PS3 - worth saving?

[RygarR]

After 11 years of faithful service, my trusty old PS3 has finally given up the ghost. According to the interwebz, it was most likely overheating. I changed the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU, which had no effect. Then I gave it the hair drier treatment for 15 minutes, which woke it up long enough to boot to the home screen - and then die again. I'd probably let it go tbh, but I've got quite a big collection of Singstar and Guitar Hero downloads (don't laugh) which have all been removed from the PS network. Question is, is it worth getting this repaired? Is it even possible? Or is it time to she'd a tear and move on?

 

[SUPERSPRINT]

Take the hard drive out and get a new one.

 

[robotech]

They are well cheap second hand now i dont know if its worth putting the time into repairing them unless its one of the early
60gb backwards compatable ones

The hard drive swap is a good idea

 

[Flinnster]

Got my last ps3 for 30 quid off gumtree. Getting a replacement is a no brainer. Keep your dead one for spares - like the disc drive mech and power area

 

[robotech]

Great system though mine gets used more than the ps4
Sega games are on sale at the moment on the ps3 store too

 

[RygarR]

Thanks Guys.

That's kind of what I would've thought. Just to be clear though, can you just swap out the harddrive, and the replacement machine will boot exactly like the old one? I read that the HDDs were coded to the MB they shipped with. I'm not bothered about game saves, but I don't want to lose the dowloadable content, coz it's been pulled by Sony and can't be downloaded again...

 

[phillv85]

Does DLC not stay in your library to re-download even after it's gone to buy?

 

[RygarR]

The Singstar stuff seems to be gone. Think it's been pulled for copyright reasons, ie. Sony cheaping out and not renewing lisenses...

 

[phillv85]

Ah fair enough, I suppose music and gaming licenses come into that, must be a legal nightmare!

 

[Macro]

From memory when my son's PS3 died, I did the hair dryer trick to get it working, connected the two PS3s over the network and then used the 'migrate settings' option to move all of the save games / DLC across to the working one. It took about 40 mins in total and the old one survived long enough to finish the transfer.

but you will need to get the old one working for a while

 

[RygarR]

From memory when my son's PS3 died, I did the hair dryer trick to get it working, connected the two PS3s over the network and then used the 'migrate settings' option to move all of the save games / DLC across to the working one. It took about 40 mins in total and the old one survived long enough to finish the transfer.

but you will need to get the old one working for a while

Thanks Macro, that's good to know. Perhaps if I gave the exposed MB the once over with a hot air gun as opposed to a hair dryer through the vents, it might live long enough for a migrate?