PS3 Jailbroken PS3 Questions

[eracns]

I'm fairly new to the modding community which is why I have a bunch of questions before I jailbreak my PS3.

1. If I use Evilnat 4.91 can I go online with my main account?
2. Could I use my game discs that I already own?
3. How would I go about adding avatars once I jailbreak it?
4. Could I earn trophies on my main account from game that I've downloaded through the homebrew without getting banned? If so, how?

 

[NiQ]

I'm fairly new to the modding community which is why I have a bunch of questions before I jailbreak my PS3.

1. If I use Evilnat 4.91 can I go online with my main account?
2. Could I use my game discs that I already own?
3. How would I go about adding avatars once I jailbreak it?
4. Could I earn trophies on my main account from game that I've downloaded through the homebrew without getting banned? If so, how?

1. Yes. It's never 100% safe but if you disable syscalls it's like 95% safe. Most of the people who get banned get banned for cheating online / using game mods anyway. The only games that you should never play online on a modded PS3 are Counterstrike BO2 and all later CS games and Destiny. All others should be safe as long as you don't use trainers and cheats. Also mind that even if it's 99.9% safe, the fact is that if you get caught both the console and the PSN accounts are banned, so it would be wise to use a dedicated PSN account and not risk the one you also use for PS4 / PS5.
2. Yes. CFW does not disable any existing features. I would however recommend copying them to the hard drive or an external USB disk and playing them from there to reduce wear on the optical drive and prolong its life.
3. Buy on PSN.
4. If you use homebrew apps to unlock trophies without properly earning them you can indeed get banned. Sony has methods for detecting hacked trophies, and while a ban is not 100% guaranteed, we don't know how the detection algorithm on PSN servers work so we can't know whether a specific hacked trophy will trigger a ban or not. Better earn your trophies properly.
If you're talking about trophies in homebrew games - homebrew games and apps never have their own trophies, because if they did then attempting to sync them would trigger an immediate ban. Since homebrew games and apps never have their own trophies then you should not worry about this though.
If you're talking about game backups - Using disc backups will not trigger a ban (assuming the trophies themselves are legit) however pirated digital games (pkg) can trigger a ban. Another thing that can trigger bans is beta builds of games, because sometimes the list of trophies changes between betas and the final release. If you have played any of those, better delete the trophies from those games before syncing.

 

[eracns]

3. Buy on PSN.
4. If you use homebrew apps to unlock trophies without properly earning them you can indeed get banned. Sony has methods for detecting hacked trophies, and while a ban is not 100% guaranteed, we don't know how the detection algorithm on PSN servers work so we can't know whether a specific hacked trophy will trigger a ban or not. Better earn your trophies properly.
If you're talking about trophies in homebrew games - homebrew games and apps never have their own trophies, because if they did then attempting to sync them would trigger an immediate ban. Since homebrew games and apps never have their own trophies then you should not worry about this though.
If you're talking about game backups - Using disc backups will not trigger a ban (assuming the trophies themselves are legit) however pirated digital games (pkg) can trigger a ban. Another thing that can trigger bans is beta builds of games, because sometimes the list of trophies changes between betas and the final release. If you have played any of those, better delete the trophies from those games before syncing.

I've seen people download files and add avatars using multiman to their psn account, or are they fake?

 

[Charles_n_town]

Rule number 1 when it comes to hacked consoles is never to use your main account. This is very true with Sony. They ban both systems and accounts, so if you use the same account on any system, including the ps5, it will be banned there too, even if legit on the ps5. I wouldn't risk it if you value the account. It happened to me once long ago, and I lost everything on the ps4. You can still play games, but you can't sign in to redownload purchases, sync trophies, use psn+, etc.