PS3 OFW 4.81 Backup Games Injection LICDIR Mods Listing and Guide

Yesterday we saw a brief guide covering PS3 Games with Older LIC.DAT Titles, and @ShadixAced shared a link HERE of a PlayStation 3 game compilation listing that can be injected with backups using PARAM.SFO license directory modifications with update patches running on OFW 4.75 through 4.81.

To quote from in1975, roughly translated: Games running on OFW 4.75-4.81

1. Afro Samurai (BLUS30264)
2. Beyond: Two Souls (BCES01123 + NPEA90127) - release of Csalr etepm an
3. Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box (BLES00462)
4. Call of Duty World at War (BLES00404) - most likely works and an American
5. Call Of Juarez Bound In Blood (BLUS30347)
6. Fight Night Round 4 (BLUS30285)
7. FlOw (NPUA80001)
8. Gran Turismo HD Concept (NPUA80019)
9. Heavy Rain: Move Edition (BCES00802 + NPEA90076) - release of Csalr etepm an
10. Mirror's Edge (NPEB90114 + BLES00322 or NPEB00052)
11. MotorStorm Pacific Rift (BCES00129)
12. Need for Speed Undercover (BLES00450)
13. Rayman Legends (NPEB90505 + NPEB01356)
14. Sleeping Dogs (NPEB01046 + NPUB90832)
15. Star Wars The Force Unleashed - The Ultimate Sith Edition (BLUS30445 + BLUS30144)
16. Stranglehold (BLES00144 + NPEB90044 or NPHB00017)
17. Syndicate (BLES01371 + NPUB90713)
18. Timeshift (BLES00159 + NPEB90036 or NPEB90049)
19. Trine (NPEB90200 + NPEB00100)
20. Watchmen The End is Nigh Part 2 (NPEB00108)
21. WipEout HD Fury (BCES00664)

If you want to prepare the specified games for the console on the console, then see below: The method, how to make the game work, is pretty simple. The game should have an official patch (and how else will we launch it from the internal disk?).

The patch is being unpacked, the contents of USRDIR, except for EBOOT.BIN and updated files (if any) are taken from the disk version. PARAM.SFO (from the disk) is edited. Change the Category from DG to HG and App Version to the patch version.

In detail about each game:

Spoiler

Update: All Games Already Patched and Working Here alongside PS3GameExtractor_v1.8.zip (7.6 MB) and PS3GameExtractor_v1.8.1.zip (7.6 MB) followed by PS3GameExtractor_v1.8.2.zip (7.6 MB) from ErikPshat for those interested!

 

[MikePap]

Hey guys, first of all, I'm new here and relatively new to PS3 hacking scene so I don't know a lot of things yet. I am going to try to inject Skate 3 one of these days, I'm thinking that because it was made relatively early in 2010 it could still work, also considering that Beyond Two Souls was made in 2013 and still worked. I don't know how to edit PARAM.SFO or even what that is but other than that, should I follow the standard procedure? (Updating the game, using TABR to inject etc)

I started downloading Skate 3 from the Russian forum linked but it's soooo slow. It will take forever. Can someone link me a place to download PS3 games in the format needed for this method? Or at least tell me what format's needed. Thanks.

 

[PSXHAX]

The Russian forum link is the only place I know of to get pre-made PS3 OFW'd games from, but if someone knows of a faster place for them it would be great if you let us all know

 

[DanielGames10]

Hey guys, first of all, I'm new here and relatively new to PS3 hacking scene so I don't know a lot of things yet. I am going to try to inject Skate 3 one of these days, I'm thinking that because it was made relatively early in 2010 it could still work, also considering that Beyond Two Souls was made in 2013 and still worked. I don't know how to edit PARAM.SFO or even what that is but other than that, should I follow the standard procedure? (Updating the game, using TABR to inject etc)

I started downloading Skate 3 from the Russian forum linked but it's soooo slow. It will take forever. Can someone link me a place to download PS3 games in the format needed for this method? Or at least tell me what format's needed. Thanks.

2010+ games can be runned with the eboot from the demo but some games doesnt work or is only the demo almost the games that i tested (pes 17, spec ops the line, minecraft story mode the complete adventure, etc...)

