4.93 EVILNAT (Cobra 8.5)

PS3 4.93 Evilnat w/ Cobra v8.5 - (CEX/PEX/D-PEX) 4.93

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RandomGuy2024 said:
So, is there no way to sync trophies, download bought content or buy new one without accessing the PSN?
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No. That's why it's not recommended to use a hacked console with a legit account. While the chance of being banned is low these days, it's not 0 percent. And, if you get banned, it will affect all other systems with that account. Unfortunately, Sony bans both systems and accounts. Your other systems will be safe, but not the account. There's some misinformation that Sony bans all systems with the account, which is untrue. I got banned with my first account. I didn't game much at the time, but I had bought several ***PlayStation Store*** on the PS4. Lost it all, but I have a friend who lost over $5,000 worth of content after his account got banned.
 
RandomGuy2024 said:
What if the account or/and the PS3 gets banned, can fake activation circumvent it?
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Fake activation has one purpose and one purpose only - to allow you to play digital game backups. If you get banned the only way to get back online is to spoof your IDPS and create a new PSN account. That said, I don't recall anyone getting banned for using the PS3 store, and the only serious risk with trophies is if you attempt to sync fake trophies, which might get you banned as well.
 
NiQ said:
Fake activation has one purpose and one purpose only - to allow you to play digital game backups. If you get banned the only way to get back online is to spoof your IDPS and create a new PSN account. That said, I don't recall anyone getting banned for using the PS3 store, and the only serious risk with trophies is if you attempt to sync fake trophies, which might get you banned as well.
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Do trophies from american or japanese games (for instance) appear on an european PSN account after syncing?
 
RandomGuy2024 said:
Do trophies from american or japanese games (for instance) appear on an european PSN account after syncing?
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I'm pretty sure they do, but either way you won't get banned just for playing imported games, because (most) PS3 games are region-free by design.
 
NiQ said:
I'm pretty sure they do, but either way you won't get banned just for playing imported games, because (most) PS3 games are region-free by design.
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Then I don't know why only some of them appeared for a game I played. Will trophies appear even if syncing years after having played the games while not being signed to the PSN account?
 
Sony is pretty good about being able to get stuff back, say if your console fails, like for example, the extended storage on the PS4 will work on another PS4 or 5 as long as you sign in again to redownload your licenses. The PS3 can sync trophies automatically, use cloud saving, and download content at a specified time if you're a psn plus subscriber. Cloud saving, unfortunately, requires psn plus on PS4 and 5 as well, and while not all work, you can export saves too. With that being said, cfw or hen is only worth it if you need it for some reason. If using the same account is important to you, I'd say maybe it's not worth the risk. Though if you're on hen on PS4 and 5, and trophies are important to you, as you mentioned, you'll probably never be able to sign in again anyway or lose hen for an indeterminate amount of time.
 
Charles_n_town said:
Sony is pretty good about being able to get stuff back, say if your console fails, like for example, the extended storage on the PS4 will work on another PS4 or 5 as long as you sign in again to redownload your licenses. The PS3 can sync trophies automatically, use cloud saving, and download content at a specified time if you're a psn plus subscriber. Cloud saving, unfortunately, requires psn plus on PS4 and 5 as well, and while not all work, you can export saves too. With that being said, cfw or hen is only worth it if you need it for some reason. If using the same account is important to you, I'd say maybe it's not worth the risk. Though if you're on hen on PS4 and 5, and trophies are important to you, as you mentioned, you'll probably never be able to sign in again anyway or lose hen for an indeterminate amount of time.
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Since I subscribed PS Plus, can I get banned by the PS3 automatically syncing trophies? Also, can delisted games be played if having the PKG and RAP files and what if Sony removes the PSN links? Sony shut down the PSP PS store and supposedly bought and downloaded PSP PSN content can still be played.
 
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RandomGuy2024 said:
Since I subscribed to PS Plus, can I get banned by the PS3 automatically syncing trophies? Also, can delisted games be played if having the PKG and RAP files and what if Sony removes the PSN links? Sony shut down the PSP PS store and supposedly bought and downloaded PSP PSN content can still be played.
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Doubtful, but I'm not sure if I'd keep those automatic sign in stuff enabled on cfw.
 
RandomGuy2024 said:
Since I subscribed PS Plus, can I get banned by the PS3 automatically syncing trophies? Also, can delisted games be played if having the PKG and RAP files and what if Sony removes the PSN links? Sony shut down the PSP PS store and supposedly bought and downloaded PSP PSN content can still be played.
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Subscribing to PS Plus does not affect anything regarding bans. Attempting to sync fake trophies can get you banned whether you have PS Plus or not. That said, I'm not even sure why you even have PS Plus on the PS3 now because these days it's practically useless - iirc the only thing it does on PS3 these days is allow you to save games to the cloud. And if you have a PS Plus subscription because you also use it for the PS4 / PS5 then you should never use the same account on a modded PS3 because if you get banned the account is completely closed. If you're gonna be using PSN on a modded PS3 you need to use a throwaway account.

Regarding your second question - that's a non-issue because afaik delisted games are not retroactively removed from the libraries of people who've already purchased them. The only exceptions are online games (e.g. MMOs) whose servers shut down and are therefore unplayable anyway.
Generally I'd recommend reinstalling games by redownloading them from the store instead of using PKG/RAP backups. You don't need to pay again just to redownload a game you've already purchased. The ability to backup and sideload retail games is mainly useful if you have a poor Internet connection, and obviously essential for game preservation when the PS3 store eventually shuts down.
If you do decide to reinstall a digital game from a PKG/RAP backup and you want to use PSN then make sure you properly activate the PS3 on the same account as the one used to purchase the game. If you attempt to play online or sync trophies of a game that's not in your PS3 store purchase history then it's a dead giveaway that your console is modded.
 
