{"id":23,"date":"2023-01-26T20:19:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T19:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=23"},"modified":"2023-01-31T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:05:12","slug":"modding-the-silver-case-ps4-part-1-dumping-reinstalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/26\/modding-the-silver-case-ps4-part-1-dumping-reinstalling\/","title":{"rendered":"Modding The Silver Case (PS4) Part 1: Console Modding &#038; Game Dumping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As some of you might know, a few years ago I, along with my homies <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sytarie\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sytarie\">Sytarie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RapaOST\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RapaOST\">Rapa<\/a>, made a french <a href=\"http:\/\/projectsilver.free.fr\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/projectsilver.free.fr\/\">translation<\/a> for <em>The Silver Case<\/em> on Steam. It wasn&#8217;t perfect in any way but I still cherish the project to this day! As I was able to acquire a copy of the <em>Silver2425<\/em> compilation for my PS4 a few years ago, I decided that porting our patch to as many versions as we can would be a good thing. My first (unfruitful) attempt at this was done two years ago, it is documented in the following Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SakiMeguro\/status\/1342140829696225281\">thread<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this post, I will go through the steps we must follow in order to play a modded game on a PS4:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>First of all, we need a <em>FAT32 (or exFAT)<\/em>-formatted <strong>USB Drive<\/strong>. 8GB should be enough for The Silver Case but the bigger, the better!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/explorer_sU3eH9zOzY.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28\" width=\"509\" height=\"521\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>My FAT32-formatted USB Drive (also used as an emergency GParted  distro)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>As of the console, we need a <strong>jailbreakable<\/strong> <em>PS4<\/em>. Firmwares <strong>5.05, <strong>6.72, 7.02, 7.50~7.55<\/strong> and <strong>9.00<\/strong><\/strong>  are <a href=\"https:\/\/wololo.net\/ps4-jailbreak-ps4-cfw4dummies\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wololo.net\/ps4-jailbreak-ps4-cfw4dummies\/\">compatible<\/a>. If you&#8217;re on a lower firmware, you should <a href=\"https:\/\/wololo.net\/2021\/12\/14\/ps4-how-to-manually-update-to-firmware-9-00\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wololo.net\/2021\/12\/14\/ps4-how-to-manually-update-to-firmware-9-00\/\">upgrade<\/a> to the latest exploitable version. If you&#8217;re on a higher firmware, you&#8217;re out of lock and need to wait for an exploit to be found.<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f23434\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> <strong>DO NOT TRUST THE &#8220;DOWNGRADER&#8221; SOFTWARES, IT&#8217;S A SCAM!<\/strong><\/mark><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>If the console is compatible, we will need to run a <strong>HEN<\/strong> exploit on boot in order to enable the jailbreak functionnalities. This is done by running <em>webkit<\/em> exploits either from a local server (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Al-Azif\/ps4-exploit-host\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Al-Azif\/ps4-exploit-host\">self-hosted<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/GoldHEN\/GoldHEN\">exploits<\/a>), or from a website that hosts them (example <a href=\"http:\/\/karo218.ir\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/karo218.ir\/\">here<\/a>). The most well-known HEN enablers are <strong>GoldHEN<\/strong> and <strong>MIRA<\/strong>, both give access to the functionnalities we need.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/firefox_ZckMo2RV68.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27\" width=\"637\" height=\"314\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Example of a payload loading site<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Once the HEN exploit is active, we need to <strong>dump the original<\/strong> <strong>copy <\/strong>of the game, and it&#8217;s <strong>updates<\/strong> when needed. In order to do that,  <em>BinLoader <\/em>must be enabled by going in the console&#8217;s Settings > Debug Settings > Servers Setting, and then ticking the checkbox here. Once enabled, we can run a <em>Game Dumping<\/em> exploit  (the <strong><em>Karo <\/em><\/strong>menu linked earlier has it in the <em>Dumper Group<\/em> category). The next booted game will be dumped to the USB Drive plugged in the console. This process might take a while, maybe a bit less than an hour, but in the end we obtain a clean folder with all of the game&#8217;s files. This step is necessary as all the PS4 games are encrypted within PKG files locked by a passcode, and are only decrypted on runtime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/firefox_9oGr1VGBXd.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\" width=\"-521\" height=\"-304\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Game\/Update Dumping Payload<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>At the end of the process, we have a <em>CUSAXXXXX-app<\/em> folder on your USB Drive. If the game has updates, we will end up with <em>CUSAXXXXX-patch<\/em> folders as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"613\" height=\"89\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/explorer_vTdEcReyak.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>My goodness gracious<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The next step is rebuilding the dumped games (and updates) into <strong>Fake PKGs<\/strong> by using the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/CyB1K\/PS4-Fake-PKG-Tools-3.87\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/CyB1K\/PS4-Fake-PKG-Tools-3.87\">Fake PKG Tools<\/a>: we generate a .<em>gp4 <\/em>file for the base game with <em>gengp4_app.exe<\/em>, then we open the resulting <em>.gp4<\/em> file within <em>orbis-pub-gen.exe<\/em> and click on the &#8220;Build&#8221; button on the top right corner. We then repeat the process for all the updates by running <em>gengp4_patch.exe<\/em> instead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"557\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/orbis-pub-gen_kfN9aOooql.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Really easy to miss, but the Build button is right in front of you!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>We can then install the generated <em>PKG<\/em> files back on the PS4 by putting them on your USB Drive, then going into &#8220;Settings &gt; Debug Settings &gt; Package Installer&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minihere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ps4-package-installer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"-321\" height=\"-180\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Image randomly taken from Google, too lazy to screenshot my own console<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>We are good to go! Now that our game has the default passcode <em>0000000000000000&#8230;0<\/em>, we can finally install whatever modded files we want over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post will explain how to jailbreak a PS4, dumping the games and reinstall them as &#8220;Fake&#8221; PKGs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[10,11,18,17,9,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}