ESP Host: Serve PS4 Payloads Using the ESP8266 Guide by Codsworth

Today @Codsworth let us know about an ESP Host project he's been working on, and shared a guide on a simple way to serve PS4 payloads using the ESP8266 Wifi Module board with at least 4 MB flash.

Download: esphost.bin / esphostmulti.bin / esphostmulti405.bin / GIT

Here's all the details from the README.md: ESP Host

Today I show you a simple way to serve payload using the ESP8266.

Benefits of using the ESP8266:

• Extremely low cost hardware, available worldwide
• Ability to run 24/7 via USB, self-hosted payload, no external apps or programs required
• Completely block all updates
• No need for custom DNS server or settings, features automatic redirect
• Easy to program and update via USB
• Very low power consumption

Requirements:

• esptool.py
• ESP8266 Wifi Module with at least 4M flash
• PS4 Firmware 4.55 or 4.05
• esphost.bin or esphostmulti.bin or esphostmulti405.bin

Payloads included in esphost.bin

• VORTEX HEN 1.4

Payloads included in esphostmulti.bin

• HEN
• HEN+VR
• FTP
• DUMPER
• BACKUP

https://github.com/pearlxcore/ps4-playground-455

Instructions:

Flash esphost.bin using the following command:

sudo esptool.py --port /dev/ttyUSB0 write_flash 0x00000 0x400000 ./esphost.bin

• After flashing completes, connect to "PS4-WIFI" using "easy setting" then go to [Settings] > [User Guide]

NOTE: Windows users must use the appropriate com port when flashing with esptool.py

NOTE2: Users can optionally flash using the GUI version of ESPTool

Compatible boards:

These are the most popular ESP8266 boards, but any esp8266 with 4M flash or larger will work.

• ESP8266 NodeMcuV2 4M Wifi Module (Amazon or AliExpress)
• ESP8266 D1 Mini NodeMcu 4M (Amazon or AliExpress)

Updates (via Codsworth)

• More stable payloads , no memory errors or reloading pages
• Updated esp-host to include payloads from ps4-playground
• Added file compression - save space and serve payloads quickly.
• Upgraded payload index to a better design thanks to pearlxcore

To-Do

• Add ability to upload files/payloads

Notice and credits

Credit should be given to original authors of payloads - you know who you are.

How to run PS4 exploit offline using ESP-12E (ESP8266)

PS4 with ESP8266 7 seconds for the hen + playground

 

[anonymous005]

pearlxcore, Thank you for the tuto, i was looking for it, and how can i make it like a button and use a background?

 

[pearlxcore]

ha.. you mean add style to your playground. I cannot help for that. Its a lot of code you need to add to html. Learn here https://www.w3schools.com/html/

 

[anonymous005]

Right, thank you, but html to a nooob seems to complicated

 

[pearlxcore]

@anonymous005 I feel that too

 

[miguelel3men2]

@pearlxcore can be done without asking for custom DNS as the @Codsworth method

 

[pearlxcore]

@miguelel3men2 I see. @Codsworth can show me the code? The code I used is from treyjazz

 

[anonymous005]

@pearlxcore i want make something like this, simple but with background, hoping someone with more knowledge in html makes a tuto on it, or publish something easy to modify

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[spider197312]

@[URL='https://www.psxhax.com/members/hemi426.490188/']hemi426 [/URL]

A link to the firmware is difficult to spread?

 

[hemi426]

Found a great esp firm on github by retrogamer74 with all the latest payloads, works really great

https://github.com/RetroGamer74/ESP8266_PS4_RetroGamerFirm

 

[barelynotlegal]

posting this here for @pearlxcore & @Codsworth and anyone else who contributed to this playground.

again thank you! other than this issue runs great. only been using dumper and hen. apps2usb is next .. anyways back to my issue or bug, when using dumoer 1.7 beta on 4.55. not sure how as i cant re create bug/issue but has happened twice so far.

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as you can see all of a sudden my external has 3 partitions.. on a renoot or power up i saw "this usb device cant be used" the first time it took me a minute to figure it out,i just delete all partitions and then reformat to exfat. going to have to do it again but i figured i would share this issue.