Is there a way to check if Parental Settings are enabled from Lua?

[DerfJagged]

Since parental settings interfere with being able to run games in back compat, it'd be nice to be able to detect it and warn the user in Xefu Spoofer so that they aren't blaming the script or their plugins.

[jrobiche]

I cannot guarantee that this will work for all dashboards, but it seems to be working for me on 17559.

function ispcset()
  -- Required Script Permissions:
  --   filesystem
  -- Params:
  --   None
  -- Returns:
  --   true - if PC is set
  --   false - if PC is not set
  --   nil - if there was an issue loading the data containing PC information
  local data=io.open("System:\\MobileB.dat", "rb"):read(67)
  if data ~= nil then
    return (string.byte(string.sub(data, 66, 67)) & 0x80) >> 7 == 1
  end
  return nil
end

Let me know how if you run into any issues

[jrobiche]

Glad to hear it is working!

It seems to be a generic flag that determines whether content controls are enabled or disabled, not any specific setting. Wish I could help troubleshoot more, but I do not have the skill to debug at that level 😆

[DerfJagged]

How did you manage to find that bit was the setting? I'm curious if Parental Controls could be turned off via homebrew by flipping that bit. If so, I would love to make a simple script to remove the Parental Control lock since (as far as I'm aware) you have to either know the code or use JRunner to edit a NAND dump and flash it on the console.

[Swizzy]

You can actually read the reset code from the SMC Config aswell - no need to patch the NAND. This is how you do that; https://github.com/Swizzy/x360Utils/blob/7ea8a7e818f376abc1d3096ed571ae2b177db823/src/x360Utils/NAND/SMCConfig.cs#L110

[DerfJagged]

Oh, nice! I suppose that's preferred, as there's probably more to it (checksums?) if you turn off Parental Controls by editing the setting via code, right? Any way to read that code from Lua?

[jrobiche]

How did you manage to find that bit was the setting?

I figured that parental controls would be stored in the console's on-board storage (because removable storage would be easily bypassed), meaning the value would be stored in the NAND, whose files are accessible via the System: mount.

I dumped all the files in System:, then enabled parental controls and dumped them again. I diff-ed the two sets of files to see what files actually changed and MobileB.dat was the only one. I then did the same thing with a couple different parental control settings and the value of that bit seemed to correlate with whether or not parental controls were enabled.