GUIDE TO GETTING CFW ON PS3 VERSION 3.55​

Guide objectives :

- Install Custom Firmware 3.55

- Connect to PSN (optional step)

- Install and launch Homebrews

- Transfer files between Computer/PS3

- Play games with managers
​

Guide Contents & Index:

GUIDE 1: INSTALLING CFW:

- Pre-requisites

- Procedures

- PC Stuff

- PS3 Stuff


GUIDE 2: CONNECTING TO PSN

- Pre-requisites

- Procedure
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GUIDE 1: INSTALLING CFW AND BACKUP MANAGER​

- PRE-REQUISITES -​

0) A FAT32 formatted USB drive

Most low-capacity USB drives are already FAT32 formatted. If your's isn't, right click on the drive letter of your usb(eg: E:\) and click on Format. Choose FAT32 and Quick Format it.

1) OFW 3.55(if you don't already have it)

Download (Use the mediafire link.)

MD5 CHECKSUM: ca595ad9f3af8f1491d9c9b6921a8c61


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Make a new folder on the root of a usb drive and call it PS3. Make another folder inside it called UPDATE. Put the 3.55 update in here and make sure that it's named, 'PS3UPDAT.PUP'. Now put the usb drive into the PS3 and go to Settings -> System Update and choose Update via Storage Media and press 'X'.

2) CFWM 1.5 Small Version [32MB]

Download

Used for obtaining Custom Firmwares.

3) MultiMAN:

BASE

This is currently the best backup manager.

- PROCEDURE -​

- PC STUFF -​

STEP 0: CREATING A CUSTOM FIRMWARE

Automatic Patching:​

1) Create a new folder on your desktop and call it 'CFWM'. If you downloaded OFW 3.55 earlier, skip step 3 and create a new folder inside this folder called 'Original_3.55_FW'. Copy the PS3UPDAT.PUP to this folder.

2) Extract the .exe from inside the CFWM archive to this folder.

3) Now, open the .exe and choose 'Download 3.55 OFW'.

4) After it has finished, choose any CFW from the 3.55 section and click on Create Custom Firmware 3.55.

NOTE: I recommend Kmeaw's 3.55 CFW.

Manual patching:(by Cyan)​

1) Download CFWM v1.5 Full version (+batch by Cyan) [152MB]. and create a new folder on your desktop and call it 'CFWM'. Now, extract everything from that archive to this folder.

2) Place the downloaded OFW 3.55 in 'Original_3.55_FW' folder (or OFW 3.41 in 'Original_3.41_FW' folder).

3) Double click on the Batch file corresponding to the cfw you want to create (ex. Kmeaw_3.55.bat) and follow the instructions. Verify that both MD5 hashes are matching at the end of the process.

4) The patched cfw is now available in newly created folder named after the cfw you chose.

STEP 1: TRANSFERRING EVERYTHING TO THE USB DRIVE

Okay, now lets start transferring the CFW and the Backup Manager to the USB drive.

1) On the root of your USB drive, create a new folder called 'PS3'. Now inside 'PS3' create another folder called 'UPDATE'.

2) Go to the 'CFWM' folder and now go to the folder of your chosen CFW.

3) Find the PS3UPDAT.PUP file and copy it to the 'UPDATE' folder which we created.

4) Open the multiMAN archive.

5) Extract multiMAN WT.pkg, USB.CFG and options_default.ini to root of your USB drive.

- PS3 STUFF -​

STEP 1: INSTALLING KMEAW CFW

1) In the XMB, go to Settings -> System Update.

2) Now select Update Via Storage Media.

3) A message will pop-up.

4) Press 'X'.

5) It should install successfully. If you get any errors, try installing it using Recovery Mode.

STEP 2: INSTALLING MULTIMAN BACKUP MANAGER

1) In the XMB go to Game -> Install Package Files.

2) Select MultiMAN and install it.

3) If you want to play games with Kmeaw cfw, you need to install this using the 'Install Package Files' option in the Game section of the XMB.

