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Post: Method to Run Games with 4GB+ Files from External HDD
09-27-2010, 12:12 AM #1
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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); According to inf1, a member on You must login or register to view this content., has found a solution to running games that have files larger than 4GB from an external Hard Drive. Due to FAT32 limitations users needed to run these games from internal hard drive only. However, it seems that isn’t the only option anymore. Many games utilize a file format known as PSARC (*.psarc) These files ending in .psarc are archive files similar to zip or rar files on PC. By extracting these large archive files and using the smaller files that are inside, users can get stay under the 4GB limit. This method has been tested on Uncharted II, and will only work on games utilizing the psarc file format.

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1) download PSARC.zip (linked above)
2) Extract zlib.net.dll and PSARC.exe to any folder.
3) Find any files more than 4Gb for example \PS3_GAME\USRDIR\build\main\pak22.psarc (5 596 444 529 byte)
4) Copy pak22.psarc into zlib.net.dll and PSARC.exe directory.
5) Extract pak22.psarc (just drag-n-drop pak22.psarc to PSARC.exe)
6) Now copy pak22 folder with extracted files to gamefolder \PS3_GAME\USRDIR\build\main\
7) Now you can delete pak22.psarc.
Cool Man (aka Tustin) copy PS3_GAME folder with game to your external fat32 usb hdd GAMEZ\Uncharted2\
9) use backup manager to load game, should work fine.





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09-27-2010, 12:15 AM #2
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1 Min slow on on posting .Looks good for games that are over 4GB's. Mirror below if you dont want to sign up.

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09-27-2010, 12:23 AM #3
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Originally posted by MCEvan View Post
1 Min slow on on posting .Looks good for games that are over 4GB's. Mirror below if you dont want to sign up.

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1 min slow on the posting?? also i added your mirror to my first post Cool Man (aka Tustin)
09-27-2010, 12:42 AM #4
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Originally posted by ryan
1 min slow on the posting?? also i added your mirror to my first post Cool Man (aka Tustin)


I was just about to post this but I saw you did, dont really care just matters that its here lol.
09-27-2010, 12:45 AM #5
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Originally posted by MCEvan View Post
I was just about to post this but I saw you did, dont really care just matters that its here lol.


ohh ok, maybe next you will beat me lol :bro:
09-27-2010, 02:21 AM #6
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This will be extremely useful when I get my external HDD as my internal is just 11GB from being full.
09-27-2010, 09:46 PM #7
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Hopefully there is a format that the PS3 will read. Kind of how the Wii reads WBFS Format, maybe someone could write a program so that the PS3 can too? Who knows?

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