If I didn't have a Slim already, I'd go for a Pro. This is really nice to have.
Plus, installing HEN on a PS4 is so much easier than on a PS3.
I dont know, I have both fat which I got ripped off as it was fucked, never got used in nearly 2 years of owning it due to having cancer, I basically turned it on, inserted one game and it worked then that was it, wasn't in the frame of mind back then due to the shit load of chemotherapys I had to have.
But I found after a few minutes the console would say its too hot and turn off.
Luckily I was able to find someone who did an amazing job at fixing it, litrally stripped the console down to its bare essentials and had this tank thing he said he uses that he puts things like motherboards into and it gives it a proper clean.
Then he bought fresh thermal paste and applied and gave me the rest left in the tube, he found the fans wasnt working either and replaced them and he only charged £20 for the full service.
I then found the console was working like a charm, but its disc drive would no longer read discs, the disc icon would keep flashing in the top corner, he tried using a new drive but nothing would work.
So that kinda threw away my option of just wanting to play the games I owned on disc but using cheats or cheat mods.
So I got a 2tb USB drive to store pkg games to and a 8tb usb drive to install games to and its been working like a charm.
I only decided last weekend to give this jailbreak stuff a try and each time I came back to it, I would find new or better ways to run the exploits, going from Web hosts to self hosting then the user guide methods.
Then found backports are good, but I found some games that said it had backport, I couldn't get to work while others did, currently re3 was the last game I tried that had 1.03 update saying it was backported for 5.05 but it wouldn't install.
Then I grabbed Alan wake remaster (which I see very little improvement) and I tried the 1.4 backport but it didn't work, I think that's because it said it was 6.72 (I think) to 5.05 backport, so maybe Alan wake been a higher firmware game, it couldn't backport to 5.05, I think it backported to 8.xx as on a certain exploit I would get that message, where another that was a web exploit hen+9.00 would boot the game but give a different error with a code.
Then I saw this weekend a 9.0 jailbreak came out and I was in two minds to update my fat 5.05 or keep it the as 5.05, or risk putting it on my pro which has my main psn account and didnt want to risk using it and getting my main psn account banned.
But tonight I thought fuck it, updated my pro to 9.00, changed the dns to hopefully block my ps4 from connecting and downloading updates off Sony servers and prevent my psn account getting banned.
Found it runs everything pretty much perfectly fine, Alan wake worked, re3 worked and my other backported games worked, my ps2 converted to ps4 worked fine.
So I don't know if to keep it like this as I should benefit on the pro and having 4k resolution and hdr running games.
Only thing I wonder is if there are better tools to convert ps2 games that lets you alter the resolution and try make textures look better and possibly upscale to 4k.
Found so far all the games I've converted play pretty much perfectly apart from the Simpsons game loads fine but in game has real bad texture issues where all you see is the black outlines all over the screen, and I tried metal gear solid 3 subsistence and it ran really slow that it would take far too long to even get to anything im game that its beyond unplayable.
So now I wonder if I just update to 9.0 or keep both as there doesn't seem to be any self hosting option for 9.0 jailbreak and it has no cheats/mods plugins for games.
Tho I think I found a tool similar to the ps3 where you can attach to console and try find your own cheats, possibly easy if it works and its not some bs crap app that doesn't work as I'm sure ill easily be able to find cheats for my ps2 converted games, but not sure I know enough about ps4 games and process to finding cheat codes for ps4 games, maybe similar to the switch and that where its dynamic address and not sure how to do that on ps4 or even if this app will work for 9.0
But I'd be interested to find out how people are making cheat codes and also if 9.0 will have option to self host exploits and plugins and if it will be possible to boot without needing usb each time.
Also different question if anyone knows, if I place games into certain folders when using the fat ps4, on the pro it doesn't do the same, so if I put games into folders on the ps4, but name them differently, will both consoles remember the folder names I created on that console.
Example, if I made a folder on the fat 5.05 as games and put everything in there.
And then a folder saying 9.0 games so I know the fat won't run them.
But then on the pro 9.0 console just have one folder called games and put everything in there.
Will the fat still remember the games placed into the two folders.
And the pro 9.0 remember all games in the onr folder created for that console.
Also I need to actually look properly into manually extracting pkg games and manually editing them to backpory 5.05 then rebuilding pkg and be able to install and run it on 5.05.
Ive been following YouTube guides by modded warfare and im sure I came across a video guide that showed you how to manually backport games, so will have to try find it and give it a try, but then his app to backport games didnt work, but maybe thats because 1.4 was for 6.7x to 5.05 and maybe didnt have the keys or what ever to backport higher games.
But so far I've been able to quickly learn new things for the ps4 following his YouTube guides, as theyre very clear and to the point showing and explaining step by step and provides the required files to do what its showing you.
So im pretty much getting used to what is what on the ps4 like I used to for ps3, but now I cant remember fuck all about the ps3 and haven't done anything on the ps3 for nearly 4 years and now I have no idea what is what or how to do anything for it, its remains on what every cfw it was on back then and I run games off my 2x1tb usb drives from years ago.
Now I hear you can run a similar app like the vita called pkgi where you can download games directly to your ps3 console or usb drive, but I have no idea how to do it or how to get it to work
Furthest I got was it to download and install, but could never get what ever I download, be it games, themes or avatars, it would always fail to work, and not bothered doing anything further as I have no clue, and ended up using my switch more often to make cheat codes.