3- Solder a RED wire to pin
4, and a BLACK wire to pin 1. This will be your
power wires that run to your BR-D
load/unload motor. I'd
say make the length about a foot just to be
safe. You can cut off
what you don't need later.
4- Pin 2 and pin 5 are the
power source. Doesn't matter which way you connect those. I'm
using a plug-in power adapter with an output switch on it up to
12 volts. It's set at 3 volts.
That's the hard part if you
can believe it. Now you got to open the PS3. Very easy to
do and no cutting or breaking involved.
1-
Take the one bolt out on the side and slide the
top off.
2-
take the rest of the screws out and take the
second top off. This will expose
the BR-D.
3-
The BR-D has 2 plug-ins that need to be
unplugged. After that it comes out
freely. A- A ribbon on the bottom
B- A
small plug-in on the left side
Note: Your main goal is to
get to some small screws on the bottom so that you can
remove the metal cover. You may choose not to unplug anything.
That's up to you.
4- Take the metal top off.
you will see a small circuit board with 2 wires towards the
front of the drive. This is a sensor that allows the
game to be sucked in. You need to disable this
by either cutting the small
wires, Hooking up another small switch so
you still retain original functionality, or put
a small piece of tape over the
sensor.
5-
Unscrew the plastic top and take that off. This
will allow you to see
much more of the drive on the inside.
6-
The plastic piece I'm pointing to in the picture
above needs to come off.
That will allow us to see the load/unload motor.
One small screw will
allow you to remove this plastic part.
7-
Once removed you will see the small motor which
is what we're after and makes this possible.
You'll see 2 small wires soldered onto the
motor. RED and BLACK. You have another tough
choice now, if you chose to add a switch to the
load sensor above, you will need to add a switch
to one of the original motor wires also. This
way, when you put your game in and the sensor
sucks it in, the motor will work automatically
like it did to start with. If you have the
sensor turned on with a switch, you need the
motor turned on
auto with a switch. that's where the 2
additional switches come in if you choose to
retain original functionality. If you plan to
load and unload games manually you only need 1
3-way switch and can disregard anything I've
said about x-tra switches. The foot long wire
you solder earlier to pins 4 and 1 now need to
be soldered to the RED and BLACK terminals of
your motor. I just touched my soldering iron to
the terminals and removed the factory wires,
tucked them away and soldered the ones from my switch to it.
8-
Now what i did was remove 3 small screws from a
small circuit board and ran my wires underneath
it. Under the circuit board there is a small
hole that allows you to run the wire underneath
and out the bottom front of the BR-D. The board
I'm pointing to is the one that needs to be
unscrewed. It doesn't come off all the way but
does enough for you to run wire under it. When
you put the screws back in make sure not to
tighten them down too much. just make them snug
and make sure the small switch on the right side of
the board is in the proper place.
9-
And that's pretty much it. Where you plan to
mount the switch or switches is up to you. the
way i have mine set up is when the switch is up
the motor is sucking in. I start to put a game
in and it sucks it in. When the game is in and
the drive engaged i turn the switch to the
middle position or off. turn on the PS3 and the original game or
Swap Magic will register with the xmb. No need
to actually boot the original game or swap magic
because as long as the game is recognized by the
system, it has passed any media checks. Next, I
flip my switch down and the drive disengages and
spits my game out. I then flip the switch back
up and insert my backup and turn the switch off.
The whole time you do the swap, the PS3 will
still say you have a game inserted. So if you
choose to try this, you don't need anything
special. 1-3 switches and an original PS2 game
This is my first tutorial and I'm sorry if it's
bad. Feel free to redo it and repost it. All i
ask is that you don't try and take credit for
what i've done. Other than that enjoy, be
careful, and have fun.
