PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace

rationalist

I'm not a gamer, but it makes me wonder if I should buy a PS5 for possibly some amazing non-gaming future use - maybe compiling software?

newtypecola

There aren't really any games worth playing these days.

gustavus

Maybe telling people they don't own their games and your usage is subject to their whims wasn't the best idea. "Piracy is a service problem" - Gabe Newell

Boss0565

Can this happen to the Switch 2 please

terminalcommand

Article is wrong about one point, Wolverine is perfectly playable on 13.60 jailbreak. Currently, there are no unsupported titles with jailbreak. The upcoming GTA VI announced that it will require the latest software to be playable.

akmarinov

Yeah, all software will be open source software real soon, whether their owners like it or not.

_joel

Don't poke the bear then by trying to change the definition of ownership and making games download only.

FLeXMurphy

As a long-time RE this does not surprise me. It feels like an eternity ago that the MCPs for various reverse engineering tools dropped, but from the onset it seemed like a perfect fit. While we've had ML-assisted solutions before, nothing of this scale comes close, and as the recent Linux kernel presentation mentioned, a lot of it boils down to a massive effort-by-exhaustion and pattern-matching. This is the golden road for RE - if you know your compiler versions, processor arch, and you have something trained on countless permutations of different complexities, you're going to hit the right notes. Yesterday's news on the mathematics breakthroughs were a foregone conclusion - there is a lot of hidden overlap between it and RE. RE is just the more obscure of the two, but among my circle of peers, many people have already undertaken (and succeeded) at very ambitious projects. Obvious standouts are things like Modern Warfare which gets mentioned because it is highly popular, but many games have already been reversed by the quiet majority. I don't see many options for PS/Nintendo. Some form of bespoke-hardware-based lockdown reminiscent of the Cell processor, perhaps. But that is a lot of R&D to spend on something like this. Will have to wait and see. So, what to make of this? Machines of the future or stochastic parrots? Of course. I'll take two.

jiraiyasarutobi

Vast majority don't care and simply want to play video games on their TV with PlayStation. This is only going to cause supply shortage and increased scalping. Annoyance to people who simply want to buy a console and play games. Get a PC and do whatever you want on it. The game ownership bullcrap from Sony (removal of disc bay) is a different problem. People don't realise the console hardware is subsidised and the firmware locks are the way to recoup the costs from Sony walled garden of games. If it becomes a general purpose hardware(more wide spread jailbreaks) Sony will eventually decide to simply sell the hardware at component cost parity and ruin it for everyone. Jailbreakers can't keep it to themselves.

pjmlp

I guess too many persons are relatively angry with the whole physical discs decision.

solarpunk_enthu

I am hoping for the future where we have a law that allows customers to freely choose and install software on the hardware they own. That thought popped in my mind when I saw mac neo: laptop with the same chip that runs my iphone. But on mac I can install whatever I wish, and on iphone only what apple wishes? I am hopeful that EU will headline this legislation sometime soon.

nicman23

called it that sony will get targeted after they went for physical games

snvzz

This is great news, both for preservation and for current PS5 owners to be able to use their PS5 for all sorts of tasks during the ongoing ram/storage scarcity.