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Prices for an Old Star Wars Game Have Ballooned because of Its Role in a PS5 Jailbreak
- Recently, physical PS4 copies of Star Wars Racer Revenge are selling for over $300 on eBay as reports link the disc to a PlayStation 5 jailbreak method.
- On December 31, a leak of PS5 ROM keys and a Hall of Fame bug let developer Gezine demonstrate code injection via the PS4 disc on PlayStation 5 12.0 firmware.
- Collecting and trading PS4 copies of Star Wars Racer Revenge has driven up prices to over $250, with around 8,500 copies produced by Limited Run Games, making the reprint scarce.
- On December 31, more than a dozen copies sold on eBay for between $80 and $166, and on January 1st a further 11 shifted for $180 to $364.50, with resell alerts urging owners to check for valuable copies.
- Security researchers and developers note the leaked ROM keys form part of the PS5's deepest security layer and `can't be changed`, but Jose Coixao and the PlayStation homebrew community caution keys alone do not enable a full jailbreak.
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PS5 jailbreak rumor is exploding the price of an old Star Wars game
Jailbreaking a video game console is a big deal: Once hackers can do it, they can push their hardware to perform actions it wasn't originally programmed for. The latest generation of video game hardware had seemed impenetrable to these efforts up until very recently, when a group of hackers says they're on the precipice of breaking the PlayStation 5 wide open. The caveat? The hardware tinkerers say they need a highly specific game to pull a jail…
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