Chronicle PS4 (Dark Cloud)

Play Dark Cloud on your jailbroken PS4. A native port, not an emulator: 1080p, 60 frames a second.

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Install in three steps

You need a PS4 with GoldHEN, your own Dark Cloud (USA) disc image as an .iso, and a USB drive.

1. On the USB drive, make a folder called darkcloud and put your .iso in it. Put Chronicle-PS4-v0.1.0.pkg (from the download) in the drive's main folder.
2. Plug the drive into the PS4 and install the package with GoldHEN's Package Installer.
3. Start Chronicle PS4 (Dark Cloud) from the home screen and leave the drive plugged in.

The game sets itself up from your disc image. A few minutes later it says it's ready: press X and play. You only do this once.

Need more? Full install guide, with the FTP route and fixes for common problems.

Good to know

• No game data is included. You bring your own disc image.
• Tested on firmware 13.52 with the USA NTSC 1.02 disc. Other discs haven't been tried on a console.

Your saves live in /data/darkcloud/save and stay on the console, including when you update.

For developers

Everything needed to build the package is in this one repository, including the renderer, and a plain git clone is enough. The build steps, tested on a fresh clone, are in ps4/docs/BUILDING.md. How the port is put together, the options and the measurements are in ps4/README.md. The original Chronicle readme is README-CHRONICLE.md.

Credits

• The Chronicle team (TheMoonPeople) for the Dark Cloud decompilation and the Kazarov build system (MIT, in tools/kazarov). This port stands on their work.
• Level-5 made Dark Cloud. This project is not affiliated with them.
• The Ship of Harkinian PS4 port showed how to do native PS4 homebrew with Piglet.
• OpenOrbis and GoldHEN.
• FlameCheese for the 8-bit Dark Cloud remixes played during setup.

The PS4 layer in ps4/ is MIT (ps4/LICENSE-ps4-port). Chronicle and Kazarov keep their own terms.