PSU Launches User Driven PS3 Themes Section

  • Posted November 14th, 2007 at 20:15 EDT by
  • 42 Comments

Today PSU.com launched their very own PS3 themes section. For all the PlayStation 3 owners out there, here can be your one central source for the latest PS3 themes.

Currently the design is basic. The themes can be uploaded by the users through this link. Requirements are as follows:

- Must have a title
- Description
- Preview Image

Over the next few days, PSU.com will be adding new additions and upgrades to the PS3 themes section such as "Credit to original author", " ability to add multiple screenshots of theme", and a "rating system". If you want to know how to create your own themes, you can read up on it here.

Here are links to the Themes:

PS3 Themes

Upload a theme

 

If you need to know how to add a theme to your PS3, here are instructions:

How to install themes:
All themes files (.p3t) need to be saved to a memory card/HDD/CD/DVD/USB thumbstick, in the following directory structure:

/PS3/THEME/<theme file>

1. Create a folder titled: PS3
2. Inside the PS3 folder, make another folder titled: THEME
3. Put all the themes you have inside the THEME folder.
4. Plug your USB drive to your PS3 and on the XMB, select:

Then go to: Settings>Theme Settings>Theme>Install (hidden at the top)>
and then select your theme you wish to install.

Stay glued to PSU.com as themes are updated hourly and we'll be adding new features along the week.

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  1. static-x | liljonatl (us) liljonatl2 (jpn)

    • 8:19pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    kool i wish i could figure out how to make these

  2. ForTheSteel | ForTheSteel

    • 8:22pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Please make thumbnails for the links in the theme section. dont just scale huge images. it takes forever to load the page and wastes bandwidth (on my end and PSU's end)

  3. Random1448

    • 8:27pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    What about PSP themes as well?

  4. ZeroOnyx | ZeroOnyx

    • 8:32pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    i'm having problems dling, requires storage device, yet when attempting to dl i get an unable to dl error

  5. Mike_Harradence

    • 8:36pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    You have to dl it to a storage device like a thumb drive...but if its plugged into you PS3 it should eb easy. Dl to thumb drive, then install on your PS3.

  6. cb_32 | cb_32

    • 8:52pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    i click the download button, but its taking for ever...

  7. Mike_Harradence

    • 8:56pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    We are getting our server upgraded and will be using thumb images soon. Stay with us. There is alot of traffic pouring in as you can imagine...

  8. J08hawks | J08hawks

    • 9:19pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    nice

    psn id J08hawks

  9. ssengnihton

    • 9:28pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Can some one write the steps to put themes on my ps3 after I download them to a memory stick?

  10. a_n_t_h_o_n_y | a_n_t_h_o_n_y

    • 9:30pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    I made a theme a while ago and I just uploaded it here. It's called "For Realz". Check it out and let me know what you think.

  11. catamountalum2004

    • 9:34pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    i dl these themes onto my thumb drive but when i put it in my ps3 and go to themes on the xmb and click on install it says that there are no theme files on the thumb drive. but when i plug it into my cpu it shows three files as being on the drive. anyone know the right way to get these themes from the cpu to the ps3

  12. ssengnihton

    • 9:40pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    I need steps to put themes on my ps3 please..the themes on here are too kool

  13. iToke

    • 10:02pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Dayum, this is definitely a good idea as through the past we have seen that some user created content can be more creative than that of a "professional."

  14. NameTaken | NameTaken33

    • 10:09pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    1. Download a theme

    2. Grab anything that will allow you to transfer files to your PS3, a memory stick for example.

    3. Create a new folder on whatever your going to use to transfer the file. Name it PS3.

    4. Create a new folder in your PS3 folder called "THEMES". This is case sensitive.

    5. Place your new themes that you downloaded in the THEMES folder. Your tree should look like


    Memory stick-->PS3-->THEMES-->yourtheme


    6. Place memory stick in PS3.

    7. Then on your PS3 go to:


    Settings > Themes Settings > Theme > Install

  15. NY_Young1 | NY_Young1

    • 10:39pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    The ability to now customize your own themes is sooo freakin crazy. This is definitively a hot feature.

  16. catamountalum2004

    • 10:54pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    i did make a theme folder on my jump drive but i just put it in my ps3 and when i went under pictures and then to my jump drive and found the theme folder i made it says that there are no files in the theme folder, what am i doing wrong

  17. Dave-The-Rave | Dave-The-Rave

    • 11:34pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Put the file into

    Memory Stick > PS3 > THEMES

     

  18. Mike_Harradence

    • 11:49pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    I have added the how to for Themes

  19. headshot99

    • 11:55pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    i keep having the same problem either says no themes or error dl

     

  20. MacBandit | MacBandit

    • 12:00am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    There needs to be a way to rate each theme.

  21. NameTaken | NameTaken33

    • 12:08am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    That's supposed to go in soon

  22. headshot99

    • 12:10am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    this is ticking me off that it wont work

  23. DefTechPioElite | Extreme_rkmn

    • 12:34am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    wow this is not PS3 friendly at all, I get the same error message this other guy is getting. Also, if you try to click on any of the "most popular" themes, you are taken to a wallpaper... annoying. PSU needs to fix it. Other than that, I'm seeing themes I've never seen before, kudos! Just make it PS3 browser friendly!

