PS5 Exploit Guide

_SCEvil · Jan 30, 2026

BobaFett_UK said:
Well, i decided to restore my console as the fake activation patch duplicated my id's and the only way around that was a restore.... 1.5 tb of games wiped in a few mins....

Thinlk i'll be drinking whiskey tonight by the sounds of it !!!

It's done a lot of damage to me too the fu**ing elf, and I also had to restore it, and after the restore, there was no way Etahen would load ¬¬

Just a few days ago, the M2 crashed, with 1.3 TB of games on it, and now this... pfffffffffffff

solitaire4eva · Jan 30, 2026

xalfie said:
yes ? seriously ? sorry but not. y2jb is the best method actually. And it is at years light...

Ok I'm gonna try this y2jb when I get home tonight.

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sudeki300 said:
i didn't believe y2jb was better than the bdjb but after setting it up earlier in the week i've not looked back, so fast at exploiting the console i'm still amazed how quick it's done. anyone still using bdjb should install y2jb, its a game changer, i'm still on 7.61 due to bdjb and keeping best of both worlds but recently wondering if it's worth it to stay on this firmware version.

I'm going to see!

BobaFett_UK · Jan 30, 2026

_SCEvil said:
It's done a lot of damage to me too the fu**ing elf, and I also had to restore it, and after the restore, there was no way Etahen would load ¬¬

Just a few days ago, the M2 crashed, with 1.3 TB of games on it, and now this... pfffffffffffff

Lesson learned, even a few of the devs on discord are saying it should not have been released into the wild like it has been... it was a test payload which somehow got leaked and it's spread like a wild fire....

Lesson learned... If it ain't broke don't fix it!

To load etaHEN you need to first get Y2JB working only to load the userland. Then use itsPLK autoloader just in case. Thirdly you need to get the etaHEN payload across. Just shove it the etaHEN into the ps5_autoloader and make sure the autoload.txt is in there too... Other option is to shove the ps5_autoloader onto a USB and it will load that way. You can also send the payload via netcatgui too..

Good luck!!

Wolf85 · Jan 30, 2026

Darn. Trying to unpack the black myth and a data error pops up. Still waiting on the bakcpork fakelibs for 2.50 anyway. Guess I'll try the other source in the mean time.

xalfie · Jan 30, 2026

y2jb with the last update and using only kstuff, is... near perfect.
Even more, I guess if the y2jb with any other kernel exploit where required will be possible with up FWs to 10.0x...

Deepakmessi · Jan 30, 2026

xalfie said:
y2jb with the last update and using only kstuff, is... near perfect.
Even more, I guess if the y2jb with any other kernel exploit where required will be possible with up FWs to 10.0x...

Which is best to run ps5 games (internal m. 2 ssd or external m. 2 ssd enclosure, if m. 2 external enclosure suggest some brand that support good speed

xalfie · Jan 30, 2026

Deepakmessi said:
Which is best to run ps5 games (internal m. 2 ssd or external m. 2 ssd enclosure, if m. 2 external enclosure suggest some brand that support good speed

I use external USB 3.0 SSD Sata, all games are working. I don't want to spend time to move games to internals until pkg is possible, cause it is a lost of time.

_SCEvil · Jan 30, 2026

BobaFett_UK said:
Lesson learned, even a few of the devs on discord are saying it should not have been released into the wild like it has been... it was a test payload which somehow got leaked and it's spread like a wild fire....

Lesson learned... If it ain't broke don't fix it!

To load etaHEN you need to first get Y2JB working only to load the userland. Then use itsPLK autoloader just in case. Thirdly you need to get the etaHEN payload across. Just shove it the etaHEN into the ps5_autoloader and make sure the autoload.txt is in there too... Other option is to shove the ps5_autoloader onto a USB and it will load that way. You can also send the payload via netcatgui too..

Good luck!!

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Nah, it's already working at full capacity breathing fresh air xD Lesson learned as you said :hateit:

sudeki300 · Jan 30, 2026

Wolf85 said:
Darn. Trying to unpack the black myth and a data error pops up. Still waiting on the bakcpork fakelibs for 2.50 anyway. Guess I'll try the other source in the mean time.

tried this game on my external ssd backporked to 7.61, game had no sound and stuttered quite bad during cutscenes + long loading times. it is the first game out of about 25 that has behaved like this, not sure if copying to internal would make any difference, used the kitchen app to backpork the game, all the others ive done are fine

Wolf85 · Jan 30, 2026

sudeki300 said:
tried this game on my external ssd backporked to 7.61, game had no sound and stuttered quite bad during cutscenes + long loading times. it is the first game out of about 25 that has behaved like this, not sure if copying to internal would make any difference, used the kitchen app to backpork the game, all the others ive done are fine

Could be that one chunk file that threw a data error on 7zip. I thought I saw a link to a chunk file on the game site but I guess that was for some other game. I think I went with the duplex version since I remember the ps3 days.

luminance · Jan 30, 2026

Guys is there a way to unpack a PS5 pkg file in a computer to backport it?

sudeki300 · Jan 30, 2026

Wolf85 said:
Could be that one chunk file that threw a data error on 7zip. I thought I saw a link to a chunk file on the game site but I guess that was for some other game. I think I went with the duplex version since I remember the ps3 days.

all of my collection are from that group, if it wasn't so big (145 GB) i'd copy to internal but if it's the same i'd be pissed, biggest file in there is a pak file at 41.3 GB. thats bigger than most games

Wolf85 · Jan 30, 2026

sudeki300 said:
all of my collection are from that group, if it wasn't so big (145 GB) i'd copy to internal but if it's the same i'd be pissed, biggest file in there is a pak file at 41.3 GB. thats bigger than most games

Turns out I got the high-speed version because it was one file. I just went back and got the duplex version which was 15 files, I'll just replace everything when it's done. Hopefully it won't be long for backpork to be available on my firmware. If I knew how they made the patch files I would just do it myself and make the fakelib for my firmware.

