
An FPKG (Fake PKG) of English Persona 5 Royal. – Bear in mind: right now, it is impossible to downgrade your firmware or emulate the game. – Exploits for higher firmwares tend to be unstable and crash a lot. – Try to stay on the lowest possible exploitable firmware (i.e. – To upgrade from a lower firmware, see this guide. – This is currently the only platform you can play P5R on. To get started, the following are required. You also need to find an unofficial copy of the game online, and you need to bear with long, technical instructions. You need to have not updated your PS4 recently (the less recently, the better). Keep in mind, this is not the most user-friendly process at the moment, nor is it accessible to most PS4 owners.
Then again, you’d be missing out on playing with tons of exclusive Royal content. There’s even PS3 mods that backport Personas and costumes from Royal, as well as upscale it to 4K. A mod called Persona 5 EX aims to bring some Royal features and other new QoL improvements to PS3 as well. On one hand, if you have a PC that can run RPCS3, you may still want to stick with vanilla’s expansive mod library, fancier mod manager, and larger support community. The PS3 (and vanilla PS4 version) may seem less preferable to mod if you have access to a PS4. Royal, the definitive version of Persona 5, has been out on PS4 for some time now.
UPDATE 7/7/21: Mentioned new method of replacing mod.cpk that doesn’t require a new PKG installation every time. UPDATE 6/28/21: Simplified instructions, added screenshots and gifs, PS4 7.50 – 7.55 links, and mentioned lipsum’s EBOOT patches.
UPDATE 12/20/20: Added info about modding P5R JP and USA, as well as firmwares 5.05 and 7.02 thanks to a recent exploit.