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Table of Contents



Introduction



● Shining light upon the beginning, and what this thread is going to be about.



Pirating Questions



● Questions related to pirating, and what has been released/said towards this topic.



Real Time Modding



● Questions related to RTM, and what has been released/said towards this topic.



Trophy Modding



● Questions related to Trophy Modding, and what has been released/said towards this topic.



Downgrade Questions



● Questions related to Downgrading, and what has been said towards this topic.



Jailbreak Questions



● Questions related to a jailbreak.



Custom Firmware Questions



● Questions concerning about CFWs, and what has been said towards this topic.



Firmware Questions



● Questions concerning about Firmware.



Code/Vocab Questions



● Questions concerning what are some of the words in the PS4 Scene mean, and what do some codes really mean.

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Pirating Questions



Zecoxao: If a Kernel Exploit is ever released, no doubt there would be piracy following through as well on Luca's WebKit Exploit running on 4.0X Firmware.





Zecoxao: There is a way, and it works for non-retail consoles (mostly because they can launch elfs in a working environment with Target Manager), but the consoles need to be activated, and I'm not the person to talk about that.





Zecoxao: Probably when someone makes an environment similar to henkaku for it, with the ability to load "packages" (which in the case of henkaku are just zips renamed as vpk) and with fselfs that can be loaded with certain flags, that allow the user to customize the app.





Pros : You get free games, DLC, and literally anything for free by downloading it. You also get to enjoy more games without spending a single penny on anything.



: You get free games, DLC, and literally anything for free by downloading it. You also get to enjoy more games without spending a single penny on anything. Cons: If pirating ever becomes a thing on PS4, games' prices will actually get higher then usual. So goodbye to those 60$ games if this ever becomes a thing.



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Real Time Modding Questions



Yes actually, there has been Game Save Editors for USA/Asia/EU Regions. You can find them in the PS4 Mods and Cheats Section if you'd like. The USA/EU Region could be found here: savewizard.net





Yes! PS4 Save Wizard is now available for United States of America and Europe regions to resign saves. The PS4 Save Wizard tool also bring editing game saves and re-signing!





2much4u : All of those things have already been done. SPRX would require the SDK, but payloads get the job done too.



: All of those things have already been done. SPRX would require the SDK, but payloads get the job done too. SC58: Even if the SDK was public, you would still have to use a payload to load it for the time being, but that wouldn't really matter. If you really wanted you could load the payload into the game process or any process running on the system.





Hydrogen: Yes, you can already mod on PlayStation 4 running on a 1.76 Firmware. Grand Theft Auto 5, Ghosts, and Advanced Warfare the only game we have seen that has been modded at the moment; there can be a ton more if someone is willing to work on it). RTM Tools and Mod Menus are possible by running native code; of course with the help of CTurt's PS4SDK, Linux, and more stuff. This doesn't conclude everyone can mod if they have this firmware PS4. Only a hand full of people that know how to code, and run the PS4 Developer Tools. They could actually be able to mod on the Next Gen Consoles.





Hydrogen: For the moment, no, you wont see people actually modding online any time soon. Reason why it wont happen for a while. One, Spoofing is considered to be in the PS4 Processor named SAMU. SAMU is a processor part of the PlayStation 4's Encryption which has a high level security in it. If we decrypt the SAMU, well that's when it would be useful on trying to figure out on a spoof method to mod online. This might take a while to figure out.





Zecoxao: Unless someone handles SAMU, there won't be any online (spoofing, passphrase keys, index.dat spoofing, etc), since everything is there, and won't get out.





Hydrogen: Literally most games can be modded, depends on who is willing to mod that specific game. The current ones we have seen is Call of Duty Ghost, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Grand Theft Auto 5, Fary Cry 4, and more.





Hydrogen: They used the same method from the Vita Trophylist XMB Hack. It has a unencrypted SQL towards the app.db; their are more ways to do this as well. If you run on 1.76 firmware, you can also use FTP to modify some files through FileZilla to edit a few things such as your Application Thumbnail, Fake Trophies, and more.



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Trophy Modding Questions



Hydrogen: Yes it is possible. Kurt & Bad ChoicesZ have confirmed to us that it is possible. They had run a small API Tool unlocking the first 5 trophies in Advanced Warfare. If you'd like to check it out, click this link: You must login or register to view this content.





Zecoxao: Well, you have the keys available on the wiki to decrypt and re-encrypt the trophies. So... go make some tools





Hydrogen: Well you can already mod trophies. Just like Zecoxao stated above, the keys are available on the PS4DevWiki. Go make the tools if you really want it!





