PS5 Exploit Guide

BobaFett_UK · Apr 27, 2026

lufeig said:
it's beautiful, but... it's always the wet floor trick, and in the end, it's 1080p/30fps on a racing game.

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actually this impress me more

Good lord! The textures on the F1 25 look incredible with PSSR 2.0 turned on... Damn it firmware version 13.00! lol

smf · Apr 27, 2026

littlemisskittn said:
Clearly you don't get it. They can patch the game easily. That's not the complaint here. The complaint is that they are timebombing the games YOU OWN, BOUGHT AND PURCHASED, with a DRM timer and mandatory connection. It's understandable if the games are on a subscription, but these are games we PURCHASED. If I can't make it any more clearer, than that, then there's no talking to you.

The people complaining on this thread, bought it to hack the system.

If you bought it to play the game, then ignore this thread and keep your console plugged in and updated.

If you have a legitimate reason why you would buy a digital console, and online games, but not have the ability to leave your console plugged in and updated then maybe you should start a thread outside of the hacking thread and see if you're the only one.

In this thread, it sounds more like you're complaining that they invited you round but then locked the doors to stop you stealing their stuff.

And, they cannot patch the games easily, that's the point.

KiiWii · Apr 27, 2026

mattyxarope said:
Does anyone know if there is a way to rip a Bluray movie disc from the PS5? Maybe there is a homebrew app that can do it? I attempted to copy the files from my disc from the /mnt/disc/ folder, but MakeMKV nor any other software seems to recognize them, despite them being sizeable (20 gigs more or less) and despite me ripping the other files (the index file) from the disc.

Any ideas?

AFAIK there is no software to rip BD movies on PS4 or PS5.

zebrone · Apr 27, 2026

Spiderman 2 next to be released with develop menu inside...

peteruk · Apr 27, 2026

Rasa39 · Apr 27, 2026

SkiDDeR said:
When i plug it in the ps5 it needed to be restarted and then it runs a speed test to identify the speeds. With just cloning a gen4 will bypass the new drive speed test? i would had tried it but unfortunately i only have gen3 drives

I dunno it was just a guess, that maybe it would just detect it and boot since it's already formatted using that method.

Sadly I also don't have any Gen 3 drives spare to test this too. I just have my old gen 4 in the ps5. That said, My drive, although gen 4, is too slow according to the ps5, but it still works fine.

I would guess it's also checking the pci-e spec of the drive and just refusing the drive it it's gen 3. But maybe drive cloning will bypass that check and just boot.

I wonder if anyone has put a gen 5 drive in their ps5 yet, because those should run at max gen 4 speed given that all these drives are backwards compatible. Or if the ps5 blacklists anything that isn't gen 4, regardless of speed.

@peteruk Yeah it looks like they really don't like the hypervisor bypass method, now that it's apparently much safer, or at least safe enough for a lot more people to start using. Honestly I think it's just a response to that, not that was ever gonna break the bypass anyway, but they don't care about consumers in the first place, so why not fuck them even harder? But it is bad timing given the little "accident" at Sony lol.

I would guess when people complain, they'll just blame it on pirates and be like "look, the bad guys made me do it, I didn't want to...honest...just...I totally care about you dear moneybags. Look, here's the same game again but with a new number at the end...buy it, it's £200 now...for the base edition that includes 60% of the game, but that's not my fault though, I'm just the publisher who sets the price, forces deadlines and forces implenentation of additonal softwares that the game wasn't designed to function with." :wacko:

They probably paid for a long ass contract with Denuvo and are determined to get it working. When in reality we're already seeing companies ditch that anti-consumer-ware because why pay for it when it gets bypassed day one?

Hell I think there was one game recently got leaked and bypassed a few days before it even launched. Why would you pay huge fees to a company to protect your game, then their software gets bypassed before your title even launches.

Anyone with sense at these companies would quit that shit and maybe even sue Denuvo if they didn't refund their fees. This software is already a massive pain to legit consumers anyway, even before the performance issues which simps will tell you are definitely not a thing, despite most games having far less issues on cracked versions by comparison...like come on.

