App2USB / AppToUSB by Stooged: A Modification of PKG2USB for PS4

I will post this as a separate thread from the PS4 PKG2USB as the 2 payloads vary and it saves confusion.

Original Post: I was playing around with the ext0 mount and recreating the file structure that would be there if the pkg was installed to external storage.

There is a trick I found where if you copy the CUSAXXXXX folder from /user/app to /mnt/ext0/user/app and then unplug the hdd and plug it back in it causes the ps4 to do a repair and then the game is recognized as installed on external storage and from there there are other issues.

BUT with the great work SiSTRo has done in PKG2USB with the symlinks its a lot easier to manage with exfat and just normal USB.

So building on his PKG2USB and symlinks I modified what I was working on for the ext0 mount to work with the usb0 or usb1 and symlinks.

Downloads:

• 455 Source GIT
• 405 Source GIT
• AppToUsb 5.05 (Latest Release)
• AppToUsb 4.55 (Latest Release)
• AppToUsb 4.05 (Latest Release)
• PS4 App2USB (Scene Collective)

Changlog via dbsuarez

This payload searches the entire /user/app folder and copies all installed fpkg games to usb from the system drive and creates the symlinks like SiSTRo has kindly shown us the ability to do.

If you want to target a single game not the whole folder use PKG2USB.

If you install more games just run the payload again and it will copy any new games to the USB and so on.

With symlinks you are making a link to a directory so you want to pick which USB port to have the hdd on and keep it on that same port or the links will point to the wrong directory. USB0 is what I use.

Thanks again to SiSTRo, xVortex, Anonymous, CelesteBlue!

PS4 JAILBREAK 5.05 How To Use APP2USB by seanp2500

Running PS4 Games From a USB with App2USB (5.05 Jailbreak)

Download: app2usb.rar (726 Bytes - configured to export app+update+dlcs to external disc, includes app2usb.ini)

 

[stooged]

@Lidor Baum

I'm not sure what you can do.
in my tests it works fine and its even more strange that it worked then didn't work for you.

 

[BigWadger]

@Lidor Baum
put ini on root of usb not in the ps4 folder

 

[edrix2004]

@BigWadger I'm pretty sure the ini file should be inside the ps4 folder

 

[dkangel666]

mine is at the root if that can help

 

[fattony88]

@stooged Hi playing with diff source versions of GitHub but I cannot get them to compile, I have the PS4 *** + MingW32 + LLVM everything added to system environment/path. here is a snippit:

C:\MinGW\PS4-***-master\libPS4>mingw32-make
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, basename C:/MinGW/PS4-***-master/libPS4, ...) failed.
mingw32-make: 'build' is up to date.
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get the same error on ApptoUSB only thing that  would compile was bin2js.

Directory of D:\_ps4\_apps\4.55 update\AppToUsb-455-10\AppToUsb-455-10\AppToUsb

03/25/2018  11:02 AM    <DIR>          .
03/25/2018  11:02 AM    <DIR>          ..
03/25/2018  11:02 AM    <DIR>          build
03/17/2018  02:55 AM    <DIR>          include
03/17/2018  02:55 AM             1,131 Makefile
03/17/2018  02:55 AM    <DIR>          source
               1 File(s)          1,131 bytes
               5 Dir(s)  1,650,195,759,104 bytes free

D:\_ps4\_apps\4.55 update\AppToUsb-455-10\AppToUsb-455-10\AppToUsb>mingw32-make
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, basename D:/_ps4/_apps/4.55 update/AppToUsb-455-10/AppToUsb-455-10/AppToUsb, ...) failed.
mingw32-make: 'build' is up to date.
------

D:\_ps4\_apps\4.55 update\AppToUsb-455-10\AppToUsb-455-10\tool>mingw32-make
gcc -o bin2js bin2js.c

D:\_ps4\_apps\4.55 update\AppToUsb-455-10\AppToUsb-455-10\tool>dir
 Volume in drive D is Elements
 Volume Serial Number is D8D9-4ABE

 Directory of D:\_ps4\_apps\4.55 update\AppToUsb-455-10\AppToUsb-455-10\tool

03/25/2018  11:06 AM    <DIR>          .
03/25/2018  11:06 AM    <DIR>          ..
03/17/2018  02:55 AM               574 bin2js.c
03/25/2018  11:06 AM            42,560 bin2js.exe

...

I assume I glanced over/looked over something critical, Thank You again for all your dev work and time to the community!

 

[fabrebatalla18]

@stooged
I would like to make a request, it would be possible that in addition to creating the folder structure CUSAxxxx within that same folder will create a dummy file (0 kbytes) and that this file had the name of the game to quickly identify which game is treated without have to look in any list of IDs?

 

[stooged]

@fattony88
I compile in ubuntu so i cant really help with the windows enviroment.

@fabrebatalla18
I will look into it.

 

[Tanmay007]

@Lidor Baum you must be missing some step because everything is working fine for me and many others.

Please post the contents of your ini file and also make sure you are putting it in correct location `/PS4/AppToUsb.ini` and that you are using the latest version of app2usb.

 

[Lidor Baum]

@Tanmay007

This is the ini file, in the ps4 folder. When I run the payload it is copying other games (what I first installed in my ps4) and ignoring the config

 

[fattony88]

@stooged I tried on ubuntu 14.x and 16.x with no luck see error snippet below

Spoiler

Thanks