PKG Viewer shows what's inside a PlayStation or Switch game file without extracting it: cover art, title, Title ID, region, version, and required firmware. Retail (original) PKGs fully supported — including split multi-part sets.
Works with .pkg packages, PS2/PS3 .iso disc images, .exfat / .ffpfsc / .ffpkg images, Switch .nsp / .xci files, Xbox 360 (GOD/STFS/ISO/XEX), Wii U NUS folders, and game folders.
Get PKGViewer-Setup-X.Y.Z.exe (Windows) or PKGViewer-macOS-arm64-X.Y.Z.zip (Apple Silicon) / PKGViewer-macOS-x86_64-X.Y.Z.zip (Intel) from Releases — no Python needed, no admin needed.
The builds are unsigned, so Windows may warn you before running them. This is about the missing publisher signature, not about the file being unsafe.
- Windows protected your PC (SmartScreen, "Unknown publisher") — click More info → Run anyway.
- Smart App Control blocked an app (Windows 11 with Smart App Control On) — this one has no "Run anyway" button and cannot be bypassed by unblocking the file or adding a Defender exclusion. Run from source instead, or turn Smart App Control off.
Full walkthrough and what does not work: docs/troubleshooting.md.
Grab PKGViewer-Setup-X.Y.Z.exe from Releases — no admin needed:
- every format gets its own icon (
.pkg/.exfat/.ffpfsc/.ffpkg/.nsp/.xci) and opens on double-click — no Open With setup - shows up in
Settings → Default apps, so all six formats go Always in one place - updates itself in place, no reinstall hassle
- uninstall wipes everything clean (files, icons, registry)
- Cover art preview (icon0.png, pic0.png, …) with Save / Copy to clipboard — online covers (PlayStation Store, ps2-covers, GameTDB, XboxUnity, Nintendo IDBE), cached offline
- Spec card: Title ID, Content ID, version, region, Min. System, SDK, DRM
- Latest patch version per game (PS5/PS4) with PKG-vs-latest compare
- Files tab: folder tree built from entry paths (PS3 discs/folders, ISOs), sized per folder — single-file Extract with rename, trophy00.trp contents
- Trophies tab: decrypted trophy list (name, grade, hidden) with icons, banner art, Save icons export
- OFC (Official) / FPKG (Fake) detection + badges for PS4 and PS5 (incl. split parts)
- Details tab: curated param.sfo / param.json, Show all for the full dump
- Drag & drop: PKG files, exFAT / ffpfsc / ffpkg images, Switch NSP / XCI files, and game folders onto the window
- Rename: clean uniform names from PKG info (
Title - TID - vVersion - Region, e.g.Elden Ring - PPSA04863 - v1.06 - EU) — single file via the Rename button (preview + header Undo), or many at once via the Batch button / dropping them all (batch dialog with preview + All/None + revert log); folders are scanned for game files; split multi-part sets stay together; Revert restores original names from any revert log - AMPR / LZ4 asset containers (LIZARD dumps): listed with size in the spec card + Files tab
- Copy/paste works in every text field, on any keyboard layout
- Self-updating: silent check at startup, header button lights up on new release
- Rename patterns in both dialogs:
{title} {tid} {cid} {version} {region} {type} {orig}presets (Title ID only, Content ID, append[Title ID]to the original name) or a custom pattern with live preview — the last preset, pattern and Title/Title ID/Version/Region ticks are remembered - CLI mode:
pkgviewer.py --info file.pkg(also.nsp/.xci) — batch:pkgviewer.py --batch-rename folder [--recursive] [--apply] [--name-pattern "{orig} [{tid}]"](dry run without--apply) — revert:pkgviewer.py --revert batch_rename_*.log [--apply]
Drag & drop a .pkg / .exfat / .ffpfsc / .ffpkg / .nsp / .xci file or a game folder onto the exe or the open window, or use Open. To run from source (needs Python 3 + Pillow + tkinterdnd2 + mkpfs + pytsk3 + cryptography):
PKGViewer.bat- PS2 disc images (
.iso) — SYSTEM.CNF serial/version/VMODE, file listing - PS3 packages (
.pkg) — retail + debug NPDRM, decrypted listing - PS3 game folders — NPDRM and PS3_GAME layouts
- PS4 / PS5 packages (
.pkg) — game, DLC, update, retail + split parts - PS5 disk images (
.exfat) — game dumps - PS5 compressed images (
.ffpfsc) — game dumps - PS5 UFS2 images (
.ffpkg) — game dumps (needs pytsk3 from source) - PS5 app folders — extracted game folder (incl. LIZARD AMPR/LZ4 dumps)
- Switch packages (
.nsp) — game, update, DLC; official title + icon from Control NCA withprod.keys(put it next to the exe or in%APPDATA%\PKGViewer\), raw file listing without keys; per-NCA type/key info, readable firmware requirement - Switch gamecard images (
.xci) — partition + file listing, cartridge info, title/icon from the secure partition - Wii U NUS folders — TMD title/version/contents, official Nintendo icons
- Xbox 360 GOD folders + STFS packages — title/Media/Title ID, data parts, embedded thumbnail, online XboxUnity covers
- Xbox 360 ISO / extracted folders / XEX — XDVDFS listing, version/disc from XEX, TU check
pip install pyinstaller pillow
python -m PyInstaller --noconfirm --clean --onefile --windowed --name PKGViewer --icon assets\logo.ico --add-data "assets;assets" --add-data "assets_about.png;." --collect-submodules PIL pkgviewer.py
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- PS4 extract/build engine:
LibOrbisPkgby maxton (via PkgEditor). Optionalorbis-pub-gen/orbis-pub-chk(Sony/OpenOrbis SDK tools, user-supplied). - PS5 files are view-only (no extract/build, no outside tools).
.ffpfsc/ inner-exFAT reading viamkpfslibrary by PSBrew (RenanGBarreto + contributors incl. rdmrocha, drakmor) — GPLv3, bundled..ffpkg(UFS) reading viapytsk3(Sleuth Kit bindings).- Switch NCA/NACP parsing follows
hactool(SciresM) layout; decrypt needs user-suppliedprod.keys(dump it yourself with Lockpick_RCM) — no keys bundled. - Patch-version lookup: prosperopatches.com / orbispatches.com.
- PKG Viewer itself (parsing, UI, rename, trophies, Switch support) is original code — no vendored third-party code bundled.
MIT — see LICENSE.
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