STEP 3: ENABLING NTFS ON MULTIMAN (OPTIONAL)

[title: ENABLING NTFS ON MULTIMAN]

1) Plug your external hdd into your PC and download this.

2) Install usbview and open it.

3) Grab the vendor id and the product id.

4) Now create a new notepad file and put this in 0xVNID:0xPRID:V where VNID is the vendor id and PRID is the product id and V is the number of volumes.

5) Now save it as USB.CFG and copy it over to the root of your USB Drive. If it asks you to replace it, do so.

6) Now download Awesome File Manager and install it on your PS3.

7) Run it and browse to /dev_hdd0/game/BLES80608/USRDIR

8) On the other side you should find a directory that has "USB" in it, the inside directory should have your "USB" file.

9) Highlight it and press O to copy it into MultiMAN USRDIR.

10) Now go back to multiMAN and press Start + /\.

11) The NTFS driver should be activated now.

NOTE: Currently you can only copy from an external NTFS hdd to your internal hdd. Nothing more, nothing less.

-END OF GUIDE 1-​

GUIDE 2: CONNECTING TO PSN​

Spoiler: GUIDE 2: CONNECTING TO PSN. THIS DOES NOT WORK CURRENTLY AS THIS METHOD HAS BEEN BLOCKED BY SONY

THIS DOES NOT WORK AS OF 3/18/2011. FOR MORE INFO, GO HERE.

- PRE-REQUISITES -​

0) A FAT32 formatted USB drive

Most low-capacity USB drives are already FAT32 formatted. If your's isn't, right click on the drive letter of your usb(eg: E:\) and click on Format. Choose FAT32 and Quick Format it.

1) TEAM REBUG'S 3.60 SPOOFER

Visit Team Rebug website to download a list of URLs

Select a link from the provided list in the text file to download the installer.

- PROCEDURE -​

INSTALLING TEAM REBUG'S 3.60 SPOOFER​

1) Extract 3.60_Version_Spoofer.pkg from the archive you downloaded to the root of your USB drive.

2) Plug it in to your PS3

3) In the XMB go to Game -> Install Package Files.

4) Select 3.60 Version Spoofer

5) Once loaded Press the 'X' button to install. It will take about 15-45 seconds.

6) When it prompts for a reboot, do so.

STEP 2: INSTALLING FUCK PSN (OPTIONAL. USE THIS FOR SPOOFING YOUR CONSOLE ID).

1) Download dev_blind.pkg, fuckPsn-v0.6.exe and CA27.cer from here. Copy dev_pkg and openps3ftp.pkg from the OpenPs3Ftp archive to the root of your USB Drive.

2) On your desktop, create a new folder. Let's call it Fuck PSN.

3) Copy CA27.cer and the fuckPsn-v0.6.exe file to this folder.

4) Now download an FTP server. I personally use FileZilla.

5) Install it.

6) Now plug-in your USB Drive into your PS3.

7) In the XMB, go to Install Package Files and install dev_blind and OpenPS3FTP.

8) Go to Game and launch dev_blind to mount the flash as writable

9) Now on your PS3 run OpenPS3Ftp and on your PC run Filezilla or whichever FTP server you use.

10) Go to FileZilla and enter root as the username and openbox as the password.

11) Now using FileZilla go to /dev_blind/data /cert

12) Rename CA27.cer to CA27.cer.bak

13) Now copy over the CA27.cer from the FuckPSN directory that we created earlier to /dev_blind/data/cert

14) Now change your PS3's primary and secondary dns servers to your PS3's IP. If you don't know how to change the DNS servers look here.

15) After you're done changing the DNS servers, reboot your PS3 and launch FuckPSN.exe from the folder we created earlier.

16) You can now connect to PSN.

-END OF GUIDES-​

F.A.Q.(by Cyan)​

Main questions

Q. Can I use burnt Bluray discs to play games?
A. No. Only Internal and External HDD is working with backup managers.

Q. I updated past 3.55, is there any way to get the 3.55 custom firmware from there?
A. No. There's no way to downgrade from 3.56+ firmware yet using a software method. Though, there is a way to downgrade some FAT PS3 involving Infectus modchip.