BobaFett_UK · Jan 30, 2026

xalfie said:
y2jb with the last update and using only kstuff, is... near perfect.
Even more, I guess if the y2jb with any other kernel exploit where required will be possible with up FWs to 10.0x...

Disagree my friend.... y2jb ain't no way near perfect.... it's still temperamental and it still hangs occasionally for no darn reason. Just last week with the new update it failed 4 times in a row for me.. At the end of the day it's a userland jailbreak and it will have hiccups. then again i've gone for days and not a single failure.... oh don't get me started on etaHEN either.... toolbox hasn't loaded... oh the console just reboots... oh the screen freezes...

p.s. you can probably tell i've had a bad day today!

iguanoPT · Jan 31, 2026

Deepakmessi said:
Which is best to run ps5 games (internal m. 2 ssd or external m. 2 ssd enclosure, if m. 2 external enclosure suggest some brand that support good speed

My Ugreen M.2 NVMe enclosure works great and supports 10gbps

FateNightroad · Jan 31, 2026

xalfie said:
I use external USB 3.0 SSD Sata, all games are working. I don't want to spend time to move games to internals until pkg is possible, cause it is a lost of time.

Are you using Itemzflow? Does the dump runner have an option to run from the external drive? Didn't use dump runner yet.

xZenithy · Jan 31, 2026

xalfie said:
I use external USB 3.0 SSD Sata, all games are working. I don't want to spend time to move games to internals until pkg is possible, cause it is a lost of time.

That's is simple not true xafie, you are wrong, for me the best performance is m.2 there is not color, M.2 NVMe enclosure works just well but few games have some stuttered because the 10gbps limitation. That's no happen on m.2 cause there is not limitation.

I am no moving the games from internal to m.2, I copy my games from my PC to m.2 or I can install any game (ps4/ps5) on m.2 straightforward...

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sudeki300 said:
all of my collection are from that group, if it wasn't so big (145 GB) i'd copy to internal but if it's the same i'd be pissed, biggest file in there is a pak file at 41.3 GB. thats bigger than most games

No on internal, m.2 or maybe M.2 NVMe enclosure which occasional stuttered...

solitaire4eva · Jan 31, 2026

xalfie said:
y2jb with the last update and using only kstuff, is... near perfect.
Even more, I guess if the y2jb with any other kernel exploit where required will be possible with up FWs to 10.0x...

I got about a good 75% - 80% success rate with it. I am happy with those results. I'm sticking with BDJB as my main, but Y2JB is a great alternative.

_SCEvil · Jan 31, 2026

xZenithy said:
That's is simple not true xafie, you are wrong, for me the best performance is m.2 there is not color, M.2 NVMe enclosure works just well but few games have some stuttered because the 10gbps limitation. That's no happen on m.2 cause there is not limitation.

I am no moving the games from internal to m.2, I copy my games from my PC to m.2 or I can install any game (ps4/ps5) on m.2 straightforward...

You'll keep doing this until something happens to you, believe me.... Many of us, for reasons beyond our control, have had to do it via USB (I had it installed.).. In my case, the power went out in my apartment and my M2 hard drive with 1.3TB of games was ruined... It takes too long to transfer games using PS Explorer, PS5Upload, or FileZilla, especially games like God of War or Astro Bot...

Using a USB drive is simpler; you download directly to that drive, unzip it, and you're ready to play, no drama...

Of course the speed won't be the same, but with a good hard drive, a good case, and a good cable, you don't need anything else, believe me....

Regards.

xZenithy · Jan 31, 2026

_SCEvil said:
You'll keep doing this until something happens to you, believe me.... Many of us, for reasons beyond our control, have had to do it via USB (I had it installed.).. In my case, the power went out in my apartment and my M2 hard drive with 1.3TB of games was ruined... It takes too long to transfer games using PS Explorer, PS5Upload, or FileZilla, especially games like God of War or Astro Bot...

Using a USB drive is simpler; you download directly to that drive, unzip it, and you're ready to play, no drama...

Of course the speed won't be the same, but with a good hard drive, a good case, and a good cable, you don't need anything else, believe me....

Regards.

Well, you are right USB drive is the most easy solution, more for a novice people (but no for me) lol..

I don't have any problem with transfer games on my m.2, and yes, you are right, I saw people talking about 9 hours to transfer astrobot to his internal drive :rofl2:

It takes me around 40 minutes to transfer astrobot to my m.2
I never lost any game on my m.2 (cross-fingers) lol..

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