A native PS5 homebrew app to browse and install games from your NAS.

• Browses your NAS over WebDAV or SMB. Your games show up as a library with their names, covers and sizes, read from each game's sce_sys folder. Game folders are found up to four folders down, and .exfat images are read without downloading them.
• Copies games to the PS5. Queue as many as you like. The queue can be reordered, paused and resumed, and it picks up where it left off if NASBridge or the PS5 restarts. Free space is checked before each game.
• Also supports external drives plugged into the PS5 as a destination. Games go in the drive's homebrew folder, where ShadowMountPlus finds them. Games on a drive show as installed while it's plugged in and disappear when it's unplugged. If the drive is unplugged mid-copy, the queue pauses and carries on by itself when it's plugged back in.
• Copies quickly. Big files are fetched over several connections at once. Folders of thousands of small files go through a helper payload that fetches many at a time.
• Adds copied games to the home screen. It asks ShadowMountPlus to pick each game up as soon as it's copied.
• Deletes games from the PS5. The game is removed from the home screen and its files deleted, with progress shown. The copy on your NAS isn't touched.
• Keeps the PS5 awake while a copy or a delete runs (optional).
• Settings: NAS connection (with a folder browser and a connection test), connections per big file, small files at once, sounds, and debug info.

• A jailbroken PS5 with an ELF loader on port 9021 (etaHEN, elfldr or similar). NASBridge uses it while it runs, to start its copy and delete helpers.
• ShadowMountPlus which puts games in /data/homebrew on the home screen.
  • For the full experience (copied games appear while NASBridge is open, and games can be deleted while it's open), use version 1.7beta6-fix2 or newer.
  • With older versions, copied games appear only once you close NASBridge, and a game you've just copied can only be deleted after restarting the PS5.
• A NAS (or any computer) sharing your games over WebDAV or SMB.
  • WebDAV: on a Synology, that's the WebDAV Server package (port 5005). On Unraid, that's likely a WebDAV docker container.
  • SMB is built into most NAS systems: turn it on, and give a user read access to the games share. In NASBridge, enter the NAS's IP address, that username and password, then pick your games folder with the folder button; its first part is the share (/Games/PS5). SMB 2 or newer is needed.
  • Sign in with a username and password: guest access doesn't work. On Unraid, a share set to Public (guest) is refused. Set the games share to Private, add a user for NASBridge under Users, and give it Read-only access to the share.
• Only to build it yourself: a Mac or Linux machine with Docker (Docker Desktop or OrbStack) and make.

Tested on a PS5 on firmware 13.60.

1. Make sure you have ShadowMountPlus 1.7beta6-fix2 or newer, from its releases.
2. Download NASBridge-<version>.elf from the latest release.
3. Send it to the ELF loader the same way, with any payload sender, such as ps5upload. From a Mac or Linux terminal, this works too:

   nc -w 5 192.168.1.123 9021 < NASBridge-0.5.0.elf   # your PS5's IP address

4. A notification says when it's installed. NASBridge then appears on the home screen within a few seconds.

To update, close NASBridge, then send the new version's ELF the same way. It replaces the app and refreshes the home screen's icon, backgrounds and music, and your settings are kept. It refuses while NASBridge is open.

To remove it, delete the /data/homebrew/LAPY62737 folder (for example over FTP), then delete NASBridge's tile from the home screen. Do it in that order: ShadowMountPlus adds back any tile whose folder is still there.

NASBridge 0.4.0 and later has a new title ID (LAPY62737), so it installs as a new app instead of replacing 0.3.0, and it needs ShadowMountPlus 1.7beta6-fix2 or newer.

1. Update ShadowMountPlus to 1.7beta6-fix2 or newer, from its releases.
2. Remove NASBridge 0.3.0: delete the /data/homebrew/PPSA62737 folder (using for example PS5Upload), then delete the old NASBridge tile from the home screen.
3. Install the latest version as above, then set up your NAS connection again (settings are kept per title ID, so it starts fresh).

make install PS5_HOST=192.168.1.123

This builds NASBridge and installs it straight to the PS5. The first build sets up the toolchain container, which takes a while. Run it again to update, and use make uninstall PS5_HOST=192.168.1.123 to fully remove it.

1. Open NASBridge from the home screen.
2. Press Options to open Settings, enter your NAS's address, user name and password, and choose the folder your games are in. Test connection checks it all and counts the games it finds.
3. Pick a game and choose Download to PS5. The queue panel shows progress, speed and time left.
4. When a copy finishes, the game appears on the home screen.

Your NAS's games folder can hold:

NASBridge only reads from your NAS. It never changes or deletes anything there.

• Deleting big games takes a while. The PS5 deletes files at around 200 per second however it's asked, so a game of 50,000 files takes about four minutes. The game leaves the home screen at the start.
• Copy speed depends on your NAS. A NAS with a single spinning disk is slowest on folders of many small files. If copies make it struggle, lower the connection counts in Settings.
• Patches and backports aren't copied. For a game folder, NASBridge copies the folder holding sce_sys, and leaves out patch folders, archives and hidden files beside it.
• Measuring huge game folders takes a while. A folder game's size is added up from every file in it, after the library has appeared. A folder of tens of thousands of files can take minutes on its own. Its size shows as soon as it's measured, and is kept for next time unless the folder changes.

Everything runs inside a Docker container, so Docker and make are all you need.

The build is reproducible. The toolchain image pins the PS5 payload SDK and the UI kit at exact commits, so two builds of the same commit produce the same files.

app/      the app: screens, artwork and home-screen metadata (sce_sys)
tools/    the installer, copy helper and delete helper payloads
tests/    test suites, with a fake WebDAV NAS, a real Samba server for SMB,
          and a fake PS5 loader
Dockerfile, Makefile, ps5.mk   the toolchain and build

• UI built with ps5-homebrew-ui by BlackBearReloaded (GPL-3.0-or-later), including its OpenGL runtime, fonts and sound effects. The original repository is no longer public; its source is kept at J7mbo/ps5-homebrew-ui.
• Selection music: an excerpt of "First Light" from the ps5-homebrew-ui kit, Copyright (C) 2026 BlackBearReloaded (GPL-3.0-or-later).
• Built on the PS5 payload SDK.
• SMB support uses libsmb2 by Ronnie Sahlberg (LGPL-2.1-or-later).
• Games are added to the home screen by ShadowMountPlus.

Every third-party component, with its copyright and licence, is listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

NASBridge is licensed under the GPL-3.0-or-later, the same licence as the ps5-homebrew-ui kit it's built on. Third-party components keep their own licences; see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

NASBridge is an independent homebrew project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.