NiQ said:
Subscribing to PS Plus does not affect anything regarding bans. Attempting to sync fake trophies can get you banned whether you have PS Plus or not. That said, I'm not even sure why you even have PS Plus on the PS3 now because these days it's practically useless - iirc the only thing it does on PS3 these days is allow you to save games to the cloud. And if you have a PS Plus subscription because you also use it for the PS4 / PS5 then you should never use the same account on a modded PS3 because if you get banned the account is completely closed. If you're gonna be using PSN on a modded PS3 you need to use a throwaway account.

Regarding your second question - that's a non-issue because afaik delisted games are not retroactively removed from the libraries of people who've already purchased them. The only exceptions are online games (e.g. MMOs) whose servers shut down and are therefore unplayable anyway.
Generally I'd recommend reinstalling games by redownloading them from the store instead of using PKG/RAP backups. You don't need to pay again just to redownload a game you've already purchased. The ability to backup and sideload retail games is mainly useful if you have a poor Internet connection, and obviously essential for game preservation when the PS3 store eventually shuts down.
If you do decide to reinstall a digital game from a PKG/RAP backup and you want to use PSN then make sure you properly activate the PS3 on the same account as the one used to purchase the game. If you attempt to play online or sync trophies of a game that's not in your PS3 store purchase history then it's a dead giveaway that your console is modded.
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I thought syncing trophies was OK (as long as they weren't fake).
 
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To clarify a bit what aldostools said - PEX and D-PEX are identical. The only difference is that PEX would only install on consoles that are in CEX mode and D-PEX would only install on consoles that are in DEX mode. In other words, D-PEX just saves you the need of switching to CEX, installing PEX then switching to DEX.


Evilnat CFW has the QA flag toggled on by default iirc, so you might have turned it off by mistake, though if the debug settings combo works then it has to be on.
You can try downgrading from recovery mode, see if it works for you.
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Hi and thanks for your reply. It does seem to be that the QA flag is active by default, although I'll admit I tried to do this by using the Habib QA toggle thing first (at that point I didn't realise the QA toggle was now built in to the CFW). I found it impossible to do the required button combination on the Habib thingy, so was fretting a bit, and then started looking around the CFW menus (probably should have done that first, but I had a mission, and i was on it for that purpose). Anyway, when I went to the tools menu and found the QA toggle check, i used that, and it advised me it was off (I'm interpreting that as there is no QA check, so you can regress FW at this point). As long as my interpretation is accurate, then everything else (IMO) was good to go for the regression back to 4.88.2.

Is my interpretation correct?

How does recovery mode work? How do you get to that, and what will that do differently from not using it?
 
RandomGuy2024 said:
I thought syncing trophies was OK (as long as they weren't fake).
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Well, it's true that I haven't really heard of many cases where people got banned for syncing trophies from digital backups (and the ones that I did hear of might have been banned not for that but for fake trophies), but the fact is that you leave a visible trace that can, at least in theory, be checked retroactively. When you sync trophies the dates of the trophies, as well as the sync dates, are saved on Sony's servers, and should they at any point in the future decide to cross-reference it with user's PS3 store purchase history they'll have a nice long list of modded consoles. The chance of them actually doing that? idk, probably not too big, but for me it's enough not to risk my PSN account, especially not the main one.
 
Rissy said:
Hi and thanks for your reply. It does seem to be that the QA flag is active by default, although I'll admit I tried to do this by using the Habib QA toggle thing first (at that point I didn't realise the QA toggle was now built in to the CFW). I found it impossible to do the required button combination on the Habib thingy, so was fretting a bit, and then started looking around the CFW menus (probably should have done that first, but I had a mission, and i was on it for that purpose). Anyway, when I went to the tools menu and found the QA toggle check, i used that, and it advised me it was off (I'm interpreting that as there is no QA check, so you can regress FW at this point). As long as my interpretation is accurate, then everything else (IMO) was good to go for the regression back to 4.88.2.

Is my interpretation correct?

How does recovery mode work? How do you get to that, and what will that do differently from not using it?
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Yes, as long as the QA flag is on it should allow you to downgrade.
Recovery mode allows you to self-service troubleshoot some issues if your PS3 does not function properly. It has the ability to flash new firmware without fully booting XMB, and there are a few cases where it can help when flashing from XMB fails.
 
NiQ said:
Well, it's true that I haven't really heard of many cases where people got banned for syncing trophies from digital backups (and the ones that I did hear of might have been banned not for that but for fake trophies), but the fact is that you leave a visible trace that can, at least in theory, be checked retroactively. When you sync trophies the dates of the trophies, as well as the sync dates, are saved on Sony's servers, and should they at any point in the future decide to cross-reference it with user's PS3 store purchase history they'll have a nice long list of modded consoles. The chance of them actually doing that? idk, probably not too big, but for me it's enough not to risk my PSN account, especially not the main one.
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What about Blu-Ray games? The games could have just been bought in that format, not in the digital one.

Now my PS3 is stuck a 47% in system file restore, no matter what I do. It asks to format the system. It seems I'll lose everything since the console even freezes when I click to rebuild the database or to install the FW in Safe Mode. I'm tired of having problems. I might as well return to the HDD since I've told the PS3 has problems with SSDs (even though I had a lot of them with HDDs and on different PS3s).
 
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