PS5 Exploit Guide

Davide6 · Apr 25, 2026

how can this be a bug when someone intentionally added these lines (start, end, number of days left etc)... Sony is trying to tighten DRM, we need to defend ourselves and speak out loudly about it

Rasa39 · Apr 25, 2026

realtimesave said:
I'm just using shadowmount in etahen 2.5B as far as I understand. where would I grab the config from? data folder on the main drive? where are you guys storing your games on the nvme, in the root? I'm putting them in the root which might be the wrong place

The file I'm talking about is just the autoloader from y2jb or similar exploits. Voidshell has issues if you load it with other payloads when executing the exploit.

Try launching just voidshell on it's own, once loaded, voidshell itself can be used to load other payloads, but the latest version includes shadowmount and works without etahen. It is a timed release sadly though.

For the games, I place mine in "etaHEN/games/" you can make these folders on an external drive, or on the m.2 drive if you have one installed. There are many folders where it will detect games from though, but that's the one I use.

realtimesave · Apr 25, 2026

Rasa39 said:
The file I'm talking about is just the autoloader from y2jb or similar exploits. Voidshell has issues if you load it with other payloads when executing the exploit.

Try launching just voidshell on it's own, once loaded, voidshell itself can be used to load other payloads, but the latest version includes shadowmount and works without etahen. It is a timed release sadly though.

For the games, I place mine in "etaHEN/games/" you can make these folders on an external drive, or on the m.2 drive if you have one installed. There are many folders where it will detect games from though, but that's the one I use.

thanks for the info. yeah I am running voidshell by itself when I use it but now I'm using ps5-xplorer which works a hell of a lot better. so I'm in etaHEN 2.5B and I don't have voidshell loaded along with it.

I'll stick the games in the etaHEN/games/ folder and see how it goes I guess

KiiWii · Apr 26, 2026

PS5 Linux runs PS3 games

Blythe93 · Apr 26, 2026

KiiWii said:
PS5 Linux runs PS3 games

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Finally a PS console that can run games for all the previous consoles?

littlemisskittn · Apr 26, 2026

BobaFett_UK said:
I'm sure Sony can also say, hey this game allows individuals to play games which they haven't purchased themselves aka Piracy... there is no getting away from that argument... the EU will side on Sony's side. Worse case, Sony refunds everyone and game is permanently disabled... At the end of the day playing games, via a jailbreak of the console, which you have not purchased/rented is copyright theft. Plain and simple....

Blocking permanent access to games you purchased is illegal. Even more so than "copyright theft". Piracy is only a small section of the userbase. DRM timebombs affect every user. EU would tell them to just patch the affected game or remove it.

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Davide6 said:
how can this be a bug when someone intentionally added these lines (start, end, number of days left etc)... Sony is trying to tighten DRM, we need to defend ourselves and speak out loudly about it

Because Sony's full of shit and they're trying to back track because they got caught.

realtimesave · Apr 26, 2026

Rasa39 said:
The file I'm talking about is just the autoloader from y2jb or similar exploits. Voidshell has issues if you load it with other payloads when executing the exploit.

Try launching just voidshell on it's own, once loaded, voidshell itself can be used to load other payloads, but the latest version includes shadowmount and works without etahen. It is a timed release sadly though.

For the games, I place mine in "etaHEN/games/" you can make these folders on an external drive, or on the m.2 drive if you have one installed. There are many folders where it will detect games from though, but that's the one I use.

dang, it won't let me copy every game into etaHEN/games/ with ps5-xplorer. now none of my games work also, even in root. I just reformatted the nvme going to try a game again. this ps5 is way too picky.edit: games still won't launch. this is a very very weird mod.

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my games won't launch at all any more. does anyone know how to fix this? should I do a factory reset?

Rasa39 · Apr 26, 2026

realtimesave said:
dang, it won't let me copy every game into etaHEN/games/ with ps5-xplorer. now none of my games work also, even in root. I just reformatted the nvme going to try a game again. this ps5 is way too picky.edit: games still won't launch. this is a very very weird mod.

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my games won't launch at all any more. does anyone know how to fix this? should I do a factory reset?

I don't know if it still does it, but the older ps5-Xplorer would fully capitalise files even if they weren't in the first place. I noticed this with certain files that refused to load because the console seems to be case sensitive.

Can you transfer or move the games to that same folder structure on your external drive before you try to move them onto the console itself? As the etaHEN/games/ folder on a usb drive will also be detected (this is assuming ps5-xplorer hasn't already changed the case of said files).

