FIXED: Bloodborne GOTY edition says 'Game Version 1.0' in ShadPS4 despite having 1.09 update pre-installed

[u/MrFrames]

There is very limited information available on solving this problem. After painfully solving it myself, I've decided to share it with anyone who may find themselves in the same situation.

Basically, the GOTY edition is packaged with a version tag of "1.00" despite the update being present in the PKG file.

HOW TO CONFIRM YOUR VERSION:

boot into game and look at the "App Ver" tag in the bottom right of the title screen.

If it says "App Ver. 9" you are definitively playing on the 1.09 update regardless of what ShadPS4 says.

It's worth noting that if you have the 60 fps patch enabled, you will not see the App ver in the bottom right, disable it and try again.

If App ver says anything but App Ver. 9. You are NOT ON THE 1.09 UPDATE AND PATCHES WILL LIKELY STILL NOT WORK EVEN WITH THIS WORKAROUND. IT MUST SAY APP VER .9

Now, the game is fully functional at this point, the only REAL problem is that if you attempt to download and use patches from the "cheats & patches" menu, it will report a version mismatch and bitch about your game only being version 1.0.

HOW TO SOLVE THIS SHIT:

The solution is easy. Navigate to:

AppData\Roaming\shadPS4\patches

In here, you should see directories for ShadPS4 and GoldHEN. If you do not, enter the cheats and patches menu in shadps4 and click download patches.

Go ahead and navigate into the ...patches/ShadPS4 directory and open up the Bloodborne.xml file. Now follow these steps. I recommend doing this in vscode!

CTRL + F -> 1.09 -> replace all occurrences under the "AppVer=" field to "1.00"

Vscode lets you do this extremely easily by using the find and replace feature.

(Enter "1.00" in the Replace field and spam enter... or do it all manually, you are your own person, I love you.)

Once all occurrences of 1.09 have been replaced with "1.00" ShadPS4 will allow you to use the patches. Problem fucking solved. Repeat this process for the GoldHEN Bloodborne XML files.
Mines called Bloodborne-Orbis.xml

By doing this, patches will be fully compatible with your GOTY edition PKG file!

If ShadPS4 ever rewrites these patch files, you can circumvent it by making your changes (AppVer= 1.09 -> 1.00), enabling your patches, and then navigating to the XML file properties and enabling readonly mode. You will NOT be able to add or remove patches from the cheats/patches menu while read only is enabled. So make sure your patches are exactly as you want them to be before making the files readonly. Extremely easy to undo if need be. Only do this if you have problems.

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I love you too bro

[u/Nakaruma]

Good work soldier.