PS4: Piracy is now a thing on firmware 4.05
Uncharted 4, one of the many games that is now available for pirates on 4.05
After Flatz revealed a lot of details on how to create our own package files (arguably, for the sake of streamlining future homebrew support), it was only a matter of time: piracy is now a thing on PS4 4.05. And it appears to be much more easier than it used to on firmware 1.76.
There’s already been multiple “dumps” of 4.05 compatible games circulating on the intertubes, and several scene members have confirmed these packages do work. People who worry about piracy for the sake of game preservation have warned that the current dumps being circulated will lead to compatibility issues in the future. But people willing to play AAA titles for free on their 4.05 will most likely not care about those details.
Without going into details, the same technique to install and run homebrews on 4.05 is basically used to run these decrypted game packages, using the recently released PS4Hen. As for creating them, most people so far use a series of tools named PKG Kitchen, an all in one system to rip games into a pkg file.
It isn’t surprising, given the opportunity, that we are seeing a huge flow of pirated retail games within days of the tools being made available for all to use. What we should hope for, however, is that the scene will not stop at piracy, and will also focus some of its efforts on Homebrew.
As of now, only games that require firmware 4.05 or less are impacted by this flood of piracy. This means games from 2017, and upcoming PS4 games are not impacted by this.
For me personally I’m not that desperate to play every 4.95 game or less, the handful of games i do want to play I will buy. I do have a 3.5 ps4 packed away tho just in case I need one.
I want kill my self . I am on 4.07
Down grade needed
same here – i nearly bought PS4 bundle under 4.05 but this PKG method is total mess comparing to PS3 so i wait for backup manager:)
You mean 4.05. 🙂
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4.05 of course us what I meant.
I updated back when qwerty exploited 4.50 and was dumb enough to think it was being released. My own fault i should have waited now i cry.
No i actually dont give a s*** because i have 2 cfw ps3 now 😀 so the ps4 can wait.
Sorry bro 🙁 that guy is mostly a troll
I keep telling people that and they just shoot back with “welp he released stuff before” instead of actually looking at his track record of flaunting stuff to the public for the bragging rights only.
His attitude is essentially “If I can do it, F you, go do it yourself”. In fact, most of the scene has the same attitude, forgetting the headaches it took them to learn it in the first place.
If enough people get burned from his ***, they will eventually learn to ignore his attention whoring.
try begging moar harderrrr lol ..i think thats the key for that qwerty guy…he want you to begg
its similar to justin bieber ,its just in different platform that qwerty use tweeter
i think he have no friends in real life, thats why bieber and him need that attention from social media
Sorry, begging him does nothing more than make him smile and hit the block button (or simply just ignore).
The track record is there from iOS alone. He is simply wanting the attention and bragging rights. never really gave a *** about helping others.
Just because he has the right to not release it doesn’t give him the right to mislead others. the dude is a friggen troll. no questions asked.
He likes to be stroked harrrrrrrd
I HATE ALL OF YOU PEOPLE IN THIS CHAIN! If it weren’t him WE WOULD NOT HAVE A WORKING PS4 jailbreak. WHO DO YOU THINK WROTE THE WEBKIT!!! He is whole reason the attack works!!!
dude calm the f*** down. Just saying if he was not going to release then just kept to himself instead of bragging like a little child
that’s my point he has released you just assumed you were psychic and then blame him! Newsflash you can’t predict the future! Reason he no release is Sony has not patched. It’s pretty simple cat and mouse tactics if you ask me….
Great article, would love to see more write ups about this. Also, if anyone knows where these PS4 games have been circulating, put it here. I know about radikal-gamez but not much else.
psxhax dot com and lightningmods discord chat
We cant link to pirated games here. Wololo doesn’t ccondone piracy and anything linking to such content will be promptly removed. Don’t waste your time putting it here.
google.com
I’m a game developer and I hate when People publish( piracy) my games for free.
But there is a catch. If the game is not pirated for a few months then its not affecting my income that much. And after a year or so, its actually a good commercial 🙂
I guess Aaa titles are affected the most. Anyway piracy on ps4 in this form( older firmware) its maybe a good thing for Sony, developers and People that cant really afford larger library of games…
Just my thoughts
Another interesting fact is that flatz has published a method to run (arguably) every ps2 game on ps4
Who cares about that *** lol? I bought a ps4 to play ps2 games. If I wanna play ps2 games I break out my actual ps2 and play it on a pvm CRT monitor through component/rgb scart, it looks way better than it’ll ever look emulated on a ps3 or ps4
Can i run legit copys? like just put my old game in and run some kind of software?
Or do you have to get the “pirated” versions?
Where do you think the pirated games originate from? They come from legit sources and are converted to PKG files you can install. So why would you not be able to dump your own game and install it? Think a little bit.