 

[dikyah]

I don't get this, can someone give a more clear tutorial on this game

thank you guys

i am able to work this out... this what i did
download 2 files using PSNstuff
NPEB90114 : demo
NPEB00052 : PSN full game

extract the 2 .PKG files using PKG viewer...

from NPEB90114... copy only the 2 files (EBOOT.BIN and SPUJOBS.SPRX) and paste (overwrite) these 2 files to NPEB00052 to its proper folder location.
...we are done in NPEB90114, you can now discard this Folder...

Now edit the PARAM.SFO in NPEB00052... change only the Title ID to NPEB90114 then save.
and ALSO change the folder name NPEB00052 to>>> NPEB90114

copy to TABR game folder... convert... inject...
hope this help someone...

 

[MikePap]

UPDATE: So the game actually did manage to download but I have a problem. There's no PS3_GAME folder anywhere, only BLES00760 and NPEB00760. It's not inside of these two either...

 

[MoMo213]

@DanielGames10
did any game work for you that's not on the list ?

 

[dikyah]

UPDATE: So the game actually did manage to download but I have a problem. There's no PS3_GAME folder anywhere, only BLES00760 and NPEB00760. It's not inside of these two either...

The PS3_GAME folder is change to NPEB00760...

the game you downloaded is already converted and ready for injection.
just put those 2 folder in TABR "game" folder... then inject it

 

[MikePap]

The PS3_GAME folder is change to NPEB00760...

the game you downloaded is already converted and ready for injection.
just put those 2 folder in TABR "game" folder... then inject it

I feel kinda dumb now

I'll try it tomorrow and I'll update you all

 

[DanielGames10]

Guys, I have news for all of you. Ps3 has a file called PBD (Project database)

PDB (Project Database) files are used by the PS3 to specify tasks for the XMB to do. They are stored in /dev_hdd0/vsh/task/ in 4 byte hex directories (e.g. 00000001/, 001ABCD0/)

Each directory represents an task id and each task is defined by a couple of .pdb files. I believe pdb means package database, since the only place where these files appear is in /dev_hdd0/vsh/task and they seem to represent a .pkg download.

There will always be a 00000001/ directory with no .pkg file in it. I suppose it's there to represent another task the PS3 has to do (maybe the 'check for push downloads' for PSN+ users?), and I suggest never to mess with it.

Every other directory seems to represent a .pkg file that is being downloaded or has been downloaded (but not installed) through PSN. In each directory you should find the .pkg, a PNG image to show (filename ICON_FILE), and two or three .pdb files (d0.pdb and d1.pdb and an empty f0.pdb, which may or may not be there).

When there are unfinished/not installed (PS3 files, not for PSP or PSVITA) downloaded task, xmb/users/Turn Off System can appear the option to turn off the system automatically after background download.

Header

The file starts with a 4 byte magic of 0x00000000

Entry IDs

0x64
0x65
0x66 Task unregister auto.
0x68
0x69 Package Name (Task Title)
0x6A Icon Path
0x6B Task Subtype (0=photo,1=music,2=video,4=patch?)
0x6C
0xC8 Authentication UserName
0xC9 Authentication Password
0xCA Server URL/URI
0xCB Package Filename
0xCC Package Last-Modified
0xCD Move XCB
0xCE Package File Size
0xCF
0XD0 Downloaded Size/Received Length
0XD1 Referer?
0XD2
0XD3
0XD5 (Video) PlayCount
0XD6 (Video) StopPointInfo
0XD7 (Video) StopPointInfoSuppl
0XD8 File Download In Progress
0XD9 Content ID
0XDA Download Completed / Video:Video.reserved30
0XDB
0XDC
0XDD
0XDE (String)
0XDF
0xE0 (String)
0xE1 (String)
0xE2 (String)
0xE3 (String)
0xE4
0xE5
0xE6
0xE7 Title ID
0xEA Video:Common.reserved24
0xEB Log URL
0xEC
0xED
0xEE
0xEF Video:Video.reserved29
0xF0
0xF1
0xF2
0xF3 preordered
0xF4
0xF5 (drmcontent)

http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Project_Database_(PDB)

look at this wiki guys here is more info that i cant post in this forum (because it is tables and it gets too ugly here)

Look here too: https://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_posible-nuevo-metodo-para-cargar-backups-en-of-4-81-sin-tener-otra-consola-con-cfw_2206878_s310#p1744086065

 

[PSXHAX]

I fixed the emoticons, the trick is to use the following tags around the text that generates them to stop the conversion:

[PLAIN]emoticon text[/PLAIN]