PS3 Need help with bruteforce and trophyisgood to get and properly timestamp dead server online trophies

the-711-hustla

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the game specifically is driver san francisco (BLUS30536) for years these unobtainable trophies have been bothering me and since ive modded my ps3's this has kinda been a goal to get done but a.) when i load my save and or trophy list in bruteforce it comes up as no key found, or unreadable. this game is one of those ones you cant normally copy to usb so i used apollo save editor to copy the save/trophies to usb and no matter what i did it says unreadable and it wont let me decrypt sfo or resign or any of that other jazz, ive tried a couple game that do normally let you copy with usb and the key is there and the trophies are okay too so once i found one that worked without any special tricks i dont know about i tried to open the trophy list to that game (duck tales) in trophyisgood and it keeps coming up with 'open failed:not a valid troptrns.dat' or that i need to reinstall microsoft visual c++ and ive done that a few times already. i havnt gotten ANYTHING to work in trophyisgood but ive had a few saves i have no intentions on working on work fine in bruteforce and tested and fiddled by changing id's in those saves and rebuild and decrypt/encript so im pretty sure bruteforce is working fine, are there certain system requirements my laptop doesnt meet for trophyisgood? is it an outdated program? am i doing something completely wrong? am i even using the right programs for this day and age?

any help would be apreciated, i have been stumped for a day or two, i am fairly good at understanding quickly if explained good enough, i want to do this the right way as i am working on my main account and want to tread lightly, which is why i want to get the proper timestamps from the years it the servers were still up. its such an embarassment having EVERY trophy but the online ones since 2012, i still havent given up hope and want to get this done and in turn help others in the same situation, im still pretty new so if you know of other programs or even better, ways to edit timestamps on the ps3 itself that would be amazing, its so tempting to just unlock them with apollo but the dates would be wrong and even if i dont get banned somehow it would still be there at the top of my list saying "NOT LEGIT" lol

thanks in advance, Deanis, psn The-711-Hustla
 
If You do not want end with broken trophies, never edit them via TrophyIsGood or Apollo as none of them fully doing it 100% properly.

If You do not syncing or do not care synch with SEN, and also have CFW compatible console, then install Rebug Rex, switch to DEX XMB and unlock those trophies in XMB. This is official way of unlocking trophies but they will get debug flag and not count in statistics.
 
I'll just leave some of my conclusions on messing around with trophies:

  1. Try to get TrophyIsGood v1.3.9 from @jcorrea. That version has some bugs fixed and is more stable. Make sure that your user account ID is set up properly in the global.conf file.
  2. First, try to sync your trophies from PSN. Let the process finish, re sync if you want to be sure. Then, copy the trophy folder from the game that you want to mess around.
  3. After that make a copy of said folder as a backup.
  4. Then, open the trophy folder with TrophyIsGood. You should see your currently earned trophies and their timestamps.
  5. Modify the ones you want, but be careful with the dates that you choose: you mustn't use dates that are before your last PSN sync date.
  6. Save your changes and copy your folder to your PS3.
  7. Rebuild the database and re sync. If everything went OK, you shouldn't get any errors.
But do it at your own risk. As @Berion said before, doing this can corrupt your trophies in your console and your PSN account.
 
Well thats disappointing, thank you guys for the help though. My main reason for needing to edit the timestamps was to set them to 2012 when the servers for that game were still active but ive synced so much since 2012, i guess these trophy lists will forever live at 75% just because i didnt play the online mode soon enough, i managed to get one online trophy for driver while the servers were running but took a break and came back a year or so later and there is no online left :( i cant stand when games have online trophies, now i have to go through the lists of my games and find which ones still have active servers to clean up some trophies legit, for the record i still have not unlocked ANY trophies with these hacks im trying to stay as legit as possible, have too many platinums on this account to risk it, that being said though i hate online games so if i fint active servers i still might unlock them the non legit way if they are tedious like friday the 13th's play as jason 1000 times when its a 1 in 8 or so chance of being jason.

thanks again for the info, i have three ps3's one i have never synced on.....would that work for a 2012 timestamp?
 
