How to use AnyPS5

Updated 2026-10-13

There are two ways to convert an app: the online converter for small ones, and the native relinker from the release for everything else. Both need the same input. This guide follows the project's own USAGE.md and converter page as of October 13, 2026.

What you need

Method 1: the native relinker

1. Download and extract a release
   Get the build for your OS from the official Releases page and extract the whole archive.
2. Lay out the input folder
   Put the app's bundled ELF modules in sce_module/, sce_modules/ or prx/ next to the executable, or under a parent folder you pass with --sce-module-path. Having both sce_module/ and sce_modules/, or none of the three, is an error.
3. Unwrap encrypted files first
   SELF and fSELF containers are skipped with a warning. The relinker only works on decrypted ELF files.
4. Run the relinker
   Point it at the executable. With no target flag you get a Linux ELF regardless of the output file extension. Use --windows for a PE executable. The exact command syntax is in USAGE.md.
5. Check the output layout
   The converted executable sits beside libs/ (the system .prx libraries built for your OS) and app0/ (resources and converted modules). Keep them together.
6. Launch it
   Start the executable from a terminal so you can see stderr. Exit code 0 from the relinker means success, 1 means invalid arguments, 2 means the conversion failed.

Method 2: the online converter

1. Open the converter
   Go to boykopovar.github.io/AnyPS5. Conversion happens in your browser and files stay on your device.
2. Choose a folder or drop a ZIP
   The input needs one executable ELF plus sce_sys/ and sce_module/. ZIP and ZIP64 are supported, for decrypted ELF files only.
3. Confirm and pick a target
   Tick the confirmation box, then choose Windows .exe or Linux .elf. There is an optional switch to convert AMD-specific instructions for Intel CPUs.
4. Pick how to save
   Download in memory for small apps, save a ZIP to disk for large apps, or save to a folder uncompressed.
5. Convert, then extract everything
   Click Convert & save. Extract the entire ZIP before launching the executable.

Online converter limits

• In-memory downloads have a 256 MiB budget.
• Larger results need desktop Chrome or Edge, which can save directly to disk.
• The executable, modules and icon are limited to 256 MiB combined. Bigger inputs need the native relinker.

Relinker options

USAGE.md marks --skip-sce-module, --exclude-sce-module, --skip-syscall-check and --lazy-binding as deprecated debugging flags that make the application unstable.

Runtime settings

Platform notes and common problems

• Windows: missing DLLs. The MinGW runtime DLLs must sit beside the libraries.
• Windows: memory commit errors. Direct memory is committed up front, so the page file has to be large enough. Increase it if the app fails at start.
• Linux: dma-buf access. Imports go through /dev/udmabuf, and your user needs read-write access to it.
• Stops with a missing function. The game called a system function AnyPS5 has not implemented. The repo's tools/import_audit.py can check a converted game's imports against the built libraries before you launch, sorting each into implemented, stub, absent or module.
• Nothing converted. The input was probably still an encrypted SELF/fSELF file.

If a game gets further than the reports on the compatibility list, the project asks for test reports in its "Game bring-up" GitHub Discussions, one thread per title.

FAQ

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