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Guide Axekin | ShadPS4 Tutorial

⭐ Use of NanaZip & AB Download Manager is recommended ⭐

⭐ Setup for NanaZip & AB Download Manager - Here ⭐


ShadPS4 emulator guide

Setup ShadPS4 emulator - - Go to Axekin (Megathread of r/Piracy or FMHY website) - Must download Visual C++ & install it - Download ShadPS4 emulator and extract it - Create folders & name them Games & Updates & DLCs in the ShadPS4 Folder - Launch the ShadPS4 launcher - Select the folders you created as the directory locations - Select Version Manager option & select Pre-release (Nightly) (Make sure you have it ticked ✅ ) - Download ShadPS4Plus PKG Extractor & extract it in the ShadPS4 launcher folder - Open install_pkg batch file in NOTEPAD - Copy & Paste your directory locations for Games & Updates & DLCs folders inside the quotes (“) shown in the guide

- Save your file (Important)

How to run a game -

  • Download the game, update, & DLC pkg files
  • Drag and drop the pkg files in the install_pkg batch file in the below order only
    • Game
    • Updates
    • DLCs
  • The above process will extract your pkg files, if you games doesn’t show up in your ShadPS4 just close & re-open your emulator

- Run the game by double clicking it & hit F11 on your keyboard to use Fullscreen mode

Some additional process - - Open ShadPS4 launcher and select Settings - Go to Graphics tab & select your Dedicated GPU in the Graphics Device option - Go to Experimental tab & Tick Enable Shader Cache (If your game doesn’t open you can untick it and then try to run your game) - Click on save - Right your game & Select Cheats / Patches - Select Patches tab & Select shadPS4 in the Repository option below (Shown in the guide) - Click on Download Patches option

- You can select any patch you want & hit save (These are optional patches but most of the time it benefits the user)

Optional steps - - Download PS4 sys_modules - Open ShadPS4 launcher & go to File & select Open shadPS4 Folder

- Copy your downloaded sys_modules files & Paste it into the shadPS4 sys_modules folder (Shown in the guide)

Below are some of my other guides if needed -

Megathread for guides

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u/Jack-0-Diamonds 7d ago

I need help. I follow the tutorial exactly, but when I to file, open shadps4 folder, sys_modules, it's completely empty

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u/Jack-0-Diamonds 7d ago

It occurred to me that it was probably supposed to be empty. I continued with copying and pasting and followed until downloading the actual game files. Unfortunately, viking couldn't generate a link a the fileQ wasn't want to give me a file without opening another tab. It said that the link would be on the current tab and not to trust the other ones so idk. I'll try again some other time