Two Xbox Cloud Gaming clients reach jailbroken PS5s in a week, and PSBox ships 14 versions in four days

PSBox Cloud Gaming and Nubix are unofficial, open-source apps that stream Xbox Cloud Gaming and your own Xbox to a homebrew-enabled PS5, with the DualSense as an Xbox pad.

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Two unofficial Xbox Cloud Gaming clients for jailbroken PS5 consoles appeared on GitHub in the same week. PSBox Cloud Gaming, by RafaelNGP, went from version 0.1.0 on 7 October to 0.9.5 on 10 October, fourteen releases in four days. Nubix, by JBuildr, was created on 7 October and reached version 0.4.0 on 9 October. Both are open source under the GPL 3.0, and both say they are not affiliated with Microsoft or Sony.

Neither is an emulator. The games run on Microsoft's servers and the PS5 receives a video stream, with the DualSense standing in for an Xbox controller. Gadget Review names the PSBox developer as Brazilian programmer Rafael Abud Ferreira.

What PSBox does

The PSBox README describes a native app that streams the cloud catalogue at 1080p60, with Game Pass and owned-games tabs, free-to-play titles, and Remote Play of your own Xbox. The picture can be upscaled to 4K on the PS5's GPU with AMD FSR 1 or Anime4K, which Gadget Review points out is reconstructed from a 1080p stream rather than native 4K. Sign-in uses a code shown on the TV and entered on a phone, so no password is typed on the console. The README says most of the catalogue needs Game Pass Ultimate, and that playing your own Xbox works on any plan.

Version 0.4.0 mapped Xbox trigger rumble onto the DualSense's adaptive triggers and added local play for up to four controllers. Version 0.9.0 added updates from inside the app, accepting only packages signed with the project's key. Version 0.9.5 added voice chat through the DualSense microphone, with the mute button and its LED kept in sync. The release notes list software video decoding and no HDR as known limits, and say the cloud stream arrives at about 10 to 12 Mbps. The app installs as a folder in /data/homebrew/ and is launched through a loader such as ShadowMountPlus. By 13 October the release zips on GitHub had been downloaded about 6,300 times, 2,603 of them for 0.9.5.

Nubix takes the websrv route

Nubix runs as an ELF payload started from the websrv Homebrew Launcher rather than as a home screen tile. Its README lists sign-in, the cloud library, queueing, streaming, Remote Play of your own Xbox and voice chat as working on PS5, with video decoded in software and 720p suggested if the picture stutters. It ships with a small Python DNS server that blocks every Sony domain and allows only the Microsoft addresses Nubix needs, because, the README says, a jailbroken console that reaches Sony could download a system update that removes the jailbreak, and it reports to Sony.

Both projects need a PS5 that can already run homebrew. Gadget Review warns that a modified PS5 can lose PlayStation Network access, face account penalties and become unstable, and cites early user reports, via Tom's Hardware, of macroblocking, pink artefacts and uneven vibration alongside others who found it worked well. Windows Central framed PSBox as a way to play Xbox exclusives such as Gears of War: E-Day on a PS5. Microsoft may change or block the services these clients rely on at any time, as the PSBox README itself says.

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Image: Images: PSBox Cloud Gaming and Nubix projects

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