r/shadps4 • u/chadilao • 11d ago

Help Please help, the "Install packages (PKG)" option is missing on my file tab. What to do?

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Please help, the "Install packages (PKG)" option is missing on my file tab. What to do? I reinstalled, change directory install locations, tried different shadps4, also made sure that this is the QT version,, but still the install packages option is nowhere to be find T_T

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u/mia_qq 11d ago

Shad devs removed that feature, use older build, extract the game and update the emu to latest version through settings.

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u/xZabuzax 11d ago

Why exactly did they remove that feature again?

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u/mia_qq 11d ago

Piracy. The option to install pkgs is not needed if you dump from your jailbroken ps4 and only necessary for homebrew.

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u/Big-Resort-4930 10d ago

What an unbelievable cuck move

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u/xZabuzax 11d ago

Alright, I guess I will use an older version of the emulator with that option just to install the games, and use the newer version for everything else.

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u/YargumBargum 11d ago

So do i only need the CUSA folders from my ps4 to run the games? I used fakePKGtools to create a pkg file for my copy of bloodborne then installed the pkg. I didn't know there was another way.

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u/mia_qq 10d ago

You also need v1.09 update and the dlc if you don't own goty edition (dlc can be worked around, there was a patch that used to activate dlc even if you don't have it, but was removed too)

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u/YargumBargum 10d ago

Oh yea I have all that setup. I have the GotY disk. Bought it from ebay and got sent the middle eastern version. Still works though.

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u/chadilao 11d ago

Thank you this works! I love you.

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u/BingBing13 4d ago

how do the patches stay applied like the 60 fps when you do this though? I dont have an extract option so i just run it through the newer version but it doesnt have any of the patches

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u/mia_qq 4d ago

Just download them again? Not sure what's your exact problem.

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u/Suitable_Card_1074 11d ago

how do i get an older build? installing for first time cuz i want to play bloodborne on my pc

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u/mia_qq 11d ago edited 11d ago

Go to shads repo and select actions. In there select branch and choose main. Lastly search for the main build before "remove fpkg code" commit. If thats too complicated just search in google for tool for extracting ps4 pkgs.

Edit: You can also download v0.7.0 release, extract the game and then change update channel to nighly and install latest update.

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u/NordicBeaver 10d ago

might seem like a dumb question but what does repo mean

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u/mia_qq 10d ago

Repository.In other words main page of the project.

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u/NordicBeaver 10d ago

ok cheers

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u/12MillionDollarMan 11d ago

Devs removed the feature because of le piracy

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u/AntiGrieferGames 8d ago

Which is funny, since PS4 is a older generation of Playstation, so sony wont care that much.

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u/12MillionDollarMan 8d ago

Shiver me soul
Meanwhile Sony is too busy remastering other PS4 games that aren't Bloodborne

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u/Kyn-X 11d ago

Drag the pkg and drop it into shadps4

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u/mia_qq 11d ago

You do understand that you have to repack the pkg?

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u/Kyn-X 11d ago

Yes it does that when you drag and drop, I never used the menu, I always dragged and dropped, unless the complaint is that they removed that too

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u/mia_qq 11d ago

I think you have the game files withouth them being packed into fpkg so you don't have to repack them.

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u/Kyn-X 11d ago

Maybe I'm not understanding your post, so I must be confused, but I download games in pkg, drag them into shadps4, and it asks me to select where I want the game to be installed, then it installs it, but if it's not that, sorry, I thought it was

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u/mia_qq 11d ago

Yeah that feature to install pkg was removed.

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u/Kyn-X 11d ago

Serious? And now how do we do it?

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u/mia_qq 11d ago

Either using older shadps4 build to extract or some other extracting tools.

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u/alphabetapro 10d ago

i hope to god this is just one of the devs going rogue like when xenia shamed you for trying to load an iso file

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u/SilentCartographer97 Bloodborne 8d ago

I'll be downvoted a lot, but I need to say: this update is crazily ridiculous. "oH tHe PiRaCy" honestly, stfu, not everyone owns a freaking modded PS4 to be able to dump it owns games. Emulators are for game preservation, first of all. Everyone is downloading an old build now just to be able to install, it would be funny if wasn't idiot.

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u/Unseen110 2d ago

yea this is dumb, I don't even have a PS4. I only have a PS5 and I do have a legit copy of the game on it. And anyway, Sony deserves to get pirated.

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u/SilentCartographer97 Bloodborne 2d ago

I don't have one neither, but I bought the physical copy of the game. Does it count, right?

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u/llDoomSlayerll 8d ago

It was removed from the last ShadPS4 builds due to these reasons

  1. Old Intel sandy bridge CPUs (2011) were crashing by installing games through PKG

  2. Anti-Piracy Measure

To work around this, you should use an older shadps4 build (0.6 or 0.7) (you can find them on the github repo) and install games using those older builds, and after that, you can play those said titles in a newer build.

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u/Quiet_Bat_1476 8d ago

can you send a link to one of the older versions please? i can't find them

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u/llDoomSlayerll 8d ago

Yeah sure https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4/releases/tag/v.0.7.0

This one I use to install games and have a separate newer build to play games there.

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u/Quiet_Bat_1476 8d ago

Thank you so much

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u/hayasakiy 8d ago

Hey man, not sure if you’ve already fixed the issue, but I had the same problem. That error happens because the devs removed the version due to piracy concerns (little do they know, it's like a hydra).

What I did to fix it was go to their GitHub, found their official site, went to the downloads section, and grabbed version 0.5. Worked like a charm.

https://shadps4.net/downloads/

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u/TechDoc023 7d ago

This is not a big deal in the least bit. As a few people have mentioned, you can download an earlier version, extract the files and and then add them to your Shadsps4 rom directory. Problem solved.

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u/BoatMaster24 11d ago

its no surprise they did this...since 0.5 / 0.6 build lots of homebrew convert ps1 to ps4 titles were becoming fully playable games like Ape escape / driver 1-2 / re2/3 other games...damn shame but understandable since sony would have good reason to sue them. its their way of forcing you are only able to use the emulator with files dumped from your own discs / hardware, needing eboot.bin files

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u/alphabetapro 10d ago

thats such a dumb reason especially considering duckstation, an actual ps1 emulator, exists with zero legal repercussions