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):
- Download PS3 Proxy Server and install it on a Windows Machine (.NET v1.1 required)
- Download the following two files:
- http://select.ww.home.playstation.net/home/ww/product-select.xml
- Edit the two above files so that all occurences of "off" are replaced with "on"
- 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
- 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).
- Start the server and then restart your console
- If all goes well, the Home icon should appear under [Network] (between [Account Settings] and [PlayStation Store])
- 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.
this dosent work any more sony was quick to patch this. when you got to download you get http status code:404
http://www.xtremepsp.com/downloads/software/PS3_ProxyServer.msi
the link don´t work
Download link has been fixed.
how must i download the xml file. when i click them i just enters a page help
PS Home Beta is goig to be released OFFICIALY on may 8th or 15th, depeding on region or release date changing by a week
Not necessarily. The current closed betas could still have a different version than the open beta to stay one step ahead and test future features before they go public also.
Umm.. is this really the article? – there’s not more somewhere? If not, then the title “More PlayStation Home Details” is inaccurate… YAY! – I can download a beta file I can’t play – WOOHOO!!
Didn’t work, error code: 404 🙁
wow nothing like watching a bunch of downloading. plus how do we know that it doesnt work. they quit right after the update installed
I am starting to give up on HOME. This shit will never come out.
And how exactly do you know that Home will be released on the 8th or 15 May? There has been no official announcement. Also could i please have this weeks winning lottery numbers.
Home is going to be released in July, SCEE confirmed it. Although all release dates are subject to change, So it isn’t official.
nice fake
Not a fake!
Lots of websites reporting same thing!
http status code:404
but home icon is showed
yo home comes out april 18
Sony removed download, hence error 404. Home isn’t out until July
Io, l’ho istallato, con la v.0.86 dopo aver fatto questo, vado a [Game], clicco, e mi dice che non posso entarre che manca la licenza ,bho!
now the reason you cant get on the game if you downloaded it this way is because the servers are not up yet!! the open beta is out in america now (i dont know this for sure) but i have seen ppl playing it and they are testers but lil rumor says open beta comes 18th april
soz they are not testers!!!!
will the hack work if we use our american accounts
Rumor is Home open beta April 18th.
true/fake?
Response plz
fake 😉
at the end of november 😉
The closed beta is ending on may 15th, so either the open beta or final version will probably come out shortly after that.
Hello.404 stands for can find.So we need to find the new xml files of home.Duh
wow some people, closed beta doesnt finish till mid may, so open beta will start shortly after that, and the launch of home beta is likely, july or august, sept at the latest, however if its a long open beta u wont have to worry about it cause ull technically alerady have it for a while
launch of home, minus the beta 😉
How come when i install it it just says an network error cannt read from file: c:/documents and settings/nick azzo/local settings/temproary internet files/somethingsomethingsomething what should i do?
how do you download the xml files and change them administrator plz respnd
FUCK PS3 FUCK HOME
GUYS,THE OPEN BETA ISN’T TIL NOVEMBER,2008.IM A REAL WORKER FOR HOME SO THIS IS OFICIAL.
IM MEAN OFFICIAL
home is coming this fall.
fuck u man is better than xbox it don’t have rrod or disk error every month yes it have a high price but is quality
damn straight ^
WHEN it comes out home shouldn’t have any errors thanx to the LOONNNGGG beta testing. PS3 isn’t going to make the same mistakes as microsoft did (vista’s first couple of months!) So stop ur bitchong and wait till it comes out anywayz the trophy system is coming in a couple of days (like the xbox’s achievement thingy)
i would realy like 2 no when home is coming out sony i no u read this every day tell us somthin about when its goin 2 b out
lol i cant believe anything ppl say, you know how many times they held it back? If it comes out, it comes out oh well
MAN i cant belive this crap, the dipshits at sony hav been testin out HOME long enough!!! i just want it to come out befor i gotta go back to school! DIPSHITS
well i got the home with version 0.8.3 and i cant connect to the sever so………. that means…………………. i must wait for the real release and so can u little fuckers
FUCK FUCK FUCK OMFG OMFG OMFG MOMFG OMFG OMFG NOVEMBER ?????? HELL NO IM NOT WAITING THAT LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHH IM GONNA DIE HELP ME!!!!!!! SHIT!!!!!?/!!!?????11!!!! OMG!!! FUCKYINGLUYY SHITTTYA;LSDFKJ;AOWEJKFKLJA
… ok now im calm.. o wait just remembered… HOME IS FUCKING COMING OUT IN NOVEMBER RELEASE IT NOW U DICK HEADS!!!!! OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
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i love home i love home o home must be so fun BUT I CANT FUCKING PLAY IT just kill me!!!!
FUCK U FEARLESS1333
NO FUCK U FEARLESS2555
NO FUCK U FEARLESS1333
NO FUCK U FEARLESS2555
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i love home i love home but fearless2555 is being a asshole so i cant play it thats so bad i wna play it i wna play it!
they r taking FOR EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s apparently gonna come out out the end of they year cos they are still doing shit to it :@
Hi.
I’m Portuguese.
Who can I get the Playstation Home Beta?
How can I test the Home Beta?