He should be able to run a lot of them unless Sony withdrew them, i have quite a few games that work on 5.50 GEN D3 from the PSN store which i purchased via the PS3 a while back. I agree this is wierd.Originally Posted by Xenogears V
Chaos7 more information please, For those games that you purchased that don't work:
Which platform did you purchase them on, PS3 or PSP?
When you purchased which firmware version was your PS3 or PSP on?
Which games were they?
The games I currently have are FF7, FF8, MGS, CTR and Crash Bandicoot.
I purchased all my games on the PS3 itself and that was running whatever the latest firmware is. I purchased FF7 07/06/2009, FF8 04/02/2010, MGS 19/11/2009, CTR 07/01/2010 and Crash Bandicoot 07/01/2010. So PSP firmware wise for FF8, CTR and Crash Bandicoot would be 6.20 but as I said I purchased them on the PS3
I would also like to mention I have upgraded to OFW 6.20 to see if I could possibly make a backup the license data if possible but I cant even get the games to run on OFW now. I can't seem to activate my PSP using its built in PSN features, PS3 or Media GO.
On the PS3 I am getting the error (80029780) while trying to copy the games; which I've researched to be some activation fault when activating so many times at once or something along those lines. I don't see how that can be possible as I have 1 PS3 and 1 PSP. I wouldn't imagine anyone has hacked my account either as I don't play online and no-one else has my details to sign in friendwise.
So now currently I cannot play the games fullstop on PSP without getting a message saying I'm not activated/licensed to play the games.
I'm not sure if all these activation problems would stop the games working on custom firmware but as I mentioned in my last post I got an official NTSC version of MGS and that worked fine.
On first impressions of this problem I figured I must have skipped a setting as it's always something stupid to cause a big problem but that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm extremely computer savvy so it's not like I don't know how to follow instructions or not know how to work the equipment but this just seems to have completley baffled me.
If you need anymore information which can help just ask.
Im no expert just trying to help but i do know there are issues with act.dat that could be your problem.
What i'll ask you to do is connect your PSP to your PS3 and enable USB mode.
Find the activation option on your PS3 and deactivate your PSP.
Next install 5.50 GEN D3 on your PSP.
Now reconnect your PSP and PS3 and transfer MGS/CTR/CB and try them again.
Remember you may need to deactivate those plugin options i suggested earlier.
FF8 is a different subject, just test the ones i suggested for now.
I have tried to activate my PSP on the PS3 and I get the error message "An error has occured. (80029780) which is stopping me from activating it, and I tried other ways to activate it as I mentioned in my previous post.
Hmm you can't even deactivate? google has many results for that error code some have shared accounts, many seem to be legitimate problems with no solution from sony support i think 80029780 stands for too many activations 5/5.
The solution to this is a simple one don't sign in to PSN or access your downloads for 3 days, some go as far as to not use the PS3 at all for 3 days.
The other solution is a little more hassle, create a subuser on your PS3, signup for PSN again and use that to activate your PSP while its on 5.50 GEN D3 but obviously this doesn't solve the problem like solution 1 it just works around it.
My final suggestion and id do this after the above as a last resort. Access the PSP flash and copy act.dat to your memory stick/pc, delete act.dat within your flash and trying again. Im not sure of any problems involved with doing this but im sure you could put it back or use a pandora incase of problems.
Really hope this helps you, if it doesn't well let us know in a few days
I can deactivate fine on PS3, PSP and Media GO so no problems there.Hmm you can't even deactivate? google has many results for that error code some have shared accounts, many seem to be legitimate problems with no solution from sony support i think 80029780 stands for too many activations 5/5.
The solution to this is a simple one don't sign in to PSN or access your downloads for 3 days, some go as far as to not use the PS3 at all for 3 days.
The other solution is a little more hassle, create a subuser on your PS3, signup for PSN again and use that to activate your PSP while its on 5.50 GEN D3 but obviously this doesn't solve the problem like solution 1 it just works around it.
My final suggestion and id do this after the above as a last resort. Access the PSP flash and copy act.dat to your memory stick/pc, delete act.dat within your flash and trying again. Im not sure of any problems involved with doing this but im sure you could put it back or use a pandora incase of problems.
Really hope this helps you, if it doesn't well let us know in a few days
I'll wait until I dunno Monday or Tuesday and then sign in to see if it works.
I could try activating it to my US account as I haven't registered anything to that yet.
To recovery my PSP I used PSP Tool 1.0 to create the files on the memory stick which allows me to run a test version of 5.00 M33-4, install OFW and install 5.00 M33-4 so how would I access flash0 using that? I'm thinking I can boot into the test version of M33 but it may just give me access to the test version of flash0 which is running off my memory stick.
In M33-X or GEN-D XMB press select, change usb mode to flash 2 i think it is (or is it flash 3?), connect to usb and it'll be there. Remember though if you do this dont reactivate/install a psn game until you're on GEN D3 doing so will just lock the games to that firmware which in the case of 6.20 is not what you want.
Right I'll give that a try, I thought a PSP 1000 series only had flash0 and flash1?
I will wait till next week and see if I can activate first and then try this.
i own a couple of phats which i've not even looked at since the slim arrived i just use the batteries for personal pandora kits, at this point you probably know more about it than i do
Right, it's Tuesday today so I tried to use the activation again and still no luck. I haven't used either console at all since my last post.
After trying to activate it once on my regular PSN account I decided to try it on another account which has nothing registered to it and I still get the same error message.
My next experiment will be to completley delete all of my flash0 and then reinstall the OFW. I figure maybe theres one file inside which has been corrupted possibly the license file.
Will post my results once I've completed it.
Good luck and please do report back
I've formatted all the flash versions using PSP Tool, and created a new IDstorage just in case and still no change. I even borrowed another PSP to see if I could activate on that and still I get the same error message. My only conclusion is that there is either something wrong with both of my PSN accounts or it's the PS3 itself.
Sorry to hear that, unless someone with more knowledge has any suggestions i think its time to call Sony and investigate the PS3 side of things.
I'll see if i can find more solutions later but right now im overrun.
I will contact the support and see what they can do. Thanks for your help.
UPDATE: I have contacted the Sony support and a very helpful chap told me a few things to try. First of which I need to wait 7 days incase I activated more than x amount of times failing that a complete system format/restore. It seems more than likely the 7 day wait is my best option.
Last edited by chaos7; 02-17-2010 at 03:15 PM.
Good to hear that you've had some kind of result, Is that not signing in for 7 days or not activating/trying to transfer software for 7 days.
If you do a format/restore remember to backup your saves
Feel free to let us know if this is resolved.
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