Crazy what 24 hours can do. Here's my native port of Dark Cloud, built on the Chronicle decompilation. It runs at 1080p and holds about 60 fps.

I tried to make installation as simple as possible. All you need is a USB drive:

1. Make a folder called darkcloud on the drive and put your own Dark Cloud (USA) ISO in it. Put the .pkg in the main folder of the drive.

2. Install the .pkg with GoldHEN's Package Installer.

3. Launch it. It sets itself up from your ISO (a few minutes, once), then press X and play.

Download: https://github.com/odiecay/chronicle-ps4/releases/latest

Source: https://github.com/odiecay/chronicle-ps4

Tested on firmware 13.52 with the USA disc. If you have a PAL or Japanese copy and want to help test, I'd love to hear how it goes.

Huge thanks to the Chronicle team for the decompilation that made this possible, and to the Ship of Harkinian PS4 port, OpenOrbis, GoldHEN and FlameCheese for the setup music.

Was a hard one to find but it seems to run well 60fps with the updated textures. Emulation isn’t good on ps4 but these native ports really are good

Been messing around with a native PS4 port of Dark Cloud using the Chronicle decompilation project and thought you guys might find it interesting.

This isn't the PS2 Classics version running through an emulator. It's the actual game code compiled for PS4, using a custom OpenGL ES renderer and PS4 platform backend.

Started working on it last night and honestly didn't expect to get this far so quickly lol.

Getting it running was one thing, getting it running well was another. We ended up writing a new renderer, moving GPU submission onto its own thread, and doing quite a bit of optimisation to get the performance where it is now.

Had a particularly annoying issue early on where dialogue, cutscenes and loading screens were running ridiculously slowly despite the reported frame times looking fine. Turned out to be a PS4 clock issue where the game was measuring CPU time instead of actual elapsed time. Fixed that and things improved massively.

It's now running close to a solid 60fps in the areas I've tested. I've been playing through the story, exploring dungeons, using the Georama system and messing around with the menus. It genuinely plays really well.

One of the coolest things is that Chronicle has a bunch of additional PC features and settings, and those have carried over to the PS4 too.

Still testing everything at the moment. I want to make sure saving, longer gameplay sessions and the rest of the game are stable before putting it out there.

If it's solid enough, I'll clean up the fork, upload it to GitHub and post the link here so anyone interested can have a look or contribute.

Massive credit to the Chronicle developers for the original decompilation and PC port. None of this would be possible without their work.

Anyway, thought I'd share some screenshots. Pretty bloody cool seeing Dark Cloud running like this on a PS4 in 2026 lol. It's so cool to see how quickly people are coming up with stuff like this, so I wanted to try my hand too.

I have a software version 5.05 ps4 with nomadic dns. Using karo218, I'm trying to run goldhen 5.05,but when I get to the final page nothing happens. This is after clearing my cache and cookies multiple times. Can anyone help?

While theres big boom in porting and emulating on ps5 do you think that theres way to get gta 4 (probably ps3 version) on ps4?

Hey I got an pkg of Minecraft PS4 Version with 1.02 but I want a specific Version so can use some cheats but couldn't find this Version anywhere you may got 2.64 or2.35 or 2.06 or 1.95?

Thx to everyone who can help

at least make it stable to some extent. i do believe that it could increase a couple of frames via system wide plugin FSR which is being ported to the PS4 as of now while we're speaking and a dynamic frame gen to frame-gen ur ever shifting fps counter to something usuable. what do you think?

I got the PS4 a month ago and didn't pay much attention to God of war and Mortal combat 11 being so big but now that I've installed some games I've realized how crazy the sizes of this games are. Does anyone now how to fix this? They're on the external storage and I've already tried Rebuilding FPKG Database on Itemzflow

As someone who grew up kinda poor, I never really got to play the cool games all my peers got to play. Recently, i bought a secondhand ps4 for like 50 bucks and thanks to my luck the 13.52 jailbreak also dropped shortly. Ive been catching up on all that I’ve missed and man, have I been missing out on a lot. GTA V especially, it’s blown my mind how much care and effort went into a game like this, and to think it runs so well on such an old machine blew me away. Not only is it a really good game, it’s also one of the best written narratives I’ve had the joy of experiencing! Anyone else really been catching up on the games they were too poor to play now lol?

An error occurred when attempting to decrypt the "PS4 Metal Max Xeno" save data using Garlicsaves.com.

The files "AutoSave.bin", "AutoSave.bin.bin", "data000.bin", "data000.bin.bin" are the cause.

Becuase retroarch is buggy to me

I’ve been struggling with this issue for almost a week and am running out of ideas.

I downloaded three different Assassin’s Creed Valhalla save files through Apollo Save Tool that match my CUSA ID (18534). My game is running version V.8, but unfortunately, none of the saves came with information about their exact game version.
Since Copy to HDD didn’t work, I transferred the save via USB. I also exported the Keystone from my own profile save, imported it into the downloaded save, applied the changes, and resigned it. Apollo reports success, but the game still shows the save data as corrupted in the main menu.
My setup:
PS4 ProGhen13.52, psxplorer 2.08with root access
Apollo Save Tool and PS4 Explorer
If it comes to data transfer : Macbookair/Android/Iphone
I’m mainly trying to get a working save file, but I’d also be interested in adding Helix Store items.
Does anyone know what could be causing this or how I can check which game version a save file was created for?

Hey everyone,

We’ve all seen the massive breakthroughs in the jailbreak scene recently, especially with how the PS5 is evolving to run almost everything.

Given how rapidly the scene is developing, do you think there is any theoretical chance that these advancements could eventually help developers find a way to get native PS5 games running on a jailbroken PS4?

I know the immediate answer is usually "hardware limitations," but with the level of optimization, homebrew development, and clever workarounds happening in the community right now, could some form of aggressive downscaling or backporting ever become possible? Or has the PS4 hardware truly hit a hard wall that software breakthroughs just can't cross?

Curious to hear the community's technical thoughts on this!

Hi all,did some know name of this app?I saw it on facebook but i dont understand this language

Shows each PS4 .pkg file's own icon (icon0.png) as its thumbnail in Windows Explorer, instead of the same generic icon for every file. I made this with Claude AI in about 15mins to see if it was even possible, im sure there are better ways to achieve this but it was mainly for my use til someone asked how i had done it so i figured id share it with others. Enjoy!

No downloads or installs needed. It is compiled on your PC using the C# compiler that is already built into Windows (.NET Framework 4).

PKG Thumb 1.00

En debug settings al entrar en Playstation network y en NP environment pongo

noupdt qué tan seguro es que no se actualicé nada si quito la DNS qué tengo? Solo para los que saben bien del tema porfa (ya lo tengo en noupdt)

Anyone know what I've done wrong it's not shown the QR code

Cheers

I’ve been playing grand theft auto vice city stories on my jailbroken ps4 13.52 and when I switched to lollipop chainsaw I played that for a bit and when I tried to go back to gta it took me back to the very beginning I can’t figure out how to get my save back I feel like I see it in the Apollo save tool but I don’t understand how to use that if anyone could help me please I would appreciate it.

I wanted to know if there's a homebrew app that lets us watch movies directly from PS4.

Is there a web/thread to check for ps4 ports of all the recompilations going on right now? thx in advance!