​ PS Play is a free, native app for jailbroken PS5 consoles: one app, one design and one controller layout for media, cloud gaming, downloads, games and homebrew tools, with its own social network. This is the **first public beta**: most of it works well, some parts are *beta* or *work in progress*, and this post says exactly which. - **GitHub** (README and credits): https://github.com/MounirHero/PS-PLAY-3.0 - **Download**: https://github.com/MounirHero/PS-PLAY-3.0/releases - **Discord** (help, bug reports, the fastest way to reach me): https://discord.gg/3Ce2jft2H - **Support the project**: https://ko-fi.com/insidematrixdev --- ## Download and install Two formats of the same app (title ID **PSPL47000**). Install **one** of them, not both. | File | What it is | How to install | |---|---|---| | `PSPL47000.ffpkg` (229.8 MB) | UFS2 image for ShadowMountPlus | Copy it to `/data/homebrew/` | | `PSPL47000.zip` (117 MB) | The app folder | Extract it and copy the `PSPL47000` folder to `/data/homebrew/` | SHA-256: - ffpkg: `381d09b44d4789a881bdc4c6e594fa6730d7206d8bc58d6b0809aa3a425174bc` - zip: `8c53a2d9d341d88c815721c4290bc30f5835dbf3ff50ef6baa46947fe2f18e18` **Requirements**: a jailbroken PS5 with an **ELF loader on port 9021** (PS Play's helpers use it) and **ShadowMountPlus**. Tested on firmware 4.00 to 13.60. **First start**: PS Play shows its terms of use, the disclaimer on catalogues and content, and the PS Play Social rules. Read them to the end and accept them to continue. **Updates**: upload the new image from the web panel (Update), then exit PS Play from its Home (Circle, Exit) and open it again, so the new image is mounted. --- ## Status at a glance | Status | Features | |---|---| | ✅ Working | Media and streaming, background download manager and torrents, Shop, game library, cheat engine, save manager, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Moonlight, VNC, PS Play Social, web panel, themes, voice commands | | 🧪 Beta | PKG Matrix, receivers (DLNA, AirPlay, Miracast, YouTube Cast, FCast), Android Link, Spotify Connect, GeForce NOW, hardware video decoding (off by default) | | 🚧 Work in progress | Background music helper (the music keeps going after PS Play closes, but no sound comes out of the console yet), web browser (being rebuilt from scratch) | | 🔜 Coming soon | Chromecast receiver, PSVR2 | *Beta* means it works, but it may not work yet on every console, network or setup. --- ## What's inside ### Downloads and Shop - **Background download manager**: downloads and torrents keep going even when PS Play is closed. Schedule, speed limit, mirror of your choice, simultaneous downloads, rest mode when they finish. - Torrents built in, plus qBittorrent, Transmission, Prowlarr, Jackett, Sonarr and Radarr. - **File host downloads**: when a file host puts a browser check (Cloudflare) in front of a download, you pass it in the PS5 browser and a small scanner picks up the session, so the download continues in PS Play. - **Homebrew Shop**: homebrew apps and payloads from the homebrew catalogues, with install and updates. - **Your own catalogues**: PS Play reads the catalogue formats used by other PS5 download apps. Put the JSON files in `/data/ps_play/catalogs`, or upload them from your phone with the web panel. PS Play includes no catalogue and no content: you are responsible for what you load and download. ### Games - **Game library** with a page for every game: launch, cheats, saves, info. PS Play can come back by itself when the game closes. - **Cheat engine**: turn cheats on and off while the game runs; the original bytes come back when it stops. GoldHEN and etaHEN PS5 databases, updated every week, plus your own cheat files. - **Save manager**: background backups, export and import of decrypted saves, a hex editor, backups on USB. - **Emulators**: installers for RetroArch (Mihawk's build, 33+ cores), PS5SX2 (PlayStation 2) and PS5SX3 (PlayStation 3), plus the cores of other retro emulators and RetroAchievements. ### PKG Matrix (beta) - Finds every app folder, disc