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shittydwarf, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

This is really cool, fuck Sony

Stupendous, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

I have a PS5 that I rarely turn on. Everything ends up on PC. PC handhelds better than a PS Portal. To phone streaming everything supports. Playing PC games on Android is a thing now. Switch handles party gaming. No replacing Mario party/kart/tennis/strikers/golf. Nintendo IP party games are OP

What I’m interested in are the insights the PS5 will give into PS4 architecture. PS5 is backwards compatible and seeing what the PS5 does to accommodate any problematic games in BC. PS4 emulation over 5 because 4 is well along. PS5 is deep in the no console exclusives era. Early PS4 still had semblance of third party exclusives and Japanese games skipping PC

I unplugged the PS5 Ethernet port just in case I ever want to do something in the future. I doubt it besides possibly future of running Linux on it. It’d make a great gaming PC someday as a gift. People always talk about exclusives as a reason for consoles. I play way more games on PC that aren’t available on consoles. Too old and abandoned. Too indie so it may not show up for years if ever on consoles.

Hopefully the Xbox series X gets jail broken someday too. They’d be great values for gaming PCs

Naho_Zako,

We barely turned our PS5 on until about a year and a half ago, it was the Switch that was getting all our love. Now we have a Switch 2 we barely touch and the PS5 gets attention cause games are on sale (nobody bought it lol)

I do PC game, but I prefer console because there’s WAY less fiddling and tinkering due to hardware issues or shitty game ports. I was excited for the FFVII steam sale until I saw the reviews complaining about stuttering and performance issues. I prefer a painless, boot-it-up-and-play-immediately experience over modding capability.

criticon,

nobody bought the ps5?

Key Figures & Estimates (Late 2025/Early 2026)

PlayStation 5 (PS5): ~84-86 million units (crossing 80M mark by late 2025).

Xbox Series X/S: ~34 million units (estimates vary, but well behind PS5).

Nintendo Switch (Original): ~154 million units (still selling well, nearing DS).

Nintendo Switch 2 (New): Starting sales with ~12.4 million units by late 2025 (estimated).

84 mil seems like a lot. PS games have always been discounted, contrary to Nintendo games

SailorMoss,

It seems it’s not widely known. But the Xbox series X is hacked. The PS5 has been hacked for a while too. This is just gonna make the hacks a lot better. 

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

Not that I particularly care as the few exclusives on ps5 are all arriving on pc.

But this is gonna be hell on earth for anyone interested in competitive multiplayer games.

And the damage to Sony might be epochal if the exploit is easy enough for anyone to do it.

SalamenceFury,
@SalamenceFury@lemmy.world avatar

Competitive multiplayer games are already cooked on Playstation anyways since a lot of console cheaters use Cronus on PS4s that can’t detect it.

Chozo,
@Chozo@fedia.io avatar

Chronus can be detected on consoles, just not super easily. And it kinda depends on each game's developer and their ability to implement such detections. I know that Embark Studios have said that they've found ways to detect such devices in The Finals.

I believe that, while they can't detect the actual hardware plugged into the console, they're able to detect input patterns that would only be possible from M/K (such as 0ms AD-spamming). Of course, I can't imagine that's 100% foolproof on its own, either.

chocrates,

Why? Other than allowing piracy and home brew stuff what does this mean?

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor,

Cheating online is gonna be extremely easy since you can just run a cheat program as legitimate software.

That could snowball into people not buying any big competitive game on ps5 anymore.

chocrates,

Ah ok. In my mind, sony wanted to sell consoles and a console in can hack is more interesting to me than before.

They are basically just computers now, I wasn’t getting why it was such a big deal.

pory,
@pory@lemmy.world avatar

Eh. Nintendo’s been bumfucked like this for the majority of the Switch lifespan. detecting and banning modded consoles is a cat and mouse game that favors the cat. Piracy favors the mouse, because piracy happens in your home on your hardware. Online play is you trying to play ball in Sony’s court.

