PS5 Exploit Guide

Rasa39 · Feb 25, 2026

BobaFett_UK said:
I'm gonna try and convert CyberPunk and Astrobot to exfat image and see how this SSD spins up with them...

So this bit is interesting in that Shadowmount basically creates a fake drive that it loads the game into as it mirrors that drive into an exfat image. If this is how it works surely the SSD will be under more strain or stress and will wear out much more quickly? Is my thinking right here or flawed?

Well Sony suggesting an ssd with 5,500MB/s at the least, but I've been using a Corsair MP600 which is only rated at 4,950MB/s reads.

I've not had any issues with it with my legit games, maybe it has more impact on loose files and exfat etc, but I don't have another one to test so I'm just chalking the slower loading times up to the fact these are not package files, compared to my legit games and self dumped ps4 fpkg's I mean.

Honestly I didn't pay attention when it was happening, but I don't think the fake drive is made on the ssd you'll be using for the game. It depends I guess. I'll have a check later on.

solitaire4eva · Feb 25, 2026

Rasa39 said:
Well Sony suggesting an ssd with 5,500MB/s at the least, but I've been using a Corsair MP600 which is only rated at 4,950MB/s reads.

I've not had any issues with it with my legit games, maybe it has more impact on loose files and exfat etc, but I don't have another one to test so I'm just chalking the slower loading times up to the fact these are not package files, compared to my legit games and self dumped ps4 fpkg's I mean.

Honestly I didn't pay attention when it was happening, but I don't think the fake drive is made on the ssd you'll be using for the game. It depends I guess. I'll have a check later on.

Remember those requirements by Sony was released before the current method of playing from folders came out. Cause people can use regular SSD for many games which should by Sony standards be impossible.

Rasa39 · Feb 25, 2026

solitaire4eva said:
Remember those requirements by Sony was released before the current method of playing from folders came out. Cause people can use regular SSD for many games which should by Sony standards be impossible.

Ah yeah true, now that you mention it, before I transferred the game to the internal nvme, I had it on an external gen 3 nvme and it worked pretty much the same, obviously faster than a regular ssd, but still much slower than those gen 4 specs.

Given how much they hyped the speed on the onboard storage, it wouldn't surprise me if they just threw out those specs so they could market the "officially licensed" nvme drive from WD and Seagate. I mean the internal doesn't seem too crazy fast to me in games.

Also I'm still mad about ps4 controllers not working in ps5 games, because that is some bullshit. I love the dualsense but why can I only play ps4 games with my old controller?

"Oh, the rumbly triggers are super needed on this game though!!", yeah well why can I play the ps4 version just fine without rumbly triggers, even using my dualsense huh (probably in an internal "ds4 mode")? Seems like the game can easily function whether you're using a dualsense or a dualshock 4...

Jokes on them, I bought a broken dualsense for £20 (bargain at the time) and fixed it with alcohol and some compressed air, my broke ass ain't gonna fall for it and give them money for a second controller, when my damn ds4 is sitting right, fucking, there.

solitaire4eva · Feb 25, 2026

BobaFett_UK said:
It's a modest SSD (WD Black SN850X only 2TB but seriously it cost like £200!! The same one 6 months ago was about £40 cheaper! It's absolute balls what the AI gold rush is doing to consumer products! Let be honest, prices will continue to go up for another year or two probably even more. Will they ever drop down to what they used to be like? I think unlikely...

I'm gonna try and convert CyberPunk and Astrobot to exfat image and see how this SSD spins up with them...

So this bit is interesting in that Shadowmount basically creates a fake drive that it loads the game into as it mirrors that drive into an exfat image. If this is how it works surely the SSD will be under more strain or stress and will wear out much more quickly? Is my thinking right here or flawed?

You know what? I'm seeing an abundance of Pros on evil-bay which have been banned! Makes you wonder how this has happened? Surely can't be down to jailbreaking? I know one thing though, don't use your PSN id with Y2JB! Big brother knows... The console phones home whether you use 127.0.0.2 or Nomadic DNS server! Even when using my pi-hole and blocking everthing the console still manged to phone home!

That's scary but they selling banned systems on current firmware with no disc drives.

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Rasa39 said:
Ah yeah true, now that you mention it, before I transferred the game to the internal nvme, I had it on an external gen 3 nvme and it worked pretty much the same, obviously faster than a regular ssd, but still much slower than those gen 4 specs.

Given how much they hyped the speed on the onboard storage, it wouldn't surprise me if they just threw out those specs so they could market the "officially licensed" nvme drive from WD and Seagate. I mean the internal doesn't seem too crazy fast to me in games.

Also I'm still mad about ps4 controllers not working in ps5 games, because that is some bullshit. I love the dualsense but why can I only play ps4 games with my old controller?

"Oh, the rumbly triggers are super needed on this game though!!", yeah well why can I play the ps4 version just fine without rumbly triggers, even using my dualsense huh (probably in an internal "ds4 mode")? Seems like the game can easily function whether you're using a dualsense or a dualshock 4...

Jokes on them, I bought a broken dualsense for £20 (bargain at the time) and fixed it with alcohol and some compressed air, my broke ass ain't gonna fall for it and give them money for a second controller, when my damn ds4 is sitting right, fucking, there.

I'm laughing because I do remember they pushed an officially supported drive which was expensive!

BobaFett_UK · Feb 25, 2026

Having some issues posting... No idea what's going on...
So posting a screen grab

Rasa39 · Feb 25, 2026

@BobaFett_UK What is your issue exactly?

