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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 it can import from a folder on the console or download from
your PC, 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
- Download
PPSA99666.zipfrom the releases and check it againstPPSA99666.zip.sha256. - Extract it and copy the
PPSA99666folder to/data/homebrew/(FTP, ps5upload or USB). - 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
Either way, the game files can also be inside ZIP, 7Z or RAR archives: DOOM extracts the game WADs it recognises and skips everything else.
- 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://orhttps://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.
The simplest way to serve your own files from a PC on the same network is to open a terminal in the
folder that holds them 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 |
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.