PS5 Exploit Guide

littlemisskittn · Jun 4, 2026

HS2005 said:
PS5 FFPFS-CLI
A cross-platform CLI and GUI tool to pack and build PS5 homebrew images in the .ffpfsc container format for ShadowMountPlus (SMP).

Rather than using complex, platform-dependent exFAT loopback mounts, this tool creates a standard uncompressed PFS image (pfs_image.dat) and packs it inside a compressed PFS container (.ffpfsc), which is the recommended layout for nested images in ShadowMountPlus.

Features

Pure Python & Cross-Platform: Runs natively on macOS, Linux, and Windows with zero OS-specific dependencies.

No Admin/Root Privileges Required: Since it doesn't need to mount loopback disks or format drives, it runs completely in userland.

Smart Folder Discovery: You don't need to pass the exact game root. The tool recursively scans the provided directory for the actual game folder (containing eboot.bin and sce_sys/param.json).

Title ID Auto-Naming: Automatically parses sce_sys/param.json to extract the game's actual Title ID (e.g., PPSA01411) and names output files accordingly.

Archive Support: Directly process ZIP and RAR archives (including password-protected) without manual extraction. Uses a built-in, self-contained UnRAR C++ extension — no external unrar or 7-Zip binaries required.

Batch Processing: Process an entire directory of multiple games, archives, and .exfat files into separate images automatically using the --batch flag.

GUI Mode: Launch a graphical user interface with --gui for a point-and-click workflow.

Auto-Cleanup: Automatically cleans up intermediate nested PFS files, keeping only the final compressed .ffpfsc file.

Link: https://github.com/bizkut/ps5-ffpfs-cli/releases/tag/v1.1.3

Gotta try this with split RAR files like I use

enomao94 · Jun 4, 2026

Wish to ask, with a 11.60 console with paired drive, you can turn off the console and avoid the whole process with the bluray disk? Edit:tryed and i can turn off and use my bd to save time.

also what is the best app to convert a ps5 game folder in pkg?

HS2005 · Jun 4, 2026

Just unlocked another PS5.

Steps:
Primary link: https://github.com/owendswang/Y2JB-P2JB-bdj_unpatch/releases/tag/v1.3d-autoloader

I've downloaded the backup first and get everything setup. Run it and patched the bdj-stack.jar file last.
Rebooted again and used the regular download0.dat file.

I did a reboot to check if the Y2JB was running the JB and it did. See 2nd screenshot with autoloading the files from the USB.
Details: https://github.com/owendswang/Y2JB-P2JB-bdj_unpatch/tree/autoloader/ps5_autoloader

1st time succes even with high pipes. Runtime: 47 minutes.

Inaki · Jun 4, 2026

HS2005 said:
Summarization:

Proof of concept: Kraken/oodle compression and decompression via the A53 coprocessor. He is now at level 6. Kraken compressions goes up to level 12.

Game file sizes reduced by up to a third, with the console's original read speed. So no negative loading times.

It's hardware decompression with a53 like real fpkg.

Once this is done, I'll move on to the FPKGs.

Post automatically merged: Jun 4, 2026

Some findings in regardings to the new compression (Not mine):

Code:

Experience with ffPFS- Config- FW 9.00 + Y2JB + SM+ 1.15Fix2 + K-stuff 1.07 + external Drive Processing time- With 10 cores the compression time was around -26 mins Once the compression is done it writes to the image to your drive- 10 mins Total time around 36 mins with avg speed throughput- 81 Mbps Size Comparison Before - 170GB After - 108GB Some initial impression (Black Myth) Loading time exFAT - 1 min 47 secs Ffpfs - 1 min 48 secs Texture- Looked closely but couldn’t find any difference in texture loading (at least to my eyes). 10 mins of Gameplay experience is similar to exFAT

My config is: FW 12.00 + SM+ 1.15Fix2 + K-stuff 1.06 + external Drive (M2 Gen5 Samsung 9100 Pro).
But as I have said, I have the same experience on multiple games.

I think Demon's Souls should be used to test this and future stuff. That game is very sensitive in two ways: one is that only .exfat works for now, .ffpkg doesn't ( I have done tests with multiple versions and regions ), the second one is that even without backports, the game gets to an almost playable state but there's constant microstutters. I will continue testing it and ffpfsc is next, but hopefully one day we will have those two aspects sorted out; that moment will probably mean most problematic ganes will no longer have issues.

HS2005 · Jun 4, 2026

Inaki said:
I think Demon's Souls should be used to test this and future stuff. That game is very sensitive in two ways: one is that only .exfat works for now, .ffpkg doesn't ( I have done tests with multiple versions and regions ), the second one is that even without backports, the game gets to an almost playable state but there's constant microstutters. I will continue testing it and ffpfsc is next, but hopefully one day we will have those two aspects sorted out; that moment will probably mean most problematic ganes will no longer have issues.

It's phases. First we got regular folder dumps of games, then we got various compressions and formats and now we are in the era of good compression backups of games and the start of fpkg developments. So fpkg will be the end stage.

