You can totally get a fake PSN service running in RPCS3. It's called RPCN. However, LittleBigPlanet servers were not hosted by PSN, they were hosted by Media Molecule in conjunction with Sony.

Unfortunately those servers were hacked and they took down everything. So any content for LittleBigPlanet 1, 2 or 3 is totally gone.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Thanks for doing the research I was too lazy to do 😅

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm honestly surprised that since there was no plan for a little big planets 4, and a little big planet 3 had 1, 2, and 3, that they didn't just release only the levels data, that way that people could run fan services.

It wouldn't really cost all that much extra because they would only have to keep the data available for a week or two, and then the community would then keep it alive via torrents or their own off-site storage.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I can't find a proper source, but I think even the fan communities were taken down.

It is not surprising that Sony would hold that level data close to the chest. If LBP4 did actually become a thing, they could release all that legacy data as day 1 content.