ps5-theme 1.61

Custom home-screen themes for jailbroken PS5 consoles on firmware 13.60 and below. Runs as an etaHEN plugin or on its own from any ELF loader. Tested on firmware 13.42, both with etaHEN 2.5B (unified build) and from PS5 Payload Manager.

Which file?

• ps5-theme.plugin: for etaHEN. Copy it to /data/etaHEN/plugins/ and turn on auto-start.
• ps5-theme.elf: the same program for PS5 Payload Manager or any ELF loader (port 9021). No etaHEN needed.
• ps5-theme-stop.elf: only for when the manager can't be reached. Start it from Payload Manager or a payload loader, then start ps5-theme again. It stops the plugin and leaves your theme on the screen. Put it in a folder of its own under /data/pldmgr/payloads/.

Updating

• From 1.23 or later: copy the new file over the old one (or put it in /data/ps5-theme/update/). Within about 10 seconds the running plugin finds it and hands over, keeping your theme on the screen. No restart needed.
• From 1.22 or older: copy the new file and restart the console once.
• If you keep a copy in PS5 Payload Manager, replace that one too, so an old version isn't started from there.

New in 1.61 (since 1.60)

• Home music playlists. Press Add song in a theme's Home music section to make a playlist of up to 8 songs. They play one after another, each its own part, joined by a crossfade (1, 2 or 4 seconds), a fade or a straight cut. At the end the playlist starts again from the first song, or the last one keeps repeating (all of it, or a part you choose). Each song is brought to the same loudness first. Reorder songs with ↑ and ↓, choose each one's part, replace or remove them, and play the whole playlist in the browser as the console will loop it. A bar shows how much of the console's length the songs use (on 13.42, a little under 8 minutes). Export and import carry all the songs. See Playlists.
• Preview in the editor. Preview draws a home screen and a Control Center from the theme: its background, its colours, the Appearance artwork of the Appearance theme you pick, a changed font and changed icons. It is drawn in the browser and sends nothing to the console; the real look shows after you apply the theme. See The edit page.

Everything in 1.60 is included. Themes from earlier versions keep their one song as before.

Checked

56 end-to-end tests on the host (full and emulated), and a PS5 with 13.42: a home music playlist made in the editor, applied and heard on the home screen; the Preview; and one-song home music working as before.

Checksums (SHA-256)

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