PS3 PKG Export and Editing Questions

[Gavin Archer]

Hi there,

this is my first post here, so please feel free to move if necessary.

Say I was to make a PKG for a PS1 or PS2 game or downloaded a utility, installed it onto my ps3, and deleted the original PKG. Would there be a tool to repackage these games, utilities, homebrew, or other things back into a PKG to put onto an external or internal drive?

And secondly, I didn't see this in PS2 Classics GUI, but is it possible to take a created PS2 PKG, open it up and swap out the config file for another one? to play with the compatibility, that is. And yes, I could just load up the ISO, but i like the official feel to it, the uniformity with other official ps2 classics, and the fun of creating cover art for it. its a personal choice.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Gavin Archer

 

[AlexRhine]

Hi there,

this is my first post here, so please feel free to move if necessary.

Say I was to make a PKG for a PS1 or PS2 game or downloaded a utility, installed it onto my ps3, and deleted the original PKG. Would there be a tool to repackage these games, utilities, homebrew, or other things back into a PKG to put onto an external or internal drive?

And secondly, I didn't see this in PS2 Classics GUI, but is it possible to take a created PS2 PKG, open it up and swap out the config file for another one? to play with the compatibility, that is. And yes, I could just load up the ISO, but i like the official feel to it, the uniformity with other official ps2 classics, and the fun of creating cover art for it. its a personal choice.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Gavin Archer

For packages you created and homebrew, re-creating the package is certainly possible. You would use a tool like pkg.py to do so (though, I'm not sure exactly on which path PS1/PS2 games are installed, but after finding them creating a pkg would be trivial). Though, for more complex homebrew like wMM and Ultimate-Toolbox which use a custom installer, that might be impossible.

You can also use pkg.py to extract PS2-Classics as well, if I'm not mistaken. Extract, re-place, and rebuild. It should be pretty simple (just don't change the name of the extracted folder).

You can find pkg.py/pkg_custom.py here. You need the entire directory to run it. You also need to use python2, though there exists a fork (of pkg.py only) to python3, so if for some reason you can't use python2 you can use that.

 

[Gavin Archer]

Ah shoot, a python script, one of my many weaknesses. Well, its better than nothing. Thank you so much.