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[MaKTaiL]

So are they turning it in to Sony or are they going to release it?

I seriously hope they turn it to Sony for some profit like last time on PS4. I would hate to see this become the end of PS5 (some PS4 online games were flooded with hackers by the time piracy was widely available).

 

[ParaSeoul]

Go to ResetERA bruh.

We KNOW piracy isn't encouraged here, thanks. We've been here long enough.

The technical aspect of console hacking is super interesting, and we are talking about it. We aren't posting links to Piratebay.

Then you'd remember the Metroid Dread Kotaku thread and how many heavy handed warnings and bans were issued over that.

 

[Windle Poons]

Stable system firmware update coming in 3…2…1

 

[Windle Poons]

We aren't posting links to Piratebay.

We aren’t? Oh shit. I’ve been here this long and after all this time…

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Someone really wants to play them PS1 and PS2 games on their PS5.

 

[intheinbetween]

I seriously hope they turn it to Sony for some profit like last time on PS4. I would hate to see this become the end of PS5 (some PS4 online games were flooded with hackers by the time piracy was widely available).

Don’t get me wrong on this but how would this become the end of PS5? After all, we know all Sony will release a system stability update that will patch the exploit/vulnerability.

Only those people whose PS5 stay at the vulnerable fw version would be capable to mod their systems, which at the current rate of releasing incremental updates and the shortage of consoles wouldn’t hurt Sony much more than it would have with the PS4 exploit

 

[MaKTaiL]

Don’t get me wrong on this but how would this become the end of PS5? After all, we know all Sony will release a system stability update that will patch the exploit/vulnerability.

Only those people whose PS5 stay at the vulnerable fw version would be capable to mod their systems, which at the current rate of releasing incremental updates and the shortage of consoles wouldn’t hurt Sony much more than it would have with the PS4 exploit

From what I've seen during the PS4 days was that once it is hacked ike that it's pretty easy for them to bypass basically any firmware that comes after. I hope I'm wrong though.

 

[Shmunter]

A hacked PS5 would be quite the potent pc however, a cut price one at that.

I’d grab a PS5 to mod with something like this, why not.

 

[Kilau]

Isn’t PS4 hacking dead now? Sony should just pay these guys and patch it.

 

[Fess]

What is the benefit of a jailbroken console in this day and age? So many games now require an online connection. The moment that console connects to the PSN, the ban hammer is going to be unleashed on it.

Xbox Series isn’t hacked but you’ve been able to run Retroarch on it for awhile now and it’s absolutely awesome. PS5 could be even better if a higher clock is better than a higher CU count for emulation.
No idea about bans, if it’s cracked wide open maybe they can cover their tracks? How has things been on other consoles? Switch?

 

[blastprocessor]

Need to see receipts.

 

[Shmunter]

Xbox Series isn’t hacked but you’ve been able to run Retroarch on it for awhile now and it’s absolutely awesome. PS5 could be even better if a higher clock is better than a higher CU count for emulation.
No idea about bans, if it’s cracked wide open maybe they can cover their tracks? How has things been on other consoles? Switch?

I assume, if you don’t run it as a “PS5” there would be no call home to verify system integrity and ban. I’d be happy to,use it as a windows/Linux home brew only system, and have another PS5 for PS5 things.

 

[ReBurn]

PEEK and POKE sounds like a mischievous sex move.

Wait until you learn about PUSH and POP.

 

[DonJuanSchlong]

I am still amazed how they are able to hack these things.
The Flow is genius

Go with the Flow, bro

 

[Patrick S.]

Then you'd remember the Metroid Dread Kotaku thread and how many heavy handed warnings and bans were issued over that.

I haven't read that thead, no. And if people are really getting banned for merely discussing technical aspects of hardware exploits etc., I find that a bit disappointig, to be honest. We aren't children, and I think that as long as you don't link the ultimate noob guide for hacking your Nintendo Switch those discussions should be fine. And even if you did that, what would that really change, when nowadays all that info is only a google or reddit search away?

Edit: I would like to read that Metroid thread. Could you link it please?

 

[Esppiral]

Seems like with the horsepower of the new consoles the home brew possibilities should be awesome. I’m not interested in piracy, but you’d think emulators could be able to run even more recent consoles accurately at full speed…

In any case, I guess we’ll have to wait and see about any exploits making it into the wild and how fool proof they are

If emulation is what you want, there is a console for you, it's called Xbox Series X, no kidding, RetroArch runs like a Dream on it.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

If emulation is what you want, there is a console for you, it's called Xbox Series X, no kidding, RetroArch runs like a Dream on it.

True, but I’m not really in the market for another console when I have a PC with gamepass. And yes, I know about PC emulation.

