xakep666 / ps3netsrv-go

Alternative ps3netsrv implementation for installing games over network

ps3netsrv-go

It's a minimal alternative implementation of original ps3netsrv which needed to install games using WebMAN/IrisMAN over network (without copying files to console).

I made it because original code is way hard to read and hard to build for some platforms. And for fun and education (understanding and implementation custom network protocols, generating/serving iso image on-the-fly) of course.

This project written in Go because it's (cross-)compilation is much easier than C/C++ and resulting binaries will run without any external library on target system.

Currently this project only support serving simple files or plain game directories (without encrypted 3k3yredump images and multipart files). Copying files from console to server not supported now. But I've added tcp data exchange timeouts to reduce amount of "hang" connections.

Running

Just run

$ ps3netsrv-go

from your working directory to serve it.

Or specify custom root directory in 1st positional argument:

$ ps3netsrv-go /home/user/games

To get help run:

$ ps3netsrv-go --help

To run "debug" server (for pprof, etc.) specify --debug-server-listen-addr flag.

Exposing tips

• Use limits:
  • by IP address(es) using 2nd positinal argument: $ ps3netsrv-go /home/games 192.168.0.123
  • by number of clients using --max-clients flag
  • idle connection time: --read-timeout flag
  • mitigate againts slow clients: --write-timeout flag
• To expose over NAT (non-public or "grey" IP) you can use:
  • ngrok TCP tunnels
  • Reverse SSH tunnel to host with public IP
  • any other options
• To secure connection using TLS you may use two TLS-terminators (like HAProxy) configured with mutual TLS authentication. Note that desired terminator must support "wrapping" plain TCP connection to TLS with client certificate.

Requirements to build

Go 1.20+

Building

$ go mod download
$ go build -o ps3netsrv-go ./cmd/ps3netsrv-go/...