PKGRipper PS4

PKGRipper
General
Author	enriquesomolinos
Type	PC Utilities
Version	2.5
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2022/02/01
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PKGRipper is a tool that enables you to extract content from your personal backups of PS4 games, specifically from Pkg files. A key feature of PKGRipper is its use of patches. These patches contain files that are not necessary in the Pkg file and can be trimmed to zero bytes without any issues, thereby saving significant HDD space! For instance, F1 2020 can be reduced by more than 20GB.

The program automatically detects the patch file that can be directly applied and provides you with the option to select the patch you wish to apply. It's important to note that a single patch file can contain multiple patches due to the various updates a game may have. For example, a game with a base version of 01.00 and updates 01.01, 01.02 can have four different patches:

1. A patch for the pkg 01.00 to remove duplicated content from the version 01.01
2. A patch for the pkg 01.00 to remove duplicated content from the version 01.02
3. A patch for the update pkg 01.01 to remove duplicated content from the version 01.02
4. A patch for the update pkg 01.02 to remove content from the version 01.02

Due to this, the program will always prompt the user to specify which update they have.

How to use

PhR34x0r has shared a great manual to know how to use pkgripper: https://github.com/enriquesomolinos/pkgRipper/raw/master/PKGRipper.Manual.pdf

Requirements

• Windows machine
• .Net Framework
• Fake PKG Tools: can be downloaded from https://github.com/CyB1K/PS4-Fake-PKG-Tools-3.87. Gengp4 and orbis-pub-cmd files must be in the same folder of PkgRipper.
• Your custom patches to apply: if you don't want to do this patches you can download from https://github.com/enriquesomolinos/pkgripper-patches and put them under the patches folder.

Structure

• Output folder: repackaged backups will be stored here
• temp folder: temporal folder to extract and modify pkgs
• patches folder: contains all patches that can be applied

Usage Example

Depending on the size of your files PkgRipper can take a lot of time!!

• If you want to patch a base fpkg file you can follow this video: https://youtu.be/-M4qvpxHKqc
• If you want to patch an update fpkg file you can follow this video: https://youtu.be/boaHX81oSUU

In case you apply a patch to your base pkg you'll need to repackage the update to link with the new base.pkg, this can be done with PkgRipper applying a fake patch (see transformers patch).

Recommendation

• Use only with your own backups, we don't support piracy.
• Use at your own risk, test always the output PKG, we don't asure perfect results

Current patches

Game	Base pkg orig. size	Base pkg with pkgripper	Update pkg orig. size	Update pkg with pkgripper
EP1003-CUSA02092_00-DOOMEUROPEROWSKU	45.9 GB	28.5 GB	29 GB	24.8 GB
EP3678-CUSA17580_00-TRANSFOBASEGAME0	3.2 GB	2.1 GB	0.7 GB	0.7 GB
EP4001-CUSA16283_00-F12020EMASTER000	34.85 GB	17.8 GB	18.5 GB	15.5 GB
EP9000-CUSA12982_00-MEDIEVILHD000001	20 GB	8.0 GB	16 GB	16 GB
UP0777-CUSA27897_00-MSGNASCAR21XXXXX	10.7 GB	0.5	11.5 GB	11.1
EP2037-CUSA25234_00-DKALLIANCE01EURO	19.7 GB	1.2 GB	23.0 GB	23.0 GB
EP6665-CUSA27790_00-WRC10SIEE0000000	25.3 GB	17.0 GB	12.5 GB	11.4 GB
EP1003-CUSA05486_00-SKYRIMHDFULLGAME	31.1 GB	12.4 GB	2.8 GB	2.8 GB
EP4291-CUSA18673_00-CRYSIS3REMASTERE	10.0 GB	6.4 GB	1.8 GB	6.4 GB
EP0001-CUSA15778_00-FARCRY6GAME00000	34.8 GB	0.2 GB	59.3 GB	46.6 GB
EP9000-CUSA01715_00-0000GODOFWAR3PS4	40.0 GB	0.1 GB	37.0 GB	0.1 GB

Media

PS4 PKGRipper Tutorial | Reduce the Size of PS4 Games FPKGs (BrutalSam)

Screenshots

Changelog

v2.5.0

• New
  • #10: now we can see the current uncompressed size of files when we are creating a patch.

v2.4.0

• Fix
  • #6 : patches with empty file lines will not break the execution
• New
  • enriquesomolinos/pkgripper-patches#8: In the patch creator we can add entire folders
  • In the patch creator, duplicated content from updates patches will generate all fields (update_pkg_required and title)

v2.3.1

• As people have started to collaborate I remove the donate button.
• Small stability fixes

v2.3.0

• Now we can check a folder in the patch creator to trim all files inside it.

v2.2

• Added file size inthe patch creator

v2.1

• Patch creator is now available
• Patch List
• Minor bugs on GUI

v2.0

• FIX: #3
• From now we will have only one file for each game. This file will contain all patches that can be applied to all fpkgs of this CUSA.
• Now we can apply one or more patches to a fpkg file.
• Patches will be downloaded automatically when app launchs.
• Added GUI messages to inform the user what is happening.

v1.0

• First GUI implementation.

v0.1

• First Release.

External links

• Wololo - https://wololo.net/2022/01/13/ps4-release-pkgripper-2-2/
• Github - https://github.com/enriquesomolinos/pkgRipper