If you build, re-icon, check or submit PlayStation homebrew, there is a new section on the site: Homebrew Tools. The first tool there is the Packaging Workbench, and it runs in your browser. Nothing to install, nothing to download, works on Windows, Mac, Linux and phones.

What it does today:

• PARAM.SFO editor: open any PARAM.SFO (PSP, PS3, PS4, or Vita), change the title, title ID, version, category and the rest, with each console’s limits enforced, and save it.
• EBOOT.PBP repacker: swap the icon, background image and sound of a PSP homebrew without rebuilding it, edit its PARAM.SFO, and repack.
• Vita VPK inspector: check a VPK before you install or submit it: firmware, LiveArea assets and sizes, the SFO, the structure. Preview the bubble and LiveArea, swap images, repack.
• PS3 PKG inspector: what is inside a package, its content ID and metadata, and whether the XMB will show the right title.
• Compare: open two versions of a package and see exactly what changed.

It also runs the same checks the Brewology store runs on submissions, so you can fix problems before you submit instead of after.

Open it here: brewology.com/tools/workbench

Found a bug, have ideas, or want a tool that isn’t there yet? Tell us on the forums.

If you’ve been bouncing between revival servers you know the routine. Network Settings, custom setup, punch in the DNS, test the connection, then do it all over again for the next game. Two devs got fed up with that too, and both of their fixes just went up in the store.

qDNSm 1.1 by Tha_14
This one is a plugin, so it lives right on the XMB next to webMAN. It comes with a list of revival DNS servers already in it, you pick one and it switches, no wizard. You can add your own servers, edit or remove them, and there’s a restore option that puts your original network settings back. Install the PKG, run the qDNSm installer once from the XMB and let it reboot, then you can delete the installer. Works on CFW and HEN.

One thing to know: a lot of games look up the DNS before you even go online, so switching only works from the XMB. Quit the game, swap the server, start the game again. Tha_14 actually started this back in 2022, shelved it when the PS3 wouldn’t reload its network settings cleanly, and came back to finish it after people kept asking about it.

Heads up if you’re on HEN with webMAN MOD: one person has had trouble getting HEN to enable after installing it. 1.1 has some safeguards for it, but if it happens to you, add what you’re running to the issue on GitHub so it can get tracked down.

ezDNS 1.02 by _tbwcjw
Same problem, different take. ezDNS is a little app that shows up under Network on the XMB. You save a DNS profile for each game or revival project and flip between them in a couple of button presses. 1.02 is just bug fixes. If you’ve got an older version on there, delete it first (Network > ezDNS, press Triangle, Delete) and then install the new one. The setup guide is on the ezDNS wiki.

Want it in the XMB menu? qDNSm. Rather have an app that keeps your profiles sorted? ezDNS. They’re both open source under MIT, so try both and see which one sticks.

Grab them from the Brewology Store: qDNSm and ezDNS.

4 PSVita homebrew apps were updated in the Brewology PSVita Store: PS Vita Recovery Menu 1.2.1 · MyShell 1.1.0 · OpenTyrian2000 Engaged Vita latest · HardRPG 0.4.8-alpha.

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17 PSVita homebrew apps were updated in the Brewology PSVita Store: VitaRPS5 (Vitaki Fork) 4.2.2-beta.2 · PS Vita Recovery Menu 1.2.0 · VitaMediaDeck 1.4.4 · UMD Player 0.9.4 · METEOR VII VITA 1.0 · Tweebbo Vita 1.4.6 · OpenTyrian2000 Engaged Vita latest · Open Nectar Vita 0.0.1 · Pocket Shelf shelf-v0.3.0-beta.1 · J2Vita 0.9.0 · kof95sr 1.0.0 · Duke Nukem Advance Vita 1.0 and 5 more.

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14 PSVita homebrew apps were updated in the Brewology PSVita Store: PS Vita Recovery Menu 1.1.9 · Halo CE Vita 1.1.1 · VitaMediaDeck 1.4.3 · Neon Drift NeonDriftVRBeta · Tweebbo Vita 1.4.3 · OpenTyrian2000 Engaged Vita 1.5.0 · Wi-Fi Turbo Vita 0.4.1 · Strikers Vita 1.5.0 · vitals 1.6 · HardRPG 0.4.7-alpha · RECVX Vita .1.1 · Wesnoth Vita 0.1 and 2 more.

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17 PSVita homebrew apps were updated in the Brewology PSVita Store: PS Vita Recovery Menu 1.1.8 · UMD Player 0.9.3 · Gun Bros Vita 1.03 · Art3m1sPSV 1.4.8 · Tweebbo Vita 1.4.2 · Dragon Ball Z: BT 3 Vita 1.1 · OpenTyrian2000 Engaged Vita latest · VitaGram 0.39.02 · Tuiza Vita 0.2.5 · The Impossible Game Vita 1.2.0 · Strikers Vita 1.4.0 · vitals 1.5 and 5 more.

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21 PSVita homebrew apps were updated in the Brewology PSVita Store: VitaRPS5 (Vitaki Fork) 4.2.2-beta.1 · OpenNow Vita 0.3.3 · VitaMediaDeck 1.4.1 · VitaXMB 1.10.0 · UMD Player 0.9.2 · UFO 40 1.0.0 · Ecstatica Vita 0.9.7 · Ecstatica 2 Vita 0.9.7 · tls_fixer 0.2.1 · Buckshot Roulette Portable 1.0.2 · Vita IPTV 1.0 · Art3m1sPSV 1.4.7 and 9 more.

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15 PSVita homebrew apps were updated in the Brewology PSVita Store: VitaDB Downloader .2.8 · VitaRPS5 (Vitaki Fork) 4.2.1 · VitaForge 0.1.10 · Deltarune Vita 0.79 · PS Vita Recovery Menu 1.1.7 · UMD Player 0.9.0 · METEOR VII VITA 0.09.00 · Neon Drift Definitive-v1 · Spy Mouse HD Vita 1.1 · Tweebbo Vita 1.4.0 · Super Mario Galaxy Vita 1.1 · OpenTyrian2000 Engaged Vita 1.4.6 and 3 more.

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17 PSVita homebrew apps were updated in the Brewology PSVita Store: Aleph One Vita AlephOneVita2.1 · Arx Libertatis 2.0 · PS Vita Recovery Menu 1.1.3 · JAVITA release-1.1.0 · VitaXMB 1.9.1 · UMD Player 0.8.7 · tls_fixer 0.2 · KeeperFX Vita release-1.03 · Descent Vita 1.0.2 · Neon Drift R · Gravity Defied Vita 1.5 · Super Mario Galaxy Vita 1.0 and 5 more.

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23 PSVita homebrew apps were updated in the Brewology PSVita Store: FF3-Vita 1.2.5 · VitaForge 0.1.8 · OpenMW Vita 2.4.1 · pleNx 1.4.0 · MKW Vita 1.4.2 · GMCA 1.4.0 · VitaXMB 1.9.0 · Art3m1sPSV 1.4.6 · UMD Player 0.8.5 · Ignition Vita 1.1 · VitaSpot 0.0.4 · Descent Vita 1.0.1 and 11 more.

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