TiamaTiK Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Please allow to get a trophy! This trophy it is just a simply receiving some crappy item from outside the game! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nitro Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 3 minutes ago, B1rvine said: Flaggable Offenses: Usage of self-built game software In short: It's not a developer provided tool / solution. It's not software. No downloading of anything. You're just uploading a photo to a game server that was unreachable because the original webpage went down. The code is right there on the web page. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure Kite Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) To be honest I can kinda also see reasoning why this wouldn't be seen as a legit method... Is it possible to confirm when this method was created? If not then it opens the floodgates for all the hundreds of people flagged in the past to use this method as an excuse to have their flag lifted. Edited October 18, 2022 by Azure Kite 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiamaTiK Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Saints Row: The Third PS3 "How to get the "Jumped In" trophy after the servers shutdown"https://forum.psnprofiles.com/topic/66339-how-to-get-the-jumped-in-trophy-after-the-servers-shutdown/ Similar trophies and this method is legal! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post B1rvine Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Nitro said: It's not software. No downloading of anything. You're just uploading a photo to a game server that was unreachable because the original webpage went down. The code is right there on the web page. With all due respect, pedantic. The idea is, that anything "self built" in any form, unless a specific listed exception, is considered cheating. We're not going to start going around in circles about definitions or how the document is written. Edit : The staff understands the value of preserving the ability to play games in their unaltered full form (from the player/user end experience), which is why certain custom servers like Gonespy are allowed. However, in order to maintain fairness, any "custom" workaround needs to be open source, so that anyone is able to set up the "custom option" at any time they want, without the reliance of a specific person or group (until the end of time), so it's technically never unobtainable again (bar PSN drastically altering something). (Other standards need to be met as well.) This just doesn't meet those requirements. If someone provides an acceptable Army of Two custom server, and provides some sort of open sourced tool restoring the original mask experience, and an open sourced method method not requiring a website to send that mask back (e.g. something that works on your computer mimicking the EA website process) that works in conjunction with the open sourced server, then we'll have something to talk about. All existing exceptions are about restoring the original experience of games. Edited October 18, 2022 by B1rvine 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smashero Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 6 minutes ago, Azure Kite said: If not then it opens the floodgates for all the hundreds of people flagged in the past to use this method as an excuse to have their flag lifted. So it just have to be determined since when this method is known. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure Kite Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 49 minutes ago, Smashero said: So it just have to be determined since when this method is known. I mean at the end of the day it needs to be approved by CRT and fit within the leaderboard rules. I was just offering an example of why letting this slide could end up being a bad thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdinhoN Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 @mrzizich Do you know the creators of the website? What they are doing is quite simple in the end, and should be easy to host the code locally and open-source on Github, that would certainly be allowed by the CRT as it would be exactly a Gonespy situation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMDE Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) ? If they shared the code... It's likely someone from Australia. Edited October 18, 2022 by MMDE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure Kite Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 56 minutes ago, EdinhoN said: @mrzizich Do you know the creators of the website? What they are doing is quite simple in the end, and should be easy to host the code locally and open-source on Github, that would certainly be allowed by the CRT as it would be exactly a Gonespy situation. The issue there would be getting that done in time before the servers close in a couple of days... Not likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdinhoN Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, Azure Kite said: The issue there would be getting that done in time before the servers close in a couple of days... Not likely. It should be really simple to set a local server, it's just a matter of posting the code on Github. It probably runs already in Node or something similar, so it's basically one command to run it locally and a few adjustments. The hardest part would be how the packages are handled to process the mask in-game, but that's done already. It's worth a shot, if we can identify who did it (the only real problem would be if they obtained illegal proprietary code through leaks or something to put this mask service up again, then forget it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Executioner0 Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 I am the creator of the web site, I created it to help everyone be able to get this trophy in the name of "fairness" since it was unfairly shut down by EA who will never keep their servers up "until the end of time", I may well release the source code tomorrow morning, but, somehow, I don't think that will make much difference here after my recent experience. 