Hacking Some questions

[Eveldee]

To stream a file to your PS3, just share a file on your local network, windows supports it natively (known as Windows shares).

Yes, you would have to wait for a new version of SEN Enabler or an updated CFW.

ODE stands for (Optical Drive Emulator), it's an hardware modification that enables playing game backups on OFW, so just ignore it I guess as it's nearly not related to CFW.
It doesn't matter if it's an HAN compatible PKG or not, just don't forget to install the licence file (included in most fix.pkg).
And no, I don't think the order matters, thought it's weird to have game updates without the game.

 

[Windows_10_User]

To stream a file to your PS3, just share a file on your local network, windows supports it natively (known as Windows shares).

Yes, you would have to wait for a new version of SEN Enabler or an updated CFW.

ODE stands for (Optical Drive Emulator), it's an hardware modification that enables playing game backups on OFW, so just ignore it I guess as it's nearly not related to CFW.
It doesn't matter if it's an HAN compatible PKG or not, just don't forget to install the licence file (included in most fix.pkg).
And no, I don't think the order matters, thought it's weird to have game updates without the game.

Movian doesn't detect the videos I shared on my local network on Windows.

 

[Windows_10_User]

I have a new TV (LG OLED42C26LB) and since then I've been storing movies on an external HDD to watch movies from there on the TV via USB. If the TV has problems with movies, I connect the external HDD to the PC via USB and use Plex Media Server on the PC to stream them from it to my new ISP Android TV set-top box's Plex app. This new set-top box is also connected to the new TV. I uninstalled Universal Media Server and deleted Movian.

EDIT: No matter what I do, webMAN MOD freezes my PS3. I formatted the HDD, reinstalled CFW, reinstalled webMAN MOD and changed webMAN MOD's memory usage settings to no avail.

EDIT 2: I was told webMAN MOD already comes with CONFIG files (those installed by PS2CONFIG) for the PS2 ISOs and that PS2CONFIG is mainly needed on PS3HEN with encrypted PS2 games (which are in the ENC format and they're also inside the PKG one [the official PS2 Classics also have encrypted PS2 games inside the PKG file]) mounted by webMAN MOD so I don't need it since I have CFW and I don't have encrypted PS2 games (except inside some official PS2 Classics [the PS2 games I tried were in the ISO and BIN/CUE formats]).

EDIT 3: It seems webMAN MOD's "Auto CONFIG" setting automatically looks for the matching CONFIG file in ManaGunZ's MANAGUNZ0 folder (I didn't even install ManaGunZ) and in webMAN MOD's UDPWEBMOD folder. If the PS2 ISO or BIN/CUE already has a CONFIG file associated, that file is used without having to perform said search. ManaGunZ allows to create CONFIG files.

EDIT 4: After installing the 4.86 FW, SingStar no longer appears in XMB.

EDIT 5: multiMAN and ManaGunZ support NTFS drives.

EDIT 6: After playing offline, signing into PSN and syncing trophies, they now appear.

EDIT 7: Apparently, the "GAMEZ" folder (and the "GAME" one) is for PS3 games with decrypted files extracted from BD (also known as Jailbreak folders).

EDIT 8: I bought an used PS3 since the previous stopped reading BRs, installed webMAN MOD and it hasn't been freezing my PS3 so maybe it was the previous PS3's HDD's fault. Anyway, I got used to IRISMAN so I uninstalled webMAN MOD again. To fix the PS2 games mentioned here so that they can be played on CFW without (or with less) issues after being mounted by IRISMAN, their respective CONFIG files have to be downloaded from here, they have to be renamed them so that their names match the games', their names also have to have ".iso"/".bin (if the "iso"/"bin" filename extension is in lowercase) or ".ISO"/"BIN" (if the "BIN" filename extension is in uppercase) before "CONFIG" to work and they have to be in the same location as the corresponding games (in the PS3's PS2ISO folder). These CONFIG files can also increase frame rate in some PS2 games and they're the CONFIG files installed by PS2CONFIG (I deleted the latter since I have CFW and not PS3HEN, use IRISMAN and not webMAN MOD and I don't have encrypted PS2 games [except inside some official PS2 Classics]).

