(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Sorry for not making this a reply to the other Underground PSN thread but this is kinda long and I want people to read it and I doubt that will happen if it gets lost in the thread.

First of all, What IS Underground PSN.

It's a concept that someone could completely remove all connection to Sony's servers and redirect that to a remote server. So we could pretty much host our own Private Servers for PSN.

So what we're looking for is someone to edit the Firmware and re-route the connection from the official PSN to an underground remote server.

It could work in theory, but it'd take a lot of effort.

There'd be a few major issues.

First issue, the server. I don't think anyone would have the money and motivation to pay for a server large enough.

A solution for this would be to code the Firmware to allow remote private servers, and then give people tools to host their own Private PSN servers, so instead of one huge underground server, we'd have a lot of little servers with as many people as the server host would allow. Typically Private Servers would have anywhere from only 10-20 people to several thousand.

Another problem being there wouldn't be any Cross-Site Sharing, so you would have to have different profiles for different Private servers. We could give tools to allow Cross-Site Sharing but it could be difficult

That would fix that problem, then comes the next one:

We'd need a few expert coders to actually CREATE the firmware. I imagine removing the connection to Sony's servers and replacing it with some sort of GUI where you input an IP address and port for the server you want to connect to, and then you register your username and password for that server.

The final problem, creating the Private servers. As you could imagine, you'd not only need a lot of space for all the users etc., but you'd also need a universal method of sorting and storing the files, the reason for this is that I'd imagine the directories for where to send certain information are coded into the Firmware, not the server.

So, if we can get past all these issues, I could definitely see this being a possibility, maybe not in the NEAR future, but some time in the future.

If anything I've said here doesn't make sense or is incorrect, feel free to correct me. I don't know if you could do it by editing the firmware but I'm sure it'd be possible somehow.

Just to clarify, here's what I mean: You turn on your PS3, and the PSN icon is replaced by the logo for whoever created the firmware, or whatever he/she/they want(s) it to be, maybe a bunny? Anyway, it'd be renamed to whatever the creator(s) wanted it to be, I'd imagine something like [Name of Person/Group]-Net so something like GeoHot-Net, but that's really not important, I just put that in there as a suggestion. The bunny thing was a joke.

Anyway, after opening that, it'd provide you with a list of Private Servers you have already registered on, maybe even a browser-type thing where the server hosts pay the creators to have their server listed there to get more traffic. Anyway, there'd be an option to connect to a new server, which you'd have to do initially. You enter the IP and Port, then register a Username and Password on that server. After that, it connects you to that server and PRESTO! PSN Private Servers. To disconnect from the private server you would do it the same as disconnecting from PSN (Highlight the PSN icon, press Triangle, press Sign Out).

I would imagine that eventually we'd be able to get an Auto Sign-In feature whereby you select one server and it automatically signs you into that server when you start up the PS3, possibly even allowing for different servers for each user on the PS3.

Thank you for reading, this took a while to write, +Rep appreciated but I'm not gonna beg for it.

Thing Is Itll Cost To Much Money to run a decent server =D

you dont seem to understand. the creation of a private server takes a VERY long time, and will never perform exactly like PSN's look at RSPS (runescape private servers) for example (I used to run one) you have to sort the packets into different types figuring out what they do and configure appropriate responses. this would be a HUGE undertaking not just a DNS. granted a DNS server could be the method used to redirect psn traffic but that wouldn't be user friendly.

u said it best

I was thinking the same but it still requires much more than that. All idea's are welcome as of now. The server's will not be a huge problem for now as it will not be released out into the "scene" for month's to come. Only then would we have to worry about snagging a beast server. We will think of that when the time comes but for now we just need the basic essentials like a private server to test it out and work out our coding end of the deal.

Then every game would be impossible to play because EVERYONE will have hacks.

He's right.

If NGU did decide to help, could they create servers that are dedicated to certain games? Surely there is a standalone for online gaming at the moment, not saying that I play it but I see nearly every person in my friends list playing Black Ops.

I don't know ANYTHING about the topic but I think it's interesting.

i swear there is this thing that was for ps2 and xbox for online gaming that you downloaded for ur computer that would work for ps3 that all the 3.41 jailbreakers were using. forget the name tho

Wow...can't believe this guy is taking credit for our idea.