I been wondering time ago about how many versions of the ps2_netemu.self exists inside PS3 firmwares
The only people i imagine that could even try to make "the complete collection" of the ps2_netemu are the ones that has been researching and reversing it, but this is like archeology because there are a lot of firmwares, see here
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/System_Firmware
And is needed to decrypt all the ps2_netemu.self files (with scetool to .elf format) before comparing them
Because it seems are encrypted every time a firmware is released, even if the .elf is the same version than the previous firmware
This results in a different ps2_netemu.self for every firmware (but after decrypted to .elf could be the same)
After decrypted you can open it in a hexeditor and see the version, this is ps2_netemu.elf (decrypted) from firmware 4.81:
Code:
Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
002A4DE0 6C 6F 63 6B 00 00 00 00 5B 50 65 72 66 6F 72 6D lock....[Perform
002A4DF0 61 6E 63 65 5D 20 47 65 6E 65 72 69 63 20 69 6D ance] Generic im
002A4E00 70 72 6F 76 65 6D 65 6E 74 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 provement.......
002A4E10 5B 47 72 61 70 68 69 63 73 5D 20 46 6F 72 20 66 [Graphics] For f
002A4E20 75 6C 6C 73 63 72 65 65 6E 20 6C 69 6E 65 20 63 ullscreen line c
002A4E30 6F 72 72 75 70 74 69 6F 6E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 orruption.......
002A4E40 25 64 2F 25 64 00 00 00 62 75 69 6C 64 20 72 31 %d/%d...build r1
002A4E50 37 34 39 35 2D 6D 61 69 6E 2D 72 65 6C 00 00 00 7495-main-rel...
Note at bottom, the string
build r17495-main-rel
Is literally what can be seen at top of the "secret menu" unlocked by the button combo
The best place where can be seen his versions is in this table, in command 0x3D
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/PS2_Emulation_enviroments_in_PS3_firmware#commands
I been making some wiki tests to reduce and simplify that table the most as posible, im not sure how accurate it was the info in that table, i dont have the files, but the result is this:
So... from there i can see there are 13 versions of it
So the question is, there is someone that tryed to make "the complete collection" that could verify this version info is accurate and completed ?