Sony’s
new
PlayStation
Portal
has
been
hacked
by
Google
engineers
to
run
emulated
games
locally.
The
$199.99
handheld
debuted
in
November
but
was
limited
to
just
streaming
games
from
a
PS5
console
and
not
even
titles
from
Sony’s
cloud
gaming
service.
Now,
two
Google
engineers
have
managed
to
get
the
PPSSPP
emulator
running
natively
on
the
PlayStation
Portal,
allowing
a
Grand
Theft
Auto
PSP
version
to
run
on
the
Portal
without
Wi-Fi
streaming
required.
“After
more
than
a
month
of
hard
work,
PPSSPP
is
running
natively
on
PlayStation
Portal.
Yes,
we
hacked
it,”
says
Andy
Nguyen
in
a
post
on
X.
Nguyen
also
confirms
that
the
exploit
is
“all
software
based,”
so
it
doesn’t
require
any
hardware
modifications
like
additional
chips
or
soldering.
Only
a
photo
of
Grand
Theft
Auto
3
running
on
the
PlayStation
Portal
has
been
released
so
far,
but
Nguyen
may
release
some
videos
to
demonstrate
the
exploit
at
the
weekend.
Nguyen
is
a
cloud
vulnerability
researcher
at
Google,
and
he
has
worked
with
fellow
Google
security
engineer
Calle
Svensson
on
the
PlayStation
Portal
project.
Nguyen,
better
known
as
TheFlow,
has
discovered
multiple
PS4
and
PS5
exploits
in
the
past.
He’s
due
to
detail
a
new
PS4
exploit
in
May.
While
the
PlayStation
Portal
exploit
is
the
latest
in
a
long
line
of
PlayStation
exploits,
it’s
not
clear
if
or
when
a
jailbreak
will
be
made
available
for
everyone.
“There’s
no
release
planned
in
the
near
future,
and
there’s
much
more
work
to
be
done,”
explains
Nguyen
in
a
follow-up
post
on
X.
If
a
mod
is
eventually
released
then
it
could
greatly
improve
the
PlayStation
Portal
by
adding
the
ability
to
run
software
locally,
including
game
emulators
and
perhaps
even
Android
games.
Original author: Tom Warren
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