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Official projects, explicit limits and a clear distinction between inspection and extraction.

Reviewed October 19, 2026 · Preview

Documentation review, not a compatibility ranking.

External tools were reviewed at their official source on October 19, 2026. Released binaries were not installed. A native source-build test of shadPS4Plus with one homebrew sample is described below. No star counts, scores or universal extraction claims.

Inspect + SFO/icon extraction

PKGExtractor

Browser Project license not assigned

Plaintext param.sfo (up to 1 MiB) and icon0.png (up to 8 MiB, 2048 × 2048). No general game extraction. A separate WASM experiment accepts only the exact Apollo v2.4.0 package and offers a verified ZIP. Tested on Apollo v2.4.0; other package variants remain unverified.

Local byte ranges / Original SFO/icon downloads / JSON export · Reviewed 2026-10-19

Official source

Inspect + extraction commands documented

LibOrbisPkg

.NET desktop / CLI LGPL-3.0

Documentation review only. Fake PKG or required passcode/keys; no universal protected-package support. Runtime/platform coverage not tested here.

PKG / SFO / PFS / CLI and editor · Reviewed 2026-10-19

Official source

Desktop extractor

shadPS4Plus PKG Extractor

Windows · Linux GPL-2.0

Released Windows/Linux binaries were not tested. A source build at commit 9d2e761 was tested natively on macOS with one Apollo v2.4.0 homebrew package, producing a directory tree. This does not establish browser or retail-package support.

Standalone CLI / Local extraction · Reviewed 2026-10-19

Official source

Package manager / sender

CPM

Desktop / PS4 workflow MIT

Not a browser File parser or universal extractor. Upstream setup and device requirements apply; not installed/tested here.

Package metadata / Remote sender · Reviewed 2026-10-19

Official source

How to choose

For a quick header report, use this browser inspector. For complete game extraction, read the desktop project’s supported package types and required inputs. Extraction capability is not permission to access content, and a successful header read says nothing about payload encryption.

Other formats

macOS installers require XAR and payload handling. The MIT-licensed go-macos-pkg is a Go toolkit, not a tested browser WASM integration here. No macOS extraction compatibility is claimed.