I was thinking he meant would he be able to just insert a ps2 disc and it accept it and run without having to store it on the hard drive, although me personally, I think I would like it stored digitally either way regardless, as for whether or not the ps4 will accept and read ps2 games, I doubt it, I’d say its necessary to get it dumped
the Cobra PS3s Didnt accept PS2 Discs,only dumps. there is no reason to think that the ps4 will accept them either.
FFTW your off on what you said. I think it’s model specific I’ve personally jailbroke 10+ systems all BC’s mostly 60 gig’s and have 2 of them for myself and they all run off discs or eve backup copies and yes can be copied to the hdd of the ps3 also. had the cobra dongle since it came out and all my cfw’s have been cobra ones Habib and rebug all played using the disc
Then..We must have latest version 5.XX Jailbreak to play current AAA titles, as before 2017 there were not a much big titles to get hands on !! So as per my opinion piracy at this stage not good.
Then..We must have latest version 5.XX Jailbreak to play current AAA titles, as before 2017 there were not a much big titles to get hands on !! So as per my opinion piracy at this stage not good ..
Who cares about that *** lol? I bought a ps4 to play ps2 games. If I wanna play ps2 games I break out my actual ps2 and play it on a pvm CRT monitor through component/rgb scart, it looks way better than it’ll ever look emulated on a ps3 or ps4
is there a list of which PS4s ship with a fw 4.05 or under? is PS4Pro included? anything manufactured before 2017? just wondering as i am looking to buy a new PS4 with a fw 4.05 or under and would like a Pro if possible.
Gosh, good luck bro, I have spent days to find a new one (FAT) below 4.05
To get Slim and especially PRO is to find a needle in a heystack 🙂
Here in Argentina there is plenty of pspro. I got mine few days ago
reymon, I’m from Arg, could you give me where to get a new PS4 Pro <= 4.05?
Thanks!
wallmart
Leo la compré en una tienda en mi ciudad. En mar de ajó.
Anteayer. Y quedaban 2 pro y varios bundles infinite warfare q están en 3.51
Bought mine in Paraguay, from Brazil.
Theres lots of slim bundles under 4.05, the most common probably being the Uncharted 500gb bundle which is on amazon for about $279
i found one at the pawn shop within 5 minutes of looking through the shelves… they had one marked with a date of 1/17, had them turn it on for me and low and behold 3.55 firmware 🙂
I think there’s an article on wololo written right after the 4.05 announcement, just use the search function. Im not sure the initiall wave of pros might have shipped with 4.03 or a bit lower but nowadays I would not bet my luck on a pro out of the box (if that ever was a thing on the fist place). If you wanna be save stick to a slim
I bought 2 Pros on launch day and each had 3.70.
i bought mine feww days ago on a local store 3 blocks away from work. ther was still 2 more pro´s (launch day i guess whit 3.70fw) and there was even 2 o 3 more slim bundles on 3.51 (i know cause the boy at the store turned on the consoles for me)
on the “con” side here in arg is more expensive than other countrys
sorry bad english
good luck to all those looking for a hackable console
SO MANY GAMES TO PLAY AND DOWNLOAD! WOOOHOOO! SO GLAD I WAS PATIENT!
enjoy playing them offline, shut off from any online experience and updates. FUN.
If you dont pay ps plus you dont need to care about online. The only worry of pirates last gen were the ban waves. Now, anybody cares
I couldn’t care less about online, especially in Bloodborne and Watch_Dogs.
And I don’t play those *** PS4 peasant games that are Fifa and CoD, lol.
you will be able to get updates,either like you could with the PS3 or like you could with the 360. same with DLC.
the only real issue for now is that newer games arent supported.
I think someone here has their PS4 on latest firmware. Tut, Tut, tut
Sony has really crappy online services. If you want to play online you’re much better off with a PC or an XBOX.
I can understand that a lot of people aren’t too keen on the whole ‘piracy’ situation. But in my defense, I would say that it’s okay either way. Some people just want to save money on games or they can’t afford them but still want to play them. We can’t blame them! Especially when game companies are gradually increasing the prices of games as the years go by. I bet soon, games would be over $100 for just a standalone copy. And for what reason!? Better graphics?! Microtransactions?! Advertising?! Higher demand?! I could keep on about this. I’m personally a gamer at heart; but not a wealthy one. And that’s what makes me a pirate. Though, I’m not proud of that. But what can some of us do when we don’t have the same privileges as everyone else? You can hate us all you want, but where the video game industry is heading, is something I don’t want to be a part of. Especially when they try to squeeze as much money as they can out of our limited pockets.
i just don’t buy games on their first years anymore. wait a year later and when the “Complete” edition releases, i buy.
>We can’t blame them! Especially when game companies are gradually increasing the prices of games as the years go by.
