It appears
Halloween treats are coming early this year to the PlayStation 4 scene, as following his
FSELF Loader via Server developer
@flatz passed along on
Twitter some
Instructions for a PS4 Remote Package (PKG) Installer meaning there's no need to use a USB / External HDD any longer.
Download:
remote_pkg_installer.pkg (4.1 MB) /
remote_pkg_installer.pkg (4.1 MB - Fixed for Windows Users) /
remote_pkg_installer.pkg (4.1 MB)
According to his Tweets below, "it does exactly the same as S0ny when they install packages from their CDN, but think that mine allows you to use any host as storage, installation equals to downloading plus meta data unpacking on PS4."
To quote from the
remote_pkg_installer.txt:
Instructions for Remote Package Installer
Requirements:
- Any exploit on 4.5x+
- HEN 1.8 (you could get it from zecoxao's page) or any other kernel payload (it just need to have fPKG stuff and /data mount patches for ShellCore that I've posted recently)
Here is the first version of remote package installer that I made a few days ago, it have no GUI yet (it just displays a splash screen), but all the job could already be done via Web API that you could access remotely from your PC using any of available tools that you prefer: a custom web server or an application, NodeJS scripts, etc. No more need to use USB flash drives or external hard drives for your packages, everything could be done remotely.
One important thing: to be able to use this tool for receiving commands you need to have this application in focus (not in a background, because PS4 will suspend it and it won't be possible to use network anymore). After you send a command (to install game, for example), wait some time (I...