Q. I'm on 3.50 or bellow. Do I need to install the Official Firmware 3.55 first?
A. Even if installing a cfw3.55 over an old fw should work, it's recommended that you update your PS3 to the same Official Firmware as the cfw you want to install first to avoid bricking your console.

Q. I'm on 3.41 or bellow and don't want to update to 3.55, do I really need to install 3.55 to use a cfw?
A. No, you can install Hermes cfw 3.41 (please update to ofw 3.41v2 first) and follow the guide the same way. Just don't install the Version Spoofer from Team Rebug (It only works on 3.55).

Q. I'm already using a cfw but I want to change for Kmeaw 3.55
A. First re-install the ofw 3.55 over your current one, then follow the guide again.

Q. How big should be my USB drive just to install it, not to play back ups?
A. Around 200mb.

Q. Where can I find all previous Official Firmware and their MD5 hash ?
A. Sony removed previous firmwares from their servers when the first jailbreak method appeared. You can still find remaining links and all the informations here.

CFWM

Q. The program doesn't start.
A. You need .Net framework 4.0.

Q. Where can I find .net4.0 ?
A. Here

Q. I don't want to install .Net4.0. How can I still patch the firmware?
A. You can use bspatch program to patch the firmware manually. Follow the manual patching method in the Guide.

PSN

Q. Can Sony ban my PSN account?
A. Yes, as Sony can't ban your Console ID, they can ban your account. But you can always create a new account, while unbanning the PS3 itself will be harder.

Q. Can I play online with all games?
A. You can't play online anymore. You need the 3.62+ official firmware to connect to PSN.

Q. FuckPSN is not working, what can I do?
A. You need .net Framework 3.5, and if you are using a firewall you need to open these ports : 53 UDP, 80 TCP and 443 TCP. You may need to close Skype.

Multiman :

Q. When I press start+triangle to enable NTFS it freezes
A. Your NTFS partition needs to be primary and active.

 

[kylster]

You can also use MultiMan file manager, I think installing BDEMU would be enough and you won't need to run Lv2 patcher every time.

I'm using Hermes payload, which include peek and poke. All is working fine.
I tried using Comgenie's Awesome Fiile Manager with PL3 (without peek and poke) and it froze the console. I'm now using hermes's v4 paylod for everything. (yeah, I'm still on 3.41+dongle)

I have a couple of questions if you could provide answers. What is the difference between a PL & the Lv2 patcher? Are they the same or different files? these are just things i've been wondering about and could not seem to find any answers.

You see i'm on waninkoko cfw v1 because I couldnt get Kmeaw cfw to play my backups even with Lv2 patcher

So I really have no knowledge of what PL or Lv2patcher are initially meant for except for playing games. Thanks in advance.

 

[Cyan]

I'm not expert in the internal behavior of these files.
I followed a little the Dongles payload development, so this is only what I remember.

The Dongle payload had two purposes
1) Set the console in debug Mode (allowing you to install and run unsigned content).
2) Patch some functions in the level2 access. (PS3 use different access level, controlled by the hypervisor. Each level have access to more internal data and structure function)

Patching some level 2 functions gave access to things like Peek (check memory value) and Poke (write a new value in memory at a given address).
Other functions of the payload were used to redirect dev_bdvd to "PS3 GAMES" menu, dev_hdd0 or dev_usbxx, enable playing a game without a disc in the drive, etc.
These patches are mainly used to play backup as it redirect the bdvd access.

All this patching is done temporarily in memory. That's why we had to launch the dongle+payload at every boot.


The custom firmware are now putting the console in debug mode automatically on boot.
In this state you can install and run homebrew.
so what is left to do is patch the Lv2 functions to enable bdvd redirection, enable peek and poke, etc.

