According to The Verge , Sony's new PlayStation Portal handheld gaming device was launched in November, but it was limited to streaming games from the PlayStation 5 and could not play titles from Sony's cloud gaming service. But Google engineers 'helped' Sony's device overcome the limitation by running PSP game emulation directly.
Sony's new PlayStation Portal handheld game console
Accordingly, two Google engineers have successfully run the original PPSSPP emulator on PlayStation Portal, allowing the game Grand Theft Auto PSP to run on Portal without a Wi-Fi network. Researcher Andy Nguyen shared in a post on XDA Developers: "After more than a month of effort, PPSSPP runs natively on PlayStation Portal. Yes, we hacked it."
Nguyen also confirmed that the exploit is 'entirely software-based', so no hardware modifications are required. So far, only a screenshot of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories running on the PlayStation Portal has been released, but Nguyen may release some videos of the exploit in the near future.
Post sharing about successful hack of PlayStation Portal
Nguyen is a cloud vulnerability researcher at Google, and he collaborated with Google security engineer Calle Svensson on the PlayStation Portal project. Nguyen, better known by his alias TheFlow, has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the PS4 and PS5 in the past. He is expected to reveal a new PS4 vulnerability in May.
It's not clear if or when Nguyen will make the jailbreak available to the public. If a mod is released in the future, it could significantly improve the PlayStation Portal's capabilities, such as running game emulators and possibly even Android games.
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