Can you copy files from a PS4 disc to your PC?

[unplanned bacon]

I'm just curious. My PC has two blu ray drives in it. I got curious and put Horizon Zero Dawn in there and the system recognised it as a PS4 disc and it showed me the files in file explorer. One of them is called app.pkg which is 40 (x several powers of 10) kb in size which I assume is the game,

This is exactly what happened with PS2 game DVDs (and as you may know PS1 games will play any audio tracks they have) and I was able to take the music and some video files off some of them on to my hard drive.

I have no plans to copy any game to my computer, but could you copy files from the disc to your PC if you wanted to? Just curious

 

[10tacle]

No, you cannot. The .pkg you see is essentially a custom zip-type file that can only be uncoded by the PS4 itself. The only thing you can do on a PC file-wise from your PS4 is remove the hard drive and copy it to a PC drive (internal or external) via USB to back it up using a connector like a USB-SATA cord.

 

[unplanned bacon]

No, you cannot. The .pkg you see is essentially a custom zip-type file that can only be uncoded by the PS4 itself. The only thing you can do on a PC file-wise from your PS4 is remove the hard drive and copy it to a PC drive (internal or external) via USB to back it up using a connector like a USB-SATA cord.

Ah cool. Only thought that because I had my PC, I had a disc and a PS4 and after answering what happens if you put a PC game in a PS4 I thought about going the other way. Then found it behaved, as far as being able to see the files, exactly like a PS2 game