PS5 Exploit Guide

ayechief · 2026-10-15T21:43:34+0100

I'd appreciate another tab like Games, Media, and third one for Emulators.

Bigoroth · 2026-10-15T21:55:26+0100

So I wanted to play P.T. on my console now that the patches work on 13.60. I was following the tutorial to add it to the console's list of supported games, but I can't find the file to add the P.T. ID and get it to work. I’m doing this via FTP and also using the file explorer on the console itself, but the file containing the list isn’t there. Has this happened to anyone else?

hotwhelz2005 · 2026-10-15T21:59:19+0100

ayechief said:
I'd appreciate another tab like Games, Media, and third one for Emulators.

That wouldn't be bad either. Maybe we can rename Media to like Homebrew and have emulators have to option to be installed in that tab like Payload manager is.

HS2005 · 2026-10-15T22:39:40+0100

OnionHEN v0.9.0

OnionHEN is a homebrew enabler and Toolbox for jailbroken PS5 consoles, built on etaHEN. It prepares the system, injects a Toolbox into the home screen, and adds cheats, a game overlay, payload management, and background services.

Version: v0.9.0 is the stable release following v0.9.0-beta1 and v0.9.0-beta2. It brings together their changes since v0.0.13.

Firmware: Adds support for 13.0-13.6 and some 5.50 consoles, alongside the firmware supported by v0.0.13. Please include your exact firmware and console behavior when reporting a problem.

What changed since v0.0.13

Firmware compatibility

This release adds support for firmware 13.0-13.6 and some 5.50 consoles. Reports from real hardware are welcome.

Cheats

On firmware 4.03, opening the cheats menu for a game with no cheats could take about 40 seconds, then leave the home screen unresponsive until a forced reboot (#97, #103). The beta2 fix makes an empty menu return in a few seconds without stalling ShellUI. The reporter on #103 confirmed the problem was gone in an early beta2 build.

Long cheat names are also truncated on UTF-8 boundaries.

elfldr

v0.0.13 needed elfldr v0.22 because it loaded the cache through a file: URI. v0.9.0 sends a normal ELF to port 9021, so older elfldr builds work again. An external elfldr must still be listening on 9021.

Also

The bundled kstuff is kstuff-lite 1.11, up from 1.10 in v0.0.13.
Toolbox strings cover the remaining PS5 system languages. Startup toasts credit the author and thank contributors; the thanks toast can be turned off in Preferences. The About page lists testers and donors.
Daemon, bootstrapper, and ShellUI share /data/OnionHEN/OnionHEN.log, capped at 768 KiB with 3 backups.

Plugins, the overlay, payloads, Rest Mode, fan control, and app jailbreak retain their v0.0.13 behavior. See v0.0.13 for those features.

Quick start

You need an already-jailbroken PS5 and an external elfldr listening on port 9021. elfldr v0.22 is not required.
Send OnionHEN.elf with a payload sender, such as itsPLK's PS5 Payload Manager. Send it once after a cold boot.
Wait for OnionHEN to start. It may take a couple of seconds. Do not press anything while it is starting.
Open Settings to enter the Toolbox, or use the shortcut in the top-right corner of the home screen where available.

Do not load it again into a ShellUI that already ran OnionHEN. When reporting a problem, include the firmware version, what you did, and /data/OnionHEN/OnionHEN.log. For a cheats problem, also include /data/OnionHEN/OnionHEN_util_daemon.log.

Changelog

All changes since v0.0.13: v0.0.13...v0.9.0

Plugins

Place descriptor-bearing plugin ELFs in /data/OnionHEN/plugins. There is still no built-in FTP server. Install onionHEN-ftpsrv-plugin as /data/OnionHEN/plugins/FTPS00001.elf (TCP 1337 by default).

etaHEN plugins and OnionHEN plugins are not compatible.

kstuff

OnionHEN v0.9.0 bundles kstuff-lite 1.11.

Kstuff loads at startup by default. Turn that off from Toolbox > Plugins > Kstuff, or skip the bundled kstuff with an empty file at /data/OnionHEN/no_kstuff or /mnt/usb0/no_kstuff. Your own kstuff must already be running when OnionHEN starts.

A replacement payload goes at /data/OnionHEN/kstuff.elf.

Link: https://github.com/aydencharles/onionHEN/releases/tag/v0.9.0

Rasa39 · 2026-10-15T22:51:03+0100

hotwhelz2005 said:
Wonder if making folders is possible. Would like to have all the emulators in 1 folder

you could make it so they all install to the media tab, that way the tab can act as mostly a folder for just emulators.

HS2005 · 2026-10-15T23:15:05+0100

Playden for PS5 0.3.0

Play your Steam library's Windows games on a jailbroken PS5.

