


Alternatively you can get retail and recovery firmwares from Darksoftware’s website (login required).Note: if you don’t want to put too much strain on the servers, there are also torrent links for the two versions, retail and recovery respectively: –.You can download the PS4 Firmware 9.00 from the Internet Archive here : (link courtesy of Darthsternie).

The retail firmware is typically smaller, the recovery firmware is bigger (and needed only if you have booting issues with your current PS4 firmware). Note that you can use either the recovery firmware or the retail firmware. A USB Key with 2GB of space (you might get away with less, but worst case scenario you have a 1GB update file to fit on there).Check our quick guide below to get it right: 0. Updating your PS4 manually is simple and just requires that you download the right firmware update file, onto a USB stick.
