PS5 Exploit Guide

Eva888 · Tuesday at 5:06 PM

TheStonedModder said:
There is a lot going on…it’s not as easy as asking Claude to crack and update and make no mistakes

People generally aren't as interested in jailbreaking as they used to be. Experienced developers have ways to make new games accessible to jailbroken devices, but unfortunately, they aren't interested in doing so (it takes up too much time).

Besides, someone has to actually buy the game for it to be modified in that way—but who’s going to pay for it? The developers out of their own pockets? Unfortunately, there are very few people who actually support developers.

Firestarter said:
I am reading conflicting info here, does 12+ require a53 with the new bypervisor to run FPKG?

As for the question regarding firmware fpkg/a53 12++...

There are two possibilities:
1) Drakomor (or someone like that) needs to release a new method that enables fPKG support on versions 12xx–13xx. I believe he has mentioned—and others have noted—that he already has this method, but he doesn't want to release it yet until Sony has fully patched the vulnerability.

2) fPKG support via the HV (Hypervisor). This is theoretically possible, but someone needs to implement it. Again, not many people are keen on doing this because it involves a lot of work, though it might actually happen sooner than option 1.

Dondraper said:
Is there any alternative to garlic save manager? I can't seem to import one game save

Yes. What problem do you have with garlic?
Alternative:
https://github.com/n0llptr/Playstation-5-Save-Mounter

Post automatically merged: Tuesday at 5:09 PM

HS2005 said:
If users want a nice overview of payloads. See table below:

PS5 Payloads Mirror
This repository contains an automated mirror of useful payloads for the PlayStation 5.

Available Payloads
View attachment 595755
Link: https://github.com/itsPLK/ps5-payloads-mirror

Post automatically merged: Tuesday at 4:59 PM

A huge number of things are missing here, such as an alternative from trusted dev. https://github.com/n0llptr/Playstation-5-Save-Mounter

HS2005 · Tuesday at 5:21 PM

Eva888 said:
A huge number of things are missing here, such as an alternative from trusted dev. https://github.com/n0llptr/Playstation-5-Save-Mounter

Report it to ItsPLK - not here. It not a page of ALL the payloads that are out there.

Post automatically merged: Tuesday at 5:28 PM

ayechief said:
How do you get rid of the backports? I'm on 13.60 and yet have just thought of disabling fakelibs for titles.

Well it's not that complicated thankfully. I'll explain you some methods.

1. You can either unpack a .exfat or other format to folder and then remove the backport files.
2. Download a folder format first and then remove the backport files. Then rebuild to your desired format.

Result: No backport loading message.

Typical backport folder structure

Code:

Game/
├── eboot.bin
├── sce_sys/
│   └── param.json
├── sce_module/
│   └── *.prx
├── sce_modules/
│   └── *.sprx
├── fakelib/
│   └── patched system libraries
└── backport/
    └── optional metadata or patch files

What files do

File or directory	Purpose
eboot.bin	Main game executable; may be modified to adjust its SDK requirement or compatibility.
sce_sys/param.json	Contains application metadata, including the title ID and title name.
sce_module/ or sce_modules/	May contain game-specific modules and system libraries, depending on the dump.
fakelib/	Can hold patched compatibility libraries used by particular backport methods.
.bps files	Binary patch files that describe changes to apply to a target file.
.bak or backup folders	Preserve original files before modification.
Readme or metadata files	Document the target firmware, patch version, or installation instructions.

Where backports are stored with ShadowMountPlus

The location matters because a backport overlay does not necessarily belong inside the original game folder.

Code:

/data/
├── homebrew/
│   ├── PPSA12345/
│   │   └── sce_sys/
│   │       └── param.json
│   └── backports/
│       └── PPSA12345/
│           └── [backport files]
└── etaHEN/
    └── games/
        └── [other game folders]

I'm a big fan of using option 2.It's the easiest part / method. Good luck and have fun.

Post automatically merged: Tuesday at 5:32 PM

EDIT: Should you still have issues. Just download a full folder 13.60 game and seperate backport. Check the files from the backport folder to see what you can remove and how the layout and files are used.

Scheisssewasser · Tuesday at 5:33 PM

ayechief said:
How do you get rid of the backports? I'm on 13.60 and yet have just thought of disabling fakelibs for titles.

