PS5-ECAM

Wii U, 3DS, DS and Switch on PlayStation 5

PS5-ECAM plays your Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS and Nintendo Switch games on a jailbroken PS5, with Cemu, Azahar, melonDS and Eden in one launcher made for the TV and the DualSense.

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ZIP, 75.0 MBFree, GPL-3.0-or-laterFirmware up to 13.60

Four systems, one launcher

Every side in its own colour, all of them one app

Box art and game info from GameTDB, search, sorting and favourites, a page for each game, settings for each game, and an in-game menu on every system.

Wii U

Cemu, x64 recompiler, Vulkan

Plays
.wua .wud .wux, unpacked games, also in .zip, .7z and .rar archives
Picture
4K output, 120 Hz, FSR 1, graphic packs, ReShade, frame generation
Extras
Mods, accounts, amiibo, Skylanders portals, updates and DLC

Nintendo 3DS

Azahar, dynarmic recompiler, Vulkan

Plays
.3ds .cci .cxi .app .3dsx .elf, compressed .z*, also in archives; installed .cia
Picture
Up to 10x resolution, texture filters, layouts, borders, red-cyan 3D, frame generation
Extras
Save states, cheats, amiibo, mods, cameras, Artic Base

Nintendo DS

melonDS, ARM recompiler

Plays
.nds, also in .zip, .7z and .rar archives
Picture
Sharp, smooth or square pixels, layouts, borders
Extras
Save states, cheats, RetroAchievements

Nintendo Switch

Eden (ProsperoEden), dynarmic, Vulkan

Plays
.nsp .xci, each alone or in a folder with its update and DLC
Picture
Up to 4x resolution, FSR 1, anti-aliasing, docked or handheld, frame generation
Extras
Amiibo, online rooms, mods, cheats, updates and DLC (from their folders)

  • One launcher for all four

    Box art and game info, a page and settings for each game, and the same in-game menu on every system.

  • Made for the DualSense

    Every button remappable, motion controls, rumble, the touchpad as the touch screen, and up to four players on the Wii U.

  • Updates itself

    A new release installs from inside the app, in about a minute, and can be cancelled.

  • In 31 languages

    Every menu of the launcher, on every system.

Latest release

PS5-ECAM 5.1.0

From GitHub Releases

Install

On your PS5 in four steps

  1. A PS5 that runs homebrew

    Any firmware up to 13.60, with etaHEN, OnionHEN, or an ELF loader on port 9021. See the firmware and setup guide.

  2. Copy the app

    Download the 5.1.0 ZIP, extract it and copy the PPSA99360 folder to /data/homebrew/PPSA99360.

  3. Let your HEN in

    etaHEN: add PPSA99360 to its app jailbreak list. OnionHEN: add PPSA99360 at the end of exact_title_ids in config.ini, with no comma after it. Any other: have an ELF loader on port 9021.

  4. Add your games

    Put them in each system's folder (below) and start PS5-ECAM from the home screen. The Setup check shows what's ready and what to do about the rest.

Your games

SystemGames folderAlso needs
Wii U/data/cemu/gamesDisc keys in /data/cemu/keys.txt for encrypted .wud and .wux
3DS/data/azahar/gamesNothing: games must be decrypted dumps; .cia files install from Settings
DS/data/melonds/gamesNothing: your own BIOS and firmware in /data/melonds/bios are optional
Switch/data/eden/romsYour Switch's prod.keys (and title.keys) in /data/eden/keys, and its firmware in /data/eden/firmware

Any other folder, a USB drive or a network share (not for Switch games) works too: Settings > Game files on each system. No games, keys or firmware are included. Use dumps of games and hardware you own.

Updating, from PS5CEMU-HAR too

The app offers new releases itself, and the title ID stays PPSA99360. An install from before keeps everything where it is, in /data/ps5cemu, and goes on working. Reorganize (or later Settings > Game files) gives each system its folder: the files are moved in a moment, never copied or deleted, and can be put back. System folders has the details.

On a USB drive or the extended storage

A PS5CEMU-HAR-data folder at the top of that drive (its name from before 5.0.0, kept so nothing moves) keeps the launcher's files there instead of in /data, with cemu, azahar, melonds and eden beside it. The guide says how.

Controls

Made for the DualSense

Every shortcut, the in-game menu and the rest are in the guide.

