Repacking PS4 Game Updates Manually by Hand Guide by Sashka

[Sashka]

I'll tell you how i achieved this and i hope this will help others with other games like this as well. maybe some steps are not necessary but this is how i did it:

1. install EP1004-CUSA00411_00-GTAVDIGITALDOWNL-A0100-V0105.pkg
2. dump it with xvortex dumper 1.6 and split option
3. go to cusa00411-app/sce_sys/param.sfo and open it with orbis-pub-sfo.exe (faketools 1.2) and change master version 1.05 to 1.00 and save it.
4. create gp4 with gengp4 and build the pkg with orbis-pub-gen.
5. now you've got your own EP1004-CUSA00411_00-GTAVDIGITALDOWNL-A0100-V0100.pkg keep it because we need it later.
6. use orbis-pub-chk and extract jhonnys v1.21 update with passcode 00000000000000000000000000000000 to the cusa00411-patch folder
7. now you have got 2 folders. image0 and sc0. you have to integrate the content of sc0 to image0/sce_sys. there will be a folder called "app" in the sc0 folder. there is a playgo-chunk.dat in it which you will have to put in image0/sce_sys and overwrite it with the existing one. then you can delete the folder "app" because we don't need it to be in image0/sce_sys.
8. now you've got your patch files in the right structure (compare with the file structure from your previous made dump of cusa00411-app if you are unsure) but they are still inside the cusa0411-patch/image0/... so now you have to take all files from image0 and move them to cusa0411-patch. now delete the empty image0 folder.
9. use gengp4 and create gp4 from cusa0411-patch folder.
10. build the patch gp4 with orbis-pub-gen. it will be successful because it finds the EP1004-CUSA00411_00-GTAVDIGITALDOWNL-A0100-V0100.pkg you created in step 5.
11. when its finished, you've got your game.pkg in v1.00 and your own created v1.21 patch.pkg from jhonny and both install fine!

Try it out. this is how i got it running on my machine!

Here's an updated version from @alexandre47 also, to quote:

1) Create CUSA00419-patch folder
2) Extract all files and directories of UP1004-CUSA00419_00-GTAVDIGITALDOWNL-A0121-V0100.pkg with orbis-pub-chk in CUSA00419-patch folder (passcode is 00000000000000000000000000000000)
3) Delete UP1004-CUSA00419_00-GTAVDIGITALDOWNL-A0121-V0100.pkg
4) Move all the content in CUSA00419-patch/Sc0/ to CUSA00419-patch/Image0/sce_sys/
5) Delete Sc0 folder
6) Move playgo-chunk.dat from CUSA00419-patch/Image0/sce_sys/app/ to CUSA00419-patch/Image0/sce_sys/ and overwrite it
7) Delete app folder
8) Move all the content in CUSA00419-patch/Image0/ to CUSA00419-patch/
9) Delete Image0 folder
10) Create gp4 of CUSA00419-patch folder with gengp4 v1.7 and save it
11) Open CUSA00419-patch.gp4 with orbis-pub-gen, go to Command->Project Setting->Patch and look at Application package:
12a) If you see (Package Digest: XXXXXXXXXXX...), click OK
12b) If you see (Image is not valid), click Select, go to the folder where UP1004-CUSA00419_00-GTAVDIGITALDOWNL-A0100-V0100.pkg is and open it, click OK
13) Go to Command->Build Image->Select Output Path->Build
14) Done

Spoiler

Also, here's a brief guide on Rebuilding PS4 PKGs Manually courtesy of @jwooh:

1. Unpack the update with orbis-pub-chk, passcode should be all zero's.
2. Copy all the stuff from the Sc0 folder then open the Image0 and find the sce_sys open it and paste the stuff you copied from the Sc0 folder in it.
3. Rename the Image0 folder to CUSA02624-patch (if game's Title ID is CUSA02624, otherwise adjust accordingly using TitleID-patch name format).
4. Run gengp4 to make a gp4 file for the patch.
5. Run orbis-pub-gen, click on the file button in the upper left hand corner and pick open then find the gp4 file you made using gengp4 open it.
6. Click the command button in orbis-pub-gen go to the project settings and click on that.
7. On the project settings page click the tab that says patch now, you should have two places that say select.. click the top one and find your base game then click okay at the bottom left hand corner.
8. You should be back on the main screen for orbis-pub-gen, click on the build button in the right hand corner then down close to the bottom.. click the select button and pick a place where you want to save the new patch pkg.
9. Then hit the build button, at the bottom and it should make you a new patch that matches the base for you.

 

[PSXHAX]

Copied to the PS4 Guides and Tutorials section as requested and Sticky'd for awhile.

 

[mschumacher69]

@PSXHAX you might wanna add the updated one by @alexandre47 as well because it's more comprehensive than @sasha's original method.

There's also an auto method here.

 

[PSXHAX]

Added the updated one to the OP now also.

 

[mschumacher69]

Great thanks!

 

[stripnwild]

does anyone know if there is a way to have orbis-pub-chk not use the C: drive as it's extraction path?

 

[speedy2010]

Can you explain it in a video plz ?

 

[morimori]

@stripnwild You mean the output folder?, if i'm reading this right, you have the option on where to extract the files, it's been there the whole time, just press the select button on the top right then you can choose where to extract your files, it's not set in a specific destination

 

[Halim Bahloul]

Great thanks!

 

[moonraker7]

This works a treat - many thanks!