Some cfw are including these patch (Waninkoko and hermes cfw), while other are not (Kmeaw and Wutangrza) and it's done partially by the backup Managers (Rogero, Gaia, MultiMan).
some patching are not done by the manager, and like MultiMan it removed bdvd emulation, so you need to either put the payload back in the manager (BDEMU.bin, which will patch the Lv2 functions to enable all the memory access and BD redirection, like BD-mirror for black screen games), or launch the Lv2 patching process manually before using a manager that doesn't include the patching on launch.


If anyone want to bring correction, don't hesitate.
It's what I have understood, but I may be wrong.



The Payloads are 100% legal and don't contains any Sony codes.
We are currently checking BDEMU.bin legality. I don't know how created it, it may be a leaked file from Sony SDK or from the firmware itself (found internally on the PS3).
If it's the case, we will remove all references and links to this file here.
The author of MultiMAN already removed it from the releases.

If anyone have some information, let us know.
Who developed it? where it comes from? is it patched or original file found on PS3, if original then which folder, so the user can just make a copy of his own file.


Edit :
I checked the BDEMU.bin, and on my opinion it's legal as it act only as a path redirection and virtual drive mounter (like Daemon tools) to make the PS3 think any folder is a Bluray drive.
it allow mounting of BDVD copied to internal, and launching of black screen games by considering dev_usb00/PS3_GAME/ as a bluray drive.

It's removed because dean think it may be considered "DRM protection circumvention device" in some countries, and he don't want to force a paylod for users already using one (Waninkoko cfw payload is conflicting).
For me, it's only a path redirection, the PS3 is still doing the decoding job, not MultiMan nor the payload.

 

[kylster]

Thanks for the info Cyan

 

[Jimmy1994]

Multiman BASE link doesnt work...

 

[Cyan]

multiMAN ver 1.17.02 BASE (28.21 MB), included : Showtime, lastGAME, ps3SERV

http://www.multiupload.com/02E3N5OMKR
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7J00J4OY
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/2f0x5pyq7
http://rapidshare.com/#!download|917l3...000_.rar|29579|
http://hotfile.com/dl/115634006/61d6e7a/mu...000%29.rar.html

Links found on the first post of the official MultiMan thread, on psx-scene.
(zorua will certainly update the guide with one of them

)

PS : if you install this base, don't install the current "UPDATE" from the guide, it's an old version.

Dean is working on a great layout for the next release

 

[The Composer]

Nice guide.

I suggest you to add a poll to see if users understand this or not.

 

[Zorua]

Are you being sarcastic?
Seriously, if people can't understand something, they can simply post here and wait for an answer.

 

[Cyan]

I think he said that because a lot of guides on gbatemp have a poll like :
• Did you find this guide useful?
• are you happy now?
• hrth

or modmii-style poll with "how many consoles did you hack using this guide?"
•1? yes, I just modded my wii, let's vote that!
•2? damn, I just modded a second one, but I answered 1 last time
•3?
•more? Oh, now I modded more but I can't change my vote ! this poll is wrong...


It's not useful to add a poll in my opinion, like you said users can post if they have a problem.
If they like it, they can leave a message to say thank you.
But sometime, member just want to say thank you without spaming the topic with a one word post. maybe add a poll with 1 choice ? a thank you poll

(not possible to add only 1 choice)

 

[Eaxo]

thnx Zorua for the quick reply in the other thread, i think ill be jailbreaking my ps3 soonish

just gotta check what version i got on it

(hoping its not too high, will post if i run in to any problems on the way or if i have any futher questions

)

Atleast im more informed now

 

[Zorua]

No problem!
Glad I could help you.
Hope that you have 3.55 or something under it.

 

[dexter222]

Nope. Let me tell you that you won't have to wait much. See this article.

So, does it mean that 3.56 will become available to softmod too?

You should update to 3.60. They're making the CFW for 3.60 because its newer.