  • L1R1Library and Settings
  • Touchpad clickThe next system
  • Play or open, and back
  • OptionsA game's menu: game settings, saves, graphic packs, mods, home screen tile
  • Touchpad click+OptionsThe in-game menu
  • TouchpadThe touch screen (GamePad, 3DS and DS)

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Help, tested games, and new versions first

  • Help with your setup: ask in the support forum, one post per problem, tagged by system.
  • What runs, and how well: tested-games has a post per game with its speed, its glitches and the settings that work.
  • New versions first: every release is posted in announcements the moment it's published.
  • The developer and other players: suggest features, share your setup and hear what's coming.
discord.gg/grrqkv4xWw

Bugs still go in GitHub issues, with the log from Settings > Diagnostics > Copy logs to USB.

Support

PS5-ECAM is free

If it brings your games back, you can support it.

Support on Ko-fi

A one-off tip, or the $3 a month Early Access tier: highly experimental builds, builds of ECAM for other platforms, and new features before anyone else.

QR code for paypal.me/empthe

PayPal: paypal.me/empthe, or scan the code, the same one as in the app's Settings > About.

Documentation

Everything else, in the repository

GuideThe launcher, each system, controls, saves, mods, the remote touch screen and where files are kept Firmware and setupWhich firmware, which HEN, and how to let the app in CompatibilityWhat runs, and how well System foldersEach system's whole folder, and Reorganize ModsWhere mods go on each system Building from sourcemake release on Ubuntu 24.04 (WSL works) builds the four emulators and the launcher Driver performanceHow the GPU driver is measured and tuned RoadmapWhat's coming ProblemsSettings > Diagnostics > Copy logs to USB, then open an issue

Credits

The people behind it

premohq

Creator

Started the app as PS5CEMU-HAR.

JMUtechnologies

Co-founder

Gave every system a folder of its own, and built much of the Switch and DS sides.

  • A folder for each system, Eden's included, and the PC tool that separates an older install
  • Switch mods, cheats, ReShade presets and players
  • Switch saves to and from a USB drive, Ryujinx's too
  • DS: a GBA cartridge in Slot-2, a recorded microphone and touch screen calibration
  • Tools that compare performance captures (#86, #84)

Contributors

Big thanks to the people who sent code and fixes to PS5-ECAM itself.

dolphin78

With a massive shoutout: Artic Setup works on the PS5 because of him (#70). He found and fixed why the 3DS's system update failed and why a New 3DS's setup crashed, and tested it all on his own PS5 with a New 3DS XL. He also made crash reports survive a crash on the 3DS side (#70), fixed Artic Base's connections (#45), and came up with the remote touch screen and its first prototype (#38).

Mafiacoding

For archived games: the ZIP support for the Wii U, 3DS and DS sides that 5.0.0's archives build on (#53, #50).

yeager

Daniel Nylander, for his review of the Swedish translation (#85).

Built on

  • Cemu by the Cemu team and contributors (MPL-2.0)
  • Azahar by the Azahar team and the Citra contributors before them (GPL-2.0-or-later), with dynarmic by MerryMage and contributors
  • melonDS by Arisotura and the melonDS team (GPL-3.0), with its FreeBIOS replacements
  • Eden, the Switch emulator, by the Eden team (GPL-3.0-or-later), and ProsperoEden, its PS5 port and launcher, by Sword (Swordpdf), BlackBearReloaded, bawsdeep, Rockiu0 and its contributors (GPL-3.0-or-later; the Switch side runs it with patches/eden)
  • Mihawk for RADV on PS5 (PS5_Mesa, PS5_Vulkan, the payload SDK fork and its platform layer) and the PS5 ports of Azahar and dynarmic (PS5_Azahar), with contributions from mpereiraesaa
  • BlackBearReloaded for ProsperoEden, which the launcher's layout, artwork, Eden theme and software renderer build on, and the PS5 Native App Boilerplate for the app runtime, packaging and sandbox elevation (its repository went with their account: drakmor's copy is the one the build fetches)
  • heydemoura for the PS5 Forwarder Format the home screen tiles use
  • John Törnblom for the PS5 Payload SDK, and pacbrew for their PS5 libraries
  • libsmb2 and libnfs by Ronnie Sahlberg for the network shares, and rcheevos by RetroAchievements
  • Swordpdf for the etaHEN jailbreak request from PS5SX2
  • Dimok for the Wii U Homebrew Launcher's background, and the authors of the 3DS Homebrew Launcher, which inspired the 3DS side's
  • The Lexend authors for the launcher's font, which this page uses too (SIL OFL 1.1)
  • GameTDB for box art and game information, and the authors of the Cemu community graphic packs