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Update: PlayStation Home download leaked

April 9th, 2008 / Niraj Shah / News
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When PlayStation Home finally goes live, a new icon will automatically appear under the [Network] category, without the need to update your firmware. Upon booting your PS3, the console does a simple check on two XML files to see if the service is active in your country. If it is active, the new icon appears and click on it will download the Home package to your PS3. After a bit of "hacking" using PS3 Proxy Server, we managed to get the icon showing on our console and even downloaded the Home beta file. Unfortunately, since the service isn’t yet active, we were unable to play. See the video below.

Video:

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How to download the Beta yourself (unplayable):

  1. Download PS3 Proxy Server and install it on a Windows Machine (.NET v1.1 required)
  2. Download the following two files:
    • http://select.ww.home.playstation.net/home/ww/product-select.xml
  3. Edit the two above files so that all occurences of "off" are replaced with "on"
  4. Use PS3 Proxy Server to redirect the locations below to the local file on your hard drive:
    • http://select.ww.home.playstation.net/home/ww/product-select.xml » x:/path-to/product-select.xml
    • » x:/path-to/country-select.xml
  5. Configure your PS3 to use your Windows Machine as the proxy server. This can be done by setting the PS3 Proxy Settings to point to your PC IP Address (usually something like 192.168.x.x).
  6. Start the server and then restart your console
  7. If all goes well, the Home icon should appear under [Network] (between [Account Settings] and [PlayStation Store])
  8. Click the icon to download PlayStation Home

UPDATE:

The above download method no longer works since Sony have taken the download link offline. As a result, you will be unable to try and download the beta yourself. We can confirm that Home was available to download yesterday but was unplayable (even though the video doesn’t show this part).

Basically, you can download and install home and can even connect to the Home server. However, once connected you are prompted to download an update before you can play. If you download and install the update, you receive a DRM related error and cannot start Home.

61 comments on “Update: PlayStation Home download leaked”

  1. anonimous says:
    October 12th, 2008 at 11:07 PM

    well… they are doing changes for good… so lets wait a littlie bit more

    Reply
  2. stupid sony says:
    October 29th, 2008 at 9:23 AM

    why the hell cant they just leave us playing it? if they wont release it for the fourth time of official promiss we should get playing it our way. this really starts making me pissed off!

    Reply
  3. sean chapman says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 4:17 PM

    OMFG, sony are soo stupid, sony are friends with microsoft right and now there giving them blue ray, blue ray is one of ps3 best selling points–WHY!!, and home is being delayed again! OMFG, but LITTLE BIG PLANET come out yesterday its sooo cool, PS3 PWNS XBOX!! ps3 name- seanc818

    Reply
  4. peris says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 4:12 PM

    dont wory guys. it is gonna be out at nov with core .
    tha beta version.

    Reply
  5. Anonymous says:
    November 24th, 2008 at 12:44 AM

    is this still good?

    Reply
  6. PS3 Expert says:
    November 27th, 2008 at 2:14 PM

    PS3 home release date: End 2008

    Reply
  7. geraldsjackass says:
    November 28th, 2008 at 11:01 PM

    wazzup?

    Reply
  8. PS3 says:
    December 27th, 2008 at 10:09 AM

    lol people are fighting over here over a release date 😛 How low can you get:P

    Reply
  9. jubilee says:
    March 15th, 2010 at 8:28 PM

    i have a problem on the ps3 home when i enter it downloads to the middle and stops and message appears saying

    error trying to download content

    Reply
  10. Niraj Shah says:
    March 20th, 2010 at 10:20 AM

    @jubilee It might be a problem with your internet connection.

    Reply
  11. Marcos Rosas says:
    March 5th, 2011 at 3:30 AM

    need help upgrading my web

    Reply

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