PlayStation 4 Game Hack Lets PS4 Owners Play Pirated Games

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A new PlayStation 4 game hack allows game pirates to share PS4 games and consoles essentially without limit, according to GameZone. Reportedly developed by Russians and publicized by Brazilian retailers, it only takes a Raspberry Pi and three days to recreate the hack.

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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Source: http://www.inquisitr.com/2097272/playstation-4-game-hack-lets-ps4-owners-play-pirated-games-using-raspberry-pi/

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attackedheartPosted:

Well technically it is still illegal as it is still classed as tampering, just because its not a hack or jailbreak doesn't make it legal

KatsumiChanPosted:

I feel like this should've been news when the PS4 came out.

ApexJnrPosted:

AKG
HarmfulMushroom
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.


Interesting. Could PS4 however release an update to where Sony could identify those using pirated games? Or does it not work like that since one is actually not modifying a game or the PS4 to do this?


The short answer is unless they can fix the core problem, theres no way to tell without them implementing something new into the disk of newer games to ask them if they are being played from x source, i and again that's 100% unlikely so they are screwed and cant possibly patch this to the best of my knowledge. Oh wait they can make new ps4's that have closed bios thingy (it's 3am im sleepy but know what im talking about) and then they can tell maybe, if the ps4's architecture is hard coded to read from any disk that have valid updated codes that read for this specific update then there's no fix. Ill explain this properly in 10 hours after i sleep.

JRMHPosted:

Lol, sony always gets f/cked in the software section. The jailbreak ruined PSN completely, making it unplayable.

If only PS4 has DRM lol

DankStorm-Posted:

I have never pirated anything lol ;-;

buddamen124Posted:

ggfdsshjiutfgfdds Lol. Won't be so cool when these smart idiots get caught


You're contradicting yourself when you say a smart idiot, besides they didn't do anything illegal.

ATLatimerPosted:

Miss Wouldn't be surprised if Sony got the FBI to raid that Brazilian shop.



Yea that is not aloud. ESP since its not really anything illegal as stated.

XboxPosted:

Honestly this sound great and would be awesome. Kinda wished I had a PS4 right now.

935Posted:

HarmfulMushroom
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.


Interesting. Could PS4 however release an update to where Sony could identify those using pirated games? Or does it not work like that since one is actually not modifying a game or the PS4 to do this?

1989Posted:

Mickers Sweat news. Although not sure if i owned a PS4 i would pay for this. Something that i would buy between mates and share the cost.


People who have the money probably wouldn't mind doing this! I know if I had money I would!


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