Hydrogen: To be honest in my own opinion. If we'd want to sync, we'd probably have to wait to spoof online. Which you know... is inside of SAMU. So if we can start online syncs, then we can.



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Downgrading Questions



Zecoxao: There is a way, which is with the official JigKick, but since nobody has access to the tools, it's unlikely it'll ever leak or show online. Also, Sony has added protection with private keys, so you need the official dongle, so no more cheap clones for you lol.





Zecoxao: Maybe, depends on how different the JigKick is from PlayStation 3 to 4.





Hydrogen : All Non-Retail TestKits (Normal PS4 Console) are downgradeable. No PS4 PRO's at the moment are downgradeable.



: All Non-Retail TestKits (Normal PS4 Console) are downgradeable. No PS4 PRO's at the moment are downgradeable. SC58: If you have a PRO TestKit, and it comes on 3.70. You won't be able to downgrade lower then 3.70, it just like ps3 dech 2k,3k,4k etc..

There is already different ps4 models of test kit released that people have that can't downgrade to some fw cause the model it is, but yes any test kit can downgrade or update.



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Jailbreak Questions



Zecoxao: Yeah lol, 1.76 with dlclose and BadIRET. It's not the same as CFW, but more like HEN, so...





Hydrogen: It depends if someone releases a tutorial on it with the 1.76 BadIRET + dlclose. You could, but even if you got it to work, you probably wouldn't know what to do with it if you have no idea what you're doing.





Hydrogen: Of course, I mean the WebKit Exploit by Luca is there. If someone releases the Kernel Exploit, and of course, the gadgets. There is a high chance for it.





Hydrogen: The firmware that currently jailbreaked are 1.76, 4.06, and 4.55. 1.76 is not that private, but it isn't yet publicly released on how to fully do it. The rest is done by Luca Todesco, which he will not release.



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CFW Questions



Zecoxao: In the aspect of something that is similar to TaiHEN, yes. In the cold boot aspect, no, not really (unless you consider standby booting as cold boot)





Hydrogen: Pretty complex, it wouldn't take a day or week to create it. If someone puts their time and effort probably with a few other smart coders. Then it wouldn't take that long. Depends on what they're creating it on.





Hydrogen: You could expand more modifications towards the PS4 Console of course. This also has preset modifications that once you update, they're there waiting for your console to use.



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Firmware Questions



Hydrogen: Well yeah, of course, I mean you have modding available for games plus trophies. In addition, the "jailbreak" (quote-on-quote) is on that firmware as well. (This is only a gold firmware if you know what you're doing.) You also can mod offline with this firmware!





Hydrogen: No not really, if I was you, I'd stay below 4.01 FW. You never know if someone releases something nice for later firmware. Those are firmware where you could see better modifications. Just use Red's PSProxy to stay lower then 4.01, and you'll be fine.





Hydrogen: Yes they did. They patched it with the 4.06 System Update which pretty much patched all the security holes towards that exploit. In addition, they patched up more exploits with the 4.07 system update also.





Hydrogen: Recently, Qwertyuiop had released his WebKit for 4.0X firmware. This is an entry point into the PS4 which could lead into many valuable things. This could lead to a jailbreak if a kernel exploit is released. Then, we could port 1.76 stuff to 4.0X if someone has the gadgets used on those firmwares. If you have a console running on 1.76/4.0X, don't update!





Hydrogen: Yes, hacker Luca Todesco has officially hacked the firmware, big thanks to Sony for updating to 4.55 making it even easier for him to do it. In addition, any update is safe to update.



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Code/Vocabulary Questions



Specter: All a kernel exploit is, it's a chain of calling stuff in the kernel in such a way that you can execute code from it.





Specter: This simply opens a directory with the read-write flag set, and returns to you a file descriptor for the directory. What it returns isn't just any integer, it's a file descriptor.





Specter: WebKit is an open-source browser rendering engine which handles common web page elements like DOM, JavaScript, and CSS. It's used on mobile devices such as the iPhone, Android, as well as the Wii U and the PS4.





Hydrogen: /user/home/[userID]/savedata/[titleID]/ - Saves have been decrypted already.





Hydrogen: Think of a Kernel as a heart, it's the central component of a computer's operating system. This helps it by communicating with two different things at the same time. Communicates with the Application Software and the Hardware Level. (No we are not talking about popcorn you silly goose.)





Hydrogen: An exploit is grabbing some data or commands to take advantage of a bug/vulnerability creating it to do something the opposite of what it is supposed to do (in a negative way).