Someone never heard of this non-video game industry exclusive thing called ‘inflation’
You do know the money spent on a $40 nes game bought in 1986 or a $50 snes game bought in 1991 is worth $90’ish in current modern day money right?
>But what can some of us do when we don’t have the same privileges as everyone else?
Work
games now a days are even more than that. with a season pass and everything is 90 to 100 bucks. Now in some countries video games are very expensive so I do understand a little but yeah like everything else. if you cant afford it, you work for it. And if the company is doing some shady business practices.you just do not buy an support. Me I like my homebrew and yeah I like downloading games simple as that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHSso2vufPM
The Sixty Dollar Myth (The Jimquisition)
Stupid and nonsense. Anyone that bothered to educate themselves would know that DLC and season passes skyrocketed after consumers changed their buying habits and wanted everything on “sale”. Games today may have DLC and Season Passes but they also go on steep discount, 30-50% within their first 6 months after launch.
That was unheard of for AAA games in the 20th century and if you look at the data, DLC and Season passes have more to do with rate of discounts than inflation.
That’s not to say DLC and Season Passes can’t lead to exploitation but that’s also a different argument.
Clicked through the video quickly and Jim seems to be saying a $60 base game nowadays is lacking in content and required extra content in the form of DLC, season passes etc. Usually adding up another $20-50
If anything Jim seems to be saying the same thing I did
>You do know the money spent on a $40 nes game bought in 1986 or a $50 snes game bought in 1991 is worth $90’ish in current modern day money right?
A NES or SNES game would be $90 when bought in current day money, around the same as a $60 base game and a $30 season pass.
The problem is nowadays people, like Deeno, don’t even want to spend money on games to begin with, having this feeling of entitlement that it’s fine to get goods or services without paying for them. Claiming “I don’t have money for games”. Sure EA or Blizzard won’t care about losing out on petty money, but do remember that there are people just like you and me who worked hard for games and also deserve to get paid. Upper management over at EA won’t be paying their deficits out of their own wallets, but instead they’ll restructure or fire workers instead.
I don’t mind if people pirate their games, it’s their own decision to do so but people shouldn’t be such self righteous jerks about it; They’re still using something people worked hard for, so they should at the very least appreciate the evil big corporates for bringing them the games, the people who worked on the games and people who buy the games.
“As of now, only games that require firmware 4.05 or less are impacted by this flood of piracy. This means games from 2017, and upcoming PS4 games are not impacted by this.”
So this means that piracy already ended for future titles? how many devs force buyers to upgrade firmware?
“People who worry about piracy for the sake of game preservation have warned that the current dumps being circulated will lead to compatibility issues in the future” – can somebody extrapolate on this?
Game preservists want clean dumps of stuff, or as clean as possible, for the sake of archiving data for the future.
At times, when software gets hacked with iffy, they might work just fine’ish on currently systems or have some tiny hiccups, but applied hacks might bring issues when people get a good understanding of the system architecture and perfect emulating the thing in 2030.
Imagine if in 2030 all hard and digital copies and roms of Super Mario Bros 1 disappeared save for a solebad dump where the game freezes on very specific conditions. People wouldn’t be happy.
sorry I’m not really technically informed about ps4 hacking/jailbreak, my question is, what exactly makes running games that were released after frameware 4.05 impossible? can’t they change the games code or crack the games or maybe use this exploit so that those games run on an older frameware?
Every firmware has a private key, that the game developers, using latest Sony SDK, sign their application with.
So a given firmware can run games that were signed with every firmware key released before.
A firmware developed in 2016, does not include keys used to sign games in 2018
Hope that makes it a bit easier to understand (above explanation is a bit summarized)
In China some guys are selling so-called “piracy-ready” PS4 before this. Someone once showed me that but both I and he have no idea how that works. Someone say that it is done by a special chip installed on the motherboard, like what you do to hack the Xbox 360 or Nintendo gamecube, but I am in doubt of this.
“What we should hope for, however, is that the scene will not stop at piracy, and will also focus some of its efforts on Homebrew.”
ROFL
My God, this is priceless! 😀 😀 😀 😀
I’m, deleting all my pirate PS4 games and am now writing ethical homebrew to help the homeless animals of Québec
I have a question: This can be used in a PS4 PRO?
If it is under 4.05,sure.
Okey, it has 3.70, I buyed it in a store that was going to close forever and I think that is the first ps4 pro because it was in the exhibitor
then you can mod it,yes.
Yeah, It worked 🙂
I have a question.
This can be used on PS4 PRO?
Yup
Yeah, it works, GOOD!
Is it possible to downgrade a ps4 firmware?
So far no.
can someone please explain: “People who worry about piracy for the sake of game preservation have warned that the current dumps being circulated will lead to compatibility issues in the future. ”
what does that mean?
Is there a guide on how to find/check a <= 4.05 PS4(new or used)?
How do i check the current version of the software on the console?