Playing backups on DEX 4.2

[zadow28]

heres an guide to play backups on dex 4.20

tested rachel clank

first locate game

in the BCES00511 folder make an folder named app_home

drag then the ps3_game folder and all into the app_home folder.

so its app_home/PS3_GAME etc

In target maneger

in sytem software or release mode set the app_home folder and choose the one you made.

then grab the eboot.bin unself it.

then make fself

make_fself eboot.elf eboot.bin.

copy back to USR dir.

Now in xmb there is app_home folder the game shows up there.

start play

UPDATE
To fix black screen games

after decrypting the eboot.bin to .elf, replace /dev_bdvd to /app_home
then make_fself
tested prince of persia 3d


Thanks to Dean,acab for testing.

[KeikoCute]

Will this work on 3.6+ backups?

[aldostools]

I just updated my PS3 Tools Collection, so now if you press Shift+Ctrl+Enter on the EBOOT.BIN (found in app_home/PS3_GAME/USRDIR), from Windows Explorer, the tool will convert the EBOOT.BIN into a fself

Other useful combos for the EBOOT.BIN are:
-Shift+Enter = extract the ELF
-Ctrl+Enter = Resign the EBOOT.BIN
-Enter = Show EBOOT.BIN information (via scetool)
-Alt+Enter = File properties (duh)

[zadow28]

Will this work on 3.6+ backups?

would work if the eboot.bin can be decrypted

still in the testing phase though but had succes on rachell clank , alice monsters return star wars.

look like all the discless games can run this way
i gues the none discless would work if you build an disc with an f_self in ps3gen, mounted in target with bdemu on it would work also.

[PatrickBatman]

Zadow, I moved this to the Tutorials section but left a perm redirect in ps3 game backups

[leonidas12]

Haven´t had to much luck with the games I´ve tried.
The games that I got working were Race Driver Grid, Naughty Bear and a ps3 demo disc I had.
I couldn´t get working Hasbro Family game night, Nail´D, Just Cause(trophy error), Bionic Commando(installs game data then gives tropy error), Brain Challenge(trophy error).
I´ll test a few more but I have a feeling compatibilty is pretty low. I´ve only been decrypting eboots though, I´m not sure if anything els is needed.

Anyways, nice guide. Before I was making the mistake of using dev_hdd0 instead of app_home.
Thanks for the quick tut. there´s not all that much info for DEX and I´m always interested in reading up on anything I can.

[zadow28]

Haven´t had to much luck with the games I´ve tried.
The games that I got working were Race Driver Grid, Naughty Bear and a ps3 demo disc I had.
I couldn´t get working Hasbro Family game night, Nail´D, Just Cause(trophy error), Bionic Commando(installs game data then gives tropy error), Brain Challenge(trophy error).
I´ll test a few more but I have a feeling compatibilty is pretty low. I´ve only been decrypting eboots though, I´m not sure if anything els is needed.

Anyways, nice guide. Before I was making the mistake of using dev_hdd0 instead of app_home.
Thanks for the quick tut. there´s not all that much info for DEX and I´m always interested in reading up on anything I can.

you have to if it dosent work , map the drive to either z/p/ or what letter you like.
then look at update 1 i wrote.
but i hav en felling some one is gonna make this easyer to us.

also if you want to have some fun meanwhile.
take any pkg unpkg it
then unself the eboot.bin and all in the usr folder.

then make_fselfnpdrm in.elf in out.elf

pack pkg

install

run if it dosent need peek poke it runs

if it need peek poke it runs

either way on target maneger

you can trigger an remote core dump

and dump the code. (where is the monkey smiley)


ps this tested with all homebrew in the wiki


regards

[gDrive]

Why bother doing this for already playable/decryptable backups?
Stay on 3.55 DEX with P&P enabled, much easier and the compatibility is way better.

This method is merely doing what we were doing in the early days on Kmeaw to get games working so anybody who has been in the scene for 12 months or more should know this.

A little bit of history repeating maybe?

What's next? A modified lv2patcher with 4.20 offsets that runs before running multiman? Installable pkg's that make the game playable from the XMB?

Well, hopefully there WILL be a far better solution to run newer games via the "backup-style" methods, and going back to your question, some just prefer to do things the hard way for educational purposes in the hope that it will lead them to something, and in certain cases, the trial-and-error approach towards HAS led to certain things for those who try.

As for looking at this from an end-users' perspective, the only thing I can say is: just wait it out until another scene breakthrough happens!

[acab]

Why bother doing this for already playable/decryptable backups?
Stay on 3.55 DEX with P&P enabled, much easier and the compatibility is way better.

so you can have old backups and new 4.00 + games without changing the fw all the time maybe ?? just a thought ..

[CookieMonster]

The question is: until now, all latest leaked DEX firmwares is 4.20. even in the futures the updates (that alllow to play backups on dex) of the games will be 4.21+ .

If no 4.21+ DEX firmware is leaked, then, bye-bye to future backup playing.

With that, i praise the leaked cex2dex method, all the "testers" around the world and all the people that have sacrified is ps3´s, but i still rather wait before i cex2dex my ps3 and see further developments.

Respect to devs and kisses to GR (who i know, lurkes this forum in a sneaky way :-)