You can set a current date (which obviously is not legit) but totally justified because of the servers shutdown, or you can hope some people get the servers back online (just like happened with Metal Gear Online for the PS3) which is almost imposible to say the least (not even top AAA games like Uncharted or The Last of Us got the servers back online by the community). I too agree that online trophies are a bad thing because of this: servers will not always be online.

Red Dead Redemption has a bug in which an outfit (I believe it was the Legendary Outfit) will reset itself rendering your save file incomplete. The fix is to start the game connected to PSN and a fix will be executed online that marks some of the conditions as fulfilled in order to allow players to get said outfit. Now, imagine this case without Rockstar still supporting RDR online.

Regarding your un synced PS3, you could (in theory) sync your trophies with your PSN account as the service will try to merge them with latest date as criteria.

For example, let's say that you played a game in your un synced PS3 and got trophies 1, 2 and 3. But later, you got another PS3 and played again the same game achieving trophies 2, 3 and 4 and synced them.

Now, if you sync trophies 1, 2 and 3 only trophy 1 will get unlocked as trophies 2 and 3 were already unlocked and synced before. In the end, your PSN account will have trophies 1, 2, 3 and 4 unlocked.

But again, that's in theory and didn't dig too deep into it. It's just simply not worthy.
 
If i can even get trophyisgood to work i might try that on my unsynced ps3 and then sync it, im just nervous because like i said its my main lifelong account (other than my first but i made the switch after the psn hack to get all the bonus apology games and kinda stuck with this one) i just dont want to get this account banned, how frequently does sony check stuff like timestamps? Im not concerned about those trophy tracker sites, just sony lol.
 
Sony just moved on from PS3, so don't worry about a getting a ban from tampering with some trophies timestamps (of course, don't screw it by adding tons of games with platinums trophies with impossible dates). The only concern is the usual: don't connect to PSN while CFW stuff is loaded!.

The procedure is simple:
  1. Update your trophies.
  2. Disable CFW calls and stuff.
  3. Connect and sync.
Some trophy tracker sites will mark your account as "hacked" and banned you right away from their stats service (I recall PSNProfile to be too strict about it, not even "forgiving" cases like yours with trophies impossible to achieve due to servers shutdown).

Anyways, it's up to you. Good luck!.
 
I still using my account and didn't get banned. My trophies are mixed retail, debug and no-date (battery died in PSTV). I don't think so they care about it, at least until You get bots attention by unlocking massive platinums.

Anyway, if You only do not want looking at unplatinum sets because of stupid online shit, just switch to DEX XMB and unlock them in XMB. This is the only 100% valid and safe way (this is how game developers testing trophy system in their games ;]); yet those trophies will not count in SEN statistics (including platinium, even if the rest was unlocked by CEX trp system).
 
Thank you guys for the reassuring responses, thats kinda what i thought, they moved on from ps3 so why would they care, and its not like im planning on doing whole game sets, just the online trophies that are impossible to get now due to dead servers, not that this part matters now but ill be leaving the platinum to unlock by itself after opening the game, and yea as far as psnprofiles and other tracker sites go im not concerned, i track my own trophies on the ps app and ps3/4/vita, and since timestamps dont really matter in this sense since Berion has some with no dates (lol btw got a screenshot?) i might just use current dates and not even mess with timestamps. I legitimately earn enough trophies to move drivers trophy set down the line enough to not notice. To be safe though so its never at the top of the list i will legit platinum a few games after i hack the online driver trophies before i sync. Thanks for all the help everyone, and anyone else reading this thread, GET YOUR ONLINE TROPHIES ASAP WHEN YOU GET YOUR NEW GAMES!!! Dead servers are a real thing, back in 2011/2012 i figured ps3 would live on forever alongside ps4 but that was a simpler time lol.
 
Platinum will unlock automatically if unlocked trophies from XMB are the last missing in set.
If You do the same but by homebrew apps, Platinum will stay locked.

Trophies without dates have "--:--:--" where time stamp should be. I was curious how this will work on so I bought some crossplay titles which using the same NPWR IDs for PSTV and PS4 (i.e PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate (BTW: really awesome indie game)), got on PS4 those trophies which was "empty" on PSTV, and then synced them. Valid dates (newer, got on PS4) was replaced by empty (older, got on PSTV). Damn! :)

Current date is taken from RTC, not XMB/LA/PS4DM/PS5DM date & time. Just FYI.
 
