4.xxCFW Custom Coldboot + Epilepsy - noob friendly tutorial

Tutorial filesNotepad++

Note: You need to have atleast one PS3 game on your HDD.
Note: If you do not, you can either FTP a game to it or you can run multiMAN, insert any original PS3 game, hover over the game and press triangle, then click copy.
Note: Once you've created that backup, take out the disc and proceed with the tutorial.

1. Insert a FAT32 formatted USB to the right-side port of your ps3 and run multiman.
2. After it loads , start file manager/mmOS ( its an option that is there in Multiman)
(NOTE: shortcut to start multiman's file manager SELECT+START)
If a file manager is not open, click on PS3 root.
3.when using file manager , go to to /dev_hdd/GAMES/* any game u have*/
( example: /dev_hdd/GAMES/CODBOP2/)
and open the PS3_DISK.SFB file(or the param.sfo file of the game) by pressing 'X' 2 times on it.

4. after u open the .SFB file u can see a lot of numbers ,shown in a hex-decimal form,
as shown in the image
press SELECT and u will get a LV2 View.

5. when on LV2 view press start , (that is after we pressed select in step 4.)

6. you will then get a message " Do u want to export GAMEOS LV2 memory to a file",press no, then it will show a message asking " Do u want to export HV LV1 memory to a file" say no for this as well, and then u will get a 3rd message asking "Do u want to export FLASH memory to a file" say yes to this.and it will start the dumbing process.the dumb will be saved to the root of ur usb.
7. you can now exit multiman, disconnect the usb from ur ps3 and connect it to your pc,
and inside the USB u can find a file named 201***FLASH-NOR-FW.3.55.NORBIN (if ur ps3 has NOR) or 201***FLASH-NAND-FW.3.55.NANDBIN( if ur ps3 is having NAND).


Transfer nand/nor back up to your computer and keep it safe.

There are two ways to do this.
You can either get them using a FAT32 USB stick or via FTP.
Use whichever is more convenient for you.

FTP


USB

In the Media folder you will find a few media files you can use or edit or you could get your own which I'm going to assume for the rest of this tutorial.

1. Have a logo & sound clip.
2. Open Easy Static Raf Converter (Tools folder), pick your image, edit its position & size to the way you desire and press convert. It will now create Rebug 430 folder in the Media folder. Inside 430 folder you will find coldboot.raf
3. Install & start Xvid4PSP (Tools folder).
4. Click on Open, on the right above open, select "All audio files" and then open your audio file.
5. Change audio encoding to AC3 640k and trim the audio up to 8 seconds. Then click on encode and save the audio file. Then make a duplicate of the same file you saved.
6. So you'll have audio1.ac3 and audio2.ac3, you have to rename these to coldboot_multi.ac3 and coldboot_stereo.ac3
7. Once renamed, place it in /media/Rebug 430/ so that it is with your coldboot.raf

We're going to replace the Epilepsy warning with our own crap.

1. Install Notepad++ if you haven't already.
2. Open Tools folder and go into RCOmage folder and start rcomagegui.exe
3. Using that click Browse next to RCO Input and select your sysconf_plugin.rco
4. Click Browse next to XML output, set the output name to 'This is my custom XML', save as .xml and untick every box, other than “Seperate resource types” and “Decode VSMX scripts” and then press dump.
5. It will now create This is my custom XML.xml, Images folder and text folder.
6. Go into the text folder and using Notepad++, open the XML corresponding to the language your PS3 uses. For me it's English.xml
7. Once opened make sure you're encoding in UTF-8, you can easily find out by looking into the bottom right corner where it will say UTF-8 or look under encoding tab and UTF-8 will already be selected.
8. Now go to search >> Find, and look for health
You should find

Edit it to whatever you want.
For example

9. Then Save it and go back to RCOmage.
10. Click on Compile tab. XML input is your 'This is my custom XML' file. Click on Output, the output location should be your /media/Rebug 430/ which has your custom coldboot and make sure you save this file as sysconf_plugin.rco
11. Change header compression to Zlib and leave the rest unticked. Then hit compile.

Now transfer your custom coldboot.raf, coldboot_multi.ac3, coldboot_stereo.ac3 and sysconf_plugin.rco back to /dev_blind/vsh/resource
Now reboot your PS3 to see your new coldboot and warning message:)


You can edit other stuff in sysconf_plugin.rco but be careful because you could brick your console.

DEFAULTDNB - Thank you for your Custom Coldboot pack & tutorial.
Mistawes - Thank you for your Custom Epilepsy tutorial.
FeintNightmare - Thank you for your nand/nor backup tutorial.
TizzyT - Thank you for Easy Static RAF Converter.
Winnydows - Thank you for XviD4PSP.
ZiNgA BuRgA - Thank you for RCOmage.

Hope I've not missed anyone, but thanks to all others whom have contributed to the PS3 scene and to those that have created many tutorials and programs.