First PSX game that don't need activation. Inject a new game possible?

**tisurame** · 04-20-2011,12:40 PM

Dino Crisis 2 was released this week in the PSN. Curiously, it is the first PSOne game that don't need activation to work. Just installing the .pkg file is enough to make the game run.

Could this open the doors for a method that it will make it possible to inject and run others games, like what happens with the PSP?

I'm not sure if it's allowed to post a link for this game, but if you search for it's file name, you may find it.

**Kaan** · 04-20-2011,01:31 PM

If you provided the filename that may have helped.

**tisurame** · 04-20-2011,01:52 PM

Originally Posted by Kaan

If you provided the filename that may have helped.

I already did. But I guess it was edited by the moderator. Well, I will post a indirect link to download from the server, if that is ok...

Lix.in - Linkprotection

**chemicalbro** · 04-20-2011,01:57 PM

A little sleuthing leads me to....

UP9000-NPUJ01279_00-0000000000000001

http://zeus.dl.playstation.net/cdn/U...hTKQfIzwQw.pkg

If this ain't cool to post, sorry mods.

**atreyu187** · 04-20-2011,02:11 PM

Grabbed it and installed it and it ask for the liscense renewal so it isn't as easy as installing the pkg unless I need to be on a certain setting with ReBug.

**tisurame** · 04-20-2011,02:34 PM

Originally Posted by atreyu187

Grabbed it and installed it and it ask for the liscense renewal so it isn't as easy as installing the pkg unless I need to be on a certain setting with ReBug.

That's odd. I'm also using rebug and a few others peoples already confirmed it worked without activation.

If I delete the .rif file from the exdata folder, unlike others psx games, it will work.

I will download and reinstall the game again, to make sure Sony didn't change the file or something.

**chesh** · 04-20-2011,02:38 PM

There is a known way to pirate PSN content w/ the rebug firmware that I will not go into here because it's against the rules, but my guess is, this is why this isn't requiring activation for you.

**tisurame** · 04-20-2011,03:15 PM

Originally Posted by chesh

There is a known way to pirate PSN content w/ the rebug firmware that I will not go into here because it's against the rules, but my guess is, this is why this isn't requiring activation for you.

Yes. I know all about that.

Anyway, I deleted the .rif from Dino Crisis 2, downloaded the pkg again and now it ask me to activate. I will ask someone who downloaded this game last week, when it was already available in PSN, but hidden from the public, to delete the .rif and try to run the game to see if it will ask for activation.

Maybe Sony changed the file, or maybe it was a false alarm. We will see.

**Kamse** · 04-20-2011,03:17 PM

Busted ^^

**tisurame** · 04-20-2011,06:32 PM

Sorry guys, but I was wrong. I just confirmed the game needs activation. If you delete the .rif file and execute the game, and you are connected in the PSN, it will create another .rif file automatically. If you are offline, it will ask for activation. Since I was online, that's probably what happened.

Sorry about that.

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