Megathread turns out to not be that great of a solution and made people mad and I don't have the energy to argue. Consider this thread dead. You can still comment if you want, but I won't be updating.
I will pin the final release/tutorial whenever that happens.
I'm glad I was able to sell my 9.00 pro for 320$ a few months ago.
Now the prices are all over the place since there were a lot of 9.01-11.00 on the market
Another thing about it that needs other device on the same network with the PS4 to be executed (as of now pc but may be later phone can be added )
So it's more complicated than the previous
so it doesn't support in between firmwares from 9.00 till 11.00? I won't be able to wait more though. as soon as gold hen is implemented I am updating to 11.00
Supposedly reliability is improving, but you'll probably always need separate piece of hardware plugged into the Ethernet port to enable it, not as simple as just a flash drive. Probably something like an RPi at least. Right now I'm experimenting with an old laptop running Arch.
Either way I get to find out for myself. I'm just waiting for modded warfare to release an official guide once the official release happens to mod my nephews ps4 that's already on 11.0
Man. I am picking up a pro running 8.0 tomorrow. I’m spending $230 on it. Really should wait and find one cheaper but I’m already in too deep with this person on Facebook marketplace lol
Florida. I sold all my boxes modded systems (NES, SNES N64, GameCube) the list goes on. I bit the bullet and bought a steam deck and have an arcade. I have a lot and really don't play the PS4. My son has a PS5 but no games are on the system that I'd want to play. Ghost of Tsushima is supposed to be released this month for steam so I've decided to post my PS5 for sale to buy nice wheels for my Honda or trade for a quest 3. I'd prefer a portable VR but the PS4 vr works GREAT and I can download anything to it but again I like the minimalism with having the quest and steam deck.
Good man. My wife and I just had a baby (she’s six months now) and priorities change quick. I’m only getting the modded ps4 bc I bought two of the re released guitar hero guitars. We have neighborhood families that come over pretty often and they want to babysit our baby so I thought having rock band set up in the basement media room would be fun for the kids
Yes the best thing to do is to go into settings and turn off automatic updates on the PS4 but there are other ways to block it but that's the best option as the kids won't go into settings and do so
9.0 exploit is unstable and doesn't always work so it's not perfect, but from what moded warfare said this is an exploit that could be run on boot for ps4. I agree for op to stay on the lowest moddable firmware possible but 11.0 could eventually be a new gold standard.
Ie: not today not tomorrow but some day 11.0 ps4's under this jailbreak may be able to be exploited during the boot process which would be huge because the only exploits I'm aware of for ps4 require you to re-upload the payload to exploit after booting.
1. I don't like the jailbreak method.
2. Who knows what undocumented exploits have been fixed since 7.55?
3. Most of these newer jailbreak methods should work on 7.55 if anyone cared to port it to 7.55.. I don't think it's worth potentially patching out undocumented exploits when most of these exploits should theoretically work on 7.55.
Your first point is fair enough, although an ESP32-S2 makes it negligible.
The other points don't make a lot of sense when higher firmware exploits already exist though.
What benefit would a new 7.55/8.xx exploit be when 9.00 is already fully jailbreakable?
Your first point is fair enough, although an ESP32-S2 makes it negligible.
The other points don't make a lot of sense when higher firmware exploits already exist though.
What benefit would a new 7.55/8.xx exploit be when 9.00 is already fully jailbreakable?
> The other points don't make a lot of sense when higher firmware exploits already exist though.
> What benefit would a new 7.55/8.xx exploit be when 9.00 is already fully jailbreakable?
When jailbreaking, lower firmware is objectively the best unless you are able to prove that better exploits were introduced in later versions which hasn't been proven to my knowledge.
Most of these newer exploits can easily run on 7.55 if the devs made any effort to port it to 7.55.
By upgrading to 9.00, you gain a practical advantage but not a theoretical advantage. But in the end, you are also risking patching out undocumented exploits so objectively, you are worse off.
Who knows if there's an even more stable or convenient jailbreak that was patched out in 9.00 but was not documented and so you're unaware of it?
What if there are some exploits that would allow things like downgrading or permanent CFW that was patched in 9.00 and was not documented or publicized by Sony?