If you move games around and they don't get detected, try rebooting the console first before doing other changes, so you know shadowmount is definitely searching for the games as a reboot will force a rescan.

Also, go into the etaHEN toolbox and go down to webman games, if you have game folders and not files like ffpkg or exfat, then the folder games will show up in webman so try launching them from there even if shadowmount hasn't detected them yet.

realtimesave · Apr 26, 2026

Rasa39 said:
I don't know if it still does it, but the older ps5-Xplorer would fully capitalise files even if they weren't in the first place. I noticed this with certain files that refused to load because the console seems to be case sensitive.

Can you transfer or move the games to that same folder structure on your external drive before you try to move them onto the console itself? As the etaHEN/games/ folder on a usb drive will also be detected (this is assuming ps5-xplorer hasn't already changed the case of said files).

If you move games around and they don't get detected, try rebooting the console first before doing other changes, so you know shadowmount is definitely searching for the games as a reboot will force a rescan.

I've just about given up on the thing. I am using the latest ps5-Xplorer. I guess I could check the file names. It seems like at this point I have to reinstall fw or something I have no idea how to fix this thing. I should have left the damn thing on ebay lol.

edit: reinstalled fw 8.60.00 and that didn't fix it. I can't launch any games I copy to the system.

lufeig · Apr 26, 2026

realtimesave said:
I've just about given up on the thing. I am using the latest ps5-Xplorer. I guess I could check the file names. It seems like at this point I have to reinstall fw or something I have no idea how to fix this thing. I should have left the damn thing on ebay lol.

with all due respect, my friend, but imho your software choices are the problem here. you're choosing the wrong ones to work with.

voidshell is beta, it has bugs, and it has been abandoned by the author. it's closed source, which means no more development, bug fixes, nothing. and it has a date of expiry built in, so it will stop running soon.

ps5-xplorer is not the recommended software to copy games. it doesn't work well for this purpose, lapy himself admitted this limitation. and he also advised that the version 1.5 has bugs and he will only be able to fix them when he receives his ps5.

i would advise you to start simple, loading only the minimum required payloads to transfer and run your games. after everything is running ok, then you start to tinker if you want to.

if you accept a suggestion of minimal payloads loading in autoload.txt:

latest shadowmount plus
!3000
latest drakmor ftpsrv or zftpd
!3000
drakmor kstuff lite 1.1 (if you're up to fw 10.01) or kstuff lite 1.03

on your pc:

run the attached file, it will easily set a direct wired connection between your pc and ps5, so you can transfer your games with speed and stability using your favourite ftp client

filezilla or winscp to transfer files via ftp

realtimesave · Apr 26, 2026

lufeig said:
with all due respect, my friend, but imho your software choices are the problem here. you're choosing the wrong ones to work with.

voidshell is beta, it has bugs, and it has been abandoned by the author. it's closed source, which means no more development, bug fixes, nothing. and it has a date of expiry built in, so it will stop running soon.

ps5-xplorer is not the recommended software to copy games. it doesn't work well for this purpose, lapy himself admitted this limitation. and he also advised that the version 1.5 has bugs and he will only be able to fix them when he receives his ps5.

i would advise you to start simple, loading only the minimum required payloads to transfer and run your games. after everything is running ok, then you start to tinker if you want to.

if you accept a suggestion of minimal payloads loading in autoload.txt:

latest shadowmount plus
!3000
latest drakmor ftpsrv or zftpd
!3000
drakmor kstuff lite 1.1 (if you're up to fw 10.01) or kstuff lite 1.03

on your pc:

run the attached file, it will easily set a direct wired connection between your pc and ps5, so you can transfer your games with speed and stability using your favourite ftp client

filezilla or winscp to transfer files via ftp

ok I'll have to get a longer crossover cable I guess. thanks for the help. I just don't get why this worked in the first place :|

lufeig · Apr 26, 2026

realtimesave said:
ok I'll have to get a longer crossover cable I guess. thanks for the help. I just don't get why this worked in the first place :|

sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

jailbreak is not 100% stable.

and etahEN - voidshell combo is known to cause a lot of kernel panics in some configurations.

