About gaming on a jailbroken PS4
- What games can I play? You can find the majority of games released during 2021 and before. If you want to know how many, there are about 2856 games already available to play.
- What games can’t I play? The majority of games that are online only or games that require to be online in order to play such as Fornite, Apex Legends etc. Note that online play on a jailbroken PS4 is possible but there are a few games compatibile. A guide can be found
here.
- How do games become available? The process is called
dumping. This means, inserting a PS4 game disc and running a dumper payload to decrypt and put the whole game on external HDD. After the slow process is done, it is then transferred to the PC where a FAKE pkg is made, removing the need of the disc.
- So to keep it short, most games playable come from disc media.
Games
- No piracy links will be here!
- Games on the PS4 are huge, thus you might find games in many parts (archives). You need the following tools:
- After unarchiving, you should have your game in a .pkg file. PKG is the format everything installable will be on the PS4
- To install them on your PS4, format a USB drive as exFAT or FAT32 (FAT32 is not recommended because of the 4GB file limit). Put the .pkg on the root of the drive.
- Navigate on your PS4 to Setttings > GoldHEN > Package Installer. Select the pkg and wait. Your game will now appear on the homescreen.
Updates & DLC
- Updates & DLC need to be linked to the same game version and region. If not, they will not install.
- To check a game region and version download:
PS4PKGViewer - leecherman (google.com) - PS4PKGViewer
- Take your game .pkg and open it via PS4PKGViewer. Take note of:
- PKG type: FAKE is a homebrew pkg not official that will not require license/disc. REAL/RETAIL is a direct pkg created and verified by Sony (these cannot be played unless you have the disc or license).
- Fake and Retail cannot be combined.
- A RETAIL pkg cannot be converted to FAKE. A FAKE pkg cannot be converted to RETAIL.
- CONTENT ID: Note the CUSA number. This is your region and version of the game. If your updates/dlc and game content ID do not match, they will not install.
Credit for images: Modded Warfare
Now we’re gaming!
- Now that you have some basic knowledge on how gaming works on your PS4, why not take look at what you can further do, with the likes of Hacks and Homebrew .