PS3 – How to Activate Fake Save Data Owner on Rebug CFW
Note from Wololo: This tutorial on How to Activate Fake Save Data Owner on Rebug CFW was initially published by /Talk member HarmfullMushroom, as part of our monthly tutorial contest. HarmfullMushroom won the April tutorial contest for the PS3 (a $10 PSN code) with this entry. You can find the original post here.
I’ve planned on doing this tutorial for a while but now I’ve finally found some motivation to write it. And no, the motivation is not the thought of possibly winning a $10 PSN code, it’s to both try and help people looking for this setting on their consoles, but mainly to give [note from wololo: name retracted] some competition so he doesn’t win by default with his poorly done tutorial. [note from wololo: name retracted] Really man, not even the most basic suggestions I posted on your thread for you made it into your main post, just disappointing….
Anyways, tutorial time. This is an easy process to do, but I for one had trouble finding it when I first installed Rebug CFW. Lots of people had the same issue and from what I could tell no ones done a dedicated tutorial on how to activate it before, (maybe someone did, but I couldn’t find it). Some very basic components needed for this tutorial:
- Jailbroken PS3 (DUH)
- Rebug CFW
- Rebug Toolbox
After you have that all set up make sure to install Rebug toolbox if not already done by going to the Game tab on XMB>Package Manager>install package files>PS3 system storage. By default the package version of Rebug toolbox is always found in this directory for your convenience.
Once Rebug toolbox is installed go ahead and launch it from the Game section of XMB. Your default settings should look something like the following:
We’re going to want to change two of these settings. First select System Mode and change it to REBUG. After selecting that option the PS3 will let you know that after exiting Rebug Toolbox the PS3 will auto reboot. Go ahead and OK the message, then scroll down to Debug Menu Type, change that from CEX QA to DEX. Once again the PS3 will prompt you that it will reboot once you close the toolbox, hit OK. Your settings should now be as follows:
Now that those have been successfully changed go ahead and hold Circle, hit yes to exit to XMB, (PS3 will now reboot), once it’s back up toggle all the way over to settings on XMB and under settings scroll to the very bottom to Debug Settings. Select Debug Settings and scroll down 14 options until you see “Fake Save Data Owner”, go ahead and change that option from Off to On.
Congrats, you can now use anyone’s save data without having to resign it prior to use! Sure resigning is super easy and takes two seconds to do, but if you don’t have to do it why bother?
If anyone has any other suggestions on things you want to see in the future feel free to leave a comment.
Want a chance to win a $10 PSN Code and be featured on the blog with your own guide? Join our monthly tutorial contest here!
this got you $10? This is not the sort of *** i visit Wololo to read
Where was your tutorial entry? Would you rather this one win or a tutorial about jailbreaking a PS3 on a fictitious firmware?
Pretty simple but no reason to complain. I found it interesting because I thought resigning was required.
i don’t make tutorials, but that doesn’t mean that somebody couldn’t figure this out if they spent 2 minutes browsing the rebug firmware settings/options
No $#!t, but this will save people those two minutes.
Next Tutorial How To Turn OFF Ur PS3
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1.) Hit power button
2.) ????
You’re an idiot! stop acting like a freaking elitist, that was useful for noobs like myself.
Easy 10 bucks right there folks!
Made CEX2DEX Tutorial cause i got triggered
http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=45905
who cares about the ps3 these days, get us some useful information about the vita.
Yes, can you give some us some useful information about the Vita, Mr. Egypt?
Here is a useful information about the vita, it’s the worst device that sony created along it’s history, that’s a useful information. but i own one and i can’t complain.
These tutorial contests are a joke. Not really a ha-ha kind of joke, though.
How to turn off your ps3, priceless.
I enjoyed the howto.Many haters in these comments…
I vote that the contest be made a quarterly contest to avoid old filler content.
I can see where you’re coming from but you’re on a website dedicated not to the console hacking scene but to a scene for a specific few consoles within that scene so quite often there will be lulls and things going on that devs don’t want to share and such.
There are long periods of time in which nothing really worth telling the public such as the hundreds of hours debugging these people put in as I’m sure you’d probably complain about that, too; or things that the devs want to solidify prior to announcing or do not wish to announce at all.
Now think about this from a website owners point of view? You have a community within the forums that people will continue to visit, but there are many people who use this website as a source of information on the scene itself. Honestly considering how infrequently things are actually released it makes sense to post ‘filler content’. If you came to a website and saw no posts for months you’d think it dead. However this filler content is both educational and useful to people – especially beginners AND it serves the purpose of showing that the site is alive. Plus the advertising helps with running the site so wololo and his bloggers can actually give you the information when it’s available.
^This. Pretty much the only reason I welcome these sort of generic, superfluous tutorials for every console OTHER than the Vita. It lets the site stay up due to ad revenue generated from these posts, and also gives off an air that the site isn’t dead.
But it’s sad these people are only writing tutorials for the $10. If wololo wasn’t giving out free cash, I’m sure none of these guys would bother with this.