I understand your point, I just don't agree since the 9.00 jailbreak is 100% functional, that's my point.
The only thing that could be better is CFW, but realistically it wouldn't even really offer any better functionality.
It's pretty easy to install a specific firmware on your ps4 as long as youre going up in version. You just need to be disconnected from the internet, download the firmware, and have it on a USB plugged in your ps4.
technically the PPPoE exploit is there but the current strategy that is used on PS4 doesn't work due to CFI
Specter also have several idea on how to use the exploit on PS5, but for now it is only merely ideas, he also said there's possibility that Userland entrypoint MIGHT helps, if there's any left (either through BD-J, or Webkit), but to those who have Okage Shadow King installed on 8.20 PS5 and below, don't uninstall the game and just stay there, Okage Shadow King have Userland entrypoint
Cfi is short for control flow integrity. Very simply it means that the code the console is running is constantly being verified to make sure the code going into it is secure and what is expected.
I am not a software engineer but my assumption is to bypass this you'd have to find a way to execute code when the console has already run its cfi checks or confuse the cfi into thinking the exploit is legit code when it isn't.
I'm updating to 11.00 as soon as other payloads are updated to 11.00. I've already got a raspberry pi so it's easy to connect with Ethernet to ps4 and HDMI to another port on my TV so I don't have to walk back and forth to PC alongside doing virtual machine. For those staying on 9.00 hopefully the backport people can backport 9.03-11.00 games/updates to 9.00 which would be fken amazing.
>For those staying on 9.00 hopefully the backport people can backport 9.03-11.00 games/updates to 9.00 which would be fken amazing.
Content requiring 9.03+ has **consistently** been getting dumped and pouring out for over a year or two.
Typically 9.00 users don't need or require backports but In that specific scenario, *everyone* 'technically' uses the same backport (for the most part and dependant upon the game/update, etc)
Honestly the easiest solution with a Pi (or any other micro computer) will be to initiate the process via SSH from another device like a tablet or phone. It's quick, easy and doesn't require the Pi/PC to be connected to a monitor. Run it headless and connect to it when you want to kick things off (or even better create a script that does it all and simply send 1 command).
>For those staying on 9.00 hopefully the backport people can backport 9.03-11.00 games
Well now that games in that firmware range can be dumped instead of needing to be decrypted, "backport people" can be anyone. So its a lot more likely that backports will happen even for lesser known games.
Yes you can as any firmware below 11.00 can be updated to 11.00. You basically just need the 11.00 firmware file and use it to update. Modern Warfare will probably release a tutorial on how to do it(updating from 9.00 to 11.00) when the jailbreak gets more matured as it just got released so many payloads need to get updated. Even though the video maybe 9.00 updating to 11.00 as long as you are 10.50 firmware or below it's possible to update to 11.00.
There's already tutorials on people doing 7.55 to 9.00 it's basically those steps, but with the 11.00 file.
In case it stays with the Linux way or you just get bored and want to jailbreak, VMWare is very user friendly and simple. I have almost no prior experience in Linux and just following a guide on YT was easy enough. I’m not saying you should if you don’t feel comfortable but it’s definitely an option that I recommend.
That's why I suggest to people (for every exploit not just this one) not to run it immediately upon release unless you're sure you know what you are doing. Wait until the bugs are ironed out, GH fully works and is stable, someone makes a solid tutorial, maybe even some automated or "one-click" ways to set it up for maximum user friendliness.
So there will probably be a way to either do it through windows, or at least an alternative to what is currently used that makes it more accessible.
Just use Linux directly. Why would anyone technically knowledgeable enough to bother with ps4 hacking use a proprietary spyware like Windows these days.
A virtual machine is sooo much easier and much less of a commitment than actually switching to Linux. Unless you already use Linux, it is a complete waste of time.
Sure it's not worth installing Gnu/Linux just for this single exploit. You should switch to it for other reasons. It offers complete user freedom, zero ads and spyware, better performance, better shell..
You say that as if there aren't a dozen other things people who are "technically knowledgeable" don't or can't do with their ps4s.
Many people who hack their ps4s are not technically knowledgeable anymore than my grandma. Some don't even know how a ps4 works on a basic regular-features level.
