A Bloodborne Official PlayStation 5 60 FPS Patch Is Now Possible, According to Unofficial Patch Developer

An official Bloodborne PlayStation 5 60 FPS patch is now possible, according to the developer of the unofficial patch released a few months back.

Speaking on Twitter, Lance McDonald revealed that Sony is somehow enabling games compiled on old SDKs to detect that they are running on PlayStation 5 and unlock the frame rate. This is what happened for the recently released Ratchet & Clank PlayStation 5 update.

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PlayStation is somehow enabling games which are compiled on extremely old SDKs to detect that they’re running on PS5 and unlock the framerate. I don’t know how they’re doing this but it’s extremely cool and must make life for devs a lot nicer not having to retarget a new SDK. https://t.co/UNKezC8Ysi

— Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) April 3, 2021

This means that Bloodborne could be patched officially using this method. This patch, however, would only improve frame rate, as a resolution bump will apparently require an SDK retarget.

I always assumed the method I used to patch Bloodborne to run at 60fps would not be able to be done officially because PlayStation would also require a recompile and SDK update, which mine doesn’t do. But they just dropped a PS5 patch for Ratchet and Clank without changing SDK

— Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) April 3, 2021

The Bloodborne unofficial patch has been released by Lance McDonald back in February. This patch makes the game run at 60 FPS on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro.

I have build a utility that, when applied to a copy of Bloodborne v1.09 (the latest update), will modify the game engine in a way that allows most of the gameplay logic to run at arbitrary update speeds, increases the framerate cap to 60fps, and optionally lowers the rendering resolution to 1280×720.

Please be sure to decrypt your eboot.bin and if needed, “un-sELF” it as well. The file when viewed in a hex editor should start with “ELF” and be exactly 93667641 bytes in size.

You can download this utility from here: http://manfightdragon.com/60fpspatch.zip

I am not providing instructions for how to make backup copies of Bloodborne, or how to run a backup copy of your game on your console. These things are well documented online.

Please enjoy it.

Bloodborne is now available exclusively on PlayStation 4 worldwide.