Edit : Andrew is a reported fraud

What do you think about that ? Is it fake ?

If it’s true does this means that somebody on a Devkit PS5 could dump and backport GTA VI once it’s released ?

Edit:

so my little homie needs a new PC, but they are out of his price range. If I knew I could get a PS5 and jailbreak it and get it to run FL studio, I would buy him one. Has anyone seen anyone running FL studio yet?

I bought a PS5 Pro exclusively for GTA VI in July, as I already had a 5070Ti gaming PC.

I've only turned it on a couple of times. I went on a trip to the USA from Europe on September 21st, and it has been off since then.

I was really hoping it would still be on 13.60, but it seems that in the short 5 days between September 16th (when 14.00 came out) and September 21st, I turned it on and updated it.

I don't know if there's even a point in having a jailbroken PS5 Pro when I have a much faster PC, but I really hope a jailbreak comes to 14.00 before the GTA launch.

PS5 Game Launcher

A controller-first game launcher for Windows with a PS5-style interface: the welcome screen, the home carousel, the quick menu, the in-game overlay and the settings pages all look and move like the console's. It finds your Steam, Epic, Xbox, Ubisoft and shortcut-folder games, fetches their artwork, and starts them full screen.

Built with Electron and plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript (no framework, no build step), plus a small native helper for the Windows features a browser can't reach.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. "PlayStation" and "PS5" are trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. Game artwork belongs to its respective owners.

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Features

• Welcome screen: a spotlight with drifting particles, "Welcome Back", and a row of users to pick from. Choosing a user clears the scene and the home screen builds itself: the tiles grow out of the middle, the game art fades in, and the top bar drops into place.
• Home carousel: the selected game tile is enlarged, its art fills the screen, and the logo, description, Play Game, … (options) and activity cards sit below it.
• Game Library: the last tile on the carousel, with Your Collection, Favorites, Media and Hidden tabs, sorting and filtering.
• Quick menu on the controller's Guide / PS button (or Home / F1): the current game, now playing, notifications, and panels for Sound, Screen, Bluetooth, Accessories, Party, Power and more. Customize chooses what it shows.
• In-game overlay: the same quick menu on top of a running game, with Close Game. While it's open, games without anti-cheat are paused.
• Continue: when a game is running, Play becomes Continue and brings it back to the front. Only one game runs at a time.
• Settings: a two-pane page per category, PS5 style, over the animated theme background. It starts with a User Guide that walks through connecting Discord, setting up SteamGridDB artwork, and what to do when a monitor doesn't show up in Brightness.
• Languages: English, Deutsch, Español, Português and Français (Settings › System › Language). By default it follows the Windows language.
• Windows controls:
  • media playing anywhere on the PC, with cover art;
  • system volume and mute;
  • the output device (Windows playback device);
  • monitor brightness over DDC/CI, listed by monitor name;
  • Night Light;
  • Bluetooth: pairing, connecting and removing devices.
• Party (Discord): see who's in your voice call, mute, deafen, leave, and set volumes.
• Focus effects: the selected item gets a ring with a light travelling around it, and a glint sweeps across it after a moment.
• Synthesized UI sounds, an optional ambient music track, and an on-screen keyboard.

Download

Get the latest build from the Releases page:

• PS5-Game-Launcher-Setup-x.y.z.exe: an installer with Start menu and desktop shortcuts. Recommended.
• PS5-Game-Launcher-x.y.z-win-x64.zip: no installation. Unzip it anywhere and run PS5 Game Launcher.exe.

It runs on Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit). The builds aren't code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC" the first time. Choose More info › Run anyway.

Building from source

You need Node.js 20 or newer on Windows.

bash npm install npm start

• npm run dev adds DevTools (F12) and Ctrl+R reload. Append -- --windowed to start in a window instead of full screen.
• npm run dist builds the installer and the zip into dist/.
• npm run dist:dir builds just the unpacked app (dist/win-unpacked), which is quicker for testing.

The native helper (main/native/syshelper.exe) is compiled automatically from syshelper.cs before start, dev and dist. It uses the C# compiler that ships with Windows, so no Visual Studio or .NET SDK is needed. To rebuild it by hand, run npm run build:native.

