Hide your banned PSN ID from Sony, without stealing ConsoleID

[Kamse]

Ok, first off, i'm not the one who discovered this, it all comes from a french site called ps3-addict.fr
So props to the original author : Djoe45

With this method, you'll be able to connect to the PSN even if you're banned/blacklisted by Sony, without the need to use another/someone else ConsoleID!

Requirements:
Charles and PS3DNS installed and configured on your computer.
If you didn't, please check all the relevant tutorials here, they're sticked, so they won't be hard to find.


Step 1:
Power on your PS3 and then start Charles on your computer to get your own ConsoleID.




Step 2:
Go to the following menu : Tools -> Rewrite -> Add



Ok, so now, the relevant part, we're gonna edit our ConsoleID to the following settings:

Type = Body
Where = Request (do not check Response)
Match Value = your ConsoleID (taken from picture 1)
Replace Value = empty/blank/no value, do not write anything!

And press Ok, to save your modifications.


Step 3:
Now we need to edit our hosts file to prevent Sony from updating your console.
Browse to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ (or whatever location your hosts file is).

And then edit it to add the following line at the end:
your_ip fREGION01.ps3.update.playstation.net

REGION beeing the region you're connecting to (eu, uk, us, mx, au…).
So if your ip is 192.168.0.179 and connecting to European servers, it will looks like this:

192.168.0.179 feu01.ps3.update.playstation.net

Yep that's it, nothing more, nothing less.
Basically, what we've done wasn't to spoof our own ConsoleID to someone else's one, but to... an empty one ^^

Remember, i did nothing but to translate it (roughly) and resize the original images.
I just want to give credit where credit is due.

Source - PS3-Additct.fr :
http://www.ps3-addict.fr/forum/masqu...psn-t2410.html

[DevilGun]

Its too easy for sony to deny everyone without ID..... i dont even bother to try this xD

[brawngp]

Its too easy for sony to deny everyone without ID..... i dont even bother to try this xD

All well and good but does it work?? im not banned (yet!!~) so cant try it.

[Kamse]

I'm not stupid, i know that it's an easy fix, but still.
I saw this and nobody was talking about it, so all i wanted to do was to share.
If it's of any help to even one person, then good, if not... then let it be.

@brawngp: i can't test it either, since i'm not banned (yet!), but members on the french forum tested it and stated that it does work.
In fact, all members that used this trick were back online again.

[ichibaka]

I sifted through the site but it doesn't say whether the OP has a banned console or not. A probably problem with this is even though we're masking our console ID it has already been registered at the server so if they think we're still using the old console that was previously flagged then it's a trip to "banstation".

Although this is a nice solution for everyone with a brand new console, or one not flagged (but how would you know), and very importantly a brand new PSN account with spotless record.

[p1p1s]

Yeah its pointless!But i think this thread must close now because is showing also how to change console id... and this is not good idea for the psn users!

Edit:
@kamse
You don't help the banned users with this!If this works they will be online for 1 day because you spreaded!

[phoenix1200]

Cant i spoof my OFW ps3 console id to my CFW ps3 to play online

[cookie42]

Interesting read. Wouldn't 127.0.0.1 be better for the hosts file.

Cant i spoof my OFW ps3 console id to my CFW ps3 to play online

I'm sure you probably could, if you want to get your ofw banned too.

[JeNeI]

I am banned from September 2009.Will test this asap.

[gauner1986]

Actually it doesn't even spoof anything, if you read what Charles says at the bottom. "Leave blank for NO change". Says it doesn't do anything and leaves your ID in place..