The PlayStation Portal has been hacked, can run PSP emulator
It didn’t take that long, all things considered. In a short Tweet today, hacker Andy Nguyen aka TheFloW has confirmed that he, along with xyz and Calle Svensson (@ZetaTwo), have hacked the PlayStation portal, Sony’s companion screen for the PS5.
TheFloW confirmed that the exploit chain is entirely software based.
PlayStation Portal has been hacked, can run PSP emulator
The PlayStation portal was out roughly 3 months ago, and, of course, hackers started looking into the device straight away. It’s not extremely surprising that the device got hacked fairly quickly. It wasn’t expected to be extremely secure from the start, running on what appeared to be a slightly modified Android stack.
In his Tweet, TheFloW showcased a screenshot of the Portal running PPSSPP, a popular PSP emulator (which runs natively on Android). The hacker however stated that there is no release planned in the near future, and still a lot of work to do. Whether that means a release could happen longer term, is not really guaranteed.
PlayStation Portal has roughly 6GB available on internal disk, apk install prevention measures
Andy has shared little specifics about the hack or the device so far. However he said the hackers might publish a video with more details in the days to come.
For now, he’s mentioned that the device has about 6GB available on the SD Card, and that Sony’s implementation has some custom code to prevent installing apk files (a mitigation that TheFloW confirmed he has bypassed)
If a hack ever gets publicly released for the PlayStation Portal though, don’t expect the device hack to uncover any particularly juicy secrets about the PS5. I wouldn’t expect the device to contain any specifically relevant information for a PS5 hack.
source: TheFloW
firts!
nobody cares. no one ever will.
Cool but also useless. PS portal is so ridiculously expensive you might as well buy a decent android tablet with a decent gamepad grip – perhaps one xbox branded and then buy switch for the spare price difference hahaha You will get the same playstation streaming for android + xbox streaming + PC streaming + everything else you can run on android…
The flow gives favor to Sony; without this news, everyone forgets it even exists.
Of course he does, he gets the big bucks from them…
Sony just happens to be the most popular platform (that’s all). Not everyone cares to game at the same place they just “viewed” *** -shout out to the pc boys . Wankers.
Cool, but without anyway to expand that tiny storage it isn’t really useful much. Still cool though.
Does anyone know how to activate my ps4 as primary without updating the firmware?
So the PSP can now emulate the PSP. Not impressed at all.
Its not meant to impress you
Haha cool, but still useless. Those scalpers really need to stop buying these things, they’ll just keep restocking. Leave it to the casuals to waste their money. Still, ppl doubted, saying it’s unhackable but never underestimate the modding community.
I’ll stick to using my Switch Lite for streaming like Gamepass and PS RP. heck for that same amount you’re better off buying that or save it and get something better like a Steam deck.
Hah the next gen emulator ps4 is a Remote-play-server !!!!
Zo lets allbuy playstion remote portal for your emulator
Tnv ark etc
PS Portal Android exploiting might be another vector to escalate PS5 privileges?
IF Sony did their work correctly, I doubt it