Recent content by Sahbi

I recently spent some time looking into this some more and I managed to work around the error. What I did is insert a blank HDD and just installed 4.88 OFW, then activated the PS3 with my PSN account, installed HFW with HEN and grabbed the act.dat file. Then reinserted the old HDD and put the...

Nope, I never go online with my homebrew account so I didn't see the need to mess with that.

I had activated my PS3 for games prior to even installing HFW, but when I was messing with activating the PS2 Classics emulator I somehow lost that activation, even for my non-homebrew PS3 account. Now, when I try to re-activate (even without HEN enabled) I get an error has occurred (80029519)...

Yeah I did too, I was actually at the final boss of branch D and had to take a break from it. Decided to try and get the PS2 emulator working and wanted to back up my Drakengard save before I messed it up (ironic huh). I had already finished all DLC chapters too, so basically I've finished the...

Yeah I was looking at the code flatz's pfdtool uses and noticed aes_setkey_dec(&aes2, key, 128). Do you happen to know something about the algorithm used by the PS3 for generating the file entry key? Like, is it a naive rand() like function or is it using actually something cryptographically...

Yeah I already am working with the exact same console everytime, i.e. the blank save I made is on the same console for the same game under the same PS3 user.

No problem. =] I think we're looking at bruteforcing the key used for the PAYLOAD file? To me that seems at least somewhat feasible since I know what the end result should look like. Are there currently any tools available for that, that any of you know offhand? I don't think I've been the first...

Actually I did post a link to the pfdtool syntax (it's under the word "here"). :> I can't post it directly it seems, I'm getting an error about inappropriate content if I try. Also, I just checked by using my blank save as base, then copied the PARAM.PFD from the downloaded save into it. After...

Either I'm misunderstanding something here or my explanation of the issue wasn't as clear as I thought. I copied the PFD from a brand new save into the directory of my borked one, followed by rebuilding the PFD. This doesn't restore my save data as the game simply shows all-empty save games...

I see, so there does seem to be an additional layer of encryption involved. However, I don't have the original PFD so your description from the other thread doesn't quite apply I think? Is there any way to verify if this particular game does use per-save encryption keys stored within the PFD...

1) pfdtool refuses to decrypt without a PARAM.PFD, so I copied it from the blank save to the original one's directory first. 5) You didn't mention to re-encrypt so I'm assuming you meant it that way. Unfortunately after booting the game it still shows all saved games ("Recordings" as they call...

Yeah I know, I was just comparing both encrypted and decrypted forms of the saves. Initially I just ran the exact command from my first paragraph, which only rebuilds the PFD and doesn't do anything else. It was only after that that particular save came up empty that I started comparing them on...

Sooooo I accidentally removed a PARAM.PFD from one of my save games (Drakengard 3) through FTP. Immediately afterwards I copied whatever remained to a different location (not on the PS3) so I could work on restoring the save data to a working state. The PFD should only contain file...