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I've decided to share with people on NGU who are having difficulty playing GTA 4 Online with Modifications.

Numerous Threads are scattered about getting GTA IV online which are quite hazy, and various Threads requesting for help.

So here is a simple Tutorial which I hope will be of help to many of you guys having trouble.

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- PS3 with You must login or register to view this content. (3.55/3.41)
- Fresh Backup of GTA IV (BLES00229 or BLUS30127)
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- PC
- Modified PARAM.SFO You must login or register to view this content. or You must login or register to view this content.
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Copy the Modified PARAM.SFO and Comgenie's File Manager.pkg to the root of either a USB Stick or USB HDD.


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Connect your USB Stick/HDD to your PS3.


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Install Comgenie's File Manager and Run it.


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You'll be greeted with a nice Blue screen... now press Select to turn it Red and you're now in Advanced Mode.

Now the Layout is pretty simple:

Browse and select a file on the Left and then browse for the destination folder on the Right, then Press O from the Left side to copy it over to where you chose on the Right side.


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On the Left side, navigate to either 'dev_usb000' or 'dev_usb001'.

Press X

You should see the PARAM.SFO you downloaded earlier in the list of files.


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Press Right to switch to the other side of the File Manager.

'EU' owners navigate to: 'dev_hdd0/GAMES/BLES00229/PS3_GAME/'

'US' owners navigate to: 'dev_hdd0/GAMES/BLUS30127/PS3_GAME/


Now press Left to go back to the Left side again.

Hover over the PARAM.SFO.

(Make sure you've got Advanced mode enabled! Press Select until your screen is Red)

Press O on PARAM.SFO and press Start to confirm, your new PARAM.SFO has now replaced the original.

Done. Quit the File Manager.


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Once back on the XMB, go to your favourite Backup Manager (I highly recommend MultiMan 1.15.02)

Run GTA IV and if you did everything correctly, you will have no prompt to update to 1.06.

Go to your in-game Phone and select Multiplayer... Success!

(Note: As this is a bypass hack, you can only play online with other bypassed players, but they're increasing so it will get populated quickly even on modded online games!)

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I hope this has been of help!




Credits:
Blackb0x Team for the PS3 FTP Server,
Comgenie from You must login or register to view this content. for his Awesome File Manager,
Kmeaw, Geohot and Waninkoko for their Custom Firmware(s),
tim008 from You must login or register to view this content. for creating the Mods in the first place,
STRATEGIZER from You must login or register to view this content. for converting the mods to the PS3 GTA IV,
and ofcourse... You must login or register to view this content., for creating Grand Theft Auto in the first place. :carling:

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+Rep ofcourse if I manage to help you guys. :love:

No no no! Otherwise it will stop your GTA IV from loading.


That's the downside, it's only between bypassed player, but the more people who learn how to do this, then the more who will be online with other hacks.

And it's a whoooole lot more fun than standard online. :carling:

so,is this only bypassing and doesn't require trophies?

yea but,. xbox is better, you can mod your iso and burn it and play online with out this bypass shit, and this works on tbogt. ima just play onb that then, forget ps3 version for now.

:wtf:

This applies to the car editing, but you can add objects around the map. I have "way to happiness" on my PS3 now. Was just wondering if anybody would make a GTA4 Stunt Land or something like that for the ps3. Just ramps all over the map...
NEEEEEDs to be done, would do myself but i'm just not having any luck.
(Insideout jumps misplaced, not good):n00b:

And waste time re-compiling .ISO's and wasting Discs?


Cool to know! I might have to investigate that at some point, modified playing areas sounds like fun! :carling:

I replaced common.rpf and ps3.rpf, etc but now my gta 4 won't boot. Tried deleting 1.06 still won't work. I fixed permissions, tried select+x, tried booting from XMB after loading it, and started it straight from multiman. Black screen each time. I'm just trying to SP mods btw.

Have you replaced the existing PARAM.SFO in 'dev_hdd0/GAMES/BLES00229/PS3_GAME/'?

Also try deleting any existing Game Data for GTA IV in the Game Data Utility and try again.

I go to dev_hdd0/GAMES and after that the directory is empty.

Edit: I deleted gta from my external hdd I'm going to start from the beginning.

Oh! You've got the backup saved on your External HDD?

That'll explain it lol, you have to replace the PARAM.SFO in 'dev_usb000/GAMES/BLES00229/'

Sorry I thought you had it backed up to your Internal PS3 HDD.