Playden now updates itself. This release also checks free space before installs, ships settings for FINAL FANTASY XIII, and includes kit H r9, which fixes Direct3D effects in some older games.
Warning
Alpha software. 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-ps5-0.3.0.zip
| The Playden app (FAKE77031), the console tools (tools/) and the license files.
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playden-kit-h-r9.zip
| Runtime kit H r9 (hl2-fw1360-dev1): Wine for the PS5, graphics drivers, Wine Mono, the Windows environment and the per-game app shell, with SOURCES.md and LICENSES/.
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playden-update.json
| Used by Playden to update itself. You don't need to download it. |
Update both. Playden 0.3.0 accepts only kit H r9, and kit H r9 needs Playden 0.3.0. For a new install, follow the README.
Updating from 0.2.0
Playden 0.2.0 can't update itself, so update it by hand one last time. Unzip both files next to each other, then run the commands from the playden-ps5-0.3.0 folder:
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Close Playden on the console.
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Upload the new kit. It replaces kit H r8:
python3 tools/console_kit_upload.py ../playden-kit-h-r9/hl2-fw1360-dev1 --host <PS5 IP> --replace
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Update the app:
python3 tools/console_title_deploy.py --host <PS5 IP> deploy FAKE77031 --backup backups/0.2.0
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Start Playden. Your sign-in, games, saves and Game settings are kept.
What's new
- Automatic updates. Playden checks for a new version each time it starts, and installs it when you choose to. How it works.
- Free space. Game details show how much space the game needs and how much the drive has, and Playden won't start an install that doesn't fit. You can pick another drive for one game.
- Finished downloads stay listed in Downloads for 7 days.
- FINAL FANTASY XIII works out of the box: Playden ships its settings. Thanks @tslater2006!
- Collections: a game's Collections sheet now has a checkbox for each collection.
- Kit H r9 fixes Direct3D 9 effects in some older games. DoDonPachi Resurrection now works.
- New Home screen artwork for Playden. Thanks @sdhEmily! After a manual update from 0.2.0, the old artwork stays until Playden next updates itself.
Fixed
- Accounts with thousands of licenses couldn't install games: the license check always timed out (#47).
- A download that couldn't reach Steam failed. Now it waits and tries again.
- Some games crashed after an update of Playden's Steam emulator, for example DoDonPachi Resurrection at its title screen.
What works
See the compatibility list and the known issues. New since 0.2.0: FINAL FANTASY XIII, DOOM Eternal, Portal, Portal 2, PEAK and more. Test reports are welcome, including for games that work.
Thanks
- @tslater2006 for FINAL FANTASY XIII (#34, #35, #38).
- @sdhEmily for the new Home screen artwork (#42).
- Everyone who sent a test report for the compatibility list: @kernelpanicz, @sdhEmily, @Cevap05, @CortezJ88, @Dasloh, @isaacm0880, @ljk4160, @porkchopkilla and @Vinsn1.
Checksums (SHA-256)
3e7d58481befeba9f622bdf84c44acc5e13657dcb996f438c02d85f85b333d89 playden-kit-h-r9.zip
f4210a444da42d56e7d1b895abe7d73ff84464ec1baedc9508ec82234c28d564 playden-ps5-0.3.0.zip
d29e89ab583425a9bfd6e3dd33d1fc477f333c5fbe1404f9ccaadf04ef44dc03 playden-update.json
Kit H r9 manifest.json SHA-256: a8390b0264ea6486d14846c1e1b5c09af6b7e02281b53dae21a26d8617f9a87b.
Sources
Playden is built from tag v0.3.0 of this repository and its submodules. The kit's source revisions are listed in
SOURCES.md inside the kit download and in
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.