@Berion, I ran the script on Ubuntu 20.04. Perhaps I was using an old version or something.
I tried VFLASH, it works fine for this machine. I think this model is NAND as it doesn't have xRegistry present in the HDD VFLASH. It's based on the phattest of phat PS3s :)
@Berion, I tried to rewrite bswap16 as a compression stream instead of a crypto stream just out of curiosity, but didn't get anywhere.
I actually set up a blank install of Mint 18.2 and bswap is working fine.
By the way, for my Namco System 357 key, I used a version of the key generator which...
Thanks so much for these tutorials. I have been patching the protections from my PS3-based arcade games for preservation purposes but the worlkflow I need to do so takes hours. If I can manage to mount and directly modify my drives it would be a huge help for my preservation efforts (I just...
Thanks M4j0r for that info, very useful! Basically I have a System 357 with Tekken 6 on it, and indeed I am wanting to work out all the security for preservation purposes. I've basically found a check where it is comparing the return value from that function against the contents of a 64-byte...
I'm reversing a game for one of my Namco PS3-based units (I hate the idea that if my HDD dies I'm kind of SOL), and I need to know the input/s and output of this function, but I cannot seem to find any. Does any kind soul have any information they are able to share about this function?
Thanks!