It's especially worse for steam deck users trying different proton versions for game compatibilty, which will only become a bigger issue for the new valve hardware, especially since denuvo is on VR titles too.

hemi426 · Apr 27, 2026

just downoaded a game today i purchased on 25/4 en updated to the latest firmware ,no time stamp so far even after disconnecting and rebooting ,i live in belgium

littlemisskittn · Apr 27, 2026

smf said:
The people complaining on this thread, bought it to hack the system.

If you bought it to play the game, then ignore this thread and keep your console plugged in and updated.

If you have a legitimate reason why you would buy a digital console, and online games, but not have the ability to leave your console plugged in and updated then maybe you should start a thread outside of the hacking thread and see if you're the only one.

In this thread, it sounds more like you're complaining that they invited you round but then locked the doors to stop you stealing their stuff.

And, they cannot patch the games easily, that's the point.

Continue to lick Sony’s boots. See how that works out for you. If this is your attitude, you shouldn’t be on this forum. Go somewhere else like the comment section of PushSquare. They love people like you.

KiiWii · Apr 27, 2026

https://github.com/OSM-Made/ps5-hen/tree/npt-walk

“I also pushed the improvements for the npt walk to my fork of ps5-hen so folks can mess around with it and see what else they can come up with too.”

Via LegendaryOSM.

Restmode is broken on HV exploited FW’s currently.

ShintaiUS · Apr 27, 2026

smf said:
The people complaining on this thread, bought it to hack the system.

If you bought it to play the game, then ignore this thread and keep your console plugged in and updated.

If you have a legitimate reason why you would buy a digital console, and online games, but not have the ability to leave your console plugged in and updated then maybe you should start a thread outside of the hacking thread and see if you're the only one.

In this thread, it sounds more like you're complaining that they invited you round but then locked the doors to stop you stealing their stuff.

And, they cannot patch the games easily, that's the point.

People like you are exactly why greedy companies keep getting away with bad practices one "bug" at a time.

I have the physical copy of SWRR, and I'd be flipping pissed if any of my digital games are suddenly timed, on ANY gaming system, when the initial expectations were that I could play the game offline indefinitely after the initial download/activation.

peteruk · Apr 27, 2026

KiiWii said:
https://github.com/OSM-Made/ps5-hen/tree/npt-walk

“I also pushed the improvements for the npt walk to my fork of ps5-hen so folks can mess around with it and see what else they can come up with too.”

Via LegendaryOSM.

Restmode is broken on HV exploited FW’s currently.

thanks for this update, i am here for as much progress on HV for those low firmwares as possible

HS2005 · Apr 27, 2026

v1.6.0 — ffpkg Builder + Advanced Tab + 17 Languages

What's new in v1.6.0

ffpkg Image Builder (new tab)

Full UFS2 (.ffpkg) image builder — UFS2Tool bundled, no extra install
Sector size locked at 512 bytes — fixes Windows broken image bug
Requires .NET 8 Runtime (Check .NET 8 button included)
Full queue, two-stage progress bar, file count, ETA, auto-upload

Advanced Tab (new tab)

exFAT: cluster size, sector size, copy threads (default 1 — no fragmentation)
ffpkg: block size, fragment size, min free %, bytes per inode
Setup recommendations panel and active parameters summary
Old collapsible advanced section removed from Build tab

17 Languages

English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese,
Korean, Russian, Arabic, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Thai,
Vietnamese, Indonesian — switch instantly in Settings, no restart

Library

Right-click → Add to exFAT Queue or Add to ffpkg Queue
Game detail panel has both queue buttons side by side

exFAT Tab fixes

Speed now uses 8-second rolling window — more accurate ETA
Robocopy % spam filtered from output log
Sector size and thread count forwarded to build script
Tab renamed to "exFAT" — clearer now there are two builders

Link: https://github.com/kerrdec97/ps5-exfat-builder/releases/tag/v1.6.0

v1.6.3 — Auto-Update Fix

Fixed: Auto-update fails with "Failed to import encodings module"

After clicking Yes on the update prompt, the app downloaded the new
exe and restarted, but the new version crashed immediately with:
"Failed to start embedded python interpreter: Failed to import
encodings module."

