Editing BL2 Saves on PS4 / PS5

I'll be straight with you: PS4 is the hardest platform to edit Borderlands 2 on, and PS5 just inherits the PS4 way of doing it. This isn't the clean two-click PC experience — it's a chain of tools, part of it costs money, and there are a couple of ways to brick a save if you rush. Here's the real picture so you know what you're signing up for before you start. If you'd rather mod an easier console, PS3 and Xbox 360 are both free and far gentler — the whole platforms overview ranks them by difficulty.

The honest reality

PS4 and PS5 saves are encrypted and signed by the console, the same way PS3 saves are. Vanilla Gibbed — the PC editor — can't read them directly. So everything below is about getting the save out of its console wrapper, into something Gibbed (or a fork) can edit, and back again without the console rejecting it. There are two ways to do that, and which one you use depends on whether your console is jailbroken.

Route A — Save Wizard (no jailbreak, paid)

This is the route most people take, because it works on a stock retail console. Save Wizard is a paid PC program that can pull your PS4 save off a USB drive, decrypt it, and re-sign it afterward. The flow:

1. Copy the save to USB and into Save Wizard

   Export your BL2 save from the PS4 to a USB drive, plug it into your PC, and load it in Save Wizard.

2. Open it in Advanced Mode

   Save Wizard MAX's Advanced Mode is what exposes the raw save so an editor can touch it.

3. Edit, then re-import

   Edit the save, bring it back into Save Wizard to re-sign, and copy it back to the PS4 via USB.

The Save Wizard catch (read this)

Some command-line conversion methods also still expect Python 2.7 specifically — not Python 3 — which trips people up.

Route B — jailbroken console (free-ish, advanced)

If your PS4 is on jailbreakable firmware, you can skip Save Wizard entirely. Tools like Save Mounter or Apollo Save Tool decrypt the save on the console itself, you edit the decrypted file on PC, then copy it back over FTP or USB. The upside used to be huge: the old "no PS3 needed" breakthrough meant you no longer had to borrow a PS3 just to re-sign a save. The downside is you need a jailbroken console, which is its own rabbit hole.

Golden keys, Badass & the profile

Just like on PC, the keys and Badass Rank aren't in your character save — they're in the profile, edited with a separate tool. On PS4, ProtoBuffers' profile editor is the go-to (his own project, not Gibbed's). A few hard-won numbers from that scene, because the limits are real:

• Golden keys: up to ~600,000 is safe; pile on more and you start corrupting saves.
• Stash: too many keys and items in the stash corrupts the save fast. If you stuff it, clear the items out — and clear them in the Raw tab too, or the corruption warning sticks.
• Badass: keep rank at 0 and set tokens (around 9,999,999) instead — high rank values cause trouble.
• Item values: some fields need a leading minus (charge delay), and very high shield values misbehave — a lot of editors set those to 1 on purpose.

Don't brick your save

What about PS5?

There's no separate PS5 process. Borderlands 2 on PS5 runs through backward compatibility / the PS4 version, so it uses the PS4 save format and the exact same flow above. Treat a "PS5 save" as a PS4 save and you're right.

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