The strange benefit of a jailbroken PS5 is that at least at the moment, it’s the most convenient Jailbreak. PS4 requires USB drive and Internet connection, PS4 Pro requires Blue Ray disc, and all you need to jailbreak PS5 is to launch the app. It may change, though, as I fully expect that PS4 9.00 will get a permanent jailbreak at some point.
Installing PS4 games is as easy as on PS4, by using Package Installer from etaHEN menu. PS5 games are a different story. You need to install another app, Itemzflow, and the games are copied unpacked over FTP. In the meantime, the only PS5 game I managed to launch is Street Fighter 6, and honestly, I can’t see a difference from PS4 version. Demon’s Souls doesn’t launch, and I haven’t tried Last of Us 2 yet.
So at this point, PS5 is just a glorified PS4 Pro.
Category: PS5
Playstation 5 is a strange console, because Playstation 4 never fully left. Plenty have been said about that, too big of a customer base to stop making games, and too small of a technological leap for customers to upgrade. So after all those years, there’s just a single console exclusive game that’s worth mentioning: Demon Souls Remake. Everything else is either on PS4 or PC, or both.
So I’ll end up playing PS4 games on PS5.
I’d be honest, I didn’t plan to buy Playstation 5. But once I got into hunting for jailbreakable Playstation 4 Pro, I discovered that Playstation 5 can be also easily jailbroken. The caveat is that, as usual, you need a low firmware, and you loose all your data, since the exploit comes within a backup.
I got an email from eBay saying that I have another hour to place my bid on this low-firmare console, I clicked without thinking much, because I didn’t expect to win, and here I am, with Playstation 5.
The first step is, as I mentioned, to restore from backup. Since I didn’t need to keep anything on the console, this was easy. Then you open the exploited YouTube app, that starts a server, and use Python script to inject two payloads, first JavaScript, then binary, which is the actual debug menu.
Because doing that would be a bit denuous, you then replace the exploited YouTube app with an even more exploited one, that does the injection by itself.
And here you have it, PS5 running FTP server and all that stuff.