EDIT 9: It seems the USB device only needs to be connected to the PS3 Slim's right USB port when running the PlayStation 3 Toolset by @bguerville.

 

[Windows_10_User]

Aldostools said in webMAN MOD's GitHub repository that using SEN Enabler isn't safe anymore because many validations have changed on PSN servers side so I guess I shouldn't use it to spoof the PS3 and I should delete it and wait for a CFW that supports the latest FW is out.

EDIT: It seems it's possible to access the PSN safely without using SEN Enabler to spoof the PS3 if using webMAN MOD, uploading a file called "ps3-updatelist.txt" to "/dev_hdd0/ps3-updatelist.txt" and restarting the PS3 or of if using webMAN MOD and installing webMAN - System Spoofer on the PS3 (which actually extracts the "ps3-updatelist.txt" to "/dev_hdd0/ps3-updatelist.txt"). The "ps3_updatelist.txt" file must match the latest FW or it won't work. Since I don't want to install webMAN MOD, I'll wait until a new CFW that supports the latest FW is out.

EDIT 2: Apparently, all PS1 emulators have harcoded PS1 game configurations, ps2_emu, ps2_gxemu and ps2_softemu have hardcoded PS2 game configurations and only ps2_netemu can load PS2 game configurations from an external file.

EDIT 3: It seems it's also possible to access the PSN if installing Evilnat [D-PEX] or Evilnat [PEX] (I did the latter because Rebug is obsolete) and after following these steps to convert to DEX.

EDIT 4: I think the PS3's external HDD where the PS1 and PS3 games are stored is no longer vibrating but it's always very hot (like the PS3, which is noisy). Maybe I should place it in another place since I don't know how to unscrew the PS3 to clean it and apply new thermal paste.

EDIT 5: Now, after deleting RetroArch, downloading it (from Brewology, since the last time it was available in RetroArch's official website was in 2020 [it was the 1.9.0 version and it appeared by the name "PSL1GHT", as well as some previous versions]. Since then, RetroArch's official website says "Coming soon" in the PS3 section), reinstalling it, running it, loading a ROM, loading a core, changing its "Aspect Ratio" setting and loading another ROM with a different core, it kept the previous "Aspect Ratio" setting so I didn't have a white screen but when loading ROMs with the Gearboy core, the console returns to XMB, and when loading Pokémon Emerald, it doesn't let me choose the core and automatically chooses the VBA Next one.

EDIT 6: I tried RetroArch CE (unofficial beta updated 2022-03-15), and after loading ROMs with the Gearboy core a few times, the console didn't return to XMB, and when loading Pokémon Emerald, it let me choose the core I want to load.

EDIT 7: RetroArch's official website says RetroArch is "Coming soon" in the PS3 section (it does it for years) and that in the meantime unofficial versions of it are available elsewhere.

EDIT 8: I installed Evilnat 4.93 [PEX] and gave webMAN MOD a new chance and before reinstalling the latter I deleted IRISMAN. The "webMAN games" setting was empty with my external HDD connected to the PS3, which is odd. I disconnected it, restarted the PS3 and it was no longer empty. I installed prepISO, connect the external HDD to the PS3 (the "webMAN games" setting is no longer empty) and use prepISO to scan the external HDD every time I make changes to my PS1 and PS3 games in the external HDD (which are now in the same partition, since when I was using IRISMAN I wanted to be able to toggle between the PS1 emulators and I couldn't do that if running PS1 games from the external HDD's NTFS partition where my PS3 games were but only if running the PS1 games from the external HDD's FAT32 partition [and it had to be the first external HDD partition, because if not, the PS1 games weren't even found]) since the external HDD is formatted as NTFS (also, IIRC, even after using prepISO, it wasn't reflecting the changes I made to the PS1 and PS3 games in the external HDD when it had two partitions [a FAT32 one for PS1 games and a NTFS one for PS3 ones] but it does after putting them in a single NTFS one). Also, webMAN MOD already comes with PS2 CONFIG Database installed which contains CONFIG files (like I was told).