diff --git a/rpcs3/Emu/System.cpp b/rpcs3/Emu/System.cpp
index c7009ea4dc..e9bce9f451 100644
--- a/rpcs3/Emu/System.cpp
+++ b/rpcs3/Emu/System.cpp
@@ -786,12 +786,12 @@ game_boot_result Emulator::Load(const std::string& title_id, bool add_only, bool
 			return game_boot_result::no_errors;
 		}
 
-		// Check if path is inside the specified directory 
+		// Check if path is inside the specified directory
 		auto is_path_inside_path = [this](std::string_view path, std::string_view dir)
 		{
 			return (GetCallbacks().resolve_path(path) + '/').starts_with(GetCallbacks().resolve_path(dir) + '/');
 		};
-	
+
 		// Detect boot location
 		constexpr usz game_dir_size = 8; // size of PS3_GAME and PS3_GMXX
 		const std::string hdd0_game = vfs::get("/dev_hdd0/game/");
@@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ game_boot_result Emulator::Load(const std::string& title_id, bool add_only, bool
 
 				sys_log.notice("Elf path: %s", argv[0]);
 			}
-			
+
 			if (!argv[0].starts_with("/dev_hdd0/game"sv) && m_cat == "HG"sv)
 			{
 				sys_log.error("Booting HG category outside of HDD0!");
diff --git a/rpcs3/util/shared_ptr.hpp b/rpcs3/util/shared_ptr.hpp
index 420f15efc9..3bafffb16a 100644
--- a/rpcs3/util/shared_ptr.hpp
+++ b/rpcs3/util/shared_ptr.hpp
@@ -388,6 +388,12 @@ namespace stx
 		return single_ptr<T>(*ptr, std::launder(arr));
 	}
 
+	template <typename T>
+	static single_ptr<std::remove_reference_t<T>> make_single_value(T&& value)
+	{
+		return make_single<std::remove_reference_t<T>>(std::forward<T>(value));
+	}
+
 #ifndef _MSC_VER
 #pragma GCC diagnostic pop
 #endif
@@ -659,6 +665,12 @@ namespace stx
 		return make_single<T, Init>(count);
 	}
 
+	template <typename T>
+	static shared_ptr<std::remove_reference_t<T>> make_shared_value(T&& value)
+	{
+		return make_single_value(std::forward<T>(value));
+	}
+
 	// Atomic simplified shared pointer
 	template <typename T>
 	class atomic_ptr
@@ -1263,3 +1275,5 @@ using stx::single_ptr;
 using stx::shared_ptr;
 using stx::atomic_ptr;
 using stx::make_single;
+using stx::make_single_value;
+using stx::make_shared_value;