  24. Piablo

    • 12:59am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    straight up....I"M OLD TESTAMENT. not many people play games but i will bad mouth EA for the rest of this generation for having bad frame rates. THEY ARE GREEDY CREEPS. infintiy ward shows respect to players, veterans, and there craft. EA and MICROSOFT are in merge talks - this framerate issue they fabricated will prove the nonsense....look up "peter moore" if you do not beleive.

  25. IONIXX | IONIXX

    • 1:40am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    look-look silence SILENCE....now do any of you realize that wen you go to download somthing and it says insert storage media to save destination AKA you cant save it to the hard disk and wen that happens wat does that mean? it means that watever file type that of wich youve tried to download is not a file type that the ps3 supports, now if i cant save this theme DIRECTLY to my hard disk then it means there file types that it doesant support, but i know of some infact all the ones i have are ones that people have created and put in links to in the psu forums section, i tried doing it through a computer idownloaded it created a file called PS3 then i made a file in that folder called THEME and then i put the theme in the THEME folder JUST like it said to then i copy the folder to a memory stick then i put it into my ps3 searched it for the theme and nothing was there, so anything that you cant download DIRECTLY to the hard disk is a file type that the ps3 doesant support. and i cant download psu's theme to the hard disk so the file type must have been changed somhow because all the ones that the other members have posted links to that theyve created have worked fine. so wats the deal?

  26. standinside

    • 2:00am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    Can we have a top Download and Recent upload section? Top 5 would be great, it jus looks very messy at the moment. Also maybe a category section ie Games, sports, cars etc.

     

    Thanks!

  27. DefTechPioElite | Extreme_rkmn

    • 3:20am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    @IONIXX I can download onto a memory stick on my computer from PSU.com and then when I put said memory stick into my PS3 it works just fine, personally. And when I try to download directly to PS3 hdd, II just get a download error, it never even prompts for destination. So I dunno what's going on with your PS3.

  28. BigEr | BigEr

    • 3:28am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    Want the theams and want to be able to get them using my ps3. Will it be possable with out a thumbdrive or sd card??

  29. Shadowfyre | Shadowfyre

    • 3:47am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    Great, though I accidentally added my theme after someone already did, if any mods would like to, please remove the copy of "The Final Fantasy Theme".

  30. Alfie-UHE | Alfie-UHE

    • 4:34am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    be good if you could download stra8 from the PS3 browser to the HDD

  31. DantheMan_69

    • 10:08am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    Think this site tells you how to make them http://www.ps3-theme.com/site/index.php

  32. gingo | gingo

    • 11:52am GMT - November 15th, 2007

    psn id: gingo.... this is the best addtion to psu since i have joined i have been looking around for a good place to download themes and now i finally have one

  33. Uncool | Admodistrator

    • 5:29pm GMT - November 15th, 2007

    Hopefully things can get better overtime, make sure you guys give suggestions/comments so that if there is something wrong or needs improvement, we can be notified. XD

  34. victoria_mariner

    • 11:31pm GMT - November 15th, 2007

    kk i go to ps3 themes right and a whole bunch come up like 300 theme chrsitmas them etc... but when i click the download this button it doesnt work? it doesnt say download file it just says in a little box that pops upon the screen (find, save, or cancel)

    please help

  35. nastanley

    • 6:51am GMT - November 16th, 2007

    this great PSU.com

  36. nomad1391 | nomad1391

    • 7:06pm GMT - November 17th, 2007

    ooo this is great!! now i wont have to search for themes on google that i can't c and end up horrible

  37. motzo

    • 12:09am GMT - November 18th, 2007

    IS THIS SAFE IS IT AT ALL POSSIBLE THAT THE BIG "2.0 SCREW-UPS" ARE ALL ACTURLY RESULTS OF PEOPLE USING THE NEW THEME ABILTY AND DOWNLOADING DODGYE CONTENT WILL THESE THEME PUT MY PS3 I BOUGHT FOR $1000 AUD IN DANGER I MUST KNOW THERE DOSENT SEEM TO BE MUCH MONITERING ON THE THEMES UPLOADED TO THE WEB SITE ....

  38. SILV3R_

    • 11:15pm GMT - November 20th, 2007

    OK..I uploaded my theme..but If I worked more on my theme how would I change my original upload..so to avoid duplicates?  anyone know yet.. or just wait for update?

    http://www.psu.com/Transformers-Optimus-Prime--theme-236.php

  39. hhsoccer12

    • 1:04am GMT - November 22nd, 2007

    i did everything right, went up to install, and it says no files found, please someone help me

  40. gandhimaster

    • 7:02pm GMT - November 22nd, 2007

    AWESOME. if i was clever i'd make my own too. a jenna jameson one would really impressmy g/f  ; )

  41. zyxses | zyxses

    • 7:36pm GMT - December 3rd, 2007

    When is this site going to have themes etc that can be download directly to the PS3 HDD?

  42. muffy

    • 2:37am BST - July 16th, 2009

    coool but i think am a bit confused

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