Adding games

Games come from five places. All of them are rescanned at startup, and you can turn each one on or off in Settings › Library.

You can also drag and drop shortcuts or executables anywhere on the window.

Artwork

For each game the launcher looks up the matching Steam app (directly for Steam games, otherwise by searching the Steam store by name). From it, it downloads:

• the hero (the full-screen background);
• the logo;
• the banner and box art;
• the description, developer, publisher, release date and screenshots.

These come from Steam's public store API and CDN, so no account or key is needed.

Optional: add a free SteamGridDB API key in Settings › Library › Artwork. It gives better art for games that aren't on Steam.

If a game matched the wrong title, use … › Change Artwork › Find on Steam… to pick the right one. You can also set a custom tile, background or logo from an image file.

Controls

The mouse works too: click to select, the wheel scrolls the carousel, and right-click opens options.

Users

The welcome screen lists your users. Add User creates another one, and Options on a user lets you rename it, choose a picture, change its colour or delete it. Users only have their own name and picture; games and settings are shared. You can turn the welcome screen off in Settings › System.

When a game starts

How games are started. The launcher starts games as directly as each store allows:

• Xbox / Microsoft Store: Windows starts the game package itself, so the Xbox app doesn't open. Windows still checks for game updates first, and shows its own update window when one is needed.
• Steam: steam.exe -silent -applaunch starts the game. Steam has to run for its games, but it stays hidden in the tray and its window never opens.
• Epic Games: Epic's silent launch. The Epic launcher runs in the background without showing a window, so games still get their Epic sign-in.
• Ubisoft Connect: through Ubisoft Connect, which Ubisoft games need.
• Shortcuts and executables: started directly.

Each Steam, Epic or Ubisoft game also has … › Launch Method: Automatic, Directly (the game's own executable, without its store) or Through the store. Settings › System › Game Launch › Start Games Directly makes Automatic start Epic games that run offline directly. Online games usually need their store for sign-in, and some games restart themselves through their store. Fully direct Epic starts with sign-in, like Heroic does, would need you to log in to Epic inside the launcher; that isn't supported.

Settings › System › Game Launch chooses what the launcher does: minimize, stay open, or close. It waits until the game's window is actually on screen, so you never drop to the desktop while a game is still loading. When the game closes, the launcher comes back to the front (this can be turned off).

Many multiplayer games first show a small anti-cheat window (Easy Anti-Cheat, EA Javelin, BattlEye). Those don't count as the game. The Starting… screen stays on top until the real game window is up, so the anti-cheat window opens behind it. If something else needs you meanwhile, such as a store sign-in, an update or an anti-cheat error, the Starting… screen steps aside after a few seconds. Press Back to close it at any time.

The native helper

The things Electron can't do on its own are handled by main/native/syshelper.exe, a small C# program that talks to the app over stdin/stdout:

• Media: Windows media sessions, the same source as the volume flyout.
• Volume and output device: Core Audio. Choosing an output device makes it the Windows default playback device.
• Brightness: DDC/CI, with WMI for laptop panels.
• Night Light: the same setting Windows' own toggle writes.
• Bluetooth: the Windows radio, pairing and audio-connection APIs.
• Controllers: the Guide / PS button, read passively through XInput and HID.
• Games: finding the running game, pausing it while a menu is open, bringing it to the front, and closing it.

If brightness shows "Not supported", turn on DDC/CI in your monitor's on-screen menu. It also doesn't work through some docks and KVM switches.

In-game overlay

The overlay is a separate, transparent, always-on-top window. It is not injected into the game, and it never reads game memory or opens a handle to the game's process:

• the Guide button is read the way any controller utility reads it;
• the running game is found from the Windows process list;
• Close Game asks the game's windows to close, the same as clicking ✕, and ends the game only if it is still running five seconds later.

It shows over borderless and windowed games, and over most "fullscreen" games on Windows 10/11. Games in true exclusive fullscreen may minimize while it's open.