I've always found exfat releases to run good on external. Some exfat games do not run proper on internal. Same applies for folders. So my way to go it to always use exfat on a external drive so that Elden Ring, Forza, Astro Bot and Demon Souls to name a few are running as they should.

madbrainx · Jun 4, 2026

There might be other factors at play here with microstutters, like kstuff

Inaki · Jun 4, 2026

HS2005 said:
It's phases. First we got regular folder dumps of games, then we got various compressions and formats and now we are in the era of good compression backups of games and the start of fpkg developments. So fpkg will be the end stage.

I've always found exfat releases to run good on external. Some exfat games do not run proper on internal. Same applies for folders. So my way to go it to always use exfat on a external drive so that Elden Ring, Forza, Astro Bot and Demon Souls to name a few are running as they should.

Yes, you are right. And, I don't know, I use an SSD to USB3 10gbps thing but maybe it is not fast enough... but I'd expect internal to be the fastest... I don't know... but yeah, fpkg is the endgame.

zorusbg · Jun 4, 2026

Yesterday at 11:54 PM
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Hello everyone, I experienced a crash yesterday on my jailbroken PS5 (Firmware 12.70) and, having no other option, I was forced to perform a factory reset. I am still on Firmware 12.70, but in order to jailbreak again, I need to have an activated account—and like an idiot, I unfortunately didn't create a backup beforehand.

What lead to the crash? We're you by chance running from internal drive or perhaps lost power while having a game open in suspended mode. That's what happened to me on FW 3.20. These crashes resulting in mandatory resets are devastating so the better we understand what causes them the better for everyone.

bamboocappucino · Jun 4, 2026

Anyone have a view on whether it's worth updating a 2.0, and if so, to which fw? I check the thread every day, and as far as i understand my fw is next to useless as far as decent backports go, despite having Byepervisor exploit available

bn2soldier · Jun 4, 2026

zorusbg said:
Yesterday at 11:54 PM
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Hello everyone, I experienced a crash yesterday on my jailbroken PS5 (Firmware 12.70) and, having no other option, I was forced to perform a factory reset. I am still on Firmware 12.70, but in order to jailbreak again, I need to have an activated account—and like an idiot, I unfortunately didn't create a backup beforehand.

What lead to the crash? We're you by chance running from internal drive or perhaps lost power while having a game open in suspended mode. That's what happened to me on FW 3.20. These crashes resulting in mandatory resets are devastating so the better we understand what causes them the better for everyone.

This happened to me a couple of days ago on 7.01 i tried forcing safe mode with all options but in the end i had to re-install 7.01 & I too stupidly didnt make a backup :cry:

I was playing with various payloads at the time and so I presumed I'd possibly corrupted the file system with a conflicting .elf or ftp files...
either way... I guess the lessons here are... "Backup" "Backup" "Backup"

xalfie · Jun 4, 2026

while you can install same console FW, it's ok!

BobaFett_UK · Jun 4, 2026

HS2005 said:
For me atm:

Code:

elfldr-ps5.elf !2000 ftpsrv-ps5.elf !2000 garlic-savemgr.elf !2000 shadowmountplus.elf !5000 kstuff.elf !4000 phu_overlay.elf

SM+ (Latest build) and kstuf v1.06

My USB (backup autoload)

Code:

!3000 pldmgr_v0.2.0.elf

For poops i would not need the elfldr-ps5 as poops.lua spawns the elf loader. Probably also won't need garlic-savemgr either...
How do you pause and unpause kstuff? etaHen had that built in as you could set a delay?

HS2005 · Jun 4, 2026

enomao94 said:
also what is the best app to convert a ps5 game folder in pkg?

You can't make any fpkg games.
Use this new version to pick what you want: https://github.com/kerrdec97/ps5-exfat-builder/releases/tag/v3.4.0

v3.4.0 — PFS build queue

exFAT Image Builder v3.4.0 is out

The big one: PFS BUILD QUEUE

Queue up multiple game dumps, hit build, walk away. Each job runs in turn — and you can tick "Shut down PC when queue finishes" for overnight batch builds.

Also in this release:
• FIXED: games failing to boot with "Failed to open descriptor file" — mkpfs was silently dropping empty directories that Unreal Engine games need at runtime. Rebuild your images on v3.4.0!
• FIXED: performance regression from 3.3.4 — compression spool no longer forced onto the output drive (big speedup for multi-drive setups)
• Multi-core compression now defaults to half your cores — and actually works on the convert path too
• Output name auto-updates when you pick a new source
• Shutdown-when-finished option added for single PFS builds
• Queue: pause/resume, per-job settings, failed-job retry

Thanks to BigBoss83, Long Ho and Helio Rogerio Silva Lopes for the kind donations ❤

Get it: github.com/kerrdec97/ps5-exfat-builder

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BobaFett_UK said:
For poops i would not need the elfldr-ps5 as poops.lua spawns the elf loader. Probably also won't need garlic-savemgr either...
How do you pause and unpause kstuff? etaHen had that built in as you could set a delay?

