PS3 Playing games without installing to hdd0

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RotateMotor

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Oh well this is a very interesting tool.
I have a 3000 ps3 and it work perfectly with ps1 and ps3 games both. Anyway, It doesn't work with ps2 games, i think beacuse mine is a non BC console (XMB said there are unsupported data inside the bd drive) and sadly i think there is no way to avoid ps2 classics
 
goh said:
What happen if i don't unmount the psp game before shutdown? softbrick or hardbrick?
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The original psp emulator is not restored.

On CFW it is not an issue. On HEN, it may cause a panic on Hypervisor detecting the emulator as an invalid system file, You will need to reinstall HFW and in the worse case it could cause a hardbrick.

RotateMotor said:
Oh well this is a very interesting tool.
I have a 3000 ps3 and it work perfectly with ps1 and ps3 games both. Anyway, It doesn't work with ps2 games, i think beacuse mine is a non BC console (XMB said there are unsupported data inside the bd drive) and sadly i think there is no way to avoid ps2 classics
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It should work with .BIN.ENC (encrypted PS2 ISO aka PS2 Classics).
HEN does not support non-encrypted PS2 ISO for the same reason in the answer above..
 
RotateMotor said:
@aldostools do you think that this tool can be used to play .pkg games from usb without install them on hdd0? On cfw we can use extrenaldata toggle, but in hen what can we do to play external pkg games?
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Yes if you update to the latest build ;)

But /app_home/PS3_GAME/ icon is required... IIRC somebody decided to remove it for HEN

Or use the old method SELECT+SQUARE to remap /dev_hdd0/game to /dev_usb000/GAMEI
 
aldostools said:
Yes if you update to the latest build ;)

But /app_home/PS3_GAME/ icon is required... IIRC somebody decided to remove it for HEN

Or use the old method SELECT+SQUARE to remap /dev_hdd0/game to /dev_usb000/GAMEI
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Yes, i have ver. 1.47.30, that it should be latest one. Mhh do you know a way to readd /app_home/ps3_game?
 
aldostools said:
I mean the latest commit from last night
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Oh i didn't know there is a last commit. I will download again ur pkg from ur github and i' ll let you know. I saw that u fixed Gamei folder scan xD. Anyway i tryied to mount the game from file manager (Located on usb000) and webman confirms me that i can use pkg launcher to play. But when i launch pkg launcher, it gave me or black screen or it return to xmb... Did u fix this too , or i am doing something wrong? Thank you very much for ur time!
 
I should fix that message.

The game should start automatically when you mount the game from GAMEI folder.

You must have the icon app_home/PS3_GAME/ on Game column of XMB

In HEN this is an issue, because that icon was removed by the developers and the user must replace category_game.xml to have it. This is something I have criticized multiple times but nobody cares.
 
aldostools said:
I should fix that message.

The game should start automatically when you mount the game from GAMEI folder.

You must have the icon app_home/PS3_GAME/ on Game column of XMB

In HEN this is an issue, because that icon was removed by the developers and the user must replace category_game.xml to have it. This is something I have criticized multiple times but nobody cares.
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Oh... ok you explained that perfectly... What if i use R2+Start combo to boot app_home/PS3_Game? Could it work without any entry on xmb?
 
RotateMotor said:
Oh... ok you explained that perfectly... What if i use R2+Start combo to boot app_home/PS3_Game? Could it work without any entry on xmb?
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No. The R2+Start is a shortcut to launch/play the game from the Disc icon -> /dev_bdvd

I recently made a change that if a game is not detected in /dev_bdvd, the shortcut will try to launch the game from ★ app_game/PS3_GAME/ but the icon MUST exist on XMB

Basically this code must be added to category_game.xml and category_game_tool2.xml in /dev_blind/vsh/resource/explore/xmb
Code: 
<Query
class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
key="seg_gamedebug"
src="#seg_gamedebug"
/>
The code goes between the queries for seg_welcome and seg_package_files

BTW this is a new method of launch GAMEI that don't use ROM/PKG Launcher.
It just remaps /app_home/PS3_GAME to /dev_usb000/GAMEI/NPXX12345
 
aldostools said:
No. The R2+Start is a shortcut to launch/play the game from the Disc icon -> /dev_bdvd

I recently made a change that if a game is not detected in /dev_bdvd, the shortcut will try to launch the game from ★ app_game/PS3_GAME/ but the icon MUST exist on XMB

Basically this code must be added to category_game.xml and category_game_tool2.xml in /dev_blind/vsh/resource/explore/xmb
Code: 
<Query
class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
key="seg_gamedebug"
src="#seg_gamedebug"
/>
The code goes between the queries for seg_welcome and seg_package_files

BTW this is a new method of launch GAMEI that don't use ROM/PKG Launcher.
It just remaps /app_home/PS3_GAME to /dev_usb000/GAMEI/NPXX12345
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You are totally the man! IIRC dev_blind (or rewrite) should be enabled by default in hen! Just last question: does the hypervisor check the status of xmls files ? Or it safe to edit them ?
 
