How to redownload P.T. Silent Hills
Note from Wololo: This tutorial on How to Redownload P.T. Silent Hills was initially published by /Talk member Orangpelupa, as part of our monthly tutorial contest. OrangPelupa won the February/March mods award (a $10 PSN code) with this entry. You can find the original post here.
Note: The tutorial was initially published on our /talk forums in December 2015. The technique below has been confirmed to work at the time of re-publishing this in April 2016, and users have confirmed this still works, one year later, as of April 2017. It might stop working at some point. It also assumes you have access to a PSN account that had P.T. Silent Hills in your library at some point in the past, as you need your account to have a license for the game.
P.T. is a historical masterpiece from the minds of Hideo Kojima, Guillermo Del Toro, and Norman Reedus. It was swept away from PSN and no longer available for re-downloaded.
But you can re-download P.T. (Silent Hills) without hassle:
Quick guide
(recommended for those that know their ways with PC)
1. Download and install SUWI (check all options).
2. Set your PS4 to use your PC as proxy.
3. Download P.T. from Library 🙂
Video proof and guide
Super Detailed guide
(recommended for those that want to make sure they did not missed any steps)
On Windows PC:
1. Download SUWI
2. Run Suwi R20110308.exe and check all options.
3. Download CheckIP
4. Open the zip file and run “Check IP.bat” to see your proxy IP address.
On PS4:
1. Go to NETWORK settings > Set up Internet Connection -> use LAN/WiFi > Custom > Automatic > Do not specify > Automatic > Automatic.
2. Now you are on PROXY screen, choose USE and type your proxy IP address with PORT 808.
3. Complete the network setting.
Download P.T. (Silent Hills) on PS4:
1. Go to DOWNLOAD notification.
2. If P.T. download error was there, press OPTIONS then DELETE (if its not there, you are OK).
3. Go to LIBRARY.
4. Choose P.T.
5. DOWNLOAD P.T.
The technical stuff
PlayStation 4 finds out where to download games by reading specific .JSON file. But because P.T. was wiped off PSN, PS4 don’t know where to download.
Googling around, turns out there’s a bunch of Redditors that has uploaded P.T. US version PKG but its missing the necessary .JSON file. Luckily there’s EU JSON file floating around and i modify it to work with P.T. US version.
My face made a big smile when I saw P.T. download progress bar slowly fills. But my smile quickly turned upside-down when the download stopped at 9MB. Thus i gave deeper look at the EU JSON and identified the following stuff:
Long story short, i modified the EU JSON with
- US PKG URL,
- US PKG SHA-1 hash,
- and blanking the identifier (just put “”).
Voila, it works. P.T. able to reach 100% download and it is playable. Turns out, PS4 only care with the PKG URL, file-size, and SHA-1 hash. PS4 does not care with the identifier value, thus you can simply blank it 😀
Full-disclosure:
- The proxy app was “Squid Proxy”. I made an installer and some necessary configs.
- This tutorial is my original work and i will post it on other places to spread the word, but the most comprehensive and detailed guide only available for Wololo community. Because i think you guys/girls will like the nitty gritty 😀
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Still works.
Still works, my disk drive died on my PS4 days ago and I lost all my downloads including PT. Thanks guys. BTW, SEAGATE drives keep dying on me, I put a 4tb on the PS4 and lasted like 4 months.
Still working in May 2017.
Did exactly what the guide says and it comes back as failed on Internet connection test and then Cannot Download P.T any advice?
Happened to me when trying to redownload with a Mac and virtual machine. Make sure you put in the correct “IP4” address on the PS4 and not “IP” address. Use ipconfig and get the IP4, and make sure no firewalls are blocking your connection. Also try deleting squid then reinstalling. Hope you get it figured out.
Im having trouble. Could you help me? I turn off the window firewall
Still works for me too May 14 2017.
I followed all the steps properly, and I have P.T in my library, but when I start downloading it it says preparing and gets to 1% but gets cancelled afterwards… Not sure what the problem is *sigh*.
Same issue, it didn’t work on my ps4 pro….
Did you make sure that no firewalls are blocking the connection? Worked for me on PS4 pro using a Mac and virtual machine which is even a bit more complicated. Try deleting squid and reinstalling.
Hey guys, it worked!
It turns out that the issue was that my PS4 was using a WiFi connection while my desktop was using LAN. I figured I should try using my laptop instead, in order to get both devices on WiFi.
So I removed Suwi from my desktop and followed all the steps again on my laptop, and it actually worked, P.T is running fine now! Thanks for the comment Drew.
Thanks Jill!! It worked now!
For some reason, this proxy only works LAN to LAN.
I was using vmware + win7 on macbook. USB ethernet + bridge worked.
Glad you both figured it out!
If you have a Mac you can combine this guide with the one I made for Mac. https://www.reddit.com/r/silenthill/comments/5ynt8v/redownloading_pt_with_suwi_and_a_mac_computer/?st=J3798TZJ&sh=2824e372
Still works – thank you so so much, you absolute legend!