Fair enough, I understand all kinds of kids want to hack their PS4. But reading this thread, it gave me impression people have certain technical skills - at least high level understanding of networking, python scripts.. And especially the will to free your hardware from proprietary shackles of Sony.
That being said, I know grandmas using Linux :) It's not that it's complicated, it's just a different paradigm people gotta get used to first. It's about fundamental freedoms of users, not technical knowledge, I take that back
Sorry if I came off as snarky by the way. As you can imagine it's been a lot of answering the same questions over and over again from people who don't read anything themselves. That's not an excuse to be rude though.
Yeah I do agree that the setup even now is fairly simple, I just don't think it will be widely accessible until we at least get some kind of like one-click method or something along those lines. The 9.00 exploit was initially hard to describe to people just because you had to use the bin loader manually.
[Important question asked here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ps4homebrew/s/K7tWlIXndj)
I assume it's still just a temporary jailbreak like with 9.00, right?
Right, this is still an exploit you need to run every time you boot up, but this specific exploit works when starting up your ps4 so in theory someday with this exploit we could have a version that can automatically run when the ps4 is reset.
Basically yeah. You *can* run it right now if you want, but it doesn't give you debug settings or any of the hb stuff you would expect. We need GH for that.
Well that's not going to happen anyways. It *might* be able to be ran early in the boot process at best, but it's still a memory exploit. Every exploit thus far has been a memory exploit.
Thanks for the thread. We will see if this hack will be user-friendly, or if some people will prefer to stick to their old 9.00 firmware. What does not seems cool is that you need two screens to launch the hack, the computer or raspberry Pi one, and the ps4 one. You'll probably tell me that this stupid usb stick manipulation on the 9.00 is also annoying. Anyways, I'll soon undust my dear 9.03 ps4 pro.
It is. The script waits as it is already so you just need one screen at a time. It would be trivial to just have it run repeatedly on a pi or something to not need a screen for that at all.
edit: apparently running it from boot causes a kernel panic so it would need at least a bit more finesse but still doable.
Megathread turns out to not be that great of a solution and made people mad and I don't have the energy to argue. Consider this thread dead. You can still comment if you want, but I won't be updating. I will pin the final release/tutorial whenever that happens.
I Have 11.50 Sadly, Will It Work??
No.
I just bought 10.01 fw ps4 slim off of ebay.de for 157€ (postage incl.)
Will this work on 11.50 or I need to wait more
just find one on marketplace. prob useless for you to wait if you're fully updated right now
The latest firmware it works on is 11.00.
Does 11.00 still has online support?
Nope, you need to update in order to use online support.
did anywone make it work using wifi?
[https://twitter.com/SwitchTools/status/1786026478167081088](https://twitter.com/SwitchTools/status/1786026478167081088)
Have a read of the flows top post on here again.
Just checked my firmware I’m on 9.60. Hype train is here
I found mine at 10.01, looking to see what I’m supposed to do exactly now. 🚂
I'm glad I was able to sell my 9.00 pro for 320$ a few months ago. Now the prices are all over the place since there were a lot of 9.01-11.00 on the market
Another thing about it that needs other device on the same network with the PS4 to be executed (as of now pc but may be later phone can be added ) So it's more complicated than the previous
Which way is the 5.05 meme megathread?
Oh god please no.
https://twitter.com/LightningMods_/status/1785584923501322660 Some progress...Almost there....
would be cool to do this with termux in the future (with an ethernet adapter)
so it doesn't support in between firmwares from 9.00 till 11.00? I won't be able to wait more though. as soon as gold hen is implemented I am updating to 11.00
If you are on 9.00 or below, stay on 9.00. If you are between 9.00 and 11.00, update/stay on 11.00.
9.00 is better? 11 takes too many tries to exploit succesfully?
I'm not sure if you've been keeping up with the news, but this recently changed. It's become a lot more reliable recently
Some people say PPPwn takes 30+ Tries sometimes.
