Tutorial HOW TO make a custom patch FPKG for game modding.

[J00n3]

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How-TO

Unpack the FPKG that contains EBOOT.BIN and sc0 folder by using orbis-pub-chk (I won't provide it here, you will have to google PS4 SDK 4.50 or FPKG tool)





You need to have passcode for the base FPKG otherwise you won't be able to extract contents (including EBOOT.BIN) inside image0



Select EBOOT.BIN and everything in the sc0 folder.

Go to the extracted folder, in this case I chose "PATCHPKG"



Merge sc0 with image0. contents inside sc0 should be placed inside image0/sce_sys/





Use gengp4.exe to generate GP4 file, (for modders modding patch.pkg, save your param.sfo before using gengp4.exe, because gengp4 changes param.sfo to disc game type so you will have to edit param.sfo after generating gp4, if you saved your param.sfo before using that tool then you can replace the modified one with your backup)





Go to GP4, and change following

"<volume_type>pkg_ps4_app</volume_type>" to "<volume_type>pkg_ps4_patch</volume_type>"
"digital50" to "digital25"

Then save your GP4



Open a HEX editor and change following from PARAM.SFO

This is where you setup the pkg format and app version. Since I'm modding the original 1.00 I change this value to anything higher than 1.00 , in this case I'll do 1.01,

"gd" means game disc, you need to change this to "gp" which is game patch.

Then save this file, you're almost done.

Open that GP4 you previously generated via gengp4 v1.8 with orbis-pub-gen,

Open Project Setting via Command (C)

CONTENT ID should already be set as well as the passcode if you used GP4 made by gengp4.exe

Passcode must match with the base game, in this case mine was 00000000000000000000000000000000

Go to the Patch tab and select your base game for Application Package:

Then start building

Done you successfully built your 1.01 pkg.

Now, let's test our pkg.

Now the version is 1.01

The game booted fine too

Enjoy

 

[chronoss]

Thanks for this great tuto, i make one for French user on modconsoles !

 

[peterandre1234]

nice

 

[AlexLeoni]

Where can I find passcode's for the base FPKG?

 

[lewisddt11]

could you use this to mod a game and transfer to another ps4 like on ps3?

 

[nate72.]

,

 

[JosephBullet]

Where can I find passcode's for the base FPKG?

you should ask at the place you got the package. Usually the pass is all zerrows so try that.

 

[JosephBullet]

Can I use this to change the keystone file of the game? How would I do that?
1) In the step where you extract the fpkg do I need to extract the keystone also? Or Should I just put the original keystone in that place and then follow the rest of the steps?

2) If this works should I patch the original game with the keystone patch first and then apply the update of the game? Does the order matter?

 

[LyuboA]

so i can use this method to make Retail Update pkg to work with my FPKG game ??

 

[peterandre1234]

so i can use this method to make Retail Update pkg to work with my FPKG game ??

Yea, just extract the retail package.

 

[kamlidadhola]

great tutorial...

 

[RiPPERD]

fixed my problems with this... ive adapted some tools out there and made a n00b proof toolkit here

https://forum.darksoftware.net/threads/ps4-ripkit-tool-by-ripperd-updated-v1-5.5347/

 

[shaundre]

QUESTION if u are able to make a custom patch file for a title use hex and edit some code why cant u just reverese this process by downgrading a title requiring sys ofw 6+ and make a patch file for the game so it can run on<5.05?

 

[shaundre]

this will save time in working on kernel exploit and spoofers

 

[shaundre]

REPACK a pkg so it will run on 5.05 like spiderman and so on

 

[shaundre]

o 1 more question these custom home made patches will this allow u to run dlc on them that's released on a higher firmware and if that's the case then why not do it for games requiring higher firmware

 

[RiPPERD]

REPACK a pkg so it will run on 5.05 like spiderman and so on

not sure if this was aimed at me but from what i know we cannot rip 5.5X games with a 5.05 console

 

[shaundre]

not sure if this was aimed at me but from what i know we cannot rip 5.5X games with a 5.05 console

well from what i know you can download official PKG's 5.xx i know where and due to policies i cant mention it but if u can get the opkg and fake sign it repack it erase or rather patch the file that let the system know that this game needs to run on a higher firmware then boom we can enjoy the latest games

 

[RiPPERD]

well from what i know you can download official PKG's 5.xx i know where and due to policies i cant mention it but if u can get the opkg and fake sign it repack it erase or rather patch the file that let the system know that this game needs to run on a higher firmware then boom we can enjoy the latest games

im pretty sure if this was the case... the new spiderman would have been posted... not seen it come up anywhere yet

 

[shaundre]

hold up lemme show u.