PS3HEN Another case of PSN error 80029519

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Sahbi

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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). Creating a fresh PSN account and trying to activate with that under a new PS3 user throws the same error. I am now completely unable to play any games I've previously downloaded straight from PSN. I don't think ReActPSN and/or PSN Patch will help here, since those are meant to bypass regular/legitimate PSN checks and I don't actually require that.

Now, according to the dev wiki the error code seems to involve DRM somehow: [SCE_NP_DRM_ERROR_BAD_PERM] Bad Permission - when trying to open FSELF PKG's on Retail/starting npdrm fself without installing first.
The way I read this, is either that A) certain packages have been "registered" but not installed or B) the PSN DRM service cannot be started because it's no longer installed. But I have no idea how either of those are possible.

Any ideas how to fix this, without reformatting the HDD? I have close to a terabyte of games installed/downloaded on it and doing that all over again literally takes a couple of days, during which time I can't even use the PS3.
 
Sahbi said:
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). Creating a fresh PSN account and trying to activate with that under a new PS3 user throws the same error. I am now completely unable to play any games I've previously downloaded straight from PSN. I don't think ReActPSN and/or PSN Patch will help here, since those are meant to bypass regular/legitimate PSN checks and I don't actually require that.

Now, according to the dev wiki the error code seems to involve DRM somehow: [SCE_NP_DRM_ERROR_BAD_PERM] Bad Permission - when trying to open FSELF PKG's on Retail/starting npdrm fself without installing first.
The way I read this, is either that A) certain packages have been "registered" but not installed or B) the PSN DRM service cannot be started because it's no longer installed. But I have no idea how either of those are possible.

Any ideas how to fix this, without reformatting the HDD? I have close to a terabyte of games installed/downloaded on it and doing that all over again literally takes a couple of days, during which time I can't even use the PS3.
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after you activated the first time, did you spoof or change your idps?
 
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 act.dat back in place. That works for the most part: all existing RIFs could be decrypted just fine but act.dat keeps disappearing on reboot. Every time I put it back all my PSN games are properly licensed again (like no more error 80029519 when booting a game). Luckily webMAN can use a "boot" script which automatically runs after I've enabled HEN and it will copy act.bak to act.dat. Pretty sure the PS3 still does a signature check or something on act.dat before HEN gets enabled, but at least I have a valid Sony-issued activation file now. :> That also means I still can't download anything from PSN but that's alright, everything is already downloaded and if the HDD dies I can do a clean activation anyways.

Also I have 2FA on my account and I used a new application password, so it looks like it doesn't use the password as-is but gets a value from Sony servers to use in place of it (prolly something with the actual hashed password). Dunno if that was already common knowledge though.
 
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