Copying PS3 games has become a hot topic online, and many people wonder how they can make copies and backups of their favorite games without the hassle of making bad copies. The only problem is, since PS3 games are blu-ray, this can be quite tricky. But luckily this tutorial will show you how to record them.
What do you need
To record a PS3 game, you will need some software and other equipment. This is what you need:
- a blu-ray burner (not cheap!)
- blank blu-ray discs
- your original PS3 game disc
- imgBurn software (from imgburn.com)
How to record PS3 games
To burn a PS3 game, you first need to get imgBurn on your PC. This is the software that will allow you to copy the blu-ray discs on which the PS3 games are recorded. You get it from imgburn.com; you just need to download the software, install it and then run it.
When you’ve installed the imgBurn software, just open it, put your original PS3 game on your blu-ray drive, and then click “Create Image From Disc.” Then choose where you want to save the image file and let imgBurn do its work. This will save the content of the game disc as an “image file” that we can burn later.
Once the software has saved the game image, you must reopen the main imgBurn screen and then select “Write image file to disk”. This will open a new screen, where you can select an image file that you want to burn to disc. At this point, you need to put your blank blu ray disc in the drive and then select the image file you just copied. Next, you need to select a 4X write speed (for maximum success) and then proceed to allow imgBurn to put the game data on your blank disk.
After about 40 minutes, the process should complete and you will have burned the PS3 to a disc.
How to play your copied games
Although burning the disc is the easy part, getting the console to play them is difficult. This is a problem that prevents many people from actually playing their copied games on their console, and it is fixed by making some adjustments on your PC and PS3. These do not void the warranty, but you must know how to do them correctly.