PS4 “jailbreak”: origins and game list
It is unusual for me to talk about news instead of opinions, but it seems that the source of this is in portuguese, so I can give us a little edge of what it seems to be going on. Well, I already posted about the rumored PS4 jailbreak here (https://wololo.net/2015/04/25/just-2-cents-brazilian-ps4-jailbreak), but now I will talk about its origin.
The said jailbreak seems to be a private hack from a user named SONIC_FPS from this (http://www.rewtec.com/t13350-colocar-jogos-em-ps4) forum that has been going on for a while. This user seems to speak Portuguese from Portugal (not from Brazil). I will translate the relevant parts of the thread:
SONIC_FPS (12 jan 2015):
“Dear friends, before anything else I want to say that I will not answer PMs asking how to do it and etc. This method I’m using is mine and completely private. But I am looking for some other way to share this method, which doesn’t mean I will post it on the internet or something like that. I will just share this method with two of my friends here that respected me and have always believed on my work.
…
Here is the list of available games for now:
- 1001 Spikes
- Air Conflicts: Vietnam Ultimate Edition
- Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed
- Alien: Isolation
- Angry Birds Star Wars
- Anomaly 2
- Another World: 20th Anniversary Edition
- Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
- Awesomenauts Assemble!
- Basement Crawl
- Battlefield 4
- Blacklight: Retribution
- Blue Estate
- Bound by Flame
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Call of Duty: Ghosts
- CastleStorm: Definitive Edition
- Cel Damage HD
- Chariot
- Child of Light
- Contrast
- Costume Quest 2
- CounterSpy
- Crimsonland
- Daylight
- DC Universe Online
- Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition
- Destiny
- DG2: Defense Grid 2
- Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition
- Disney Infinity 2.0 Edition
- Doki-Doki Universe
- Don’t Starve: Console Edition
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Driveclub
- Dust: An Elysian Tail
- Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition
- EA Sports UFC
- Entwined
- Escape Plan
- Far Cry 4
- Fez
- FIFA 14
- FIFA 15
- Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn
- Flockers
- flOw
- flower
- Fluster Cluck
- Futuridium EP Deluxe
- Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions
- Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams – Director’s Cut
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-
- Hohokum
- How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition
- In Space We Brawl
- inFamous: First Light
- inFamous: Second Son
- Injustice: Gods Among Us – Ultimate Edition
- Just Dance 2014
- Just Dance 2015
- KickBeat: Special Edition
- Killzone: Shadow Fall
- King Oddball
- Knack
- Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
- LittleBigPlanet 3
- Loadout
- Lords of the Fallen
- Madden NFL 15
- Madden NFL 25
- Mercenary Kings
- Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
- Metro
- Minecraft
- Minutes
- MLB 14: The Show
- MotoGP 14
- MouseCraft
- NBA 2K14
- NBA 2K15
- Need for Speed: Rivals
- Never Alone
- NHL 15
- Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee – New ‘n’ Tasty
- Outlast
- Peggle 2
- Pix the Cat
- PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate
- Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2015
- Rayman Legends
- Resogun
- Sniper Elite III
- Sound Shapes
This Saturday I will share the method with the aforementioned users and will sell to only one brazilian user for R$ 5000 (approximately U$ 1700) [SOLD]
”
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On a subsequent post he added:
” Dear friends, I wish I could detail and share the bug and method with you all, but then it would get corrected and then nobody will be able to enjoy it.”
Sony Kid (13 Feb 2015):
“I hope we can play on this CFW”
SONIC_FPS (13 Feb 2015):
“It’s not a CFW, just original games”
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SONIC_FPS (17 Feb 2015):
“Like I said on another forum, I will say it here:
It’s annoying how I always get messages asking to sell and etc, that I don’t share anything with anybody, etc, etc…
So I decided to give in and R$ 5000 is the price, and I will only sell to one user…
Beginning this Saturday, divx will be doing my method, as well as to other users. I have everything already set up to pass on to them.
I’m long alone on this , and I only get donations after people ask something in return.
”
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Ihllima (20 April 2015):
“Is the R$ 5000 offer still on?”
Akiramato (21 April 2015):
“Yeah SONIC_FPS, I would like also to negotiate with you.”
Style Games (24 April 2015):
“I also would like to know if is R$5000 still the price.”
I would like to point out that these 3 last messages are apparently from Brazilians, as some abbreviations and slang are characteristic from Brazilian Portuguese.
Obviously we can only speculate, but it seems that one of the Brazilian users from the forum got to negotiate with SONIC_FPS and bought the said method.
