Community recipes are on for everyone. Game settings lists the settings other players shared for a game, with how well they ran, and you can share your own in a few presses, with no GitHub account.
New runtime kit 0.25 lets Project Zomboid load a world again, and Steam games installed from now on run from Steam's own folder, so The Talos Principle gets past its login screen. Beta 4 also adds DLC management, fixes Borderlands 2 starting its 2K launcher instead of the game, and gets SUPERHOT and Leaf It Alone past the start.
Warning
Beta of alpha software. Betas can have new bugs. Playden signs in to your real Steam account and reads and writes your Steam Cloud saves. Read Before you use it first.
Downloads
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
playden-ps5-0.11.0-beta.4.zip
| The Playden app (the FAKE77031 folder), the console tools (tools/), the README, the compatibility list and the license files.
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playden-kit-0.25.zip
| Runtime kit 0.25. Playden downloads it by itself; you need this file only to install the kit by hand. |
playden-update.json
| Used by Playden to update itself and to find its kit. You don't need to download it. |
Getting the beta (from 0.7.0 or newer): turn on Settings › Updates › Beta updates, then Check now. Playden updates the app and runtime kit 0.25 (477 MB). Make sure console storage has at least 8 GB free first (PS5 Settings › Storage). Your sign-in, games, saves and Game settings are kept.
After the update: Playden asks once whether to update your games to the new runtime kit. This takes about 30 seconds per game and downloads nothing from Steam. If you choose Later, they stay on the Runtimes tab of Manage installed games, and Play updates a game's runtime kit first. No Recreate bottle is needed for this kit. Games you installed before keep running from their own folder; see Steam library folder below.
Updating from 0.6.0 or older: update to 0.8.0 first (see its notes), then turn on Beta updates.
New install: unzip playden-ps5-0.11.0-beta.4.zip into a folder of its own and copy the FAKE77031 folder to /data/homebrew/ (see the README). On its first start Playden offers to download the runtime kit; you can sign in while it downloads.
What's new
- Community recipes for everyone. Game settings › Preset lists the recipes other players shared for a game, with how well they ran. Share recipe near the end of Game settings sends yours for review, and Playden asks how a game ran after you play it. Shares can carry no name, a name you type, or a Playden account (Settings › Community › Share as). No GitHub account is needed. (format and rules)
- Steam library folder. A Steam game installed from now on runs from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\<folder>, where Steam installs it, instead of Playden's own folder. Some games need this to find Steam: The Talos Principle stopped at a Croteam login screen. Games installed before keep Playden's folder; turn it on for one in Game settings › Compatibility › Steam › Steam library folder. Needs runtime kit 0.25. (#826) - Manage DLC. Maintenance › Manage DLC… lists a game's DLC with their sizes. Turning one on downloads only its files, turning one off removes only its own files, and the change runs as an update in the Queue. (#805)
- Touchpad hold. Game settings › Controls › Touchpad hold › Switch to Mouse: hold the touchpad for 2 seconds to swap to a mouse preset for menus the controller can't use (left stick moves the pointer, Cross clicks, Options is Enter), and again to swap back. Needs runtime kit 0.25.
- Game settings opens on a summary. It shows the preset and your changes, one line each; Change settings… opens every setting by section. The Steam settings have their own heading in Compatibility, and Logging moved to Advanced.
- Import a recipe from web access. A game's page and the games list on Playden's web page have Import recipe, for a recipe file from your computer. The game uses it at once. The Files tab is now Game files.
- Cloud sync says why it couldn't reach Steam: the console's DNS, Steam asking Playden to wait, no answer in time, or no sign-in, instead of "Steam is not reachable" for all of them. (#822)
New in runtime kit 0.25 (prospero-win)
- Steam library folder: the kit shows a Steam game in
steamapps\commonand finds it there in any letter case, as Windows does. (#826) - Project Zomboid loads a world without running out of open files: Wine watches the game's folders itself. (#813)
- Touchpad hold can swap presets without a launcher.
Fixed
- Borderlands 2 started its 2K launcher, where the controller does nothing. Playden took the launcher for an XNA game; it starts
Borderlands2.exeagain, and the launcher stays a choice in Game settings › Program. (#825) - SUPERHOT quit at start. Its Steam program only starts another program; Playden now starts the Unity player behind it, for any Unity game set up that way. (#755)
- Far Cry 3 stopped preparing with "duplicate registry value". A value two install scripts both set now takes the later one. The game still needs Ubisoft Connect, so it doesn't run yet. (#607)
- Leaf It Alone stopped after its splash. Playden makes a game's Steam Cloud save folders before it starts, as Steam does. (#714)
- Games that take files from another Steam app installed without them. Half-Life 2 now also installs its episodes and Lost Coast, and Counter-Strike its
hl.exe. Installed copies get them with an update. (#441) - Settings changed while a game waited for the PS5 reached it late. Game settings opens once the PS5 has added the game.
Games to test
These games should work now, or better than before. Please try them and say how it goes on the linked issue, or open a test report if there's none.
Fixed in this release, please confirm on your console:
- The Talos Principle: gets past the Croteam login screen. Installed before? Turn on Game settings › Compatibility › Steam › Steam library folder first. (#826)
- Borderlands 2: starts the game with the controller, not the 2K launcher. (#825)
- Project Zomboid: loads a world. (#813)
- SUPERHOT: starts. (#755)
- Leaf It Alone: gets past its splash. (#714)
- Half-Life 2: Episode One, Episode Two and Lost Coast, DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil and Counter-Strike: get the files they take from another app. (#441)
Might work now, not tried yet:
- Other games that ask for a login or say Steam isn't running although Steam features is set: try Game settings › Compatibility › Steam › Steam library folder › Steam's folder.
- Team Fortress Classic: should now install with
hl.exe, like Counter-Strike. (#441) - Other Unity games that quit right after start.
- Games with DLC you couldn't turn on or off before: Maintenance › Manage DLC….