 

[Mabdia]

Seems like with the horsepower of the new consoles the home brew possibilities should be awesome. I’m not interested in piracy, but you’d think emulators could be able to run even more recent consoles accurately at full speed…

In any case, I guess we’ll have to wait and see about any exploits making it into the wild and how fool proof they are

Can you imagine your PS5 running your PS3 library?

 

[Kssio_Aug]

From what I've seen during the PS4 days was that once it is hacked ike that it's pretty easy for them to bypass basically any firmware that comes after. I hope I'm wrong though.

You might be right, but only the ones with the exploitable FW, that actually were able to hack it, would benefit from it. Tons of people will update their PS5 because they either don't care about it, or because they were unaware. And the consoles being sold after a certain date will for sure be sold with the updated firmware. That being said, I believe a HUGE minority would have access to this exploit, and the ones who appear online might get eventually banned, so it would hardly pose a serious threat to the PS5 ecosystem as a whole.

 

[saintjules]

They usually offer a handsome reward for any such flaws that are reported for their hardware or software. The same is true for several other big companies like Valve and Microsoft.

How much?

 

[rodrigolfp]

turn your ps5 into a pc. for 500$ you have something like

ryzen zen2 8 cores
Radeon RX 5700 XT
16gb gddr6 + 512mb ddr4
1gb ssd

You can't install Windows, so nope.

 

[jshackles]

So what you're saying is: "Now's the time to disconnect the internet from your PS5, if you care about such things". Got it.

 

[ParaSeoul]

I haven't read that thead, no. And if people are really getting banned for merely discussing technical aspects of hardware exploits etc., I find that a bit disappointig, to be honest. We aren't children, and I think that as long as you don't link the ultimate noob guide for hacking your Nintendo Switch those discussions should be fine. And even if you did that, what would that really change, when nowadays all that info is only a google or reddit search away?

Edit: I would like to read that Metroid thread. Could you link it please?

Should come up if you search,not taking any chances by linking it. Most of the replies have probably been deleted though.

 

[Palliasso]

I haven't read that thead, no. And if people are really getting banned for merely discussing technical aspects of hardware exploits etc., I find that a bit disappointig, to be honest. We aren't children, and I think that as long as you don't link the ultimate noob guide for hacking your Nintendo Switch those discussions should be fine. And even if you did that, what would that really change, when nowadays all that info is only a google or reddit search away?

Edit: I would like to read that Metroid thread. Could you link it please?

People won't get banned here for discussing the technical aspects of hardware exploits, installing alternate operating systems on their consoles, aspects of running emulation, or it's effect on the industry.

From our terms of service:

D. Emulation/Piracy

The topics of emulation and piracy in the context of the technical nature of emulators and ROM images, hardware modification technology, as well as their effect on the industry as a political topic are deemed to be generally acceptable.

Linking to pirate download sites, directions on how to get pirated software to work, reviews or impressions of pirated software, and livestreams of pirated software play are all strictly prohibited.

The Metroid Dread situation the above poster was referring to was a somewhat unique incident, because the software leaked online nearly a week before it's street date and it happened to work flawlessly with the currently available emulators. Because the only possible way people could have been playing Metroid Dread at the time was via piracy, we took a harder than usual stance against it since it ran afoul of our the "directions on how to get pirated software to work, reviews or impressions of pirated software, and livestreams of pirated software play are all strictly prohibited" rule.

 

[yurinka]

I see more stability updates coming!

 

[Impotaku]

I haven't read that thead, no. And if people are really getting banned for merely discussing technical aspects of hardware exploits etc., I find that a bit disappointig, to be honest. We aren't children, and I think that as long as you don't link the ultimate noob guide for hacking your Nintendo Switch those discussions should be fine. And even if you did that, what would that really change, when nowadays all that info is only a google or reddit search away?

Edit: I would like to read that Metroid thread. Could you link it please?

Think it's this one...

Kotaku encourages piracy

MOD EDIT: Reminder, GAF does not support Piracy. Promotion/Support of it will earn people warnings. This is a new low, even for them. I wonder if they could get in trouble with Nintendo over this one. Article in question Archive.org link Quotes from article If you want to play the rest of...

www.neogaf.com

 

[rickybooby87]

I'd be most interested to see if they could throw up some CPU/GPU/Memory overlays showing resource utilization, frequency, etc across various games.

 

[Dream-Knife]

If you can't put your own software on a machine, you don't actually own it. There is nothing wrong with "hacking" a console. You should be offended you need to do this to gain basic functionality.

Those were something back in the day, but is there anybody that is whiling to play 100% offline all the time nowadays?

If you only own it for single player I guess.

This was quite fast. I thought that something like this should be almost impossible because of the use of freebsd (or whatever they were using). Seems like they forgot some patches or something like this.


