PS3 PlayStation Home Revived and Enhanced by Home Laboratory!

Home is back on the XMB in 2025! Download and Play just like it was originally!

I am pleased to present our extensive work on reviving and enhancing PlayStation Home. Led by AgentDark447, our team has developed an advanced, open-source iteration of this server platform, significantly expanding its capabilities beyond the original. Below, I outline the project's scope, technical advancements, and access instructions for those interested in exploring or contributing.

INFORMATION WEBSITE: https://homelaboratory.online/

New Home Lab Trailer by Star_777


Video by SonyPsHomer showing some Real time features being applied to PS3 and RPCS3 simultaneously

About Tools & Resources Credits

  • Project Overview:​
    Home Laboratory has successfully restored PlayStation Home to an operational state for the first time on open-source software. Our initiative leverages server software created by us and facilitates a development environment similar to Sony's original framework. While still a work in progress, this will not merely be a restoration but a substantial evolution compared to the version you remember, incorporating thousands of developer-focused features designed to empower both creators and users.

    Home lab team member @Rew hosts and maintains the PlayStation home multiplayer server. For any questions related to that he is the man to ask.


    Technical Enhancements:
    • Real-Time Inventory Management: A unique web-based system for managing in-game inventories.
    • Real-Time Remote Control System: A versatile tool enabling extensive control over the platform, accessible remotely via PC web browser. This is like an RTM tool on steroids.
    • File Manipulation Tools: Utilities to unpack and repack all PlayStation Home file types, providing full data access.
    • Open-Source Server Software: Available for deployment, allowing individuals to host private servers (note: this requires advanced technical expertise).
    • Custom Content Integration: Support for user-created content, deployable online for multiplayer interaction.
    • Developer Builds: A semi-recreated development environment mirroring Sony's, facilitating advanced modifications.


    Don't have a PS3? You can join in on PC too, RPCS3 pkg available HERE

    Don't want to update from the version of CFW or HEN you are on now, Get the latest PS3 pkg directly HERE

    These features represent years of research and development, though the project remains relatively unknown so far, with our Discord community currently under 700 members.


    Recent Milestone: XMB Integration
    .With the latest PS3 4.92 HEN update and Evilnat 4.92 CFW release, we have restored the PlayStation Home icon to the XMB, replicating its original functionality. Thanks to amazing developers @esc0rtd3w and @EviInat for that.

    To access this new feature on the XMB:
    • Update your PS3 to 4.92 HFW and install the latest HEN, or install your Evilnat 4.92 CFW of choice.
    • Download PlayStation Home from the PSN category as originally intended.
    • Launch the application (PSN account required).
    • No DNS modifications or whitelists required.

    Should you encounter issues, I am available to provide technical assistance here, with others on Discord.

  • Tools and Resources:

    Our team has developed and collected an array of tools and data over the past few years, all publicly accessible. Here are some useful Home Lab-related links for those interested in knowing more:

    Some images of just some of the software we have created over the last few years:

    nautilusdb.png nautilussdc.png nautilussharc.png nautilustss.png psho.me.png RTRC.png psho.me2.png filedumper.png contentpreserver.png


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    Team Developers and Key Contributors:
    • ☆ AgentDark447 ☆
      Owner of the Home Laboratory Discord and creator of the MultiServer Software @ GitHub; Reverse Engineer and Primary Cryptography Expert; Network Specialist (DNS, HTTP(S), Horizon, SVO); API Implementation Specialist (SSFW, OHS, Custom APIs, etc.); PlayStation® Home Minigame Repair Unit.
    • ★ JumpSuit ★
      Horizon Expert (Medius, DME, Muis, etc.) @ GitHub; API Implementation Specialist (OHS, Premium Agency, CDM, Custom APIs, etc.); Reverse Engineer and Secondary Cryptography Expert; PlayStation® Home Minigame Repair Unit.
    • ☆ DeViL303 ☆
      Website Hoster for the Home Laboratory Object Catalogue @ psho.me; The PlayStation® Home Tool Maker @ Nautilus; PlayStation® Home Exploit Discovery Unit; Go-to guy for EBOOT patches.
    • ★ Rew ★
      Server Hoster and Content Overseer for the PS® Homeology Lab Online Server; Cache Management / Cache Analysis; Multiserver Software Core Tester; Batch Script / Excel Spreadsheet Expert.
    • ☆ Pongo ☆
      PlayStation® Home Ex-Developer; Donated a bunch of Home Development Kits, including the 1.82 HDK containing debug symbols.
    • ★ JohnDrinkWater ★
      Archived and open-sourced a good chunk of the PlayStation® Home CDN as of 4/1/2015 @ GitHub.
    • ☆ SpookySniper ☆
      PlayStation® Home Ex-Modder; Donated dumped TSS files, crucial to getting PlayStation® Home into an online state.
    • ☆ SlyCooperReloadCoded☆
      Tester, Moderator, Youtuber, Sly Cooper enthusiast and game modder
    • ☆ Star_777☆
      Tester, Moderator, PlayStation® Home Glitcher, Modder, Original PHC Team member, Youtuber


Unlike other Home-related projects, we build and release our own software, and its all open source. This enables modifications such as adding or removing in-game assets, to creating new content with the Home development kit and then using that online.​

Purpose and Invitation:
  • This project aims to preserve and expand PlayStation Home's legacy, offering a platform for both end-users and developers. Whether you seek to explore its features or contribute technically, we invite your participation. Given its limited public exposure, this is an opportunity to engage with this new community-building initiative in its early stages.