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and if you want to copy files between external storage and internal, both on ps5, you can use drakmor ftp payload on ps5 (i never managed to do this using zftpd) and winscp on pc

there's an option to move files or copy/paste on winscp

qamartheone · Apr 26, 2026

lufeig said:
with all due respect, my friend, but imho your software choices are the problem here. you're choosing the wrong ones to work with.

voidshell is beta, it has bugs, and it has been abandoned by the author. it's closed source, which means no more development, bug fixes, nothing. and it has a date of expiry built in, so it will stop running soon.

ps5-xplorer is not the recommended software to copy games. it doesn't work well for this purpose, lapy himself admitted this limitation. and he also advised that the version 1.5 has bugs and he will only be able to fix them when he receives his ps5.

i would advise you to start simple, loading only the minimum required payloads to transfer and run your games. after everything is running ok, then you start to tinker if you want to.

if you accept a suggestion of minimal payloads loading in autoload.txt:

latest shadowmount plus
!3000
latest drakmor ftpsrv or zftpd
!3000
drakmor kstuff lite 1.1 (if you're up to fw 10.01) or kstuff lite 1.03

on your pc:

run the attached file, it will easily set a direct wired connection between your pc and ps5, so you can transfer your games with speed and stability using your favourite ftp client

filezilla or winscp to transfer files via ftp

can you post a similar config for autoload.txt with just shadowmountplus & etahen

lufeig · Apr 26, 2026

qamartheone said:
can you post a similar config for autoload.txt with just shadowmountplus & etahen

i don't use them together, i got tired of kernel panics, so i don't have a working recipe to recommend

i usually don't need etahen, so i don't load it

i only load it if and when i need it, on a separate usb drive connected on ps5 during boot

otherwise, it's only shadowmountplus, 3 seconds pause, kstuff

if i need ftp or any other specific service, i send the payload using my pc or cell phone

_iggyman_ · Apr 26, 2026

KiiWii said:
PS5 Linux runs PS3 games

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bastardociccio · Apr 26, 2026

TheStonedModder said:
He stopped because there’s like 6 better alternatives now

I made 2 of them

well i'm waiting for ONE tool that works with FC26
i'm on fw 10.40 and is the first time that i need backpork.. and not work!

p.s.
if you need some test on ps5 fw10.xx

Schweino · Apr 26, 2026

realtimesave said:
ok I'll have to get a longer crossover cable I guess. thanks for the help. I just don't get why this worked in the first place :|

Just to be clear: With internal NVME, do you mean the PS5's own internal memory or have you added a NVME drive in the NVME slot in the PS5?

If it is the first then your games should go in the data/etahen/games or data/homebrew folder.

If it is the latter then I recommend getting a 10 Gb/sec NVME enclosure and putting the games on there in exfat format (etahen/games or /homebrew folder).

Also, follow lufeig's advice: Less is more when it comes to payloads

Adam512 · Apr 26, 2026

littlemisskittn said:
Blocking permanent access to games you purchased is illegal. Even more so than "copyright theft". Piracy is only a small section of the userbase. DRM timebombs affect every user. EU would tell them to just patch the affected game or remove it.

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Because Sony's full of shit and they're trying to back track because they got caught.

We must face the harsh reality that Sony has long concealed in the fine print (EULA): We do not own digital games; we only license them. Section 3.2.2 of the Software Usage Terms clarifies that software is not sold and offline modes may be changed or discontinued at Sony's discretion.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/software-eula/

3.2.2

The Software is licensed to you on these Software Terms; it is not sold for you to own, and you understand and agree that we may end online and network features of a Software that uses online servers ("Online Services"). We will provide reasonable advance notice of any end of Online Services. If we discontinue any Online Services, you may still access any offline modes we provide for the Software; however, offline modes are not guaranteed and may change or end at our discretion.

DuckNoir · Apr 26, 2026

Adam512 said:
We must face the harsh reality that Sony has long concealed in the fine print (EULA): We do not own digital games; we only license them. Section 3.2.2 of the Software Usage Terms clarifies that software is not sold and offline modes may be changed or discontinued at Sony's discretion.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/software-eula/

3.2.2

The Software is licensed to you on these Software Terms; it is not sold for you to own, and you understand and agree that we may end online and network features of a Software that uses online servers ("Online Services"). We will provide reasonable advance notice of any end of Online Services. If we discontinue any Online Services, you may still access any offline modes we provide for the Software; however, offline modes are not guaranteed and may change or end at our discretion.

In Europe and California, it is possible to sue Sony and win the dispute. However, in the rest of the US, you are at the mercy of Sony's Terms of Service (EULA) – you cannot sue them in a regular court; instead, the case is settled by a private arbitrator. This is incredibly expensive, costing up to $50,000 in legal fees just to recover a $70 game, and you waive your right to a class-action lawsuit.

MohammedQ8 · Apr 26, 2026

_iggyman_ said:

There is nothing to play on ps3 other than infamous series and uncharted series lol only 6 good games

We want ps5 games not other consoles lol

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Who can’t run ps3 emu these days

just waste of time

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