Elden Ring Security

[menteith]

Hi Guys

I'm wondering why there is no Elden Ring fake PKG yet (note that I do not demand it is released or so). This game requires 9.03 and physical disk in drive (info taken from the video below). Many (if not all) games that require 9.00 could be ported to a lower firmware. Is the requirement of newer firmware and/or physical disk in drive behind the lack of pirate version of this game? I've Googled a lot but I failed to find any answer. Feel free to share your opinions or provide some links with some information on the topic. Thanks!

 

[justincase.bcg]

Did you watch the video? As you said, Elden Ring requires 9.03. There is no jailbreak for 9.03. You answered your own question.

 

[menteith]

Some games require 9.00 yet can be played on lower firmware.

 

[justincase.bcg]

Some games require 9.00 yet can be played on lower firmware.

We're talking about 9.03. Not 9.00.

 

[menteith]

Not sure if I follow. Does it mean that in order to decrypt (create fPKG) a game that require 9.03 FW you need to be at 9.03 (or higher) with jailbreak? If so, that would imply that game disks which require firmware > 9.00 have different protection than those that require lower firmware. Is this true? I'm really curious.

 

[justincase.bcg]

Not sure if I follow. Does it mean that in order to decrypt (create fPKG) a game that require 9.03 FW you need to be at 9.03 (or higher) with jailbreak? If so, that would imply that game disks which require firmware > 9.00 have different protection than those that require lower firmware. Is this true? I'm really curious.

That's mostly right. There aren't "different protections". It's simply that a jailbreak is needed to dump the game.

If a game only runs on 9.03, the game can't be run on a jailbroken console. So it cannot be dumped. So it cannot be played on anything but 9.03. Which doesn't have a jailbreak.

 

[menteith]

So the game disk must have information about required firmware. Given we are on a jb console, cannot we 'fool' the game that it is being run on higher firmware? Something like patching required offsets in game binaries.

 

[justincase.bcg]

Firmware can be spoofed to show a newer version, which helps with some things, but not with decrypting a game signed with a higher version SDK. The keys required to decrypt it can't be spoofed. That can only happen with a jailbreak.

 

[menteith]

OK, now I understand. Many thanks for your replies!

 

[RexXxy]

So the game disk must have information about required firmware. Given we are on a jb console, cannot we 'fool' the game that it is being run on higher firmware? Something like patching required offsets in game binaries.

Need to decrypt the game from 9.03 which lower than firmware 9.03 can't do. Due to security 'keys' likely.

Once the retail pkg is decrypted using an exploited 9.03fw (or higher)
Then we can make a fpkg...
...And then you can think about getting a backport.