Install Package Files on Firmware 4.0

Published on 01-20-2012 12:01 PM

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PlayStation 3 developer ps3hen over at PS3News has released a hack that allows installing retail PKG's on firmware 4.0. Although you cannot run homebrew or unsigned code it serves a purpose to those with hardware flashers using dual boot and who knows what other possibilities.

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Below is a video demonstrating my PS3 4.00 Dev_Flash modification, which simply allows users to install Retail signed package (PKG) files from the PlayStation 3 XMB.

This is hack does the following things:

adds "Install Package Files" and "/app_home/PS3_GAME/" to "GAME" on the XMB (allowing the user to install retail package files anytime they want)
adds other debug functions which are small but still there
does not give access to "Debug Setting" (reasons for this are explained below)

Installation instructions:

This installation procedure is the similar to technodon's original dev_flash hdd swap procedure.

For this you will need two hard drives a e3 flasher or similar device to downgrade your PS3 (assuming that you're on firmware 4.00 and you have an e3 flasher)

downgrade to 3.55 using the downgrade tools from e3 (Of course when downgrading to 3.55 make sure you use a different hdd than the hdd which you were using 4.00)
once booted back into the xmb turn off the console
swap hard drives turn on the system, press the PS button and you will be asked to reinstall the firmware
place the pup file from the e3 downgrade tools in the normal PS3/UPDATE usb folder and follow the on-screen instructions to reinstall the firmware
then install dev_blind.pkg & Blackb0x FTP from install packages
run dev_blind then BlackB0x and FTP into the console
goto /dev_blind delete everything and replace them with the customised dev_flash
press the ps button and the console should reboot and and ask to reinstall the firmware again, switch off the console and swap the hard drive back
turn on the console press the ps button twice
the console should boot back into 3.55 Rogero
goto system update and install 4.00 OFW
once installed turn the console off again and swap hard drives back and you should boot into a modified 4.00 retail firmware.

My package includes:

My modded dev_flash
OFW 4.00 PS3UPDAT.PUP

P.S. BTW the "nas_plugin.sprx" in this dev_flash has not been altered to achieve "Install Package Files". Also for those who will analyze my modded dev_flash, you will find that I have used debug .sprx files from the a debug 4.00 pup.

P.P.S. I originally intended to get "Debug Settings" to work with this. But usage of "debug settings" required the ps3 to use a debug vsh.self, and that crashes the ps3 when trying to load applications (I did some other things as well to prevent the PS3 from giving me a RSOD when I swapped the vsh.self files, I'm not detailing it in public because I don't want Sony to patch it).

Source: ps3news.com

Download: Modded dev_flash & OFW 4.00 PS3UPDAT.PUP

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26 Comments

nerke - 01-20-2012, 12:42 PM
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That is exactly the same evolution like 3.55 Geohot.
I think it just a matter of days/weeks.
That want be great cause I need Silent Hill :P

krytonic - 01-20-2012, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by nerke

That is exactly the same evolution like 3.55 Geohot.
I think it just a matter of days/weeks.
That want be great cause I need Silent Hill :P

Exactly the same? This is completely different.

Hollywood - 01-20-2012, 01:10 PM
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Yeah, not the same thing at all. Don't start getting people excited and asking questions like that.

kite21 - 01-20-2012, 01:27 PM
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Nice, this is a great step foward, it´s good to see good news

slimmnm - 01-20-2012, 01:42 PM
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i wonder if this is the same of kakroto's jailbreak

SMOKE - 01-20-2012, 01:55 PM
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no KaKaRoTos jailbreak is acctually a HEN.. This is a HDD swap trick

K@InEvIL - 01-20-2012, 02:02 PM
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Until now, KaKaRoToKS is the only one who has shown real promise.

dvs - 01-20-2012, 02:17 PM
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Can someone explain this in noob terms. Not the process but the result. Sorry for being thick.

videogamerevie81 - 01-20-2012, 03:30 PM
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I so wish for a 4.0 jailbreak... or hen just so i can play online again!

