PS4 Merger

PlayStation 4 uses .pkg files to package and distribute games and apps. These files are essentially a single archive containing everything needed to install and run the software.

The problem

Some of these files can be very large, making them difficult to download and transfer. I only had 32 GB flash drive and too slow cheap WI-FI router for remote game transferring

The solution

I made a PlayStation 4 app to merge pkgs on the console itself. It allows you to split large .pkg file into smaller parts, transfer them to the console using flash drive and then merge them together. The app was made with the free and open source OpenOrbis Toolchain SDK in C++ and anyone is free to use it.

PS4 Merger screenshot with text: Welcome! PKG Merger by hloth.dev 
Searching in /data/pkg_merger... 
Found 2 files: EP9000-CUSA<...>_001.pkgpart 
EP9000-CUSA<...>_002.pkgpart 

Estimated time: 29:18 
App will be frozen entire time, do not worry and look if .pkg file started appearing in /data/pkg directory via FTP 
Allow up to 3x of that estimated time 

Press any button on controller to START merging parts 

Files successfully merged into /data/EP9000-CUSA<...>.pkg 
Now you can install it via goldhen installer! 
Now you can also delete .pkgpart files from /data/pkg_merger