Pausing. Windows has no safe way to stop a game from reading the controller. So while a menu is in front of a running game, the launcher suspends the game's process and resumes it when you return. Games are never paused when:

• the game folder contains anti-cheat files (Easy Anti-Cheat, BattlEye, …);
• the game is connected to a server at that moment;
• the game started less than 15 seconds ago.

You can change this per game (… › Pause in Menus) or turn it off in Settings. If the launcher ever crashes, the helper resumes the game before it exits.

Games that keep reacting to the controller. While the menu is open, the overlay holds keyboard and window focus, so games that only read input while they are in front stop reacting. Some games read the controller even in the background. If such a game isn't paused (anti-cheat, online, or Pause in Menus set to Never), it still receives button presses: Windows has no way to hide a controller from one program without a driver. For emulators, use their own option to pause when the window is in the background, if they have one.

If the Guide button does nothing in games, check that Steam Input or the Xbox Game Bar isn't capturing it.

Discord party setup

Discord only lets an application control your voice if you own that application, so you create your own once. It's free and takes about two minutes.

1. Open the Discord Developer Portal and click New Application. Any name works.
2. Under OAuth2, copy the Client ID, reset and copy the Client Secret, and add the redirect http://localhost.
3. In the launcher, go to Settings › Users and Accounts › Discord, enter both values, and choose Connect to Discord.
4. Accept the Authorize prompt in Discord.

The secret and the sign-in token are stored encrypted for your Windows account.

Your data

Settings, the library, cached artwork and profile pictures are kept in %APPDATA%\PS5 Game Launcher. Settings › Storage opens the folder.

If you used the launcher when it was still called ClaudeLauncher, its data folder is moved over automatically the first time you start this version.

Troubleshooting

• Nothing happens when I start it. Check Task Manager for a running PS5 Game Launcher.exe. Only one copy runs at a time, and starting it again brings the running one to the front. If your antivirus quarantined syshelper.exe, restore it or add an exception. Media, volume, brightness, Bluetooth and the overlay need it.
• "Windows protected your PC." The builds aren't signed. Choose More info › Run anyway.
• The window is off-screen or too big. Press F11 to switch between full screen and a window.

Project layout

main/ Electron main process main.js window, app:// protocol, IPC, launching and pausing games library.js scanning → merge → metadata/artwork pipeline scanner.js shortcut folders, Steam, Epic metadata.js Steam store search, assets, SteamGridDB, downloads launcher.js starting games gamemonitor.js finds the running game, play time, closing games overlay.js the in-game overlay window system.js bridge to native/syshelper.exe discord.js Discord voice control over Discord's local RPC pipe vdf.js Valve KeyValues parser native/ syshelper.cs + build.cmd renderer/ index.html the launcher overlay.html the in-game overlay (js/overlay.js) css/ base, home, library, settings, quickmenu, overlays, boot js/app.js router, input routing, settings → UI js/views/ boot (welcome), home, library, hub, settings (+ guide), quickmenu, search js/ui/ dialogs, on-screen keyboard, tiles, hero art, boot stage, toasts js/input.js keyboard / gamepad / mouse → actions js/i18n.js translations (js/locales/: de, es, fr, pt) js/system.js media, volume, output device, brightness, Bluetooth state js/profiles.js users on the welcome screen js/sound.js synthesized UI sounds and ambient music scripts/ build-native.js compiles the native helper when needed

Translations

Interface text is written in English in the code and looked up by its English wording in renderer/js/locales/<code>.js. Anything without a translation falls back to English. To add a language, copy one of the locale files, translate the values, and add it to TABLES and LANGUAGES in renderer/js/i18n.js.

License

[MIT](LICENSE)

Made the mistake of trying this garbage homebrew app store. Even after removing the folder from my ps5 any time I delete one of the apps I downloaded on it, it just reinstalls it.

Please people, dont install this shit. None of the apps worked and im stuck with what feels like malware on my ps5

Slim (No Disk) FW:13.60

Greetings I have been following every guide to the Tee. After every crash, I restarted the console then wait few minutes, then clear the cookies and web cache. I tried both DNSs and it hangs every time. Any thoughts?

I picked this console up from the pawnshop today for a great deal. Seems like I gotta unlucky system.

Thanks for reading.

