Porpoise 2.7 is a big one:
- Home screen tiles: give any game its own tile on the PS5 home screen that opens straight into it (a game's settings → Home screen).
- Tile art editor: see the tile's icon and background as the home screen shows them. Use the cover, the back of the box, a screenshot, the title screen or your own picture; crop and zoom it, or set it whole over a blur, white, black or a Porpoise pattern.
- Settings wait for Apply (Square), ask before you leave with changes, and offer a restart for the few that need one, in the menus and in-game.
- Inverted sticks: the control stick and the C-stick, up-down, left-right or both, for each game.
- Scanlines, Shadow mask and LCD screen filters.
- First-start setup questions, and a Diagnostic test in Settings → About.
- Optimizations, stability improvements and fixes for reported bugs.
Also in 2.7
- Faster save states (about half a second to save), with pictures of the whole image at any resolution.
- Download covers again, for every game or just one, and the cover glides into the launch screen.
- Faster start: games are found in the background, and system folders are skipped.
- PAL games that switch to 60 Hz are followed.
- Stay in the sandbox (Settings → Games) for consoles where freeing Porpoise closes it, and Porpoise asks what to do if it closed last time.
- Revolution shows every game, GameCube and Wii.
- Other apps can start a game in Porpoise (
--rom, thanks to MartinPham).
Catching up from an older version?
- 2.5: smoother sound and sound presets, an Audio tab in-game, the GameCube controller for Wii games, Dolphin's graphics mods, and controller extras (light bar colors, turbo, quick save buttons).
- 2.1 and 2.1.1: RetroAchievements with PS5-style trophy popups and achievement lists, your own cheats folder, custom buttons for every Wii controller, true widescreen per game, Porpoise's folder on extended storage or USB, and Online (beta) for WiiLink.
🙏 Special thanks
A huge thank you to Martin Pham (@MartinPham). Home screen tiles were his idea: he suggested them, built the first version (#11) and has supported Porpoise all along. Thank you, Martin, for your contributions and support!
What's next 👀
Triforce arcade support is in the works: the GameCube-based arcade board behind games like Mario Kart Arcade GP 1 and 2. Stay tuned on the Discord.
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Warning
Porpoise is still in early development on the PS5. If you run into bugs or glitches in a game, please report them on the RIPALDA Discord, with the game's name, and we'll get them fixed as soon as we can.
Install or update
Note
Having trouble with PS5 Upload? If it doesn't work for you, copy Porpoise over FTP instead (in binary mode, see below). Still stuck? Reach out on the Discord and we'll help you out.
Use ShadowMountPlus 1.7 beta 4 or newer. With older versions, Porpoise can close the moment it opens on some setups (firmware 12.x with the Lapy JB Daemon or LegacyJB).
From 2.0 or later: Settings → About → Updates.
By hand: download Porpoise-2.7.zip, delete /data/homebrew/PPSA99764/ on the PS5, and copy the PPSA99764 folder into /data/homebrew/. With FTP, use binary transfers (FileZilla: Transfer → Transfer type → Binary), or some text files won't copy. Your games, saves and settings in /data/porpoise/ are kept.
Porpoise contains no games, BIOS or firmware. Play only games you own. Not affiliated with Nintendo, Sony or RetroAchievements. Licenses are in licenses/README.txt inside the zip.
Porpoise-2.7.zip SHA-256: dbb895934d84a2445dc36cbcabdc0c299359aa76ddb540c8b4791da5e400891c