PS5 Exploit Guide

BobaFett_UK · 2026-09-27T13:49:23+0100

MohammedQ8 said:
Pkg manager reading from disc but it slower than debug settings but this game install via disc in one hour only not 2 … but the menu is nice

Imagine it has auto pkg file install it will be perfect

3.6Mbs

Oh sweet lord that's sooooo slooooooooow. My M.2 (Western Digital Black) was copying over at circa 270Mbs just fyi..

Talking of the Internal SSD, what's the general consensus with moving pkg's to it? I know previously we were advised against copying over to the internal storage through fear of KP's and the BSOD etc... Has that fear subsided now?

MohammedQ8 · 2026-09-27T13:52:44+0100

BobaFett_UK said:
3.6Mbs Oh sweet lord that's sooooo slooooooooow. My M.2 (Western Digital Black) was copying over at circa 270Mbs just fyi..

Talking of the Internal SSD, what's the general consensus with moving pkg's to it? I know previously we were advised against copying over to the internal storage through fear of KP's and the BSOD etc... Has that fear subsided now?

Maybe my discs are cheap and slow lol

Rasa39 · 2026-09-27T13:54:58+0100

BobaFett_UK said:
3.6Mbs Oh sweet lord that's sooooo slooooooooow. My M.2 (Western Digital Black) was copying over at circa 270Mbs just fyi..

Talking of the Internal SSD, what's the general consensus with moving pkg's to it? I know previously we were advised against copying over to the internal storage through fear of KP's and the BSOD etc... Has that fear subsided now?

Yeah I believe so, the latest kstuff in Drakmor's discord comes afer he mentioned an m2 fix, so I wonder if there was an issue with m.2 slot at first.

All of my pkg files installed to system storage at first, I didn't even realise, but they worked fine. I've moved them to m2 since, then during some testing they stopped working. I'm guessing that was whatever was fixed, so I'm about to try the new kstuff and see if they load on my m.2.

Ed: yup, working on my m.2 now with latest kstuff 1.13 test.

HS2005 · 2026-09-27T14:16:24+0100

BobaFett_UK said:
3.6Mbs Oh sweet lord that's sooooo slooooooooow. My M.2 (Western Digital Black) was copying over at circa 270Mbs just fyi..

Just plug-in a cat7 or cat8 between your pc/laptop and PS5. I've connected it via this method. The bottleneck is the PS5 because of the ethernet port. My laptop has a 2.5GB port and NAS has 10GB. I use Cat 8.1 for my whole internal network cause it can run a max speed of 40 Gbit/s using 2000 MHz. Max cable length is 5 meters.

Schematics:
NAS (10GB) > Router (10GB LAN) > 10GB to Laptop (2.5GB) > PS5

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Newly updated PS5 RetroArch

PS5 RetroArch — Alpha 4

Native RetroArch for jailbroken PS5 consoles, rendering through
PS5_Vulkan. This release adds GPU-rendered
GameCube/Wii and PlayStation 2 emulation, and fixes every crash testers reported
on earlier builds.

Alpha. The games and paths below are the ones I have tested on my console.
Other games may still fail. Please report them (see Reporting problems).

Highlights

Eight cores. Dolphin (GameCube and Wii), LRPS2 (PlayStation 2) and
PPSSPP (PSP) render on the PS5's GPU through PS5_Vulkan, beside FCEUmm, mGBA,
Snes9x, FinalBurn Neo and Genesis Plus GX.
PlayStation 2 at 4K. LRPS2 uses its Vulkan hardware renderer by default at
6x internal resolution, with multi-threaded VU1. The God of War II and
Final Fantasy X demos and GTA San Andreas run at full speed on my console.
You need your own PS2 BIOS in system/pcsx2/bios/.
GameCube and Wii. Dolphin 2609 with its JIT and fast memory. Wind Waker,
Resident Evil 4, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mario Kart Wii and Rogue Leader are tested.
Wind Waker ran for an hour and RE4 for 30 minutes with no crash.
PSP. PPSSPP v1.20.4 on its Vulkan renderer with JIT: God of War: Ghost of
Sparta and Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force are tested at 10× internal resolution.
120 Hz output where the display supports it, with the correct 60 Hz fallback.
Faster save states. A 50 MB PS2 save state is written without stdio, which
was the slow part.