Post automatically merged: Tuesday at 5:05 PM

IIRC importing requires decrypted saves. Other than this tool the only i know is PS5Upload but I stay away from AIO apps.

edit: You should be able to do it with ShadowMountPlus. Theres an option in the interface if a game is selected and fakelib support is active I think

Dondraper · Tuesday at 5:34 PM

Anyone have problem with payload manager it's not starting version 0.5.2

thekarter104 · Tuesday at 5:39 PM

geraltbutcherofblaviken said:
I feel like people always ask about 3.xx/4.xx updating, the answer is always no every time.
people need to start asking about the unconventional firmwarws like:
"stay on 1.xx/2.xx or go to 3 or 4"
"stay on 5.xx/6.xx or go to 7"
"stay on 8.xx/9.xx or go to 10"
etc.

Yes.
In my case I'm on 13.00. Should I go to 13.60?

cearp · Tuesday at 5:40 PM

Seraphic said:
https://github.com/pLabs5/pLinux5-NG
PS5 Linux for high FW's (8.xx, 9.xx, 10.xx, 11.xx, 12.xx, 13.xx)

Fantastic, but why couldn't the guy just make a pull request lol.
No need for a whole new project (or, is there?)

Eva888 · Tuesday at 5:56 PM

cearp said:
Fantastic, but why couldn't the guy just make a pull request lol.
No need for a whole new project (or, is there?)

because it's created with help of AI and he might not even know what a pull request is? maybe he doesn't even know what a fork is... yeah and so far it doesn't work for people as I've seen some experience from people

HS2005 said:
Report it to ItsPLK - not here. It not a page of ALL the payloads that are out there.

I don't know how to write to him, so I posted this here, hoping someone would let him know or that he might even read it himself. I have high hopes.

thekarter104 said:
Yes.
In my case I'm on 13.00. Should I go to 13.60?

Yes, go ahead and update. Version 13.60 also supports BD-J entry point, in case you want to use BD-J discs for some reason (it requires a bit of initial setup, but that’s a quick and minor task). You’ll have peace of mind with 13.60

kevin corms · Tuesday at 5:57 PM

Eva888 said:
because it's created with help of AI and he might not even know what a pull request is? maybe he doesn't even know what a fork is... yeah and so far it doesn't work for people as I've seen some experience from people

I don't know how to write to him, so I posted this here, hoping someone would let him know or that he might even read it himself. I have high hopes.

Yes, go ahead and update. Version 13.60 also supports BD-J entry point, in case you want to use BD-J discs for some reason (it requires a bit of initial setup, but that’s a quick and minor task). You’ll have peace of mind with 13.60

You can also do youtube.

HS2005 · Tuesday at 6:03 PM

thekarter104 said:
Yes.
In my case I'm on 13.00. Should I go to 13.60?

There is not much difference between FW 13.00 and 13.60. I would say: why even bother. But it does not hurt to update to 13.60. Some applications support the highest FW whilst it takes more time to develop for a lower FW.

I was on 13.20 when I decided to updated to 13.60. No loss there.

cearp · Tuesday at 6:05 PM

Eva888 said:
because it's created with help of AI and he might not even know what a pull request is? maybe he doesn't even know what a fork is... yeah and so far it doesn't work for people as I've seen some experience from people

I have so many projects that I keep private because they're not ready / not polished enough.
And people rush to release things? lol...

"ps5 linux" isn't a small feature, take it seriously

TheStonedModder · Tuesday at 6:09 PM

cearp said:
I have so many projects that I keep private because they're not ready / not polished enough.
And people rush to release things? lol...

Everyone nowadays also would rather have 0.2 seconds of recognition as well

It’s why there’s a thousand payload managers, or exfat converters (and other general homebrew clones)

Why contribute to make a great project when you can get AI to change minor details and call it yours ?

Kanarico · Tuesday at 6:10 PM

cearp said:
I have so many projects that I keep private because they're not ready / not polished enough.
And people rush to release things? lol...

HS2005 · Tuesday at 6:11 PM

My precious PRO get some more Paris Hilton love

Unlock PS5 Pro memory for homebrew

One param.json flag gives a PS5 Pro homebrew app about 1.2 GiB more GPU memory.

PS5 Pro games get more memory than base PS5 games (Sony says about 13.7 GB instead of 12.5 GB). Homebrew apps don't get that extra memory automatically. They run in base PS5 memory mode even on a Pro. Setting bit 22 of attribute3 in the app's sce_sys/param.json switches the app into Pro memory mode:

attribute3	Direct memory pool	Largest allocation that succeeds
1048576 (0x100000), the usual homebrew value	11.44 GiB	11.31 GiB
5242880 (0x500000), the same plus bit 22	12.63 GiB	12.50 GiB

That is +1.19 GiB for the app. 12.63 GiB is 13.56 GB in Sony's decimal units, which is close to the ~13.7 GB Sony quotes for Pro games.