Softmodded consoles probably won’t even be able to play online, let alone cheat online.

russjr08, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru
@russjr08@piefed.zip avatar

Well, someone is certainly not having a Happy New Year heh.

Meanwhile others are absolutely over the moon celebrating 🎉

gegil, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

If ps5 hack will allow running linux on it, i will run linux on it.

poVoq,
@poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

That is already possible, but the hacks to get it actually to run are quite annoying and limited to a few older versions AFAIK.

Hopefully with this you can just boot Linux normally on a PS5 in the nearish future. Would definitely make for a nice Steam Machine.

P1nkman,

Would definitely make for a nice Steam Machine.

That would be absolutely brilliant!

WhatGodIsMadeOf,

Isn’t there a lot of custom hardware that would require drivers to allow it to work effectively?

poVoq,
@poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

They have been selling the same SoCs (slightly defective ones) in various forms for crypto-mining etc. and as a result Linux kernel support is supposedly quite good already.

Surp,

That’s what I wanna do with my PS5 make it a steam machine

SalamenceFury, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru
@SalamenceFury@lemmy.world avatar

Oh Sony is actually cooked now.

I give it a month before unlocked PS5s are everywhere, and maybe six months to an year before a full on PS5 emulator. Brazilians in general LOVE hacked consoles and pirated games, hell the PS2 and Xbox 360 were extremely popular here for that exact reason.

This is literally the Gol D. Roger Execution moment for us.

pory,
@pory@lemmy.world avatar

Sony isn’t even cooked, man. Piracy is a non issue to the bottom line. The Switch had this plus fully functional pirate installers in like, month 2 and Nintendo still sold a morbillion copies of TOTK despite all the hackable consoles on the market (and the maturity of emulators)

SomethingBurger,

The GBA had a working emulator before it even came out.

Kushan,
@Kushan@lemmy.world avatar

It’s really not. Literally the same thing happened with the PS3, arguably that was much worse and it didn’t cook Sony at all.

pory, (edited )
@pory@lemmy.world avatar

Piracy never ever actually hurts big companies. Game consoles make their entire business on selling “just plug it in and click the prompts and play the game, ezpz” as a lifestyle. It doesn’t matter how fully hacked a console is or how easy it is to hack them, the percentage of users that’ll mod and pirate is always miniscule.

Look at sales numbers for Pokemon X and Y, which released when the 3DS was ironclad. Compare them to Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, which released when 3DS piracy required a $100 flashcart and an ancient system firmware with no downgrade route. Compare those to Pokémon Sun and Moon, which released when five minutes with an SD card and a magnet would let you pirate the game directly from Nintendo’s own fucking server, complete with fully functional online play. Notice a pattern? No you don’t, they all sold like hotcakes.

Every first party Nintendo game released after 2016 other than Super Mario Odyssey was available to pirates before legitimate buyers, until the Switch 2 came out. That entire near decade of Nintendo was exclusively releasing games for compromised platforms. Nintendo did pretty well financially during that period, I’d say. Wii piracy was trivial as soon as the Twilight Hack dropped, yet late life Wii games sold gangbusters. And on the Wii, pirates legitimately got a better product because they got to bypass the Wii’s dogshit DVD lens and disc load times. R4s and clones and upgrades existed for nearly the entire Nintendo DS lifespan. GBA games were playable on the PC before the console came out in the United States.

hystericallymad,

My dude, have you seen outside recently?

Kushan,
@Kushan@lemmy.world avatar

My dude, have you tried not being a cunt for no reason lately?

Mwa, (edited ) do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

So this means we can Homebrew the PS5 and install Linux??? Less go

capuccino, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru
@capuccino@lemmy.world avatar

Time to do the jump from ps2 to ps5 this 2026

fleem,

think so?

BroBot9000, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

Now we are getting somewhere

markz, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

Hell yeah

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