image and PKG file on every drive (internal and USB). - Builds **.ffpkg** images (UFS2) for ShadowMountPlus. - **Backports** an image to your console's firmware. - Builds a **PS4 game as a .pkg** (fake PKG). - **PS1 / PS2 Classics**: a guide and the tools to turn your PS1 and PS2 games into PS4 Classics packages. - Creates the tiles on the PS5 Home, inspects packages and checks their integrity, and fixes title IDs that ShadowMountPlus cannot launch. ### Media and streaming - **YouTube** (sign-in with a QR code) and **YouTube Music** (its own account); Twitch, Kick, Vimeo, Dailymotion and PeerTube links. - **Stremio and Nuvio add-ons** with Real-Debrid, AllDebrid, TorBox and Premiumize; Trakt, Simkl, AniList and MDBList. - **Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Kodi**; IPTV with Xtream Codes, Tvheadend and free TV channels. - Radio, podcasts, Navidrome / Subsonic, Audiobookshelf, Jamendo; Last.fm and ListenBrainz scrobbling. - **Spotify Connect** (beta, needs Spotify Premium): the PS5 shows up as "PS Play" in the Spotify app on your phone, with what is playing, play / pause / next, and your Home and Library on the TV. - Subtitles with automatic translation and subtitles from the audio, HDR tone mapping, upscaling, picture-in-picture, Recents. - Video plays through FFmpeg; hardware decoding of 8-bit H.264 / HEVC is beta and off by default. ### Cloud gaming and remote play - **Xbox Cloud Gaming**, **GeForce NOW** (beta), **Moonlight** for the games on your PC, **VNC** remote desktop. ### Receivers and DLNA (beta) - **DLNA renderer**: cast to the PS5 from Windows "Cast to device", BubbleUPnP, Web Video Caster and other DLNA apps. - **DLNA media servers**: browse and play the media servers on your network. - **AirPlay** screen mirroring from iPhone, iPad and Mac, paired with a PIN shown on the TV. - **Miracast** over your local network (no Wi-Fi Direct). Windows may not find it, because it also wants Wi-Fi Direct. - **YouTube Cast** from the YouTube app, and **FCast** from FCast senders. - Each receiver can be turned on or off, and the console uses its own name on your network. ### PS Play Social - Friends, private chats, groups and a global chat; reactions, replies, read receipts. - Share **saves, cheats, themes, settings and screenshots**: 4 MB per file, 10 shares and 20 MB a day per user, files kept 30 days. - "What I'm playing" for your friends (optional), notifications, moderation and community rules. Chat, groups and sharing are for users aged 16 or over. - Also on the web: social.insidematrixdev.com ### Phone and personalisation - **Web panel** on your network: games, media, files, downloads, catalogue upload, logs, the console's keyboard and pad, updates. - **Android Link** (beta): your Android phone and the console together; it may not work with every phone. - **Home themes**: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series, Nintendo Switch, Shelf and Inferno, with options for each theme, icon packs and live wallpapers. - Redesigned settings (nine sections with search), **voice commands** (hold L3: open any page or service; search YouTube, YouTube Music, Plex, radio, podcasts and manga), accessibility, parental controls. ### Helpers PS Play starts small helper programs through the ELF loader, only when a feature needs them: **ppdl** (background downloads), **bckscan** (file host scanner), **ppfs** (file service), **pprelaunch** (game watcher), **psplay-cheats** (cheat engine), **pp-savedata** (saves), **ppweb** (web panel keep-alive), **ppcast** (AirPlay and Miracast, beta), **ppadb** (Android Link, beta), **ppbt** (Bluetooth), **ppampr** (PKG Matrix), **ps5-backpork** (backport), **PSPlay-Helper** (privileges on consoles without etaHEN), **mdns-helper** (Spotify pairing) and **ppd** (background music, work in progress). --- ## Known limits - Background music after you leave PS Play: no sound yet (work in progress). - The web browser is being rebuilt from scratch (work in progress). - After an update, exit PS Play from its Home and open