Hackers and jailbreakers are god’s strongest troopers. What do you imply y’all found {that a} PS4 port of a comparatively obscure Star Wars recreation is the important thing to hacking the PlayStation 5? Weird as it’s, that’s apparently the case, and PS5 jailbreakers at the moment are making an attempt to trace down the restricted variety of bodily copies of Star Wars Racer Revenge to crack the console open, with the worth of the sport going up considerably because the information broke.
As Resell Calendar outlines, PS5 hackers imagine they’ve discovered a jailbreak for the system’s upcoming 12.00 system replace, however the builders behind the jailbreak say you’ll want a bodily copy of the 2019 Racer Revenge port to drag it off. This isn’t exceptional, as earlier jailbreak strategies have required a Blu-ray disc to entry the correct exploit, and the Racer Revenge port has a problem that permits customers to “inject code into the system” and that has gone unpatched because the unique 2002 launch on PS2.
mast1core based mostly on disc recreation CUSA03474This was the 12.00 dup exploit that was teased.
Will launch code after sharpening extra.
Pleased new 12 months scene pic.twitter.com/mskPXHQQ0b
— Gezine (@gezine_dev) January 1, 2026
The issue is that Racer Revenge‘s PS4 bodily version was launched by Restricted Run Video games approach again in 2019, and in case you jump over to the collector firm’s web site, you’ll discover that the sport is unsurprisingly bought out. So naturally, of us are leaping on resale websites like eBay, the place costs have now skyrocketed to over $200 for a pre-owned copy.
In response to Restricted Run’s information, solely about 8500 copies of the sport exist, and in a weird coincidence, the PS4 port of Racer Revenge is now much more in demand than ever earlier than, being sought out by collectors, hackers, and resellers trying to make a fast buck. Within the hole between Resell Calendar’s article going up yesterday and our publishing this story, costs for Racer Revenge have quadrupled. So, in case you’re trying to hack your PS5, you would possibly wish to purchase one in every of these copies earlier than the worth goes up even increased.
