If your console already meets the technical requirements, the basic pipeline to get a homebrew package onto your system dashboard is standard across the modding community:

Let's start with a fundamental truth. Nintendo and Sony are direct competitors. No mainline Super Mario game has ever been officially released on a PlayStation console. Mario remains a Nintendo-exclusive franchise, appearing on Nintendo's own hardware and mobile platforms.

The phrase is heavily searched in the PlayStation modding community. Super Mario is a flagship Nintendo franchise. The PlayStation 4 is a Sony console. Naturally, these two worlds do not officially cross.

As the PS4 enters its twilight years following the PS5's release, the homebrew scene remains active but faces challenges.

He saw himself. Not a low-poly version, but a perfect, high-definition reflection of his own living room, captured through a camera the PS4 didn't even have plugged in.

Sites like the Mario Fanon Wiki often host conceptual or indie-made platformers that mimic Mario's moveset (triple jumps, ground pounds) but are built for the PS4 environment. How to Install PKG Files

The most common method for playing classic Mario games on a PS4 is through emulation. Instead of opening an emulator app and selecting a ROM file, developers bundle the emulator and the game ROM together into a single, self-contained PKG file.

These are not official Nintendo releases. They are unauthorized, fan-made projects that require a jailbroken PS4 to run. How is This Possible? (The Role of Jailbreaking)

A powerful open-source homebrew application that allows users to manage and install fpkg files using .json database files. It can fetch packages from a USB drive, a local network, or even the web, effectively acting as a custom package manager for the PS4.