Post: Play your PS3 Backups on 4.41 OFW WITHOUT JAILBREAK (Tested on PS3-4XXX with CODBO1)
06-08-2013, 02:39 PM #1
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06-08-2013, 02:51 PM #2
mack32
Hurah!
Originally posted by Edition View Post
--What you need--

1 CFW PS3
1 OFW PS3 (Both PS3's need to be on the same FW to be able to File Transfer!)
A demo of the game you wish to backup
Comgenie's Awesome File Manager
multiMAN

This instructions are for BO1 but they should serve as PoC

1. On your CFW PS3 Install your demo & backup the full game to the HDD

2. Open CAFM & on the left side go to /dev_hdd0/game/*game-demo*/PS3_GAME/
& delete the following: ICON0.PNG,PIC1.PNG PARAM.SFO

3. Open CAFM & on the left side go to /dev_hdd0/GAMES/*full-game*/PS3_GAME
on the right side open /dev_hdd0/game/*game-demo*/PS3_GAME
3b.Copy (or move) these files: ICON0.PNG,PIC1.PNG & PARAM.SFO

4.Now on the left side go to /dev_hdd0/GAMES/*full-game*/PS3_GAME/USRDIR/
on the right side navigate to /dev_hdd0/game/*game-demo*/USRDIR/

5.MOVE (not copy) all of the files from the left to the right
(Move all of *full-game* USRDIR'S Contents to *game-demo's* USRDIR)

THE ONLY FILE THAT YOU SHOULD NOT MOVE OR COPY IS THE EBOOT.BIN

6.Check that the game was correctly transferred by booting it on the XMB

7.File transfer to OFW PS3!!

I don't know why this works but it only works on games which have a demo available just delete the old "XMB" files
(ICON0 PIC1 PARAM) & then transfer everything BUT the EBOOT to the demo & it will boot as the full game

--If you want to update to 1.XX then:

1. On your CFW PS3 Install the pkg update

2. Open CAFM & file transfer every file to their respective direcctories BUT EBOOT.BIN
(e.g. /dev_hdd/.../.../*fullgame-update*/ to /dev_hdd0/.../.../*game-demo*/ & it will work)

--The black ops demo has online functionalities disabled
(if you go to Zombies>PlaystationNetwork it won't do anything)
but there is a dvar that can activate that (i think it's: set xblive_connection "1")
for this you have to mod your savedata & also mod your EBOOT since the modded savedatas have been patched & you will need bypass.

I came across this while trying to mod Black Ops 1 for Zombies but my CFW doesn't have a BD Drive
(i had to download COSad AwesomeBO & ftp to PS3) but then multiMAN wouldn't boot it so - i tried EVERYTHING to make it boot & you know what IT FUCKING BOOTED (but i still couldn't mod BO1...)


And this is how you get banned from psn. If sony finds out you are playing pirated games you will get perma banned. Usually they don't perma ban ofw ps3s but if its something serious like piracy you will get perma banned and probably get into some legal trouble

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06-08-2013, 03:21 PM #3
Originally posted by mack32 View Post
and this is how you get banned from psn. If sony finds out you are playing pirated games you will get perma banned. Usually they don't perma ban ofw ps3s but if its something serious like piracy you will get perma banned and probably get into some legal trouble


This isn't for people that want to play pirated games, as i said in the title Play YOUR PS3 BACKUPS & I am not pirating i wanted to modify my own copy of the game to run mods online but i couldn't boot it so i had to try everything to run it & came across this method, -You can only copy the full game if you have the disc- (unless you deliberately want to pirate & download it without having the original disk)
06-08-2013, 03:38 PM #4
SC58
Former Staff
Originally posted by Edition View Post
--What you need--

1 CFW PS3
1 OFW PS3 (Both PS3's need to be on the same FW to be able to File Transfer!)
A demo of the game you wish to backup
Comgenie's Awesome File Manager
multiMAN

