What you can do with a Jailbroken PS4 in 2022
A lot of folks have joined the happy world of PS4 hacking, thanks to the release of the PS4 9.00 Jailbreak a few weeks ago. But many of us are scratching their heads as to what they can actually do on their newly hacked PS4 in 2022, so here’s a non exhaustive list of what’s on tap.
0. Prerequisites
In order to run any of the tools below, you will need a Jailbroken PS4. At the time of this writing, all PS4s up to firmware 9.00 can be Jailbroken, and we describe the process here.
If you are on 9.03 or higher, as of January 2022 you’re out of luck, but stay patient and a Jailbreak might come to you sometime soon (at which point all of the utilities below will apply to you as well)
1. Custom Themes
One of the first things you’ll want to do with a hacked PS4 is to customize it to Oblivion. Custom themes are one of the favorite things people like to do on their hacked PS4. Sam Daniel has an awesome tutorial video here on how to install and enjoy custom themes:
2. Game Mods and patches, cheats
On a Jailbroken PS4 you can tweak your games to your heart’s content, and a lot of developers have been providing tools and patches to do so.
60 FPS Patches
Probably one of the most sought-after functionality are 60fps patches in games, with Lance McDonald’s 60fps patch for Bloodborne being one of the highlights (download link).
Developer Illusion has provided a huge list of such patches, as we’ve mentioned before here. More recently, the developer has released FPS patches for Gravity rush 2, Alien Isolation, MediEvil, Witcher 3, and more… (check his blog!)
Game Cheats, Trainers, and Debug Menus
Several developers are providing cheat codes for your favorite games. Multiple Trainers exist for the PS4, such as MultiTrainer or the web based PS4 Trainer. Multiple exploit hosts also have some trainer capability, and you can create your own cheats with a bit of practice.
Here again, Modded Warfare has a great tutorial on how to use Trainers on your hacked PS4:
Some teams provide full fledged cheating menus that are added to your game, such as Oysters for Read Dead Redemption 2.

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Save Shares
Getting a saved game from somebody else used to be a perfectly legit and acceptable way to make progress in a game in which you were blocked. That was until Sony and others decided that game saves would now be uniquely encrypted per console, preventing you from sharing saves with your friends. PS4-Save-Mounter now fixes this injustice, allowing you to share saves with Friends, or use Saved Games you’ve downloaded from the internet. Modded Warfare has a great tutorial here on how you can use this tool:
3. Emulation
PS1 and PS2 Games
You can run a huge selection of PS1 and PS2 Games on a hacked PS4. This is done by creating package files from the Roms/isos, and then installing them through your method of choice (typically, the package installer from GoldHEN). Please note that not all games are compatible.
Check the tutorial video below, by who else by Modded Warfare:
PS4 Retroarch & other emulators
The PS4 Homebrew Store has downloads for multiple emulators you can try, including in particular an unofficial port of Retroarch. “Unofficial” here is a bit unfair, the port is of high quality, but simply cannot be advertised publicly by the Retroarch team because it was built using some leaked Sony SDK instead of the open source SDK. Retroarch lets you emulate a wide selection of emulators and should probably be your first choice before you look into others. With that being said, other emulators might offer some functionality or performance that you cannot find in Retroarch’s cores.
For those interested in Saturn games, Developer Jabu has released Saturn-fpkg, a tool that lets you turn Saturn Roms into installable packages on Jailbroken PS4s. Release thread and download here.
4. Homebrew Games for PS4
Check out PS4 Homebrew Store for a selection of Homebrew Games to run on the PS4.
5. Running Linux on PS4
It’s possible to install and run Linux on your PS4. The console can run steam, and, to some extent, Steam games (although you’ll need some significant Linux experience to get semi-recent games to run at a decent speed).

Steam on PS4. Screenshot from @LavaVex
Michael Crump has a great tutorial on how to install Linux on PS4 here:
Currently installing steam games on my PS4 after 9.00 jailbreak! Time for some fun! Thanks @NazkyYT for the 9.00 Linux loader! pic.twitter.com/QeSpCGKxSt
— Arata Akatsuki (@LavaVex) December 21, 2021
Alternate tutorial video below from Echo Stretch, on how to install Manjaro Linux on PS4:
6. Other Tools and Utilities
There are a bunch of tools and utilities you can run on your PS4, allowing you to turn into into an FTP server or more
- The FTP payload is usually offered on most exploit hosts, and part of GoldHEN, so in general it should be pretty straightforward
- The Hamachi client lets you run a LAN over the internet, allowing you to play LAN games with friends over the internet. Check our article here.
- The Homebrew Store has a selection of utilities as well
7. PS4 Game “backups”
The elephant in the room. Making “backups” of your PS4 games and playing them DRM-free is very possible on a Jailbroken PS4. We won’t detail how this is done here, you can find this information everywhere else. While we don’t really advocate for pirating your PS4 games, we can’t deny that it’s one of the major use cases for a Jailbroken PS4 these days.
Are there any other cool things you’re doing on your Jailbroken PS4 that we’re missing here? Let us know in the comments!
To be fair, I wouldn’t have bought a PS4 (or PSP, or Vita) if I wasn’t able to get the games for free. I specifically purchased them for that use case. So technically, Sony made money off of piracy, at least when it comes to me.
Same goes for Nintendo with my 3DS and Switch. Same reason I don’t have any form of Xbox. I don’t see a device as worth it if I have to pay $60 for each game. Especially with how often I jump between games, and the lack of quality in the industry as of late. Many games are so bad now that they’re not even worth stealing… imagine telling that to younger me, who thought things would only improve.