35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMDE Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) 17 minutes ago, EdinhoN said: It should be really simple to set a local server, it's just a matter of posting the code on Github. It probably runs already in Node or something similar, so it's basically one command to run it locally and a few adjustments. The hardest part would be how the packages are handled to process the mask in-game, but that's done already. It's worth a shot, if we can identify who did it (the only real problem would be if they obtained illegal proprietary code through leaks or something to put this mask service up again, then forget it). Honestly, I'm half expecting this to be a real easy thing. It could be as easy as: Resize image and save it in "png" or "jpg" format. When game contacts the server, it either uses some url, query params or body to specify the PSN user it wants the image for, and then it just returns the image. It may be the image needs to be returned in some specific way, like part of a response body with the PSN user specified or something. If you could sniff the packets, you could easily figure this out. If you can do this, you can try to send it to me on discord, and I might write the project myself. If it's as simple as pointed out above, it wouldn't take me much more than an hour or something to put together, however, it would be with no security whatsoever, just for running it locally on a PHP server or something. Just now, Executioner0 said: I am the creator of the web site, I created it to help everyone be able to get this trophy in the name of "fairness" since it was unfairly shut down by EA who will never keep their servers up "until the end of time", I may well release the source code tomorrow morning, but, somehow, I don't think that will make much difference here after my recent experience. Well, there we go... How far off was I? ? Edited October 18, 2022 by MMDE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdinhoN Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, Executioner0 said: I am the creator of the web site, I created it to help everyone be able to get this trophy in the name of "fairness" since it was unfairly shut down by EA who will never keep their servers up "until the end of time", I may well release the source code tomorrow morning, but, somehow, I don't think that will make much difference here after my recent experience. Thanks for the fantastic work! I hope everything goes well and CRT can deem this as legit! Even though it will be usable for 1 or 2 days I guess it will save many of our plats haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executioner0 Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, MMDE said: Well, there we go... How far off was I? Probably a few thousand kilometres, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMDE Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Just now, Executioner0 said: Probably a few thousand kilometres, lol. Oh? So there is something special required for the request and response? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executioner0 Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Not really, they didn't even bother using SSL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiamaTiK Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 9 minutes ago, Executioner0 said: I am the creator of the web site, I created it to help everyone be able to get this trophy in the name of "fairness" since it was unfairly shut down by EA who will never keep their servers up "until the end of time", I may well release the source code tomorrow morning, but, somehow, I don't think that will make much difference here after my recent experience. Thank you for your work! I hope everything goes well and CRT can deem this as legit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdinhoN Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 1 minute ago, MMDE said: Oh? So there is something special required for the request and response? @Executioner0 I'm curious about the process and will definitely analyse your code when you release it to give insights for other servers shutdowns. I've tried to create such fixes for some similar trophies in the past and failed miserably in my attempts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Executioner0 Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) The source code for the side which reads the images is on https://github.com/Executioner0/EASO-File-Storage, the Thumbnail should be a 32x32 PNG and the Mask is 512x512 png. It's a simple web app for Apache Tomcat with no library dependencies. You can change the path variable to suit if you run it on a local Tomcat server, or adapt it to PHP if you know how (as long as it still works with the .jsp file extension). Edited October 18, 2022 by Executioner0 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SajoAtine Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 23 minutes ago, Executioner0 said: I am the creator of the web site, I created it to help everyone be able to get this trophy in the name of "fairness" since it was unfairly shut down by EA who will never keep their servers up "until the end of time", I may well release the source code tomorrow morning, but, somehow, I don't think that will make much difference here after my recent experience. Damn Exec, you the man. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilal Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 which image do I upload? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executioner0 Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Bilal said: which image do I upload? Any image, the site resizes the uploaded image to the correct sizes and renames them to suit you PSN ID. If anyone has this game on XBox and can do packet captures of requests to the easo web site, they could let me know the "game" value and the same code could also be used for XBox. ... Back in 8 hours or so. Edited October 18, 2022 by Executioner0 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smashero Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Bilal said: which image do I upload? Whichever, I just took random one from my PC without even checking the size. Later "part" of it appeared as mask. Edit: Ninja'd. Edited October 18, 2022 by Smashero 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiamaTiK Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 The way to get the trophy became legal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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