Tgames Actualité Consoles et Homebrew

You will need:

* EXT GAME DATA LOADER by JAY-JAY (Download
* multiMAN (latest version)
* gameDATA.pkg (click here)
* know how to use multiMAN's file manager or using FTP to transfer a folder.
* more than one external HDD--if you have only one external HDD--they you don't need to bother using this--unless you tend to use a USB stick every now and then to install small files to your PS3.



Installation Instructions:

1. Download the RAR file below called: EXT_GAME_DATA_LOADER_BY_JAY-JAY.
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2. Extract the RAR file until you have a folder named: EXT_GAME_DATA_LOADER_BY_JAY-JAY
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3. Inside that folder get and copy the folder called: 000_EGDL00001-(EXTERNAL GAME DATA LOADER) to your external HDD's GAMES or GAMEZ folder (using either multiMAN's File Manager or FTP)
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* If you have more than one external HDD and you plan on installing PSN Games and etc (like those that are enjoying the DUPLEX releases) than copy this folder to your other external HDDs.
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4. Copy the game cover named: EGDL00001.JPG to multiMAN's game covers directory: /dev_hdd0/game/BLES80608/USRDIR/covers/ -- you will find this game cover image inside: EXT_GAME_DATA_LOADER_BY_JAY-JAY folder.
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5. copy gameDATA.pkg to any external HDD or USB stick (Don't install yet, please continue with the instructions below until I instruct you to).
* Note 1: you will only use this tool in order to exit EXT GAME DATA LOADER mode, so you can go back to multiMAN and load other games and etc. You will not have to use this tool to turn on EXT GAME DATA Mode--since this tool only points to whatever external HDD is listed as your USB 000 or USB 001 HDD.
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* Note 2: If you don't install this tool, then you will have to restart your PS3 in order to exit this mode.
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6. Now launch multiMAN. And do a rescan (REFRESH LIST) for your game list so it reads your external HDDs for the new game title called: EXT GAME DATA LOADER.
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7. If you installed more than once this game title to your multiple external HDDs than you will have more than one. This is normal.
* What I did after this, was I renamed the game title (using multiMAN's RENAME feature) so it would say which USB HDD it would apply to.
o For example: I have three external HDDs and I copied this folder to each of their GAMES directory. So I then renamed each game title in multiman as:
+ 001 EXT GAME DATA LOADER (USB 01)
+ 002 EXT GAME DATA LOADER (USB 02)
+ 003 EXT GAME DATA LOADER (USB 03)
--by default the game title is called: 002 EXT GAME DATA LOADER (USB 02) -- you must rename these so you can understand which external HDDs you want to load using the EXT GAME DATA mode to.
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8. Now after you renamed them, proceed in going into the game menu of multiMAN for each game title you have installed on your external HDDs. Then make sure to check (enable) the EXT GAME DATA feature for each one. Once you do this, simple press O to return to the game directory in multiMAN and then just launch the title--like you do when you launch a game in multiMAN.
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9. Once you return to the XMB (you should be in EXT GAME DATA mode (you will know this is true because all your game XMB icons will be grayed out (like ghost images--and they won't launch). Don't panic! This is normal.
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10. Now go ahead and install gameDATA.pkg--You will need to do this installation to each external HDD you have connected to your PS3--meaning that you will need to go into multiMAN and launch each different EXT GAME DATA title that is associated with each external HDD in order to install it on that drive.
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11. Now after installing the pkg, just ignore it for now and go ahead and either install a PSN game to that external HDD or play a PSN game (or any other homebrew that can be installed in the XMB).
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12. Once you are done playing that game, then find the Game DATA Mode icon (the one that you just installed) and launch it twice from the XMB and your PS3 will be back to normal mode. -- you must run this tool once or twice--you will know when you are back to normal XMB mode when you see multiMan's icon in your game XMB menu back to normal.


Memo:

* To devs: Hopefully a dev will make this easier for us.
* To super-noobs: Please don't panic when you are in USB mode and you see all your xmb icons look like "ghost" images. This is NORMAL when you are in USB mode. Only those PSN games or homebrew apps that you have installed to that particular External HDD will show their icons as normal. SO PLEASE DON'T PANIC.
* To everyone: Do not try to run the "dummy" game on the XMB called ***EXT GAME DATA LOADER (USB***)--that will not load. OK.

This an explanation on what you will see on the video.
**Please note that I have already installed the game folder to my external HDD, plus added the GAME Cover to multiMAN's game cover folder. And I have already ran the "Quick Scan" in multiMAN to fetch my latest installations in my GAMES and GAMEZ folders.

1. First you'll see that I have my XMB Game icons order "by Album" view--I prefer this method because I don't like seeing the ghost icons for the PSN games I have installed on my external. In case you want to know the Library folders are set as:
* A1 (Most Useful)
* Emulators (Retro Games)
* FAVES PSN GAMES (Internal HDD) -- these are the ones that are on my internal HDD.
* Loaders -- here is where I keep the Game DATA Mode [HDD] icon that is installed by the gameDATA.pkg
* PSN GAMES (External HDD)
* TOOLS
* Unknown -- each time you install a pkg they are put here, it is your job to later move them to the above folders where they apply.
2. Now I quickly take yo to see the PSN GAMES (External HDD) folder so you can see that all game icons are in ghost mode--because though these games are installed in my PS3 system, they are in my external HDD and my PS3 can't find these folders until I run the EXT GAME DATA LOADER in multiMAN. -- now you know why I like grouping them here, so they can't clutter my PS3 in Internal HDD mode.
3. Now I load multiMAN.
4. I then highlight the EXT GAME DATA LOADER game cover in multiMAN (I've already installed this folder and put the game cover on my External HDD--so this is what you'll see when you install it--currently I am just showing that one external HDD has this game icon--I didn't want to confuse you if you saw more than one, but I do plan to install two more of them for each other external HDD so I can also install and load PSN games from them also.
5. Since I am in 4x8 game view in multiMAN. I press the SQUARE button to enter the GAME MENU for the game highlighted.
6. Once in GAME MENU, I then show you that I have enabled the feature called: EXT GAME DATA in multiMan for this particular "dummy" game. (I call it a dummy game, because it's not a real game, I just fooled multiMAN into thinking it is so I can go to the next step.
7. I now exit the GAME MENU by press the CIRCLE button.
8. I then launch (press X) the dummy game: EXT GAME DATA LOADER (with the EXT GAME DATA enabled)--you only have to enable it once, multiMAN will remember your settings the next time you decide to launch it.
9. Now I am returned to the PS3 Game XMB Menu, notice that I don't scroll up to launch the dummy game--please don't! It's not a real game. OK!
10. Instead I scroll down and (notice that now the other folders have ghost icons--that means I am in EXTERNAL GAME MODE.)
11. I then open the folder: PSN GAMES (External HDD Only). Now all the icons that used to have "ghostly" icons are now shown correctly and I can launch any of these games sitting on my external HDD. (In this mode, you can also install PKGs and they will be installed on your external HDD.)
12. I launch a game, just to show you that it works.
13. I exit the game.
14. I then go to the folder: LOADERS and run the GAME DATA MODE [HDD] icon so I can return my PS3 back to Internal HDD mode (sometimes you have to do this twice--or until you see that multiMAN's icon is back to normal--in this video I only had to do this once as you can see.)
15. I quick show you again the PSN GAMES (External HDD), so you can see that they now go back to the "ghost" icon look--which is normal, since now I am in Internal HDD mode.
16. Have fun!
from Jay-Jay @ psx-scene.com