They have already managed to hack PS Portal and make PSP games work on Sony's 'laptop', this person demonstrated it with an image of a GTA.
When PlayStation Portal for PS5 hit the market, many questioned its usefulness as a portable. Now it seems that a engineer of Google he added PPSSPPand emulator to run PSP games.
The authors of this feat are Andy Nguyen, who works at the search engine company in cloud vulnerability research and on the other Calle Svensson, Google security engineer.
As can be seen in the red social de Elon Muskthey showed a image of PS Portal with the PSP game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories running natively.
Hack PS Portal to run PSP games, who knew!
Sony launched the device as a platform for PS5 games would work portable Without needing a TV, it connects via Wi-Fi and is in turn connected to the PlayStation 5.
Officially, it is not possible to make them work games natively on PlayStation Portalbut these two people made it possible run PPSSPP emulator.
This means – in addition to giving the device other uses – that it no longer needs to be connected wirelessly to the network and can be used as a portable game console itself.
But as you can read in this other answer (and subsequent users), the hack is “completely software-based” and means that an exploit of the hardware itself is not necessary.
But he also confirms that it is better not to get your hopes up in any way, Nguyen confirms that the game has no intention of making all this public in the “near future.”
“There is much more work to be completed,” Nguyen later said. Although the engineer himself announced that videos demonstrating the hacking would be published this weekend.
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And all this while Sony said that PlayStation Portal was not created to generate profits, since they could in turn be working on a new portable console.
Many do not understand why they did not continue with this market after releasing the excellent PSP in 2004 (and its reviews) or the unjustly forgotten PS Vita, which turned 10 years old in 2022.
Now it just turns out that This Google Engineer Hacked PS Portal to Run PSP Gamesbut in the future we could have a PlayStation portable console proper.