Windows 7 is PEAK design.
Don't update or don't install newer OS? It's a different thing.
Can I though? You can still easily jailbreak a PS4 aslong as your on the correct firmware. It’s only a web exploit. If one host goes down another pops up within a matter of hours.
On the PS4 aren’t there dedicated groups that backport games with newer firmwares to work on PS4 with exploited firmwares? As cyberheater (I don’t know how to link usernames into posts) says, once your in your in. Workarounds will be found.
Yes, but sometimes there's only so much that can be done. When a game releases and requires a newer firmware, it's because that game was built using the newer SDK from Sony. The backporting process requires the modders to remap functions from the newer SDK to similar, older functions in the older SDK. Sometimes, this is possible. Sometimes, it simply isn't (because the newer SDK takes advantage of newer functionality that sometimes doesn't exist in the older SDK).
That’s fair, thanks for the comprehensive explanation. Was not aware of the sdk side and the updates! Thanks for information! Guess it’s just a wait and see how things develop going forwards from here on in!
The V1 switch is hackable on any firmware.
Not to mention that you can’t connect to PSN if you haven't updated your PS5.
I always laugh at this, one of my friends bought an R4 for DS years ago and I asked him if it was just to pirate games and he said it was for homebrew. To my knowledge, it was never used for anything but pirate games.
They sold over 40m of them. It's quite easy to pickup a pre-owned hackable switch. Finding a low firmware PS4 or PS5 on the other hand... They are usually sold at a premium if you can find them.
I thought that all switches could be hacked with the mod chip (admittedly I don’t have one so not sure?)
A PS5 that runs SteamOS or Linux or anything like that would make the's value proposition skyrocket even past the Series X's previous bang for buck. At that point you'd have a working PC and a Playstation in one device.
Yes with modchips all switch's can be hacked. Softmod only v1.
AFAIK there isn't CFW for PS4 and probably never will be since the scene moved to PS5, who knows if PS5 will get CFW either. Without CFW the jailbreak is just going to be for pirating games and no online functionality, basically worthless to anyone but pirates.
Imagine a situation where you had a PlayStation capable of running Linux/Steam OS and an Xbox capable of running Windows. I’d be down for that.
From what videos be seen there is the jailbreak option which allows the use of some (albeit) limited emulation functionality. But yes actual cfw like on the og Xbox isn’t available to that degree of customisation and is primarily used for the sailors of the high seas.
I recall in PS3 era even if you wanted to avoid an update, newer games would be loaded with updates on the disk and the game could not be played until the update was installed. I guess if you literally haven't turned on the machine on in 2 years you might be in luck.
Think the 360 also did this as well. Maybe I’m mistaken though.
It's a complete joke. what legitimate purpose could there possibly be to hack a console lolI always laugh at this, one of my friends bought an R4 for DS years ago and I asked him if it was just to pirate games and he said it was for homebrew. To my knowledge, it was never used for anything but pirate games.
Saying homebrew has such a thin veneer of respectability, that I can't believe anyone says it, nobody believes it.
#MakeConsolesPCs
I’ve long advocated for this. I know people say that ms wouldn’t do it because it would eat into there Windows os earnings and people would buy them as cheap pc. But if they offered that as an additional extra that you had to pay for (just like developer mode) so you had to buy a Windows key to open up that functionality then I don’t see a problem?
I always laugh at this, one of my friends bought an R4 for DS years ago and I asked him if it was just to pirate games and he said it was for homebrew. To my knowledge, it was never used for anything but pirate games.
Saying homebrew has such a thin veneer of respectability, that I can't believe anyone says it, nobody believes it.
Imagine a world where xbmc never existed and expanded into kodi, due to Xbox been hacked. It paved the way for a lot of streaming applications and what would become standard going forwards.
The vast majority do it for piracy I'm sure but there are lots of other uses too. Mods, Emulators, homebrew ports. With a hacked Vita you can run your games at better framerates and resolutions with overclocking, and play opensource ports of games like Diablo (devilution X) and you can stream pc games to it with moonlight and even stream ps5 to it.
I would imagine that getting hardware drivers would require a fair bit of work.
