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)

 

[biorn]

Hello @stooged , I have a question for you about symlink :

Do you mean it's possible to make a symlink like /usb0/ -> /internal_PS4_folder/ ?
(if usb0 is or isn't mount)

Or possible to modify mounting point of "usb0" targeted on a folder?

Thank's for informations.

 

[lestasmsc]

@stooged - may be along shot, but is there anyway of implementing a patch to run games off network drive instead of USB? Since there is FTP... maybe get it to work I reverse where PS4 accesses the network drive?

 

[jakkal876]

I don't think you can mount ftp location but you can mount a unc path

 

[kuletko]

what happens when i already copied my games to external hdd, does it automatically deletes the game files on ps4 storage?

 

[Ultragian]

By the way, there are too many games that don't work with this. I have around 10 that don't. There are some which reinstalling by themselves do work, and some that just won't work at all on an external HDD.

 

[jakkal876]

Can you be even more vague?
Which games don't work?

I have 60 games on my external and all of them that I've tried so far works

 

[cha0s1]

I have the same experience as @Ultragian, games I tested so far that did not work in external but works in internal are Assassins Creed Origins and Shadow of War..

 

[danryox]

Sorry for the noob question. So the move game to external hd function from the ps4 doesnt work to move the games ?

 

[dothackjhe]

Will the payload for 5.05 work with backup games that were already transferred into the external HDD?

I know that without this payload, running installed backup games from the external HDD is not possible. But I did transfer the installed games in it nonetheless while waiting for this payload. Hence, my installed games are in an external HDD. At least, those which I am not playing at the moment.

 

[Andrew Marques]

Can someone explain to me how this works, so I already own a 5TB HDD, if I bought something to make in a external HDD and copied all my games to it, how would my newer games work?