Specter: PlayStation 4 runs on a modified FreeBSD 9.0 kernel with the codename "Orbis"





Hydrogen: AES basically stands for Advanced Encryption Standard. The US Government uses this encryption; even PS4, PS3, and the Vita!





Hydrogen: This stands for Graphics Processing Unit, also known as Visual Processing Unit (VPU). This rapidly controls and changes memory to create images faster from a frame buffer used for the output to a display.





Red-EyeX32: packageDigest is stored at offset 0xFE0 in the package file.



Changelogs:



(2500) Fixed a few grammar issues, and added a few things, plus, corrected some mistakes.



(2.00) New questions have been added with answers. I also tweaked the thread a bit to look nice. In conclusion, I also removed a question that's irrelevant now.



(v1.04) Added in a new question in the Real Time Modding Section.



(v1.03) Fixed the header a bit, changed the header image. Big update coming soon for the v2.01.



(v1.02) Fixed new definitions over:





Question: When could we be able to jailbreak our own consoles?



Question: How hard is it to create a Custom Firmware?





Also added a new question to the Firmware Questions:





Question: Should I buy a PS4 PRO, and don't update it from 3.70?





(v1.01) Fixed new definitions over:



Question: Is this new? //base = open ("/dev/null", O_RAWD)



Question: What is the PS4's Operating System?



Question: What is a WebKit?







(v1.00) Created the PS4 Hacking/Modding FAQs

Credits



Zecoxao

Red-EyeX32

Specter

SC58

2much4u

So today I bring you an informative thread shining light upon questions' individuals have been asking around the forums lately. This includes anything related to Pirating, Modding, Jailbreaks, Custom Firmware, Downgrades, etc..This will break down most of the questions we see in our everyday lives that most people ask. We'll try to get through them all, if not, just hit us up with a(PM), and I'll attempt to respond back with an answer to your question as fast as possible.I will be updating this with more questions including the answers so this thread doesn't go dead; so until we get a new section pertaining to PS4 Mods Questions and Support. This would be in this section for a while. We're close to stuff that'll spark the PS4 Hacking Scene, so let's get straight into this!What firmware could we be on for Pirating?Is there any way to pirate games yet on PlayStation 4?When do you think we will be able to pirate games for the PS4 Console?Pros and Cons of making Pirating available to us for the PS4?: Everyone should know what are the Cons, you risk getting yourself a lawsuit over making the method available to everyone.As for Pros, well, you make the method available to everyone lol.: You guys realize that if piracy becomes a big thing the price of games will increase right?Can we edit our PS4 Game Saves yet?Can we resign PS4 Game Saves?Will doing some things like making SPRXs, making RTM tools, or modifying memory be impossible on the PS4 since the SDK didn't get leaked like on PS3?Can we mod games on PS4 already?I heard people can mod already, I'm scared of them ruining online. Is there any way they will mod online soon?What games are possible to mod currently?How do people mod their PS4 XMB/Menu?Is there any way to mod trophies yet on PlayStation 4?When do you think we will be able to mod trophies for the PS4 Console?Are we able to sync the trophies once we mod it?Is there any way to downgrade yet on PlayStation 4?Will downgrading be the same as the PlayStation 3?Which consoles are downgrade able at the moment?Is there any way to jailbreak yet on PlayStation 4?When could we be able to jailbreak our own consoles?Can 4.0X Firmware be jailbreak?What firmware are jailbroken?Will there ever be Custom Firmware on PlayStation 4?How hard is it to create a Custom Firmware?How could Custom Firmware make the PS4 Console Modification better?Is 1.76 good to start off?I updated it passed 1.76, did I screw up?!Did Sony patch up the 4.01 Jailbreak Exploit?What's so good about 4.06/4.07?Has 4.50/4.55 Firmware been hacked?What is a Kernel Exploit?Is this new? //base = open ("/dev/null", O_RAWD)What is a Webkit?Where do I find Saves?What is a Kernel?What is an Exploit?What is the PS4's Operating System?What does AES stand for, and what is it used for?What is a GPU?What is a packageDigest?Big thanks towho had helped me out with this nice PS4 FAQ so we could release out for the community who have been struggling with questions to get answered. In addition, I added, andsince they shared some information on some of these questions before on NextGenUpdate so i'll add them in here as well. If you have any more questions, feel free to PM so I could add them here! Also, please no arguing towards this thread. If you feel like there is a debateable answer, feel free to speak out, we'd like to hear your opinion on some things.We hope you learned a bit off of this thread, and glad you're part of the scene with us. Let's hope to see 2017 the year to come for the PlayStation 4 Console!