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sd_dracula
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PS3 location for downloaded games

Post by sd_dracula »

Does anyone know where the PS3 stores the downloaded PSN games (folder location on the hdd)?
I want to FTP in and copy some stuff to my PC.
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Corey96
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Re: PS3 location for downloaded games

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I think PSN games are stored in hdd0:\game\
Inside that folder there should be a bunch of other folders, for example, NPUB00032. All of those folders would contain your PSN games. :)
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Re: PS3 location for downloaded games

Post by sd_dracula »

Corey96 wrote:I think PSN games are stored in hdd0:\game\
Inside that folder there should be a bunch of other folders, for example, NPUB00032. All of those folders would contain your PSN games. :)
Had a look. Nothing in there but I can see lots of PSP minis in the package manager of the XMB, so they should be somewhere.
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Re: PS3 location for downloaded games

Post by jc_gargma »

Hmm, my ps3 files manager shows that same location for installed data. (albeit, it appears at X:/dev_hdd0/game/ from within the ps3)
If its not there, you don't have anything installed.

Ahs, you didn't say uninstalled things before. Packages, hmm, never checked where those go before, I always installed them right away.
Try somewhere in your user folder for those. X:/dev_hdd0/home/########/ (and also X:/dev_hdd0/home/########/exdata/)

Note: ######## is an 8 digit number, the lowest of which being 00000001, that represents your userid on the ps3. You'll have to keep going up one number at a time till you find the right one if you've ever had multiple users on your system, as userid numbers never get recycled.

Edit: Hmm, after a quick glance, another couple spots that sounds possible are, X:/dev_hdd0/tmp/downloader/ and X:/dev_hdd0/tmp/np_pkg/
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Re: PS3 location for downloaded games

Post by sd_dracula »

Yes, I know my profile is 00000003 and the games are not installed (can't be since they're PSP games) but oddly enough still could not find them.
I have been pretty much into every directory one by one.

I know the game is on the PS3 as my PSP and Vita can both see it.
Corey96
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Re: PS3 location for downloaded games

Post by Corey96 »

After some googling it's dev_hdd0/vsh/task/00000001. 00000001 could be any number depending on how many thing's you've downloaded so I'm assuming that's what the 00000003 is for you?...

So, try checking dev_hdd0/vsh/task/00000003 and seeing if the file is there. There'll be a few files in there but the only file you'll need will be, as expected, the .pkg file.
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Re: PS3 location for downloaded games

Post by sd_dracula »

Just tried that, only 3 files there:

d0.pdb
d1.pdb
f0.pdb

all around 97 bytes so it's not them.

I did find something in hdd0/vsh/game_pkg/80000008 that has files:

d0.pdb
d1.pdb
ICON_FILE
VBNFnffhkfdhdjhgsjfbkx.pkg which is around 28mb (name is actually different but its encoded like that)

so it must be this
Thanks for the tip corey :)
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