PS5 Exploit Guide

lufeig · Apr 17, 2026

Fact or fake check: the discussion continues.

Some say it's exfat on internal's fault.

Others say it's kstuff's.

TheStonedModder · Apr 17, 2026

Wolf85 said:
How many of those were bulk retailer sales? How many were bulk scalper sales. Don't let their system of over inflated numbers distract you from hating the money scam

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If that's the case then why don't they just get a real job coding stuff instead of stirring shit up just to be scene.

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Right, so everyone is just going to ignore the fact that the original source code was abandoned, just like so many others. What ever happened to that lib hijacker, kind of sounds like that is exactly what backpork is doing.

It’s not that easy to just “get a job coding” look at all the lay offs constantly happening

I was apart of 4 of them myself from AAA gaming companies…we are just fodder to them now

DuckNoir said:
What is the loading order for these ELF files? I did something similar without EtaHEN but my console crashes and shuts down.View attachment 568600

It’s VERY bad practice to load everything at the same time

You need to add delays between each payload and play around with them

Rasa39 · Apr 17, 2026

SonGoku78 said:
Does shadowmount create any files or DB entries when it "installs" a game?

Yeah it does, I believe it makes a temporary "shadowmount" folder under the "mnt" folder, and I think in "data" is creates something like "exfmount", "imgmount" and "UFSmount" depending on whether you've got ffpkg or exfat images mounted.

When transfering my dumps from usb to m.2, I would usually delete the game icon afterwards, and restart my console to reinitialise shadowmount fully and it would detect the new location without issues.

Otherwise sometimes it would give me an error about duplicate found and it would keep the old usb location, so I'd delete those temp files I mentioned and let shadowmount find the games again.

Doing this meant I had to go through the games setup screens again on launch, but my saves would still be there, although best back them up with garlic if you wanna play it safe if you ever need to delete those files.

lufeig said:
Fact or fake check: the discussion continues.

Some say it's exfat on internal's fault.

Others say it's kstuff's.

I was running exfat via my m.2 drive, but honestly I'm not sure if people are counting that as internal or not, I've heard some people do that but others only consider the onboard storage as internal.

One thing I did notice was that even with voidshell, when transfering an exfat to the internal, I was getting like 30mb/s. Upon launching the game, it was just as laggy as using a usb drive (this particular game has lag issues with the backport). Yet copying it to my m.2, it transfered at over 250mb/s and had slightly better performance.

I didn't test any other dumps or formats on my internal storage though so I can't say for certain if it was exfat related. I've been using exfat on my m.2 just fine though, I only switched back to ffpkg lately due to it supposedly being better for performance even though the games end up being larger compared to an exfat image.

evil24 · Apr 17, 2026

Same here, I'm running exfat files from the M.2 drive, and everything's working fine
except for Astro Bot, where ffpkg performance beats exfat by far

qamartheone · Apr 17, 2026

malvado24 said:
Same here, I'm running exfat files from the M.2 drive, and everything's working fine
except for Astro Bot, where ffpkg performance beats exfat by far

By m2 you mean m2 fitted in the internal slot or m2 in an enclosure?

lufeig · Apr 17, 2026

malvado24 said:
Same here, I'm running exfat files from the M.2 drive, and everything's working fine
except for Astro Bot, where ffpkg performance beats exfat by far

ffpkg reading speed beats exfat in every game, it's exfat technical limitation. but it can't be noticed in every game.

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Rasa39 said:
Yeah it does, I believe it makes a temporary "shadowmount" folder under the "mnt" folder, and I think in "data" is creates something like "exfmount", "imgmount" and "UFSmount" depending on whether you've got ffpkg or exfat images mounted.

When transfering my dumps from usb to m.2, I would usually delete the game icon afterwards, and restart my console to reinitialise shadowmount fully and it would detect the new location without issues.

Otherwise sometimes it would give me an error about duplicate found and it would keep the old usb location, so I'd delete those temp files I mentioned and let shadowmount find the games again.

Doing this meant I had to go through the games setup screens again on launch, but my saves would still be there, although best back them up with garlic if you wanna play it safe if you ever need to delete those files.

I was running exfat via my m.2 drive, but honestly I'm not sure if people are counting that as internal or not, I've heard some people do that but others only consider the onboard storage as internal.

One thing I did notice was that even with voidshell, when transfering an exfat to the internal, I was getting like 30mb/s. Upon launching the game, it was just as laggy as using a usb drive (this particular game has lag issues with the backport). Yet copying it to my m.2, it transfered at over 250mb/s and had slightly better performance.

I didn't test any other dumps or formats on my internal storage though so I can't say for certain if it was exfat related. I've been using exfat on my m.2 just fine though, I only switched back to ffpkg lately due to it supposedly being better for performance even though the games end up being larger compared to an exfat image.

afaik there are limitations regarding homebrew access to the internal storage that weren't fixed yet.

that's why transfer to internal is slower than m.2

xZenithy · Apr 17, 2026

malvado24 said:
Same here, I'm running exfat files from the M.2 drive, and everything's working fine
except for Astro Bot, where ffpkg performance beats exfat by far

Just curious, exfat / ffpkg file of AstroBot , how many time takes to copy to m.2 drive?