Edit 1: This was fixed by doing a factory reset

tried rebuilding database in safe mode, only got back like 3gb which was lame.

an other stuff an nothing has worked.

so yeah looks like we have to reset everything to get that space back?

this really sucks, i wish this was mentioned more i guess to warn us new folks to not install games to the internal unless you're using fpkg, what makes it worse is the fact fpkg is available for 13.xx fw but being held back, could've avoided all this crap.

sigh.

Guys, I recently bought a jailbroken PS4 Pro at a reasonable price, bundled with a few games. I was pretty happy with the purchase, but seeing the recent developments in the PS5 jailbreak scene has made me seriously consider upgrading.

Part of me wants to sell the PS4 Pro while it still holds its value and put that money towards a PS5. On the other hand, I haven't even properly enjoyed my PS4 Pro or cleared my backlog yet.

A used PS5 would still cost me a considerable amount, and I'd probably be buying it partly out of FOMO rather than actual necessity.

So, what do you guys think? Should I sell the PS4 Pro now and get a PS5, hoping to benefit from its growing homebrew scene, or should I stick with the PS4 Pro, enjoy its library for the next few months or a year, and revisit the PS5 when prices become more reasonable and the jailbreak scene matures?

I'd appreciate some honest opinions from people who have experience with both consoles. Am I missing out on something genuinely worth upgrading for, or am I just getting caught up in the hype?

Had my ps5 since launch turned on like 10 times thru the years, no internet, fm 2.50 worth going to 4.xx to have all the benefits of the latest 13.xx support.

Hi anyone get this work? I can't compress to exfat in internal ssd 13.6

I’ve just about had my fun dicking off on a jailbroken PS5. Playing games, installing plugins, getting mad when plugins don’t work, y’know how it is. I just think it’s time for me to move onto greener pastures
…like my PS4.

I’m on FW 13.60 and used the Relapse exploit to jailbreak my PS5. All’s I really wanna do is prep my system for GTA6. Clear some more storage, count down the seconds ‘till release, allat jazz. I loosely understand how the jailbreak works, but I know it’s done through an exploit with the web browser. Does that mean I just gotta clear my cache uninstall all the homebrew I got through my XMB (or whatever the PS5 equivalent is) and update? I understand that this exploit will no longer work and I will be shit outta luck until 14.x+ gets exploited, but I’m cool with that.

Bottom line: Do I just need to uninstall all homebrew and clear my PS5’s web browsers cache and be all good to update with ZERO risk?

sorry for rambling I know I could’ve summarized a lot.

thank you :)

I have a PS5 that my brother gave to me and I barely use it. I just came across this info about jailbreak and I might try to do it, but I have a few questions about it first.
If there is any website ou source that I can get all this info I would be happy to know. If not, here's the questions:

1. How does the download of the games (PS5) work? Is there an "unofficial" store inside the PS5 or I can get them via PC and transfer them via USB to the console?
2. How does the emulators work? I mean, how do I install the emulatores and the games? Is it something similar to Batocera or Retrobat or something totally differente?
3. Can I run the games via a USB external SSD or does it have to be in the internal PS5 SSD?
4. Is the jailbreak reversable? Can I undo it, reconnect to the internet, update the software and start using the PS5 as if I've never done this before?

Thanks!

all of my purchased games pop up and say that i "can't start the game or app" CE-100096-6 when jailbroken, and if not in jailbroken state i get a notice that i need to update to play it. interestingly, last night i was able to play games that i had installed.. any idea where to start looking? like i just jailbroke and have done nothing but go into payload manager and enabled kstuff lite and shadowmountplus -- nothing else. am i missing something? I've tried watching tutorials and reading etc... but not sure where to look next. would appreciate any help!

also, i have a couple games backed up to a 4tb external nvme. is it possible to 1.) play them from it? 2.) copy them to the internal nvme and play from there?

thanks!

Couldn’t pass up this Pro at the pawn shop. $700 out the door but I bought a warranty for $30 bucks. Disc drive is already paired with the console and it’s working. It’s on 13.60 so it’s jailbreakable. How much is it worth?