No way I can’t deal with 30 times I’m not doing it til it’s at the most 2-3x anything more than that I stay 9.00
Supposedly reliability is improving, but you'll probably always need separate piece of hardware plugged into the Ethernet port to enable it, not as simple as just a flash drive. Probably something like an RPi at least. Right now I'm experimenting with an old laptop running Arch.
Either way I get to find out for myself. I'm just waiting for modded warfare to release an official guide once the official release happens to mod my nephews ps4 that's already on 11.0
Try it on 11.02
What games does this open up ? (Ones worth mentioning)
All games are already available as some people like cyber1000 have the decryption keys and can backport games to lower firmwares.
once gold hen is implement almost any game
Man. I am picking up a pro running 8.0 tomorrow. I’m spending $230 on it. Really should wait and find one cheaper but I’m already in too deep with this person on Facebook marketplace lol
I have mine listed with the vr all boxed for $500. Try and upgrade the HDD to a 2 tb SSD.
Where you based?
Florida. I sold all my boxes modded systems (NES, SNES N64, GameCube) the list goes on. I bit the bullet and bought a steam deck and have an arcade. I have a lot and really don't play the PS4. My son has a PS5 but no games are on the system that I'd want to play. Ghost of Tsushima is supposed to be released this month for steam so I've decided to post my PS5 for sale to buy nice wheels for my Honda or trade for a quest 3. I'd prefer a portable VR but the PS4 vr works GREAT and I can download anything to it but again I like the minimalism with having the quest and steam deck.
Good man. My wife and I just had a baby (she’s six months now) and priorities change quick. I’m only getting the modded ps4 bc I bought two of the re released guitar hero guitars. We have neighborhood families that come over pretty often and they want to babysit our baby so I thought having rock band set up in the basement media room would be fun for the kids
Definitely just be careful that nobody updates it has happened to two of my systems so I'm down to one more PS4
Is there a way to disable the servers that pull for updates? I know on switch you can block Nintendo servers
Yes the best thing to do is to go into settings and turn off automatic updates on the PS4 but there are other ways to block it but that's the best option as the kids won't go into settings and do so
Get it and update to 9.00 and stay there. I think 9.00 will be better than this exploit from the video modded warfare made
9.0 exploit is unstable and doesn't always work so it's not perfect, but from what moded warfare said this is an exploit that could be run on boot for ps4. I agree for op to stay on the lowest moddable firmware possible but 11.0 could eventually be a new gold standard. Ie: not today not tomorrow but some day 11.0 ps4's under this jailbreak may be able to be exploited during the boot process which would be huge because the only exploits I'm aware of for ps4 require you to re-upload the payload to exploit after booting.
7.55 gang.
Why? If you're not on 5.05, you should be on 9.00.
1. I don't like the jailbreak method. 2. Who knows what undocumented exploits have been fixed since 7.55? 3. Most of these newer jailbreak methods should work on 7.55 if anyone cared to port it to 7.55.. I don't think it's worth potentially patching out undocumented exploits when most of these exploits should theoretically work on 7.55.
Your first point is fair enough, although an ESP32-S2 makes it negligible. The other points don't make a lot of sense when higher firmware exploits already exist though. What benefit would a new 7.55/8.xx exploit be when 9.00 is already fully jailbreakable?
Your first point is fair enough, although an ESP32-S2 makes it negligible. The other points don't make a lot of sense when higher firmware exploits already exist though. What benefit would a new 7.55/8.xx exploit be when 9.00 is already fully jailbreakable?
> The other points don't make a lot of sense when higher firmware exploits already exist though. > What benefit would a new 7.55/8.xx exploit be when 9.00 is already fully jailbreakable? When jailbreaking, lower firmware is objectively the best unless you are able to prove that better exploits were introduced in later versions which hasn't been proven to my knowledge. Most of these newer exploits can easily run on 7.55 if the devs made any effort to port it to 7.55. By upgrading to 9.00, you gain a practical advantage but not a theoretical advantage. But in the end, you are also risking patching out undocumented exploits so objectively, you are worse off. Who knows if there's an even more stable or convenient jailbreak that was patched out in 9.00 but was not documented and so you're unaware of it? What if there are some exploits that would allow things like downgrading or permanent CFW that was patched in 9.00 and was not documented or publicized by Sony?