BahumatLord - 01-20-2012, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by dvs

Can someone explain this in noob terms. Not the process but the result. Sorry for being thick.

Being able to install packages on current firmware is a huge step towards better things. It says you can't run homebrew, so multiman/game managers would be out, but these kind of developments are like that. One guy finds a way to do something, then another guy adds something to it, and so on. I'd wait and see what people/developers do with this but I can see great possibilities for people stuck on 4.00

JudasRein - 01-20-2012, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by BahumatLord

Being able to install packages on current firmware is a huge step towards better things. It says you can't run homebrew, so multiman/game managers would be out, but these kind of developments are like that. One guy finds a way to do something, then another guy adds something to it, and so on. I'd wait and see what people/developers do with this but I can see great possibilities for people stuck on 4.00

Kakarotoks has been able to install packages on 4.00 for a long time now. This is nothing new. This is just the first public release. And this doesn't do much. Without being able to sign homebrew, this is fairly useless to us. It pretty much only allows us to install official Sony packages, which we were always able to do.

BahumatLord - 01-20-2012, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by JudasRein

Kakarotoks has been able to install packages on 4.00 for a long time now. This is nothing new. This is just the first public release. And this doesn't do much. Without being able to sign homebrew, this is fairly useless to us. It pretty much only allows us to install official Sony packages, which we were always able to do.

I'm aware of what Kakarotoks has done/is doing but he hasn't released anything for the masses. It takes more than one person to make things happen. With this guy releasing what's he's working on, then someone else can look at it, then change it or add to it. The whole thing is a process. It is not useless at all - ps3 4.00 development is just in early stages. Relax, wait and see what comes next

dualshock1992 - 01-20-2012, 05:46 PM
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As a result - this indeed IS a step... But not that giant if the installed packages cannot be used...
But still...

mrdrifta - 01-20-2012, 06:07 PM
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This is definately a step forwards in the race for a newer cfw, but we are still limited in our ability to sign packages and run them on 4.0(or lack there of).

If only there was a way to run the old method of authentication (no "npdrm hash algo" check) on 4.0. If only it were that easy lol

BahumatLord - 01-20-2012, 06:29 PM
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it says "developer" on the main page before you even click on the thread. This isn't designed for every day users yet

Hollywood - 01-20-2012, 06:39 PM
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This is nothing more than adding a lock to a door, for which we still don't have a key. It looks pretty, and looks like it's doing something, but we still can't open it. It does more bad to post something like this than good because it only gives false hope. There are plenty of dev only channels and sites to ask for help.

The reason a 3.55 .pkg isntaller was useful then was because we could sign 3.55 .pkgs in a way that they would work, still not even the way the retail ones were, but good enough. So we need the keys for 4.00, then we need level access, Peek Poke.

megatoto - 01-20-2012, 07:01 PM
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useless for the masses but thanks for the information

xipi - 01-20-2012, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Hollywood

This is nothing more than adding a lock to a door, for which we still don't have a key. It looks pretty, and looks like it's doing something, but we still can't open it. It does more bad to post something like this than good because it only gives false hope. There are plenty of dev only channels and sites to ask for help.

The reason a 3.55 .pkg isntaller was useful then was because we could sign 3.55 .pkgs in a way that they would work, still not even the way the retail ones were, but good enough. So we need the keys for 4.00, then we need level access, Peek Poke.

bad analogy
if want bacon u need kill the pig first
even if u can make a signed pkg how u gonna install them without the install packages
dont moaning about peek and poke before u can even have option to install the manager in the firmware

Hollywood - 01-20-2012, 10:01 PM
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.pkg is the easier part, you find the exploit first, before you can put anything on it. What good is having a way to put things on, if you can't put things on? This is like successfully putting a Sega emulator on your PS3 before having any way, or clue how, to even run it.

Don't believe me, look around, this is not the same thing that happened with 3.55 geo, just trying to save a lot of people from blowing things up and getting their hopes up.

GhaleonX - 01-20-2012, 10:40 PM
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Maybe this will make it easier to understand:

1) Find way to install code to ps3

2) create code for the ps3

3) test

Make sense?