# Finding P5's PPU hash

## Getting started

Run RPCS3 and boot up P5 for a minute.

Once your game is loaded, close out of the emulator. It may warn you that you are closing both the game and emulator without saving. That’s fine, since all we want is the game to boot up.

![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/SEITDTsx5Olh45n1yKO6gfRazBUmkRf5zCOPTB0WU3nO7EqhA60BqJMf-Ekpz4O4cb9PJ9AFgHOsRQhJGOFKPSEDp2fOJUy_y-XmZCWY_JPhXmmpAIjeNnDFLgIcB0BfH-nsOXXe=s0)

Open your RPCS3 folder, find a file called RPCS3.log. If you don’t have extensions enabled, it’s the notepad icon with the name RPCS3.

![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/zggA-gSRCI3vUsz-u4jcOv8LH8DKeYP4soimi4-ge45ol58bvHaioAU1fDaxk17DyAXMjIRHP-uQatMF0n-hMRX4WdKZ4AcHsbfCiNg2-s4DXfWR_G_xQncgqYtWsj5h6b2sdWSn=s0)

Open it with your text editor of choice, I went with Notepad. You can also use VSCode instead if you’d like.

### Locating the PPU-Hash

Next go to **Edit > Find**. This will open the Find window as shown below.

![Notepad's find window.](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/LxgFkBQmEIi7aY7X95s_XSXNAYUUWZoM-TDq4VNYjRjIGRTFH-HyKK5P4UJqkOu4iREBSr_PiEQfcv8rlIUUaRTg4c5qe5Z0nJj1JNspI67aip9rNZJUbyqyENLVZHB-tIgE5tOG=s0)

In the Find window, look up “**PPU executable hash:**”, set the direction to “**Down**” if it isn’t already, then click the “**Find Next**” button.

<div align="center"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/MwltLrTNovzV7OJNJBYf_WBvh57mdE9xsYTBYn4VxOPWRAfqVkXnQwi6IgGfOHBEk0u4SEm8IYBGd_HaKnIFu5yChtEdriPXansmx0hy2O-AnJYoIOf5a8sh9AR8421SkWlfs2cR=s0" alt="First result is should be P5&#x27;s PPU hash."></div>

The first entry should be the P5’s PPU hash, copy that and paste it to another file where you can reference it again.

