OK, regardless of what I did - nothing helped to start Yakuza 5 properly. The most I could get - I could even see Yakuza 5 logo loading for 1-2 seconds, and then the game was frozen (when I started it as external game data with some stub data on the internal HDD). This was after I created my own "game stub" PKG (just with param.sfo, eboot.bin and some other files), installed this PKG via ps3 pkg installer, and redirected to the external game data then.
So the only solution which worked was - just to install the PKG as usual, then copy all data to external HDD and removing most of the data from the internal. Then the external data via webman worked finally as intended (standalone old game data tool did not work at all).
Now the funny things. I did some experiments by replacing all the regular SELF/SPRX/EBOOT/EDAT/PARAM.SFO with my resigned/modified stuff (all resigned to "free type NPDRM FW 3.55") - the game still works without any visible issues (and it works as expected with the original files too). The only thing that was added during the regular PKG installation is the new directory "DRMDIR" with the only file there being EP0177-NPEB02228_00-YAKUZA5000000000.HDR . It's a very small 384 bytes file with the header "PKG€". This "magical" file makes it finally possible to run the game with ANY eboot/self etc. files. Probably I could even try to resign everything to "disc type app" and it would maybe even then still work.
So my question now is - HOW can I generate such HDR files by myself? A quick google search didn't yield any good results.
Any hints are much appreciated, thanks!!
(@catalinnc , @aldostools and anyone who can maybe answer this
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So the only solution which worked was - just to install the PKG as usual, then copy all data to external HDD and removing most of the data from the internal. Then the external data via webman worked finally as intended (standalone old game data tool did not work at all).
Now the funny things. I did some experiments by replacing all the regular SELF/SPRX/EBOOT/EDAT/PARAM.SFO with my resigned/modified stuff (all resigned to "free type NPDRM FW 3.55") - the game still works without any visible issues (and it works as expected with the original files too). The only thing that was added during the regular PKG installation is the new directory "DRMDIR" with the only file there being EP0177-NPEB02228_00-YAKUZA5000000000.HDR . It's a very small 384 bytes file with the header "PKG€". This "magical" file makes it finally possible to run the game with ANY eboot/self etc. files. Probably I could even try to resign everything to "disc type app" and it would maybe even then still work.
So my question now is - HOW can I generate such HDR files by myself? A quick google search didn't yield any good results.
Any hints are much appreciated, thanks!!
(@catalinnc , @aldostools and anyone who can maybe answer this
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