Reverse-engineer the PlayStation Network Information Board #8

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lucidiot · 2019-11-24T22:03:48Z

lucidiot commented

2019-11-24 22:03:48 +00:00

While the PSN is sadly closed, the Information Board option still works. My French feed shows the last update was in 2010. I believe this feed is an RSS feed; we should try to use a tool such as Wireshark to intercept the network communications made by the PSP when loading this feed, to see what is exactly asked for. This might bring some interesting info for #3.

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A PRP organization? #9

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A PRP organization? #9

lucidiot commented

2019-11-25 06:54:03 +00:00

Country selection URLs, which return XML files holding country lists for each PSP product code:

http://infoboard.ww.dl.playstation.net/download/infoboard/p/e/country-select-$PRODUCTCODE.xml

Example: http://infoboard.ww.dl.playstation.net/download/infoboard/p/e/country-select-cel.xml

Regional feeds then follow the http://infoboard.ww.dl.playstation.net/download/infoboard/p/e/fr/fr/rss.xml pattern, where fr/fr seems to be equivalent to SCE region/region/language.

The country selection files mention a "skin URL", which leads to 404 errors and might be related to an attempt at making the Information Board look nicer depending on its contents. The image URLs from the current news are dead and the news links redirect to google.com.

e corresponds to SCEE (Europe), which covers AU3 (Australia and New Zealand), CEL (Europe), CEK (UK) and RU3 (Russia). It can be replaced by a for UC2 (United States) and MX2 (Mexico), or j for J1 (Japan).

Remove p/ to get the PS3's information board feeds!

Country selection URLs, which return XML files holding country lists for each PSP product code: ``` http://infoboard.ww.dl.playstation.net/download/infoboard/p/e/country-select-$PRODUCTCODE.xml ``` Example: http://infoboard.ww.dl.playstation.net/download/infoboard/p/e/country-select-cel.xml Regional feeds then follow the `http://infoboard.ww.dl.playstation.net/download/infoboard/p/e/fr/fr/rss.xml` pattern, where `fr/fr` seems to be equivalent to `SCE region/region/language`. The country selection files mention a "skin URL", which leads to 404 errors and might be related to an attempt at making the Information Board look nicer depending on its contents. The image URLs from the current news are dead and the news links redirect to `google.com`. `e` corresponds to SCEE (Europe), which covers `AU3` (Australia and New Zealand), `CEL` (Europe), `CEK` (UK) and `RU3` (Russia). It can be replaced by `a` for `UC2` (United States) and `MX2` (Mexico), or `j` for `J1` (Japan). Remove `p/` to get the PS3's information board feeds!

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List PSP product codes, user agent strings, software version headers #14

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List PSP product codes, user agent strings, software version headers #14

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2019-11-26 07:47:32 +00:00

Document the Information Board, close #8

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