MihawkOS

A hotfix for Alpha 5. If MihawkOS showed every payload as "Missing" even though they were loaded, or games could not start with "No access to /data", this fixes it. Everything else is the same as Alpha 5.

What's fixed

• MihawkOS gets its access to /data even when dev.conf is missing or points somewhere unreachable. Its access helper used to quit at once when it could not reach its log server (set in /data/homebrew/dev.conf), so MihawkOS never got access to your files. The helper now keeps running and writes its log to a file instead. You no longer need to create or fix dev.conf.
• The payload checklist tells you what's really wrong. When MihawkOS cannot see your payloads because it has no access to /data, the checklist no longer calls every payload "Missing". It says what is blocking it, and how to fix it.

Played on the console

Standard PS5, firmware 13.60, with the payloads loaded through Payload Manager:

• A dev.conf pointing at an address nobody answers (the reported case): the access helper kept running, MihawkOS got /data, and the payload checklist passed.
• The full test battery of 104 cases: 102 passed, the other two skipped by a test-network setting (alpha5-hotfix-base-2026-10-29-01). The payload checklist passed at every one of its 143 starts.

Installing or updating

New install: the same as Alpha 5: copy PPSA99170 to /data/homebrew/, open MihawkOS, and the guided setup installs the runtime from a USB drive or over FTP.

Updating from Alpha 5 (or Alpha 4):

• Replace the PPSA99170 folder in /data/homebrew/ with the new one.
• Put the new runtime pieces on your USB drive (the mihawkos folder from the runtime zip), or have them ready for FTP.