Doco for cellFsArcadeHddSerialNumber?

[zetsurin]

Hi all, I'm a bit late to the party with arcade collecting, but have purchased a System 357 with Tekken 6 a couple of months ago. I am patching out the security checks in order to be able to preserve my originals in case a HDD dies. I found the part where it checks the serial number against the contents of PS3GAME.DAT. Since this file simply contains 64 bytes I am not sure what the return of cellFsArcadeHddSerialNumber looks like exactly. Anyone have info on that? I suspect it's just ASCII text but not sure. If so, I suspect a hashed version is being compared with the contents of that file. This is something I can probably just patch out completely but it's sparked my curiosity all the same. In a way I prefer to write a utility to generate a new copy of the file for me etc so fewest changes are made to the actual code, so would be good to know what that function returns.

Thanks

 

[PascalP]

following this, just in case my Tekken 6 dies on me as well

Actually I still need to test mine as I bought a unit without HDD and dongle and a HDD and dongle kit from another seller, so fingers crossed