Launch backups without Manager

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Launch backups without Manager

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Launching backups without a Manager With the recent release of Geohot's 3.55 CFW, it was only a matter of time before a method to read backups was found.

A user named Riku.kh3 managed to get "Castlevania: Lords of Shadow" running from his internal hard drive while on CFW3.55.

He achieved this by patching the game's self file (EBOOT.BIN) to make the PS3 believe the backup is a PSN game! And it works!

External content (video or audio) hidden: it sets its own cookies.
Riku.kh3 made available the package with Castlevania's eboot, but for obvious reasons this file cannot be distributed here.

Here's the installation method anyway:

1) Install the PKG package.
2) Transfer all the contents of your game's "USRDIR" folder except the EBOOT.BIN into "/devhdd0/game/GAME_ID/USRDIR/"
3) You can now launch your backup from the XMB!

To make your own packages:

1) Download and compile the latest tools available on git.fail0verflow.com (older versions of UNSELF produced an invalid ELF file)
2) Extract the ELF from the game's SELF (the EBOOT.BIN)
3) With a hex editor, open the ELF file, find and replace "dev_bdvd" with the correct directory, namely "dev_hdd0" (not essential, but most games need this change)
4) Compile an NPDRM SELF with Geohot's tools.
5) Compile a PKG using "psn_package_npdrm"
6) Sign the PKG with Geohot's tools (only for firmware 3.55)

This method also works on firmware 3.41; once the backup is installed, you no longer need a dongle to launch the backup.
We don't yet know if this works for all games.
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you need to have some know-how to pull this off, a tutorial with pictures would be great :roll: .thanks for the news :bravo:


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*cool!
thanks for the news!
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I'll test it thanks (no other choice for now) :bravo:


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