{"id":384564,"date":"2026-01-03T01:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384564\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:26:07","slug":"alleged-ps5-jailbreak-method-spikes-prices-for-old-star-wars-game-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384564\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged PS5 Jailbreak Method Spikes Prices for Old Star Wars Game on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Wars completionists looking to add a copy of a relatively obscure PlayStation 4 game called Star Wars Racer Revenge to their collection might find themselves wondering why on Earth the game is suddenly so expensive.\u00a0The game\u2014first released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2, and re-released for the PS4 to general indifference in 2019\u2014is suddenly being listed<\/a>\u00a0for hundreds of dollars on eBay.<\/p>\n

Neither the game\u2019s sudden popularity nor its skyrocketing price tag has anything to do with its actual merits as entertainment. No, Star Wars Racer Revenge is changing hands for lots of money because the game\u2014and, specifically, the disc-based version\u2014is allegedly the key to a newly discovered method for jailbreaking Sony\u2019s PS5 hardware.<\/p>\n

The hack appears to take advantage of the newfound availability of the console\u2019s ROM keys, which leaked online<\/a> over New Year\u2019s Eve. For anyone who wants more detail, The Cybersec Guru just published a\u00a0deep dive<\/a> into how PS5 security works and why the leak is a very big problem for Sony. The short version is that these keys are part of the PS5\u2019s most fundamental level of security\u2014and, by their very nature, they can\u2019t be changed or updated, which means that Sony can\u2019t issue a patch to address this issue.<\/p>\n

As The Cybersec Guru\u2019s post points out, the ROM leak doesn\u2019t in and of itself allow for jailbreaking the PS5: \u201c[Having] the keys allow developers to find exploits easier, but you still need an entry point \u2026 to use them.\u201d The Star Wars Racers Revenge disc appears to be the first such entry point discovered, and as per a short video posted on Twitter, it appears to have allowed developer Gezine<\/a> to access the game\u2019s debugging console and inject code to print a short message onscreen.<\/p>\n

Sony has managed to keep the PS5 free from low-level jailbreaking since the console\u2019s release in November 2020. There have been various exploits<\/a> at levels further up the device\u2019s security chain, but these can (and have) been addressed with firmware updates. A jailbreak using the leaked ROM keys would be an entirely different matter.<\/p>\n

At this point, the Star Wars Racers Revenge hack is essentially a proof of concept, and it\u2019s a long and difficult road from printing \u201cUwU\u201d to the game\u2019s console to writing full-blown custom firmware of the sort that is available for the PS3 and PS4. It\u2019s also worth noting that some in the PlayStation homebrew scene are pouring cold water on the news, suggesting that the ROM keys alone are not enough to allow for such a jailbreak. Developer Jose Coixao (aka zecoixao), for instance, wrote on Twitter<\/a> that the keys \u201care NOT enough to pwn a PS5.\u201d He argued that jailbreakers would also require access to two other vital security components, \u201cor alternatively, [they would] need to find bugs in the ROM that you can use to exploit the PS5. Neither of these are easy and [both] require immense work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, today\u2019s news is confirmation that this work can at least begin in earnest\u2014and most worryingly for Sony, it\u2019s something that the company can\u2019t really do anything to prevent. For now, maybe they\u2019ll start buying up copies of that Star Wars game.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Wars completionists looking to add a copy of a relatively obscure PlayStation 4 game called Star Wars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[57154,1015,1014,74],"class_list":["post-384564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-jailbreaking","tag-ps5","tag-sony","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}