HI thankyou for your all your hard work both methods worked prefect what is best menu for a ps4 still on 5.05 this or ps phwoar 1.4 menu can you spoof to a higher firmware for either of them having trouble getting a couple of backports working saying there backported to 5.05 but on loading they are requesting a higher firmware so guess my choices are to try to fix the backport or going up to 9.00 firmware and then using a online host for expliot probably be easier to update to 9.0 as a lot of backports saying they work on 5.05 but are not
The firmware spoof has nothing to do with backports and its not really needed anymore if you use GoldHEN.
The firmware spoof was mainly used for PSVR headsets.
If the PSVR headset was updated it would no longer start on a 5.05 ps4, it would ask you to update your PS4 to the latest firmware, which you obviosly do not want to do.
The firmware spoof would trick the PSVR into thinking that your PS4 was on a higher firmware version than it actually was, thus allowing it to work.
Regarding the backports:
If your backports are requesting that you need a higher firmware then that means that they are not backports.
All backports from trusted developers will work on 5.05 if that is what the say they do.
Your problem might be because you are installing the game, then installing the backport, then installing the update.
If this is what you are doing then it wont work. (the update is just overwriting the backport)
A backport file is usually just the same as an update file but it has been modified (backported) to run on lower firmwares.
All you need to install is the main game pkg and then the backported/fixed pkg.