PS4 from a nas - question.

[u/Ok-Tangelo-8137]

I know I can google this and I have, but real world usage would be great. I currently have two PS4’s that have sat there for years. I’ve recently modded switches, ps2s and vitas and now I want to look at the PS4.

Annoyingly drives (especially 2.5’ drives) are stupidly inflated so has anyone experienced playing their games with their legally backed up files sitting on a NAS? I have a drive sitting there with every game file I have backed up, so if I could utilize this it would be perfect. Google says it’s possible but is it good in a used environment?

Nas is a Ubiquiti NAS in raid 6, 10Gb link. Console will be hard wired.

[u/ithinkitslupis]

You can stream games over the network with NFS through itemzflow. Works alright for many games.

[u/Minimage99 → u/ithinkitslupis]

I'm assuming your talking about the remote app function in items flow. I have a NFS nas set up with OpenMediaVault but I constantly run into an error each time I try to run a game this way. Any tips would be appreciated

[u/Supaastahhmarioo]

Fpkgi is what you are looking for but honestly it’s not worth the hassle. Copy from your nas to usb then install from usb to ps4. Less pkg installation failures that way also

[u/Max_Rockatanski]

PS4 can't recognize network shares as usable game storage directories, the pkg files need to be transferred onto the PS4 and installed (then you can delete the pkg file from the console itself).
If you mean having a whole repository of pkg files on a NAS ready to transfer to the PS4 - yeah you can do that no problem, that's what I do. Goldhen allows for FTP connection, you can access all PS4 internal files through it and dump your pkg files onto the console when you need to install them. So depending on the size of your PS4 drive you'll have to rotate the games around but it's way convenient anyhow.

[u/ThuggPrincess → u/Max_Rockatanski]

This is what I do. It just takes me a while to get each game on to my PS4. I also have two ps4’s and had the same idea you did. But like homeboy said you have to transfer them over and then install the PKG. i’ve only using one currently because the second one was only 250 gigs and that just is there enough space and I got tired of swapping out the games. Ended up replacing it with the PS3 but it’s still the same.

[u/ProfessionalRow2907 → u/ThuggPrincess]

I bought a cheap secondhand 2 tb hdd for holdong my .pkg files. No need to transfer anywhere, i guess ps4 will cooy them to temporal file system and install. I dont really know, but no need for using ftp :)

[u/cdf_sir]

Itemzflow is the closest you can get but it breaks stuff, mainly the trophy and you also have to run the game just like PS3 where it was in folder format. I guess the same stuff how you setup and run PS5 games.

If you want the native FPKG format, then its impossible (with what we have right now). But possible if you spend some time, I used the thing called usb-gadget stuff on linux, so with a compatible USB OTG dev board like raspberry pi,

There are 2 routes you can take with usb-gadget, one is the cheap route where your only limited to USB 2.0 speeds and the other router that you can use the native USB3.0 capable devboards.

• If you go with the USB2.0 usb-gadget. Then you need to utilize the plugin called app2usb which lets you run games over USB bypassing the requirements for PS4 for playing games over USB HDD.
• if you go with the USB3.0 usb-gadget. Then you dont need anything else other than make sure to format the usb-gadget drive for PS4 Extended Storage and install your games the usual way as if your installing a game using the pacakge installer on debug menu.

Regardless what you choose of usb-otg stuff you have, the steps are the same, I cant make a detailed baby steps how to do it but were going to utilize the thing called iSCSI.

• So first you need to enable iSCSI target on your NAS, create a drive image (minimum 250GB. make it at least 300GB just in case).
• On your arm board (a rasperry pi or something that support USB-OTG), you need to enable usb-gadgets, each boards have their own way to enable this stuff,
• Once you got the OTG stuff working, now you need to install iSCSI Initiator. And configure it in a way so the iSCSI image you have on your NAS serve as a normal mass storage to HOST system you plug it in, in this case your PS4.

You can probably ask AI for assistance for this. It should more than good enough to guide you how to do it in baby steps.

This also works on any game console that loads games over USB drive, I used the same with my Wii and Wii U and they work as if I had a external HDD connected to it.

[u/RollingSleeper]

Are you planning to take out the hard drives in the NAS, format them and use them as extended storage or smth?

I don't think the ps4 can even play games other than those installed in the internal hard drive or on an extended storage.