New features
New package workflows
- Backup conversion –
ProsperoBackupConverterfor converting disc/package backups. - Homebrew packaging –
ProsperoHomebrewPackagerto package homebrew content, plus a sample test package undersrc/HomebrewTest/. - Split-package merging –
ProsperoPkgMergerfor merging multi-part packages. - Launch-readiness checks –
ProsperoLaunchReadinessto verify a package is ready to run.
Inner image and metadata
- Adds the "nwonly" data-first inner-image path with a PS5 inner-image builder, assembler, reader, and metadata/flat-path-table helpers.
- New metadata models:
ProsperoManifest,ProsperoParam, and related enums. - New
ProsperoElfHeaderparsing and a debug-license helper. - NAPS layout builder and nwonly NAPS generator.
Image handling
- New
ProsperoPngDecoderenabling PNG-to-DDS decoding.
Improvements and fixes
- Expands the native C ABI (
NativeExports.cs,exports.txt,libprosperopkg.h) with many new exported functions. - Broader package, ELF, and PFS inspection across the extractor, PKG builder, FIH builder, and SI archive.
- Reworked Oodle/Kraken compression internals and PFS writer refinements.
Documentation and build
- Updates the README, getting-started, API overview, PS5 PKG format, and implementation-status docs to reflect the new capabilities.
- Updates the Linux and macOS native build workflows.
Notes
PKG files still do not install yet and fail currently with following messages :
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] begin (UP9000-PPSA99099_00-PROSPERO00000000)
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] not found PlayGoScenario json
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] Staring Pre-allocation transfer on NativeApplicationActor
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] crc validation disabled
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] BfsContainerCreate : fd=35 container_id=1 name=FIH/SC capacity_reserved=393216 # ret=0x0
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] BfsContainerBind : fd=35 container_id=1 length=65536 offset=0 # ret=0x0
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] BfsContainerBind : fd=35 container_id=1 length=327680 offset=720896 # ret=0x0
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] supplemental info transfer started
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] supplemental info transfer ended (0x00000000)
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] not found PlayGoScenario json
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall][ERROR] not support signature.(0x00000000)
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall][WARNING] playgo-chunk.crc not found
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] BfsContainerCreate : fd=35 container_id=2 name=PlayGo Chunk capacity_reserved=655360 # ret=0x0
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] BfsContainerBind : fd=35 container_id=2 length=655360 offset=65536 # ret=0x0
[PlayGoCore][DbgInstall] end (UP9000-PPSA99099_00-PROSPERO00000000, 0x80b21185)