Hackers and jailbreakers are god’s strongest troopers. What do you imply y’all found {that a} PS4 port of a relatively obscure Star Wars game is the important thing to hacking the PlayStation 5? Weird as it’s, that’s apparently the case, and PS5 jailbreakers are actually attempting to trace down the restricted variety of bodily copies of Star Wars Racer Revenge to crack the console open, with the worth of the sport going up considerably because the information broke.
As Resell Calendar outlines, PS5 hackers consider they’ve discovered a jailbreak for the system’s upcoming 12.00 system replace, however the builders behind the jailbreak say you’ll want a bodily copy of the 2019 Racer Revenge port to drag it off. This isn’t remarkable, as earlier jailbreak strategies have required a Blu-ray disc to entry the right exploit, and the Racer Revenge port has a difficulty that enables customers to “inject code into the system” and that has gone unpatched because the unique 2002 launch on PS2.
mast1core primarily based on disc sport CUSA03474
This was the 12.00 dup exploit that was teased.Will launch code after sharpening extra.
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The issue is that Racer Revenge‘s PS4 physical edition was released by Limited Run Games way back in 2019, and if you hop over to the collector company’s website, you’ll discover that the sport is unsurprisingly bought out. So naturally, people are leaping on resale websites like eBay, the place costs have now skyrocketed to over $200 for a pre-owned copy.
In keeping with Limited Run’s data, solely about 8500 copies of the sport exist, and in a weird coincidence, the PS4 port of Racer Revenge is now way more in demand than ever earlier than, being sought out by collectors, hackers, and resellers trying to make a fast buck. Within the hole between Resell Calendar’s article going up yesterday and our publishing this story, costs for Racer Revenge have quadrupled. So, in case you’re trying to hack your PS5, you would possibly need to purchase one in all these copies earlier than the worth goes up even increased.
