At 50%, my stomach dropped. An error message: 80029563 – The data is corrupted.
Option 1: A USB drive. Simple, but the file was 1.2GB. My only FAT32-formatted drive was a 2GB relic from 2006. It would work, but slowly. install pkg on ps3
I closed the error. The PS3 was fine, but the PKG was rejected. I re-downloaded the patch from a different mirror. This time, I checked the MD5 hash against a value posted on page 14 of the forum thread. A match. Good. At 50%, my stomach dropped