Other scene websites seem to do just fine in appearing “active”. Examples being PSX-Scene, PSXHAX, PS3HAX, or PS4news; none of which host monthly tutorial contests (at least ones posted to the front page). I think the tutorial contests are a great idea, but I think that it should be bi-monthly or quarterly, potentially with a doubled/tripled cash pool otherwise you end up with old tutorials being repeated and “winning” because there’s not many entries. While it may be educational, the same tutorial can be found on the forums.
I’m hearing the complains about the tutorials, and I’ve been trying to improve things. You can confirm that this tutorial won against another one that I did not even consider for the competition. So there is a quality check here. I still think we get great content, and in this specific case many people didn’t know about this so the tutorial is great. But I’ll consider the bi-monthly proposal.
I’ve recently been driving the site on my own while having to care of my family AND in addition to my day time job, as most of the guest bloggers have moved on. It’s challenging to say the least, and I’m welcoming anyone who wants to help writing articles for the site. PM me 🙂
On a side note, the “scene” sites you mention are basically plagiarizing news from wololo.net and other actual scene websites. for example it’s easy for ps3hax to appear alive when all they do is copy/pasting entire articles that we wrote (3 of their last 10 articles are literally copy/pastes from wololo.net). Don’t get me wrong, they’re nice enough to put a link back to us as the source which I’m thankful for, but it’s much less work to copy/paste an article (5 minutes of work) than actually research and write it (about 1h). so, yeah, if like these sites I was just copy/pasting or plagiarizing content from other real sources of information, I could probably dump 6 articles a day for the same amount of effort it takes me to write one quality article a day. but if every scene website was plagiarizing content from other sites, then there wouldn’t be anyone to leech it from, right? 😉
I don’t want to turn it into a rant, but I find it painful that you think the content here is equivalent to that of ps3hax. Real (English language) scene websites out there that actually provide original content are psx-place, hackinformer, playstationhax.it, gbatemp, and wololo.net (apologies if I missed some). Just check how the news always come from these 5 sites first, then pop up like mushrooms on the other sites. There is effort in finding the information from the right source, getting it verified with hackers/devs, cross-referencing it with past and present hacks, etc… The sites you mention do none of that work.
It’s nothing personal against your comment, I think you’re making a good point, if anything it’s up to me and other real scene sites to educate the audience on how we’re higher quality than the other sites you mentioned.
> It’s challenging to say the least, and I’m welcoming anyone who wants to help writing articles for the site. PM me
Are you currently the only one writing for Wololo? I always thought it was a group account just for front page posts, I had no idea it was just a single person. Thank you for taking the time to make quality posts; I personally use Wololo for my main source of news because the articles are well written and, like you said, not copy and pasted like other sites (that, and Wololo has the best site layout; GBAtemp and hackinformer are messy, and PlayStationHax.it has been changing around a lot).
While it’s kind of *** that sites copy and paste from the sources; they still have a lot of content that *could* have actual articles written about them. Comparing the posts, however, I realize that Wololo doesn’t report on tiny news like updates to applications which is about 50% of “news” on the other sites so it does receive a lot less posts because of that (which I agree with, I don’t think that every minor application update needs to be reported). Needless to say, I know there’s a massive difference in quality, and source sites are always better than the news aggregator sites, but my point is that I don’t think the site would appear to be dead by having one less article per month (or every other month).
Another suggestion would be to have a Tutorial of the Month, but put it in a box in the sidebar next to the news feed, so it’s not confused for actual news. Just a thought.
Thanks for not taking my original post as a hateful complaint or anything, re-reading it now it looks like it could come off that way. I just wanted to make suggestions!
Thanks for the reply, and thanks for the tutorial suggestions, I’ll look into that, these are good ideas!
And this wins the $10? really?… i guess they just had one competitor.
The tutorial itself was well written and I’m sure it’ll be helpful to some, which is the most important thing.
However this guys tone and motivation for writing the guide… Well, the first few paragraphs on the whole and the (DUH) thing make me never wish to interact with this person. Not only does he seem toxic but he also seems to believe he’s better than others.
Yeah, it’s HarmfulMushroom from the forums. He’s pretty much the most active person on there, which probably gives him the idea that he’s the most entitled. I wonder who he was talking about… And also, where is TheZett? Haven’t seen that guy post here in forever.
why the hate guys? I didn’t know this feature..
Keep em coming wololo..
PS4 PS Vita hack continue?
Great tutorial. Good job.
Made A CEX2DEX Tutorial Cause This Got Me Triggered xD Enjoy:
http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=45905
10$ psn code for this???? damn who doesn’t know how to do that like seriously
So does overwriting someone else’s savedata automatically resigns the save file, or do I have to keep this feature on to use that save file?
You have to keep it on.
At least these people writing the tutorials are trying. Pushing the scene forward. And for what? $10 bucks? More power to them!
next tutorial: How to install a pkg file on rebug
Thanks for the help and taking the time to write this. I appreciate it even if even one else wants to be a troll.
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