Fixed from tester reports

Report	Status in this release
Crash after closing a game (seen with an SNES game)	Fixed. The video driver was being re-created on a RetroArch thread, and the console gives such threads only 64 KiB of stack. It crashed with Threaded Video on. RetroArch's threads now get 2 MiB, and the stack-heavy code moved to the heap. I reproduced the crash, then confirmed the fix on the console.
PSP game (Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters) crashing after one to two minutes	Fixed in the GPU driver: its internal lists were changed from several threads at once without a lock. A new driver test reproduces the corruption on the old driver and passes on the new one. PPSSPP ran a 10-minute soak with the menu opened 25 times and did not crash.
Every game at half speed with V-Sync on	Fixed. On a display that only refreshes at 60 Hz, the console accepted the 120 Hz mode and kept refreshing at 60 Hz, so each frame was shown twice. The driver now measures the real refresh rate and falls back to 60 Hz. My display is 120 Hz, so the 60 Hz path still needs confirming on a 60 Hz TV.
Rogue Leader crash after about three minutes	Fixed (a race in Dolphin's dual-core GPU FIFO).

With the half-speed fix, V-Sync on is the recommended setting on every display.

Stability work in this release

Every thread the title, RetroArch and the driver start now asks for an adequate
stack instead of the console's 64 KiB default.
Driver state that several threads can reach is atomic or locked. A debug-table
counter could write past its array when two threads recorded commands at once.
Before release, every core was run with a game: boot, menu open and close, then a
Quick Menu action, with Threaded Video on for half of them and V-Sync on
throughout. There were no crashes and no fatal signals.

Link: https://github.com/mihawk-99/PS5_RetroArch/releases/tag/v0.4.0-alpha.4

BobaFett_UK · 2026-09-27T14:18:11+0100

Found this laying in the bottom of one of my draws of odd ends. Forgot I even had it lol

I’ll stick that into the 9.20 system when I find the time.

Not touched the 11.60 console yet. I believe ArkSama / Drakmor has an updated elf file for that revision?

And I’m still using Y2JB for 9.20 and BDJb for the 11.60 and not the WebKit exploit. Any guidance on what you folks recommend?

Edit: Need to dust my keyboard

isoboy · 2026-09-27T14:18:32+0100

For those of you with a proper psn account with plenty of purchases and ONE ps5 that you've hacked - did you create a new psn user for the hacks?

BobaFett_UK · 2026-09-27T14:26:15+0100

Rasa39 said:
Yeah I believe so, the latest kstuff in Drakmor's discord comes afer he mentioned an m2 fix, so I wonder if there was an issue with m.2 slot at first.

All of my pkg files installed to system storage at first, I didn't even realise, but they worked fine. I've moved them to m2 since, then during some testing they stopped working. I'm guessing that was whatever was fixed, so I'm about to try the new kstuff and see if they load on my m.2.

Ed: yup, working on my m.2 now with latest kstuff 1.13 test.

That's good to know that your m.2 is working fine with the 1.13 kstuff.. I'm already using the latest test build so i expect i'll also be all good now

Rasa39 · 2026-09-27T14:30:42+0100

BobaFett_UK said:
Found this laying in the bottom of one of my draws of odd ends. Forgot I even had it lol
And I’m still using Y2JB for 9.20 and BDJb for the 11.60 and not the WebKit exploit. Any guidance on what you folks recommend?

View attachment 592732

Edit: Need to dust my keyboard

Ah, those things, yeah that's ancient technology, barely worth anything. I can recycle that for you, no issues, I'll even pay postage...just...just let me take care of that for you mate. Let me know if you find more worthless junk in the bottom of your draw...