Xen0 · Apr 17, 2026

Is there an "I've been absent for 3 Years and would like to upgrade everything properly" guide?

There seems to be PS5 backups now? And you'd need a special ssd for these?

evil24 · Apr 17, 2026

xZenithy said:
Just curious, exfat / ffpkg file of AstroBot , how many time takes to copy to m.2 drive?

In my case, the file uploads in about 40 to 45 minutes
The Astro Bot ffpkg is about 160 GB, via FTP at 60 MB/s will take approximately that time

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qamartheone said:
By m2 you mean m2 fitted in the internal slot or m2 in an enclosure?

m2 fitted in the internal slot

qamartheone · Apr 17, 2026

malvado24 said:
In my case, the file uploads in about 40 to 45 minutes
The Astro Bot ffpkg is about 160 GB, via FTP at 60 MB/s will take approximately that time

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m2 fitted in the internal slot

So can we safely assume almost all titles are running fine from internally fitted m2 either in exfat/ffpkg or folder format as well?

evil24 · Apr 17, 2026

qamartheone said:
So can we safely assume almost all titles are running fine from internally fitted m2 either in exfat/ffpkg or folder format as well?

Most games in folder format have stuttering performance (4.50), so I switched to exfat and ffpkg, no issues found so far
and I also wanted to avoid the nightmare of transferring 100K+ files

xalfie · Apr 17, 2026

malvado24 said:
Most games in folder format have stuttering performance (4.50), so I switched to exfat and ffpkg, no issues found so far
and I also wanted to avoid the nightmare of transferring 100K+ files

Neither Returnal is having stuttering from external USB SSD Sata. And that game is not packed, that usually can be a problem with less speed. So the problem is in your side.

MohammedQ8 · Apr 17, 2026

malvado24 said:
Most games in folder format have stuttering performance (4.50), so I switched to exfat and ffpkg, no issues found so far
and I also wanted to avoid the nightmare of transferring 100K+ files

Can itemzflow and shadow mount read exfat and ffpkg?

I might try smaller games later

Rasa39 · Apr 17, 2026

MohammedQ8 said:
Can itemzflow and shadow mount read exfat and ffpkg?

I might try smaller games later

I never saw my packaged games showing up in itemzflow, but yes shadowmountplus can do that, or you can enable the support for those formats in voidshell 3.0.

But, that sadly is a timed release so who knows whether we'll ever get a regular release for it in Voidwhisper ever changes his mind, not trying to glaze but it is really nice to have an all-in-one, and the file browser is the best one I've ever used on ps5.

yonasz · Apr 17, 2026

Is running games from exfat give you better loading performance compared to folder format?

lufeig · Apr 17, 2026

yonasz said:
Is running games from exfat give you better loading performance compared to folder format?

no

KiiWii · Apr 17, 2026

https://github.com/jdros15/dump2ufs-gui

A powerful, modern Windows GUI for dump2ufs. This application simplifies converting PS5 game dumps into optimized UFS2 filesystem images (.ffpkg) with a focus on ease of use and automated batch processing.

TheStonedModder · Apr 17, 2026

KiiWii said:
https://github.com/jdros15/dump2ufs-gui

A powerful, modern Windows GUI for dump2ufs. This application simplifies converting PS5 game dumps into optimized UFS2 filesystem images (.ffpkg) with a focus on ease of use and automated batch processing.

That’s literally shadow batch

I’m not gonna make any accusations before I look, especially since this isn’t hard to make.. but from first glance I think shadowbatch may have been decomped (not like it was hard) and reworked into that..

Edit: app is c# I wish the GitHub iOS showed that

SonGoku78 · Apr 17, 2026

Rasa39 said:
Yeah it does, I believe it makes a temporary "shadowmount" folder under the "mnt" folder, and I think in "data" is creates something like "exfmount", "imgmount" and "UFSmount" depending on whether you've got ffpkg or exfat images mounted.

ok, just came along to check things.
No such folders in the mentioned locations.
I checked the shadowmount log and it shows this rigth after cronos: [18:56:10] [REG] FAIL: 0x80bd0009
So i checked via ftp some folders on the ps5 and found the ppsa folder for cronos under /user/app, which i deleted.
And all installed games aka games with icons have a folder with their ppsa under /user/appmeta but there was none for cronos.
So i think this is the problem.
While at it, i switched from og shadowmount to shadowmountplus and only load that elf and etahen last.
tried a few games and everything seems fine, cronos starts too

So it was the incomplete install because of the kp in between.
Thanks for the ideas given to all that contributed.

EDIT: Oh and someone asked for fixing the picture that is shown for the installed games right ? they are actually in the ppsa folder in /user/appmeta. I am sure you can fix your problem with replacing the image file(s) there.
Sorry, i dont remember who asked.

tangyuan · Apr 17, 2026

When running Monster Hunter Wild, it gets stuck at the startup screen
My PS5 system is at version 9.6
Both the internal and external hard drives freeze after being started
Does anyone know what's going on

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