PS4 hack: extended storage (USB HDD) support for fpkg (Homebrews and backups) on 5.05
One of the important features of the PS4 on recent firmwares is the possibility to install games on an external USB disk, which can be useful if your internal drive is lacking space. Unfortunately, for user-created packages on hacked consoles, this feature didn’t work (throwing error CE-41798-9). Tools such as app2usb exist as workarounds to this limitation, but might be considered a bit hard to use for some users (more on this below).
Flatz has provided patches to fix the error, and allow fpkg files to be installed on the PS4’s extended hard drive. The developers of some of the payloads for the 5.05 exploits have already updated their payloads such as XVortex.
How to use the support of PS4’s extended storage for fpkg
The PS4 lets you officially extend your hard drive capacity by plugging an external USB hard drive. In order for that drive to be used as the drive where games get installed, a specific procedure needs to be followed, as described on Sony’s site. Specifically:
How to format the HDD as extended storage
- Go to [Settings] > [Devices] > [USB Storage Devices].
- Select the USB storage device to format and choose [Format as Extended Storage].
How to change the Application Install Location
To change the install location of your applications, you need to choose where you would like to save them. You cannot change the application install location during a download.
- Select [Settings] > [Storage], and then press the OPTIONS button.
- Select [Application Install Location] > [Extended Storage].
Once you have this kind of setup in place, assuming you use the updated payloads, you should be able to install your fpkg files on the external drive by installing your fpkg files as usual (through the package installer in debug settings)
How this compares to app2usb
app2usb is another way to install games on an external hard drive, which has been around for quite some time. One of the .benefits of app2usb is that it does not require you to format the drive in a PS4 specific way, so the drive can still be accessed on your PC for further manipulation, for example. On the other hand, app2usb can be considered as a bit hard to work with (there’s some config file editing involved), while the extended storage support integrates seamlessly with how the PS4 operates.
As far as I can tell, app2usb and the extended storage support are not incompatible with each other: you can probably have two external hard drives if you want to, one for app2usb, and one for the official external storage support.
Download updated HEN from XVortex, with support for PS4 extended storage
Note for those of you interested in getting an external hard drive: Amazon have a deal on Seagate 4TB drives for Prime day.
You can download the payload from XVortex’s github here. You can send the payload to your 5.05 PS4 with user friendly tools such as Al-Azif’s PS4 Exploit tool, or on an esp8266.
Neat
mayb if FTP will work – for now u still must install from USB so swappin to 2+TB is a way to go…
Didnt know that seagate was still selling 4GB Hard Disks…
4TB
4TB?
Of course they are 4gb is insane amount of memory just think of how many AAA PS4 games you can fit on 4gb….exciting times!!
You won’t get any game to fit on 4GB … HAHA
Hopefully this feature gets added to Mira+hen soon :/
App2usb and ps4 external format hdd are working fine together, I just installed a few games both and connected both so far they are working without any problem, probably app2usb needs to take off other hdd when moving games, and if you don’t connect app2usb hdd, you can’t move a game from internal hdd to ps4 format external hdd
Wish we could play games past 5.05 like 5.50 required Detroit become human *tear*
is there comming a mira cfw option to communicate a hacked ps4 with a hacked psvita ?
For what exactly? If you need the remote play it works fine with ReLink
app2usb its not that hard and very simple to use
installed your game as usual then run app2usb payload, it will do everything for you and do not delete the fpkg file that you put on the root of usb stick in order to save time..
How about stability? Is Hen 1.7 more stable then 1.6? On 1.6 I have some resets :/
On alazif twitter is screen with autoload. How it works? It will load payload after boot of cobsole or what?
I have installed the games the lady 4 weeks on my extended western digital 4TB.
And also played from extended HD….
Since Friday last week I became also the error
Ce-41798-9
Don’t can play and install on extended….
Have reset the ps4 complete….
DNS from al-azif……
Now I installed game on extended WD 4TB
And play at the moment from extended HD…
Don’t understand why is going?
Don’t understand why comes the error code the last 5 days
Ps4pro 1Tb. Orig FW 4.73 updated on 5.05
Sorry origin FW was 4.82.
Now.. I have directly install a lot of Games on extended HD (not App2UsB…. Normal package install)… All games can play from extended.
Also I have change Games from internal HD to extended…. Also can play from extender Disc….
Yesterday nothing work……
Don’t can engrish understand your
if i use the extended storage can i also move the game to another hack ps4 5.05 and play the game as well?
i have two ps4 i want to know if when i move my games to extended storage can i still plug and play the extended storage to my other hack ps4 5.05 and play the game?