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I wonder if this could be used to decrypt/unpack/dump/whatever the contents of games? I know the Dark Souls community are gasping to see the cut content which
by s_kilk 11y ago
I wonder if this could be used to decrypt/unpack/dump/whatever the contents of games?
I know the Dark Souls community are gasping to see the cut content which may or may not live inside the Bloodborne game files.
- astrodust 11y agoWhy would that be any easier than just ripping the content off the disc directly?
- iLoch 11y agoPretty sure the game files are encrypted and all the consoles have a secure chip which decrypts them. Getting files from the game disc is easy, reading them isn't.
- shmerl 11y ago> all the consoles have a secure chip which decrypts them. I assume Steam Machines shouldn't do that and therefore they should be more mod friendly.
- 0942v8653 11y agoThat has to be true for Steam Machines since you can build your own.
- mc42 11y agoEspecially considering they run Linux, so... I'm decently sure that Steam could easily use some form of binary protection.
- s_kilk 11y agoTrue for Steam Machines, but it wouldn't help in this specific case, as Bloodborne is a PS4 exclusive.
- stickperson 11y agoYea. I think that's called the NOR chip.
- s_kilk 11y agoAs iLoch said, the disks are encrypted.
- astrodust 11y agoJust because the PS4 can run Linux doesn't mean you get free access to data on arbitrary discs. If this is anything like the PS2 and PS3 incarnations you're locked out from a lot of that.
- comex 11y agoThis isn't an officially sanctioned sandboxed Linux mode like on PS2-3. It's an exploit for (an old version of) the customized FreeBSD kernel that all games on the PS4 run under; in this case the exploit is used to throw away the kernel in memory and chainload Linux, but it could also be used to just install some kind of hook that dumps decrypted game data.