PlayStation Home is running again.

The plazas are lit. The apartments load. Home Laboratory brought the world back online.

Get started What Home was
Servers Checking…
In-world —
Live lobbies

Not an archive you look at. A city you walk into — on a real PS3, or through RPCS3.

The world

A social city on the PS3

Sony’s hangout: an avatar, an apartment, public plazas, and a live crowd. Open beta December 2008. Shutdown 31 March 2015.

  • Personal HomeSpaces you could furnish
  • Central Plaza, the Mall, game venues
  • A store of clothes, rooms, and branded junk

The history

The laboratory

What has actually been rebuilt

  • Servers Open-source Multiserver — Horizon (Medius, DME, Muis) and the APIs Home needs.
  • Play it A real PS3 on 4.92 HFW + HEN or Evilnat 4.92 CFW, or RPCS3 on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
  • XMB The Home icon is back in the PlayStation Network category.
  • Clients QA — recommended, developer tools. Retail — original feel. Both v1.86. Neither needs custom DNS.
  • Tools Nautilus for file formats. RTRC for live inventory. User-created content that can go online.
  • Archive Original 2008–2015 cache, about 384GB, still missing Japan and event spaces.

Two ways in

Pick a machine, then a client

QA is the recommended client. Retail is the closer-to-original build. Neither needs custom DNS.

PlayStation 3

Any model. HEN on Super Slims. CFW on Fat and some Slims.

  1. 4.92 HFW + HEN, or Evilnat 4.92 CFW
  2. Download Home from PSN, or install the PKG
  3. Launch. QA connects as-is.
PS3 setup

RPCS3

Windows, Linux, or macOS. Packaged build is v0.0.29.

  1. Use the pre-configured package, or install the PKG
  2. Create and test an RPCN account
  3. Launch Home from the game list
RPCS3 setup

Software & archives

The rest of the bench

Still missing pieces

If you still have a 2008–2015 install

Japan and limited-time rooms are the holes. Only original caches from before shutdown help. Private-server data does not.

Donate a cache Discord

People

The bench

AgentDark447

Head honcho

Owns the Discord. Created Multiserver. Reverse engineer, primary cryptography, network and API.

JumpSuit

Freelance developer

Horizon and API. Reverse engineer, secondary cryptography. Minigame repair.

DeViL303

Tool maker

Hosts the catalogue. Builds Nautilus. Exploit discovery.

Rew

Server admin

Hosts the Homeology Lab server. Cache management. Multiserver core testing.

Brenden

Website

Built the public front door.

Pongo

Ex-developer

Donated HDKs, including 1.82 with debug symbols.

JohnDrinkWater

Archive

Open-sourced a large piece of the Home CDN as of 1 April 2015.

SpookySniper

Ex-modder

Donated dumped TSS files needed to get Home online.