For a local LLM this is the difference between, say, an 8B model at Q8 with a short context and the same model with a long context, or room for a bigger model at Q4. Any Vulkan homebrew built on Mihawk's RADV driver picks it up with no code change. The driver sizes its memory heaps from the kernel's pool, so the extra memory just appears.

Tested on: PS5 Pro, firmware 13.60, with homebrew built on ProsperoAI's toolchain and Mihawk's RADV driver. One console so far. Reports from other firmware versions are welcome (open an issue).

Link: https://github.com/obl1vn/Unlock-ps5-pro-memory

ih8god · Tuesday at 6:12 PM

regex101 said:
Pure madhouse with 10 different backup formats, none of which work properly. And 100s of games not dumped at all.

I am dumping what I have. A mix of PS4 and PS5. Around 400 or so digital titles. Putting focus on PS5 and ones I personally haven't really seen out there on the usual sites. I'm on 13.42 so am uploading them in folder format but at least test each backup to make sure I can run it myself before I delete anything from the storage. The ones that need the fakelib to run will have that folder in them since that is what I will need when I download it again unless methods change, today it is what it is. I leave the decrypted folder in them too. Also keeping the info files for the dumps so hopefully can have some options for easy edits in the future in terms of format changes. Not sure if they would be useful to anyone else.

But...I hope there ends up being some of the titles you might be looking for in the bunch though. Cheers!

dbcopter · Tuesday at 6:14 PM

On 13.60 I've been having better luck leaving all backports in place and just selecting the emulator option for each dump in Shadowmount.
On case anyone hasn't been through the instructions this seems to ignore the files in the fakelib folders that aren't needed and just load the ones used for AMPR if relevant.
After a couple of weeks of hard learning I'm finding my feet.
So many files extracted badly it's been hard to tell where the fault has been.

HS2005 · Tuesday at 6:16 PM

Another update:

ProsperoEden v1.001.000

A new launcher. The menu was rebuilt. Five sections sit on a rail at the left (Home, Library, Multiplayer, Settings, About): L1 and R1 go from one to the next, and Left from a screen's edge opens the rail. Home is built around the game to continue, with its cover and what it runs with. The Library shows your games as covers, with the chosen game's details beside them. A game's settings are a page of their own, and Settings is a board of tiles.
Themes. The launcher's look is a theme, chosen in Settings > Theme. This version comes with one, Canopy; docs/THEMES.md says what a theme is made of.
An opening. ProsperoEden appears out of the console's own launch picture without a cut: its mark comes forward over the picture, then goes to its place as the menu arrives. Any button skips it, and it plays only when the app is started.
A loading screen with the game's cover. While a game starts, its cover stands in the middle with a line of light going round it as the start advances, in front of the cover's own colours. Under it are the step the start is at, the shaders built so far, and the seconds a slow step has lasted.
The controller's buttons are drawn. Settings > Controls and the button mapping show Touchpad, L1, R1 and the other buttons as pictures instead of names.
Game settings from the home screen. The button beside Play, and Triangle on the game to continue or on a recent game, open that game's settings.
Demanding games keep their frame rate in heavy scenes. A game that times its own frames could fall from 30 to 20 frames a second whenever its frames came a few percent late. The clock the game reads now gives by up to 15% in those moments: the game keeps its frame rate and runs a little slower instead. Sound, the display and timeouts keep the real clock.
Full speed on newer system software. On consoles where the system does not tell the processor's cores apart, the emulator's threads were left to share cores and games ran markedly slower. The cores are now found by a timing, and each thread gets its own.
No more drops to 10 or 15 frames a second in new scenery. Textures in a format the PS5's GPU cannot read (ASTC) were converted inside the draw that first used them, which held up the whole frame. In play they are now converted in the background; on loading screens, menus and title screens they are still converted at once, so those pictures appear complete.
ASTC textures (new setting). Settings > Video > ASTC textures, also in each game's settings. Compressed (the default) keeps such textures as BC3, a quarter of the graphics memory they need decoded; Full quality keeps them decoded.
"Ran out of graphics memory" far less often. Four causes are fixed. The count of graphics memory in use read twice what was held, so games were refused memory that was free. ASTC textures took four times the memory they need. The reserve that memory is freed for was smaller than a game can ask for at once. And memory the app keeps for its whole life sat in the middle of the pool, so every game after the first had less room in one piece.
Fewer freezes and long frames. Freeing textures when graphics memory ran short could stop the picture for half a second. A game that read unmapped memory in bursts stalled for up to a second on its own log lines. And the graphics driver held up one frame every ten seconds, in every game, to write a line of statistics. All three are gone.
A crash with "jumped to an unmapped address" is fixed. It came from where the console happened to place the game's memory, so it struck some starts and not others.
RNG seed per game (new). In a game's settings under System. With a seed the game is loaded at the same place in memory at every start, which some mods need. Contributed by EIREXE.
Games that open the microphone no longer crash. Contributed by rpromas.
Faster CPU emulation no longer turns off the fast path for a game's exclusive memory accesses when it is switched on. Contributed by OverkillLabs.
PS5 OpenGL SDK 1.0.2 for the launcher and the OpenGL renderer (it was 1.0.0). A game whose shaders are compiled inside its first frames is no longer ended on its first run with the OpenGL renderer, the menu no longer loses a frame of about 180 ms every few seconds while Write logs at once is on, and drawing fixes from Mihawk and mpereiraesaa are in.
A single Joy-Con held upright. A game that gives a player one Joy-Con to hold upright is played with the whole DualSense: the shapes are that Joy-Con's four buttons, the D-pad and either stick are its stick, and L1/R1 and L2/R2 are its shoulder buttons.

