I think my PSX DVR is a refurb? Info inside...

Lmao

 

Hello
I recently received a 7100 with 2 bugs

1 - the psx good start few seconds after the XMB menu and freezes (DD HS ?? )

2- I am always on tv tuner (there is always snow) .avez you an idea ??

how do you do a hard reset on the psx ????

Thanks in advance

 

If it hangs at the XMB, then perhaps your HDD unit is failing.

You could change the channel to AV in. I don't remember if it will always show the channel that you were last viewing or if there is a setting for it.

If you're in-game, then you could just press the QUIT GAME button.
If you'r at the XMB or the QUIT GAME button does not work, switch off the electricity.

 

A filesystem check will not work because it doesn't use the same filesystems as on a PC. You would have to perform a surface scan.

Thanks, but there is no need to because I already have a PSX (and hence access to its files). Anyway, you can't just make an image of the HDD because its content is encrypted.
What I did for my PSX, was to copy out the files with the PSX itself. But no public tools will allow you to back up the DVR content (under dvr_hdd0).

 

a question: can we dump the firmware of the hard drive ??

if so how do ???

when you said that you recover the files.

freemcboot you use ??

 

requires an expensive tool, you also need to copy the hidden security sectors iirc

 

Not to mention that a dump of the SONY firmware would not be of much practical use. :/
It's probably going to be easier to either create a pass-through adaptor that emulates the SONY firmware's proprietary commands. Or to even just crack the DVRP's firmware.

I used Swapmagic, as FMCB used to not support the PSX. Nowadays, you have FMCB for the PSX.

 

I wonder if sony would sue me if I offered a cash reward to someone making such a device (if I had a spare $50K) haha