I think for 9.60 you can probably use webkit as your best option, although I'm on 6.02 so I can't use it and don't know how stable it is. I've been using y2jb, I have bdj too but I know my lua is technically the most stable. I just use y2jb to save my bd drive from spinning up constantly cos I'm too lazy to keep taking the disc out lol

ThePSGuy · 2026-09-27T14:37:00+0100

isoboy said:
For those of you with a proper psn account with plenty of purchases and ONE ps5 that you've hacked - did you create a new psn user for the hacks?

Nope because my console is never going online again now that it's jailbroken so my existing user account is pretty much safe from a ban.

DkAngel666 · 2026-09-27T14:52:10+0100

BobaFett_UK said:
Found this laying in the bottom of one of my draws of odd ends. Forgot I even had it lol

I’ll stick that into the 9.20 system when I find the time.

Not touched the 11.60 console yet. I believe ArkSama / Drakmor has an updated elf file for that revision?

And I’m still using Y2JB for 9.20 and BDJb for the 11.60 and not the WebKit exploit. Any guidance on what you folks recommend?

View attachment 592732

Edit: Need to dust my keyboard

you are probably living in another world !!! you forget that you have this. i think you are the only one that would forget this

ViRGE · 2026-09-27T14:53:56+0100

Rasa39 said:
Yeah I believe so, the latest kstuff in Drakmor's discord comes afer he mentioned an m2 fix, so I wonder if there was an issue with m.2 slot at first.

All of my pkg files installed to system storage at first, I didn't even realise, but they worked fine. I've moved them to m2 since, then during some testing they stopped working. I'm guessing that was whatever was fixed, so I'm about to try the new kstuff and see if they load on my m.2.

Ed: yup, working on my m.2 now with latest kstuff 1.13 test.

For what it's worth, I've been using an M.2 drive the entire time and I haven't seen any issues (or rather, any issues related to the use of the M.2 drive). I am curious what was fixed in the most recent test build, but it wasn't anything game-breaking. I have a hunch that it may have been related to transfer speeds.

HS2005 said:
Just plug-in a cat7 or cat8 between your pc/laptop and PS5. I've connected it via this method. The bottleneck is the PS5 because of the ethernet port. My laptop has a 2.5GB port and NAS has 10GB. I use Cat 8.1 for my whole internal network cause it can run a max speed of 40 Gbit/s using 2000 MHz. Max cable length is 5 meters.

Schematics:
NAS (10GB) > Router (10GB LAN) > 10GB to Laptop (2.5GB) > PS5

A Cat8.1 cable for a PS5?! Holy cow, that is massive overkill.

The PS5's Ethernet port is only a 1 Gigabit (1000BASE-T) port. Cat5e is fully qualified to run with it for up to 100 meters. And for short runs you could get away with a bloody lamp cable so long as it had 8 conductors. :rofl2:

The slow speed of the port itself is the constraining factor. Higher spec cables aren't going to help in any way. It's one of the few things that disappointed me about the PS5 Pro: a 2.5GbE port would have been reasonable to include in 2024.

(Now 10Gbps between your NAS and PC is godly; but that's neither here nor there)

BobaFett_UK said:
Not touched the 11.60 console yet. I believe ArkSama / Drakmor has an updated elf file for that revision?

The current test version of kstuff from Drakmor is fully qualified for use on firmwares up to 11.60. So a specific file is not needed.

kam821 · 2026-09-27T15:29:21+0100

ViRGE said:
A Cat8.1 cable for a PS5?! Holy cow, that is massive overkill.

The PS5's Ethernet port is only a 1 Gigabit (1000BASE-T) port. Cat5e is fully qualified to run with it for up to 100 meters. And for short runs you could get away with a bloody lamp cable so long as it had 8 conductors.

It's an overkill even for 10GBASE-T, where good quality cat 6a is more than enough, even for 100m long runs.

Adamos_22 · 2026-09-27T15:50:16+0100

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BobaFett_UK said:
Found this laying in the bottom of one of my draws of odd ends. Forgot I even had it lol

I’ll stick that into the 9.20 system when I find the time.

