DualSense overlay v1.0.1 by erickdavestech

A see-through controller sits in the bottom-left corner and shows every press: face buttons, D-pad, shoulder buttons, stick clicks, Create, Options and the touchpad. The sticks move with yours, L2 and R2 fill up with how hard you press, and a dot follows your finger on the touchpad. It never reads or writes game memory.

Load it once per boot. It waits for a game, shows up when one opens and redraws itself when you switch. A second copy on top, or running it next to Common FPS or SimpleFPS, ends in a System Software Error, since all three work inside the same system process.

The developer lists firmware 13.60. The PS button and Mute never light up, and the position and size are fixed.

On-screen DualSense controller overlay for a PS5 running homebrew. Load it once per boot, open any game, and the controller appears bottom-left, lighting up in real time.

Download

ps5-dualsense-overlay-v1.0.1.elf — SHA-256 in SHA256SUMS.txt:

3790c590088b275a8d803c7c46394af6c7e0d8ede2546c0507a05a246fbf9747  ps5-dualsense-overlay-v1.0.1.elf

What's Changed in v1.0.1

Fixed

• Overlay freeze after Rest Mode (sleep/resume): Fixed issue where sceUserServiceGetForegroundUser returning 0xffffffff (-1) during console standby or before logging into an account caused pad initialization to permanently fail, leaving the overlay visible on screen but completely frozen.
• Controller disconnect / standby recovery: If scePadReadState fails continuously for 15 consecutive frames (e.g. controller turned off, Bluetooth drop, or system suspend), the dead handle is now safely closed via scePadClose and re-acquired automatically as soon as the controller is back online.

Added

• Periodic foreground user detection: The overlay now checks for foreground user account switches every ~2 seconds and re-binds the pad handle when switching local accounts.
• Non-blocking pad initialization retry: Periodic retry every 30 frames (~0.5s) if user or handle was not immediately ready at startup.

Usage

1. Jailbreak the console as usual (tested with kstuff-lite).
2. Load ps5-dualsense-overlay-v1.0.1.elf with your payload manager, in either of these ways:

• Web portal: from a PC or phone on the same network, open the payload manager's portal using the console's local IP and upload the .elf.
• USB: copy the .elf to a USB drive, connect it to the console and launch it from the payload manager.

1. Open any game.

Load it only once per boot, and do not run it together with Common FPS or SimpleFPS: they inject into the same system process. To update, reboot and load the new version.

Compatibility

Tested on a PS5 Slim (CFI-2015) with system software 13.60 and kstuff-lite. System software 11.xx–13.50 is allowed by the code but untested.

Known limitations

• The PS button cannot be read (the system intercepts it).
• The Mute button is disabled (the controller only reports the momentary press).

Credits

Based on Common FPS for PS5 by porhe911 and the SimpleFPS patch by khalifa007. Controller artwork: "PS5 Button Icons and Controls" by Zacksly (CC BY 3.0, modified). Built with the PS5 payload SDK, etaHEN and shsrv sources. Full credits in CREDITS.md.

License

GPL-3.0-or-later; the artwork remains CC BY 3.0. The complete corresponding source for this binary is tag v1.0.1 (source archives attached below). Rebuilding the tag reproduces the ELF byte for byte.

PlayStation, PS5 and DualSense are trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sony. See the legal notice.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/erickdavestech/ps5-dualsense-overlay/compare/v1.0.0...v1.0.1