PlayStation 4 Game Hack Lets PS4 Owners Play Pirated Games
According to Tech Times, anyone with a PS4 can copy its BIOS/NAN, game database, and operating system onto a $99 Raspberry Pi, and transfer the copy to another PS4 – as many as someone would want.
Brazilian retailers publicized the PS4 game hack last week when they offered to recreate it for consumers for anywhere from $100 to $150 for the service, with 10 pirated games included, according to Wololo.
PlayStation 4 owners would likely find the game hack worth the risk of a suspended account or worse, as authentic PS4 games cost upwards of $60 or more. At $15 a piece in Brazil, PS4 owners are saving a bundle of money.
What makes this PlayStation game hack even more desirable for PS4 owners is that it is not a hack or a jailbreak in the same way other consoles are hacked or jailbroken, according to GameZone.
Because the Raspberry Pi method does not touch any actual code, nothing is being hacked or jailbroken in the true, legal sense of the words.
The Raspberry Pi method is simply a way to play pirated games on a retail PlayStation 4 console. Furthermore, according to a Brazilian website UOL Jogos(via Google Translate), Sony has no way of knowing whether the hacked PS4 was playing pirated games or not – even if playing online.
UOL Jogos went to a Brazilian game retailer selling the PlayStation 4 game hack service and confirmed the hack is real. UOL received two accounts and 10 random games as part of the information dump onto their PS4 console.
Brett Fernicola, Stealthbuilt Technologies’ CISO, essentially confirmed this information via Tech News Talk when he talked about the differences between the PS3 game hack and the PS4 game hack. According to Fernicola, the PS3 “unit itself needed a hacked firmware loaded” and the PS4 doesn’t.
According to a commenter on the UOL Jogos Facebook page (before UOL Jogos took the information down), via Wololo, the PS4 game hack isn’t a hack, per se. It isn’t a jailbreak either, he insists, since it doesn’t change or decrypt the firmware or software.
The commenter insisted that it is “a real bypass” of the “ASM code for follow ROM/BIOS reading using a Pi … very simple and old technique from the MSX age.”
He added that it was possible because Sony “forgot to hardlock inside the CPU/APU, the real hashcode for the bios [sic].”
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LiaPosted:
How do people find this kind of stuff, so smart these people are and i'm surprised it's done :)
SkittlePosted:
Props to the guys who discovered this, you have to be pretty smart to find an exploit like this!
HarmfulMushroomPosted:
AKG Mhm... not something I would pay for as there could be risks involved. Wonder if Playstation can 'patch' this.
I doubt they'd be able to "patch" the hardlock inside the CPU/APU that was never relocked for PS4 models already out in the wild, but I'd bet that the newer motherboard revisions will be locked. The most I see coming out of this is improved security checks in a software update.
ApexJnrPosted:
-Dylan1 Is it really worth risking a account suspension or even worse? I wouldn't get it.
yes..... £40 a year for a subscription or every game i want(price this up, two new games = £90)? hmm i would take the risk lol,if you dont play online you may as well. And to be honest if you had two ps4s, for whatever reason one of them may as well be used for this.
935Posted:
Mhm... not something I would pay for as there could be risks involved. Wonder if Playstation can 'patch' this.
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