Not touched the 11.60 console yet. I believe ArkSama / Drakmor has an updated elf file for that revision?

And I’m still using Y2JB for 9.20 and BDJb for the 11.60 and not the WebKit exploit. Any guidance on what you folks recommend?

View attachment 592732

Edit: Need to dust my keyboard

WebKit exploit for 9.xx and BDJB for 11.xx - have same here, dunno why ps5 pro 11.60 on WebKit exploit had glithes issues after exploit and mostely KP despite BDJB use

Keylogger · 2026-09-27T16:12:55+0100

I want to prepare my PS5 for future 13.XX JB
Do I need some pre requisites? A particular game or app on the Store? Do we already know how we will trigger future exploit?

isoboy · 2026-09-27T16:19:01+0100

I'm trying to jailbreak mine on 8.20 for the first time. I've tried three times on sonic's poopsploit and I'm just getting the "not enough free memory" error. Even after clearing cache according to google. So I tried Zecoxao which loads the homebrew app screen....for about half a minute? Until the console gives the same error and goes black again. Seeing some comments about updating to 9.00. I managed to set up autoloader but even that's very unstable and can crash my console. Should I update my firmware or what? I clicked to load pkg manager and.. crash.

After much instability on 8.20 I brought it up to 9.00. I've only attempted webkit once but it immediately worked as it should.

BobaFett_UK · 2026-09-27T17:44:19+0100

isoboy said:
I'm trying to jailbreak mine on 8.20 for the first time. I've tried three times on sonic's poopsploit and I'm just getting the "not enough free memory" error. Even after clearing cache according to google. So I tried Zecoxao which loads the homebrew app screen....for about half a minute? Until the console gives the same error and goes black again. Seeing some comments about updating to 9.00. I managed to set up autoloader but even that's very unstable and can crash my console. Should I update my firmware or what? I clicked to load pkg manager and.. crash.

Hold ya horses, on 8.xx you can use Y2JB you do not need poops... In terms of updating that's a personal choice... The general rule of thumb is to stay as low as you can subject to what you want the console to do... but the bottom line is you do not need poops unless you are 10.01 and over (old school thinking before Webit)... Webkit works on 9.xx but tbh i'd stay on 8.20 and use Y2JB for the moment...

isoboy · 2026-09-27T17:56:52+0100

BobaFett_UK said:
Hold ya horses, on 8.xx you can use Y2JB you do not need poops... In terms of updating that's a personal choice... The general rule of thumb is to stay as low as you can subject to what you want the console to do... but the bottom line is you do not need poops unless you are 10.01 and over (old school thinking before Webit)... Webkit works on 9.xx but tbh i'd stay on 8.20 and use Y2JB for the moment...

I thought that required me to do a complete console reset.... but not according to what I'm reading.

BobaFett_UK · 2026-09-27T18:26:48+0100

isoboy said:
I thought that required me to do a complete console reset.... but not according to what I'm reading.

Gezine has an image which you can restore and yes it will wipe your console.... Or you can set it up manually and you will not lose anything... It's been a long time since i did the manual set-up but the instructions are on the repo....

Schweino · 2026-09-27T18:28:35+0100

Adamos_22 said:
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WebKit exploit for 9.xx and BDJB for 11.xx - have same here, dunno why ps5 pro 11.60 on WebKit exploit had glithes issues after exploit and mostely KP despite BDJB use

Webkit autoloader works like a charm here on my 11.40 CFI-12xx PS5

dark2026 · 2026-09-27T19:15:57+0100

Schweino said:
Webkit autoloader works like a charm here on my 11.40 CFI-12xx PS5

Webkit works Rock Solid on 10.01 Slim as well. No Problems. Near 100% sucess Rate... y2jb is good too but not such a high sucess Rate and Stability

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TheStonedModder said:
But when I attempt to launch any of them I receive a "Can't start the game or app" error

Do you have any sucess with that Error allready? I will try older kstuff and sm+ versions because i use the latest test Releases...maybe it has something todo with the Firmware Version as well

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