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In the meantime the PS4 jailbreak went from version 5.05 (where it stagnated for a long time) to 6.72 in July, which was also old by that time, being released i
by Medox 6y ago
In the meantime the PS4 jailbreak went from version 5.05 (where it stagnated for a long time) to 6.72 in July, which was also old by that time, being released in mid July 2019, but which now can run RDR2 up to the patch 1.13 (last on 6.72).
Or to put it differently... If you can't crack the game, crack the os. At least in the console world, this gives you the advantage that anything works up a certain fw version afterwards.
If I remember correctly, the jump from 5.05 to 6.72, added more than 1000 playable games for those who kept the PS4 on 5.05 (myself included).
Sadly, there is not much talk around HN about console hacking. E.g. Here is the bounty submission of Andy Nguyen (theflow0) for 6.72: https://hackerone.com/reports/826026 https://hackerone.com/reports/826026
Sony might have shot itself in the foot by accepting the disclosure at the end... But, then again, they had to and there's not much harm done when the jailbroken fw is a year old.
- tetris11 6y agowhat's the advantage of a jail broken ps4? Other than running 3rd party Linux binaries, and maybe adding ad-blockers, is there a gaming benefit?
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoPiracy, I assume?
- p1necone 6y agoRunning homebrew, although I don't know if there's much of a homebrew scene for the ps4. Also you can get a second hand ps4 pretty cheap nowadays relative to it's hardware and power consumption - could make a decent home server if you chucked some variety of linux on there (is there much support for the hardware?)
- dogma1138 6y agoPS4 is basically a PC at this point one of the main reasons for why no homebrew scene.
- TAForObvReasons 6y agoCheck out the Switch or PS3 scenes for some examples: save backups and save editing, game mods, overclocking, normally unsupported game controllers.
- p1necone 6y agoThe Switch is a good example - afaik there's still no official way to back up saves for a lot of games (botw included), and for the ones where cloud saves are supported it's still a monthly subscription. Your console dies, you lose your saves, no way around it other than jailbreaking.
- j-james 6y agoThe Switch hacking scene is also a good example just because of the sheer amount of effort poured into it - Atmosphere, the primary custom-firmware solution, is aiming to be a _full reimplementation_ of the Switch's firmware, kernel and all. https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/ https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/ https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesosphere_opensource_nintendo_switch_kernel_now/ https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesospher... --- (also, one more particularly cool application made possible through homebrew is game streaming - from a desktop pc or other device.) https://github.com/rock88/moonlight-nx https://github.com/rock88/moonlight-nx
- sli 6y agoAdditionally cloud saves are not supported on some games, including single-player first-party games, and Nintendo's excuse for that is because "cheating." Animal Crossing and all four (technically two but you know) Pokemon games have no cloud save support at all, arguably all games for which players would absolutely want cloud saves. On top of this is a pretty long list of third-party titles.
- c-c-c-c-c 6y agoRunning linux, ps4 is based on FreeBSD