XMB Manuals

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Description

MANUAL can be use as a guide, read me, extra artwork & infos etc... and load them in game, without having to quit the hdd app/homebrew/PS3 PSN game.

In-Game Manuals

For PS3 HDD Games

Structure tree & infos

The icon of software manual will appear on XMB in Game by pressing Dualshock PS button (XMB-Game Column regardless of the PARAM.SFO CATEGORY) with this directory "MANUAL" (not working on 3.55, working on 4.21+).

Press Dualshock square button to zoom in/zoom out, Dualshock cross button or Dualshock PS button buttons to close it.

NP**12345/MANUAL/001.DDS, 002.DDS    //XMB in English (United Kingdom & United States)
NP**12345/MANUAL/02/001.DDS, 002.DDS //XMB in French
NP**12345/MANUAL/03/001.DDS, 002.DDS //XMB in Spanish
...
NP**12345/MANUAL/17/001.DDS, 002.DDS //XMB in Portuguese (Portugal & Brazil) 
...
  • The images, Direct Draw Surface (DDS) format, need to be compressed as DXT1 (resolution as 1920x1080 work on HDTV and SDTV).
  • For add multiple languages, it seems to follow theses system Languages code
  • only for HDD Contents ? (for Disc Game it was not working, be as SFO category DG or AP. For GD:? (see BLUS-31273 INSDIR pkg Angry Bird Star Wars edition))
  • up to only 999 pages?
  • PSX SCENE thread resource by Redemp

Links & Tutorials

Gallery

Note: images converted to jpg for wikify purpose.

For PS2 Classics

For PS1 Classics

For PSP Minis and Remasters

Standalone Manuals

PlayView

See PlayView for other PS3 standalone digital manual

Digital Comic for PSP

Digital Comic for PSP

Digimanual

Named as Digimanual or Manual (Digital), they are stand alone pkg PS3 hdd games included in disc (PKGDIR for example) or available online.

Seems to be a standard utility (the eboot) specific to display this kind of manuals, so should be considered an app, not a feature of the firmware

Structure tree

NPUO30***/ (only from few US example)
    |
    |-ICON0.PNG (See Content Information files for HDD Game)
    |
    |-PARAM.SFO (SFO category HG)
    |
    |-PS3LOGO.DAT
    |
    |-USRDIR/
          |
          |-digiman.sdat
          |
          |-digiman_content.sdat
          |
          |-digiman_content_en.sdat (can also have others languages as digiman_content_es.sdat..)
          |
          |-EBOOT.BIN
          |
          |-assets/
                |
                |-image/ (can contain sub-directory such "screenshots", "modals"...)
                |    |
                |    |-.jpg and .png
                |
                |-sound/
                |    |
                |    |-.wav
                |    
                |-video/
                     |
                     |-.usm

Web Manuals

Online Manuals

Online instruction Manuals on XMB Network column. accesses the manuals hosted at (click in the table below to go to a specific manual page):

Read manuals.playstation.net/document and us.playstation.com/support/manuals
Users
Users
Settings
Settings
Photo
Photo
Music
Music
Video
Video
TV/Video Services
TV/Video Services
Game
Game
Network
Network
PlayStation Network
PlayStation Network
Friends
Friends

Game Options Menu Manuals

Some games has an online manual that can be accessed from the "options menu" in main XMB (by pressing triangle over the game icon)

Manuals Multilingual Support

Template:XMB languages

  • Notes:
    • Portugues (Portugal), and Portugues (Brazil) can share the same manual ingame
    • English (United States), and English (United Kingdom) can share the same manual ingame