About the Facebook page from Medic Games were removed and they replaced with the following:
“Friends, for security reasons we decided to not bring the subject up anymore. In the following days….”
About SONIC_FPS, from what I found about him, it seems that he does know his trade, as he seems to have developed (or at least posted) about other hacking tools and tips (http://consolevo.net/?author=1). Even if he (or she) has the said method, it could be an impostor, or a scheme. Only time will tell.
Whether Medic Games will go through with this or not, we will have our answers by next week, and we will have a very unusual scenario, where the “vanguard” of console modding will be shifted to an underdeveloped latin american country.
But my problem with this is that they are trying not only charging people for piracy, but to create a retailer chain to create a monopoly around it, and that is not just ethically wrong, since it is being exclusively for backups; it holds modding progress as a whole, limiting functionality and learning potentials. What are your thoughts? Do you want to believe?

I want to habeeb!
“It’s not a CFW, just original games”
I don’t fully understand this,what it means,that they copy the blu ray disc data to thd HDD so they can use it even without a disc on the tray or something?
I guess so, remember that CFW allows you to use homebrew, emulators, plugins, etc, so by saying that maybe he means that only official PS4 software can be run on the device from HDD without any disc or even a license for PSN games.
I guess this is just a piracy than CFW..
I just translated, but what I do think is that the original “author” got a trick to download/install games on a HD and now he is passing it along on how to do it, and then the “companies” who got it, will sell a clone-our-hd service and install that on customers PS4s. But thats just my guess, of course.
Olá Amigo, sou do Brasil e aqui em São Paulo, mais especificamente na Santa Efigenia que é um tipo de capital da pirataria, aqui esse desbloqueio já está rolando, eles lotam seu HD de jogos, sendo necessário apenas uma midia de um jogo aleatório no console para se conseguir jogar qualquer jogo que esteja no HD, o processo de desbloqueio é ainda um segredo por aqui, mas ja tem muita gente fezendo. Vou esperar pra ver antes de fazer no meu console, isso se eu fizer mesmo…
Vai ter que explicar melhor aí hein
Tem muita gente falando que já estão fazendo e tudo mais, mas simplesmente não provam nada. Não gravam nenhum vídeo. Deprimente os BR’s ficarem tentando enrolar o pessoal, só deteriora nossa imagem -.-
The other night, I had a dream about something regarding the PS4. I am sure this has been tried and found to be not working, but without seeing an article on it or a YouTube video on it (from a reliable source), I’m just wondering if my dream could have some truth behind it. IF you use a retail game (for example, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare) and installed the game. Then made a back-up of the game onto a recordable Blu-Ray disc and inserted the game in the PS4, what would happen? The system just needs the disc in to “verify” the game….but since this article has a listing of “games available”, do you think its possible that my dream I had a few days ago has some credibility behind it? It sounds kind of like you send your console in, they rip a game to it using an original disc and send your system back to you with a burned copy of the game. The list of games features launch titles and some more modern ones.
It is safe to assume that you cannot burn a PS4 game on a regular blu-ray, not without a significant amount of work, or special discs. Protection against such basic copies has existed since the PS1.
You are right that the technique probably is related to installing a “legit” game at some point then tricking the license mechanism, but I’m pretty sure it does not involved copied blu-rays
i guess it’s nothing more than “piracy”
I know the game would be encrypted on the HDD.
I’m guessing theres a few levels of decryption happening like your hardware would have a key and the disc would have a key in an unburnable part of the disc.
If this is legit then its only a matter of time before it becomes widely available.
user divx the biggest *** of warez in Brazil. known for selling soccer, winning eleven patch, ps2 ps3 last and a big liar .just want fame
http://www.w11online.com/forum_antigo/archive/index.php/t-242.html
This SONIC_FPS guy is full of ***. Its a catch 22. He won’t tell you his “method”, but says that if he DID tell you, it would be patched and NOBODY could play backups…….Ummmm, can’t play backups without knowing the “method”, genius!!!!!! Duhhhhhhh! Obviously an attention ***.
well,only we need to wait,how i say,the peoples who bring us a ps4/ps vita hack,scene,jailbreak welcome to wololo.
LOL, Medic Games knew that was a fake device of Raspberry Pi model A PCB, so they won’t continue that HOAX news. RLMAO
We need a video proof that is showing, Sonic_FPS can hack PS4 jailbreak instead of showing the available game list LOL, I can do that ONLY the LIST of the game. easy as 123
even if he could do it, there’s no proof that it’s going more than just a piracy.