But anyway, great write up. Themes and 60FPS patches seem cool, I’ll look into them. Have a great year!
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Console OEMs sell hardware at a loss and make the money back via software sales. So if you buy a console and only use it to pirate games they made a net loss on you.
Sony already said they don’t sell the PS4 at a loss, that was only true for the PS3.
This has never actually been true for Nintendo.
Oh no, the poor multi million dollar game console company is losing money on some idiot pirating their games, lmao *** off ***, not everyone is a privileged american that has 60 dollars to waste every single time a new game comes out.
I don’t get why you refuse to have “any form of Xbox” a jailbroken 360 would be a nice addition to your collection.
Xbox – Biggest appeal is emulation with CoinOPS, which my PC can do much better. Few exclusives that can’t be played by other means.
Xbox 360 – Can only be hacked with hardware, while I only go for software hacks. Most of the good exclusives are multiplayer-focused games (Halo, Gears, etc.) which would be useless offline.
Xbox One – Can’t be hacked, all games on PC.
Xbox Series – Can’t be hacked, all games on PC.
I’m not against Xbox in general, it just doesn’t fit my use case. If piracy wasn’t possible, I’d go for an Xbox due to Game Pass and (usually) having better sales than PlayStation.
the thing is piracy should sorta be the last thing you want from cfw… the way I look at cfw or hen is we get more support then sony will ever give, its more about the extended support the community give anything else isnt necessary
but microsoft doesnt need piracy to make their consoles interesting, because application and emulator support in more robust on the xbox then sony has ever done, sony and nintendo’s fear of piracy has let to them being pirated more then microsoft sadly
The value with xbox and game pass now a days preety much neglect the use of piracy for many. And with the easy of access to retroarch helps too. And it also helps being the best console platform to buy games on sale.
Im currently using many of my consoles for piracy, but i still buy games on sale.
For example, i really really realllllyy love Metroid, but here in my country its 1/4 of the minimum sallary for ANY Nintendo Game.
In comparison, in united states its almost 1/20.
Im going to wait for one used copy in the next year or so in a good price and if i have the opportunity i will pirate it.
Is there a Trophy Unlocker for 9,0 same as with the Vita ???
Yes.
Firstus is not first. Zero is first. At least
To all anti free game guys!
* Sitting in your beloving U.S/CAN/EU/JP doesnt mean you should compare yourself with others!
* Sony doesn’t give *** about me. even my currency isn’t supported, why the heck should i pay for discs costs half of my monthly salary?
* And these So Called Hombrew Sceners/SR *** about piracy, you know your all these exploits, hostS, fpkg tools…. are using for free games right? if have problem you shouldnt get into this first place!
* I am very happy with my PS4, i had it on 8.00m waited more than a year. now i’m playing latest games even not defeated by denuvo yet!
so the things that i still need instead of the ps4linux version …
is the kodi elecbfin . bin payload sayonarra
is that the library integration payload plays
the castagnait installed flix plugin or any tv …
in a new pseudotvlive rewrite with strm support
and i have my own home network tv broardcast system
with my raspberry dvb-c setup pico or nano or any …
Kodi, that what i want most.
Kodu is dead… I installed my college Kodi on Xbox one and nothing’s working. All plugins are dead. It’s time to go back for torrents 🙂
and an auto netflix strm scraper plugin if possible … video.autoflixstrmscraper.plugin
or any …
Is there a homebrew to use PS4 consoles as mining rigs for Bitcoin
You would loose money on electricity and mined bitcoins wouldn’t cover the costs of it
Technically it is possible via PS4 Linux
Sega Saturn’s games on PS4 is one of the best things in gaming! Is it possible NGC or Dreamcast?
retroarch does dreamcast but not sure about NGC
Is there any easy way how to update fpkg games same as you can update pkg games through orbis´s patch installer?
Looking for some homebrew app or something like that, because doing it manually is long and tedious process.
I’m so glad I got a PS5 when I did. Because I was able to move all my games to it and keep the PS4 on 9.00 until this jailbreak came out. Which was way sooner than I expected.
retroarch installed content”title” to fpkg generator payload
and fpkg.us for a repro pill !!!!
Is there an instruction on using the legit save file with fake games? Many are new exploiters with many legit saves from previous years, but no one seemed to acknowledge the need of such guides
Is there some app to spoof firmware version like it was on ps Vita? And play online games or download from PsStore?
No, and Sony would ban you immediately anyways
Easy fix for that mate, get a Xbox.
devhook ps4
sceFirmAssignedUSB
but
isnt there a xbmc bin payload with all the xbmc user definitions going round …
instead of the versus empty kodi bin payload to play with .
like back in the days an xbmc autoinstaller with all the scene 0day xbmc content !!!!
I hope taht xbox sx and ps5 will be never broken
Don’t forget stealing games!
That’s one of the best ways to use a modded PS4 because *** California PlayStation.
Japan PlayStation was amazing, with a style completely unhindered by western political nonsense.
PlayStation sucks now. Went from the best to the worst.
Me tirem uma duvida.
Meu PS4 esta na versão 9.03. Se eu retirar o HD de 500GB, e colocar outro de 1TB, e instalar a versão 9.0, irá subir?
I bought a used playstation 4 pro. It is factory reset and has firmware 9.00
I can’t log in with my PS Plus account because it asks me to update the firmware. How can I do it without updating? To access my account and apply the jailbreak
Genuine Q to a genuine problem:
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How to copy/move ps4 game from one external hdd to a new external hdd in a jailbroken 7.55 ps4
(Note: games are downloaded and installed on hdd from “3rd party” site)
{3rd party: ask for no monkey*}