OpenOrbis-PS4-Toolchain VS ftpdump

This would fall under the no piracy rule as it would be distributing copyrighted material without permission. You should use the OpenOrbis sdk instead for homebrew development. https://github.com/OpenOrbis/OpenOrbis-PS4-Toolchain

I wouldn't say its super high, its just still fairly early (in homebrew years) so even tools to make stuff are themselves are work in progress. Here is a like to the OpenOrbis toolchain which is what you would ideally use instead of any of the cracked official SDKs. This is Mira which is made to work in tandem on the ps4 side with applications built with OOSDK. Specter has a series of youtube videos showing how to setup OOSDK and use basic functionality. These videos are pretty old now though, so not everything will be the same.

The toolchain itself can be found on this github as well as all the other open orbis stuff.

okay get started https://github.com/OpenOrbis/OpenOrbis-PS4-Toolchain/releases/ lol

This:https://pkg-zone.com/store is a list of all the current homebrew apps available. This: https://github.com/OpenOrbis/OpenOrbis-PS4-Toolchain is the open orbis sdk for legal homebrew development.

If you want to do it legally, you need to use an open source sdk like Open Orbis: https://github.com/OpenOrbis/OpenOrbis-PS4-Toolchain

It's how the PlayStation 4 does imports. It's part of their custom linker stage. There's a tool to generate the same format located here

The answer to the titular question is ftpdump. It takes a bit of setting up, but once you have, it is by far the most efficient and reliable way to dump your games.

Use ftp dump method. https://github.com/hippie68/ftpdump make sure you are using ftp payload mentioned in the readme

Some people reported this works. I'm not on 9.00 so I can't try it. https://github.com/hippie68/ftpdump

ftpdump by hippie68 https://github.com/hippie68/ftpdump

After some different workflows and methods, I settled on using hippie68's excellent ftpdump script, along with the matching payload. This has worked well for converting a bunch of games, however, I ran into weird stuff when working on No Man's Sky.

Game starts tries to load then crashes. https://github.com/hippie68/ftpdump was used to dump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7pH24kJPas&t=900s was used to GP4 and FPKG.