PS3 Can I recover a deleted Terraria world ?

Ravenscrag

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Those day I played a lot of Terraria on my PS3.

I like to create new world to find if it contain a pyramid.
But now I delete the wrong world.
It is possible to recover it if i'm on rebug?
 
Well, correct naming convention of worlds would have been the first
The second is to pull it from a backup that you've made in the past.

FAILING these two safeguards, there are two options
1) You lost the file completely, or
2) You will be pulling the hard drive out, and using the erk, linux, and some software tools to HOPEFULLY be able to recover the file you deleted, unintentionally.

That being said, all terraria worlds are SUPPOSED to have a temple that houses golem. They are opposite side of the dungeon, underground. The jungle temple is pyramid shaped, as you describe.

PS - on PC, terraria supports cloud saves, 1.4 and journey mode in all it's glory.
 
As always, in recovery data manner, the more writing on media the less chance for recovery. In case of PS3 You need expose UFS2 partition in decrypted state for recovery software which support this file system (none of them are free because UFS2 is used only on FreeBSD systems which aren't very popular on desktop politely saying).

So, You can decrypt whole HDD by i.e ENCDEC Emulator (find on github, win32 app), extract user partition via any hex editor (offsets depend of console model and partition size) and convert BE to LE byte order or mount it on Linux and copy "/dev/mapper/ps3hdd2" as raw data to file (making pure UFS2 partition image which I talking about above) using "dd" application.

https://www.psx-place.com/threads/tutorial-hdd-mounting-and-decryption-on-linux.23308/
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/files-recovery-from-gameos-partition.27603/

To do that of course You need EID Root Key from this specific console, currently not obtainable on HAN or HEN.

On top of that, if this "save with game world" wasn't separate save, then You will not recover anything as file was already overwritten by game.
 
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