Is 3.55 CFW > 4.31 OFW > 4.3x Rogero possible? (so I can play a PSN game)

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Originally Posted by jimmyco2008

Listen to this guy, OP I am pretty lazy haha... But like, Android ROM flashing, I can go from Android 4.2.2 to 4.1.1 to 4.0.4 without any special "downgrade firmware" or the like... I know the PS3 and Android phones are way different, but why do we have to go through all this to downgrade? To me it's like.. If I want to go back to Windows XP (not that I do), I have to Install Windows 7 "downgrade edition", then a special version of Windows XP, then the version of XP I actually want... So I look at the PS3 scenario, and I think "pshh why should I bother"... Has anyone bricked going willy-nilly with firmware like me... with the exception of Rogero, I was sure to follow instructions there?

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You can't compare PS3 firmware to Windows. PS3 firmware has a lot of security in place to try and stop you from doing it. Can't remember what it is called, but there's something like... Syscon or something? Where when some people updated from 3.55 to 4.30 (yes, updated nto downgrade) their PS3 bricked because of a past downgrade they had done didn't update the "syscon" or whatever it is called. That is why you get so many people saying to flash certain firmwares before upgrading (like kmeaw or OFW) and not to flash a patched firmware.

You seriously can't compare PS3 firmware to Windows, or Android. Completely different in every way, Windows simply doesn't have security to try and stop you from downgrading.

Don't worry I am lazy too most of the time!

To the OP...........

Take the safe way.
Trust Krytonic.

That is all.

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Originally Posted by krytonic

Why on earth would you want to update your OFW to begin with? It makes no sense. You won't get banned if you don't play Black Ops 2 online, or have multiman running while signed into PSN.

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As I stated, it's to play an online-only PSN game. The only way to do that used to be by changing to OFW, and everything that I've read said that I should still be doing that (see my original post about going through a lot of outdated information). I don't have any interest in BO2, just interested in playing through Journey.

So it sounds like my best option is going straight from 3.55 CFW to Rebug 4.30, and my online purchasing/play should just work with minimal risk of PSN bans? If that's the case, I might actually restore my clean hard drive dump (before my first 3.55 CFW install) just to be safe, then install Rebug 4.30 on top of that.

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Originally Posted by jimmyco2008

Listen to this guy, OP I am pretty lazy haha... But like, Android ROM flashing, I can go from Android 4.2.2 to 4.1.1 to 4.0.4 without any special "downgrade firmware" or the like... I know the PS3 and Android phones are way different, but why do we have to go through all this to downgrade? To me it's like.. If I want to go back to Windows XP (not that I do), I have to Install Windows 7 "downgrade edition", then a special version of Windows XP, then the version of XP I actually want... So I look at the PS3 scenario, and I think "pshh why should I bother"... Has anyone bricked going willy-nilly with firmware like me... with the exception of Rogero, I was sure to follow instructions there?

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Android / PS3 / Windows are COMPLETELY different. There is no comparison. Also, as krytonic stated, Sony puts countermeasures on the PS3 to actively prevent you from downgrading. Actually, some Android phones also prevent downgrading and the installation of a custom OS, but that's up to the phone manufacturer (and outside the scope of this post).

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Originally Posted by nothsa

As I stated, it's to play an online-only PSN game. The only way to do that used to be by changing to OFW, and everything that I've read said that I should still be doing that (see my original post about going through a lot of outdated information). I don't have any interest in BO2, just interested in playing through Journey.

So it sounds like my best option is going straight from 3.55 CFW to Rebug 4.30, and my online purchasing/play should just work with minimal risk of PSN bans? If that's the case, I might actually restore my clean hard drive dump (before my first 3.55 CFW install) just to be safe, then install Rebug 4.30 on top of that.

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Go for it. You can go straight from 3.55 to Rebug 4.30 and you should be fine playing Journey connected to PSN.

Thought I'd give a quick post-mortem in case anyone else wants to attempt the same thing, or has a similar question. Here's what I did:

• Switched my 3.55 CFW to 3.55 OFW (didn't have to do this step, but I'm paranoid =)
• Installed Rebug 3.55.4 (didn't HAVE to do this, but I wanted to enable the QA flag which can only be done on 3.55)
• Installed Rebug Toolbox (through the "Package Manager > PS3 Hard Disk" menu), loaded it and enabled the "Toggle QA flag" setting in the "Utilities" menu
• Installed Rebug 4.30.1
• Loaded Rebug Toolbox again and in the "Selector" menu I changed "System Mode" to "REBUG" (important step if you want to connect to PSN) and "XMB Operation Mode" to "Retail" (not required)
• Logged into PSN, opened the PSN store (had to approve the "Software update", which updated the store software), bought Journey and played it without any problems

Thanks for the help, everyone! (especially krytonic)

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Originally Posted by nothsa

Thought I'd give a quick post-mortem in case anyone else wants to attempt the same thing, or has a similar question. Here's what I did:

• Switched my 3.55 CFW to 3.55 OFW (didn't have to do this step, but I'm paranoid =)
• Installed Rebug 3.55.4 (didn't HAVE to do this, but I wanted to enable the QA flag which can only be done on 3.55)
• Installed Rebug Toolbox (through the "Package Manager > PS3 Hard Disk" menu), loaded it and enabled the "Toggle QA flag" setting in the "Utilities" menu
• Installed Rebug 4.30.1
• Loaded Rebug Toolbox again and in the "Selector" menu I changed "System Mode" to "REBUG" (important step if you want to connect to PSN) and "XMB Operation Mode" to "Retail" (not required)
• Logged into PSN, opened the PSN store (had to approve the "Software update", which updated the store software), bought Journey and played it without any problems

Thanks for the help, everyone! (especially krytonic)

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Thanks for the steps you took .Nice work mate