*** or GTFO! Unless they show some proof, they’re just trying to make money by deceiving people! R$5000!? What for? Show some proof… If I Google a picture with a dog’s *** connected by USB with a PS4 and say “I can play pirated games by doing this, but it’s a S-E-C-R-E-T…”, would anyone would pay me for this?
These guys are just cheating… Don’t give them credit unless we have something really impressive.
Stop promoting this garbage. Until there is actual proof stop wasting devs and gamers time with such non sense. Waste of data entry what you should have done was a off topic review on the crime that goes on daily in brazil and how the goverment is apart of the crooked over there and etc etc.
Really? theres plenty other websites on that topic
y si esta clonando el disco duro del ps4
ya me llamo la atencion tendre que conseguir el ps4 e investigarlo
desde mexico les mando saludos wololo y demas
Wololo, i know the method.
I just want credits.
Mas isso é um CFW igual ao do PS3 que possa baixar os jogos e colocar no video game?!?! pq se for um coisa idiota que voce queram manter monopolio como caso do true blue ou cobra isso nao vai dar certo, faca igual outros hack libere isso de um vez de forma anonima!
I agree with james. If you want some respect do your homework and release a video or something to prove that you not only are a capitalist
Estoy de acuerdo con james. Se quieres ser respetado haz tus deberes y libera un video o algo que pruebe que no solo eres un capitalista de ******
I know exactly how this trick works. not really a hack, just an hdd diff patch that allows sharing games between multiple consoles. How do I send a detailed tutorial to wololo?
it can be fixed in a snap. though.
Go ahead and post it right here with video proof or be quiet.
True 🙂
I’m not a troll, I’m a real person and I don’t need to prove anything to you people. I’m not going to share this with anyone except wololo. I believe he can see my email address, so he can contact me anytime. In case this technique might somehow be useful in hacking the ps4 down the road, I would rather hand the decision of leaking it out to the public to someone trustworthy.
Plus, I’m not entirely sure if the trick I discovered is the same one brazilians seem to have come up with. And yes, the whole thing can only be used solely for piracy at this point, I don’t want to be associated with stuff like that.
Its Copyright infringement not piracy! Secondly, considering sony installs rootkits when you install any of their programs, piracy won’t even harm their ceo’s at all.
This whole thing still seems fishy to me.
next time on Dragon ball Z>>
Arthanis, your “complexo de vira-lata” (mongrel complex) is disgusting. Bashing your country every time you can and thinking you are too good for it really grind my gears.
Instead of whining about everything, how about you study and get into a good university where you can learn just fine?
“The grass is always greener on the other side”, as they say.
Well, Paulo, first of all I never bashed my country. Like I said in my previous articles, it was not until then that I revealed where I’m from. Second place, read my previous article and you will learn a number of things like:
– I wrote that precisely to defend my country against prejudice
– I got a very good college degree education
– I have a set of skills that make me do quite well money-wise
– This type of rushed, unthought and uneducated post is exactly what I think is wrong with brazilians no internet
Even if after reading that you do not (want to) understand, I would think that you are the one with education problems, since you can’t read proper english; so I suggest you not to get a college degree, but a high school one, and later if you want to be civil, we will talk. Regards.
This reminds me of that ebay sale……heres a pic of an xbox, pls buy it now for 500$
Good luck!!
Since he want “Sell”, its a Scam.
If you are so determined to pirate games wouldn’t it be more frugal to build a gaming pc because I can tell you how much I have saved from steam sales as I personally don’t agree with piracy but steam is absurdly cheap anyway.
Steam doesn’t have every game the ps4 will have.
One trick?, Sony solve it next firmware release like Ps vita patch, how time duration of bug?
Seems some psn store trick maybe.
Arthemis, so the origin may be that dude? is it related?
If i said it would be pretty much impossible for Brazilians to come up with this, if it is from a Portuguese then this is even more far fetched, trust me i would know, i have contact with them almost everyday (if you feel kinda ashamed of being Brazilian when it comes to the internet, its about the same as being Portuguese).
Two things may be happening here, 1 this is not related to the medic games post. 2 this is indeed related and may be the origin.
I for one wont give credit to this, as 1 its most likely a big SCAM, 2 even if it may be real, this is just a bug something that sony overlooked, this is not his code, and most likely doesn’t have code at all. once found out it will be patched easily.
What makes me wonder is the reports of certain “scene channels” leading to believe that the medic games post may be real, is it related to this sonic_fps i don’t know, but if it is then i have lost hope.