Thanks to the people whose work is in this release:

Bauls Deep, for the texture collector's lookahead, where the fix for the half-second freezes began, and for the development timers and the recorded-input replay.
EIREXE, for the RNG seed per game.
rpromas, for finding and fixing the crash in games that open the microphone.
OverkillLabs, for the fix that keeps the fast path for exclusive memory accesses with Faster CPU emulation on.
Mihawk and mpereiraesaa, for the drawing fixes in the OpenGL SDK, and Mihawk for the Vulkan driver all of this runs on.

And to everyone who tests ProsperoEden on their own console and reports what they find.

Link: https://github.com/blackbearreloaded/ProsperoEden/releases/tag/v1.001.000

Eva888 · Tuesday at 6:36 PM

HS2005 said:
Post automatically merged: Tuesday at 8:21 AM

Link to Echo's repo: https://github.com/EchoStretch/Byepervisor-Reborn

He is working on some improvements so just wait

View attachment 595687

Post automatically merged: Tuesday at 8:49 AM

This is my own build based on:

1. https://github.com/ps5-payload-dev/sdk/releases/tag/v0.44
2. https://github.com/EchoStretch/Byepervisor-Reborn

Word of advise:

This SDK archive contains the SDK files and wrapper scripts. I used the available Clang 17 compiler with the SDK's PS5 target settings to complete the build. I can verify the ELF structure, but I cannot confirm full runtime compatibility (yet)

The repository describes this as a developer-oriented hypervisor exploit, not a finished end-user jailbreak. (I'm not a dev)
Although the source lists firmware 13.60 as supported you can test this build or wait.

Link: (Needs work yet) Too many KP's due to PRO model. It has a different physical address range mapped.

PS5 hypervisor exploit for 6.xx - 13.60 firmware.

It is interesting that firmware version 6.xx is mentioned, given that—if I recall correctly—`startup_mp` was introduced as early as fw 3.00. I remember Sony making major changes during transition from version 5.50 to 6.00.

TheStonedModder · Tuesday at 6:42 PM

One day temp will let me upload the raw video from OBS lol

Any quick settings I’m missing, or do yall agree it might be time for a first release ?

geraltbutcherofblaviken · Tuesday at 6:53 PM

so, the next major goal for ProsperoEden is to add more video memory
https://github.com/blackbearreloaded/ProsperoEden/issues/155
right now an open world game at 2x leaves about 2gb of memory, and the major goal is to increase it to 3.2gb

but does this mean that a crash from running out of memory is ALWAYS inevitable? is there no way to make it purge the oldest ones from the memory to make way for new ones?

TheStonedModder · Tuesday at 6:55 PM

geraltbutcherofblaviken said:
so, the next major goal for ProsperoEden is to add more video memory
https://github.com/blackbearreloaded/ProsperoEden/issues/155
right now an open world game at 2x leaves about 2gb of memory, and the major goal is to increase it to 3.2gb

but does this mean that a crash from running out of memory is ALWAYS inevitable? is there no way to make it purge the oldest ones from the memory to make way for new ones?

Most systems have a garbage collector process for this reason

It seems like more of a bug than anything. I can’t imagine why prospero wouldn’t have a similar option.

But games and emulators are above my skill set so maybe this is a known quirk with these specifically

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