Playden is a launcher that runs on the PS5, adapted from Playden for macOS. You sign in to Steam with a QR code, browse your library, download games, and play them. The Windows games run through prospero-win, a port of Wine to the PS5. Each game gets its own private Windows environment and its own tile on the PS5 Home screen.

Playden's library on the PS5: Steam games as cover art, with Installed, All, Favorites and Hidden on the side

Features

Steam sign-in with a QR code. Approve the sign-in in the Steam mobile app. No password typed on the console.
Your whole Steam library. Search, sort, favorites, collections, ratings and notes, with cover art and store details. The library works offline from a cache.
Downloads from Steam. Queue games and watch progress.
Each game is its own PS5 app. It gets a tile on the Home screen, so you can start it without Playden.
A private Windows environment per game ("bottle"), so games do not share settings or files.
Steam Cloud saves. Playden checks your Cloud saves before a game starts and syncs them after it ends. If the console and the Cloud disagree, you choose which one to keep. You can turn the automatic sync off in Settings and sync by hand from the Saves tab.
Per-game settings. Graphics, frame rate, resolution, controller mapping, and how the game starts: pick any program from the game folder, edit its arguments and library overrides, or try a game Playden flagged anyway. A game's settings can be exported as a recipe (format).
Graphics. Direct3D 8–11 through DXVK, OpenGL through Mesa's Zink, and Vulkan, all on the PS5 GPU's Vulkan driver.
Gamepad support. XInput, DirectInput, Raw Input, Windows.Gaming.Input and the Windows multimedia joystick API, with rumble. Games see the DualSense as an Xbox controller.
Mouse and keyboard. Plug a USB mouse and keyboard into the PS5, or use a controller preset: the left stick as a mouse, or the D-pad as the arrow keys.
Install to internal or external disks. Console storage, or an exFAT USB drive formatted on a Mac or PC.

Link: https://github.com/leolobato/playden-ps5/releases/tag/v0.3.0

ih8god · 2026-10-15T23:24:08+0100

regex101 said:
Was it possible to download purchased games without signing in PSN before? Or am I reading this wrong?

They put in some additional check that had to be made after a certain amount of days from purchase. So if I bought something and went offline the license would expire and I wouldn't be able to play it offline until I went back online and pinged the PSN again. Then it became offline playable I guess for good. My bad if my explanation was choppy.

AlphaBravo · 2026-10-15T23:54:20+0100

HS2005 said:
Playden for PS5 0.3.0
Play your Steam library's Windows games on a jailbroken PS5.

Playden is a launcher that runs on the PS5, adapted from Playden for macOS. You sign in to Steam with a QR code, browse your library, download games, and play them. The Windows games run through prospero-win, a port of Wine to the PS5. Each game gets its own private Windows environment and its own tile on the PS5 Home screen.

Features

Steam sign-in with a QR code. Approve the sign-in in the Steam mobile app. No password typed on the console.

Your whole Steam library. Search, sort, favorites, collections, ratings and notes, with cover art and store details. The library works offline from a cache.

Downloads from Steam. Queue games and watch progress.

Each game is its own PS5 app. It gets a tile on the Home screen, so you can start it without Playden.

A private Windows environment per game ("bottle"), so games do not share settings or files.

Steam Cloud saves. Playden checks your Cloud saves before a game starts and syncs them after it ends. If the console and the Cloud disagree, you choose which one to keep. You can turn the automatic sync off in Settings and sync by hand from the Saves tab.

Per-game settings. Graphics, frame rate, resolution, controller mapping, and how the game starts: pick any program from the game folder, edit its arguments and library overrides, or try a game Playden flagged anyway. A game's settings can be exported as a recipe (format).

Graphics. Direct3D 8–11 through DXVK, OpenGL through Mesa's Zink, and Vulkan, all on the PS5 GPU's Vulkan driver.

Gamepad support. XInput, DirectInput, Raw Input, Windows.Gaming.Input and the Windows multimedia joystick API, with rumble. Games see the DualSense as an Xbox controller.

Mouse and keyboard. Plug a USB mouse and keyboard into the PS5, or use a controller preset: the left stick as a mouse, or the D-pad as the arrow keys.

Install to internal or external disks. Console storage, or an exFAT USB drive formatted on a Mac or PC.

Link: https://github.com/leolobato/playden-ps5/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Once this project is out of alpha, I could see myself playing "Half life 2" on my ps5

veggav · 2026-10-15T23:59:54+0100

Bigoroth said:
So I wanted to play P.T. on my console now that the patches work on 13.60. I was following the tutorial to add it to the console's list of supported games, but I can't find the file to add the P.T. ID and get it to work. I’m doing this via FTP and also using the file explorer on the console itself, but the file containing the list isn’t there. Has this happened to anyone else?

