HowTo: Sign PS3 Homebrew In A Single Click.

Sign PS3 Homebrew Quickly & Easily

Last Updated: 23rd May 2011
Current Version: 1.1
Written By: SamAsh07

Tool To Be Used: PKG Signer GUI (Links are in the Guide)
Known PS3 Firmwares This Tool Works On: 3.55 and above (Please let me know if it works on 3.41 too)
Alternative Tool: There is another PKG Signer tool, just Google 'MohammadAG Tool'

Introduction

Hello everyone, this guide is specifically for those people that are either too lazy to use Geohot tools or are just noobs and can't understand the complex tools of Geohot to sign their very own homebrew, this is basically a faster route to signing homebrew. In other words, signed homebrew is just a click away!! Now lets get started, shall we?

Contents:-

• Getting The Required Files
• Sorting The Files
• Signing The Homebrew

Step 1:- Getting The Required Files

Download & Extract the above files, then find download and extract the homebrew you want to sign and place it anywhere you feel comfortable - Desktop is an ideal choice because it's alot easier to access (keep an eye on the .pkg file of the homebrew in the homebrew folder, that's your main target), to find a site for Downloading homebrews, just use Google or heres a list of PS3 Homebrew you can browse to find the right homebrew for yourself.

Why The DLLs?? 

Well...without those DLLs, you'll get this error:-

Step 2:- Sorting The Files

Go to the PGK DLLs folder you just extracted and copy/move the contents of that folder to your PKG Signer folder, I know I could've just made the folder myself and then zipped it but where's the learning part here? Anyways the PKG Signer folder will now look something similar to the picture below:-

Okay once this is done, you are ready to sign your homebrew. Now move on to the next and final step please.

Step 3:- Signing The Homebrew

Navigate to your PKG Signer folder and double-click the file called Signer GUI.exe, if you are on Windows 7 it would be a wise decision to Run As Admin, now you gotta Browse for the file:-

After clicking Browse, find the .pkg file (of the homebrew you want signed) in the homebrews folder, i.e. where-ever you extracted your homebrew, and click on Sign, here's an example below of me signing fuck-psn:-

Congratulations, you've just signed your homebrew (.pkg file), try it on your PS3 now. By the way, after you click Sign, there won't be any confirmation that it was successful, just go back to your PKG file in the desktop and see the Date Modified it's enough of a proof that the file has been signed.

Conclusion

This was a program made my FamousMassacre, so all credit goes to him for making something like this possible. And of course GeoHot himself. Thanks to Cyan for providing the list of PS3 Homebrew. If you have any Questions, please feel free to ask, I'll try my very best to answer all of them. Thank you for your patience.

Edited by SamAsh07, 23 May 2011 - 03:14 PM.

Edited by SamAsh07, 22 May 2011 - 02:19 PM.

Edited by mattisgoku, 22 May 2011 - 02:36 PM.

Edited by SamAsh07, 22 May 2011 - 02:29 PM.

Edited by SamAsh07, 22 May 2011 - 11:45 PM.

Edited by RoboticBuddy, 01 June 2011 - 02:05 AM.

If you sign and use a homebrew, the PS3 won't detect it as illegal, because it acts like a file officially signed by Sony as a legit file, atleast that's what I heard from countless forums

Edited by RoboticBuddy, 01 June 2011 - 04:11 AM.

Edited by Joe88, 01 June 2011 - 04:08 AM.