Hacking (Question) Quick Question about USB 2.0

[DS92]

Is there a way to use USB 2.0 HDD on the PS4 as an external drive to install games to and play on the USB 2.0.

my FW is 5.05.

 

[godreborn]

yes, usb is backwards compatible. might be slower than usual, but it should work.

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I take that back, I think it will be the same speed, because I discovered that external hdd games are actually decrypted on the internal hdd in mnt/sandbox/pfsmnt.

 

[DS92]

yes, usb is backwards compatible. might be slower than usual, but it should work.

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I take that back, I think it will be the same speed, because I discovered that external hdd games are actually decrypted on the internal hdd in mnt/sandbox/pfsmnt.

how do i use it, the PS4 when going to format it as an external storage says usb 3.0 is required.

 

[godreborn]

hmm...maybe you can't then. I don't know if app2usb will work or not as I don't use it. I would've imagined booting the game up would've been slower, since transfer speeds are low, but external hdd games are decrypted on the internal hdd just like everything else. sorry, I don't think you can do that then.

 

[DS92]

hmm...maybe you can't then. I don't know if app2usb will work or not as I don't use it. I would've imagined booting the game up would've been slower, since transfer speeds are low, but external hdd games are decrypted on the internal hdd just like everything else. sorry, I don't think you can do that then.

can i use a usb 3.0 HDD with App2USB?

 

[DS92]

i need help with someone who actually uses USB2APP

 

[Hayato213]

You should use USB 3.0 if possible, transfer speed is like 20/30 mb to 110mb comparing usb 2.0 to usb 3.0, if you can use extended format use extended format just that it will require you to have another drive to transfer/install game.

 

[DS92]

You should use USB 3.0 if possible, transfer speed is like 20/30 mb to 110mb comparing usb 2.0 to usb 3.0, if you can use extended format use extended format just that it will require you to have another drive to transfer/install game.

it seems i made a mistake, thinking that PS4 would only format the exfat partition that i made, but it decided to format the whole thing, and now i lost all the PC Games i had on it.

 

[Hayato213]

it seems i made a mistake, thinking that PS4 would only format the exfat partition that i made, but it decided to format the whole thing, and now i lost all the PC Games i had on it.

Yea it take the whole drive, get yourself an usb 3.0 enclosure if you are using external drive, faster transfer speed is well worth it since pkg games can be pretty big.

 

[DS92]

Yea it take the whole drive, get yourself an usb 3.0 enclosure if you are using external drive, faster transfer speed is well worth it since pkg games can be pretty big.

yeah, i know now it does the whole Drive, i just lost all my PC games i had on it.

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Yea it take the whole drive, get yourself an usb 3.0 enclosure if you are using external drive, faster transfer speed is well worth it since pkg games can be pretty big.

is there a way to recover the PC Games that i just lost?

 

[Hayato213]

yeah, i know now it does the whole Drive, i just lost all my PC games i had on it.

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is there a way to recover the PC Games that i just lost?

You can try data recover software, but probably ain't going to do much since they are installed, not just regular files.

 

[DS92]

You can try data recover software, but probably ain't going to do much since they are installed, not just regular files.

i dont know why the PS4 act like it was going to just use the partition that was exfat, but instead decided to do the whole hard drive.

 

[ItsmeAJ]

i dont know why the PS4 act like it was going to just use the partition that was exfat, but instead decided to do the whole hard drive.

I guess you misunderstood the difference between external drive made by app2usb payload and one by official feature.

app2usb does use fat32/exfat drive to store game as a workaround to use external drive on 4.55 or 5.05 iirc, since flatz disabled the ability to use ex drive on jailbroken ps4 as showing developers didn't condone nor endorse piracy. When the feature later enabled, it would format the whole drive and used it solely for the ps4, as it should do normally.

 

[viper3344]

Correct. When you set up the drive as an external game drive, Sony will format it under its proprietary format (the ENTIRE drive) Running games off the external requires a USB 3.0 drive. If you want to run games off the external, just get a dedicated USB 3 drive. I have a seagate USB powered 5TB and it works perfectly.