This instructions are for BO1 but they should serve as PoC

1. On your CFW PS3 Install your demo & backup the full game to the HDD

2. Open CAFM & on the left side go to /dev_hdd0/game/*game-demo*/PS3_GAME/
& delete the following: ICON0.PNG,PIC1.PNG PARAM.SFO

3. Open CAFM & on the left side go to /dev_hdd0/GAMES/*full-game*/PS3_GAME
on the right side open /dev_hdd0/game/*game-demo*/PS3_GAME
3b.Copy (or move) these files: ICON0.PNG,PIC1.PNG & PARAM.SFO

4.Now on the left side go to /dev_hdd0/GAMES/*full-game*/PS3_GAME/USRDIR/
on the right side navigate to /dev_hdd0/game/*game-demo*/USRDIR/

5.MOVE (not copy) all of the files from the left to the right
(Move all of *full-game* USRDIR'S Contents to *game-demo's* USRDIR)

THE ONLY FILE THAT YOU SHOULD NOT MOVE OR COPY IS THE EBOOT.BIN

6.Check that the game was correctly transferred by booting it on the XMB

7.File transfer to OFW PS3!!

I don't know why this works but it only works on games which have a demo available just delete the old "XMB" files
(ICON0 PIC1 PARAM) & then transfer everything BUT the EBOOT to the demo & it will boot as the full game

--If you want to update to 1.XX then:

1. On your CFW PS3 Install the pkg update

2. Open CAFM & file transfer every file to their respective direcctories BUT EBOOT.BIN
(e.g. /dev_hdd/.../.../*fullgame-update*/ to /dev_hdd0/.../.../*game-demo*/ & it will work)

--The black ops demo has online functionalities disabled
(if you go to Zombies>PlaystationNetwork it won't do anything)
but there is a dvar that can activate that (i think it's: set xblive_connection "1")
for this you have to mod your savedata & also mod your EBOOT since the modded savedatas have been patched & you will need bypass.

I came across this while trying to mod Black Ops 1 for Zombies but my CFW doesn't have a BD Drive
(i had to download COSad AwesomeBO & ftp to PS3) but then multiMAN wouldn't boot it so - i tried EVERYTHING to make it boot & you know what IT FUCKING BOOTED (but i still couldn't mod BO1...)


WITHOUT JAILBREAK , Looks to me from what u said i need jailbreak what a fail

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06-08-2013, 03:46 PM #5
Originally posted by SC58 View Post
WITHOUT JAILBREAK , Looks to me from what u said i need jailbreak what a fail


You can transfer the game to a OFW PS3 & it will run it even if it doesn't have multiMAN or patched the LV2 Syscalls.
06-08-2013, 03:48 PM #6
SC58
Former Staff
Originally posted by Edition View Post
You can transfer the game to a OFW PS3 & it will run it even if it doesn't have multiMAN or patched the LV2 Syscalls.


yes everyone knows u can data transfer cfw2ofw2ofw2ofw ect
06-08-2013, 03:56 PM #7
Originally posted by SC58 View Post
yes everyone knows u can data transfer cfw2ofw2ofw2ofw ect


If you transfer from a CFW PS3 that has multiMAN & games you will not be able to boot multiMAN or play the backups they will just use space in your HDD & also this is a bit undetectable since the game runs under the "demo name" SONY disregards it as a demo not a multiMAN backup
06-08-2013, 04:21 PM #8
Tustin
Balls of Steel
Trying it with The Last of Us right now. Will let you know if it works.
06-08-2013, 04:23 PM #9
DEREKTROTTER
You're Goddamn Right
if you have a CFW, why would you want to do this ?

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06-08-2013, 04:29 PM #10
Originally posted by DEREKTROTTER View Post
if you have a CFW, why would you want to do this ?


My CFW PS3 doesn't have a working blu ray drive & i wanted to Mod Black Ops online, i went ahead & downloaded it from... somewhere & transferred it to my CFW PS3 but multiMAN wouldn't boot it so i went & tried everything i could to make it boot (but i still couldn't mod it) & since i know of more people that have PS3'S with a non-working drive i wanted to help them by posting this finding

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