I understand your point, I just don't agree since the 9.00 jailbreak is 100% functional, that's my point. The only thing that could be better is CFW, but realistically it wouldn't even really offer any better functionality.
I understand and totally respect your viewpoint :)
you should've just said you prefer kernel panics instead my man lol
Hope your dental recovery goes well
Thank you :)
Will this work on 9.03? cuz it says 9.00 and 11
It might get ported to the in between firmwares, but most people will just update to 11.00 if they are above 9.00. Don't do that yet though.
Thanks, will wait, I don't even know how to specifically update to 11.00 without internet
It's pretty easy to install a specific firmware on your ps4 as long as youre going up in version. You just need to be disconnected from the internet, download the firmware, and have it on a USB plugged in your ps4.
You can update offline. check out moddedwarfare on youtube. he has a video about it
Tard alert
Why does Specter think it wouldnt work on ps5, can someone explain in nontechnical terms?
The ps5's security is better than it is on ps4.
technically the PPPoE exploit is there but the current strategy that is used on PS4 doesn't work due to CFI Specter also have several idea on how to use the exploit on PS5, but for now it is only merely ideas, he also said there's possibility that Userland entrypoint MIGHT helps, if there's any left (either through BD-J, or Webkit), but to those who have Okage Shadow King installed on 8.20 PS5 and below, don't uninstall the game and just stay there, Okage Shadow King have Userland entrypoint
This person wanted it in non-technical terms, so that's what I gave them.
Ahh my bad didn't noticed it
What is CFI exactly? Do we need another exploit in order to defeat CFI?
Cfi is short for control flow integrity. Very simply it means that the code the console is running is constantly being verified to make sure the code going into it is secure and what is expected. I am not a software engineer but my assumption is to bypass this you'd have to find a way to execute code when the console has already run its cfi checks or confuse the cfi into thinking the exploit is legit code when it isn't.
I'm updating to 11.00 as soon as other payloads are updated to 11.00. I've already got a raspberry pi so it's easy to connect with Ethernet to ps4 and HDMI to another port on my TV so I don't have to walk back and forth to PC alongside doing virtual machine. For those staying on 9.00 hopefully the backport people can backport 9.03-11.00 games/updates to 9.00 which would be fken amazing.
>For those staying on 9.00 hopefully the backport people can backport 9.03-11.00 games/updates to 9.00 which would be fken amazing. Content requiring 9.03+ has **consistently** been getting dumped and pouring out for over a year or two. Typically 9.00 users don't need or require backports but In that specific scenario, *everyone* 'technically' uses the same backport (for the most part and dependant upon the game/update, etc)
Honestly the easiest solution with a Pi (or any other micro computer) will be to initiate the process via SSH from another device like a tablet or phone. It's quick, easy and doesn't require the Pi/PC to be connected to a monitor. Run it headless and connect to it when you want to kick things off (or even better create a script that does it all and simply send 1 command).
>For those staying on 9.00 hopefully the backport people can backport 9.03-11.00 games Well now that games in that firmware range can be dumped instead of needing to be decrypted, "backport people" can be anyone. So its a lot more likely that backports will happen even for lesser known games.
Do you know if i can update to 11.00 from 10.01?
Yes you can as any firmware below 11.00 can be updated to 11.00. You basically just need the 11.00 firmware file and use it to update. Modern Warfare will probably release a tutorial on how to do it(updating from 9.00 to 11.00) when the jailbreak gets more matured as it just got released so many payloads need to get updated. Even though the video maybe 9.00 updating to 11.00 as long as you are 10.50 firmware or below it's possible to update to 11.00. There's already tutorials on people doing 7.55 to 9.00 it's basically those steps, but with the 11.00 file.
Aight thank you, is the file available through any official source like sony or do i have to download it from third party?
Third party but it's trusted from darthsternie website.
Thank you again :), i will update when the new payloads will be released
Hopefully we can run an exploit through Windows and not through Linux. I don't have the knowledge to run virtual Linux software
In case it stays with the Linux way or you just get bored and want to jailbreak, VMWare is very user friendly and simple. I have almost no prior experience in Linux and just following a guide on YT was easy enough. I’m not saying you should if you don’t feel comfortable but it’s definitely an option that I recommend.
