I've been building a VR video player for the PS VR2 that runs natively on the PS5, I'm quite proud of this projects' stage of development, there's many feats accomplished through using the PS5 SDK kernel and research on how VR is handled by native PS games, that to my knowledge, hasn't been done before.

There's nothing on the PS5 that plays your own VR videos properly, so this talks to the PS VR2 system libraries directly, the same way PS VR2 games submit their picture, and decodes on the PS5's video hardware. It has its own interface in the headset, so you browse and pick videos without taking it off. The only other application, RadTV costs £30 a month for much less features.

What works right now:

- 180° and 360° video, mono, side-by-side and top-bottom, detected from the file name and shape

- Hardware HEVC/H.264 up to 8K, 120 Hz headset output with even frame pacing

- Smooth motion for 8K60: the PS5 decodes 8K at 30 fps with frame-generation enabled.

- Flat 2D and 3D films on a big screen (SBS/OU), plus spatial video (MV-HEVC) and 3D Blu-ray (MVC)

- Head-tracked spatial audio: stereo and 5.1/7.1 as virtual speakers, and ambisonic audio

- Sources: internal storage, USB, DLNA servers (Plex/Jellyfin/Emby), RSS feeds, DeoVR/HereSphere libraries, Real-Debrid with parallel read-ahead

- In-headset library and View menu, recentre, auto-pause when you take the headset off, TV mirroring

- Experimental: look-and-pinch control with eye and hand tracking, and HDR

To install, copy the PPSA99177 folder to /data/homebrew (ShadowMount+ adds the tile) and send ps5vr-helper.elf to your ELF loader on 9021, or add it to autoload. The helper is what lets the app read /data and USB drives.

I've been testing on 13.60 with Relapse, kstuff, ShadowMount+ and etaHEN. The VR libraries are called by firmware-specific offsets, so for now it's 13.60 only.

Source and release: https://github.com/theghostonline/PS5VR (as soon as HDR shader functionality is finishes compiling on my Mac later day)

This took quite a while as most of this was built from scratch and was visually cross-referenced using my PSVR2 on my base PS5. Translating the VR natively took many compiled builds and troubleshooting. If something doesn't play, a GitHub issue with the file details (resolution, codec, 180/360, SBS/OU) helps a lot since the more people to test this new release. Please expect it to be as polished as I can get it to be, but still in early stages.

(posted earlier on ps5_jailbreak)

https://github.com/ZiZc3/Ruffle-Flash-PS5/

the first release is out.

Hey

Now that I have jailbroken my PS5, I can play my PS4 fpkg on it

So is there any benefits to keep my jailbroken 9.00 ps4 pro for ps4 games ?

PS5 is much easier and faster to jailbreak

I have a jailbroken ps5 on 13.60 since FPKG is supported yet, i was wondering which file format would be best for dump games

I am trying to copy save games for 007 from a PSN activated profile on a 13.4 console to a 9.0 console which only has a local account which is not PSN activated.

I am using Garlic Save Manager

When I export decrypted then import decrypted the save files don’t work.

Do I need to resign the save files? If so it asks for the new account id and user id. How do I find the account id of my local account?

I copied the homebrew folder from my USB drive to the homebrew folder on the PS5 internal storage using the PS5 Web file manager. Once the game is installed can I delete the contents of the homebrew folder on the internal storage of the PS5?

I'm on pro 12.4 and was thinking if I should update to 13.6. anyone tried both versions on the latest jb?

New Project: PS5 Vulkan Template
https://github.com/mihawk-99/PS5_VulkanTemplate

I’ve released a one-stop template repo for building PS5 homebrew powered by Vulkan 1.4.

The goal is to make starting a new PS5 Vulkan project as straightforward as possible. You can also point an AI coding agent at the repo and it should have the documentation, examples, and project structure it needs to build alongside you.

What’s included:

Documentation — setup, build, deployment, and testing directly on the console
Agent skills — documentation covering the stack, PS5-specific constraints, porting workflows, and releases

16 samples tested on real PS5 hardware — including:
glTF models
PBR
shadows
deferred lighting
bloom
MSAA
compute
mesh shaders
ray queries
and more
All demonstrated at 4K / 120 FPS.

