PS4 CFW and Hacks

Following the Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood and recent Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers Final Fantasy XIV Online PS4 expansion pack comes a FFXIV PS4 Screenshot Retimer Python Script by Skydeo to correct the file timestamps when transferring in-game screenshots from a PS4 to a flash drive. 🖼

Download: screenshot_retimer.py / GIT

Below are further details from the README.md, to quote: PS4/FFXIV Screenshot Retimer

I play a lot of FFXIV on the PS4, and take a lot of screenshots when doing so (over 5000 by the end of 4.0!). A few times a year I'll transfer these off my PS4 to save space and help me look at them, but while the datetime stamps are recorded in the file name¹, they aren't stored in the file metadata, instead just being whenever files were moved to a flash drive.

This means the screenshots don't sort correctly and it drives me crazy. How can I relive my adventure through Eorzea when the screenshots are out of order? This fixes the metadata using the datetime stored in the filename.

Example usage:
I settled on using the -e flag to actually execute, but that might be a little overly cautious. There are a couple of other optional parameters you can read about using the -h flag (python screenshot_retimer.py -h).

There are two ways it assigns times, a fast method which works most of the time but doesn't assign file creation times on macOS² for some edge cases, and a slow method that does but requires the installation of macOS Developer Tools. Chances are these are already installed for most targets of this script.

• ¹ 'Stored' in a non-sortable way using the stupid US MM-DD-YYYY notation.

• ² I guess most UNIX systems don't care about file creation time, on access and modified times. The file creation time will be set if the modified time is before present.

TODO

Make it work with videos. For...

Proceeding the PS4 .TRP Extractor, TestKit Trophies, PS4 Trophy Resigner, Resigning Trophies Guide, PS4 Trophy Modding, Profile Trophy Mods, PS4 Trophy Keys, TROP.ESFM Guide, Trophy Retail Mods, PS4 Debug Trophies and TROPHY.TRP Extraction Guide comes the MyTrophies PS4 HEN Trophy Calculator by OfficialAhmed via Twitter for use on jailbroken consoles with PS4HEN.

Download: MyTrophies.v3.07.zip (14.6 MB - includes MyTrophies v3.07 alpha.exe) / GIT

Spoiler: Depreciated

Following the initial project that was in development, release of PSJoy, PS4REN and the related PS4 Remote Play Without PSN Access Guide over the holiday thestr4ng3r announced that he's reverse-engineered nearly the entire PS4 Remote Play protocol and plans to publish the source of his client when it's in a practically usable state for arbitrary platforms!

This comes proceeding the recent PlayStation Camera Reversing documentation on Github by scene homebrew developer BigBoss with the related Tweets and a demonstration video embedded below.

Also heating up Twitter over the holiday from Markus95 (aka @Kus00095) is Ninja Shodown for PS4, PS Vita and Switch:

We've covered various PlayStation 4 emulators including Orbital and Spine, and recently PS4 developer IDC (Twitter) updated the Uplift compatibility layer utilized in running Orbis executables natively on Windows.

Download: uplift-master.zip / GIT

Among the PlayStation homebrew community this work has helped PS4 sceners make their ongoing projects possible, such as the PS4 NID to Function Name Resolver for Bin / Lib for developer research.

Also below is a PS4 Usage statistics aggregator from kolsys, to quote from the README.md: PS4GameStat

PlayStation 4 Usage statistics aggregator

Installation

git clone
git submodule init
git submodule update

Change DB_PATH variable if you needed.

Add cron-task for every minute.

Cheers to @HydrogenNGU for the heads-up via Twitter on this latest Uplift Compatibility Layer PS4 development update!

Proceeding his Wild Gunman Remake 35th Anniversary Homebrew PS4 PKG release a few weeks back, PlayStation 4 developer @Lapy returns via Twitter with a PS Scene Quiz 1.00 PS4 PKG followed by a PS Scene Quiz 1.01 PS4 PKG game for PS4 homebrew enthusiasts!

Download: PS Scene Quiz 1.01 PS4 - Lapy.rar (247.3 MB) / Mirror / ED1234-LAPY10010_00-0000000000000000-A0100-V0100.pkg (239.38 MB - For 4.05 Firmware via zecoxao) / PS Scene Quiz 1.00 PSVita - Lapy.rar (82.41 MB) / Scene Quiz Source Code.rar (48.25 MB) / PS Scene Quiz Windows - Lapy.rar (47.95 MB)

Spoiler: Depreciated

In the Tweets below, he also notes a PS Vita version will arrive tomorrow if all goes well.

PlayStation Scene Quiz by Lapy (PlayStation Vita Homebrew) via MasterTurkey
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