Still working as of June 13
Still works.
Wow, thank you so much, it worked!
and #FucKonami
Still working as of 29/06/2017.
Took a bit of work to get running because squid was crashing after the installation – but after manually running some of the commands in c:\squid\sbin I managed to get it running.
Thanks to everyone involved in this method – it’s great to have access to P.T. once again!
It still works to this day, but I had a problem installing the software on pc. I just needed to uninstall, turn firewall off, install again and turn firewall on.
Sorry This No Longer Works. When Testing Connection It Fails at “Internet Connection”
It does still work, and mine did the same thing originally. Make sure both the PS4 and computer are BOTH connected with Wifi or Ethernet, can’t be one with each different type of connection. Then try removing and reinstalling squid. Others have had your same issue and figured it out.
I tried to reinstall P.T recently using the described method and like you Tyler, it would obtain my IP address and fail at the Internet Connection part. For about 10 minutes I was confused and frustrated as to why. At first I thought it was due to there being different device network connections (My PC was using Wi-Fi, PS4 was using LAN) so I set my PlayStation up to also use Wi-Fi. Then when I went to my PC I found the solution straight away. I clicked my network icon on the Taskbar and selected Properties on my PC ‘s Wi-Fi connection. Under Network Profile settings it was set to public (PC was not discoverable by other devices and no file or printer sharing.) I changed this to Private and straight away it worked like a charm. Sorry about this reply being more of an essay than a quick-reply and hope this helps you and other people to overcome any difficulties with regards to installing P.T.
Thank you! Had the same issue until I read your post – mine was also set to “public”, switched to “Private” and after that I could download P.T. 🙂
For those of you whom are like me and simply downloaded this aforementioned and cannot connect to the internet, please download the Squid Proxy Cache from its official website then run the exe you got from this post; this is how I got it to work.
tl;dr download official Squid then run the exe you got from here to install over top of original Squid. Works like a charm!
Still doesn’t work for me. I’ve uninstalled/reinstalled Squid several times, disabled my computer’s firewall, disabled my router’s firewall, restarted my PC, restarted my PS4, downloaded Squid from the official site and overwritten it with the exe from this post… NOTHING works. Fails at “Internet Connection” every single time. Windows 10.
Are BOTH the pc and PS4 connected with WiFi, or BOTH hardwired to the router? It will fail if one device is on WiFi and the other is hardwired.
Works as of today
I sold my PS4 over a year ago. During that time, I managed to lose my HDD backup. I bought a PS4 Pro yesterday, and this is still working! Thanks to everyone involved in making this possible
I don’t have a LAN/WiFi option just one or the other.
Advice?
Still works as of today.
STILL WORKS
Yup works like a charm still, wired PS4 and PC
how to uninstall the Suwi programs?
Still Works.
Apparently after I did try the stuff above, my PS4 stopped connecting to my wi-fi network. I should’ve noted on a piece of paper the PORT number that was before I changed it to 808, but I didn’t. That was really stupid, I know, but please, can someone help out with this? That would be great, guys. Thanks in advance.
The default port is 8080.
It still works
can you provide link to suwi? mine doesnt work and pc refuses to let suwi run for some reason.
I get an error on my pc that says “Compressed Zipped Folders Error”. what am I doing wrong?
sorry ..it doesn’t work
P.T EUR??
Still working great as of 26th of December 2017. Thanks!
I Run Suwi in the laptop . I see the the Check IP and i see the IP adress of laptop then i go to PS4 and put the laptop IP kai the gate 808 but those two do not connect. what am i doing wrong ?
thanks
Make sure you use the ipv4 address not the standard ip address. I had the same problem as most here until I found out I was putting in my wrong ip address
I put in the IPv4 address and it won’t connect what am I doing wrong
No(
he eventually had a problem pc.
all together P.T)
can I use it for Japanese PSN account?
IT’S ALIVE!!!!!! The download meter, ITS ALIVE! At first it didn’t work and thought it had something to do with my PS4 Pro being on LAN and using a laptop on the WiFi as the proxy. I guess I was right, switched the connection on the PS4 Pro to WiFi and now it’s downloading! Slowly but it’s working! MARCH 2018!
How did you connect to port 808 when I try it I get no Internet connection
Only a few days later, but yes it still works
Still works in April 2018 🙂
how did you get it to work?
keep following the steps and nothing.
How did you connect to port 808 when I try it I get no Internet connection
Still works, June 12 2018
trying it now but it wont connect to the internet… What did you do?
The link is dead. Just google it & use a different site
I think
http://wololo.net/downloads/index.php/download/8395
Bitdefender & some antiviral software screws up the software download. I had to disable bitdefender then reinstalled
Hi, can this work if I download the .exe file and run it from a Windows OS on a MacBook Pro using dualboot? Or do I need to use a “regular” computer set to Windows by default?
Thanks in advance!
still works
Doesn’t work for me from EU