2 posts tagged with "ps3"

The original Crash Bandicoot trilogy were some of my favourite PlayStation games, so when they released as digital PS1 Classics for the PlayStation 3 I - like many - jumped at the opportunity to own these games again.

The quality of PS1 emulation on PS3 is generally held in high regard, but there were some odd quirks. One of the most notable quirks was with the digital release of Crash Bandicoot 2, because it lacked analog controller support.

In this article we'll take a look into the issue, the impact that the misconfiguration has had on the perception of analog controller support in the game, and finally put right the issue which has plagued this release for almost 17 years.

While I was testing the cloning and resizing of the user data file system, I came across one drive which FreeBSD was inexplicably unable to access again after the PS3 had mounted it. I knew the file system was good, because the PS3 was still able to use it and I could mount it read-only under Linux, but any attempts to access it via FreeBSD resulted in a UFS2 superblock error:

UFS2 superblock failed: fs->fs_fsbtodb (0) != ILOG2(fs->fs_fsize / sectorsize) (3)

Testing the drive further, I confirmed the same thing happened when the drive was natively formatted by the PS3; FreeBSD was still unable to access it. So this wasn't an issue being introduced by cloning or resizing the file system.

What was going wrong? What was different about this drive?