Running with AnyPS5

Running with AnyPS5

AnyPS5 converts PS5 executables into programs that run on a PC. It works on plain ELF files plus the game's modules. A package stores those as fake-signed SELF files inside a compressed filesystem, which is the gap this tool fills.

Building AnyPS5

Follow AnyPS5's own instructions. You need these two paths inside the AnyPS5 build directory:

• core/relinker/relinker (relinker.exe on Windows): the relinker binary
• core/libs/libs/*.prx: the system libraries the converted game loads

If either is missing, the error names the path it looked for.

Relinking

Extract with pkg-to-anyps5, then run the relinker on the result:

pkg-to-anyps5 game.pkg out
~/AnyPS5/build/core/relinker/relinker out/source/eboot.bin out/app.elf
mkdir -p out/libs && cp ~/AnyPS5/build/core/libs/libs/*.prx out/libs/
chmod +x out/app.elf

Deprecated: --relink, and --module-dir and --windows with it, are no longer maintained and will be removed in v1. They still work in 0.2.x and print a warning. The steps above do the same thing and let you pass any relinker option.

Unity games

Unity games ship part of their code as modules outside sce_module/:

• Media/Modules/*.prx are imported by the executable. The relinker finds and converts them automatically.

• Media/Plugins/*.prx are loaded at run time without being imported. Pass --module-dir Media/Plugins to the relinker so it converts them too (this needs an AnyPS5 relinker with --module-dir support):

  ~/AnyPS5/build/core/relinker/relinker --module-dir Media/Plugins out/source/eboot.bin out/app.elf

Windows

Pass --windows to the relinker to get app.exe:

~/AnyPS5/build/core/relinker/relinker --windows out/source/eboot.bin out/app.exe

You can extract and relink on Linux and copy the whole output folder (app.exe, libs/, app0/) to Windows. pkg-to-anyps5 also runs natively on Windows; relinking there needs a Windows build of AnyPS5's relinker (core/relinker/relinker.exe).

When the game stops

A game that stops at load time with an unimplemented system call or library function (for example _umtx_op or sceHttpSetAuthInfoCallback) is a limitation of AnyPS5's coverage, not an extraction problem. Report it to AnyPS5 with the function name.