it again, or the old version stays mounted. - The web panel's update installs the .ffpkg: if you use the folder version, update by replacing the folder. - Miracast from Windows may not work, and the receivers may not work on every network. - Spotify Connect needs Spotify Premium; you search for music in the Spotify app on your phone. ## Help and bug reports The fastest way is the **Discord**: https://discord.gg/3Ce2jft2H - or open an issue on GitHub. PS Play can send its logs to your phone in one tap: please attach them. ## Support the project PS Play is free. If you like the work, consider supporting it: https://ko-fi.com/insidematrixdev ☕ --- ## Credits PS Play stands on the work of many people. Thank you to all of them. **People** - **InsideMatrixDev**: PS Play - design, development and integration of the whole app. - **KINGDKAK**: ProsperoPlayer, the media player PS Play was originally based on. - **Swordpdf**: PS5SX2 (PlayStation 2 on the PS5); suggested BlackBearReloaded's project as the base of PS Play Native GL. - **BlackBearReloaded**: ps5-homebrew-ui (the native UI base of PS Play), ps5-opengl, PS5 Native App Boilerplate, ps5-at9-converter. - **Stuey-81**: Nuvio Portable, from which PS Play's Stremio and Nuvio support were derived. - **nexgen999**: the Shop's homebrew catalogue (PS5-Repository-List) and payload catalogue (evoX-CoreOS). **Cloud gaming** - Xbox Cloud Gaming stream: PSBox Cloud Gaming (xbox-cloud-gaming-ps5) by RafaelNGP - GPL-3.0-or-later - GeForce NOW client: OpenNOW by OpenCloudGaming, OpenNOW-PS5 by Portablelle - GPL-3.0 - Moonlight client: the Moonlight game streaming protocol (Moonlight Game Streaming Project; works with LizardByte's Sunshine) **Media and music** - Spotify Connect: Spot5 by abhi245y, built on cspot (feelfreelinux and alufers; philippe44's fork) - GPL-3.0-or-later - Audio and video decoding: FFmpeg - GPL / LGPL - Hardware video decoding: ProsperoWeb's sceVideodec2 decoder (which credits VLC for PS5, the Stremio PS5 port and OpenNOW-PS5) - GPL-3.0 - Stremio add-on protocol: Stremio team; Nuvio: Nuvio Portable by Stuey-81 - Bluetooth: Ghost-tooth by StonedModder - GPL-3.0 **Receivers** - AirPlay: forked from MirrorPSX by seregonwar, built on UxPlay - GPL-3.0 - FCast: PS Play's own receiver of the FCast protocol by FUTO (MIT) - Miracast, YouTube Cast and the DLNA renderer: PS Play's own **Emulators** - NES: FCEUmm - GPL-2.0 - Game Boy / Color: Gambatte (sinamas and contributors) - GPL-2.0 - Master System, Mega Drive: Genesis Plus GX (Eke-Eke and contributors) - non-commercial licence - Atari 7800: ProSystem (Greg Stanton and contributors) - GPL-2.0 - PlayStation: PCSX ReARMed - GPL-2.0+ - PlayStation 2: PS5SX2 by Swordpdf, built on PCSX2 - GPL-3.0 - PlayStation 3: PS5SX3 by its developers - RetroArch: Mihawk's RetroArch for the PS5, built on RetroArch (libretro team) - GPL-3.0 **Platform and tools** - PS5 Payload SDK (John Törnblom and contributors) and PacBrew packages (ps5-payload-dev) - SharpProspero and UFS2Tool by SvenGDK; MkPFS by PSBrew - Voice commands: whisper.cpp (Georgi Gerganov and contributors; OpenAI's Whisper model) - Spotify discovery (mDNS): mdnsd by troglobit - QR codes: based on Project Nayuki's QR Code generator - MIT - stb by Sean Barrett - MIT / public domain; zlib - Fonts: Inter (Rasmus Andersson) and Montserrat (Julieta Ulanovsky) - SIL OFL 1.1 - Cheat databases: the GoldHEN and etaHEN cheat repositories - Needed on the console: ShadowMountPlus by drakmor and an ELF loader **Licences**: PS Play includes GPL-3.0 components (listed above). The full list of components and their licences is in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md on GitHub, and PS Play's source code will be published in the same repository. All trademarks and service names belong to their owners. PS Play is not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by Sony Interactive Entertainment or any of the services it works with. Thanks for testing, and see you on Discord! 💯   submitted by   /u/SosiasBlack [link]   [comments]