I posted in this very thread but I can't find my own post LoL

It's faster to point you to the wololo post that has it:

https://wololo.net/2022/10/16/it-is-possible-to-run-p-t-on-a-hacked-ps5-but/

The file you want is here:

/mnt/sandbox/NPXS40000_000/(string of numbers+letters)/priv/ps4appcategory/np-ps4appcategory.txt

Also be fure the P.T. pkg you have is a fpkg file not pkg.

Use pkg viewer to identify or else you will get the pad lock symbol and won't be able to play.

HS2005 · 2026-10-16T00:00:55+0100

AlphaBravo said:
Once this project is out of alpha, I could see myself playing "Half life 2" on my ps5

That would be sweet

ExistentialVoid · 2026-10-16T00:03:22+0100

Can someone help me?
When I run the jailbreak, after a few seconds, less than a minute, the console restarts... it was working perfectly until a few hours ago... I've already tried through YouTube, the user guide, and two other types of host... and it keeps restarting. From what I noticed, it happened after the payload manager updated...

TJackson · 2026-10-16T00:29:05+0100

Hello everyone

I successfully jailbroke my PS5 Slim on firmware 12.20 using Relapse by following this Modded Warfare video:

So I downloaded Red Dead Redemption 1 PS5 version and then transferred it to the console via the application PS5Upload as advised by Modded Warfare.

The game has launched and it is stable and playable.

But I have two questions: how can I tell if a PS5 game requires a version newer than 12.20?

Also, I had a hard time finding PS5 games online. Do you have any websites you could recommend?
Is there an alternative store that can be installed on the console, similar to an PKGI system for the PS3?

Thanks in advance

TheStonedModder · 2026-10-16T01:04:35+0100

HS2005 said:
Playden for PS5 0.3.0
Play your Steam library's Windows games on a jailbroken PS5.

Playden is a launcher that runs on the PS5, adapted from Playden for macOS. You sign in to Steam with a QR code, browse your library, download games, and play them. The Windows games run through prospero-win, a port of Wine to the PS5. Each game gets its own private Windows environment and its own tile on the PS5 Home screen.

Features

Steam sign-in with a QR code. Approve the sign-in in the Steam mobile app. No password typed on the console.

Your whole Steam library. Search, sort, favorites, collections, ratings and notes, with cover art and store details. The library works offline from a cache.

Downloads from Steam. Queue games and watch progress.

Each game is its own PS5 app. It gets a tile on the Home screen, so you can start it without Playden.

A private Windows environment per game ("bottle"), so games do not share settings or files.

Steam Cloud saves. Playden checks your Cloud saves before a game starts and syncs them after it ends. If the console and the Cloud disagree, you choose which one to keep. You can turn the automatic sync off in Settings and sync by hand from the Saves tab.

Per-game settings. Graphics, frame rate, resolution, controller mapping, and how the game starts: pick any program from the game folder, edit its arguments and library overrides, or try a game Playden flagged anyway. A game's settings can be exported as a recipe (format).

Graphics. Direct3D 8–11 through DXVK, OpenGL through Mesa's Zink, and Vulkan, all on the PS5 GPU's Vulkan driver.

Gamepad support. XInput, DirectInput, Raw Input, Windows.Gaming.Input and the Windows multimedia joystick API, with rumble. Games see the DualSense as an Xbox controller.

Mouse and keyboard. Plug a USB mouse and keyboard into the PS5, or use a controller preset: the left stick as a mouse, or the D-pad as the arrow keys.

Install to internal or external disks. Console storage, or an exFAT USB drive formatted on a Mac or PC.

Link: https://github.com/leolobato/playden-ps5/releases/tag/v0.3.0

these install instructions are so janky and bad holy cow lol

And over complicated.

Bigoroth · 2026-10-16T01:24:06+0100

Well it happened, my autoload chain started to fail eachtime a new version of OnionHen comes up

Post automatically merged: Today at 1:26 AM

veggav said:
I posted in this very thread but I can't find my own post LoL

It's faster to point you to the wololo post that has it:

https://wololo.net/2022/10/16/it-is-possible-to-run-p-t-on-a-hacked-ps5-but/

The file you want is here:

/mnt/sandbox/NPXS40000_000/(string of numbers+letters)/priv/ps4appcategory/np-ps4appcategory.txt

Also be fure the P.T. pkg you have is a fpkg file not pkg.

Use pkg viewer to identify or else you will get the pad lock symbol and won't be able to play.