In fact this is just some piracy trick that doesn’t really bring anything to the scene.
I do agree with you as a whole. I don’t whink that this is some kinda of code-related hack, but more like a bug one, and thats why it may be possible for people with supposedly less skill to pull this off.
Also, what makes me think that it may be related is that medic games made their announcement few hours after the last post on that forum.
indeed, and another clue… how likely is SONIC_BH the same person as SONIC_FPS, i have seen that name related to some sort of ODE on the ps3, called DivX ode…
Could they be pulling something similar but without the use of an ODE? I don’t know.
but again back to the usual scene channels this came across as legit, but may be a simple bug, not a hack not a device…
Yes, SONIC_BH and SONIC_FPS are the same person…
If this is real, and just about piracy, then I hope it’s not released. We don’t want Sony consoles to take the same turn as Nintendo consoles. Again, if this is real (I have my doubts) the author has stated this just allows piracy, which likely means the author has found a way to run Sony encrypted content not tied to the account. If that’s the case, then this wont bring us any closer to hacking the console, and will only enable piracy.
So what? Its not as if piracy is evil. The geo restrictions and the DRM-rootkits are far worse, and yet you support sony doing that. Secondly, copyright infringement (its not piracy) will only make the console far more popular.
I bet you believe every lie the MPAA spews out.
heck no the ps3 can backup games using multiman. If that’s what the PS4 can do then so be it.
Then that means the ps3 cfw still wins by ALL hacks and homebrew than the ps4 1 hack. Man that’s the weakest hack ever.
I would love to tell JACK TRENTON, or the new CEO Shawn Laden about this. To get SONIC shutdown so you better RUN RUN!!!
Guys, do not lose time for you to Erivan (aka divx). I know this guy here in Brazil and I say to you that they are a *** and only wants to appear and gain fame. That since the time of patches of Winning Eleven Konami he claimed to be the creator of editing tools, but actually just copied mainly of Italian gringos and in the end only made patch buggy all ***. Followed for many years and I say this to you. Not worth waiting something from him. For I know him, he must be this guy “SONIC_FPS” who posted this rumor just to appear and disclose his shop. If you do not believe, you see an “interview” he gave to a magazine in 2007 (barely knew the magazine that he was a charlatan): http://www.w11online.com/forum_antig…read.php?t=242
Recado para o Erivan (divx): mermão, pare de inventar boatos só para divulgar sua loja. Volte a vender seus CDs piratas que você ganha mais. Como sempre: caôzeiro.
Eta e agora??? Quem acreditar?
Seems i can buy a whole lot of games for 5 grand.Why would anyone pay this guy?Its either B.S or some dumb game share trick.Not a legit mod.
i dont belivet
Sounds like a special kind of ODE or something like that. I hope the story is true. Ok he said it will be patched by Sony when he release it public. Maybe its not a ODE solution.
Am i the only one who thinks
“Who cares about ps4 jailbreak, i want vita cfw” ?
I mean real cfw not this psp toy
OMG, A h4x0r is ch4rging for H4X… L3t us buy his DRM hardware so that we could load backups and homebrew..
seriously, hope the PS4 scene won’t end up like the 3DS “scene”..
What I found is that there is actually a Dev named as sonic_fps on YouTube ….but what’s different is that the real sonic_fps is a Brazilian but posts all of his hacking work …such a great accomplishment should have been published on YouTube …but certainly the user sonic fps has posted nothing since 2 months …so how can I believe that even if it’s the real sonic_fps ..for me it’s still a hoax
Link to real sonic fps youtube account:-
m.youtube.com/channel/UCi-NAoT7OIv6e2rBoeyrk2A
I STILL SAY FAKE AND THIS GUY APPEARS TO BE WANTING TO SCAM IMHO.
IF YOUR ASKING FOR SOMEONE TO BUY IT> AND BRAGGING TO THE COMMUNITY YOU WOULD OF SHOWN SOME PROOF BY NOW…..
I bet they’ve found a way to Add a cloned account on your PS4 and then restore the games to the ps4 internal hdd,
being it in Brazil, you can be sure nothing will be done by the authorities. As it’s usual here. Stay cool, the method will spread.
That sounds like the most plausible method I’ve heard. How else could it be blocked to all machines without updating them.
I really hope you read this, @ARTHANIS, “This user seems to speak Portuguese from Portugal (not from Brazil).” this information is wrong. the text is written in pt-BR.
Source: im portuguese from portugal.