RotateMotor said:
You are totally the man! IIRC dev_blind (or rewrite) should be enabled by default in hen! Just last question: does the hypervisor check the status of xmls files ? Or it safe to edit them ?
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I don't think there are issues editing the XML files. If you have an "Enable HEN" icon is because the XML was edited.

Anyway you can wait for confirmation from other HEN users.
 
@aldostools i tried to edit xmls and it seems it doesn't work at all. This is apart of category_game.xml
Code: 
<Items>
            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="seg_fixed_items"
                src="#seg_fixed_items"
                />
            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="seg_sdps2"
                src="sel://localhost/ps2emusave?category_game.xml#seg_sdps2"
                />
            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="seg_fixed_items2"
                src="#seg_fixed_items2"
                />
            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="hen_xmb"
                attr="hen_xmb"
                src="#hen_xmb"
                />
            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="seg_gamedebug"
                src="#seg_gamedebug"
                />
            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="seg_package_files"
                src="#seg_package_files"
                />
            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="external_xmb"
                src="xmb://localhost/dev_usb000/external.xml#external"
                />
and this one is category_game_tool2.xml
Code: 
<Items>
            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="seg_psp2appdata"
                src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_game.xml#seg_psp2appdata"
                />
            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="seg_gamedata"
                src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_game.xml#seg_gamedata"
                />

                        <Query
                                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                                key="seg_sdpsp"
                                attr="seg_sdpsp"
                                src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_game.xml#seg_sdpsp"
                                />


            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="seg_sdps3"
                attr="seg_sdps3"
                src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_game.xml#seg_sdps3"
                />
            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="seg_welcome"
                attr="seg_welcome"
                src="sel://localhost/welcome?type=game"
                />
            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="seg_gamedebug"
                src="#seg_gamedebug"
                />
            <Query
                class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
                key="seg_package_files"
                src="#seg_package_files"
                />
Where could be the error?

EDIT: I have done it! category_game_tool2 is totally ok on hen. Only catgeory.game.xml has problems.
I just added this
Code: 
<View id="seg_gamedebug">
        <Attributes>
            <Table key="game_debug">
                <Pair key="icon_rsc"><String>tex_album_icon</String></Pair>
                <Pair key="title_rsc"><String>msg_tool_app_home_ps3_game</String></Pair>
                <Pair key="child"><String>segment</String></Pair>
            </Table>
        </Attributes>
        <Items>
            <Query class="type:x-xcb/game-debug" key="game_debug"  attr="game_debug" />
        </Items>
    </View>
Over <View id="seg_package_files"> entry and all works, even pkg files from USB!
 
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RotateMotor said:
EDIT: I have done it! category_game_tool2 is totally ok on hen. Only catgeory.game.xml has problems.
I just added this
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Over <View id="seg_package_files"> entry and all works, even pkg files from USB!
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Congratulations! It would be nice if you share your XMLs to help other HEN users with your issue.
 
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Very interesting, I just found out there is a feature like this, amazing.

Please help, what are the steps so that wMM can run pkg games on an external HDD?

I've installed wMM last commit, installed ROM/PKG Launcher, extracted the pkg game to the external HDD GAMEI folder (My PSN account is active because I bought the PSN game officially), added ★ app_game/PS3_GAME/ in category_game.xml, then what are the next steps?

Thanks.
 
UFC3 said:
Very interesting, I just found out there is a feature like this, amazing.

Please help, what are the steps so that wMM can run pkg games on an external HDD?

I've installed wMM last commit, installed ROM/PKG Launcher, extracted the pkg game to the external HDD GAMEI folder (My PSN account is active because I bought the PSN game officially), added ★ app_game/PS3_GAME/ in category_game.xml, then what are the next steps?

Thanks.
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Check pkg launcher in scan for content section of /setup.ps3
Refresh XML and XMB

The folder GAMEI should be stored in an external USB device formatted in FAT32 MBR

The game folders extracted into GAMEI must be named as a title id or a content id that match with the title id in PARAM.SFO

The games should not contain files larger than 4GB

If the game is not npDRM free, the rap must exist or the rif must be already installed
 
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aldostools said:
Check pkg launcher in scan for content section of /setup.ps3
Refresh XML and XMB

The folder GAMEI should be stored in an external USB device formatted in FAT32 MBR

The game folders extracted into GAMEI must be named as a title id or a content id that match with the title id in PARAM.SFO

The games should not contain files larger than 4GB

If the game is not npDRM free, the rap must exist or the rif must be already installed
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It worked, great feature, thank you very much.
 
Aldo, maybe this is a rather difficult request, is it possible that PKG Launcher is not made visible in the webMAN Games?
 
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