Regarding the timestamps and Apollo, if you want to unlock trophies with Apollo and use a different date/time, you could:
- change the ps3 clock to the date/time that you want for the trophy
- use Apollo to unlock the trophy (it will use the fake timestamp)
- restore the system date/time (just sync the ps3 clock with the time servers)

That should unlock the local trophies with the "old/fake date". I'm only talking about local unlocks, I don't know how the servers will react if you try to sync those, as other checks might kick off when the console communicates with the sync servers.
 
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I'm doing some tests with dummy accounts to unlock some unnantainable trophies(closed servers). I have tried both Apollo and PS3TrophyIsGood with no issue but i'm bumping into a problem with both methods.

PS3 time and date is set some day in 2011.

Let's say i have two games A (with some trophies dated to xx/xx/2015) and B (without any trophy) i want to unlock a trophy from game B and set it to 02/05/2011, then I copy the edited trophy folder from the USB and/or i rebuild the database, the trophy will appear in the game B trophy list as expected with the correct date 02/05/2011 but now game B is first on the games trophy list. B first, A second.

The game was installed with a date of 2011 on the PS3, but if i press triangle on game B -> Information/Details -> it says updated: 06/14/2022 or today. Image

If i sync now when i check on any leadboard pages this game will be the first on the list, even though the trophy was obtained in 2011.
This might be an issue with some online games.

I would like to know if anyone knows any method to set this Updated date other than today or last time the game was played so when i sync the list game B will remain below game A on websites.

Check this profile to understand the exmaple

Thanks
 
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Malapsda said:
I'm doing some tests with dummy accounts to unlock some unnantainable trophies(closed servers). I have tried both Apollo and PS3TrophyIsGood with no issue but i'm bumping into a problem with both methods.

PS3 time and date is set some day in 2011.

Let's say i have two games A (with some trophies dated to xx/xx/2015) and B (without any trophy) i want to unlock a trophy from game B and set it to 02/05/2011, then I copy the edited trophy folder from the USB and/or i rebuild the database, the trophy will appear in the game B trophy list as expected with the correct date 02/05/2011 but now game B is first on the games trophy list. B first, A second.

The game was installed with a date of 2011 on the PS3, but if i press triangle on game B -> Information/Details -> it says updated: 06/14/2022 or today. Image

If i sync now when i check on any leadboard pages this game will be the first on the list, even though the trophy was obtained in 2011.
This might be an issue with some online games.

I would like to know if anyone knows any method to set this Updated date other than today or last time the game was played so when i sync the list game B will remain below game A on websites.

Check this profile to understand the exmaple

Thanks
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That's normal behaviour: you can't "earn" trophies with dates before the latest PSN sync date. Think of it as a burn mark.

I.e.: You sync your trophies on 06/14/2020. Thus, you can't sync any trophies with dates before 06/14/2020.
 
GuilloteTesla said:
That's normal behaviour: you can't "earn" trophies with dates before the latest PSN sync date. Think of it as a burn mark.

I.e.: You sync your trophies on 06/14/2020. Thus, you can't sync any trophies with dates before 06/14/2020.
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So everytime i try to sync with PSN, it will check for any game with an offline trophy that is not synchronized with PSN servers yet and 'burn mark' the game as if it had been played today regardless if the trophy was earned 10 years ago?

I just want to make sure if this is a server side thing or is there a local file that could change this last played timestamp.
 
Malapsda said:
So everytime i try to sync with PSN, it will check for any game with an offline trophy that is not synchronized with PSN servers yet and 'burn mark' the game as if it had been played today regardless if the trophy was earned 10 years ago?

I just want to make sure if this is a server side thing or is there a local file that could change this last played timestamp.
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Not quiet. Let me rephrase. Let's say that your last earned trophy for a game happened a week ago, 6/7/2022. Now, 2 days (8/7/2022) later you sync your trophies and everything is OK.

Your trophies will indeed have the earned date, as usual, but you can not "earn" any new trophies with dates before your last sync date (which is 8/7/2022 in our example).

If you start tampering with many games and dates, you could corrupt your trophies and even not be able to set dates with Apollo or PS3TrophyIsGood.

It's quiet complicated and the trophies logic hasn't been discovered fully.
 
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