Root cause: the update batch script was launching the new exe too
quickly — before Windows had fully flushed the downloaded file to
disk. PyInstaller couldn't find its embedded modules as a result.

Fixes applied to the update script:

Wait 3 seconds for the old process to fully exit before replacing
Wait an additional 2 seconds after the move before launching
Added error check on the move — shows a message if it fails
instead of silently launching nothing
Fixed bat script self-deletion using correct Windows idiom

If you hit this issue: download v1.6.3 manually from this page and
replace your exe — the auto-update will work correctly from here.

Link: https://github.com/kerrdec97/ps5-exfat-builder/releases/tag/v1.6.3

ShintaiUS · Apr 27, 2026

I wonder if those exfat builder or ffpkg, result in a smaller game size? I have the felling that game dumps contain padded data that causes the size to go higher than normal. I mean there is no way the game Split Fiction occupy 130GB. Have anyone compared full dumps vs a packaged one?

littlemisskittn · Apr 27, 2026

ShintaiUS said:
I wonder if those exfat builder or ffpkg, result in a smaller game size? I have the felling that game dumps contain padded data that causes the size to go higher than normal. I mean there is no way the game Split Fiction occupy 130GB. Have anyone compared full dumps vs a packaged one?

From my understanding, ffpkg and exfat formats basically treat the game as a virtual disc. So think of them and how it’s run on a modded PS5 the same way an optical disc emulator works. ffpkg is more for internal use and exFAT is more used for external use.

Schweino · Apr 27, 2026

ShintaiUS said:
I wonder if those exfat builder or ffpkg, result in a smaller game size? I have the felling that game dumps contain padded data that causes the size to go higher than normal. I mean there is no way the game Split Fiction occupy 130GB. Have anyone compared full dumps vs a packaged one?

They both use more space than game dump size.

lufeig · Apr 27, 2026

ShintaiUS said:
I wonder if those exfat builder or ffpkg, result in a smaller game size? I have the felling that game dumps contain padded data that causes the size to go higher than normal. I mean there is no way the game Split Fiction occupy 130GB. Have anyone compared full dumps vs a packaged one?

ffpkg is usually 10% or more bigger than dump folder.

exfat is usually almost the same size than dump folder.

those images simulate the storage media, including cluster size, empty space, metadata, etc. that's why they are bigger than the sum of the source files.

ShintaiUS · Apr 27, 2026

Thank you all for the information.

Schweino · Apr 27, 2026

lufeig said:
ffpkg is usually 10% or more bigger than dump folder.

exfat is usually almost the same size than dump folder.

those images simulate the storage media, including cluster size, empty space, metadata, etc. that's why they are bigger than the sum of the source files.

Just did a quick compare:

Octopath Traveler II:

Game dump: 18.8 GB
exfat: 19.1 GB
ffpkg: 20.7 GB

lufeig · Apr 27, 2026

Schweino said:
Just did a quick compare:

Octopath Traveler II:

Game dump: 18.8 GB
exfat: 19.1 GB
ffpkg: 20.7 GB

This is a good example of what I said:

ffpkg is usually 10% or more bigger than dump folder: 1.9GB difference = 10,1%

exfat is usually almost the same size than dump folder: 0.3GB difference = 1,5%

thanks!

BobaFett_UK · Apr 27, 2026

Guys and girls, we all have opnions on this DRM issue, but let's keep the discusions civil and not call people morons or simply be nasty to others. There is no need for it. This is not social media, facebook or intsa. it's a forum where we exchange ideas and opnions and help eachother out in a civilised manner. So kindly cut out all the negativity to others and all the bull crap and play along and be nice... !!!

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