SM+ also has that. Look at the Kstuff game lifecycle behavior on this page: https://github.com/drakmor/ShadowMountPlus

Post automatically merged: Jun 4, 2026

Y2JB 1.6 > FW 13.20

From Gezine: Before everyone go crazy. You need PSN + JB

Inaki · Jun 4, 2026

madbrainx said:
There might be other factors at play here with microstutters, like kstuff

Yes. I have also seen people with normal, not jailbroken PS5, having these stutters playing Demon's Souls. I am going to test stuff. Btw, etaHEN and SM+ seems to behave way better than kstufflite + SM+...

xZenithy · Jun 4, 2026

xZenithy said:
Finally, I have decided start again from scratch to install on my PS5 PRO FW 10.01 the last advances from the scene, so I have did:
1º Restore the last backup 1.5 by Genzine
2º Format my M.2 and lost everything on there
3º Install Y2JB autoload 0.6.3
4º Install elf Arsenal
5º Install PHU Games Tools v1.15.0
6º Configure everything as I need... ( Remote Play was again a nightmare, I have to write down about it for the next time)
6º And finally said goodbye to etaHEN and ItemFlow ( I don't need them anymore..)

About all of these tools, one of them, elf-Arsenal is amazing, it is a bit hard to configure (it has some minor issues and I have to speak with the author) but now my console is connected to Internet online and I don't have any fear to get it updated by accident...

However, the fk "system Software Error" message because of my specific configuration is back, like the bad guys... Incredible..
But it is something that I can live with it for the moment because only happen one time by boot..
I have hope some day someone will find out the root of the issue and the fix for it..

Just today I have updated Payload Manager from v.0.1.1 to v.0.2.0 using the same payload manager application to update it from internet..

I reboot and voila!, I cannot believe it, finally the fk "system Software Error" message that I have in each boot is gone and everything run faster now (before with the error message the boot was taken around 45 seconds, now 12 seconds and everything is loaded and running..)

I don't know what the developer :bow:

fixed, but I hope that this message never come back again...

Firestarter · Jun 4, 2026

I cant get payload manager to connect to the internet, just throws an error using masters latest backup, Although i can install homebrew menu and grab from there, tried wired connection and hotspot from my mobile, also normal eero wifi with all suggested addresses blocked.

Where am i going wrong here?

HS2005 · Jun 4, 2026

Another 12.70 console with a happy end. Done and dusted.
I used YarP2JB with Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers, as I did many times before. Seems to be the most stable and fastest.

I had to adjust the timings for 12.70 because it was causing KP's. Unlike for 12.00 and 12.40 systems. Yes every system is different.

He wanted the same setup that I had. So after Jailbraking the console I patched the bdj stack (as always). And then used pldmgr to make an autoload config so that once he JB-ed his console he only has to send pldmgr_v0.3.0.elf via Netcat GUI to load the rest of the payloads.

I hope his rest mode will stay intact. This is the biggest issue ATM. Getting out of it without the console going into a KP.

Link: https://github.com/matem6/YarP2JB/releases/tag/1.0
Link: https://github.com/itsPLK/ps5-payload-manager/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Autoload setup:

Code:

ftpsrv-ps5.elf
!3000
garlic-savemgr.elf
!4000
shadowmountplus.elf
!5000
phu_overlay.elf
!5000
kstuff-1.07.elf

YarP2JB is still improving: https://github.com/matem6/YarP2JB/commit/6fbad7b02a71433fa1a7639c23b19172918fd173

BobaFett_UK · Jun 4, 2026

Cheats/Trainers out for Saros and Pragmata

https://www.youtube.com/@Yharnam_dev

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Rasa39 · Jun 4, 2026

Anyone else having issues with the new exfat image builder being tagged as a backdoor virus? Previous version didn't have this issue.

I was hoping to try the new compression method in an easy way, but I'm not trusting an executable that previously wasn't being flagged, seems a little off.

HS2005 · Jun 4, 2026

Rasa39 said:
Anyone else having issues with the new exfat image builder being tagged as a backdoor virus? Previous version didn't have this issue.

I was hoping to try the new compression method in an easy way, but I'm not trusting an executable that previously wasn't being flagged, seems a little off.

If you are referring to https://github.com/kerrdec97/ps5-exfat-builder/releases/tag/v3.4.0 well not for me. I just made an image for Monster Hunter Stories 3 Twisted Reflection wuthout any virus warnings.

But you are not the only one: https://github.com/kerrdec97/ps5-exfat-builder/issues/18
Lol I have Windows Defender as well.

Post automatically merged: Jun 4, 2026

BobaFett_UK said:
Cheats/Trainers out for Saros and Pragmata

https://www.youtube.com/@Yharnam_dev

Have not played Saros (yet). Pragmata was nice. Have a physical copy. Not too deep of a storyline, but the gameplay is good.
I don't have much time to play games lol. Only UX and testing these past few weeks... And if I look at my crystal ball it will remain so for a while.

Post automatically merged: Jun 4, 2026

LMFAO: Why TF did YT get a new version

https://prosperopatches.com/PPSA01651

I hope YT or either Sony dares us to use this version to exploit further.

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