elripalda/Porpoise-Dolphin-Emulator-for-PS5 v1.5.1

Porpoise 1.5.1 - Dolphin Emulator for PS5

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Porpoise 1.5.1. Fixes for "Porpoise can't reach /data", and games on USB and external drives found more easily.

What's fixed

Getting out of the sandbox

If Porpoise starts inside the app sandbox, it can't see /data or any USB drive. This update makes getting out of it much more dependable:

• Keeps asking. Porpoise now asks the jailbreak daemon again for a few seconds instead of once. This targets the "worked the first time, then couldn't read /data" reports, where the daemon wasn't ready yet or the first try lost a timing race.
• Works with more daemons: etaHEN, OnionHEN, and both the classic and the newer Lapy daemon.
• Clear instructions on screen when it still can't get out.

What to set up, depending on what you run:

• etaHEN: turn on Legacy Command Server in etaHEN's Toolbox settings. etaHEN's own app list is built in and can't be edited to add Porpoise, so adding PPSA99764 to a whitelist won't help.
• OnionHEN: add PPSA99764 to exact_title_ids under [app_jailbreak] in /data/OnionHEN/config.ini, then restart the console or reload OnionHEN.
• Lapy daemon: load it before opening Porpoise.

If a launch still lands in the sandbox, open Porpoise once more.

Games on USB and external drives

• USB drives, PS5 extended storage and the usual game folders are now searched four folders deep, so games sorted into subfolders (like games/Wii/...) are found without adding the folder by hand.

• How to play from a drive:

  1. Format it exFAT (FAT32 can't hold files over 4 GB; the PS5 doesn't read NTFS).
  2. Copy your games onto it, up to four folders deep.
  3. Plug it into the PS5, make sure your jailbreak daemon is set up as above, and open Porpoise.
  4. Plugged it in after opening Porpoise? Use Settings → Games → Search for games now.

  Full steps, including PS5 extended storage, are in the README.

Install or update

From 1.1 or 1.5: open Settings → About → Updates and install 1.5.1 from there.

By hand or new install:

1. Download Porpoise-1.5.1.zip below and unzip it. You get a folder named PPSA99764.
2. If you're updating, delete /data/homebrew/PPSA99764/ on the PS5 first. Your games, saves, covers and settings live in /data/porpoise/ and are kept.
3. Copy the PPSA99764 folder into /data/homebrew/ over FTP or with PS5 Upload.
4. For a new install, register it like your other homebrew (for example with ShadowMountPlus).

Still stuck? Open an issue with your firmware, which HEN or daemon you run, and trace.txt from /data/homebrew/PPSA99764/.

Legal

Porpoise contains no games and no BIOS or firmware files. The only key it carries is the Wii disc key Dolphin itself includes, used to read a Wii disc's own banner. Play only games you own, from backups you made yourself. Porpoise is not affiliated with Nintendo or Sony. Emulation is provided by Dolphin (GPL-2.0-or-later). Porpoise is GPL-3.0-or-later; every component's licence and source revision is listed in licenses/README.txt inside the zip.

Porpoise-1.5.1.zip SHA-256: 15c04d083712e551b77a83eb465c5fdd9f6bc9595ddfbecfd1aa6643dcad91ab