(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Hi all -- Very new to modding scene, do not yet have CFW system and have been trying to figure out answers to all of these questions myself instead of bugging you. But my mind is not what is used to be, a lot of the information I have seen *seems* to be conflicting (just could be b/c from different time periods, or could just be b/c I'm new and confused), and starting in a couple of hours I'll be in the hospital for a week. But need to make a decision on whether to buy a jailbroken PS3 during that week, so hoping y'all can help me since I couldn't figure it out myself. Sorry, and thanks in advance.

Basically, I have slim on OFW 4.6 with minverchk showing 3.65, so as far as I understand jailbreaking it not an option (but see question 1 below). PS3 I'm thinking of buying was at 3.55 when seller soft-modded it via USB. Here's what I'm hoping to do with it: Retrieve my PSN account from my OFW PS3 (mainly for trophy information), hack the few trophies I haven't earned yet and probably never will, sync those trophies back to my PSN account, and hopefully still use CFW on jailbroken PS3 after. Before the use mainly for trophies puts anyone off, please understand that I find myself in rather unexpected circumstances. I could explain but I'm not sure it would make any sense -- not sure it even makes sense to me -- and it would just be a bummer. Anyway, here are my questions.

1) Everything I've read says that soft-modding a post 3.55 system is a hoax, but one site seems to have a lot of happy replies -- at least to pre 4.6 versions. No replies yet as of this posting to the 4.6 release. Replies to 4.55 and previous releases could be part of hoax, of course. But does anyone know anything about this? If actually legit, could save me a lot of hassle.
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2) Am I correct in that since the one I'm looking at buying was modded solely via USB, if this were ever updated to OFW for legit PSN access, would need to be hard-modded with E3 flasher to get back to CFW? Some of following questions will assume that answer is yes. And yes, is NOR chip.

3) To retrieve my PSN account onto new CFW PS3, understanding that there's a ban risk in doing so, can I do this right from PSN WITHOUT having to "update" to latest OFW (thus meaning E3 flashing to get CFW back)? I've read about "spoofing" but am a bit confused about whether spoofing to get onto PSN has been patched by Sony.

4) In editing trophy info on CFW PS3, since it will be locally done, will it show all trophy info retrieved from PSN or only trophies from disks inserted into system? I'm specifically thinking of frakkin Sports Champions -- being a fat model, pretty sure the CFW PS3 I'm looking at will not be move-compatible, so not sure if I can get the game disk to load up far enough for trophy info to write to HDD.

5) Would it be simpler, before even loading profile from PSN, to load up game disks from each game I want to unlock a trophy for, then unlock trophy, then when done finally connect to PSN to assign my profile to console?

6) Last Q: After I'm done editing trophy info, I've read that to sync trophies with servers I would need to load up latest OFW, meaning if I wanted to revert to CFW I would need to E3 flash. See link below. Spoofing wouldn't work here? If not, since latest OFW is 4.6, only option would be to have someone open up the console and hard-mod it? (Unable to do this myself -- Can't even type this post myself at the moment.) So would I be better off, at least in this one regard, buying a jailbroken PS3 that already has an E3 flasher inside? Or would the console need to be opened up each time it's jailbroken anyway?
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Thanks in advance, sorry for the lengthy questions, and sorry for my lack of knowledge/experience here. Did all the research I was capable of before posting.

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Hi all -- Was able to do this. Laying out my solution below. Most of it relies on previously posted solutions my initial post referred to, but since I never found any info on switching between two different PS3s (one OFW, second CFW without any of the OFW's info) I had to do some tweaking. Because of that, and because I ran into some other difficulties requiring a bit of tweaking, I'm hoping the below might prove helpful to someone else in the future. I will not be including links below, because most were included above, and those were not should be easy to google (and I am imposing enough on the person typing this). Thank you to my family for doing most of the work for me while I just directed the show and for putting up with this pursuit of mine, and thank you to the NGU community, particularly BigTrain and the other moderators for their patience, diligence and support.

First, since I had never used the CFW PS3 before, after setting up an offline account for myself, for each game I wished to complete my platinum I loaded up the game disc. Doing this created the trophy folders on the HDD. I made sure internet connection was active so it could download latest patches, to ensure that the trophy folders included all DLC trophy folders. As an aside, double-checked that my PSN account owned rights to relevant DLC, as I'm not sure whether Sony checks for this.