As a PC, without the right drivers, the GPU is quite useless and I don't think that AMD will release some kind of compatible driver (e.g. for linux if it runs at some point on a cracked ps5).

Why would freebsd be uncrackable?

AMDGPU might work.

 

[Sander Cohen]

No thanks, I like being connected to internet.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

If Sony just patches up the exploit fast so hackers have to start from square one again is it really that harmful? Even if hackers hurry up and make it so gamers can play pirated games, a security patch nullifies that.

The old days with no patches were different.

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

Remember piracy isn't encouraged here.

Sorry man, the mods aren't hiring.

 

[ljubomir]

One day, I'll search out videos of how hackers break into things. It will surely look like a bunch of Matrix gobbledeegook I wont understand, but will be interesting to see what they do where it suddenly works.

you can thank me later

 

[StreetsofBeige]

you can thank me later

I skimmed through a couple random parts just to see the format of the video and see guys talking about shit with recap charts. I'll check it out after dinner. Will be a cool video to have on the side as I surf the net. 50 min too.

Thanks!

 

[ljubomir]

I skimmed through a couple random parts just to see the format of the video and see guys talking about shit with recap charts. I'll check it out after dinner. Will be a cool video to have on the side as I surf the net. 50 min too.

Thanks!

Theres also this one:



Diffrerent format, more hardware oriented and hands-on, but entertaining as well.

 

[Patrick S.]

People won't get banned here for discussing the technical aspects of hardware exploits, installing alternate operating systems on their consoles, aspects of running emulation, or it's effect on the industry.

From our terms of service:

The Metroid Dread situation the above poster was referring to was a somewhat unique incident, because the software leaked online nearly a week before it's street date and it happened to work flawlessly with the currently available emulators. Because the only possible way people could have been playing Metroid Dread at the time was via piracy, we took a harder than usual stance against it since it ran afoul of our the "directions on how to get pirated software to work, reviews or impressions of pirated software, and livestreams of pirated software play are all strictly prohibited" rule.

Thanks for the feedback

 

[Esppiral]

Is this on the latest firmware?

 

[Esppiral]

Edit, I am dumb.

 

[Kamina]

Remember piracy isn't encouraged here.

 

[MachRc]

Fail0verf0w never released their stuff even when they got code running early days on the switch.

It took many other groups to go from browser exploit to NAND, w/ software hijinks via RCM and brute force without RCM.
Its a first step but dont expect anything to be blown open any time soon.

 

[FStubbs]

What is the benefit of a jailbroken console in this day and age? So many games now require an online connection. The moment that console connects to the PSN, the ban hammer is going to be unleashed on it.

Also, I remember geohotz or whoever it was saying that modern consoles are basically commodity hardware instead of the exotic architectures they used to have. IIRC he said something like "what's the point of jailbreaking a PS4 when I can go to Best buy and pick up similar hardware?"

 

[Ozriel]

Xbox Series isn’t hacked but you’ve been able to run Retroarch on it for awhile now and it’s absolutely awesome. PS5 could be even better if a higher clock is better than a higher CU count for emulation.

Most of these emus are CPU dependent. The Ps5 CPU isn’t clocked higher than the Series X CPU.

 

[Faust]

I haven't read that thead, no. And if people are really getting banned for merely discussing technical aspects of hardware exploits etc., I find that a bit disappointig, to be honest. We aren't children, and I think that as long as you don't link the ultimate noob guide for hacking your Nintendo Switch those discussions should be fine. And even if you did that, what would that really change, when nowadays all that info is only a google or reddit search away?

Edit: I would like to read that Metroid thread. Could you link it please?

No one was banned for talking about the merits to emulation or technical aspects of hardware exploits. People were warned and removed for promoting piracy (downloading illegal roms) and linking to rom websites.

 

[Patrick S.]

No one was banned for talking about the merits to emulation or technical aspects of hardware exploits. People were warned and removed for promoting piracy (downloading illegal roms) and linking to rom websites.

Makes sense. Thanks

 

[Badlucktroll]

Can they now see whats hidden inside the abandoned app?

 

[TLZ]

Heard it from the mod team themselves so you better rethink that attitude

Ok princess.

 

[THE DUCK]

turn your ps5 into a pc. for 500$ you have something like

ryzen zen2 8 cores
Radeon RX 5700 XT
16gb gddr6 + 512mb ddr4
1gb ssd

I was thinking this exactly, what PC on the market comes close. Heck, you can't even get a GPU for $500 Canadian......

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

Load “$”,8

Of course you meant: load"$",8,1

Man... that was a blast from the past. Can't believe I still remember that command

 

[Bullet Club]