I have an old cfw rebug and 2 new ps3's on ofw. What websites and tutorials should I use to guide me? Looking to install latest evilnat, retroarch, and repaste. I think I used pax place a lot on the past. Just need some good references. Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,
I’m losing my mind here. I bought a modded PS3 and I'm trying to remove CFW/DEX to go back to OFW/HFW. I’ve watched and followed literally every single tutorial step-by-step 1:1, but absolutely nothing works.
My old USBs failed, so I bought a brand-new 8GB USB 2.0 stick specifically for this, but it still doesn't work.
What I've done (100% by the book):
USB: New 8GB USB 2.0 formatted to FAT32 / MBR via ⁠diskpart⁠.
Path: ⁠USB -> PS3 -> UPDATE -> PS3UPDAT.PUP⁠ (All uppercase, no double ⁠.PUP⁠).
Port: Rightmost USB port (closest to disc drive).
The Problems:
1. Recovery Mode Error: Option 6 searches for a long time and says: "No applicable update data was found. Connect storage media that contains update data of version 2.70 or later..."
2. Missing XMB Option: The "System Update" option is completely missing under Settings in the XMB (looks like a DEX/modified layout).
Questions:
1. Why is Recovery Mode ignoring the ⁠.PUP⁠ file despite MBR/FAT32? Is a DEX/Syscon version spoofer blocking it?
2. How do I get the "System Update" option back in XMB?
I’m completely stuck and out of ideas. Any help would be massively appreciated!

I recently bought a CRT and have been going about getting all sorts of things hooked up to it and I figured my old PS3 would be the best way to run old TV shows/anime/movies into it but I've been having a really hard time finding something that just works with the large collection of MKVs I have which are encoded/embedded in more ways than I know. I've been wanting to try out Jellyfin so the first thing I tried was Jellyfin PS3. What I think was the original branch had a lot of display and freezing issues but it could technically display subtitles but doing so would disjoint the playback and make it unwatchable. The fork I linked presents itself perfectly and all of the different video files I tried playing through it work great, but I just can't get subtitles to work at all. I've tried extracting the subtitles to have them sit alongside the video files as well as downloading new basic .srt files but no go on either. Since that seemed like a niche way to stream video I tried Movian because that seems like a more common solution. I first tried a Jellyfin for Movian plugin but it had the same issue with displaying subtitles. After that I installed Universal Media Server and while it can play subtitles a lot of the videos I try and play (mostly anime) can take upwards of 5-10 minutes of buffering before the file begins playing and once it does the media player lacks a seek bar. Does anyone had better success with these that may have an idea if my problems are solvable? Either that or a suggestion for a different way to go about it.

Posting just to inquire whether or not this is normal, just got my ps3 a few days ago. I started loading up ISOs and testing them, using managunz usually but webman also. Not all but many were freezing after about 10 mins, could not quit and had to pull the power. I thought maybe it was an issue with the ISO so I went to my local retro shop and picked up two of the titles I was having problems with. One worked fine, the other froze after about 15 mins, but this time I could quit.

Is this normal? If not is this possibly a hardware issue?

Fwiw some of the ps3 isos i loaded up were also locking up