# Finding the account ID a Remote Play client asks for

> The retained baseline for the PSN Account ID Finder.

Canonical page: https://pyrosoft.pro/blog/finding-the-account-id-a-remote-play-client-asks-for

Live development journal; no publication date.
Work period: 2026-09-13 to 2026-09-13
Updated: 2026-10-21

Setting up a Remote Play client can involve an account ID that isn't the same thing as the name you normally type into PlayStation. The PSN Account ID Finder exists to make that particular step easier to understand.

The September 13 retained website baseline contains the server-side lookup flow. You sign in on Sony's own page, then bring back the redirect address carrying its authorization code. The tool exchanges that code, reads the account's numeric identifier and converts it into the Base64 representation expected by clients such as Chiaki.

The byte order is part of that job. This isn't just taking the visible decimal digits and Base64-encoding the text. The identifier is represented as eight little-endian bytes before encoding. If that conversion is wrong, the result can look plausible while being useless to the client.

The intended privacy boundary is also specific. The tool doesn't ask you to type your PlayStation password into a PyroSoft form. Its backend does process the returned code and account response for the request; that is different from an entirely browser-local conversion. The source describes avoiding stored account payloads and tokens.

This baseline is a record of what existed when the website was captured, not an original launch date or a newly repeated successful login test. The next day's work corrected an important large-integer issue in that implementation and made the public explanation more precise.

What I like about a tool like this is that it removes one confusing setup step. It doesn't need to become a whole account-management application. It needs to explain the handoff, produce the exact identifier format and be clear about which service handles each part of the request.