PSBox puts Xbox games on a PS5 screen without turning the PS5 into an Xbox. It's a native client for Xbox Cloud Gaming and Remote Play from your own Xbox: the game runs remotely, not through local Xbox emulation.
PSBox Cloud Gaming v1.6.3, published on 7 November, is worth a look if your console already runs directory-style homebrew. The useful detail for installation and troubleshooting is that the app and your sign-in live in different folders.
Before copying anything
The project's PS5 instructions require a homebrew-enabled PS5 that can launch apps from /data/homebrew, with ShadowMountPlus given as an example. They report working firmware 13.00 and 13.60. Those are maintainer reports, not a tested compatibility matrix for every loader/version.
This installs a client, not a jailbreak or cloud-service access. You'll need a Microsoft account for sign-in and the appropriate service access for what you want to play.
Manual installation
Following the project's documented PS5 route:
- Download
PPSA99810.zipfrom the v1.6.3 release linked above. - Extract it on your computer, then copy the whole
PPSA99810folder into/data/homebrew/on the PS5, for example over FTP. The app folder should be/data/homebrew/PPSA99810/. - Let your directory-app loader add the PSBox Cloud Gaming icon to the Home screen, then launch it.
- Open Microsoft's device-code sign-in page on your phone or computer and enter the code displayed by the app.
The expected result is a launchable client and a completed sign-in. Reaching the icon, signing in and sustaining a usable stream are separate checkpoints; a report that only says “works on 13.60” leaves quite a lot out.
Reinstalling is not an account reset
The documented layout separates:
/data/homebrew/PPSA99810/— the application./data/psbox/— retained sign-in, settings, caches and logs./data/psbox/account.json— the sign-in file, explicitly marked never to share by the project.
For a manual update, close the app and copy the new application folder over the old one. The app also offers updates after sign-in and under Settings > Updates. Updating or reinstalling preserves /data/psbox, so replacing the app folder is not a clean account reset.
The README says a complete local removal also requires deleting /data/psbox; that removes settings and other retained data too. Don't confuse local file deletion with proof that a server-side session was revoked. For ordinary controls and troubleshooting, the project points to the README.txt inside the app folder.
The native-client approach is neat; the useful comparison now is the actual launch and streaming experience. Which firmware, directory-app loader/version and launch path have you used successfully with v1.6.3—and did that success extend beyond sign-in to sustained streaming and working controls?