Second -- And this was just a time-saving step that increased ban risk and wound up being less useful than I hoped for -- I performed initial trophy sync. Hope was that after doing so, TrophyIsGood program would already see which trophies I owned and I would not have to unlock them. Did not work out that way. Turns out that even though XMB showed trophies just fine, and TrophyIsGood was at least showing the timestamp for the trophies, the program still believed they had not been earned and I wound up having to unlock each and every one individually anyway. Still saved time as I did not want timestamps to conflict with timestamps already present on Sony networks, so I was able to just enter in exactly what was starting at me in the TrophyIsGood program.

As part of second step, ran into difficulties connecting to PSN. ConsoleID had been banned (seller had said he had never taken it online, but he was not original owner), and usual methods of getting around this were not working. I purchased a legitimate consoleID from a RLOD PS3 owner (I hope, rather than a ID generator), but had difficulties entering it and getting it to stick. CFW is Rogero 4.446. Programs used were SEN Enabler, PSN Patch, and ITA Manager. ITA Manager is generally unstable on this system, causes severe temp spikes on loadup, and froze system anytime I attempted to change consoleID the few times I had it working for a couple of minutes. So the most obvious solution was out, leaving me with the two remaining programs, requiring changing consoleID via USB stick. SEN Enabler worked for most other purposes, but for some reason inverted the digits of consoleID whenever I attempted to change it. Only way I could successfully change consoleID was PSNPatch. Once I figured that out, connecting to PSN was a modified method of standard SEN Enabler connection -- Change consoleID via PSNPatch, load SEN Enabler, use that program to check that consoleID correct, then delete history, "hide" to OFW mode, enable SEN/PSN, restart, THEN go back to PSN Patch and stick ConsoleID back on (would not stick, but would be unable to start program on SEN reload if had not used PSN Patch first --- weird), then connect to PSN. Tested connections in all events on dummy account to make sure I could connect before risking my actual account, and had Charles running on PC. After connected to PSN, synced just fine.

Okay, after syncing, followed SonyBlack's excellent tutorial on TrophyIsGood. Only comments I would make in addition: As noted above, although it detected my trophies synced from my OFW PS3, I still had to manually unlock each and insert timestamp for same. This is because the program will not allow you to unlock platinum if it believes you have not unlocked everything else (so even if I was missing 2 out of 80 trophies, I had to go through the process for all 80). For safety's sake, I matched timestamp to server timestamp. I was particularly concerned with trophies that had no timestamp, such as those predating my PSN account, and invented fictitious timestamps from dates when I know I would not have been on PS3 or playing another game. I believe this concern was unwarranted, because when the process was finally complete and I looked at the trophy collection, the trophies without timestamps remained without timestamps despite TrophyIsGood having wrote them all onto the CFW's HDD. So perhaps in the sync process the server only looks at new trophies, not old ones. Also, one thing the text tutorial did not make quite clear to me (but videos make clear) is that the "User ID" for the program's purposes is simply the HDD folder number from where you retrieved the folders -- NOT your PSN ID. Only other comment I would make is that some have suggested, to supplement SonyBlack's tutorial, updating to OFW just before the sync process, then downgrading back to CFW -- might be safer, but because my CFW console was soft-modded and I have no flasher, I did not do this.

Finished following SonyBlack's tutorial and worked like a charm. Before syncing trophies, I used PSNPatch and SEN Enabler as detailed above (former because of console ID ban, latter to spoof and generally reduce ban risk), and tested PSN on dummy account. Each game in my collection I had not yet platinumed, is now platinumed, and my OFW PS3 synced them just fine. Backing up both PS3s in case ban hammer comes down. If it does, I will ask someone to update this thread for me. Hopes this helps other noobs out there like me who run into any difficulties not outlined in the wonderful tutorials already posted by others.

Quick and minor update to the above -- My brother-in-law just signed onto my PS4, which displays trophies differently, and signed onto my account. He saw that the trophies which originally lacked timestamps still lack timestamps (just as on the PS3). This is how I would have preferred it, so I am happy, but still makes me wonder what happens during the syncing process and what ever became of those fictitious timestamps TrophyIsGood forced us to invent.