in ps store ( no Sony account atm). I'm on ferrox cobra 4.82.

edit: I ended up fixing it by installing rebug 4.81.2 on top of 4.82 ferrox on top of overflow dualbot cfw 4.82. I'm not sure if the overflow is still even here or how i activate that when i want a more 'vanilla' looking system for playing my legit games online though...

 

[Reaga]

Question: I've noticed when selecting a game from Webman that it loads it into the Disc slot of the XMB. I've done this both with a PS2 ISO and with a PS3 game (full foldered setup with icon and xmb animation).

Can you use Multiman/Webman games while a disc is in the physical slot? It's not a giant deal of course to remove a game I'm not about to play to make room for one I am, just wondering if I will have to dismount to continue my KH2 Lv1 run.

 

[kumikochan]

Question: I've noticed when selecting a game from Webman that it loads it into the Disc slot of the XMB. I've done this both with a PS2 ISO and with a PS3 game (full foldered setup with icon and xmb animation).

Can you use Multiman/Webman games while a disc is in the physical slot? It's not a giant deal of course to remove a game I'm not about to play to make room for one I am, just wondering if I will have to dismount to continue my KH2 Lv1 run.

Yeah you can

 

[Reaga]

Yeah you can

Ok. So does it just show them both then?

 

[spotanjo3]

I dont need it since mine is already jailbreak more than 6 years ago with REBUG! Anyway.. My friend have a PS3 SLIM CECH-2101A 120GB and is on 4.82. Can he jailbreak his PS3 ? I want to help him out.

 

[Reaga]

I dont need it since mine is already jailbreak more than 6 years ago with REBUG! Anyway.. My friend have a PS3 SLIM CECH-2101A 120GB and is on 4.82. Can he jailbreak his PS3 ? I want to help him out.

It should. Any slim should work (2k or lower of course) if its min version is 3.55 or less.

 

[spotanjo3]

It should. Any slim should work (2k or lower of course) if its min version is 3.55 or less.

Are you sure ? I dont know if his was previously 3.55 but it is CECH-2101A 120GB. So no difference and it will enable the CFW with REBUG for him?

 

[kumikochan]

Ok. So does it just show them both then?

No when you unmount the iso it will show the disc again.

 

[THYPLEX]

If i have a ps3 slim with FERROX Cobra , i can pick a ps2 iso and play it with webman or it's not compatible except the Phat One ?

 

[Reaga]

Are you sure ? I dont know if his was previously 3.55 but it is CECH-2101A 120GB. So no difference and it will enable the CFW with REBUG for him?

According to the site, all Slims 21xx are supported. In fact it was just 25xx that required a check for minimum version. So yeah, you could easily hack it.

No when you unmount the iso it will show the disc again.

Ok, so I do have to unmount. Just checking, thank you.

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If i have a ps3 slim with FERROX Cobra , i can put a ps2 uso and play It with webman or it's not compatible except the Phat One ?

I have put a .hack infection ISO on my slim. I only went to the title screen, but it did get that far. It will show as a PS2 Formatted Disc, so you won't have the box art like you do an official PS2 re-release. But it will work.

 

[joe7dust]

How exactly does webman handle dlc/updates? I was surprised it let me jump right in on games that usually force you to update. I want to put all the dlc and updates I do get on my PC however because I'm tight on space.

Assuming it is possible to put all that data on my PC and not the ps3, is there a process for moving existing update/dlc data off my PS3 to PC? For example I have destiny 1 and gta v which have around 20gig in downloads installed to my ps3's internal HDD. (I did all that before setting up webman)

Since I plan on selling the original discs, I might as well just move everything now if I can. Just wondering if I will have to do a clean install of those games to make them fully webman'd.

 

[kumikochan]

How exactly does webman handle dlc/updates? I was surprised it let me jump right in on games that usually force you to update. I want to put all the dlc and updates I do get on my PC however because I'm tight on space.

Assuming it is possible to put all that data on my PC and not the ps3, is there a process for moving existing update/dlc data off my PS3 to PC? For example I have destiny 1 and gta v which have around 20gig in downloads installed to my ps3's internal HDD. (I did all that before setting up webman)

Since I plan on selling the original discs, I might as well just move everything now if I can. Just wondering if I will have to do a clean install of those games to make them fully webman'd.

webman is the same as multiman and so forth. It works the same way and DLC is just installed via PKG.

 

[joe7dust]

webman is the same as multiman and so forth. It works the same way and DLC is just installed via PKG.

I don't know how it works on those either. A lot of games usually require you to download updates the first time you run them. For example this amounted to gta v needing 8.5 more gb of space. I guess I need to do some testing and see where all this stuff is going.

Edit: Well poop.... Looks like dlc pkg get put on internal HDD by default. Any way to change this?

 

[Frostbite189]

i have a ps3 game folder (not iso) and i want to play it from external hdd.

Can you guide how to do it????

i have seen a video , but he first transfer the ps3 game folder to the internal hdd, then copy it as iso then transfer that iso to his external hdd.

It takes sooooooo long to do this and at the end multiman does not recognize my iso

 

[Reaga]

i have a ps3 game folder (not iso) and i want to play it from external hdd.

Can you guide how to do it????

i have seen a video , but he first transfer the ps3 game folder to the internal hdd, then copy it as iso then transfer that iso to his external hdd.

It takes sooooooo long to do this and at the end multiman does not recognize my iso

I got Multiman to recognize Nier from the game folder. In fact, you were the one who told me how to do it and it worked.

 

[Frostbite189]

I got Multiman to recognize Nier from the game folder. In fact, you were the one who told me how to do it and it worked.

yes but i´d like to play from external hdd, not internal

 

[kumikochan]

I don't know how it works on those either. A lot of games usually require you to download updates the first time you run them. For example this amounted to gta v needing 8.5 more gb of space. I guess I need to do some testing and see where all this stuff is going.

Edit: Well poop.... Looks like dlc pkg get put on internal HDD by default. Any way to change this?

No installed stuff is always internal. Game data, saves, dlc and so on. Game updates can be done in the game itself. It is safe to do it that way. You don't need to do it via a backup manager

 

[joe7dust]

It is a shame that webman doesn't let you store some of that stuff elsewhere. I've only ever streamed Persona 5 from my pc yet it is taking up 10gb in data and dlc on my small ps3 internal HDD.

 

[THYPLEX]

According to the site, all Slims 21xx are supported. In fact it was just 25xx that required a check for minimum version. So yeah, you could easily hack it.


Ok, so I do have to unmount. Just checking, thank you.

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I have put a .hack infection ISO on my slim. I only went to the title screen, but it did get that far. It will show as a PS2 Formatted Disc, so you won't have the box art like you do an official PS2 re-release. But it will work.

There's need to a guide to do it?