DOOM for PS5 (native)

id Software's original DOOM source (linuxdoom-1.10) running as a native PS5 title: its own home-screen icon, drawn on the GPU through Sony's AGC driver and VideoOut, DualSense input with analog sticks and rumble, and the DOS-era FM music synthesised from the game's own instrument bank. It ships with the free shareware episode of DOOM and plays The Ultimate DOOM, DOOM II and Final DOOM from your own game files, which you can send from a PC or phone browser, download from a link or copy to the console, including straight out of ZIP, 7Z and RAR archives.

Requirements

A jailbroken PS5 with kstuff (fake-signed executables) and ShadowMountPlus. Tested on firmware 13.00.

Install

1. Download PPSA99666.zip from the releases and check it against PPSA99666.zip.sha256.
2. Extract it and copy the PPSA99666 folder to /data/homebrew/ (FTP, ps5upload or USB).
3. ShadowMountPlus registers it within a few seconds and DOOM appears on the home screen.

Games

DOOM opens on a game list. Out of the box it holds the shareware episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead; every game you add appears there too, and the last one you played stays selected.

File	Game
DOOM.WAD, DOOMU.WAD	DOOM, or The Ultimate DOOM when it has episode 4
DOOM2.WAD	DOOM II: Hell on Earth
TNT.WAD	Final DOOM: TNT Evilution
PLUTONIA.WAD	Final DOOM: The Plutonia Experiment
FREEDOOM1.WAD, FREEDOOM2.WAD	Freedoom Phase 1 and 2

The files from the original releases and from the 2024 DOOM + DOOM II re-release both work.

Adding your games

Whichever way, the game files can also be inside ZIP, 7Z or RAR archives: DOOM extracts the game WADs it recognises and skips everything else.

• Send them from a PC or phone. In the game list choose Add games..., then Send from PC or phone. Open the address the screen shows (for example http://192.168.1.50:9666/) in a browser on the same network, or scan its QR code, and drop the files or whole folders on the page. Both the page and the console show what was added; archives are deleted once their games are out. The console only accepts files while that screen is open.
• Copy them to the console. Put the files or archives in /data/homebrew/PPSA99666/wads/ (FTP, ps5upload or USB). DOOM picks them up the next time it starts.
• Download them from a link. In the game list choose Add games..., then Link, type an http:// or https:// address on the console keyboard and choose Download. The link can point at a WAD, an archive, or a folder; for a folder DOOM lists the files and you pick one or all.

To download from your own PC instead, open a terminal in the folder that holds the files and run a small web server, then use the address it prints with your PC's local IP (for example http://192.168.1.20:8000/):

python -m http.server 8000

Any web server that lists a folder works (nginx, Apache, Caddy, IIS, npx http-server). One that supports range requests (all of those except Python's) lets DOOM read a 7Z or ZIP without downloading the parts it does not need; with Python's server it still works, just with more traffic. Allow the port through the PC's firewall if the console cannot connect.

Controls

Input	In game	In menus
Left stick	Move and strafe	Navigate
Right stick	Turn (speed follows Mouse Sensitivity)
D-pad	Move and turn	Navigate
R2	Fire
Cross / Square	Use	Select, yes
Circle	Strafe modifier	Back, no
L1 / R1	Previous / next weapon (automap zoom)
L2	Run
Triangle / touchpad	Automap (Square: follow mode)
Options	Menu	Close menu

Prompts show the buttons to press, and Read This! in the main menu opens this list on the console. Saves and settings stay on the console, and each game keeps its own saves. Holding L1+R1 at launch uses the CPU scaler instead of the GPU, should a firmware ever disagree with the GPU path.

Building and internals

See DEVELOPMENT.md for the build, the architecture, the console test loop and the PS5 behaviour learned along the way. Licenses and credits: LICENSE (GPL v2, id's source) and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.