Download PSN Demos to PC

Posted on 13. May, 2008 by Freak_c in News

Found this interesting articles on the forums about been able to download content from the PSN to your PC and then being able to transfer it to your PS3. Content includes full games, demos, trailers, add-ons, patches etc. Now I read through this a few times and I am still not 100% on how to do it.

This is done by downloading the PKG files and then using a program called PS3 Proxy on your PC to share it to your PS3. Using Folding@Home you will then download it to your ps3 and install.

So basically you can download what you want whenever (lets say at work) then take the PKG file home and place it in the PS3 Proxy program. Change the ps3 to use a proxy to connect to internet. Insert the link and select Folding@Home, which should connect to the new link and download the file from your PC. Sounds easy enough. Well here is a guide and links to other guides as well as the programs needed.

Thanks to Abudabi, Papa-Action, StNick for the threads and heads-up.

Guide:
Firstly, this guide is for PS3 Firmware’s at and above 1.60. I figure that those that still wish to stay below that know what they are doing. 1.60 is needed as it gives you access to the Folding At Home (F@H henceforth) download.
(Make sure folding @ home is deleted from your ps3!) So first, we need to grab two things;

-CF3B5′s PS3.Proxyserver GUI Download Here

-MS Net Framework Download Here

Before you grab the Net Framework, fire up the Proxyserver app just incase you already have the required framework that it depends on to run. If its not installed, you will be faced with an error. Also, if you have F@H installed on your PS3, delete it as it is needed to use links. Once you have a running Proxyserver with no F@H installed, follow these instructions:

-A.)First, make sure the app is running in PS3 Mode (usually by default), by clicking the appropriate radio button.

-B.) You will now need to enter your computers local IP address into the designated text box. This will usually be 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 if you do not have any other computers running on your network, otherwise check in your router settings or just go by process of elimination (try changing the third digit for a 1 or a 0 or try to keep adding on 1 to the last digit ie 192.168.0.2 etc.) You will know if its the wrong IP because the app will give you an error along the lines of “Unhandled Exception” when the start button is clicked

-C.) Most likely you will just need to leave the port (or prot as may be the case) field as 8080, unless you have specific settings blocking that port.

-D.) Now change over to the replace files tab. You will be presented with a white box and an add button. Click to add a new divert link. A small text box split half way down the middle will appear. The first half is for the source link that you want to divert, (in this case the F@H link) and the second half is the file the link should divert to (the game, demo, etc you want to install). So you will need to add one of the following links to the left box by copy-pasting(depending on your region PAL) These are the only links I am aware of, country codes don’t apply here.

-PAL http://deu01.ps3.download.playstatio…eu/fah/fah.pkg

NOTE: Make sure you right click and COPY THE LINK LOCATION of these links instead of just copy pasting as these forums automatically parse( add the …) links and when normally copy pasted will not show up fully (you will be copying the parsed link)

-E.) Now you need to add the .pkg file you have downloaded from the list to the second box, as currnetly the F@H link is pointing to nothing. So click the … button and find wherever the file that you want to link was saved.

-F.) Thats it! Now just go back to the main tab and click the big start button. Once its text changes to stop, the link is now being diverted.

-G.) Next up you will need to change the connection settings on your PS3. So go down to connection setings in the settings column. Select custom settings when prompted, and leave everything default except for “Use a Proxy Connection”; enable this. add to it the same IP and Port that you entered in the Proxyserver.

-H.) Your finished! Now go to the F@H icon and click download. If the download shows that it is around 55Mb, something has gone wrong as this is the actual F@H size. Most likely you have not enabled the proxy on the PS3 or entered a wrong IP somewhere as everything else would have yielded error messages.) Otherwise, enjoy not having to leave you PS3 on for hours at a time while demos download!

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