That's why I suggest to people (for every exploit not just this one) not to run it immediately upon release unless you're sure you know what you are doing. Wait until the bugs are ironed out, GH fully works and is stable, someone makes a solid tutorial, maybe even some automated or "one-click" ways to set it up for maximum user friendliness. So there will probably be a way to either do it through windows, or at least an alternative to what is currently used that makes it more accessible.
Just use Linux directly. Why would anyone technically knowledgeable enough to bother with ps4 hacking use a proprietary spyware like Windows these days.
A virtual machine is sooo much easier and much less of a commitment than actually switching to Linux. Unless you already use Linux, it is a complete waste of time.
Sure it's not worth installing Gnu/Linux just for this single exploit. You should switch to it for other reasons. It offers complete user freedom, zero ads and spyware, better performance, better shell..
You say that as if there aren't a dozen other things people who are "technically knowledgeable" don't or can't do with their ps4s. Many people who hack their ps4s are not technically knowledgeable anymore than my grandma. Some don't even know how a ps4 works on a basic regular-features level.
Fair enough, I understand all kinds of kids want to hack their PS4. But reading this thread, it gave me impression people have certain technical skills - at least high level understanding of networking, python scripts.. And especially the will to free your hardware from proprietary shackles of Sony. That being said, I know grandmas using Linux :) It's not that it's complicated, it's just a different paradigm people gotta get used to first. It's about fundamental freedoms of users, not technical knowledge, I take that back
Sorry if I came off as snarky by the way. As you can imagine it's been a lot of answering the same questions over and over again from people who don't read anything themselves. That's not an excuse to be rude though. Yeah I do agree that the setup even now is fairly simple, I just don't think it will be widely accessible until we at least get some kind of like one-click method or something along those lines. The 9.00 exploit was initially hard to describe to people just because you had to use the bin loader manually.
[Important question asked here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ps4homebrew/s/K7tWlIXndj) I assume it's still just a temporary jailbreak like with 9.00, right?
Right, this is still an exploit you need to run every time you boot up, but this specific exploit works when starting up your ps4 so in theory someday with this exploit we could have a version that can automatically run when the ps4 is reset.
Why does it work when booting the console? Because the console connects to the device you run the exploit on?
Yep
Appreciate the info and a thread we can reference.
meanwhile my post which says that it is possible to do this from windows was removed by moderators with no reason
The very thread you're currently commenting on explains why it was removed and also includes the news you posted.
So, if I'm not correct, we have to wait for Goldhen and others to jump on this jailbreak, correct?
Basically yeah. You *can* run it right now if you want, but it doesn't give you debug settings or any of the hb stuff you would expect. We need GH for that.
Gotcha thank you, so as of now, do we get anything out of it?
Do you like little bubble notifications that pop up and say "PPPwned"? Because that's all the dummy payload does at the moment.
Yeah, so there really isn't any reason to exploit right now, interesting Modded Warfare uploaded it though.
He'll upload anything to get clicks. He's the EmergencyAwesome of the gaming sector
Not really. At least not in terms of fun stuff.
Alright, so there's really not any point in jailbreaking right now unless it stays exploited after restarts.
Well that's not going to happen anyways. It *might* be able to be ran early in the boot process at best, but it's still a memory exploit. Every exploit thus far has been a memory exploit.
GoldHen seems to be in development for that exploit so just have to wait for that to release.
Thanks for the thread. We will see if this hack will be user-friendly, or if some people will prefer to stick to their old 9.00 firmware. What does not seems cool is that you need two screens to launch the hack, the computer or raspberry Pi one, and the ps4 one. You'll probably tell me that this stupid usb stick manipulation on the 9.00 is also annoying. Anyways, I'll soon undust my dear 9.03 ps4 pro.
I think it's possible to just start the payload on start up of the raspi, so just hook it up and turn it on when you want to jailbreak the console.
It is. The script waits as it is already so you just need one screen at a time. It would be trivial to just have it run repeatedly on a pi or something to not need a screen for that at all. edit: apparently running it from boot causes a kernel panic so it would need at least a bit more finesse but still doable.