PS4 CFW and Hacks

A few years back we saw some PS4 BD-J Homebrew ports followed more recently by PS4 Webkit Emulators, a BDLive Bug and a PS4 JavaScript Emulator demonstration video with some answers to common questions recently by musician and coder Mr_lou.

To quote: Hello all. Just signed up here, and thought I'd introduce myself (in this thread because BD-J dev is the main reason I signed up, and I don't actually own any PlayStations).

Been working on a BD-J project for 5 years now. Info at www.8bitmemoirs.com

Got the HDCookBook for my birthday, and have studied BD-J a lot. Very little info online about it indeed. Some Japaneese sites are rather good, but requires Google Translate.

Is anyone here still interested in BD-J? I think I can answer a few questions from this thread (although it's old), so here goes:

From Lucif3r: Would make more sense if the PS4 supported such a thing from a USB stick or similar... Wasting a blueray disc for a java app? No ty... o.o

Yea, Sony blocked the possibility of booting a Blu-ray Disc from USB, as we all know. But I believe it's still possible to run BD-J stuff from a USB - if you boot from a disc.

So yea, you will still need to burn a disc - but you can settle for having this one disc for booting, and then run whatever Xlets you have on your USB.

I admit I haven't tried this myself yet (because I'm using a Dune HD Smart D1 for testing which lets me run my stuff from harddisk), but from what I've read in HDCookBook it should be possible, because:

• Xlets can start other Xlets
• The disc filesystem gets merged with the USB filesystem (for BD-Live).

So, you could (theoretically) "waste" this one boot disc, and then just use USB sticks for...

PlayStation 4 developer Octolus recently changed his PSN Bomber known as SendPSN into a set of tools located at SendPSN.com that includes an Avatar Grabber and PS4 Community Search Tool.

In related news, 0x199 made available both a PS4 CUSA Resolver (PS4 Game Title Fetcher) and a PS4 Patches database for those interested.

To quote from Octolus: I've created a small website where you can search for communities, and export it's members to a text file.

Not only that, you can also add communities to monitor - in a few days you'll be able to get a chart on how many has joined the past month etc.

Check out the entire website here: https://sendpsn.com/

• PSN Avatar Grabber: https://sendpsn.com/avatar
• PlayStation Network Avatar Grabber: http://pscentral.net/psn-avatar-grabber (Mirror)
• Search Communities: https://sendpsn.com/community
• Add Community To Monitor: https://sendpsn.com/monitor

The statistics/chart will take a hour or two to appear. We check the communities once a day, and store them in our database with statistics (how many members). Suggestions are welcome.

Also below is his PSN Resolver, with more details available on PSNResolver.org, to quote:

What is this?

This is the ONLY working PlayStation Network Username Resolver. Simply submit an username, then it will give you the IP Address if we're able to resolve it.

Can I blacklist my self?

Currently there is no option to do so!

Do you sell an API?

Not currently.

How to use this?

Just submit an username, then we'll attempt to resolve it. If we can, we'll return the IP Address to you.

Thanks to @HydrogenNGU for a heads-up on this...

We've seen some PS4 Home Menu Mods, PS4 UI Mod Alphas and PS4 Debug Menu Visual Mods and today PlayStation 4 Modder @Thisismrnameles shared a reupload of his Custom UI PS4 MOD (BETA) demo video on his YouTube Channel.

Although only a Beta he reminds us as he did it purely 'out of boredom' he states, it does feature the PSXHAX Logo making it an instant favorite of ours!

Check out his Custom UI PS4 MOD (BETA) demo video and share your comments below.

Previously we saw a PS4 GTA V Hax Demo and a GTAV PS4 Mod Menu for 1.76 consoles, and recently PlayStation 4 modder KillSomeTime247 shared what appears to be another Grand Theft Auto V modding PS4 demonstration video for those interested.

Let us know in the comments below if it looks legit or not to you, and thanks to fellow PlayStation 4 pirate @UmarDaBest559 on Twitter for letting us know about it!

Following his PS4SDK Windows Setup Guide, PlayStation 4 developer @BadChoicesZ shared another PS4 1.76 real-time modding demonstration video this weekend spotlighting RTM game mods in Call of Duty: Ghosts.

From the video's caption: Been a minute, this is another crappy video. This just shows a few simple things on the latest PS4 version of ghosts (1.20)

• Demi god mode
• Inf ammo
• Player name change
• SV_GameSendCommand (only showed iprintln with it, but can do trophies, visions, fov etc..)
• RedBoxes
• Thermal
• setOrigin

and kick all players which is what 'disconnects me' near the end.

P.S. Please let me know for future videos if you prefer a video cut down or like this whole video showing useless loading screens etc.
Thanks to @Thisismrnameles for passing along the news in the PSXHAX Shoutbox earlier today!