Home Laboratory Discord: https://discord.gg/hWNpXE65TG

Regards,
Home Laboratory Team
 
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LuanTeles said:
We've just got what we needed: a fully open-source home server, maintained by dedicated people, no whitelist, no lies, no bs and no nonsense.
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DeViL303 said:
Because a closed source DH monopoly with no players was better yeah? :)

Now at least people have choice.

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In a perfect world DH would be the pshome revival, you just download the .pkg from gamebrew or something, input the dns and then you're in. No reading through forum beef deciding which pshome revival service is the "good" one, its more popular overall because everyone is in the pshome, no discord servers that nag you for cache and take 3 hours to get "whitelisted" just for the whitelist to take another billion years to go through, you'd have the player list on the website instead of DH hiding it in psrewired so they can link it as a damn discord channel, I can never remember the name of psrewired and "destination home players online" never brings up any useful results.

I agree that DH completely shat the bed with how they approached, well, everything. Making people join a discord just to run their homebrew is a terrible idea, them not open sourcing their code was definitely an attempt to stop fragmentation among other things that could've been the right move early on, the already small pshome userbase shouldnt be split across a jillion different services.

Unfortunately DH went ahead and gave people valid reasons to want a better experience that they cant get with DH, which only other services could provide. HHQ had to boost heaps of their code to make it happen. Endless discord drama ensued that served to make the home revival scene a worse place for a while. I wont get into the back and forth but HHQ won, how good DH's code is doesnt matter when HHQ has 22 players online and DH has 2

I am a bit sour since I spent a while in DH just for it to basically die off, DH cache isnt transferable to HHQ cache so now pshome takes up 24gb of my hdd and I gotta redo everything, I am also left wondering how much more popular would pshome be today if it was actually easy to use when it was first going through the youtube sphere. Now everyones first impression of pshome is "its neat but I gotta join some discord server and figure out what a cache is and get whitelisted and I cant leave the discord because they'll remove the whitelist and its all a mess"

Yes I got removed from the whitelist once because I stopped using discord
 
DeViL303
You have some of it right, But I dont think you really know anything about HHQ.. HHQ didnt boost any code.. cos they cant and didnt code anything at all. They have no developers, its a bunch of kids who had a server set up for them by the people who created the software.. US!

All HHQ did was use Home Labs open source software and then they removed our credits, stabbed us in the back and started telling everyone they were a revival team that brought Home back all on their own, Their lies went down very well on tiktok and they got a bit of a following. That's it with HHq, bunch of liars who now wait around for us to fix something so they can make an announcement about having more stuff working.

With your referral to "boosting" stuff, I assume you are referring to the assets, If you remember correctly all the cache donations were for a community archive, Now DH reneged on that community archive, lied to cache donators for years and simply hoarding all the cache themselves.

But its ok, we have filled the gap: https://huggingface.co/datasets/pebxcvi/PSHomeCacheDepot

Home Lab solves most of those issues you speak of, you dont need to be in any discord, you just download the pkg and play. Thousands are trying it without even knowing about the discord.
 
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ANDREAS777
"Download PlayStation Home from the PSN category as originally intended."

what does this even mean? from the xmb? there is no ps home option, from the ps store? i cant download it from there neither, so HOW? can you be more clear make a tutorial video at least? this is not helpful at all
 
DeViL303
If you are on the latest HFW with HEN, or the latest Evilnat CFW you will get a new Playstation Home icon appear in the PSN category. This will allow you to download Home in the same way as it was originally made available.

If you dont want to do that you can just download and install the package like any homebrew/game. This version will appear in the game category on PS3.

PS3 PKG: https://pshomeologylab.net/release/1.86/qa/ps3/HOMEOLOGYLAB_QA_JBPS3_1.86_LATEST.pkg

RPCS3 PKG: https://pshomeologylab.net/release/1.86/qa/rpcs3/HOMEOLOGYLAB_QA_RPCS3_1.86_LATEST.pkg
 
ANDREAS777
DeViL303 said:
If you are on the latest HFW with HEN, or the latest Evilnat CFW you will get a new Playstation Home icon appear in the PSN category. This will allow you to download Home in the same way as it was originally made available.

If you dont want to do that you can just download and install the package like any homebrew/game. This version will appear in the game category on PS3.

PS3 PKG: https://pshomeologylab.net/release/1.86/qa/ps3/HOMEOLOGYLAB_QA_JBPS3_1.86_LATEST.pkg

RPCS3 PKG: https://pshomeologylab.net/release/1.86/qa/rpcs3/HOMEOLOGYLAB_QA_RPCS3_1.86_LATEST.pkg
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hi, i dont have the option from the xmb even though im on evilnat 4.92

so i installed the pkg you linked, when i launch it gives me error code 8001003A
 
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