there is nothing new from the closed beta, its exactly the same the only diffrence being there is afew new trailers and you now have to pay for the extra clothes/club house etc where as it was free in the closed beta

i was disconnected while setting up my character now i can't get back in
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She is like a fine, well-aged prostitute... it takes years to learn her tricks.
She is cruel, laughs at you when you are naked, but you keep coming back for more, and more!
Why? Because she is the only prostitute I can afford.

YEah tried a few times yesterday to no avail.

thought about buying a game yesterday, almost bought lbp or Fallout 3 but then decided that I am still enjoying Wipeout HD too much to justify buying something else. Has anyone else put a decent effort into WHD?

since i got it two days ago i haven't played anything else. i'm up to 5th campaign on novice so far
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She is like a fine, well-aged prostitute... it takes years to learn her tricks.
She is cruel, laughs at you when you are naked, but you keep coming back for more, and more!
Why? Because she is the only prostitute I can afford.

well maybe we should be hooksing up for some races

Just have to chip in that this new ps3 home thing looks like uber fagatron

http://users.tpg.com.au/dmoulds/lol.jpg

I had quite the crowd of admirers.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called Religion.

lol second life mkII.. just needs the furries now

bagginator???

^ Yeah i was just wondering out loud. I just remember some problem i had with the first hard drive i had (for pc) that was larger then 120 gig, windows would only recognise up to about 128gig. (must have been a windows problem?). I have seen those 160 gig ps3's for sale for $1000 (around may this year). I got my 40gig ps3 from a Ebay retailer for $600 with GTA4 (again, in may this year). I thought to charge $1000 for a modded ps3 was ok until a found out the only mod was to swap hdd's and no extra chip installed or anything.

I just got a 160gb 2.5" sata drive for my ps3, gonna try and install it tonight or on the weekend. Will let ya's know how it goes...

BTW PS3 owners, you can go all the way up to 500GB now if you use the right drive - Eg the Samsung SpinPoint HM500LI, which I've installed in mine. The console recognised it with no problems and it works a treat.

The main requirement is that it has to be a 2.5" SATA drive. 5400rpm is recommended as that is the speed of the original Seagate drive, and generates less heat than a 7200rpm drive. The good thing for us is that these are really cheap now.

Tip for you Seab4ss: When you change your drive tonight, be VERY VERY VERY careful with the 4 screws holding the drive in the caddy. I cannot stress enough how important it is for you to use the perfect size screwdriver so that you don't wear away (strip) the screw heads. So many people (myself included) have had trouble with these.
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You've always had issues with screwing things AA....
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Nice sig, you have some mad photoshop skills.

And mad file-hosting skills as well, I notice.

I have a set of tiny phillips head screw drivers, is that all i need? I have a feeling i have seen star shapped screws on the system somewhere.

lol Bash

Cheers, i'll print that out b4 i leave work.

EDIT: Damn, physically it was easy to install. But now when i turn it on it says i need to insert mdeia with firmware 2.53 or higher. I have a external hdd that i use with my ps3 all the time for videos, so i downloaded the latest update 2.60 and put it on the hdd under PS3/UPDATE/PS3UPDAT.PUP and plug it into the unit. The ps3 says to press select + PS button to search for firmware, i do that and it just reboots into an endless cycle. I have found heaps of forum threads with the same prob but they all got resolved. So i tried burning the update to a cd r, still no go. I guess i will try a dvd-r and see how that goes, i dont hold high hopes though.

I have followed the instructions and it just keeps looping when i try to install the firmware update. I understand that the firmware is too large for the memory so it install some on the hdd, but its as if its not even really searching for it

I have followed guides such as these:

http://www.driverheaven.net/hardware-discussion-support/163176-new-hard-drive-playstation-3-but-will-not-format.html

http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3&thread.id=3331855

I have tried numerous ways such as attaching the external hdd when the ps3 is off, then when it is on etc.

The only other thing i really want to try is downloading the 2.53 update as thats what i must have had on there.