You may wish to hold off on that. Something called "Cinavia" started popping up when I updated from 3.56 to 3.60 and halts the play of copies of certain movies. Although supposedly introduced with 3.10 in Nov 2009, I've never seen it do anything until 3.60 - so if you use your ps3 as a media client for a DLNA server like tversity, you may wish to hold off... besides I believe it's already too late to go to 3.60 anyways, it looks like this post is moot lol but I'll post it anyways for those who'd rather play movies than the playstation network.

@Zorua

Nice guide! I just started looking into PS3 softmod. You make it look easy

- I just got another old ps3 but it already has 3.56 and the other one is already 3.61 so I guess I'm stuck for now.

 

[Eaxo]

F********K! currently on 3.56 -.- Was hoping i was on a lower firmware but with my luck its no surprise.... Any ideas?

 

[Originality]

Going from dated hearsay on various forums, nobody is working on a 3.56 downgrade/CFW method, so it will never exist. Your best bet is updating to 3.61 and using it normally until the new keys are hacked (if they ever will be). People are working on it, but it seems they're not making any progress.

 

[squall23]

Need help in regards to the NTFS part. So it says that the NTFS partition has to be primary and active. First of all, I don't know how to partition the driver. 2nd, I don't know if it's primary or active. All I know is that I'm using a brand new hard drive in NTFS and it's freezing whenever I try to change drivers.

Any help?

 

[Cyan]

If you have only 1 partition, then do not worry it's already active.

Did you correctly created your own USB.CFG file ?
you used lowercase letters, right?

Then, it may be because your drive is not compatible.
The PFS driver is not compatible with all the HDD.

 

[squall23]

Oh, the USB.CFG is suppose to be lowercase? Hmm, I'll have to fix that.

So it should be something like this right? (just an example, not my actual one)

0x0gt4:0x3100:1

 

[Cyan]

Yes, except hexadecimal doesn't go past "F"

It's a 16 (hexa) decimals system,
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F

Spoiler: quick lesson with decimal systems

When you go past F, you increase the left digit by one, and go back to 0 with the current digit.
8 > 9 > a > b> c> d > e > f > 10 > 11 etc.
1f > 20 > 21 etc.


There exists other counting system with different number of possible values, all are working the same way :
Increase (or create) the left digit by 1 and return to 0 with the current one.

Hexadecimal system:
16 possible values: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
hexadecimal use "0x" in front of the value to differentiate the counting system.

decimal | hexadecimal
9 = 0x9
10 = 0xA
15 = 0xF
16 = 0x10
17 = 0x11




binary system:
2 possible values : 0 & 1

decimal | binary
0 = 0
1 = 1
2 = 10
3 = 11
4 = 100
5 = 101
6 = 110
7 = 111


Octal system:
8 possible values: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
octal are represented with a leading zero.

decimal | octal
7 = 07
8 = 010
9 = 011
15 = 017
16 = 020

 

[squall23]

Like I said, it was just an example. But yeah, making it lower case worked, thanks a lot kind sir.

 

[M75]

Ok, this was a good guide, it must have been because im a complete dumbass and i managed to get it working, so thanks.

My only issue now is, i have been aquiring a few games, some of the later ones state in the NFO that they only run with FW 3.60, so my question, using the CFW 3.55 is it or is it not possible to run these games ?

So far i have been lucky enough to have not had any files larger than 4g so everything has been running off my external.

Anyway just thought there must be something im missing and one of you guys could tell me where i am going wrong.

Cheers.

 

[Originality]

Quick lil explanation of the 3.60 scene:

All new games are being forced to ship with 3.6X code, to make it impossible to play on 3.55 CFW. As it stands, there's nothing you can do to play those games aside from buying them and updating to 3.6X. HOWEVER, devs often release updates for those games, and many devs release those updates using 3.5X code. THOSE games can be patched to play on 3.55 CFW.

So if you have a 3.6X game and you want to play it on 3.55 CFW, check to see if they've received an update... and if they have check to see if the scene has ripped the files from the patch needed to play the game on 3.55 CFW.

Someone could probably create a list of patchable games (I've seen one around somewhere, but can't remember where), but I'm too lazy.