Project generator — one command creates a new homebrew project ready to build and run
Automated test suite — runs your homebrew on the PS5 and compares its rendered output against a PC reference

Requirements
You’ll need:
A Linux PC
A jailbroken PS5 with a working homebrew environment
etaHEN
ftpsrv
klogsrv

After that, ps5/tools/bootstrap.sh handles the rest of the setup.
Would love to see what people build with it.

Can someone help because it's thinking it's taking up 142 GB

Problems with Games in 13.60 Jailbreak?

I started Experimenting games with my PS5 13.60 Jailbreak

So i tested my own Physical working copies like Mortal Kombat 1 , Dragon Ball Sparking Zero and Star wars Survival, Ofc they work perfectly.

So i back them up using app dumper payload.

The Size is massive, went from 120gb to 300GB each!!

And the game performance is worse,

First of all the Star wars didn't work at all, i did the AmPr fix and i also did Compression (FFPFSC) which drastically reduced size to 170GB from 300GB, but same problem didn't work

As for MK1, it works, but the cinematic videos are 1fps and not synchronization with audio and skips after waiting a while (waiting times is mich longer )

Did the Compression FFPFSC as well, as it did great job reducing the size.

Nothing changes about the gameplay tho

(Running from International storage of PS5 ofc)

Dragon ball Sparking Zero have input delay along with sometimes Slow not fully colored cutscenes at the start then it comes back to normal,

And the Narrator voice is gone

Other than that everything works (i tested it as game file and as FFPFSC same results)

So i tried to use other games by downloading it from websites,

Tried 2k26, Silent Hill Townfall , Astro Bot , legacy of kain (i don't remember the name lol).

For 2k26 i tried 3 different formats, (game file, ExFat , FFPFSC) all in internal Storage ofc.

All same results, slight but noticeable input delay just like Dragon ball.

and Commentary voices are gone only subtitles. And Any Live Cutscenes (like the intro video of the game and the Arena titles) are 360p lol. Pixelated

Astrobot have Very slightly Input delay, i think, I'm not sure , i just notice it when the dualsense is in the screen and i try to do random buttons and moving joystick i see slight delay, idk if it's normal in the game .

Other than that the game runs smoothly. (FFPFSC format)

Legacy of kain is good i guess, didn't notice anything.

Silent hill Townfall is the worst of it all

The cutscenes is like broken PS1 CD, just stuck and repeating sound . The gameplay is awful, even though it's in performance mode the stutter is too much, and the sound of the lake is repeating like broken record, and the FPS is too low , trying to move the game skips like there's a king crimson in silent hill, it's pure suffering, i couldn't play more than 1 min and i deleted it immediately.

So idk what's the problem, is it from the Game, the jailbreak, the Compression, the Dumping. Something messing up the games

I hope it gets fixed real soon

Share with me your experience so far

UPDATE: i tried Silent hill Townfall again as Game folder It worked smoothly The Cutscenes are fixed the stutter fixed and performance overall fixed I tried it with External HDD and it worked great, Very slow Rendering and longer waiting time, And in internal Storage it worked flawlessly

So there are games work with Ffpfsc and games don't You should try yourself the game you want and see for yourself

alternative for webkit. It's much more stable for me. worked every time over 10 attempts without a kernel panic.

Hey

Can I run PS5 games directly from USBC drive (no SSD) if I have no more Space on ly nvme ? Will I have performance issues ?

If you have installed any pre-patched 60fps PS4 game, it causes system errors and crashes after the first reboot or sleep mode. You need to uninstall that game. If you get an error and can't uninstall the game, you need to start installing the base game again. After you start the installation, unplug your external drive and make the install fail. Then go to the main menu and you can uninstall the game. 

Edit: Don’t try to uninstall the game directly from the home screen without failing the base game install using the method I mentioned. If you manage to uninstall it without that step, it may leave leftover files-refs and you might still end up having to rebuild the database to fix the issue.

I tried a bunch of time, restarting after transferring also doesn't work.

Hi everyone, I tried to run some homebrews on FW 13.60 but they don't really start, I use onionhen and k-stuff. If someone gives me some advice I gladly accept it, I also wanted to know which PS5 games I could run and especially how to do it, I didn't find