Well, I respectfully disagree, for the following reasons:
– The use of “partilhar” instead of “compartilhar” (share), which is not common in pt-BR
– He uses “efectuado” (pt form) instead of “efetuado” (br form), which means “done”
– He uses “actualmente” (pt form) instead of “atualmente” (br form), which means “currently”
– In one moment, he says: “Como todo o portugues e habitante neste mundo nada se faz”, which translates to: “Like every portuguese and habitant of this planet, nothing is done…”, which makes me think that he is indeed from portuguese origin
– He says: “vais” (pt form) instead of “vai” (br form). Here in brasil we tend to use “você vai” much rather than “tu vais” (you will)
– The same way, he uses “edites” (pt form) rathan than “edite”ou “edita” (br form)
– He structure his sentences in a very portuguese way, like “não somos nós a decidir” intead of “não somos nós que decidiremos” ou “vamos decidir” (it’s not up to us to decide)
– He uses “contacto” (pt form) instead of “contato” (br form)
Source: I’m brazilian with portuguese family
Is there any reason to think otherwise? Maybe his origin is from yet another portuguese speaking country. But it’s very unlikely it is from Brazil.
I´ve read your reasons and i respectfully accept them, but bare in mind that he uses expressions that are NEVER used in Portuguese from Portugal, hence my comment. Things like “estou vendo” (gerundio) or “usoários” “bobas” are absolutely never used in portuguese from portugal and i have never seen a portuguese write like that (just to say thats not accent dependent).
Also “He structure his sentences in a very portuguese way” he doesnt, it is at most comprehensible, but not well written by any means. If you have a portuguese familiar, ask him to read the text. he will agree with me.
With this im not saying that he is brazilian for sure, nor am i saying that he isnt portuguese for sure. Im just saying not to deprehend one thing or another from his writing
If i had to guess though i would say he is either portuguese living in brazil or brazilian living in portugal. (especially due to him selling the “method” only to a brasilian costumer).
I guess that makes sense. Maybe we are both wrong. So for now let’s agree to disagree =]
I think its a brazilian that tried to write in pt-pt to hide his origin (cause he is talking bout piracy). Or just he write in pt-br and put in google translator to pt-pt
“NEVER used in Portuguese from Portugal, hence my comment. Things like “estou vendo” (gerundio)”
wrong that is used all the time by alentejanos.
““usoários” “bobas” are absolutely never used in portuguese from portugal”
True but bare in mind he is catering to a brazilian audience so it kinda makes sense that he uses said expression (bobas) as for usuario, he is probably *** and doesn’t know what a utilizador is.
Also “He structure his sentences in a very portuguese way” he doesnt, it is at most comprehensible, but not well written by any means. If you have a portuguese familiar, ask him to read the text. he will agree with me.
It may seem so, but to be honest he is as portuguese as you get, but *** as ***, without being able to use propper words and grammar.
as for the last paragraph you may be right indeed, well spotted.
He’s just a 12 years old boy that doesn’t know to write correctly
I think ps4 jailbreak is too early,i dont want it. It can make ps4 die.
Still sounds very fishy, firstly, any legit hacker would be out for fame and not for the money. (And if he is for the money it would be for a heck of a lot more)
That price range he is selling it seems just enough for a good believable one-time scam.
Lets say he did find something, a bug that lets you copy some games to another hdd.
For 96 games at 60$ that would be 5760$ in total.
So 1,700$ that’s worth around 28 games if you buy at retail.
Out of the 96 games im pretty sure the number of games you would actually want to play would be a lot less than 28.
Smells like a scam… 3rd world country scam…
GUYS ! one guy in our city has gaming club with 20 ps4 in it, so He told me that he doesn’t pay for games, he gets free digital copies, and offered me any game for almost a half price, so i gave him my ps4 , and in about 2 hours I got my ps4 back with PES 2015 istalled on it, no any other account on my console, I play it with my own account, I just think if it is related to that “bug” said above, or just somthing that I don’t understand
You can try to proof it to us. Make a video showing all the accounts on the PS4, and going to the PS Srote to show that you do not “own” the game. Also show that the BD tray is empty or with a different game. It’s easy to “proof” if it’s actually real.
1. I don’t need to proof somthing, i’m just sharing it with players like me
2. that guy will “install” MK X within 2 days, but I didn’t found the game on this list
Please, this would be HUGE if you could show a screenshot/video of what you state.
LOL, this type of troll that says “i dont need to prove anything!!!” uhauhaahuauhahuahuauh, plz be creative in your scams!