That's the thing, there's no np-ps4appcategory.txt inside priv/ps4appcategory

EDIT: I managed to install it so it wouldn't display the message saying it's not compatible with the console by using a legitimate .pkg file, but now I'm getting this update notification

TheStonedModder · 2026-10-16T02:40:13+0100

“Boot” animation progress

I got MP4s playing when my payload runs( but I’m struggling to get it to appear on top of everything

(Seriously if anyone knows how I can embed my OBS recordings directly any help would be appreciated)

flopsy · 2026-10-16T03:22:50+0100

https://github.com/xvvulcanvx/PS5-TabShifter

PS5 TabShifter (FW 12.xx – 13.60 Supported)

A standalone on-console payload utility for jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles (tested across Firmware 12.02, 13.00, 13.40, and 13.60) that allows you to:

Move apps between [GAMES] and [MEDIA] tabs (keep emulators, stores, and homebrew organized in Media, or vice-versa) while preserving native PS4 (CUSA) and PS5 (PPSA) category types and appType flags.

Pin all games to the main Home Screen: Keep your installed games on the main dashboard bar (pinnedStatus = 1) instead of letting them get pushed off into the Game Library.

Hide useless offline PSN bloatware: 1-click toggle to hide or restore PlayStation Store, PlayStation Plus, Remote Play, Share Play, and Live TV across reboots (leaves the Welcome Hub untouched by default so your storage widget stays visible).

Individual system tile control: Individually hide or move extra system tiles including Media Gallery, Disc Player, Music Home, Discover, Welcome Hub, and All Apps.

Instantly reload SceShellUI in ~1.5 seconds without a system reboot.

100% on-console control: Installs a native Home Screen tile (TBSH00001) with a custom "TS" icon that can be opened or uninstalled directly using your DualSense controller.

TheStonedModder · 2026-10-16T04:07:44+0100

HS2005 said:
Playden for PS5 0.3.0
Play your Steam library's Windows games on a jailbroken PS5.

Playden is a launcher that runs on the PS5, adapted from Playden for macOS. You sign in to Steam with a QR code, browse your library, download games, and play them. The Windows games run through prospero-win, a port of Wine to the PS5. Each game gets its own private Windows environment and its own tile on the PS5 Home screen.

Features

Steam sign-in with a QR code. Approve the sign-in in the Steam mobile app. No password typed on the console.

Your whole Steam library. Search, sort, favorites, collections, ratings and notes, with cover art and store details. The library works offline from a cache.

Downloads from Steam. Queue games and watch progress.

Each game is its own PS5 app. It gets a tile on the Home screen, so you can start it without Playden.

A private Windows environment per game ("bottle"), so games do not share settings or files.

Steam Cloud saves. Playden checks your Cloud saves before a game starts and syncs them after it ends. If the console and the Cloud disagree, you choose which one to keep. You can turn the automatic sync off in Settings and sync by hand from the Saves tab.

Per-game settings. Graphics, frame rate, resolution, controller mapping, and how the game starts: pick any program from the game folder, edit its arguments and library overrides, or try a game Playden flagged anyway. A game's settings can be exported as a recipe (format).

Graphics. Direct3D 8–11 through DXVK, OpenGL through Mesa's Zink, and Vulkan, all on the PS5 GPU's Vulkan driver.

Gamepad support. XInput, DirectInput, Raw Input, Windows.Gaming.Input and the Windows multimedia joystick API, with rumble. Games see the DualSense as an Xbox controller.

Mouse and keyboard. Plug a USB mouse and keyboard into the PS5, or use a controller preset: the left stick as a mouse, or the D-pad as the arrow keys.

Install to internal or external disks. Console storage, or an exFAT USB drive formatted on a Mac or PC.

Link: https://github.com/leolobato/playden-ps5/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Has anyone gotten this to work? I installed the kit several times and it never detects it

So any downloaded games aren’t playable

iguanoPT · 2026-10-16T05:34:32+0100

flopsy said:
https://github.com/xvvulcanvx/PS5-TabShifter

PS5 TabShifter (FW 12.xx – 13.60 Supported)

A standalone on-console payload utility for jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles (tested across Firmware 12.02, 13.00, 13.40, and 13.60) that allows you to:
(....)

Do you know if this is available for older firmwares?

Why TabShifter?
On newer PS5 firmwares, Sony split the dashboard database into two synchronized databases:

/system_data/priv/mms/appinfo.db (tbl_appinfo and tbl_conceptinfo)

/system_data/priv/mms/app.db (tbl_contentinfo, tbl_conceptmetadata, and per-user tbl_iconinfo_* / tbl_concepticoninfo_* tables)

Older database switchers fail on 12.xx/13.xx because modifying app.db alone causes SceShellCore to overwrite changes using stale cache from appinfo.db or RAM. TabShifter updates all four database layers simultaneously, applies the proper category bitmasks (1162 for Games vs 2236 for Media) and native hidden states (dispLocation = 1), preserves original appType values so games never get padlocked, and gracefully restarts SceShellUI.

PS5 Hack Status:

Preparing Your Console:

Select Your Jailbreak:

Additional Information:

Warnings:

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