You only need make_image.bin and New-OsfExfatImage.ps1. Put them in the same folder, use admin cmd and cd into said folder, then that's where you'd use that command from.

The images folder isn't needed, it's just an example. You also don't need to run OSFmount, it'll run inside the command prompt. I created my image in the root of another drive. Also is the missing " at the end just from your post or did you miss it off the actual command?

Also if you have an error about drive not being mountable or whatever, make sure you don't have any bitlocked/inaccessible drives connected, the program tries to use the next drive letter, and for me, that was my bitlocked drive, unlocked it, and the program automatically picked the next drive letter for the fake drive and started working.

BobaFett_UK · Feb 25, 2026

Sorry i was having issues writing the above post.... I just wanted to clarify the procedure..

So i ran the command in cmd as admin

make_image.bat "C:\images\game.exfat" "C:\Users\Home\Downloads\PS5 SW Outlaws PSA08260\PPSA08260-app"

After about 4 mins this happened. There's an image of 125gb on the root in the images folder.. I manually dismounted the drive in osfmount that was created in the D: position.

it says it's copied all the files and missed one directory which i assume is the root directory of the app folder which does not get copied?

Does it look right?

Rasa39 · Feb 25, 2026

@BobaFett_UK Yeah mine said it skipped 1 directory too and I assumed the same because it works fine.

It looks good, you should have the exfat file on your C drive right? As for the fail to dismount, did you connect any storage devices or mount any hidden drives while it was going on?

I don't know if that would affect it, but if the fake D drive is still there, you should be able to just open OSFMount yourself and unmount it manually.

BobaFett_UK · Feb 26, 2026

@Rasa39 It worked but i'm finding the games slower to load.... i'll try Astro tomorrow eveing and compare load times with the mormal package vs the exfat and see how they compare..

In answer to your questions I had no other drives attached at the time of msking the exfat package and the fake D drive I simply opened OSFMount and manually unmounted the virtual drive..

Blythe93 · Feb 26, 2026

Does anyone know why ShadowMount's repository on Github got removed? Thankfully, someone updated the latest 1.3b release here on GBATemp and there are 2 other repositories (no releases, though). It's still weird to see it gone, though.

Wolf85 · Feb 26, 2026

Blythe93 said:
Does anyone know why ShadowMount's repository on Github got removed? Thankfully, someone updated the latest 1.3b release here on GBATemp and there are 2 other repositories (no releases, though). It's still weird to see it gone, though.

It was depreciated and is now a feature of some other project. I can't remember exactly what it was called but if you look back a few pages someone mentioned it. Starts with a V I think.

iguanoPT · Feb 26, 2026

Blythe93 said:
Does anyone know why ShadowMount's repository on Github got removed? Thankfully, someone updated the latest 1.3b release here on GBATemp and there are 2 other repositories (no releases, though). It's still weird to see it gone, though.

It entered into the Void

Marc_LFD · Feb 26, 2026

Is DBZ Sparking Zero playable on firmware 7.00?

Thanks.

RyoX9 · Feb 26, 2026

is there hope for 12.20?

MohammedQ8 · Feb 26, 2026

*image removed*

how big is it after extracting? :rofl2:

Blythe93 · Feb 26, 2026

MohammedQ8 said:
how big is it after extracting?

Astro Bot went from 30-40GB to 165GB.

If that one's 123GB compressed... let's hope it's not compressed.

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iguanoPT said:
It entered into the Void

I see what you ~~whispered~~ did there.

MohammedQ8 · Feb 26, 2026

Blythe93 said:
Astro Bot went from 30-40GB to 165GB. If that one's 123GB compressed... let's hope it's not compressed.

Post automatically merged: Feb 26, 2026

I see what you ~~whispered~~ did there.

my whole external 256gb ssd will turn into a game cartridge lol

Blythe93 · Feb 26, 2026

MohammedQ8 said:
my whole external 256gb ssd will turn into a game cartridge lol

Tell me about it... The best I have at the moment is some old 320GB SATA III HDD so I'm using that to copy the game to before I copy it over to PS5. Roundabout way, yeah, but FTP is almost impossible due to how bad my WiFi reception in my room is. I rarely connect my consoles to the internet, so I don’t feel the need to fix my Wi-Fi problems but... extracting the game took about an hour, repacking into FFPKG took another hour, yet another hour or so to copy it over to the HDD and a whopping 2-3 hours to copy it over to PS5. In the end it'll be worth it but I'll definitely have to do it over FTP somehow next time, maybe connect PC directly to the PS5 (need longer LAN cable).

BobaFett_UK · Feb 26, 2026

Is it normal for the IP address of a PS5 to increment up every so often? Happens after a total power off and shut down. For example if i travel with the console and come back to my home network and reconnect the ip address is different, well the last digit is... I can't understand why a new ip address get assigned?

Edit: Googled it!!

Your PS5 IP address changes because
your router uses Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to assign temporary (dynamic) IP addresses. When the console disconnects, the router reclaims the address and assigns a new one upon reconnection to manage limited network resources efficiently

Guess i need a static IP set up on my PS5 to prevent this behaviour! See, each day is a learning day

NeoReibert · Feb 26, 2026

BobaFett_UK said:
Is it normal for the IP address of a PS5 to increment up every so often? Happens after a total power off and shut down. For example if i travel with the console and come back to my home network and reconnect the ip address is different, well the last digit is... I can't understand why a new ip address get assigned?

If you want to have a static IPv4 then you have to configure it in your Router. This is how DHCP and IP Adresses work. There is something called lease time

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