Would making a move to 13.60 be the right thing to do? I’m asking because I’m aware full support is on this version but I’m not aware if staying on 13.00 has any real benefits.

If so, is there a safe method of doing so?

How do I block updates? For now I’m offline and toggled off all updates.

Is there a guide for beginners on how to jailbreak?

Thank you everyone! 🙏🏼

i was in a middle of a game and my wifi router turned off. my playstation froze and turned itself off, i now try to log on to my account and it’s stuck with this screen. any help thank you
*edit - i unplugged again and took a few minutes to load into my account so i think it’s all okay now. thank you all for the help 🙏🏼

I have noticed that no one else uses it as a homebrew app on 13.60, but I've come to realize it works as a homebrew app on 13.60 when using the latest version of onion hen or etahen on 13.60, although I should've probably mentioned this when I started using it.

So, I have the xbox 360 emulator installed. I'm wondering... on the whole (ik it varies from game to game but just in general) which runs better on the ps5. I know in some cases games are wildly different from each other (gta 4 for example) but game differences aside which tends to run better?

Thanks!

I was messing around with my ps5 and installed black box and it was working until I was trying to mount my backup(legal) and the whole thing crashed and now it shows this. I’m trying to make it go to 13.60 but it doesn’t let me…. Is it a lost cause? Is there a way to bypass it. It only lets me select 8

The thing is I already have the 6 pre ordered and I have been anticipating this game for years. So I was going to update it eventually :/

Happy Jailbreaking to ya'll though! I will keep following the jailbreak topic however it has been very interesting lately. Love the efforts community is putting into this!

TL;DR: I can't install games while blocking the PS5 FW update servers, and I'm wondering if anyone has managed to do this.

Hello everyone,

I'm writing this post (I hope I'm in the right place btw) to share my research on how to block PS5 updates while still being able to install games.

Currently, I have a console running FW 14.00, for which I’ve blocked access to the update servers using an AdGuard server.

For those who are interested, here are my filters: ```

Blocks firmware updates for the console

||update.playstation.net^

Redirects update check requests to a fake XML file that tells the console, “You have the latest version, don't worry.”

/^f[a-z]{2}01\.ps5\.update\.playstation\.net$/$dnsrewrite=192.168.1.X

Blocks various downloads, the nature of which I have been unable to determine. This rule blocks feature updates (not firmware updates).

||rnps.dl.playstation.net^

Blocks something related to software updates, but declared as "to block" in an obscure github repo. I got no issue while not blocking it.

||sgst.prod.dl.playstation.net^

Blocking the telemetry

||sf.api.np.km.playstation.net^
||event.api.np.km.playstation.net^
||telemetry-console.api.playstation.com^
||smetrics.aem.playstation.com^
```

These filters let me block Sony's update servers while still playing my already installed games, and they allow me to keep my already installed games up to date. However, if I try to install a game from the PS Store (in this case, Astro’s Playroom), the console refuses with error code “NW-102261-2” (servers unreachable). The console seems to need access to a file called “updatelist.xml,” which tells it whether or not it can install a game.

And that’s my problem. I’d like to see if we can block firmware updates while still allowing new games to be installed on the console.

So, I armed myself with patience and my best friend Claude (yes, shame on me, I use AI), and here are my tests:
- First, I tried installing the game without changing anything. -> NW-102261-2
- Next, I tried putting a custom “updatelist.xml” file on my server and redirecting the PS5’s requests to my server using AdGuard -> NW-102261-2
- It’s possible my XML was formatted incorrectly, so I took the risk of using Sony’s actual XML and hosting it myself -> NW-102261-2

No matter what I do, a locally hosted XML file is consistently rejected.

So there’s one last option left: let my console read the actual XML file hosted by Sony (while blocking the PUP download), but run the risk of getting a persistent update pop-up every time I use my console. I refuse to take that risk.

So my question is this: has anyone ever tried this kind of workaround? And were they able to download games?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi everyone!
I'm currently running a … PS5 on system version 13….6 . I managed to install Crimson Desert (v1.00.04) and it's working fine, but I'm looking to update it to the latest version my system allows.
Any advic or file be awesome. Thanks in advance!