the-operations-team/operation-eternal-liberation

OPERATION ETERNAL LIBERATION is a community kit that lets people play a PlayStation 3 game of the same name online through an emulator called RPCS3 and a community network service called RPCN, which stands in for the official PlayStation Network. The README points readers to the latest setup installer on the releases page. After running it, the user opens a desktop shortcut, and on first run it downloads a small embedded Python runtime plus the GUI parts it needs. The user supplies three things themselves: a PS3 firmware file called PS3UPDAT.PUP, the game at version 2.11 installed through RPCS3, and a set of 15 TSS files that go into a TSS folder. The launcher should always be used to start the game so its network settings match the player's current LAN address. A Saves tab inside the launcher includes a save editor, a backup browser, and a new game override, since RPCS3 keeps local copies of every cloud save. A troubleshooting list covers common errors such as failing to connect to PlayStation Network, missing TSS files, RPCN login failures when self-hosting (where the user must check that rpcn.exe is running and that Windows Firewall allows TCP ports 31313 and 31315), and room hosting problems that UPnP can fix. A large section explains how to host your own server on a small Linux VPS using Docker. It walks through building images, copying them to the server, opening firewall ports for the game and the RPCN service, dropping the 15 TSS files into a created data folder, and pointing the launcher at the new host. A Building section covers compiling RPCS3 from source under Visual Studio 2022 and RPCN under Rust on Windows, plus a packaging step that produces a Windows installer and source archives. The README ends with a legal disclaimer stating the project is not affiliated with Bandai Namco Entertainment and is non-commercial fan preservation work.