Standalone PS3MAPI SPRX for PS3HEN

[yoziz-z]

Hey everyone,

I've been trying to get a standalone PS3MAPI-style SPRX working on my HEN superslim, and honestly I'm losing my mind.

I've been fucking around with this for days. I've built SPRX projects, rewritten code, debugged network initialization, tested different toolchains, compared against existing projects, and no matter what I do I keep getting "Connection Refused" from my PC-side telnet test and any other connection test (ftp works fine).

For anyone wondering why im not using webman its because it causes way too many black screens, unlike sman which is lightweight and i get all i need from it except ps3mapi :/

What I'm looking for is a simple standalone SPRX that runs on PS3HEN and opens a TCP server on port 9999

My goal isn't to recreate the entire PS3MAPI ecosystem (but that would be nice lmao). I only need the basics:

TCP server
Process listing
Attach to process
Read memory
Write memory
Module listing (optional but nice)
Compatible with a custom C# RTM tool

The SPRX would be loaded through boot_plugins.txt system

At this point I genuinely don't care if the implementation is minimal, ugly, or missing half the bells and whistles. I just want something that connects and lets me read/write memory without spending another month chasing "Connection Refused" errors

If anyone has experience with PS3MAPI, PS3HEN plugins, or network SPRX development and would be willing to help, I'd really appreciate it. I can provide source code, logs, test results, and whatever info needed.

Thanks ;-;

[aldostools]

Without checking your code, it's difficult to guess what's wrong... maybe the port that you selected is already in use or blocked by your firewall or by the router. Other possible errors can be wrong network initialization parameters, incorrect calls of network functions, bug in the "FTP server" code used in your PS3MAPI server, etc.

As PS3MAPI server uses a custom protocol based on RFC-959 (FTP - File Transfer Protocol), my suggestion is that first try to implement a very simple code that performs a basic connection/test command/disconnection using a port number different to 9999.

Instead of trying to implement PS3MAPI in sMAN, have you tried to use the LITE edition of webMAN MOD, enabling the flag PS3MAPI in flags.h and removing the extrar features that you don't need? I believe this approach is easier to implement, even if some compilation errors occur due to an untested combination of flags.

[yoziz-z]

Hi! Thanks for you quick response :v This project of mine is my first ever, I’m trying to get into ps3 modding but honestly these past few weeks of testing are killing me. I could try the webman lite but if I remember correctly it still caused black screens on my console. If I sent you my code would you be able to quickly run through it to see if there’s any obvious errors? Thanks again and have a great rest of your day! I’ll be sure to check the potentials errors you mentioned

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[yoziz-z]

hey so i tried building the webman lit build while commenting out everything i didnt want and keeping what i wanted, got a successful build but it still didnt work. is there a specific way to do it, i have the sony ps3 sdk and everything else required, i fixed (or tried fixing) all the errors. honestly im not sure how its supposed to be, it built a webftp_server.sprx ? is there a way to make it into a pkg? im a little lost sorry im just new to ps3 modding

[aldostools]

There is a batch file _Make_pkg.bat that I use to copy the sprx and create the packages.
Also in Projects/updater there are 2 batch files: make_update.bat & Make_PKG.bat that are called by the batch file above.

If you already have webMAN MOD installed, you just need to copy webftp_server.sprx to /dev_hdd0/plugins then reboot the PS3.

[yoziz-z]

alright thanks! i'll try it and keep you posted :)

[yoziz-z]

small update i copied my webftp_server.sprx to my ps3 and as soon as i enable hen it shuts off, ill go back to ofw then reinstall hfw and hope that plugins gets removed doing that or else im pretty much softbricked :<
im feeling pretty hopeless right now to achieve my goal but i hope i can get it to worked or get some help atleast

[yoziz-z]

i managed to get hen to enable again after using hen rus's xmb file manager to unlink the dev_hdd0/plugins folder (before even trying to go back ofw and reinstalling hfw). so i'll debug later on because i had a ps3mapi sprx in there that might have crashed webman along with my ps3 so i'll be back

[yoziz-z]

No problem! Thanks for your help anyways I’ll do my best to get it working :)

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[yoziz-z]

ever since that first crash whenever i reinstall webman then reboot and enable hen it crashes (vanilla webman not even my modified sprx). maybe theres some leftover corrupted data im not sure but when i remove the dev_hdd0/plugins folder by unlinking it in the xmb (doesnt require hen enabled it works) so i delete the /plugins folder and my ps3 doesnt crash on hen enable. any fix?

[aldostools]

try deleting /dev_hdd0/tmp and /dev_hdd0/plugins then reinstall webMAN MOD

More detailed information about how to uninstall webMAN MOD manually can be found in this link:
https://github.com/aldostools/webMAN-MOD/wiki/~-Uninstalling-webMAN-MOD

[yoziz-z]

i did and it still crashes as soon as HEN is enabled :/ i found a repo that has sman with ps3mapi and artemis built-in although its quite old i think i should be able to get it working, whenever i try it out though i get an "sman fatal error" but that might be because it calls syscall 8 but i'll see:
https://github.com/haxxxen/artsMAN_1.12-vanilla

[yoziz-z]

webman now crashes my ps3 as soon as i enable hen no matter the version :<
i think i might go back to trying to build a standalone ps3mapi plugin, but should i load it the prx_plugins.txt in /plugins or through boot_plugins.txt?

[aldostools]

To load webMAN MOD on HEN you have to use /dev_hdd0/boot_plugins.txt or /dev_usb000/boot_plugins.txt or or /dev_usb001/boot_plugins.txt

If any version of webMAN MOD is crashing your system, it seems that some files were corrupted. My recomendation in this case is to uninstall webMAN MOD manually and reinstall HFW and HEN. You could consider to format the internal HDD too (backup any important information before do it).

👉 https://github.com/aldostools/webMAN-MOD/wiki/~-Uninstalling-webMAN-MOD